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Wow.  Well, thanks to Piecewise for running the game as long as you did, it's pretty amazing you went as long as you did.

Still, I'm sad it ended (I had plans!  I had machinations!),  but at least now I know some friends of mine will be quite happy.  Only eight at a time though.  And I get to see all the delicious words!


I'm also in favor of hearing PW's general thoughts on the game, especially around the discovery of things- how often was there someone who was trying every way to do something except the right one, and was just getting so close?

And a question:  when you said it's time to move on, by "extension of this game" did you mean the mad max with wizards thing?  Because I'd prefer that over poison.

Votes:
MMWW: 2 (syvarris, GreatWyrmGold)
Poison: 0
BOTH!: 2 (Empiricist, Xanmyral)

How would that work?  Each person in turn just quotes it and inserts their turn?  I could easily see people not complying with that.

Zaral isnt flame...

Dangit, it's magma.  It just keeps getting stuck in my brain as fire.

So "Zaral Zentol"- Magma Demon.  We could be the spirit of fire MAGMA.

And based on just how fun it is to say, my favorite is Zaralo Zentol.  Of course, it'll probably end up being the word for stupid or something.

Also, I'll throw up the current turn on thursday, since today was pretty damn busy, tomorrow I'm driving cross country and the day after that is my birthday.

And no, not the Aether gang.  Nobody wants to send the wrong message... The Zentol gang would be better.   Or just Zentol.

And everyone wears demonic equipment and speaks in Faust's voice when active ;p

Edit: Even better idea: if 3 uses a non-word system, Piecewise gives us the meaning of all the perplexicon words and we speak that language as a code.

Example:
"Cycallozozion (Enemy?) Halthel Halthel Halthel!" Three enemy men where I am staring!
"Halthel, Shael Gastorpit." Man, your breath stinks.

That's actually starting to sound pretty awesome.  I love good post-apoc, I love the intricate magic system, I love the concept of a high level strategy game, with the people actually fighting it out in person, I love good roleplaying, and I love the term "Mad Max with wizards".  Actually, I think I'll sig that last one.

The one thing I don't love is the relative scarcity of magic.  The intricate system's no fun if you only get to play with it twice a week.

I'll switch my vote to go directly to 3, IF magic is common enough with any of those classes to cast a decent spell every other turn or so.

I would probably prefer 1, but 3 might be interesting.  Frankly it depends more on how the gameplay of three works- you gave us the setting, but what will we be doing? 

Pre-planned ER-type missions with five-ten-twenty players? 

Players split into the gangs fighting over areas, possibly with a strategy element? 

Just a free-roam type thing like we have now, just with a different setting? 

Ect.  All of those are very different, despite being in the same setting and with the same mechanics.

And how will sciencing work in 3?  Will the gangs all know the words already, or will you still have to figure them out?  Could you share with npc gang members, making your gang stronger thanks to learning the antimagic word or something?

Would 3 change Zentol back into "Lovecraftian dimension rip"?

I'll jump in with my own unique suggestion that takes elements from the others.

A few players volunteer to be helpers, and they collect all the actions and put them in a google doc or something.  They add the statuses themselves, to prevent cheating, and entirely handle the simple/mundane turns where people just summon a sword or walk into an area with complex spawn mechanics or something.

They leave all the stuff that is important, vauge, or needing spice to Piecewise.

That would cut down the workload immensely, spreading it betweem many different people, and everyone else would be able to continue on with their game.  The only issue would be the helpers not playing anymore, except maybe as the heroes or something.

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If this idea gets accepted, despite how much I love playing Perplexicon, I volunteer to be a helper.  I've been hoping to run a copy of this game on another forum anyways, and this would accelerate that plan greatly.



If you do go with lowering the player count, please give the rules out to someone, so they can run a copy (with jumbled words) in a different thread, with mutually exclusive players.  That way people would still be able to play, even though they can't play with so many people.

Hey, now, no reason to waste the souls.  Let me kill you if you're just going to destroy your current char