started today with an awfully pissed mood that had me seeing red and required my dad to force me to practice breathing exercises

and now, around seven or so hours later, ive laughed and wheezed so much in a chaotically cursed conversation that's spanned hours of disaster, madness, and surreality with one of my closest friend groups that feels like a fever dream and ive never felt any better in a damn long while. ngl i love those dumbasses. bless them. theyre terrible and today ended up being one of my best in a long while too.

buddy, god YES please, i am so down for a GI site. xiao come home

on the business of canons - all good and imo theyre pretty pivotal to the world. especially those like harbingers and archons. smaller ones like, say, beidou or chongyun (not an anti btw but imo they arent on the same world building level as, say, venti and childe) don't have this same effect but theyd still be fun to see around too. first come first serve basis can easily be done too, i believe. player interpretation is player interpretation.

i also like the idea that this is an au tevyat and, imo, that could also be a good way to excuse if canons don't follow the game's plans entirely. if anything, i actually think thats a pretty genius way of sliding past the "canon lore" restrictions too. so i'd be absolutely down for something like that.

not from my last post but tbh i still really like the angst here.



lovers to enemies due to opposing sides? we love to see it.

hey professor,,,,, what do you mean i have the first draft of a paper due by tonight,,,,,

buddy i didnt even KNOW i had a paper to write

this is not me eyeing a production manager position for my theatre org's next production knowing i definitely do NOT have the energy to handle that workload!! damn you, personal sense of ambition

the ratatouille musical / ratatousical slaps. i said what i said.

Since this whole thread was bumped again, I'mma put my two cents in once more. But, essentially, I do agree with all the points made and the options presented. (We're actually considering a number of the suggestions and then some given.) So thank you all for that! Seriously, got our brains working in how to incorporate and address, what have you. If it also helps, the site is in a sort-of beta test phase atm and not open to the general public yet so we could figure out what works, what doesn't, etc.

I think another of the issues ultimately being faced with this dilemma also, giving more context, is due to the fact the site and its overall plot relies on faction-based plots, conflict, alliances, etc. The canons are meant to be the leaders of these factions, which is why they intended to have all the influence/power among others. Yet a common trend we've started to notice is, as said, characters of similar pedestals without being affiliated with factions or not choosing to participate in such, thus making it hard to actually... progress the plot or conflict? There's this irony that despite all these characters being built, likely, to deal with the political intrigue part of the premise—they're mostly participative in just slice of life.

One of the things we're considering to remedy that is imposing some restrictions on unaffiliated characters later on—within reason, of course. And a potential thing we've discussed was placing a system that allows players to choose if their characters were open to heavy plotting, such as said overall site plot, that's connected with said character's "power level" basically. (i.e. if a player chooses to apply this system on their character(s) at any point in time, their character would be granted a numerical power/threat level that helps staff, other players, etc. gauge if this character would be effective in a plot, conflict, etc. while consenting that their character would be involved in heavy plotting / the political intrigue aspects.) In that sense; people can create "special" (for lack of a better word I'm a bit sleep-deprived atm) characters that have all these skills without it being an issue against canons, faction-based characters, etc. and pursue slice of life aspects, or the more intense political intrigue aspect. Similarly, "normal" characters could also choose to pursue SoL or political intrigue, while having agency on their advantages, disadvantages, etc.

Thoughts? Genuinely curious on suggestions, criticisms, etc tbh.

albedo came HOMEEEEE

some original fantasy setting that isn't medieval, maybe? i could go with some steampunk, biopunk, warring factions kinda deal. maybe with like spies, airships, all that jazz.

i should be screaming over this paper proposal due tomorrow but instead i'm watching shrek 2. whats good.

don't know if it's me being desensitized, full of myself, or gaining self-confidence, but something i've learned to embody is just that my existence is not dependent on anyone else's validation lmao. if people talk about me and make assumptions about me, that's on them. i'm secure with myself.

ngl im definitely not biased bc of cyberpunk 2077, but i'm definitely 👀 over a cyberpunk-themed site!

one day ill stop disassociating from uni material. this is not that day.