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Second Life -- The Monsters Are due On Maple Street [Stage 3]
Late post is late but work switched on me and I got sick, so what I'm gonna do is leave this stage to go longer and compress the last expositioney part to something really short since it is expositioney stuff and just pop it up the day of podpop. You figure since that's something that can wrap in one night, they can even come back mid-podpop grousing about the mission. That means the expositioney stuff is going to be more expositioney than the original two-way convo I had planned, and I apologize for that, but I think everyone wants to get stuff done and just backthread, so we're just gonna have to chalk this up to "Next time, don't try to squeeze a month-longish plot into 2-3 weeks." Oh well, we all tried our best and got eated by the holidays and related things. Lesson learned. ANYHOO:
MASTER PLOT PLAN IS HERE.
It's locked to the comm only because there's login information for the npc account that should only be kept to players.
STAGE 3 [December 27-31]
(OOC Instructions are on the posts).
STAGE 3 POST
OVERVIEW
During this stage, everyone will have been changed back--so keep in mind how you plan to backthread that if you haven't done it yet--and now have to figure out if the portal-looking thing is a portal or another trap that leads to certain death. They will be confronted by the confused and panicked townspeople, who think they're aliens and crap, a situation that can go down a number of ways, depending on the characters react and how you think family-member npcs will react (they will be all in the crowd, unless you think otherwise).
Memory-wise, they will still remember their Second Life lives at the moment, though they can tell that's the fake set and that theirs are more "genuine," and after talking to Shae-mod about it, I figure you have several options to deal with those memories from here on out.
1) They can slowly have those memories slip away other than the vaguest bits that let them remember they'd once thought they were someone else, even if they can't recall any details of that other life. ("I knew I was someone else on the mission, I can remember most of what I did, but I can't really remember who that other person was anymore.")
2) The above can happen, but they can go to sleep after the mission and instantly lose all that rather than having it fade away slowly.
3) They can retain certain details, like a few bits of fake life memories, maybe context for pop culture references, a new language they knew in their second life (since they were all speaking English, some might retain that, for instance, if it's not their native tongue). The degree or how much they'd retain would be up to you.
4) They remember everything, and while they know the memories were implanted and their real memories feel more real, sometimes it gets confusing that they were this other person.
Questions, comments, complaints, things you'd like to see, "halp me, I'm lost," requests for NPCing for backthreaded parts all go here or email or IM me or the other plot-runners.
MASTER PLOT PLAN IS HERE.
It's locked to the comm only because there's login information for the npc account that should only be kept to players.
STAGE 3 [December 27-31]
(OOC Instructions are on the posts).
STAGE 3 POST
OVERVIEW
During this stage, everyone will have been changed back--so keep in mind how you plan to backthread that if you haven't done it yet--and now have to figure out if the portal-looking thing is a portal or another trap that leads to certain death. They will be confronted by the confused and panicked townspeople, who think they're aliens and crap, a situation that can go down a number of ways, depending on the characters react and how you think family-member npcs will react (they will be all in the crowd, unless you think otherwise).
Memory-wise, they will still remember their Second Life lives at the moment, though they can tell that's the fake set and that theirs are more "genuine," and after talking to Shae-mod about it, I figure you have several options to deal with those memories from here on out.
1) They can slowly have those memories slip away other than the vaguest bits that let them remember they'd once thought they were someone else, even if they can't recall any details of that other life. ("I knew I was someone else on the mission, I can remember most of what I did, but I can't really remember who that other person was anymore.")
2) The above can happen, but they can go to sleep after the mission and instantly lose all that rather than having it fade away slowly.
3) They can retain certain details, like a few bits of fake life memories, maybe context for pop culture references, a new language they knew in their second life (since they were all speaking English, some might retain that, for instance, if it's not their native tongue). The degree or how much they'd retain would be up to you.
4) They remember everything, and while they know the memories were implanted and their real memories feel more real, sometimes it gets confusing that they were this other person.
Questions, comments, complaints, things you'd like to see, "halp me, I'm lost," requests for NPCing for backthreaded parts all go here or email or IM me or the other plot-runners.
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