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[Twi]

The continuation of this little snippet, of course.
As anyone who reads my signature would know, I'm pretty fond of weird formats (Multiverse skype!), and what with Red Moon stealing all the attention and saving me from needing to post anywhere else, I figured it was a good time to lay out my latest weird idea.

Basically, the format goes something like this. The RP has two IC threads. Everyone has two characters, one for each thread. Each thread is essentially a separate plotline- one thread may effect the other, but the characters never interact directly. Don't cross the streams. I know, it sounds complicated, but you guys already post in like, forty RPs each, it can't be that bad.

The main benefit of this format is that the threads can switch off between shenanigans and plot. When one is doing serious business plot advancing things, the other can be having fun and fooling around and whatever you want. Ideally, this keeps people from getting bored of the lack of shenanigans and keeps people from getting tired of the lack of plot. Pretty much, both of those sentiments being expressed in quick succession is what inspired the idea in the first place. (I'll probably draft an assistant GM or two to make sure we don't have any inopportune lapses in plot coverage. And by assistant GM I mean USEC_OFFICER, of course.)

Spoiler: Details about the actual RP or whatever (click to show/hide)

Undecided! That being said, currently the working idea is a Lyrical Nanoha-esque space-opera-with-magic setting. Original, probably. Magical geometries, possibly very human aliens, possibly very not-human aliens, space combat with spell cannons, all sorts of good stuff. Aims include: being more fantasy than Lyrical Nanoha; being less fantasy than say, Spelljammer; having space combat that is A: interesting, B: reasonably logical given the rules of the setting whatever they may be, and C: not obviously dictating the lore of the entire universe in order to ensure it looks like 18th century naval warfare cough Honor Harrington cough. Obviously, USEC_OFFICER volunteered to worldbuild, though I haven't shared these details with him yet. :U

Hopefully, the same 'universe' or at least the same set of metaphysics and such can be used for both threads. Thread A would have all the space opera, sci-fi-ish stuff, while thread  B would be more of a low fantasy thing, set on a vaguely medieval world as opposed to across the interdimensional stars, though with plenty of lost relics and such to keep things exciting.

The current Alternative Plan ^(TM) is to have a Gaiden-style setting, though again, the more scifi thread would probably be focused on Lyrical Nanoha because muh dimensional sea, etc. Not so sure on what the more fantasy half would focus on, or if that duality even makes as much sense in this sort of crossover setting thing, but despite the many unsolved questions, it's good to have backup plans, so for now, this is Backup Plan #1.

[USEC_OFFICER]

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Thanks for drafting me in to help. :u

[Twi]

You're welcome!

_{I might not actually draft you. We'll see. After all, the RP has to get off the ground before any GMing can occur. And I might look for people who have slightly different timezones and schedules, to provided aforementioned as-much-as-possible GMing coverage.}

[USEC_OFFICER]

Too late. I'm drafted now. You're stuck with me.

[Twi]

Oh. I guess THE PACT IS SEALED then.