Site Fiction

oh, yes it was fun.
do you mean group story project as in someone starts a story, someone else writes a sentence, then someone else another sentence? those are fun, i already thought of opening one once, but didn't do it though i don't remember why.
and what kind of contest?

I think a thread was started ages ago with that intention, but it didn't get very far... I may be misremembering - it might've been somewhere else - but I think it happened.

That of course is the problem: when you try to put in a structure to pick up spontaneous genius, the very presence of the structure removes the spontaneity.

MS

That was fun, real cool.
I was thinking of posting some of these role-play's or site fictions's on a thread or topic or whatever they're called. Cant you do something so that we can copy-paste the discussions from the chat room? Sorry, if its a stupid question, but im not very experienced with computer stuff...
And you can only post site fictions if youre involved in them, and the ones involved in the best site fiction (wich is voted by us, the users) get extra points!

that would be cool

like i say..there was a man...

someone else says he was called bob!

it could be the next big thing!

Angua

quite a cool idea,although my only problem would be that if we did some sort of forum like that then everyone would be waiting online to write the next line,and then you'd have many different comments for each line and it'd get confusing.

so what i suggest is that we should team up in groups,and each group creates a story and then you guys(gods)can judge which is the best,or you should join in as well.

i reckon that all the peoplewho want to try this thing should sign up with you guys (maybe you could set up a forum or something) and then you guys could randomly sort us into groups of like 3 and we could go from there.

but then the stories would have to be kinda private so that other groups don't steal ideas.

You mean we should form into these groups and each group has its own forum and on that groups forum we post these site fictions?

yeah,exactly

I agree with your idea Ook. But who's forming the groups?

thanks for the support,i think the gods or druids should set it up,but if they don't have time then i'd be willing to do it,they must just let me know.

this has one problem...

everyone will want me in there group hehe

anyway...
how long will they have to do the thing? 1 week? 2 weeks?
or is it you can have up to lets say 50posts per group?

Angua

50 posts is way too short,i'd say like 200 or so.

sounds good, but i'd prefer more than three people in a group. four or five?
plus we'd have to make an order. let's say it's me, ook, angua and umm, the sarge in a group. no, the marrow, if it was ´the sarge we'd never come to an end. then we should not post in a random order so it ends up ook - marrow- ook - marrow etc. but always ook - angua - marrow - me -ook -angua.... just as an example

yeah,i like that idea

(i will steal it)

MWAHAHAHA!!

oops,i mean

(MWAHAHAHAHA)

no, you won't! *gets police protection and an insurance for her idea*
think of somthing yourself!
MONKEY!

sounds good.

i think groups of 4.8 or 5

Angua

EEEK!!!

you better start running!!!

Lets form those groups already!

ok,how many groups should we have?

well about 5 in a group.

sounds good,3-4 groups?

Ok. as a start. theres surely gonna be others wanting to do this thing too.

yeah,of course.how're we gonna do this?

that makes me wonder:

is anyone playing the discworld mud ( http://discworld.atuin.net )as well?

lots of people are,but not me,if you make a forum or something i'm sure the ones who do will let you know

ok, group forming! whos in my group?

we could form groups this way, or someone (ponder, Lee, someone) could form them.

i think it's better if someone else forms them. i think i'll start a topic where everybody who wants to join the funcan say aye or me or whatever ; ). and then some (i think it would be best if someone does it who won't be in a group) can form groups.

Yes but someone should form the groups who knows the personality of the people put groups so he can form good combinations.

i think it might be very interesting if people who are completely different are in one group. we could also throw a dice if there's no one who wants to form the groups.

i postet a topic now (who wants to join the forum story writing thing?).

how would we throw dice?

i think lee or dewi should do it,even if they are a part of it as well.

ok, i propose an idea for you: which i am willing to do.

everyone who wants to be in - PM me, I will sort the groups into peopl who i think will work well together and then you privately PM each other in your groups the next bit of the story. i will then ask one from each group to email/pm me the final thing and i will publish them here and will get us druids/gods etc to have a glance through and say which one wins...

anythoughts?

you have 2 days to decide on a plan

*mur har hars*

ok,but if there're more than 2 people in a group then will everyone in the group have the full story?that means that,for example,if there're 3 people in a group then each person will have to post their piece of the story to both partners each time,and so on and so forth.that's a bit of a bother,and that could mean that things would go out of order,it's bound to happen sometime.i'm not saying it won't work,i'm willing to try,but sometime or other,heads are gonna roll.

AND IT'S GONNA BE YOURS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

MWAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!

Could I bring in my right honourable colleague from the high energy magic building? I think Ponder has a good idea for this that might work.

This would indeed be the best way to do it. Unfortunately I have good news and bad news on that front: the bad news is we can't do it this way at the moment unless we drop all the ongoing development, putting off delivering all the other cool stuff we're working on. The good news is we will be upgrading the site soon(ish) and all that will be nicely built in courtesy of our open source development team. Shall we give Ponder's idea a go, and this summer or so we can go with private development forums like ook has suggested.

sounds good,i wait with bated breath

this sounds really good to me.

i don't think you'd have to pm the whole thing to all partners every time. person 1 could write the beginning, pm it to person 2, who writes a sentence or two and pms it to person 3, who adds a bit and then sends it to person4/person1, depending on how many people there are in a group. so let's do it!

my bad,i was thinking of things like comments,which are seperate,pm's carry on,my mistake,let's do it then.

Okay then if you want to be part of this story thing please just put in a post below saying "I'm In!". nothing else please.

then we can appoint ourselves into groups of a decided amount,

so please post below if you are in

if you would have read this thread, you would know, that you have to pm ponder if you want to be in.

yeah,it's time to get this party started people.get your trigger fingers ready to type.WE NEED MORE PEOPLE!!!!

Yep thats right guys! the competition is only a bit of fun, and amazing writing skills aren't required!

so: go here and sign up, read the rules first! at the moment we have barely enough people to start a competition