How's My Driving: Player (And Game) Edition!

[taxonmods]

Happy St. Patrick's Day to those who celebrate! Remember: don't drink and how's my drive.

This is a combined player and game HMD, which means your mods are going to be begging for feedback. We're feeling a little disconnect and want to make sure everyone is enjoying themselves as much as possible. Specifically we're looking for feedback on the Haunted Holo plot, and what we can do in the future to make such large-scale plots more accessible.

It's also an HMD for our characters! Please comment here with the names of the characters you play and others will reply with their feedback- and it's obviously a given that this feedback will be helpful, constructive and respectful. Also, as amazing as getting ILU comments is, it's nice to hear why and what we're doing right just as much as criticism needs to be constructive. Participation is also entirely optional, and if you have any issues just let a mod know and we'll help out as much as we can.

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Comments

Re: Kris

[sofo]

Whoohoo more posts :D

Yes, that is the extent of my verbosity. It's getting a bit late for my brain. >_>

[sofo]

Madelyne meeting Bagoas Y/N/cookies?


/will get back with an actual feedback-y thing tomorrow, promise <3 Loving your stuff so far!

[genequeen]

Y & Cookies!

Thanks.

[aintnoconvict]

*GASP* HOW VERY DARE YOU okay yeah I occasionally miss it too, but he'd kind of outgrown it. And this is the name I always wanted but didn't think to get when I made the account, so the move gave me an excuse. It's a fundamental trait of Glitch's, I think, that he's not what he appears, so I kinda go squishy over it :D

re: worry. I do, I do, I fret and fuss and wind myself up. It's something I really need to figure out how to manage better because it's no fun for anyone when I get like that.

Doctor StrangeLife, or How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Ride.

[ownlittleprison]

You really are our Modly Person #1, for being the sweetest, most expedient get-things-done kind of woman ever. We wouldn't be halfway there (metaphorical though it may be) if it weren't for you knowing what's what and what goes where.

I can't even begin to tell you how awesome your slice of bloody gore-y dramallama haunted holo-ness is. Seriously, I just had a vague inkling I wanted to see Glitch get to kick some ass, but you've brought so much more than that into the whole thing. Friendship and solidarity and loyalty and the gut-clenching, knee-jerk response Glitch has against hurting people. There's hurting, sure, for the greater good, but then there's the real gruesome end of the spectrum, and I'm loving that we get to see how very not well he's dealing with it. Totes excited about Cain and Glitch saving the day, equally wibbly over Glitch's Not Being Okay at the playhouse with Bagoas.

You rock. Now you just gotta start telling yourself that everyday and grow a bit of an ego. ;3

To players: Haunted Holo: What went wrong?

[sofo]

I don't even know where to start, so I guess I'll just write things as they come to me, and worry about structure later.

I've been seriously bummed out over this plot since the first few days of it. I think more so than the other mods as this particular plot was my wacky brain child since six or so months back, and I've been eager to work it into the game on a few occasions, but we ended pushing it back for among other things the sake of pacing.

So, when we finally got planning, I of course got excited and wanted everyone else to get as excited as I was, and I'm still not sure I succeeded in anything I set out to do. We plotted in the plotting post, as we always do, and then the plot started and...it never seemed to me to get going until the day before The End of it. The plot was supposed to run between March 1-8, one week, keep it nice and tight, but I don't know where it went off the rails.

Half the posts the first four days were made by either the mod account or characters played by mods. Almost half of the total posts between March 1-8 came on March 6 or 7.

I love rping with Dien and Keri, as my gushing comment of wub down below no doubt illustrates, but I keep saying it again and again: I want CR with every player. Not necessarily with all characters, as that could get a bit difficult to keep up with, but I seriously want CR from everyone.

I had this idea in my head that people would be tagging each other left and right and inserting their characters into other characters' nightmares to their hearts' content, but both during the plot and after the extension and now that it's over, I feel like it ended in one big whopping anticlimax.

I don't know if it's hindsight that's fooling me, but I have this mental image of the fairytale plot being super busy and fun and like I described above, everyone tagging each other left and right. I wanted the same vibe for this plot, just with a nastier edge. I don't feel it. I love the tags I got for my posts, I really enjoy the CR I've had so far during it, but I'm just not feeling it right now.

So what I'm asking for specifically, since as I said, the Haunted Holo thing was my idea originally, is what didn't work for you.

Re: To players: Haunted Holo: What went wrong?

[loves_bitch]

I'll admit that I'm new but when I was reading what was given, I wasn't sure what I was supposed to do. Let me clarify - I wasn't sure if everyone was supposed to grabbed or not and if not, were the people who weren't supposed to try to do something. It may just be that the plots here are more open ended than I'm used to at other place. If so, that's totally cool. I'm used to places where a lot of people who run plots have pretty tight structure to them - sometimes confiningly so but it has also gotten me used to making sure I'm hitting my marks, as it were.

[no_rose_tint]

Scott Summers | Marvel Comics

Would love some crit, because I haven't online rp'ed in years.

Re: To players: Haunted Holo: What went wrong?

[no_rose_tint]

Again, a very new player, but I felt intimidated about barging in on posts where a couple of people were already tagging. I also personally found some of the narratives didn't leave me with an entirely clear idea of how Scott could get involved, but I've also been on heavy duty medication that leaves me a bit addled, so that was probably more me than them.

Likewise, Scott got Mick checking in but not much else on his post, so it felt like he was a bit outside. That was probably my fault for having his post be very non interactive.

late! =(

[electro_girl]

Gwen Raiden | Angel | electro_girl

Illyria | Angel | blue_bird

[electro_girl]

My thoughts re: Haunted!Holo. Sorry for coming in late, I've been away this weekend!

I thought the idea was awesome. I loved it and I had a lot of fun, even though I'm still working on tags! I was excited for it to play out and all the stuff to go down and etc, etc.

The only thing I'd say is maybe it would have been better if it went on longer? I'm not gonna lie, I don't know anything about running a game or modding or how that works, so I'm sure there is an obvious counter-argument to this. I know there was the extension and that was much appreciated, especially cause there hadn't been that much action at that point. But I do feel like there needs to be enough time for things to play out, for people who may not be around a lot that week or two to jump in. Obviously slow tagging as usual helps! But I think having an alternate!Taxon, in this case, around a lot longer might make things in the game more complex and interesting. People trying to save others, people in real!Taxon trying to help/figure out WTF is going on, I don't know. So in conclusion, I think while in some cases it's good to keep certain glitches tight, that something like this might be a little longer, especially since Taxon tends to be slower than not.

ANYWAY, I do wish the glitch were more involved and epic, shall we say, because I thought the "anything goes" type of thing was totally cool and just so easy for characters to run into each other other than the usual "get-together" social type event, you know? Also FYI I should have done better with this as well, obviously, I'm not counting myself out!

[electro_girl]

I'm not on AIM as much anymore but I'm still here! And if you ever need anything, or need Gwen for anything (whether or not you want me to play it out, or if you just want to use her character for some reason), just let me know!

[genequeen]

Your Scott is a part of why I joined up, so I can only hope to play at the same level!

[buffy_slayer]

I agree with the group chats thing -- it'd be nice to do that!

Re: To players: Haunted Holo: What went wrong?

[buffy_slayer]

I love the idea, really truly.

Currently I'm stuck -- my post is halted because I'm waiting for Glitch to respond. I suppose I could just assume at this point that we escape and can move on to actually defeating the thing.

Having it last a week in a comm that is historically slow seems to be an issue -- perhaps if it were to go the whole month?

It's never too late! :D

[thepersianyouth]

Oh hi. How about I tag Illyria with Bagoas back in the post of horrors?

[no_rose_tint]

I'm down with group chatting, but plurk... Yeah. I'm not really so down with plurk.

[no_rose_tint]

Aw, thanks.
There's a chance he might search out Madelyn after this. Maybe.

[genequeen]

They should run into each other somewhere where neither one of them has chosen to see the other.

[brokenoptimism]

Just Charles.

And you know, besides slow as molasses.

Dien

[smecker]

smecker

imperial_long

I am the slowest! I will start answering everyone tomorrow, promises my precious.

[aintnoconvict]

I know things have been rough for you lately Stella, just know I'm an IM or PP away ♥ My one piece of advice (and it'a actually something Glitch suggested to Jenna, lol) would be to try and tag around more when you're feeling up to it.

[sourcebloodaughter]

Yeah, I've gotten kind of bad about that. But I will make an effort to change this ♥

[aintnoconvict]

Emma bb you're my touchstone, I always feel better when you're around and doing stuff and I cannot wait for plot of horrors :D

One really silly thing (given our mutual turtle-pacing) I'd like to try at some point is seeing if we can arrange for some boomerang tagging, both to wrap up some lingering plot stuff and to see what happens when we try just plowing through something. I know I write my best with instant feedback - hence Sof sitting on me constantly XD - so we could take it as a challenge. Between timezones and work and school it might get tricky, but it's on my wishlist ♥

Re: Kat

[aintnoconvict]

I'm just going to be here breathing on your window like a creeper, okay? You're brilliant, and Party's amazing and I know you need to do what's best for you.

Just get back to playing soon, I miiiiiiss you mO_Om