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We can try a Movements theme? As in like arts; cubism, surrealism etc or perhaps out of art such as Romanticism, symbolism, sentimentalism...

so each different rooms would correspond to the movement they were from and the things going on would also of course correspond to the theories of that movement. So if for like the Romantic, it would certainly be linked to emotions and feelings for the beauty in things etc

Might be a bit hard to do....but its just one idea out of many and more to come =D

another idea might be video games. Its one of the biggest industry out there, and everyone played a video game before in their life no matter how old or new: even 2-bit would be counted =D

So we can have like rooms for the Big Titles which we can decide on. Such as Warcraft, Final Fantasy, Mario and even Pokemon =D

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 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.