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Post by schnautzr on Sept 11, 2009 22:14:33 GMT
So...we've been talking about doing one all summer (winter for the Australians)...any ideas yet? I'd be more than happy to do any research needed for the adventure.
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Post by orion1989 on Sept 11, 2009 22:48:51 GMT
Well maybe on the planet wher a group of "Past Lords" a group made up of a myriad of creatures from across the galaxy com and talk about their love of prehistoric life.
Somethign happens and all the creatures are runnign rampant. (kind like Jurassic Park but cooler). It is more true to the book Footprints of Thunder which I suggest as required reading for adventure creating members.
synopsis "In Footprints of Thunder, James F. David has come up with what seems at first glance to be an original disaster, namely the collapse of the boundaries of time resulting in the conflation of the present day with fragments of history from the ages when dinosaurs walk the earth. The resulting contact is of course rather unpleasant for both dinosaur and man."
maybe the adventure could feature a bad guy, maybe a malevolent member of the order or something.
So Dinosaurs amuck in cities, check, Dinosaur pretty much everywhere...check.
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Post by hermes888 on Sept 11, 2009 23:12:31 GMT
Question 1: Will it be prehistory related? I think every adventure based on the past has been created. Perhaps we should make an original adventure. Then Again, we are the LOTP. Question 2: Will it involve everyone's best captain? Or will it have new characters created by everyone? Question 3: Who starts work and who ends? What order will we go in? Question 4: What's the story? How will we make it that everyone likes a story and gets to be a part in it? How should we do that? Act by Act? Question 5: Simulation or adventure? Blowing creatures up in a present day scenario or seeing what it's like in the Cretaceous? I'll include my ideas soon! I just haven't really organized them yet!
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Post by schnautzr on Sept 11, 2009 23:15:34 GMT
That's an interesting way to set it up, Orion...
How many main characters would there be? We surely can't represent every single member of the club very easily, so we might take a poll and have everyone vote for two people they think should be in the adventure and pick the top five or so. If we did a series, we could easily inculde more of the club members as characters in the adventure.
Something has happened...let's figure out what that something is. We can't recreate the disaster of Cloverfield (the disaster was the lack of plot and the disappointing ending). Even King Kong and Godzilla have disappointing endings...they always pursue the creature until they manage to kill it. No, this has to be something more complicated. In Digimon they planted black gears inside several monsters which altered their personalities. Destroying the black gear freed the creature and it could think for itself again. We can't use that plot, though...it's been used.
So what triggered these dinosaurs to suddenly roam the cities and how will they be stopped (without having to kill all of them)?
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Post by hermes888 on Sept 11, 2009 23:24:54 GMT
I say we pick those people. Everyone makes one act and sets the storyline in one direction. One person edits it, posts the first part on LOTP, second person edits it, puts it on LOTP, etc. I'm sorry to say but dinosaurs attacking major cities is not that original. But it's a cool idea!
I have a story idea. It's just a beginning, and I'll give you guys the first sentence and will continue if you guys like it: Hero wakes up. Desert as far as he looks. Voices from behind him. But they're not human... "He's awake" one says. Our hero's throat hurts but he manages to say "Who are you?". "We" another voice says, "are now your problem."
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Post by orion1989 on Sept 11, 2009 23:42:36 GMT
That's an interesting way to set it up, Orion... How many main characters would there be? We surely can't represent every single member of the club very easily, so we might take a poll and have everyone vote for two people they think should be in the adventure and pick the top five or so. If we did a series, we could easily inculde more of the club members as characters in the adventure. Something has happened...let's figure out what that something is. We can't recreate the disaster of Cloverfield (the disaster was the lack of plot and the disappointing ending). Even King Kong and Godzilla have disappointing endings...they always pursue the creature until they manage to kill it. No, this has to be something more complicated. In Digimon they planted black gears inside several monsters which altered their personalities. Destroying the black gear freed the creature and it could think for itself again. We can't use that plot, though...it's been used. So what triggered these dinosaurs to suddenly roam the cities and how will they be stopped (without having to kill all of them)? Some kinda of time distortion that replace some parts of the presentwith parts of the past. Well you could llure them with objects like their eggs or a peice or meat? Definitely should include big members from the beginning, like Dadltondmd, Diablodog, etc. Another adventure idea is one that is similar to Dinoverse (another good book) where the character are turned into dinosaurs. Then we can ask people what dinosaur they would want to be. (no simple answers like everyone wanting to be T-rex or velociraptor. that wouldn't be allowed.)
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Post by hermes888 on Sept 11, 2009 23:46:15 GMT
That's an interesting way to set it up, Orion... How many main characters would there be? We surely can't represent every single member of the club very easily, so we might take a poll and have everyone vote for two people they think should be in the adventure and pick the top five or so. If we did a series, we could easily inculde more of the club members as characters in the adventure. Something has happened...let's figure out what that something is. We can't recreate the disaster of Cloverfield (the disaster was the lack of plot and the disappointing ending). Even King Kong and Godzilla have disappointing endings...they always pursue the creature until they manage to kill it. No, this has to be something more complicated. In Digimon they planted black gears inside several monsters which altered their personalities. Destroying the black gear freed the creature and it could think for itself again. We can't use that plot, though...it's been used. So what triggered these dinosaurs to suddenly roam the cities and how will they be stopped (without having to kill all of them)? Some kinda of time distortion that replace some parts of the presentwith parts of the past. Well you could llure them with objects like their eggs or a peice or meat? Definitely should include big members from the beginning, like Dadltondmd, Diablodog, etc. Another adventure idea is one that is similar to Dinoverse (another good book) where the character are turned into dinosaurs. Then we can ask people what dinosaur they would want to be. (no simple answers like everyone wanting to be T-rex or velociraptor. that wouldn't be allowed.) I like that idea much better! If people randomly become dinosaurs I guess famous ones would be unlikely. And no Giganotosaurus or Utahraptor either.
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Post by schnautzr on Sept 11, 2009 23:48:18 GMT
I'll set up a poll soon that will allow each person to vote for two creators to be featured in the first act. We'll probably end up using the top five or so of them...we'll work out the details as we go.
Taking turns editing might not work so well. Not all of us have GA. For example, I don't. All I can do is help develop the story line, create things, look for things, and do research.
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Post by hermes888 on Sept 11, 2009 23:53:14 GMT
Okay then, how about people without and not voted in will write the story line. The people with, and the very best adventure creators (NOT me) will create and get much less of a vote. Oh, and can at least one of the characters NOT be a dinosaur, or a Mesozoic creature (Titanis, Tiktaalik)
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Post by orion1989 on Sept 12, 2009 0:56:53 GMT
Well the only main goal would be somehow turning back
It would have to be moderately difficult and not too easy, maybe real dinosaurs added or suspense.
Are people going to get to request a dinosaur or how would it randomized
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Post by schnautzr on Sept 12, 2009 1:36:36 GMT
Hmm. If I were included, I'd sure like to have the opportunity to choose what species would represent me and also to review the lines I would speak to make sure they sound like something I'd say (like I don't curse or swear-- I wouldn't want to see someone programming my character to do so).
Do I sense a hint of I was a Teenage T. Rex? That was an awesome book, btw...
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Post by schnautzr on Sept 13, 2009 4:11:01 GMT
The votes are coming in slowly but surely....I'll give the poll at least until Monday evening to allow for our weekday visitors to vote. Right now, I can probably guess two of the characters based on the ballots so far. Once the results are in, we can probably begin on the plot. How many LotP members will appear in the first episode? We know Dalton will be there. How many others? Two? Three? Four?
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Post by schnautzr on Sept 16, 2009 4:13:00 GMT
The votes are in.
The Act I cast is as follows (as of yet): Dadltondmd DiabloDog Dino589 ManTooth02
So...what sort of entities will the LotP members be?
Here are some ideas:
Government of a city Creatures of celestial nature that somehow balance life Assortment of professions based on personality
I like the assortment of professions best. For instance, since gnathus is a Permian period expert, he'd be portrayed as such. Since I'm a computer scientist, that's how I'd be portrayed. This may also ease the scripting process.
Before anyone goes out and makes LotP members, how do we want to do it? Are humans the intelligent life form or are these an assortment of species, like the children's TV series Arthur?
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Post by orion1989 on Sept 16, 2009 5:08:35 GMT
They could be scientists that help you discover why replaced with dinosaurs and how to change back. Each new scientist being a main act. Each act focusing around figuring something out, retrieving something or doing something, in order to help the scientist help you figure out whats going on.
I lik ethe arthur idea but like arthur they can't be too different, In arthur even though different animals they all have many similarities.
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Post by schnautzr on Sept 16, 2009 20:44:04 GMT
Right...there are deliberately anthropomorphic animals that are all basically human with funny ears or whatnot, and there are deliberately normal animals as well.
If we're representing members as anthropomorphic animal scientists, then it might not make much sense to do the Dinoverse thing. There are other potential problems to be solved. For example, There could be an outbreak of a new strain of influenza such as presented in Star Trek Double Helix: Infection. That's a great book, btw. I highly suggest it. I don't even like medical stuff but still found it quite interesting. Basically someone engineers a new form of influenza and releases it on Worf's home planet. It goes epidemic and wipes out a vast majority of the population on that planet before the crew is able to successfully eradicate the virus.
So my suggestion is that each act has a different problem needing solved, rather than always the same one. So we could do one episode similar to Infection, where some sort of "dino flu" evolves and becomes pandemic and you have to figure out a way to stop it. (This is actually very relevant to today with the swine flu.)
So here are my ideas for various acts so far: Deadly virus epidemic (Star Trek Double Helix: Infection) - must eradicate the virus but contain a small population in a vat for research Depletion of resources (Dinotopia mini-series) - must find new resource mine Asteroid forecasted to hit an important base (Magic School Bus season 2: "Out of this World") - must deflect asteroid by launching an explosive projectile
I'm sure there are plenty of other possibilities...we'll get more crazy ideas as we move on. What should we start with?
Also...who has GA?
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