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[Skatha]

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First...... this post is not intended as a practical way to recruit new members for the atlantic RP community. I am not convinced that more people are needed in the community, growth will result from excitement within, not numbers. Not to be said that new members are not welcome, if anything, the opposite is true.

Maybe this post can act as a springboard for thoughts/ideas that will make people beg to join, and keep our storylines interesting and intriguing. Size doesn't matter a great deal, excitement and creativity do!

I see a few things as limiting new and more dramatic rp scenarios:

Somehow we moved from survival in the wild west to living in gated communities. The frontier days cannot be recreated, for so many have now built entire cities and most homes have fences around them, often the gate is locked. We now have permanent structures declaring to the entire shard that this is my own little world here, do not enter except when invited. Town markers, which unlike the sigils, cannot be stolen.

Even battles within an established community for leadership, elections of the town or village leaders, infiltration by spies, perhaps relocating the whole community to Fel (ok, 1/3rd of the com?). There is a built-in ability to change leadership in the guild structure. Whoa, now that is a radical thought. This sort of thinking can lead to ostracism.

Tavern nights...... I do believe that during my formative yeas in CAP, I was part of the chaos at a couple of them which resulted in a ban on fighting in taverns. Perhaps we need a dinner club where we can all play nicely like adults, and a tavern where one drunk beats the crap out of another occasionally ("....and the horse you rode in on"), gambling, whatever... maybe Cein would donate the strippers pole from the old and loved Den of Sin in Umbra.

Think of the marvelous rp that would result if the 'land claims' office with all records were burned to the ground... oh, include the hall of records where births and marriges are recorded.

I realize some of the things i mention are impractical given today's environment; we have enough creativity in our members to handle darned near anything though.

If there is anything mentioned here that might help us ...... go with it, expand the idea or cut it to the core. I am not into hearing why something cannot be done. Too much of that going around already; might be why we are in the rut we are seem to be.

And, please..... any and all off-the-wall ideas most welcome. Would appreciate that sort of input. If you are a bit shy about posting here (as I am, learning to do it anyway though) send some input to a member of the Committee Halister formed which is very actively working on recruiting people who rp or are interested.

Thanks for reading clear through this..... I hate proofreading so please ignore errors.

and please, would someone tell me how to make a left margin, would make it so much easier to read.

/aka Black Swan, Pia and a host of miscellaneous chars
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[Zerin]

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couple of things that I think have some effect....

Private Homes: what IC excuse does anyone have for there to be absolutely no way for someone to step into a yard that has no barrier in the way?

Locked Doors: definitely a believable and valid thing to do, but give some thought to whether it's always needed. Does the entire structure have to always be sealed or are there certain rooms that are extra private that could be individually locked instead?

Attitudes regarding war: There's too many who refuse to make the first move in a war that they want to start because they're afraid that if they can't show the whole shard justification for the attack they'll suddenly have uninvolved guilds stepping in trying to be the United Nations or something. Instead, they'll just try to be annoying in order to provoke their desired enemy to make the first move and look like the badguys so that the uninvolved outsiders will direct their scorn there instead. This leads to stagnation since nobody wants to deal with the extra opposition that comes with making the first move.

[Wynn]

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Very smart ideas Pia.

I was thinking along the lines in which you was going why dont we have a neutral tailor and rp getting costumes ect made or mabey a town shop area to get liceneces? or mabey just a wagon train one day we all go to another town and pick up our stuff and rp it out and walk the roads instead of gating? Or mabey a someone to cut hair and a bakery and the places that are there really look like those type of shops. YEs it may sound far fetched but you know many places in rl whne you go you do alot of talking like when you get your hair cut how many times you just talked and met someone you know there or mabey to get a cake at teh bakery and you have it ordered place an order but to do it you have to go there ect. or better yet if you dont want to turn your house into them use the towns and rp in them if you get an active town or use vesper make it active again. That would be great then you could travel to each shop and do your deeds for the day or make a day where the rp community mans the town such as vesper and that is their shop from what ever time to what ever time and then we rp a day in town and we walk and have acts in the town square ect. like in the day they made one trip to town because they lived out so far. Just an idea and it wouldnt take much to do.
Pia hope this is what you was thinking of.
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[NightShade]

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RP events- About a year ago I hosted an event , pretty much on my own, with some support from my friends, just for fun. I didnt do it to be spotlighted, I didnt do it because I thought I was some great rper, I did it because I had a goal for my characters rp, and because I wanted to rp with more of the community. I wanted to take a step outside my box. Some of you may remember the doll plots where I put out dolls at tavern nights that caused various effects on people if you touched them. It was fun. There were no strings attached. It gave you a chance to do something on your character maybe you normally wouldnt. People had fun, it was the culmination of my dream for this character that I had always had.

I am working on another one, similar but different. However, I would like to see more people step up and do these types of things. Things that will interact with the community but are just for fun. Sosaria is a land of curses, enchantments, beings of greatness and then just the brave normal folk that want to live.. a realistic rp life.

So I would like to see someone do something that doesnt take following orders countless riddles and complex puzzle solving. Just something fun that people can participate in if they want to, or not.

I am no one special, just an rper with a character that wants to interact more with people she doesnt know. I want to have fun. I will fight if I get myself into that sort of trouble and most likely I wont win but then maybe theres a chance I will? Does it matter no, its about fun.

I was looking over your post Skatha and the thought of a tavern night with a bit more at stake, one that had no rule about fighting might be alot of fun. We could just pick a random NPC tavern once a month to hold it at, and no one really has to run it we just have to all show up and interact, and perhaps we will get along and perhaps we wont. It could even be in Fel! that would be a change.
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[Ghost of Gramps]

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I was lucky enough to get a house with my daughter Salem within Black Marsh territorial reach. I am outside Cove, right on the water. I would love for any ideas in our area. I even have a rune on our porch for passersby to recall to the town square.

When I usually do sign into the game, there is no one around, and I do like to ride around exploring to see who is about. I usually start by looking a my Black Marsh neighbors, then check out Ditto's place, and then do a quick run through Black Marsh downtown. I guess I will have to be satisfied for now with using the town teleporter to imprison me in the big house outside Cove gate south of Ditto's.

I always check the bulletin board outside, so if anyone does get on, and posts a message, and I sign in, I will look you up around Black Marsh.

[Skatha]

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Excellent responses so far...... any/all idea welcome. Keep suggesting, please. Throw enough stuff on the walls and some of it will stick, no need to wait for the suggestor to do all the work, if you are interested get in touch with that person and see what comes of it..


Zerin ---

Regarding: Private Homes and Locked Doors -- personally, I agree on both counts. My own residences are open to the public, the crystal teleporter is set for use by anyone. Main doors to the interior are locked, but if one wishes to check the perimeter the contents can be easily seen. I am think I may make the tavern portion and a roof garden open to the public though, in case anyone has a mad desire to do some rp there, or is attacked by some random spawn.

I don't necessarily wish to wander through someone's residence, but I do like to peek inside and have a look at the deco.

Regarding your comments about Wars. My chars wander through territories which are "owned" by a variety of other guilds; have never been challenged regarding my presence there.... (err.. well, Sanctus used to take great delight in telling me to get out of there territory.) I agree that it seems any sort of confrontation (rp of course) is avoided. Granted we are a friendly bunch, personally I think a minor exchange of unfriendly chatter, a few insults, would break the monotony -- and it need not be elevated to guild leaders and challenges for land claims, etc. Matching wits and humor can be great fun. As i type this, it occurs to me that I could initiate some of that!!

Wynn --

Go for it!! Maybe based on seasons, for starters to see how it goes. ie., October, Fall Sale in Trinsic or even Magencia? Maybe the evening of the town sale there could be a formal ball, those used to be such great fun..... hope we havn't outgrown that sort of thing.


Nightshade --

I still have one of the dolls...... One of my precious "rares." Looking forward to your next event. You dream up such unique and interesting things..... get on with it!

Gramps --

Bulletin Board in game, in addition to the forums, is a tool i totally forget to use. Going to get my own up and make an effort to use the ones that are out there.

Also, beginning to see the announcements in the Atlantic RP chat channel saying where there is some rp going on.
Would love to see more of that. Sometimes it draws people in, and sometimes it doesn't, but having the invitation out there for all to join is very welcoming. Warm fuzzy.

I hereby absolve myself and my characters of responsibility for any and all misstatements, untruths, grammatical errors and/or offensive statements i have posted above. It is now 6:25 est and I definitely need to get some sleep before I attempt to change the world to please myself.

hugs and stuff
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[Drayden Calamyr]

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I've been attempting to implement some crazy and wild ideas. The Double Dagger opened this past week and it is the only Tavern that allows fighting. Of course, you have to do it in the pit on the roof, but this gives entertainment and a change of flavor.
Secondly, since our "Bouts of Chaos" went so well, we're currently working on plans to make it a more regular event and even adding a league into it. There are a lot of good ideas out there right now. To me however, I don't think that locked doors and "inaccessibility" is the problem here. The problem as a whole is a lack of a large RP population and a lack of large guilds. The only way we are able to interact with one another these days is to either:
A) Plan something ahead of time with another GM.
B) Make an official "event" out of it.

It seems to me that the days of spontaneous RP are gone and that you can go (between 8-11pm EST) to any claimed home base and most likely not run into anyone. It's more than just our houses, the community has been sliding this way. Towards being segregated into guilds rather than being united by them.
EDIT: One pet peeve and obstacle that I run into as a GM is having to send out large numbers of ICQs to different people and having to keep all of that in order. This is something that could bring the community together as well.

[Lily Prower]

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Once upon a age when I use to be more involved in the community there would be parties. Not major productions or anything but simple parties be it dinner parties or balls were large amounts of rpers came to enjoy in the fun. I have noticed that over time tavern night seems to have taken over and if an event is scheduled and there is a tavern night also scheduled no one goes to the event. Tavern nights are great but usually held in some players houses or they use to. For me the events that attracted attention were the ones in the towns or more out in the open. I mean it is great to have events in players houses with gates but does that really attact the attention the community is wanted as far as getting new members? When I joined it was because there was this guild having an event with other guilds close to a shrine. It may not have been a town but back then a shrine was popular as a way to well be brought back to life. Sorry I know I am not really in the community much anymore but that was why I got into it and I have noticed over time how it has died. Okay just my two cents does not mean much but something to look at. =)

[Dryzzid]

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[Joanna Weaver]

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Well, I know I was planning a dinner party for Jo's friends and some Maritime acquaintances. Woulda been house rp I guess, unless too many on the guest list. Then it would surely have been a catered event in a rented hall. I also think Dealthahar has some good plans in store for Nujel'm now that he has control of it. We may see some balls and things again. Also, Republic of Magincia has an event soon. There will be a craft bazaar. We're taking requests from players who want to operate stalls to trade goods. They don't have to be crafted, they can simply be rp goods. If anyone would like to participate and run a stall, let us know.
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