So. What’s going on?

I just felt the need to ask – what exactly will we be doing with the Freeform section? A C/G copy & paste with the same kind of vague ‘modern-day-but-not’ world, or a completely different, clearly defined setting?

Do we want something clearly defined?

It's never bothered me before. :/

Well, I’m just asking what we’re going for, since there’s nothing up on it yet.

Being limited to a single city might be a nice change, though. Makes it easier for interests to overlap.

Yeah, with what Fellguarde said about having it focus on one city or a few cities is that you really get to develop certain areas. The cemetary that one person uses in C/G for one thread might be used a lot by different characters for certain things. One persons family or friend dies and he goes there for the funeral, a necromancer raises the dead to summon an army and attack the city. A vampire coven forms in a tomb underneath the cemetary. You also really get to highlight the NPC's much more. Since wealthy organization inside the city may be constantly asking for favors from the corrupt mayor in exchange for money.

An evil character that is constantly murdering people will be more pursued by the police since he'll be striking in the same area instead of just going from city to city and country to country and never really being pursued for his crimes. Why I say 'city' is that it might be fun for some serial killer from one city to move to another, or one gang from one city tries to move into another city and a gang war starts.

I'm tired of this posthuman arms race.

Duly noted.

Ok. I see all of your points- I will be posting up guidelines this evening when I get a chance. (The flu is a bitch).

One city. Modern day- not post-modern. Any other suggestions?

Grime. I suggest grime. Not an omnipresent sense of it, but a few sprinkles of dystopian grimdark here and there. Maybe a ‘levelled’ city, despite the clichéd-ness of it, or one built on atop the remains of its predecessor. It’s obviously a personal preference, but geh, I’m a fan of the depressing, maze-like structures those two tropes imply.

Done and done. That's one location. I think we should stick to two or three cities in the same general vicinity. I'm going to open up a discussion about the other one or two and rake in some input. As long as people stay active here, I don't see this being a problem.

I'm going to second Fell's opinion on the grime level. A semi-dystopian city would be quite fun to play in.

Wow some great ideas. I'm getting really hyped about this now. Any ideas for names of the cities? What part of the world they are located in? the culture ect?

Dibs on a hotel.

A brothel or pub for me. D:

a venice-esque type of city would be pretty cool too, as far as the waterways and stuff goes.

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a venice-esque type of city would be pretty cool too, as far as the waterways and stuff goes.

love this idea.

Any idea when we can start posting threads?

Like I said yesterday- you can start posting whenever you want. The guidelines just aren't up yet.

are we using earth? and continents? or new things?

Earth, but .. as it COULD be. Not as it is.

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i propose a continent-rising project plz -- making a continent and raising submerged landmasses n' stuff frin watery depths. massive corporations involved. lots of black shady people and Councils of Vague Omniscience plz.

Alternate reality in the modern day? Hmmm.... Me like.

And Reve, yet again, you make my head hurt with complicated thought.

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methinks you're too consumed with monkies.

'tis the bears that need disturb your sleep ._.


and i think it's a lovely and superfluous idea.

Doesn't change my headache. Besides, the idea's been taken. Read some comics. Or were we going for that? Damn I'm lost.

i imagine it's already been taken. but. so has everything else. ._.

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excavating the cadaver of a giant under the pretense of raising landmasses for the betterment of the local society. -sniffs- that... smells like c/g.

And it smells bad. Let us never bring it up again. Besides, I never was a fan of world shaking exploits. The shady corporations I don't mind, but once you bring in world-wide discombobulation, then you just wind up with C/G again. Ugh, I said it again. Gotta go cleanse myself.