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Title: All That Blue (Complete!)
Post by: RoseHeart on June 14, 2022, 11:46:51 pm
Just a lighthearted non-serious game, to help me fight my crushing writer's block.

Airshow registration: Describe your plane, balloon, helicopter, ect. up to modern tech. Setting is a vast expanse of farmland and a cozy village nestled in the hills nearby. and...

All That Blue

The better your rolls, the less fuel consumed. If you want to clarify some pros and cons of your chosen vehicle, these may factor into your rolls. There's no points, no winners, and no losers. Just a sandbox.

Update: Airshow will end June 19th.

Aircraft Regulations:
1) An aircraft.
2) No real weapons. (No hostile actions permitted!)
3) No fantasy or scifi tech.
Title: Re: All That Blue
Post by: King Zultan on June 15, 2022, 02:54:48 am
Have a WWI biplane, and be a angry looking man with a long mustache that is prepared to twirl it menacingly as he drops bombs on the cozy village.
Title: Re: All That Blue
Post by: ghost armor 1337 on June 15, 2022, 05:45:03 am

An scifi enthusiast is putting the finishing touches on his full scale model X-wing and preparing to take it for a test flight
Title: Re: All That Blue
Post by: Knightwing64 on June 15, 2022, 06:22:37 am
A ork flying a plane of various makeshift parts, somehow flying as good as the latest model. He is ready to start some WAAAGGGHHHHSS
Title: Re: All That Blue
Post by: RoseHeart on June 15, 2022, 06:47:32 am
Have a WWI biplane, and be a angry looking man with a long mustache that is prepared to twirl it menacingly as he drops bombs on the cozy village.
(6) The WWI biplane gets in bombing position (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGU1P6lBW6Q) ... A sinister, snarling grin grows to fill the pilot's face, then, Dive—Dive—Dive, the villagers look up and the roar of the biplane engine grows louder and louder, before, drop—drop—drop, something is being released upon the town! They whistle through the air, closer, closer, and... Pop! Pop! POP! Bursts of color! Pink, Green, and Yellow! The children cheer! The pilot's crook'd teeth beam with delight, as he struggles to right himself, and buzzes on by the town.

Spoiler: WWI Biplane (click to show/hide)

An scifi enthusiast is putting the finishing touches on his full scale model X-wing and preparing to take it for a test flight
The inspector is looking over your X-Wing inspired... (What? What is the actual vehicle?)

A ork flying a plane of various makeshift parts, somehow flying as good as the latest model. He is ready to start some WAAAGGGHHHHSS
The inspector turns to examine another plane... (Same question. Can be modified but give an example of an actual working vehicle for comparison.)
Scrawling "WAAAGGGHHHHSS" across the form is not going to be sufficient explanation of something up to Modern Tech alone, otherwise the inspector is gunna Banhammer 40k feet high aspirations.
Title: Re: All That Blue
Post by: a1s on June 15, 2022, 08:31:08 am
A hot air balloon covered in sponsor logos.
Title: Re: All That Blue
Post by: Knightwing64 on June 15, 2022, 10:55:25 am
It is powahwd by sum little gits energy granted by the brain boyz. Oh, I see dah problem, it’z has no war paints.

Step 1: Be Ork
Step 2: have scrap plane
Step 3: add magic war paint
Step 4: ???
Step 5: Profit!
Title: Re: All That Blue
Post by: RoseHeart on June 15, 2022, 02:45:56 pm
A hot air balloon covered in sponsor logos.
(5) Fire erupts and a hot air balloon takes to the sky. Scrawled around it are many sponsor logos, like "THE MUSEUM OF FLIGHT", "STAR WARS", and "WARHAMMER 40,000". A strong updraft carries the balloon way up high.

Spoiler: Sponsor Balloon (click to show/hide)

It is powahwd by sum little gits energy granted by the brain boyz. Oh, I see dah problem, it’z has no war paints.

Step 1: Be Ork
Step 2: have scrap plane
Step 3: add magic war paint
Step 4: ???
Step 5: Profit!

Quote
give an example of an actual working vehicle for comparison
Title: Re: All That Blue
Post by: Knightwing64 on June 15, 2022, 06:26:52 pm
Whattt

That is a working vehicle, but fineee

Cough cough, it is called…. a DEFFKOPTA!

A Deffkopta is a rotary-wing aircraft that is often employed by the Orks.

Deffkopta is a one-Ork flying machine that is little more than a scavenged Warbike frame with its wheels removed and to which a set of whirring rotors has been attached, mounted above the pilot's head. Additionally, a jet engine has been added to the rear of the airframe.

The rotors hold the machine aloft as the jet engine propels it forwards, allowing the Deffkopta to scream across the battlefield in the general direction of the enemy, all the while firing its underslung weaponry in the vain hope of actually hitting a target.

The DEFFKOPTA is a machine of beauty, at least to orks. It generally doesn’t need to need to be upgraded, given that if the ork believes hard enough, it can basically do anything. Albeit with the chance of failure.
Title: Re: All That Blue
Post by: RoseHeart on June 15, 2022, 06:37:29 pm
Quote from: Knightwing64
A Deffkopta is a rotary-wing aircraft that is often employed by the Orks...It generally doesn’t need to need to be upgraded, given that if the ork believes hard enough, it can basically do anything. Albeit with the chance of failure.
No actual fantasy magic or scifi tech will be allowed, the posted limitation was "Up to Modern Tech"...that said it can be a replica with a pilot roleplaying an ork. I can see there may be interest in more fantasy stuff, but I feel real tech is open ended enough for the stress-free game I want to host.
Title: Re: All That Blue
Post by: King Zultan on June 16, 2022, 02:32:45 am
(My plane seems to have been upgraded by one war.)

The pilot of the biplane is filled with delight knowing the people in the village don't suspect a thing because what they think are small capsules filled with confetti are actually filled with powerful chemicals that cause horrible mutations, after having that happy thought he starts flying towards the farmers fields in order to start stage two of his sinister plan.
Title: Re: All That Blue
Post by: ghost armor 1337 on June 16, 2022, 03:25:26 am
An scifi enthusiast is putting the finishing touches on his full scale model X-wing and preparing to take it for a test flight
The inspector is looking over your X-Wing inspired... (What? What is the actual vehicle?)

Oh, my X wing? it's actually a mildly used glider with four wings secured to the Fuselage with tapes and super glue, the Four "ion engines" that propel it is made from some  "Recycled" magnetrons I got from some used microwave from the local trash heap.


It's armed with four laser pointers that I personally modified to fire "bots" of light through a lengthy process involving among other things making a lense from the bose einstein condensate of Tungsten Hexafluoride along with a speaker that goes "pew-pew" whenever the laser fires to get a authentic X-wing experence.


It's all powered a Teslia car battary that "on loan"
Title: Re: All That Blue
Post by: Knightwing64 on June 16, 2022, 06:03:12 am
Quote from: Knightwing64
A Deffkopta is a rotary-wing aircraft that is often employed by the Orks...It generally doesn’t need to need to be upgraded, given that if the ork believes hard enough, it can basically do anything. Albeit with the chance of failure.
No actual fantasy magic or scifi tech will be allowed, the posted limitation was "Up to Modern Tech"...that said it can be a replica with a pilot roleplaying an ork. I can see there may be interest in more fantasy stuff, but I feel real tech is open ended enough for the stress-free game I want to host.

Okay, take out the magic, leave in the absurd amount of weaponry.
Title: Re: All That Blue
Post by: Egan_BW on June 16, 2022, 08:48:58 am
No vehicle, is a non-sapient pidgeon. No magic or technology.
Catch a bug.
Title: Re: All That Blue
Post by: a1s on June 16, 2022, 09:13:59 am
Rise even higher.
Title: Re: All That Blue
Post by: RoseHeart on June 16, 2022, 10:24:56 am
Rise even higher.
(1) A downward current bears down on the balloon, but it perseveres and climbs very high, very quickly. As it slowly rotates, more sponsor logos can be seen, such as Animal Planet and TESLA.

Spoiler: Sponsor Balloon (click to show/hide)

Oh, my X wing? it's actually a mildly used glider with four wings secured to the Fuselage with tapes and super glue, the Four "ion engines" that propel it is made from some  "Recycled" magnetrons I got from some used microwave from the local trash heap.
It's armed with four laser pointers that I personally modified to fire "bots" of light through a lengthy process involving among other things making a lense from the bose einstein condensate of Tungsten Hexafluoride along with a speaker that goes "pew-pew" whenever the laser fires to get a authentic X-wing experence.
It's all powered a Teslia car battary that "on loan"
(3+2=5) (Not understanding your jargon, but...) Seeing it is a modified solar glider (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBA4XeMddMY), the inspector has cleared you for take-off. The rear propeller spins and becomes an even hum, and the plane rolls off into the sky!

Spoiler: X Wing Solar Glider (click to show/hide)



Update: Game will end on June 19th. (3 more days)

small capsules filled with confetti are actually filled with powerful chemicals that cause horrible mutations
Okay, take out the magic, leave in the absurd amount of weaponry.
Just a lighthearted [...] Airshow [...] no winners, and no losers
I'm not doing any hostile actions whatsoever, sorry.

No vehicle, is a non-sapient pidgeon. No magic or technology.
Catch a bug.

Thanks but it's an airshow. Which means vehicles.
Title: Re: All That Blue
Post by: Knightwing64 on June 16, 2022, 12:25:47 pm
FINE

Be a random person displaying as a ork in a deffkopta with lots of prop weaponry.

Throw down a paint bomb and yell WAAGHHHHH
Title: Re: All That Blue
Post by: Egan_BW on June 16, 2022, 01:07:11 pm
Yes it's an airshow, and I am a bird at it.
Title: Re: All That Blue
Post by: RoseHeart on June 16, 2022, 04:34:29 pm
FINE
Fortunately the inspector has ear-protection.

Quote
Be a random person displaying as a ork in a deffkopta with lots of prop weaponry.

Throw down a paint bomb and yell WAAGHHHHH
(6+1=7) With the all-clear, the scrappy looking heli rises into the blue sky. (https://youtu.be/aYAJopwEYv8) It then locks-on to a gathering in the village. Closing in it rises up, the engine coughs and sputters a little foul smoke, but the pilot is unphased. And then ... something whistles towards the village. POP a massive slime green paint bomb goes off. Most of the children and adults laugh, though a tiny portion leave to bathe.

Spoiler: Deffkopta Helicopter (click to show/hide)



Yes it's an airshow, and I am a bird at it.
A pigeon isn't any type of technology, it's a pigeon.
Title: Re: All That Blue
Post by: King Zultan on June 17, 2022, 12:59:44 am
Upon realizing that someone has foiled his sinister plot by replacing his bombs with balls filled with regular confetti, the man in the biplane begins flying back towards the airfields to try to figure out who messes with his plans.
Title: Re: All That Blue
Post by: RoseHeart on June 17, 2022, 01:11:51 am
the man in the biplane begins flying back towards the airfields
(5)

The plane lands and the man steps off.
Title: Re: All That Blue
Post by: King Zultan on June 17, 2022, 01:52:28 am
He quickly rolls the biplane into the hanger and begins his investigation trying to figure out who foiled his plans!
Title: Re: All That Blue
Post by: RoseHeart on June 17, 2022, 02:08:37 am
He quickly rolls the biplane into the hanger and begins his investigation trying to figure out who foiled his plans!
I'm not doing any hostile actions whatsoever, sorry.

Would you like to roll a new vehicle with your remaining fuel?
(Not really interested trying to make your actions non-hostile, if you're not gunna get onboard.)
Title: Re: All That Blue
Post by: King Zultan on June 17, 2022, 02:46:27 am
I am on board and I was gonna do the investigation without hostile stuff, or do you only want us doing stuff in the air?
Title: Re: All That Blue
Post by: RoseHeart on June 17, 2022, 02:51:45 am
I am on board and I was gonna do the investigation without hostile stuff, or do you only want us doing stuff in the air?
I just want to do a peaceful airshow.
Title: Re: All That Blue
Post by: King Zultan on June 17, 2022, 02:57:37 am
Well I guess I get back into the biplane and start flying around again.
Title: Re: All That Blue
Post by: RoseHeart on June 17, 2022, 04:54:01 am
Well I guess I get back into the biplane and start flying around again.
(6) The propeller sputters and stalls, then chokes to life. The WWI biplane zooms off.

Spoiler: WWI Biplane (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: All That Blue
Post by: Knightwing64 on June 17, 2022, 10:19:28 am
Mix two paint bomb together and create a new paint bomb to throw down. Hell another waaaaaaaggggggghhhhhhh for the kids as my DEFFKOPTA let’s out a alarming amount of smoke.
Title: Re: All That Blue
Post by: RoseHeart on June 17, 2022, 12:55:35 pm
Mix two paint bomb together and create a new paint bomb to throw down. Hell another waaaaaaaggggggghhhhhhh for the kids as my DEFFKOPTA let’s out a alarming amount of smoke.
(5+1=6)
The Deffkopta performs an impressive loop and releases a bomb, but shooting it up. As the bomb slows and begins to drop, the Deffkopta hurls another bomb straight at it. Red and blue paint splash and swirl, then a bunch of houses get a smattering of purple paint dumped on them. Unfortunately the Deffkopta also got splashed too.

Spoiler: Deffkopta Helicopter (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: All That Blue
Post by: Knightwing64 on June 17, 2022, 09:52:58 pm
There can never be too many bombs! Try to aim the bombs, using them to splash paint in a way that draws a ork. Graffiti!

(I know bombs don’t work that way. It’s the rule of funny, work with me and I will give you a free ork DEFFKOPTA at your local Walmart)
Title: Re: All That Blue
Post by: King Zultan on June 18, 2022, 01:08:55 am
Be angry about my foiled plans and fly around in a angry way.
Title: Re: All That Blue
Post by: RoseHeart on June 18, 2022, 09:41:41 pm
There can never be too many bombs! Try to aim the bombs, using them to splash paint in a way that draws a ork. Graffiti!
(I know bombs don’t work that way. It’s the rule of funny, work with me and I will give you a free ork DEFFKOPTA at your local Walmart)
(3+1=4) Seeing the splotches and confetti on the ground, the greenskin pilot chortles and takes aim, dropping another POP green paint bomb. It takes a little creative liberties to see it but yeah, from up here, definitely one of the Boyz.

Spoiler: Deffkopta Helicopter (click to show/hide)

fly around in a angry way.
(6) The biplane pilot performs daring loops and twirls, like he is gunning down enemy forces. The crowd below grows quickly, and the faint cheers can be heard even way up here!

Spoiler: WWI Biplane (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: All That Blue
Post by: King Zultan on June 19, 2022, 02:39:34 am
Keep flying around getting even angrier as the crowd below must be mocking him and his failure, also throw the rest of my bombs over the side with a little satisfaction knowing that if they were the real thing everyone below would be mutated in horribly ways.
Title: Re: All That Blue
Post by: RoseHeart on June 19, 2022, 02:48:43 am
Eh.
Title: Re: All That Blue
Post by: King Zultan on June 19, 2022, 03:08:53 am
Eh.
?
Title: Re: All That Blue
Post by: Knightwing64 on June 19, 2022, 05:43:34 am
Reach into my pocket and throw out a bunch of mini toy orks, they are made out if sturdy stuff to handle the fall.
Title: Re: All That Blue
Post by: RoseHeart on June 19, 2022, 05:10:34 pm
Eh.
?
Man, this game was tedious. I'm sure I lack perspective, perhaps the OP was unclear or something, and I am sure I come across as too strict or controlling. Fine, so what? This was just a peaceful airshow for pilots of various real aircraft. Not 40k orks, not pigeons, not genocidal murderers. I just wanted something simple to write. Like I said, I am sure some part of this is my fault since it has been so relentless, some how I am the common factor. I'm sure I'll be thinking about it for a long time.

Last day for actions, if anyone wants to have their realistic modern aircraft do peaceful stunts in an airshow without secretly coveting desires to murder everyone. Then it's finally over.

I'm sorry I didn't update more often, I was--besides sleeping--planning to wait 3 hours after an action to posts them, but so often I was just trying to pick my jaw up off the ground, let alone rally any enthusiasm. I hate to be a victim, I choose to believe I am empowered to avoid what ever caused this shit show, but I don't think I even understand what went so wrong.

I write stuff like this all the time to vent, then delete it. Not today.
Title: Re: All That Blue
Post by: RoseHeart on June 19, 2022, 05:18:02 pm
Reach into my pocket and throw out a bunch of mini toy orks, they are made out if sturdy stuff to handle the fall.
(5-1=4) As the Deffkopta blades chop air, the villagers look up to see little specks falling. The rubber toys bounce off the ground, and the children drop to their knees to hunt for the collectible figures.

Spoiler: Deffkopta Helicopter (click to show/hide)

Title: Re: All That Blue
Post by: Egan_BW on June 19, 2022, 05:24:40 pm
Like any game, it's a matter of give and take. You didn't provide much structure, but you did give boundaries which keep other people from making their own structure. That's fine, but the end balance ended up with not many people being interested. If you want participation to help you write, you have to consider how to grab attention and keep it. Which is also just generally a good idea with writing, make hooks to keep the reader engaged.

Since there's no goals, implied or explicit, the game is a sandbox. But you put intentional limits on the sandbox, so that what I'm left with is... flying a plane in a blank space. Not interesting enough for me to want to play with it.

The addition of characters, implied goals, or increased RTD wackiness might improve interest. I know you didn't want the latter, but it's worth considering why other people might want to participate in your game.
Title: Re: All That Blue
Post by: Knightwing64 on June 19, 2022, 05:35:50 pm
Throw paint bombs and backflip out of the DEFFKOPTA for one last show
Title: Re: All That Blue
Post by: RoseHeart on June 19, 2022, 08:46:57 pm
I suppose my personality type, is I'd rather have 0 players, than some players that reinterpret the rules...Despite that, I see a silver lining in Egan's words, that people wanted to play my game and find ways to insert their enthusiasm in it in a genuine way. Normally, I do try to not just be flexible, but wildly flexible like with ZL and map terraforming, or ArenaCraft with magic cards to summon almost anything. All That Blue was a recovery game for me to put the hot iron in water and let off steam.---The game did, help me to catch my breath...thank you for.. being here with me.
Title: Re: All That Blue
Post by: King Zultan on June 20, 2022, 01:33:51 am
I will say that the original OP said nothing about non-hostile actions only, so I was under the impression that this was a minimalist game with a theme of being an airshow, also the last few of my actions haven't been hostile just angry, I have a feeling that the game would have played out more like how you wanted it to if you had mentioned no magic, sci-fi, and hostility in the OP when you fist made it rather than adding it in a few days later.
Title: Re: All That Blue
Post by: RoseHeart on June 20, 2022, 01:41:10 am
I understand, but it is good to hear it, rather than assume. I used catch all phrases, like "Up to modern tech" instead of no Sci-fi and magic, and "there's no winners or losers" instead of no combat, specifically.

I'll wrap up the last few actions later tonight.
Title: Re: All That Blue
Post by: King Zultan on June 20, 2022, 04:21:14 am
I kind of got the whole no sci-fi and magic from the up to modern tech part, but the no winners or losers thing didn't bring thoughts of no combat and instead made it sound like there wasn't a contest.
Title: Re: All That Blue
Post by: RoseHeart on June 20, 2022, 05:00:12 am
Ah, yeah in retrospect that makes sense. I'm too tired! I've got King Z and KW64 moves, but if more sneak in before I get back, that's fine. Night.
Title: Re: All That Blue
Post by: RoseHeart on June 20, 2022, 02:36:41 pm
throw the rest of my bombs over the side
(1)
Throw paint bombs and backflip out of the DEFFKOPTA for one last show
(1+1=2)

The biplane pilot activates all nine remaining bombs at once! Not wanting to be outdone, the deffkopta ork releases his last two paint bombs! Overhead, POP POP POP vivid colors of paint and confetti burst and rain and drip down in a spectacular final display. The two craft put on a mock dogfight as their clunky machines sputter and choke to keep up.

Signifying the end of the show, hundreds and thousands of balloons are released, pigeons on rooftops disperse and the skies above the village are littered with many tiny bright helium vessels, becoming black dots against the orange sky.

The X Wing zooms off towards the Sponsor Balloon in the sunset, which from a distance looks like a giant D6.



The End