The shop is OPEN WTF!
I've made journals for everyone who's filled out a form; you can do anything with them you like.
All generics!!!! Whee
TOC
Stuff in this thread:
SHOP FUNCTION:
Method of obtaining - p2, 2nd post
Method of growth - p1, 5th post
exclaim Method of breeding - p2, 3rd post please help with this one!
BACKSTORY/BIOLOGY:
Glossary - p2, 1st post
Worlds - p1, 9th post
Imperial Culture - p1, 12th post
Stages - p1, 8th post
Zodiac - p4, 2nd post
CONCERNING OLD OWNERS:
exclaim What would you like to receive? - p1, 2nd post
exclaim Do you want to be a lieutenant? - p1, 13th post
Available ancients
PICS:
All over the thread, actually. Check the last few pages.
SHOP FUNCTION:
Method of obtaining - p2, 2nd post
Method of growth - p1, 5th post
exclaim Method of breeding - p2, 3rd post please help with this one!
BACKSTORY/BIOLOGY:
Glossary - p2, 1st post
Worlds - p1, 9th post
Imperial Culture - p1, 12th post
Stages - p1, 8th post
Zodiac - p4, 2nd post
CONCERNING OLD OWNERS:
exclaim What would you like to receive? - p1, 2nd post
exclaim Do you want to be a lieutenant? - p1, 13th post
Available ancients
PICS:
All over the thread, actually. Check the last few pages.
OMG! eek
Anybody can jump in with suggestions if she likes.
from LJ
Porcelain are never gonna be gorgeous, prestigious pets -- they're gonna have crappy but mildly cute artwork, really really slow and irregular growths due to my flakiness/slowness/many horrifying papers for school... but, a very detailed background that lends itself to a lot of RP.
Here's my idea for Porcelain 2.0: the [deities/divine forces/laws of time and fate/WHAT COULD IT BE it is an Apologia spoiler maybe] are wreaking havoc on the Porcelain timeline. Reincarnations are transforming into each other, timelines are folding in on themselves, and... ancients falling through portals (like Setsushi did) and landing in Gaia.
Shop attitude:
Laid-back, rules-light, gentle and friendly, but intelligent and intensive RP -- intensive in the sense of detailed (in my case at least, MASSIVELY DETAILED,) but with NO timetable at all, and perhaps even no specific requirements.
I'd like to be the boss, since the Porcelain are my babies and all and I'm touchy as ever about maintaining control over their biology and backstory, etc., however... I would like to share authority and some responsibility with the owners, especially the old owners who've kept contact with me over the years (you guys.) As I would also like to be able to take hiatus whenever I need, I'd give those of you who are interested access to the shop mule and maybe the important files. You guys could thus conduct events, keep each other updated, or whatever, without needing me to be there all the time.
I've been thinking about the method of giving out new Porcelain (as I'd like to be able to add at least a few new players; if someone really likes the concept and wants to play with us, we should let him or her) and I'm thinking that it'd be some sort of... flatsale/RP application. An application to make sure the person is serious about RPing (but not as in SOMBER serious; just someone who is attentive, creative, fun, responsible, etc.) which would then be judged by the other owners. If interest is low (and gods I hope interest is low) anyone whose RP is OK will get one. If interest is too high, we'll have to do a contest instead.
New Porcelain:
An adult Lucid like Setsushi can adjust, but immature Dreaming Porcelain (and some of them even defenseless little children!!) need protection and guidance. In the Empire, the mother or family matriarch raises the children until they are grown and secure in their adult lives, but separated from her, these refugees will need Gaians to look after them and teach them how to live happily and virtuously.
for old customers (you, my beloveds):
1. You guys could have all sorts of options. You can, of course, retain your Gaia Porcelain as they are, with no changes. Perhaps you could request as your free redraw a new tag with new art of your old, chibi-style Gaian Porcelain on it.
2. You could "Apologiaize" them, like Samses did with Boyan & Melo, transforming them into biologically similar to the ancients (but not changing their personality and memories.) You'll get a pretty new tag and art and stuff. [edit sez: They might also revert a few stages back in age, which you could choose to RP including a loss of memory/a reversion to childhood mentality, or just as a physical change with no mental component.]
3. Or, you could get a brand new ancient Porcelain. In some cases, this could be the ancient your Gaian is a re/incarnation of (two incarnations can exist perfectly fine in the same timeline; the universe won't implode.) However, in some cases, the ancient is too powerful/important for me to remove her from the Empire without causing total havoc (and you'd get an overpowered, set-in-stone character, etc. An example would be the Empress -- lifting her out of the Empire would cause mayhem)
I am perfectly happy to surrender these characters to you, because, in terms of correspondence between the Porcelain 2.0 storyline and the Apologia storyline, they were completely divorced at the moment Setsushi entered Gaia. The history is the same; the future is totally vulnerable to your RP.
or, of course:
4. You just get a new, free ancient Porcelain (of whatever age you like, younger makes sense though.) If you like, I can pick one who is related somehow to the ancient of which your Gaian is a reincarnation.
Method of growth:
Ancient Porcelain age just a little faster than real humans. Therefore, I feel like it'd be silly to have them simply grow every couple of weeks, or even every couple of months.
Instead, I think there'll be a loose RP requirement (have to RP a certain age "enough" by the standards of the other owners.) Then, when several owners' Porcelain are ready to grow and I have enough free time to grow them, a portal will be discovered leading back to the Empire (but probably in an alternate timeline, a mythic age, or something else really wacky like that.) If your Porcelain is brave enough, she can venture back into the Empire and spend several years applying the lessons you've taught her. She won't be on her own; before you send her through, you'll establish contact with a caretaker or tutor on the other side.
Your previous RP, your choice of tutor, and chance/whim of the almighty Wenwen will determine what happens to her during this period (of probably about 1-2 RL weeks? Don't want to keep your character out of commission for too long.) During the retreat, I'll send you a list of events that happened in the past few months/year. You'll then write a journal entry building on these prompts, and then I'll send the next year's events, and so on, until your Porcelain is ready and returns to Gaia at the next stage of growth.
Breeding can be done by only one player (though if it is between two players' Porcelain, it requires both's consent.) It will require your Porcelain to either marry an NPC (which would probably entail you receiving this NPC as another character) or another owner's Porcelain. Pregnancy, which is probably around 7.5 months for Porcelain, will probably take place in the Empire in the same way that growing does (though this is problematic for an owner of a male married to a player female buying a pregnancy, as it might require the other owner to RP even though she will not receive the child.) A single child will result, belonging to the owner who paid/arranged for the pregnancy, though s/he could of course be given to someone else, joint-RPed, or whatever the owner likes.
Pricing
I don't want to charge a lot because the art is not great, the service will not be professional and consistent, I don't really want gold, etc. At the same time, if I don't charge a lot, there might be a lot of interest and I won't be able to handle the workload -- I would rather there only be a very few new owners at a time. I also don't want to make them purely gift/breed, because then unpopular newbies will never get a chance to join, even if they might just be shy and turn out to be really fun and interesting.
So, I'm thinking of perhaps charging a relatively small amount for the initial purchase, and then charging a similarly small amount for each growth, in the hopes that owners will RP and request growth slowly. Also, owners who lose interest or only RP halfheartedly might be less likely to ask for a growth if it costs money. A sort of pay-to-play model, allowing you to put a lot of gold and effort in when you feel like it, but not punishing you for taking a break when you feel like that.
I want to keep these amounts small so that it'll be fairly trivial to the regulars.
Your thoughts?
Since I want to give a lot of power to you guys, please do tell me what you think, and if you like the ideas, if you want to be a lieutenant-type with mule-access-in-case-of-emergency.
Here's my idea for Porcelain 2.0: the [deities/divine forces/laws of time and fate/WHAT COULD IT BE it is an Apologia spoiler maybe] are wreaking havoc on the Porcelain timeline. Reincarnations are transforming into each other, timelines are folding in on themselves, and... ancients falling through portals (like Setsushi did) and landing in Gaia.
Shop attitude:
Laid-back, rules-light, gentle and friendly, but intelligent and intensive RP -- intensive in the sense of detailed (in my case at least, MASSIVELY DETAILED,) but with NO timetable at all, and perhaps even no specific requirements.
I'd like to be the boss, since the Porcelain are my babies and all and I'm touchy as ever about maintaining control over their biology and backstory, etc., however... I would like to share authority and some responsibility with the owners, especially the old owners who've kept contact with me over the years (you guys.) As I would also like to be able to take hiatus whenever I need, I'd give those of you who are interested access to the shop mule and maybe the important files. You guys could thus conduct events, keep each other updated, or whatever, without needing me to be there all the time.
I've been thinking about the method of giving out new Porcelain (as I'd like to be able to add at least a few new players; if someone really likes the concept and wants to play with us, we should let him or her) and I'm thinking that it'd be some sort of... flatsale/RP application. An application to make sure the person is serious about RPing (but not as in SOMBER serious; just someone who is attentive, creative, fun, responsible, etc.) which would then be judged by the other owners. If interest is low (and gods I hope interest is low) anyone whose RP is OK will get one. If interest is too high, we'll have to do a contest instead.
New Porcelain:
An adult Lucid like Setsushi can adjust, but immature Dreaming Porcelain (and some of them even defenseless little children!!) need protection and guidance. In the Empire, the mother or family matriarch raises the children until they are grown and secure in their adult lives, but separated from her, these refugees will need Gaians to look after them and teach them how to live happily and virtuously.
for old customers (you, my beloveds):
1. You guys could have all sorts of options. You can, of course, retain your Gaia Porcelain as they are, with no changes. Perhaps you could request as your free redraw a new tag with new art of your old, chibi-style Gaian Porcelain on it.
2. You could "Apologiaize" them, like Samses did with Boyan & Melo, transforming them into biologically similar to the ancients (but not changing their personality and memories.) You'll get a pretty new tag and art and stuff. [edit sez: They might also revert a few stages back in age, which you could choose to RP including a loss of memory/a reversion to childhood mentality, or just as a physical change with no mental component.]
3. Or, you could get a brand new ancient Porcelain. In some cases, this could be the ancient your Gaian is a re/incarnation of (two incarnations can exist perfectly fine in the same timeline; the universe won't implode.) However, in some cases, the ancient is too powerful/important for me to remove her from the Empire without causing total havoc (and you'd get an overpowered, set-in-stone character, etc. An example would be the Empress -- lifting her out of the Empire would cause mayhem)
I am perfectly happy to surrender these characters to you, because, in terms of correspondence between the Porcelain 2.0 storyline and the Apologia storyline, they were completely divorced at the moment Setsushi entered Gaia. The history is the same; the future is totally vulnerable to your RP.
or, of course:
4. You just get a new, free ancient Porcelain (of whatever age you like, younger makes sense though.) If you like, I can pick one who is related somehow to the ancient of which your Gaian is a reincarnation.
Method of growth:
Ancient Porcelain age just a little faster than real humans. Therefore, I feel like it'd be silly to have them simply grow every couple of weeks, or even every couple of months.
Instead, I think there'll be a loose RP requirement (have to RP a certain age "enough" by the standards of the other owners.) Then, when several owners' Porcelain are ready to grow and I have enough free time to grow them, a portal will be discovered leading back to the Empire (but probably in an alternate timeline, a mythic age, or something else really wacky like that.) If your Porcelain is brave enough, she can venture back into the Empire and spend several years applying the lessons you've taught her. She won't be on her own; before you send her through, you'll establish contact with a caretaker or tutor on the other side.
Your previous RP, your choice of tutor, and chance/whim of the almighty Wenwen will determine what happens to her during this period (of probably about 1-2 RL weeks? Don't want to keep your character out of commission for too long.) During the retreat, I'll send you a list of events that happened in the past few months/year. You'll then write a journal entry building on these prompts, and then I'll send the next year's events, and so on, until your Porcelain is ready and returns to Gaia at the next stage of growth.
Breeding can be done by only one player (though if it is between two players' Porcelain, it requires both's consent.) It will require your Porcelain to either marry an NPC (which would probably entail you receiving this NPC as another character) or another owner's Porcelain. Pregnancy, which is probably around 7.5 months for Porcelain, will probably take place in the Empire in the same way that growing does (though this is problematic for an owner of a male married to a player female buying a pregnancy, as it might require the other owner to RP even though she will not receive the child.) A single child will result, belonging to the owner who paid/arranged for the pregnancy, though s/he could of course be given to someone else, joint-RPed, or whatever the owner likes.
Pricing
I don't want to charge a lot because the art is not great, the service will not be professional and consistent, I don't really want gold, etc. At the same time, if I don't charge a lot, there might be a lot of interest and I won't be able to handle the workload -- I would rather there only be a very few new owners at a time. I also don't want to make them purely gift/breed, because then unpopular newbies will never get a chance to join, even if they might just be shy and turn out to be really fun and interesting.
So, I'm thinking of perhaps charging a relatively small amount for the initial purchase, and then charging a similarly small amount for each growth, in the hopes that owners will RP and request growth slowly. Also, owners who lose interest or only RP halfheartedly might be less likely to ask for a growth if it costs money. A sort of pay-to-play model, allowing you to put a lot of gold and effort in when you feel like it, but not punishing you for taking a break when you feel like that.
I want to keep these amounts small so that it'll be fairly trivial to the regulars.
Your thoughts?
Since I want to give a lot of power to you guys, please do tell me what you think, and if you like the ideas, if you want to be a lieutenant-type with mule-access-in-case-of-emergency.
