Re: Players Expect Silly Iv'e Written Serious
Ok well in WoD cannon there is a ratkin named Ricky Rat, long story short Ricky Rat as a young man tried to sell Ricky Rat comics to producers and the like and the idea was stolen and made into Micky Mouse. He went a little loony toons and lost all credablity due to his inability to let it stand and exstream hostility on the matter. Fact was Ricky was not exsactly PG being overly perverted and foul mouthed to say the least so no one took his ties to Micky sereously. In the end though he got sick and became a ratkin, something in him snapped, he WAS Ricky Rat fast forward 60-80 years of debotchuary, indiscriminate sex, foul language enought to make sailors throw up, and being kicked out of to many senior citizen homes to count, and he's nearly 100 years old and knows he is going to die. Before his death though he is calling on all his bastard children, grand children, and great great great ect ect children to his side to take back what is his and has stated before he dies he swares to Rat (the totem/god) that he will be sitting on a throne in the burning ruins of the magic castle with a hariem of tourist women at his feet before he dies.
This is 100% seriously in the book cannon stuff.
Considering how much a haven to the weaver Diseny World must be, a place where every thing is fake and everything is carefully controlled for the mindless drones of park goers.... Well it must be a massive hot bed of weaver activity. And with a encursion of the wyld of such power with in only a few hundred miles at most (the fountain of youth), well it just lines up for one massive rediculous standoff between the wyld and the weaver. There WILL be chaos monitors and the weavers children (humanity 2.0 now with out all that anoying emotions and mortality in the way), run and hide!!!! lol
So I thought AWSOME let's make this a game, and a little side tour of the umbra from getting lost because they want to know more about the umbra and the game would be to short otherwise, and bam got a good game.
I could not get a SINGLE person to take it seriously at all, and the keep getting pissed off when crazy antics had repercussions. Keep asking me why I made a such a rediculous game so serous. They can't see rats and wyld things VS Diseny Land and not be all yah let's go crazy.
Yes ratkin are crazy, wild, and unpredictable... And the consept a little goofy, but the world it is set in is deadly serous and the wyld vs weaver power play going on is a grand scale serous world changing event. The fall of Orlando FL to mass chaos, Ratkin, and wyld spirits would rip the exsursuon at the fountain of youth right open and sent insane amounts of wyld energy surging back into the world. The SE USA would be a jungle in weeks/months. lol
I spent a lot of time and effort into it for people to quit 1/3 the way through because they got fed up with the game having to many consequences and realistic cause and effect.
Every single game we ran has had realistic cause and effect, what on earth suddenly made them think that would change when I ran a game regardless of how odd ball it was.
And now I can never get anyone interested because they all think it's to rediculous. lol even when I tell them it's canon and the dinamics of the wyld and weaver that are in it.
So yah, deffently understand the whole no one will take a game serous thing. >.<
And I so wanted to see there reactions when they realized the park has/is a weaver totem spirit that the weavers children wake up. Nothing like Epcct center trying to step on your face to kick a war into second gear. That and I always love peoples reactions to chaos monitors and the way they cross over into the phisical plane.... lol they are so powerful the barrier between the spirit and flesh SHATERS like braking glass when they cross. It looks like the creaking sky cracks and shatters and a big scary 100 foot long diamond scorpion crawls out. O.O scary!!!!