Ahaha, I'm nervous about posting this. I had an idea and I know how well those go over because they are never over the top, ridiculous, or poorly thought out. I know. So Im going to gather my thoughts and present them as best as possible and hope somebody realizes my vision!


OK! So I've notice that the rp tends to be a little slow. Which isn't necessarily a bad thing but I feel a touch sad for our characters as there is a sense of complacency in traverse town as there is not much in the way of conflict or drama with a few sprinkles here and there. There are a lot of reasons for this, we are a small community, people tend to flock to each other from the same series/friends irl, awkwardness interacting with characters you aren't familiar with, and a general lack of villains and conflict. This last part I know is due to me as I play two of the villains which are in scarcity. The last part culminates into the largest problem I see which is no actual overlaying storyline.

Without a proper storyline, we fall into a complacent state and just go about everyday mundane buisness with little to no character development or reason to band together with characters one normally would not interact with. The reason we mostly stick to characters from our own series (I too am guilty of this, so don't think I'm pointing fingers at anybody) is because it is familiar territory and there really is not much reason to interact with others except out of boredom or they happen to be passing or show up in the same thread.

So my idea is this, let us work together to improve the community. It is a fine community, with fine members, and an interesting idea. We just need to band together and help it grow. Advertising, coming up with an overlaying plot, perhaps that bulletin board idea that's been brought up a few times, perhaps even take more effort to get to know each other and our characters to make us a stronger community as a whole.

My idea for an overlaying plotline was this. I rolled it around in my brain and it sounded good even though there would still be many details to work out in the way it was executed. Since I play Xemnas I was thinking, since he regained power and rebuilt The World That Never Was, I had this far fetched idea that perhaps he had a magical book that contained the names of all fictional characters within the world. I dont know HOW because it's just magic. Anyway, like this book is just a book of the world everybody is in, so he could rewrite things and make things happen that ordinarily wouldnt. Like he could change the sky or put in buildings and scenes that weren't there. The things he does could be posted in either ooc or in the regular comm at the start of these 'events' and then later when it's over. These events could be character specific and taken as suggestions from players. I'd even be willing to make Xemnas an NPC so all the mods could be in control of what happens.

So like, for example say Xemnas wrote that the First District appeared to be on fire, it wouldnt REALLY be on fire but it would look that way and characters could interact thusly.

An example of something character specific would be like, Zelos saw an illusion of his mother's death. Nobody else could see it but him. Personal illusions dont have to be sad or tragic, they could be happy and silly just the same!

It sounds really choppy right now because I'm getting nervous with this post and my brain is locking up in all kinds of unattractive ways. The basic point is that destroying this storybook and/or whoever is behind it and/or finding out who is behind this is they key. Since all of these weird things would just happen randomly and nobody would know why. I think it could make for interesting stories! I could even say that players could have things happen to them personally that we could chalk up to this magical book Xemmers is playing with and have the big events posted by mods.

I know, it sounds a mess. It was just an idea. I'd love for us to band together and think up an overlaying plotline to get more people motivated! We're a great bunch of roleplayers and I only bring this up because I know we are all creative enough to help strengthen the community!

As a closing note, I'd like to add that this post was not intended for complaining, drama, finger pointing, and the like. It's also not an official post and nothing official is going on, it's just a discussion post with the possibility that something may happen. It's just as much to assume that nothing at all will come of this post. So please don't be confused! I just would like to hear what people think! We don't bro out enough together! Open discussion! Go! ♥