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

[glorious]

For a suggestion on my end, I would actually be interested in more ways to just boost Personae/Hero and Knight CR in general, outside of having big plotty shake-downs. Mad Hatter's tea party game where Personae participated in the game was one way to do it. Nimue's Q&A game also allowed heroes and knights to directly offer questions to individual Personae to be answered as well. There are probably more examples as well, but more games like those may help.

I also planned on having Van attempt to run a Personae meet-and-greet with the intent of encouraging heroes and knights to form bonds with different Personae sometime next week, to have a more mingle-y option to try as well, though really just more posts to encourage that sort of CR-building in general (sort of like Lloyd and Mithos' Personae call) would be aces to me! o7

[idkmybffnirvash]

Thank you for putting up a post to talk with Personae in advance! I definitely need it, even if I'm being shy about it.

[glorious]

Oh excellent! ♥ I am hoping to aim it for next week (provided everyone's hearts don't all explode at once) so hopefully that will be coming soon. o7

[idkmybffnirvash]

Aim for later in the week, maybe? Everyone will still have fallout along with on-going threads in the start, but they might be ready for a change of pace by Thursday or so.

[glorious]

Thursday sounds like it'll be pretty good day actually, so I'll mark that on my calendar and adjust as needed. ♥

[livebait]

I am 1000% behind stuff like this, so if you ever want my help with anything, I can totally do it. I also have some ideas of my own for some more long-term things so this is something that I really wanna push.

[glorious]

Ah that is good to know. I am not sure what help I would need just yet but I'll def. let you know if/when I do. o7

[selfequipped]

I thought I commented here already.

If you want Van to go to Lancelot or utilize Lancelot in any way for this kind of stuff, let me know. I think if they've spoken at all, it's been brief, but I want Lancelot to be kind of a persona who's good for building bridges/bonds/oaths, since he is Nimue's son. I know you want general connections, but Lancelot is big on that, too, and is really interested in examining it.

Basically, you ... fittingly have my sword and shield, if you need it.

[glorious]

That'll actually be pretty awesome. :O Can toss Van at Lancelot sometime for them to talk about that sort of thing?

[selfequipped]

yes! just ping me in. I might be a little slow but we will do this!