Evenin' kids, Saint here, with yet another middle-of-the-god-awful-night idea to share with you all. Rum was involved, just so we've got that out there. And in case any of this comes off as more incoherent than usual.
Now, as some of you know, I very much enjoy RP. It's why I basically jumped headfirst into the fray with BottomGuy's Triple C thing as soon as I found out about it. And while I'd love to see more of those (HINT HINT HINT-ETTY HINT HINT), I also don't wanna go stepping on any toes and trying to run one myself. Seems like that's more his thing than anything else, so I figured I'd go for something else and just eagerly fling myself into the next one whenever it shows up (IS THE HINTING WORKING??? Y/N).
Good-natured teasing aside though, I did have an idea for something a little more time-intensive, one that will hopefully give everyone a chance to preen their creative feathers, so to speak. Basically, instead of voting on a setting and you creating a character for it, we instead run with a random scenario, and it's up to you lot to write out a scene for it. Maybe it's a noir thriller, and your gumshoe detective has finally put the last piece of the puzzle together and is heading outside to narrate it to death crack the case and put the bad guys away. Maybe aliens have just invaded, and it's time to scramble for safety- or fight, whatevs, man, we can't all be President Captain America. Hell, maybe it's just a regular day on regular earth and the most calamitous thing going down in your character's part of town is that the toaster just burnt breakfast.
The point is, you'll be given a bare bones scenario, and it's up to you to bring it to life. JUST for one scene. Which means the characters are up to you, and instead of giving us a profile, it's time for a good ol' fashioned game of Show-And-Not-Tell. You want us to get a good feel of your character, you make it happen through their actions. Basically, think of this as Triple C 2, The Sequel: BIgger, Longer, And Uncut : Judgment Day. Because you've got just one scene to both sell us on the action, and get us invested in your character(s).
Basic rules would be the same- you write up your scene, everyone else votes on it, and it's in poor form to vote for yourself so don't do it. As far as time limits go though, given the extra work you'd be doing, I'm personally leaning toward making it a month-long time period, with a two-week voting window afterward. If it's a success, it'll be something that happens every other month, and everyone gets a month off to recover / vote on the entries.
At present, I really have no idea what the winner would get though. Aside from, y'know, bragging rights that last a full month or longer. Any suggestions on that front would definitely be appreciated, maybe even a little more than any input on the rest of this.
One thing worth mentioning though: If, on the off chance, y'all are all for this and we get everything hammered out by the end of the month, December's timeline for submissions would be TWO months. Because Christmas and New Years tend to wreck people. And as someone who works retail, I know full well how much of December tends to get eaten by Christmas. It's like a holiday-themed Xenomorph infestation, I swear. We just get wallet-bursters instead of chest-bursters, and instead of that awful screeching noise it's Christmas carols in friggin' November.
