BRAINSTORM!

[shelightsupwell]

Hi, friends!

I doubt it's missed anyone's notice that things around Darrow have been quiet lately. So let's work together to raise Darrow's activity levels!

Use this post to brainstorm. Throw out whatever you've got and let's see what sticks. Suggest anything you think might help or be fun or interesting, from game-wide plots to individual storylines you want to pursue for your characters but need help jumpstarting. What do you want to see happen next? Tell us! Do you have plot ideas you want someone to do but they don't work for your characters? Donate them! Is there something we can do or change that you think would help make things more exciting or make connections easier to... well, connect? What's missing? What's not helpful? Nothing's off the table, everything's worth throwing out there. Let's bounce off each other and see what we can come up with.

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[shelightsupwell]

Okay, I made the post so I should probably contribute something. Truthfully I'm excessively smooth-brained so I'm low on ideas for something game-wide or at least sort of sprawled out, so here's just me saying a bunch of stuff.

- Obviously it's Pride, so we'll have a Pride gathering. Gatherings are always good in theory, but in practice, I feel like we aren't always sure who we should tag? At least, I am, even though if someone asked "Do you want anyone to tag Jae? If so, who?" my answer would always be "Yes and yes," and I assume the same is true for most/all of us. So what's a good way to facilitate that? Do we kind of just make an unofficial attempt to all tag at least one character we haven't played off of to switch things up? This isn't Pride specific, I'm talking gatherings in general, but Pride is probably up next, after Lestat's that just went up.

- For Jae, it's really hard for him to make real connections. That's a personality thing, and I came into playing him knowing that, so I'm not too bothered by the notion of keeping his circle small, but it does present a challenge to the ability to give him a circle at all. Part of this is also that I am inactive!! But also I would be perhaps less inactive were there activities, which is why we are here. So two parts to this: 1) for my part, I need to make a greater effort to throw Jae into new situations, including ones where he'll be uncomfortable (he's always uncomfortable, so that's fine) and 2) I am reaching out because I want him to know more people. They don't have to be besties. They can even just be people who annoy each other, I don't care, that's funny. Maybe we need another one of those post where we share the kind of interactions we're really hoping for with our characters like we've done before? Though of course this post can also be that.

For Jae, that's really just whoever can put up with an angsty but adorable little 20-something ex-serial killer who's Bad at Peopling.

- What kinds of activities would people actually be interested in? There are always the various parties and holidays and such, but what's something that creates an opportunity for more interaction? Pet shelter adoption day at the mall? Speed dating at Slothburger? Impromptu Drembleydrop in the park?

- What do y'all see as a barrier? For me, I just have to routinely remind myself that people actually wanna play with me, so really I am, as ever, my own worst barrier. There's also the part where, if I'm inactive, I get a little nervous about becoming active again and really have to remind myself of the above. But because of that, I don't really build up sufficient recs to bring anyone else, so I only have my little antisocial dumbass who is very content only to have one friend (his fiancé).

I'm technically still working so I will circle back with more incoherent thoughts later.

[eternaldaisy]

For activities, I keep thinking about bringing back the farmer's market gatherings that we used to do, especially now that it's warm out, and then... not doing it. But that could be fun, maybe, since characters could be buying or selling, ones with food or craft skills or whatever could show that off?