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I like the 7 deadly sins idea a lot actually. There are many ways for someone to creatively tweak them, like Bliss suggested. I really like the "Sinful Carnival Idea" as well.

The muses would be a cool idea as well, but as Dustin pointed out, not everyone knows what a muse is. That COULD be a problem. Although it would be kind of fun to make a story in each room for each muse. So long as everyone can easily read it.

About the Boardgames thing....Didn't we talk about that last year? I would think that it would be kind of hard to copy certain games as previously stated.

@animemanga: The Movement Idea seems like a complicated idea ^^ but it does seem cool. The only problem would be that a lot of people don't know anything about them, so it would be hard to make plots for the general public to follow

@Temperal: We kind of already had that idea for the 7th annual ball, but only for one room. It may be a bit repetitive to do it once again this year.

So, I had a dream about this last night (lol i know...im a loser)
But if we did do somehing like this, I was thinking it could go something like this:

there would be 7 rooms, plus the main circus room. People would start off in the main circus room, with the beginning story of how the circus became the way it is. Then there would be a link at the bottom, starting with room #1 and leading through room #7, giving each room the chance to tell their tragic story of how they individuially fell into that sin. It would encourage traffic flow, and users would be forced to check out all of the rooms before deciding on the room that they like best.

As for the plot, the story could be told by a poor battered wind-up doll, about the events that took place, and how the once ambitious circus, became the circus of lost ambitions and dreams.

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I have to say, I'm a little bit in love with the twisted carnival/7 deadly sins idea. I think it really has the versatility to get a lot of people involved, but the twist keeps it from falling back on a sort of "been there, done that" feeling. You've got creepy, elegant, sweet, just a little bit disgusting (or a lot!)... And also, the plot has so many possibilities! Especially if we gave it a hint of magic... They started off normal, but then over the course of their association with the "Ringleader", they started warping into something else. It sounds like a lot of fun.

Morning folks!

I'm back from vacation and ready to roll up my sleeves and give some feedback based on the experience from this year.

First of all, I highly recommend that you guys don't narrow yourselves, too much! There is tons of awesome ideas here, and I see no reason why we can't encompass a lot of them in some way or another. So instead of looking at well, I like this idea or I like that one, we can try to encompass many!

And, some of these ideas we can use for events throughout the year as we rally for donations, artists, actors, helpers, etc. Trust me when I say, doing cool monthly, bi-monthly events leading up until the ball will not only keep the guild alive, but help us to bring in new blood to fill our needs for the ball. No one said planning had to be boring, right? ^.^

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I have talked with bliss already about how I have been itching to do a carnival styled event in one way or another-- be it for the ball or for some random event that I might throw myself on gaia. I am a bit concerned with basing the rooms on a sin. (Unless its collaborated with more themes to give it a boost) as I think it will leave our hands tied a bit. I would, however, encourage using the sins for say 1 room or one aspect of the carnival.

I love the retro games and I'm sure we could even encompass a game room for the circus. Actually, likely that it would be good to have a few game "rooms". Classic carni games where you win teddy bears of various sizes and such. Have a ticket booth where we can have people buy tickets, win tickets, etc. Set up a carnival currency. And people could win teddy bear, gold fishies, etc.. much like the things you see in b/c pets.

However, I'm a bit skeptical in going too deep into details on this as most of these ideas I have been mulling around in my head for an art event and I don't want them wasted if we go into a new direction. smile

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Also, I'd love to see us do a lot of "live-action" things. I know most of you want to hold true to past traditions as closely as possible. But, if there is one thing I have learned is when the world evolves and you don't evolve with it you get left behind. And as for the world of gaia, it has encompassed many flash features and such that we should take advantage of. I'd love to see us put on a few puppet shows/plays/dinner theater productions-- which could just as easily work hand in hand in a carnival. Which could have a lot of those ideas that you guys mentioned of the gods and goddesses, etc.

Macrabre dances and other themed themed ball dances in towns or zomg, etc-- to eliminate a lot of.. where's the ball? While keeping to a schedule like that of a carnival and such. There isn't much that we couldn't do with a carnival theme. And I imagine we could have a wide variety of carnival uniforms that would likely not be too expensive to pull off. Refreshment stands with kawii ice cream, etc.

I am a bit skeptical on making it a 'Dark Carnival' Exclusively. I know I'd LOVE a dark carnival.. however, I don't know if all gaians would enjoy the dark themes, as I'm sure most would enjoy some modern cheerful aspects. So maybe if we could find a way to tie in a dark/light element to appease everyone. I imagine we'd likely want to have a very intense image map.. which would literally be a map of the carnival.

I'm sure some of you saw the map that dustin had for towns. Imagine that but kinda like a map of a disney park or something. It makes more sense in my head, lol. But, I also noticed that the biggest thing most people liked to do was run their own threads and I think a carnival would allow them a bit of freedom to follow along with that.


The extra key point that i'd like to make is.. I think we need to avoid making the event too rp exclusive. Let's face it, I know for me in the library it was hell to be able to hold a well run rp with people coming in out of character with questions that needed answering or just posting random gibberish, emotes, etc. I'd like to see us running some intense rp plots with a couple Game Master/Quest Master roles to guide the plot as well as give us areas where we can direct the non-rpers. If we have aspects we can redirect them to, it will make it a lot easier to run the rp plots.

I imagine I could have organized these points a lot better, but I'm kinda exhausted. lol.

i think the idea of having events in gaia towns and other apps here is a good idea. mabye we could get a special ballroom or carnival scene made for us.
what do you think about having a steampunk themed masquerade ball?
i think it would be really cool.

and the rp element of the ball... i play dungeons and dragons quite alot and i am usally the dungeon master. everyone who plays my campaigns say that they love my storytelling. if you want i could run a room for rping.

Always Remember My Name.....

Pixi brings up some good points. Prehaps we should add some elements into this year's ball. Maybe a new team to head up the live action parts of the events. And we could build a team for the news room and direct people there for questions. That way each of the rooms would have less to interrupted their role plays.

.....Poyudi Hytori.