Hello frog citizens! Welcome to the MULLETTEERS team! I hope you’re excited for this adventure! Before it starts, this is essentially your last day of gruelling training before you become the ultimate frog baseball team. I would like you to read this post so that we are all on the same page on how to interact with each other in creating the story together!
This is a slow game! We write the story together and read it as it unfolds. In a world as crazy and fast-paced as ours, I think it would be awesome if you do what this game encourages: Sit for a bit, drink a coffee or tea while you read the story, and add your own actions to it.
I think we all need a pause like this.
The basic concept:
I describe a scene through visuals, sounds, texts and videos (blogpost)
You write how you want your character to interact with the scene (visuals welcome!) - (through a comment on the blogpost)
I describe the consequences (new blogpost)
I suggest you check this page once a day or every two days to see what’s happening, as the interface is further smoothed out :)
Although the game is slow, for the sake of storytelling pace I will be posting every 3 days. Anyone's inaction will reflect in the unfolding of the story.
This is a game of teamwork! And like the sport of frog baseball itself, teamwork will be fun to play with and fail at!
You are your characters!
For the sake of fun and the story, think as your characters, not yourselves. Think about how your character would interact with stuff as opposed to yourself. You each have a character with stats, flaws and desires. Based on these suggestions you can further develop your characters and act as them within this world. Be as descriptive or simple as you like with your posts and actions, but I suggest when you post as your character start the post with your character’s name. When you post as yourself to elaborate what you mean or if you have a question declare that you are talking Outside Of Game (OOG)
A post can have as many OOG and CharacterName as you like.
Preferably you can think of this story like a book that keeps on growing, so being descriptive is nice! If you describe your character’s actions in 3rd person and put their thoughts or actual words in quotation marks, it will be ideal. (But I won’t hold you to it!)
Good Example of a post:
Snowfrog: As she sees the snake coming towards her, she thinks “Balls” and shouts “NOT DURING BREAKFAST TIME!!!” and throws a bunch of half-cooked oats towards it aiming to obscure its vision. OOG: I thought I would specify where exactly she aims, but I see it more like a random spray towards the snake.
As a general rule of thumb, don’t write your actions’ consequences on other players. Just write the intention of your action.
Bad example: She swings her bat and makes the snake blind.
Good example: She swings her bat aiming to render the snake practically blind.
The good example allows others to add their action to it, making it a team effort, and allows us to figure out if the action was successful!
Rules: There are no rules in what you can do in the world! I have a set of guidelines on how to solve actions and dice rolls will be happening relatively often. We can either trust each other to do the dice rolls ourselves, or you can trust ME and I can roll everything for you. (after I elaborate how and why they have taken place).
Whenever there’s actions coming up, I will write up the guidelines for you to decide accordingly. For example, the weapons you chose have special features, in the right time I will tell you what those features are, and you can choose to activate them or not. This goes for navigation guides, using the stats on your cards and what they mean etc. I will also answer any questions involving how things work.
Let’s make an awesome story together! Lets plan and improvise! Lets gamify every decision or action you make! :D