Currently I am working on finishing Snowbird's old zone Utopia, and we could have a RP event when it is opened. This will however not be for another couple of months, since it is a big zone and needs a lot of work.
So..now that the zone is open, where is that RP event, Molly?
Anyway, since the forums kind of seems dead, I was kind of looking for a topic that we hadn't talked about for a while that really still needed to be discussed. This seems to be it.
We have been getting some people that would LOVE to roleplay and I'm afraid we're going to lose them since no one seems to really roleplay. At least I don't see any of it going on, though I'm usually off in my own little world. I've not gotten any logs from roleplays - and some of the "roleplay" stuff I'd rather not read about *cough* Calypso/Stile *cough*.
To further this agenda, I'm going to make myself available to anyone that would like to position themselves to become an RPL. If you are interested in becoming one then come up with a good roleplaying adventure that can be played on the mud for Halloween. It doesn't have to be done ON Halloween (I see too many people missing because they have to take goblins and ghouls trick or treating), but something Halloween themed. If needed, it could involve the Halloween Haunted House (aka: Solorn Del'Vante's estate) and cemetery. There are a few places there that seem to be half finished in the zone that could use some sort of roleplaying adventure there. Or perhaps there is something even more devious that you'd like to do.
Send me an email with your idea and we'll see what we can come up with working together (we'll have to work on the build port). If more that one person has an idea, we can run more than one adventure and have them on different nights. I'd toss in a token for ideas, but I'd rather just have anyone serious about wanting to be an RPL give ideas and that means no tokens. Does this promise you an RPL spot? No, but it will give a good idea of what we feel needs to be worked on to get to that point.
Also, to try and get more roleplaying in, I'm also working on advancing the alien invasion device so 1) it will kill the remaining aliens if they are too tough for the group that's trying to kill them or the person that started the adventure to kill them (this was the overall theme I was given on why it wasn't used more). 2) We'll be able to have Indians invading (good for an Old West adventure), Wyverns invading (I was going to use Dragons, but with the Dragon Master zone going in sometime, I didn't want confusion later) which is tied more towards the medieval zones, or Egyptian Mummies invading - talk about the walk of the undead - mostly for prehistoric. But, as anything seems to be able to end up in any dimension, these could be used to attack any place that the aliens currently are able to attack.
If anyone has any ideas like the alien device to help increase roleplaying, feel free to let me know and I'll see what can get done. If it's scriptable, it seems there are a few people willing to help script things out.
