A Modest Proposal

[Sigfried Hunin]

LET'S ALL EAT CHILDREN CAUSE WE'RE POOR AND IRISH!

No, wait.


Suggestions For the Afterlife:

A quest/refractory period to move freely around the afterlife and life:

A major concern of mine is that a writer can go right back into the fray in the living world IMMEDIATELY (granted, at a CA debuff of 50%). This can mess with things in a number of ways, but one of those is having JUST fought somebody and then having to fight them AGAIN under new circumstances. Maybe you had the partner the first time around and don’t now, or maybe you used an item or buff that is now gone to beat that person the first time, but now they’re back and they have Tier 2 and are gonna shove their fist so far down your throat that you’ll be tasting bracelets for weeks. Other examples include characters who just died going around in quests/sagas and messing with the people that JUST killed them.

I personally think that a good way to solve this issue is to have a Medium challenge quest that allows characters to roam around freely in the afterlife and to the living world as they please. “Escape From Hell” sounds like a sick ass quest to me, and allows for some character development. It would also slow people down from just bouncing RIGHT BACK into the game.

Another way this can be handled is a refractory period of like, an OOC week or something like that for the same reasons. I prefer the quest idea just because it makes it more fun for the writers/readers.

Also these might add a little bit of weight to the gravity of the whole "dying" thing without being overly punitive or isolationist.

Dead shop:

Well you obviously can’t peruse the Capsule Corp for new crap (or maybe you can, just with a lil halo), but I thik it would be cool if you had a Hell Store and a Heaven Store, selling little exclusive items that you can’t get if you’re alive. These don’t have to be badass or particularly crazy items, but it would still be cool to have little trinkets that symbolize your journeys through the underworld. Maybe you could only access the shop of the realm you were assigned to?

Realm exclusives:

Have techniques/abilities that can only be used in the Afterlife that might just be TOO POWERFUL for the living world where killing people really matters substantially. Also, perhaps you don’t burn PP in the afterlife? Just saying that might be fun. Cause you know, what’s gonna happen? You gonna die AGAIN?

Dead people dying:

I dunno if this has been addressed or not, but I haven’t seen it. That’s prolly my fault. But if a dead person dies AGAIN, maybe treat it like a refractory period where they can’t get out of their assigned plane. That way we don’t have people dying just OVER and OVER and OVER again with no noticeable downside. I don’t think it would be appropriate to stack any more debuffs in this case cause it’s just gonna get silly with those things.




Those are just some ideas I had floating around. Do wiff ems wha’ ye will.

[Kaden]

Most of these actually have or are being discussed.

[Ashe]

Whatever we do, we are planning to avoid allowing someone to simply "infinite loop" from the afterlife into an event/fight/whatever. Even if we just say "You can't do that". So that should be put to rest, at least. As far as the rest go, there's nothing set in stone.

[Jonathan Meer]

A quest/refractory period to move freely around the afterlife and life:

This is being worked on and will be implemented.

One thing to consider is that, because of Chubbs smallish size, not every unfortunate scenario has to be codified and restricted in the mechanics. If Staff observes something that's wildly unfair, then there's room to step in and say 'No, you can't do that.'

Dead people dying:

This is one we haven't really discussed, but definitely needs to be. Good thoughts here.

[Sigfried Hunin]

Cool cool! I'm glad you guys are bouncing ideas around. Thanks for your the prompt replies mates!

[Jarka]

A quest/refractory period to move freely around the afterlife and life:

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Also these might add a little bit of weight to the gravity of the whole "dying" thing without being overly punitive or isolationist.

Agreed.
Currently, as I understand the system, you are no longer assigned to a realm and are freely able to move between heaven and hell. IMHO, an easy redemption/damnation quest should be completed each time a person wishes to switch between astral planes.

Dead shop:

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I really like the death shop. It could add a lot of flavor (Capsule Corp could be expanded just for flavor sake as well). Also, it could be yet another way to escape the afterlife/move realms: the expensive insta-rezz could be available to purchase in case somebody really didn't want to do the questing and had the cash moneys.

Realm exclusives:

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In regards to the abilities/techs (A/T from here), this is where the concept of punishment and oh-goodness-then-everybody-would-want-to-die usually comes in. I think, if a person is willing to complete a hard/epic/legendary quest for access to a new (or unique) A/T, so be it. This goes for the living world as well. Perhaps the afterlife ones would be a specific thing, and the living ones you could just choose from the A/T list (akin to how most use the dragonballs, but those are usually only open to the top five members due to the unfortunate dynamic of power). I mean, if it'll get people to keep writing... *shrug*

There's my two centssssss....

Dead people dying:

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LOL Infinite Death Loop

[Alexander Trafford]

LET'S ALL EAT CHILDREN CAUSE WE'RE POOR AND IRISH!

Hey now, Swift was a satirist.

[Sigfried Hunin]

Hey now, Swift was a satirist.

I interpreted his work literally. Then I ate some kids.

[Alexander Trafford]

As did I, and then I realized my mistake. I try to warn others now. Only I'm Irish, so I sold my children as food to a gentleman, rather than eating them myself.