( plotting ) game idea

[ritornello]

Premise
You find yourself standing in an unknown room, in front of a woman known as The Dimension Witch. Maybe someone sent you here, perhaps you stumbled here yourself; either way, she's agreed to grant you one wish. The price? The thing that is most important to you.

But you're desperate. And it isn't as though you know how to find your way home. So you agree, and you give up what is most important to you, in exchange for... well... careful what you wish for, read the fine print before signing on the dotted line, all that good stuff.

Because, this wish of yours? It isn't easily granted with the snap of a finger. Now that you've given up what is most important to you, you must go on a quest across many different worlds, only after you've completed what is required in each world will you finally be granted your wish.


Logistics and whatnot

• Starting out. Characters will be dropped (randomly?) into one of x number of worlds. To exit a world, there must be a task to complete/item to find/etc. Once that world has been exited, though, characters can come and leave as much as they want.
  
• Communication/travel. Each character and/or group (groups can either be people who've been forced together by Yuuko, or people who would never/rarely separate -- like Alphonse and Edward from FMA) gets one White Mokona.
  
  • Possible idea: everyone has to travel in groups of 3-5? Can't leave the world unless everyone in the group has completed what they've come for?
    
  • Mokona can transport people to other worlds by, essentially, eating them and then spitting them back out into the next world.
    
  • Having Mokona around will also translate languages into one that you'll understand; if you lose sight of her, have fun trying to understand anyone not from your world.
    
  • Mokona can also communicate with other Mokonas, even across worlds. An example would be if Alphonse was in World A, and Morgana was in World B, their Mokonas can project an image/hologram of the other person, and they can talk to each other. It'd be like having 3D skype...
    
  • Only video (maybe voice) communications are available; no text.
    
  • White Mokonas can also communicate with the one Black Mokona in Yuuko's possession. So it is possible to ask Yuuko questions/ask for help at any time. Whether or not she'll answer, though... is up to debate.
    
  • As a note: While friendly and cute, Mokona does tend to talk a lot and can get annoying. They like to tease those they're with and tend to be rather hyperactive. Also they only refer to themselves in third person.
  
  
• Worlds. The number of worlds should be proportional to the number of characters. So start off with, say, four, and then build a new one every time x number of characters are added to the game. That way, it balances out. World building would be a thing, too. This'll definitely be a collective effort.
  
• Wishes. Hmm. Examples of wishes in Tsubasa were: Syaoran gives up Sakura's relationship with him (she will never remember who he is) in order to restore all of her memories; to do this, he has to travel worlds and locate fragments of her memories (in feather form.) Kurogane wishes to return to his world, so he has to continue to jump worlds until he finds the right one.
  
• Gameplay. Would work as an invite-only and/or by referral private musebox type thing... and everyone should be involved in plotting and world building, ideally. There'll be biweekly check-in/plotting posts, maybe.

Fandom AU

• Same character, different storyline. Every world could have a couple of fandom AU characters. They'd be the same faces, similar personality, just their lives would have been spent entirely in that world. It's all they've ever known. Players of those AU characters can also help build the world they live in. Tl;dr: canon characters travel worlds, fandom AU characters stay put.
  
• Can't jump worlds. These characters are stationary. In fact, they don't even know there are other worlds out there.
  
• Only one per world. If there's already an AU Alphonse in World A, there can't be another. However, there could potentially be a different AU Alphonse in World B. I think the cap should be 2 max of the same character overall though. Maybe 3 max? They'd never meet, they won't know the other exists, etc.
  
• Mei's just fantasizing. This is all because I want to play out my silly ships.

Activity?

• Pacing. I want this to be laid back. After all, it's not an official game, it's just a sort of invite/referral-only musebox type. I'm okay with slow and backtagging and all that good stuff.
  
• However... Slow =/= inactive. It'd be bad if people just brought in a bunch of characters and then never did anything.
  
• Possible Activity Checks? 1 thread bimonthly? At least for canon characters. Since Fandom AU characters don't world jump, maybe they don't need activity requirements. But I do want ones for the canon characters; especially since there'll only be one of those.
  
• Events. Events/plots/etc. should definitely be a thing. I imagine each world would have their own theme/event, since this is a 'quest' game. I think one major event should happen once a month, and it can alternate between worlds? January can have a major event in World A, February can have a major event in World B, March could have one in Worlds C and D. Depends on how many worlds there are.

World Ideas

• SPARTACUUUUUS... ..... Characters are dropped in as slaves to different ludus. Each ludus has a head/slave owner known as a Lanista. And there's a head slave known as the Doctores which is the one who trains all the other slaves to become gladiators. Characters can either be placed in a gladiator role (in which case, they'll be forced to fight in tournaments and the victor of each tournament gets to move on to the next world; those who die in these tournaments are forever respawned until they win) or they can be a household slave. Depends on what they're after, I guess.
  
• IDK man. I haven't thought that far yet.

Comments

[loveiscash]

Oh I would love to take part in this!

Could I suggest the Game of Thrones world? And we shouldn't forget the X world, this one is a must!

[ritornello]

Aaah yay c:

I was hoping not to make too many worlds just a copy of canons and stuff. But it'd be pretty easy to have an apocalyptic world like X or a historical/kingdom world like GoT. Plus! Fandom AU characters can be in any world so there could easily be a GoT AU Cast over at say, Gladiator world or something. Where the Lannisters have their own Ludus and train slaves to fight each other <<;

[loveiscash]

\o/ Yay! This sounds fun!