On the Vagaries of Human Entertainment

[xifeng]

Pros of starting samurai game now and the fuck with consequences:
1.) Wang Xi-feng's Historical Clusterfuck, Now With More Samurai!
2.) Instant gratification.
3.) Research officially declared finished on the grounds that I feel like being done with research. Also, substantial amount of research pre-compiled for your convenience.
4.) Layout all ready for site.
5.) Everybody on the Int0rwebz likes Japan; player base sure to be large.

Cons of starting samurai game now and the fuck with consequences:
1.) Wang Xi-feng's Historical Clusterfuck, Now With More Samurai!
2.) No premise. We like premises. Without premises, and attendant plotlines, games visit that giant RPG archive in the sky.
3.) You call that research, Wang? Eight-year-old girls do better research than that. Now drop and write me 10,000-15,000 words on constructions of bushido in the Tokugawa era, with special reference to the Hagakure.
4.) Hosting package needs to be renewed; it does not matter that the site is pretty if there is no place to host it.
5.) Everybody on the Int0rwebz likes Japan; motards, teenagers, and teenaged motards sure to flock like maggots to a corpse.
6.) forgottensanity may not be able to resist temptation to bust out horrific Mary Sue character.

Conclusion: Mail in check for hosting service when mail up, running again; continue endless stream of research; try to resist temptation to play Yukichi; attempt to have game up and running by June.

Comments

[tara]

I think the premise is a really good idea. Otherwise it'll drive you insane within a month, I reckon.

[shake-the-stars.livejournal.com]

Oh, definitely. Either that, or it'll peter out because nobody has the balls to stage-manage it. (Hell, I'm always afraid to stage-manage plots in the totally freeform games I occasionally join, just because I'm afraid of ballsing-up something the GM is doing. Whoo, go me.)

[tara]

I never have those kind of balls, because I'm too thingy about respecting the mods. I'm the sort of player who always runs the big stuff by them.

[shake-the-stars.livejournal.com]

As am I, usually (unless I know it's a total clusterfuck freeform where absolutely NOTHING I come up with is going to be rejected), simply because I want players to run things by me when I mod. (If I ever mod again. O WOE FOR LEE'S GAMES.)

[tara]

I'm actually being tempted to mod again, which is SUCH A BAD IDEA but it's there anyway.

[forgottensanity.livejournal.com]

I don't write Mary Sues at all!!! I don't even know what a Mary Sue is! And I certainly wouldn't create one on purpose just to mess with your head, which, on second thought, sounds like a really good idea and maybe I'll do it anyway.

Lady Aurora was a complete fluke. So was Mary Sudira. THEY DO NOT SHOW A PATTERN!

In fact, I resent your remark. It completely contradicts everything Evil Lee Clone has said.

[shake-the-stars.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes, whatever, Cat. Next I suppose you're going to tell me that you are totally not responsible for the rash of Iacchan Baynazier piracy that has been sweeping the Uscan Main, despite the fact that the flags were black and purple and the villages were torched to spell out "Cat MoonShadow Was Here".

Either one would have been bad enough on her own, but the fact that you originated them BOTH, within MERE MONTHS of each other, DOES IN FACT SHOW A PATTERN. And now I suppose I'm going to hear how it's so unfair that your Sue doesn't get Her Man and how I am SO MEAN because I expect people to follow the rules.

Also, I would respectfully point out that Evil Robot Clone Lee is not the most reliable source, so if you listen to her you get what you deserve.

[forgottensanity.livejournal.com]

The burning villages totally weren't my idea, and anyway you could hardly see them unless you were looking. You're just trying to set me up. It's probably you who planted those weapons of mass destruction and my someone's plans for world domination in my room. It's a complete and total frame up! As though I would ever bribe the Iacchan Baynazier pirates to rob the Empire and dethrown anyone and then get them all to make me gold, lots of, and then we'll torch even more villages in celebration and everyone should bring me kittens and there will be much rejoicing and othello cake and everyone will have to wear purple on Saturdays and clowns will be thrown into the scorpion pit! Whoever said I would ever partake in such an endeavour is lying, and all the documents that went missing from my secret laboratory are just false and creative and not true and fabrications of my imagination, and you shouldn't believe a word that they say. Especially not the part it taking place in June. There's no reason to be prepared for anything in May. In fact, it's best to just relax when the time comes round and maybe put something in your ears and put on shades or something. You don't have to be afraid of anything at all. Really.

And you can't determine that there is a pattern until you're able to step back and view the whole thing objectively and in a timely manner, which you can't do until at least 5 years after the last event.

[shake-the-stars.livejournal.com]

Actually, I nicked your plans for world domination, because they were mine. You can see them if you want, but they're MY plans now. [/Mal]

I heartily approve of your endeavors to throw clowns into the scorpion pit though I hope you will allow Krusty to live, and will send you a generous tax-exempt donation of seventeen pennies (one Canadian), a couple of stale French fries, and something the cat horked up that we're afraid to touch. Being boundlessly inventive also EVIL, you should be able to come up with a creative way to use those.

I will also give a generous donation to my alma mater, thus enabling them to fund the Cat Studies Department.