Stories One and Two

[bobquasit]

Okay. I have two stories on tap. Unfortunately neither of them is a short story, which is what I'd prefer; they're both novelette-length, at a guess. They're also both roleplaying campaign concepts that I've had in the back of my head for at least ten years, incidentally.

So now I have to decide which one to tell.

One is relatively standard-format fantasy, with a pulp noir tone. The other is also fantasy, but not at all standard. Oddly enough, now that I think of it, both of them are mysteries - sort of.

Okay, I'll be honest: the decision isn't a hard one. I'll go with the non-standard one to start. I should start it in the next day or two, and I'll try to keep up with it.

Comments

[dancing-kiralee.livejournal.com]

Sounds pretty cool... but I'm selfish enough to want you to keep the better one on tap for an RPG, 'cause, well, I'd like to play in it.

Kiralee

[bobquasit.livejournal.com]

I may have suggested running this for you, many years ago; the campaign actually starts quite close to your home, and much of the action takes place in the Cambridge area. Of course, you know that area much better than I do, so this might not work for you as a story OR a campaign.

I don't know if you and unquietsoul5 were in the group I asked to play this game, but some of the other potential players - klyfix, fsnam, stairflight, and charibdis - refused to play once I gave them some more information about it. Come to think of it, I may have already mentioned it in Interregnum.

[dancing-kiralee.livejournal.com]

I remember that, or at least the pitch anyway...

Strangley, we just finished a short run of a game based on almost exactly the same pitch (although I'm sure the actual game was quite different).

If I remember correctly, your problem had to do with Faith. You wanted to set the game, initially, in the real world. And that's fine, as long as you don't define the real world too clearly (or I'm not in the game... because from my philosophical perspective using the definition; "If it's scientifically proven, it exists, if it's not scientifically proven it doesn't exist" is just as much an article of Faith as, "I believe in god."

But all that aside, I think it would work - that is, attract players - if you modified the pitch a bit.

Kiralee

[bobquasit.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Maybe I shouldn't use either of those scenarios, then. But that leaves me without a story to write.

[dancing-kiralee.livejournal.com]

You know how sometimes something happens that you don't understand, and you try really hard to understand it because it is probably important.

That just happened to me.

Why would my comments lead you to believe that you shouldn't use either scenario.

Kiralee

[bobquasit.livejournal.com]

Um...because those are the ONLY two roleplaying scenarios I have left in my mind, and I don't want to use either of them up as stories on the slight chance that I might someday get to run one? It really feels as if I should be able to come up with SOMETHING else to write.

Does that make sense? I haven't been thinking all that well lately.

[dancing-kiralee.livejournal.com]

Oh!

I'm just being selfish. It's entirely possible that one or both of these would make a better story than RPG scenario. It's hard for me to judge because I don't know all that much about either one.

Kiralee

[dancing-kiralee.livejournal.com]

You know how sometimes something happens that you don't understand, and you try really hard to understand it because it is probably important.

That just happened to me.

Why would my comments lead you to believe that you shouldn't use either scenario?

Kiralee