Idea Post!

[livebait]

Hello Aather! In the interests of making Aather the best game it can be, we'd like to toss around some potential ideas for what you'd really like to see in the near future!

Since the game has been running incredibly strong for over 3.5 years now (///), we want to make sure we're keeping things bright and engaging, while still staying true to the game as it is and what's made it what it is.

We've had more open slots recently largely due to a lot of characters moving to Happy End or Legacy after being played for several years, and game turnout is a little lower lately (probably also because some of us have been doing this game thing for longer than we've lived in any one place in real life, I don't know about you); and we've also dropped down to a bit of a quieter pace that's a better fit for the playerbase at the moment—but some of these are fairly big changes functionally! so we want to make sure we can continue adjusting and growing the game to fit that.

The mods have some ideas for things we want to do in the future (and I'll make note of some of them in this post!), but we'd also like to hear:

❥ Game or event ideas you'd like to see! Games that we ran two years ago you really liked, or just "a secrets game" or "a costume game" or anything like that. Things we haven't done in a while you wanna see again, or things we've never done that you have a good idea for.
❥ Plot hooks or directions you'd like to go in. "I want to find out more about why there's always a tree in the Ring" or "I want more helping Personae break roles" etc.
❥ Elements that would help you or your characters be more engaged!
❥ Other things that would be cool—quests? Abilities? Themes? Laser beams for Burupya?

At least for this post, we would really just like to hear ideas and suggestions—nothing will be definitely going to happen and someone might have an idea that you don't think would work for you, but that's okay! We are also not looking at making any changes to activity/game structure & functions at the moment—just gameplay, please!

For now—please help us with suggestions about what you'd like to see and we will do our best to make some things happen! If you have multiple ideas, please feel free to leave them as separate comments if they're about fully different things.

Thank you as always for being such a stellar playerbase, and please do always feel free to come to the mods in private if you have questions or concerns or suggestions or pictures of kitten paws.

Comments

[yoloath]

HAVEN'T READ ALL OF THIS YET b/c busy but a thing:

I know Personae aren't out as often as regular characters for a lot of reasons! But like… I know there's going to be an IC meet-and-greet that Van's setting up, but would there be any interest in a kind of OOC meet-and-greet? Like… Personae have their synecdochical pages but there's no easy way if you don't know the player OOCly to say "hey, I am interested in my character meeting this Personae, any way we could thread?"

I was thinking potentially something kind of like the CR meme but Personae-specific so that people without interest in their characters meeting Personae could ignore it. Maybe something with a link to the synecdochical page, any other information not on that page that might be of interest, general availability (whether they only show up at their own games, whether you're willing to put them out in mingles, etc), a note on patronage (whether your Persona is available ICly or OOCly, if they're looking for a specific kind of knight, idk) so people could go "heyyy that might be interesting."

IDK if this would be of interest to anyone else! I know there is the CR meme and its ilk. I just thought it might potentially be helpful to focus more specifically on what Personae can offer in an OOC setting where Personae and hero/knight players can interact with each other directly.

[axeboyfriend]

Tttttto be honest, I expect this idea to be shot down because it's flawed, but what about using Legacy players as ICly voluntary pinch hitters in games where their team has no game playing characters available for representation, so these teams might still have a chance to win memories?

[dicktionary]

OKAY THIS IS KIND OF LATE BUT I was chatting with another player and hmhm...

basically, if we want to stir up some major Darkness drama and make the Darkness a legit threat (which, lbr, it hasn't been for a while because things in Aather have gotten to a point where we OOCLY know we'll win?) maybe we could do that by having the heroes and knights lose ground?

Like, not necessarily LOSE-lose, but something along the lines of--having gotten ahead of the story or gotten turned around or lost the script of something? Like, it was mentioned during the Wonderland move! so maybe something like WHUPS SORRY YOU NEED TO LEVEL-GRIND COME BACK LATER WHEN YOUR POWERS OF FRIENDSHIP AND LOVE ARE AT A HIGHER POWER LEVEL or something like that...

Logistically, I don't know how that would work! But something about how we (the heroes ICly, not...the players...) messed up somewhere and the consequences of that and maybe find a way of getting back to the original plot/storyline of Following The Role vs Breaking Out Of It (which is a good thread to pick up post-Firebird game) and also maybe get back to the main story with Beauty and Mal--though some adjustments can be made so Personae with their own personal plots can play that out as well...

Or maybe adjust Personae plots to work with the main-plot rather than the other way around? I DID SEE that it was mentioned earlier, and also that more big-plot/Darkness puts more stress on the mods, but hmm... I know we have plot-mods now, but maybe if more Personae players knew more about the plot we could also work on adjusting things to work with it?

I dunno how many other Personae players are like me, but I had apped Mme White before the whole Personae Plot thing was a thing, so I had taken her from post-story, so she has no story left for me to engage the playerbase with beyond sharing her experiences. What I'd love to do is, then, to see how I can use her to further the main plot/ the Sleeping Beauty plot that Aather was founded on.