Ghyll talk:Cranee Historical Society - Revision history

Jcowan: /* I Simply Want The Lot Of You To Die Horribly. */ Fizzou -> Fizzuo

2005-03-20T04:33:05Z

I Simply Want The Lot Of You To Die Horribly.: Fizzou -> Fizzuo

Morbus Iff: Whitespace expungination. Expungination? SweeeEEt.

2004-09-21T13:46:48Z

Whitespace expungination. Expungination? SweeeEEt.

PhineasCrank: /* More random remarks */ "Ooo, shiny...."

2004-09-21T12:36:07Z

More random remarks: "Ooo, shiny...."

Morbus Iff: Random editing and junk. Talk: yeah, yeah, yeah.

2004-09-21T02:42:42Z

Random editing and junk. Talk: yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Qwentyth Pyre at 23:58, 20 September 2004

2004-09-20T23:58:20Z

Darus Ixa: /* More random remarks */

2004-09-20T12:45:02Z

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DrBacchus: Hey, look, is that the Good Year blimp?

2004-09-20T12:26:37Z

Hey, look, is that the Good Year blimp?

Talliesin at 12:06, 20 September 2004

2004-09-20T12:06:25Z

DrBacchus: In my day, we walked uphill in the snow to school

2004-09-20T11:55:44Z

In my day, we walked uphill in the snow to school

PhineasCrank: /* More random remarks */ Dman my seplling!

2004-09-20T11:25:33Z

More random remarks: Dman my seplling!

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 == I Simply Want The Lot Of You To Die Horribly. ==
-I like the longer-turn idea. Boo to the large talk-page discussions. I got his with a poisonous dart a while ago, tense talking before I pass out. I think the EPRs are really crucial to the whole of Ghyll, as they are subtly telling you what to do. Perhaps too subtly. Perhaps even in not enough detail. Players right now have an irritating habit of both following them too heavily, and totally ignoring them. We'll soon have around 6 historical societies all centered around the Evesque Valley. It's up to the Encyclopedants to make sure that we don't have 5 different ghylls, and up the the players as a whole to make plots. Too much dissidence. My keyboard just hissed at me. Plots should be secretive in nature, and developed by a bunch of people in rapid succession. Foomistress lays down the groundwork, Foomatic builds up on the story, we see a branch, Bardude1932 builds a story on the branch. Barista makes a plot twist on the main trunk. All of this is organically happening, no sharing of plot details needed. My desk is now an odd shade of purple. There should be a lot more cohesion. --[[User:d8uv|Melik Fizzou]] 22:12, 18 Sep 2004
+I like the longer-turn idea. Boo to the large talk-page discussions. I got his with a poisonous dart a while ago, tense talking before I pass out. I think the EPRs are really crucial to the whole of Ghyll, as they are subtly telling you what to do. Perhaps too subtly. Perhaps even in not enough detail. Players right now have an irritating habit of both following them too heavily, and totally ignoring them. We'll soon have around 6 historical societies all centered around the Evesque Valley. It's up to the Encyclopedants to make sure that we don't have 5 different ghylls, and up the the players as a whole to make plots. Too much dissidence. My keyboard just hissed at me. Plots should be secretive in nature, and developed by a bunch of people in rapid succession. Foomistress lays down the groundwork, Foomatic builds up on the story, we see a branch, Bardude1932 builds a story on the branch. Barista makes a plot twist on the main trunk. All of this is organically happening, no sharing of plot details needed. My desk is now an odd shade of purple. There should be a lot more cohesion. --[[User:d8uv|Melik Fizzuo]] 22:12, 18 Sep 2004
 == On Control, Controlling People and Just Letting Go and Having FUN ==

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	After that, I think simple encouragement via subtle, or not so subtle proddings in each Progress Report should begin to pull us back to a more cohesive story. --[[User:Qwentyth Pyre\|Qwentyth Pyre]] 19:58, 20 Sep 2004 (EDT)		After that, I think simple encouragement via subtle, or not so subtle proddings in each Progress Report should begin to pull us back to a more cohesive story. --[[User:Qwentyth Pyre\|Qwentyth Pyre]] 19:58, 20 Sep 2004 (EDT)

−		+	Good grief, now I'm summing up! It's a sign of the End Times! (Hmm, should I phantom that?) Well, setting a threshold might help. For instance, if we feel that five cities, two seas and a river being developed at one time are "enough", then perhaps not letting any additional entries of that sort be phantomed until the others are complete is in order. I know that, while the making of new places is the most fun for me, the challenge of making new things and creatures without making new places has got my juices flowing. (Ick!) It's also my goal to add a whole bunch of glue, so to speak, the the current entries in my current work. Of course, goals are often meant to be completely overshot, so we'll see what happens. Interesting developments. As always, I remain, the irrepressible [[User:PhineasCrank\|Doctor Phineas Crank]] 08:36, 21 Sep 2004 (EDT)
−	Good grief, now I'm summing up! It's a sign of the End Times! (Hmm, should I phantom that?) Well, setting a threshold might help. For instance, if we feel that five cities, two seas and a river being developed at one time are "enough", then perhaps not letting any additional entries of that sort be phantomed until the others are complete is in order. I know that, while the making of new places is the most fun for me, the challenge of making new things and creatures without making new places has got my juices flowing. (Ick!) It's also my goal to add a whole bunch of glue, so to speak, the the current entries in my current work. Of course, goals are often meant to be completely overshot, so we'll see what happens.
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−	Interesting developments. As always, I remain, the irrepressible [[User:PhineasCrank\|Doctor Phineas Crank]] 08:36, 21 Sep 2004 (EDT)

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	After that, I think simple encouragement via subtle, or not so subtle proddings in each Progress Report should begin to pull us back to a more cohesive story. --[[User:Qwentyth Pyre\|Qwentyth Pyre]] 19:58, 20 Sep 2004 (EDT)		After that, I think simple encouragement via subtle, or not so subtle proddings in each Progress Report should begin to pull us back to a more cohesive story. --[[User:Qwentyth Pyre\|Qwentyth Pyre]] 19:58, 20 Sep 2004 (EDT)
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		+	Good grief, now I'm summing up! It's a sign of the End Times! (Hmm, should I phantom that?) Well, setting a threshold might help. For instance, if we feel that five cities, two seas and a river being developed at one time are "enough", then perhaps not letting any additional entries of that sort be phantomed until the others are complete is in order. I know that, while the making of new places is the most fun for me, the challenge of making new things and creatures without making new places has got my juices flowing. (Ick!) It's also my goal to add a whole bunch of glue, so to speak, the the current entries in my current work. Of course, goals are often meant to be completely overshot, so we'll see what happens.
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		+	Interesting developments. As always, I remain, the irrepressible [[User:PhineasCrank\|Doctor Phineas Crank]] 08:36, 21 Sep 2004 (EDT)

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	Just an observation. --[[User:Darus Ixa\|Darus Ixa]]		Just an observation. --[[User:Darus Ixa\|Darus Ixa]]
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		+	Everyone else is chiming in, so I might as well. Rather than just a "me too," I'll say that the good [[User:PhineasCrank\|Doctor Phineas Crank]] summed up my opinion pretty well. The "fun" of the game (for me) is precisely the lack of control. I think an OOG "talk" page for everyone to hash out where things should go in the story is the wrong answer. However, I also share the concern of others over the rampant, implicit, creation via new nomenclature spread through-out an entry. I'd like to see more focus on filling in existing loose threads. How do we get there from here, and keep things fun? First, stop the hemorrhaging. I suggest a rule (or merely a suggestion with the backing reasoning) on the front page for all to see that says something like:
		+	<pre>
		+	"Please do not needlessly create places/people/organisations/etc... in your entries beyond
		+	the subject of the entry and your two phantoms. It is the desire of many of the players
		+	to have a cohesive Ghyll, and that is difficult when every entry mentions, without really
		+	defining, something like "Blorflmancy," "squidgeroos," and "Nimdick The Uptight" when none
		+	of them are the subject of the entry, nor its phantoms. Please keep Occam's Razor in mind
		+	(i.e. entities should not be multiplied needlessly). If you feel you really have need,
		+	go ahead and add, but before you do, see if there is anything else in Ghyll all ready
		+	which could serve your purpose just as well as some new invention. If there is, use
		+	that instead, and help us get a handle on keeping Ghyll fun and connected. Thanks."
		+	</pre>
		+	After that, I think simple encouragement via subtle, or not so subtle proddings in each Progress Report should begin to pull us back to a more cohesive story. --[[User:Qwentyth Pyre\|Qwentyth Pyre]] 19:58, 20 Sep 2004 (EDT)

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	I'm pretty sure "Dagger" means "Really-Stormy-In-The-South-Calm-In-The-North-Good-Fishing-During-The-Warmer-Seasons" in some dialect or other. ;-) --[[User:DrBacchus\|DrBacchus]] 08:26, 20 Sep 2004 (EDT)		I'm pretty sure "Dagger" means "Really-Stormy-In-The-South-Calm-In-The-North-Good-Fishing-During-The-Warmer-Seasons" in some dialect or other. ;-) --[[User:DrBacchus\|DrBacchus]] 08:26, 20 Sep 2004 (EDT)
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		+	Well, if you hold a dagger with the blade down, and consider down to be south, then the blade represents the stormy part of the sea and the hilt represents calm...
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		+	Just an observation. --[[User:Darus Ixa\|Darus Ixa]]

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	Yes, we're a big short of cities, but let's hold off on inventing more unless we really need a city other than Folktown. Also, I had to break the rule and invent the [[Dagger Seas]] (probably, I'm still at first draft) since I had a sailor to describe, and nowhere for him to sail. I did opt for Dagger Seas rather than Dxorthian Seas or something else totally made up on the one hand or Really-Stormy-In-The-South-Calm-In-The-North-Good-Fishing-During-The-Warmer-Seasons Seas on the other. Dagger's a normal word, but I can think about half a dozen completely different reasons why seas might be called such without really trying, so hopefully whoever gets it will do something good with it. --[[User:Talliesin\|Talliesin]] 08:06, 20 Sep 2004 (EDT)		Yes, we're a big short of cities, but let's hold off on inventing more unless we really need a city other than Folktown. Also, I had to break the rule and invent the [[Dagger Seas]] (probably, I'm still at first draft) since I had a sailor to describe, and nowhere for him to sail. I did opt for Dagger Seas rather than Dxorthian Seas or something else totally made up on the one hand or Really-Stormy-In-The-South-Calm-In-The-North-Good-Fishing-During-The-Warmer-Seasons Seas on the other. Dagger's a normal word, but I can think about half a dozen completely different reasons why seas might be called such without really trying, so hopefully whoever gets it will do something good with it. --[[User:Talliesin\|Talliesin]] 08:06, 20 Sep 2004 (EDT)
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		+	I'm pretty sure "Dagger" means "Really-Stormy-In-The-South-Calm-In-The-North-Good-Fishing-During-The-Warmer-Seasons" in some dialect or other. ;-) --[[User:DrBacchus\|DrBacchus]] 08:26, 20 Sep 2004 (EDT)

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	Darned kids these days --[[User:DrBacchus\|DrBacchus]] 07:55, 20 Sep 2004 (EDT)		Darned kids these days --[[User:DrBacchus\|DrBacchus]] 07:55, 20 Sep 2004 (EDT)
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		+	Yes, we're a big short of cities, but let's hold off on inventing more unless we really need a city other than Folktown. Also, I had to break the rule and invent the [[Dagger Seas]] (probably, I'm still at first draft) since I had a sailor to describe, and nowhere for him to sail. I did opt for Dagger Seas rather than Dxorthian Seas or something else totally made up on the one hand or Really-Stormy-In-The-South-Calm-In-The-North-Good-Fishing-During-The-Warmer-Seasons Seas on the other. Dagger's a normal word, but I can think about half a dozen completely different reasons why seas might be called such without really trying, so hopefully whoever gets it will do something good with it. --[[User:Talliesin\|Talliesin]] 08:06, 20 Sep 2004 (EDT)

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	OTH, I'll be damned if I'm going to stop having fun just because someone doesn't think the game is going as planned. This is the most fun I've had in months and months and I'm not going to let a stick-in-the-mud keep me from it. ^_^ --[[User:PhineasCrank\|Doctor Phineas Crank]] 07:23, 20 Sep 2004 (EDT)		OTH, I'll be damned if I'm going to stop having fun just because someone doesn't think the game is going as planned. This is the most fun I've had in months and months and I'm not going to let a stick-in-the-mud keep me from it. ^_^ --[[User:PhineasCrank\|Doctor Phineas Crank]] 07:23, 20 Sep 2004 (EDT)
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		+	Darned kids these days --[[User:DrBacchus\|DrBacchus]] 07:55, 20 Sep 2004 (EDT)

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−	You know, I could stand to have a few more cities, in particular, and more ~~place~~ don't seem a burden, but perhaps we need to slow down on the ~~creationt~~ of "new" words. For instance, "Cresent Bay" is just as good a city as "~~Cranostick~~", but it's not a new word for people to have learn.	+	You know, I could stand to have a few more cities, in particular, and more places don't seem a burden, but perhaps we need to slow down on the creation of "new" words. For instance, "Cresent Bay" is just as good a city as "Cranosticknarf", but it's not a new word for people to have learn.

−	OTH, I'll be damned if I'm going to stop having fun just because someone doesn't think the game is going as planned. This is the most fun I've had in months and months and I'm not going to let a stick-in-the-mud keep me from it. --[[User:PhineasCrank\|Doctor Phineas Crank]] 07:23, 20 Sep 2004 (EDT)	+	OTH, I'll be damned if I'm going to stop having fun just because someone doesn't think the game is going as planned. This is the most fun I've had in months and months and I'm not going to let a stick-in-the-mud keep me from it. ^_^ --[[User:PhineasCrank\|Doctor Phineas Crank]] 07:23, 20 Sep 2004 (EDT)