Idea Post!

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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]

An idea I had just now so no idea of how feasible it would be but!: on the Darkness Personae, maybe more plots involving that potential line of mimicry? I'm thinking along the lines of Darkness Personae being something along the lines of Slenderman, who is without any real identity and comes from an ill-defined (and unconstrained) mythos; though any sort of creepypasta could maybe be used since so much of creepypasta is built through memetic power in a way that could be fitting for a Darkness' attempt at mimicking a story.

[idkmybffnirvash]

Or the Darkness pretends to be your teammate . . . Oooh~ The scratching is coming from inside the tree house, dun dun~.

[glorious]

find all 7 teammates

[auralfixation]

I am gonna +1 this idea, this sounds rad. What if the Darkness pretends to be a former teammate who came back?

[idkmybffnirvash]

you're being too scary now ...

(omg!!!)

[auralfixation]

Former players could come back for a Darkness event and play Darkness'd versions of themselves, too, like. HI GUYS MISS ME YEAH I'M TOTALLY YOUR TEAMMATE EVERYTHING IS F INE EVERYTHING IS FINE E̫̪̮͠ṾE͈̘͎̪̳Ŕ͓̝̟͇̫̩Y͉̺TH̱̬̣̺͙̞̘ĮNG̥̯̳̰͓̞ ̛̫̱͎͉̻I̜̳̭̤̳̙̠̕S͏͈͍̬ ̲̟FI̴̟͇N̼̹̲͎̤̰E̖͙

[yourewaitingforagate]

words cannot describe how much I want to do this.

with you know who.

[selfequipped]

I kind of said this to Eastling, but yes! I like stuff like this for the darkness plot.