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hmm Just throwing in another idea for the heck of it....wont die from it...*shifty eyes*

I was thinking along the lines of the RPG thing I mentioned just now when I showered. If we did that, there might be a way to get people to move around from rooms if we use the rooms still. Perhaps, there will be a thread somewhere in which all the hosts introduce themselves and sort of state where they will be at what Gaian time. Like in a Real-Time RPG such as Harvest Moon; its played in real time and all the npcs have their own daily schedule.

The hosts, as the 'NPCS', have their own schedule too so lets say A is found at the deck during 1-3 gaian time and at the kitchen during 7-9 gaian time. And to solve the event or whatever we have going down,a s I mentioned, people will have to be forced to try and interact with the NPC to get clues, but not all the npcs have clues.

So a different NPC will be at each room at a given time. Its like when NPC A moves to the Kitchen from the deck, NPC B will move in from the ball room to the deck to replace A. And as I stated, each NPC only knows whatever they know, so everyone cant get all the clues out from one single NPC. That way, they have to move around from room to room=]

of course, its best to allot times to each NPC/host during the hours they can actually come on. So if NPC A was offline, B and maybe D and E are online or something.

I dunnoe- there are a lot of blaring holes in this idea, but we can brush it up if we want=D The airplane wasnt created without any casualties nor malfunctions 4laugh

Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if I had to perish twice,

I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.
~Robert Frost

haha I kinda like my NPC thing idea too lol *shot* although I feel that the murder plot is really overused like you said Val. But we'll leave the plot aside for now, perhaps? right now we should settle for a theme first, and then we can work plots into it =] I thin murder and theft is really overused...we need something new!

...although there really isnt much new things that can be used, since most has already been used<_< about the carnival...you think we can have the carnival on a steampunk airship? 8D I dunnoe, when I keep looking at the airships images, it starts to remind me more and more of a carnival for some reason. Since the ships can go to any size we want, fitting a carnival (exclude roller coaster rides lol) on to it wont be too hard actually.

People can have bungee jumping too....that's one attraction that I would take <3

rather than having the carnival and the murder (just using the murderplot since this is what we're on right now) on land, where guests can escape at any given time, I feel slightly evil right now and rather have it on an air, and suddenly a murder occurred and they cant leave the airship; not until it lands anyway! and they are flying over uncharted waters so there isnt any place for them to drop the ship until they get to their destination. But people are already edgy from the first murder, and maybe one murder occurs each day lol

Although if that was to happen, we need a lot of hosts to play the NPCs. It might be fine though if a host played two NPCs , but one of them gets killed very early on so they'd be left with one NPC to act as haha

and if we did it that way, where an NPC gets killed off suddenly during a certain time interval, it'll dwindle down the number of NPC suspects that guests can have. If we tried, we can make the clues so misleading that they think its this NPC but suddenly that one gets killed 2 days later lol There should be an announcement thread, like an announcement made on board for the whole ship to hear, that someone has been killed and we listed the NPC dead lol

and with that, we can also have a person try their luck at figuring out who the culprit is; they can try to submit their answers very early on, or later when there is more clues and less suspects. But if they get it wrong the first time, maybe they dont get another chance or a prize as good as when they get it right the first time. So people will have to decide whether they want to take the risk and get a huge prize before anyone else takes it, or wait and take their chances.

Maybe as the days pass by, the prize value goes down or something; since the murderer is taking them perhaps?

lol

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@Envy - NPC's might be good to have in addition to hosts. I don't think it's a good idea to have ALL the characters being played by more than one person, because then plots and personality for the character could get inconsistent and sloppy. But if we had one person in charge of each NPC and then someone who was in charge of backing them up [and thus being willing to take on their own NPC and that persons]... that might be a good way to handle it. That way, if everything goes smoothly, the character remains the same all the time. But if everything does not go smoothly, then no big deal, someone else can just take over and do their best to match the way the other person was acting. And also the most NPC's someone would have to man would be two, which isn't all that horrible. Like I said, I wasn't helping out last year, so I didn't experience the under staffing. But this is my best guess at how to deal with it. -nod-

@Anime - You're so creative. >w< However I think combining steam punk, murder mystery and carnival might be a bit much! Some people's heads might explode from the sheer awesomeness of each one! By that, I mean that people might become confused, and it might be trying to throw too many good things together. It's a creative idea... but I don't know if it's a good idea to stir so many things together at once. It might make the theme seem too busy. If all of those things were in different rooms though, it might be awesome! So that brings me to my response to Val...

@Val - Okay, I was dumb! ^^; I totally didn't realize that you meant for Celebrations to be a theme. I thought 'Celebrations' was a title indicating that you were going to post different themes. ^^; But as a theme, I love it! It incorporates what everyone was saying! <3 I think everyone at the ball would be able to find something to do at a ball with that theme.

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omg
that is THE best idea Evar!!!!
4laugh
i love it!
would be easy to do as well, gaia has plenty of things that we could use to make avis for that

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This is definitely my favorite idea by far.
Why?
Because it uses everyone's ideas!
Which means many people would have fun at the ball!
<3

My Two-cents on this Theme

-Perhaps the Convention could incorporate an anime convention too? I think a lot of Gaia's users would really like that.

-I really like the Victorian Tea Party room idea, but perhaps we could incorporate steampunk without the airship, since I'd kind of picture this in a garden somewhere. Perhaps the room could have automated parts using steampower? I.e. The tea is served by a machine using gears and such. <3 I have this really pretty image in my head of a rose garden surrounded by a white and silver fence decorated with wheels and gears and moving parts. -nod-

-I think the Tavern Party could be easily kept PG-13 if we made it more of a Renaissance type tavern and made a list of things served there, like a little menu, none of which included alcohol. -nod-

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Thanks for the feedback guys!! Valiae, I know what you mean. I'll try to elaborate on some ideas I had, then you can tell me what you think, okay?

My thoughts were that we could go with the steampunk idea that seems to be so popular with the airship, as well as possibly some more. There's some large party on an airship, and we end up going higher up than was expected, and we end up among the constellations and stars. Then they (being the stars/constellations/gods/whatever razz ) see us partying and come down to join us. Of course, we have different kinds of people. We can keep the Victorian (Cygnus the constellation could join there if we wanted to), we can have ravers, we can have androids... We could meet up with an airship that got lost in space years ago, and the people who were on that ship can be as scifi as they want. They adapted to space... Just throwing out ideas!! And then we can throw in the murder mystery plot if we wanted. ^_^