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 Posted: Fri Jul 24, 2009 10:40 am
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Oh see for me,
I wanted to know the theme so that I could model banners and such after it.
<3
But if we aren't gonna release the theme...
Then that's cool too.
-nod-
I still like Val's Celebrations idea best of all.
Perhaps we could put a labyrinth as a topic?
If you can work out a celebration for that.
I would suggest a Forest Party or something for that topic.
Then have your guests sucked into the labyrinth.
Or put it in the Feasts of the Gods topic she already suggested.
Greek Mythology had labyrinths, no?
That way, everyone's idea is still incorporated.
But so is my and a few other people's concerns that a labyrinth is not so much of a ball as it is a puzzle or competition, even if it has a party at the beginning or end.
I agree.
I want us to agree.
>w<
Does what I said sound feasible to everyone?
Have the labyrinth as an element, but not base the whole ball around it?
Stick it in it's own room so that those interested in playing can play,
But those interested in dancing can dance in their own little rooms?
Of course the other rooms would need plots too.
But they could leave more room for partying.
♥♡♥♡♥♡♥  Thinking about... I don't think Greek mythology has dungeons... First thing we need to decide is things like thread-a-day, main balls, indivual rooms etc.
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Posted: Fri Jul 24, 2009 11:18 am
Lady Angelishia ♥♡♥♡♥♡♥
Oh see for me,
I wanted to know the theme so that I could model banners and such after it.
<3
But if we aren't gonna release the theme...
Then that's cool too.
-nod-
I still like Val's Celebrations idea best of all.
Perhaps we could put a labyrinth as a topic?
If you can work out a celebration for that.
I would suggest a Forest Party or something for that topic.
Then have your guests sucked into the labyrinth.
Or put it in the Feasts of the Gods topic she already suggested.
Greek Mythology had labyrinths, no?
That way, everyone's idea is still incorporated.
But so is my and a few other people's concerns that a labyrinth is not so much of a ball as it is a puzzle or competition, even if it has a party at the beginning or end.
I agree.
I want us to agree.
>w<
Does what I said sound feasible to everyone?
Have the labyrinth as an element, but not base the whole ball around it?
Stick it in it's own room so that those interested in playing can play,
But those interested in dancing can dance in their own little rooms?
Of course the other rooms would need plots too.
But they could leave more room for partying.
♥♡♥♡♥♡♥ The thing is, Angel, most people LIKE the idea of the labyrinth as a theme. I know, as for me, I'm not jazzed about the celebrations theme. It just sounds like a bunch of different parties with no real connection between them, and any of the ideas that people have come up with haven't really changed my mind about the disconnectedness. Plus, people would not be encouraged to move from room to room. It feels just like, "Oh, hey, you want a tea party? Okay, go hang out in that room, I'll be over here doing my own thing in the labyrinth, I'll see you when the ball's over." It perpetuates keeping people apart, as opposed to bringing people together, in my mind at least. *sigh* Also, what do you follow that up with the next year? You've already done it all!! razz I'm starting to get frustrated. How can I explain the ball part of this so you can understand? I'm trying, but I can't figure out how I'm missing the mark. sad Each room in the Labyrinth IS a party. It's just like what you were saying with different rooms.PLEASE TO BE IGNORING THE CRACK. People do not have to move from room to room if they don't want to, they can stay in the main ballroom(or ballrooms) if they want to. OR they can move to the labyrinth and the myriad rooms of mythical creatures below it. It encourages people to mingle and explore, but I think we long ago scrapped the idea of following people through the labyrinth. I don't want there to be any competition, but puzzles are fun. There were plenty of them in the past ball, and a lot of the people who commented here have said they really liked that. Could you elaborate what exactly you don't like about this theme? So I can understand where you're coming from??? I hope I don't come off as offensive, I'm not trying to. I'm just frustrated and trying to figure out how we can make a theme a majority of us like work for everyone. sad
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Posted: Fri Jul 24, 2009 12:08 pm
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Lectern - A labyrinth is not a dungeon, exactly. And they did have them in Greek Mythology. ^^. Minotaurs + Labyrinths.
Kala - That's not what others were saying. >w<. They were saying have guests get sucked down into the labyrinth from a party. But you're saying that within the labyrinth there are different parties? I don't quite understand what the plot is then. So the guests just get sucked into this labyrinth... where there are different parties? Can you explain who's throwing the parties and why please? And what themes you were thinking of for the parties?
And you're not being offensive. <3 Just try not to get so frustrated. We're just bouncing ideas. <3
As to the criticism of the Celebrations idea: I think people would explore the different party rooms, if they WANTED too. The thing about opening a thread a day is that the last parties to open have so much less of a chance to flourish. Also it feels like you're trying to push the people towards a new topic, even if you leave a thread open behind them. People are going to need to move to the next thread to keep up with the plot. I don't think it's a good idea to force our guests out of a party they're enjoying just to keep up with a plot. Also, it gives everyone something that they'd like, and allows for many different plots to work with at once. And we would link all of the celebrations together of course. We just have to find a common link and why everyone's partying at once. I and others have made suggestions to this. It could be as simple as a made up holiday or something like a competition between celebrations.
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Posted: Fri Jul 24, 2009 1:52 pm
I'm just trying to figure out why there would be separate parties in the labyrinth...
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Posted: Fri Jul 24, 2009 3:27 pm
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Same.
That bit confuses me.
-nod-
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Posted: Fri Jul 24, 2009 3:48 pm
If we cant figure out where they fit then why dont we just scrap those ideas altogether. It is plain to see we cannot meld in two different themes and try and get them to connect.
I know both Parties and Labyrinth have been popular but if you can't seem to make them fit as a stand alone theme or as a blended theme then I suggest we might try a plan c or d?
This isn't to be mean or anything. I love some of the ideas spinning out, as I hacev been reading, its just if you cant do it then you cant do it, you know?
I have been in the fundraising threads and the one thing people can agree on is that they want a food based shop to set up for raising funds, so why don't we incorporate that into the theme of the ball. Like a Food convention and leave the specific rooms as the types of food, like Italian, Spanish, American, and whatnot, highlighting all the high factor food areas. Or something like Fast food, Sit down restaurants, and boardwalk venues? It sounds simple enough and it really seems to be linked to the ideas people ahve for the fundraising shop for the ball. Just like how last years unofficial official fundraising was date auctions for the prom heading. They were connected so why cant we have these connected.
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Posted: Fri Jul 24, 2009 3:56 pm
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I get what you're saying. But we have already come up with a few ideas as to how the Celebrations theme would work. They're a while back. But my suggestion was that it would be kind of a Competition of Celebrations, in short. Run by some old important person. No one would really have to win. We could have it be a feel good moment where everyone wins~
Unless someone actually did want it to be a contest between the celebrations. Like have people vote.
Our question to Kala was how her Labyrinth theme would work, and why a bunch of people would be partying in a labyrinth. I'm sure we could figure something creative out, if everyone really wanted to do that. Personally I don't like the labyrinth for a ball setting. But as I've said numerous times, it would make a good regular rp.
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Posted: Fri Jul 24, 2009 4:03 pm
I actually ended up editing my post as I had so much more to say xD.
but yes, I was reading the magical forest celebration theme.
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Posted: Fri Jul 24, 2009 4:23 pm
Ugh, I'm on crack, sorry guys. I've totally lost track of what I was thinking about the parties in the labyrinth. Just woke up, brain wasn't working.... You get the idea. Sorry!!! sweatdrop Sometimes my brain runs away with me when I'm not paying attention...
But, to try and answer everyone's questions, the impression I was getting was that there would be a ball put on by some rich and/or secretly evil character. He(or she) would at some point open up the labyrinth, possibly saying it was just a "bit of fun" for the guests. If they stay above, they can follow the plot and ball above (evolving around the ball throwing figure and why exactly they have the labyrinth filled with mythical creatures. Below, in the labyrinth, we could open a thread a day thing (I know not everyone likes this thread a day idea, bear with me, we don't have to) going from room to room. The labyrinth would be more a place for the RPers, while the upper ball would be for those who wanted to dance and bop around. Maybe, as rooms open in the labyrinth, creatures begin escaping to go up and join the ball, some of them good, some of them otherwise. Below, the guests find out the stories of the creatures of the room they happen to be in, and fight or play with them as it spins out.
MUCH better idea, less crazy-writer-brain crack involved. razz
Also, diagram coming. *sigh* I have given in to the diagram. smile
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Posted: Fri Jul 24, 2009 4:39 pm
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It's a creative idea. However I see a major problem coming. Even within the threads we had last year it was a bit crowded, from my point of view. If you're opening one event room per day to deal with these creatures, no one will actually be able to interact with them, because there will be so many people posting at once and trying to defeat or play with these mythical beings. The threads will move too fast, and whoever is playing the creature is going to have the overwhelming job of trying to respond to ALL the rp lovers at the ball at once.
I know that the problems need to be said for the benefit of the ball. ^^; But I feel horrible bringing them up. It's nothing personal, and it's a good idea, but I think it would be an even better idea on a smaller scale. Have the labyrinth be a topic, like I suggested earlier. Then everyone has a better chance of getting to interact with these lovely creatures and riddles and challenges~ and whatnot.
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Posted: Fri Jul 24, 2009 4:56 pm
Don't worry, I'm not taking it personally. I actually kind of like being challenged, it makes the ideas more solid if they're thought through more. smile
The problem is, if it's a topic, then we won't be able to DO the same thing. We can't open a part of the labyrinth a day if it's that small, and we can't leave open areas people liked. And that's the part of the thread a day idea I actually really liked. The idea's just too big to be a topic, not without taking out the parts that people actually liked, in my opinion.
But at the same time, I see what you're saying. That's why I was considering bringing up us opening two threads a day. Since we were already talking about a large amount of creatures, it's the only way we can incorporate them all in any case. Helps with crowd control too. AND, it's more like a labyrinth. At the same time, in every new room I would recommend a directory of the rooms that came before (not after, surprise is half the fun!) so people don't get lost.
I still have a diagram coming... razz
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Posted: Fri Jul 24, 2009 5:06 pm
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So where's the ball part of the idea? Just upstairs above the labyrinth, right? I'm sorry, I am really against this idea because it focuses more on the plot of the rp than the ball and the unity of Gaia. It's supposed to be more of a party, right? I like the idea of a small scale labyrinth. But going this in depth and basing the entire plot off of it just seems like we're getting away from the idea of a ball completely. You said there'd still be a ball going on, just not in the labyrinth. So what's the theme of that ball? And what plot is up there? There's not much for those who actually want to party to do. It's just kind of a bland ballroom in some important figure's house.
It's creative.
I just probably would not attend a 'Ball' that no one had really focused on while a labyrinth was opened up underneath us with an elaborate rp behind it. To me, that's just a large scale roleplay, not really a celebration.
I feel bad for being so negative about the whole labyrinth thing. TT. I just think it really takes away from the idea of a celebration for all Gaians. It's a fantabulous rp by itself though.
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Posted: Fri Jul 24, 2009 5:25 pm
*sigh* That's because... Never mind. I'm not going to change your mind, and so it's a waste of energy to try. ^_^ I understand where you're coming from, even though I may not agree. I haven't had time, and no one else has, thought of what's going to happen upstairs yet. That's why it's an IDEA, not a full fledged ball. (Personally, I was considering a mythical creatures themed masquerade ball, as it fits with the below and would be fun in it's own right).
In any case, if you don't like the idea of the labyrinth, you came up with the idea of the mythical creatures, right? What do you think of a ball completely centered around them ? Still set in the mysterious figure's mansion, but instead of the labyrinth, we just have different rooms that are themed around different mythical creatures? (And if we wanted, then for some reason people start actually becoming the mythical creatures of the room they're in. Maybe the figure is trying to create an army to take over the world? *obligatory BWAHAHA!* Or just his own personal menagerie...)
I want us all to be able to be happy....
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Posted: Fri Jul 24, 2009 5:42 pm
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Same!
If we did my mythical creatures idea, I think it might be better set in a forest.
If we did the labyrinth idea downstairs, I LOVE the idea of a masquerade upstairs that's tied into the mythical creatures below. ^^ The only concern I can see with that theme overall is that prom this year had a masquerade. But I think ours would be different enough that it wouldn't matter. There would need to be a much bigger plot upstairs in addition to the labyrinth downstairs to make this enjoyable to most Gaians, in my opinion.
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Posted: Fri Jul 24, 2009 6:01 pm
Actually, compare this year's ball to earlier ones and you'll find a shocking decline of posts. The rooms were actually horribly empty.
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