It may surprise some of you not at all to hear that we have decided to terminate this experiment. We have reviewed the astrological charts, consulted with the ListMod, made the appropriate sacrifices, and divined the proper course. With six replacements out of nine apparently needed, we do not see a reasonable way forward. This model of game is hereby assessed a moderate failure; in particular the system of delayed delivery seems to have inhibited good flow of ideas, and the assignment of roles without player input has been deemed problematic, as it discouraged player ownership. We will be going back to the drawing board to examine the data, and will re-queue with a modified design for future enjoyment. We thank you for your participation in this experiment, and we will open the thread for normal discussion.
I thought the idea was cool but I'm not sure how you're supposed to generate reads in this environment. It needed something more than voting for lunch to generate reads off of.
2019 stats: Town WR 76.7%, overall WR 81.667%, 1 scum defeat involving a major mod error in lylo vs 8 scum wins.
It was a bit difficult to take the time to write big letters everytime, and motivation especially died off when most others stopped playing the game. Too bad, this seemed like it would have had potential if the setup was a bit tweaked or people were more motivated. (Me too maybe, i guess the writing style of "old time epics." was a bit time consuming for me)
Norwe is spontaneous, has a stream-of-consciouness posting style, usually posts on catch-ups by commenting on past pages posts, gets rather fired up in certain moments in games, is relatively as playful as me in games and likes casual shitposting
Man, I was really into my role. The fact that my letter passed through meant that you could inject game commentary into your letter as long as it was in character. E.g. I tried to comment about me being more concerned when Vork drove discussion rather than lurked based on experience, and I think that came through.
It may surprise some of you not at all to hear that we have decided to terminate this experiment. We have reviewed the astrological charts, consulted with the ListMod, made the appropriate sacrifices, and divined the proper course. With six replacements out of nine apparently needed, we do not see a reasonable way forward. This model of game is hereby assessed a moderate failure; in particular the system of delayed delivery seems to have inhibited good flow of ideas, and the assignment of roles without player input has been deemed problematic, as it discouraged player ownership. We will be going back to the drawing board to examine the data, and will re-queue with a modified design for future enjoyment. We thank you for your participation in this experiment, and we will open the thread for normal discussion.
T_T
Was the goal of the delayed delivery mechanic to make sure the post restriction was fairly followed? Or did it have more of a "geriatric ruleset" purpose to it?
"Let us say that you are right and there are two worlds. How much, then, is this 'other world' worth to you? What do you have there that you do not have here? Money? Power? Something worth causing the prince so much pain for?'"
"Well, I..."
"What? Nothing? You would make the prince suffer over... nothing?"
In post 15, Nancy Drew 39 wrote:Dear Sally, I hope life finds you well. Sorry, for the tardy response, I’ve had some pressing family matters to attend to. I have been looking into the Salad spinner situation. Will get back to you on that asap.
All the best,
~Nancy
This is the last letter I sent to the mods.
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We just need to tread carefully because if you slip up around her as scum she notices and will tear your spine out and slap you to death with it. (I'm slightly scared of Nancy)
~the worst
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Nancy is pretty heavenly ngl
~CheekyTeeky
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Nancy-scum feels like a hot knife slicing through butter. Nancy-town feels like a magnifying glass in the sun glaring down at an insect.
Sally: I had hope to receive your correspondence under more favourable circumstances. Upon further investigation, it appears that the child, young Salad, has had an unusually chaotic home life. Apparently, his parents are BDSM swingers and apparently one terribly tragic day, young Salad was locked in their dungeon. He has had had plenty of therapy but nothing seems to have stemmed the nightmares.
Something something about other slots.
In other observations, it has come to my attention that Norwegian boy has been pilfering the other children’s crayons, pastries and other assorted Barney paraphernalia. We have observed him in young Salad’s company, when one of the teacher’s had their back turned. We are still attempting to evaluate if young Norwegian boy has been a willing participant or not. Please keep an eye out on him. We have also gotten word that young Salad attempted to handcuff one of your newest substitute teachers.
I hope to find you under more favourable circumstances, next time we connect.
~Nancy
Obviously don’t send this yet, it’s still a rough draft. I need to come up with stuff on some other slots.
And this was the one I was planning on sending, after some tweaking.
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We just need to tread carefully because if you slip up around her as scum she notices and will tear your spine out and slap you to death with it. (I'm slightly scared of Nancy)
~the worst
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Nancy is pretty heavenly ngl
~CheekyTeeky
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Nancy-scum feels like a hot knife slicing through butter. Nancy-town feels like a magnifying glass in the sun glaring down at an insect.
In post 83, popsofctown wrote:T_T
Was the goal of the delayed delivery mechanic to make sure the post restriction was fairly followed? Or did it have more of a "geriatric ruleset" purpose to it?
I think the thing that made the least sense to me, was the restricted voting, You need to be able to vote whenever you see fit. Also, I don’t see the wisdom of preventing scum from having full daytalk.
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We just need to tread carefully because if you slip up around her as scum she notices and will tear your spine out and slap you to death with it. (I'm slightly scared of Nancy)
~the worst
*******
Nancy is pretty heavenly ngl
~CheekyTeeky
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Nancy-scum feels like a hot knife slicing through butter. Nancy-town feels like a magnifying glass in the sun glaring down at an insect.
I enjoyed reading the posts.
