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complex_ity_ Report | 07/08/2010 12:09 am

Oh, and, right, if you've come up with any better plots please fire away! I just thought I'd write that up before I thought of anything new as well.

complex_ity_ Report | 07/08/2010 12:08 am

RE: So say their entire lives aren't mapped out by the story, but just their lives up to next year. At exactly a year from the date they find the book is where the pages are ripped out. So they're kind of interested, and wonder if anything special will happen on that day. They decide that they'll wait and see, but they don't pay much more attention to the book. Someone brings it home and puts it away in a desk or something. The important thing is they don't remember all the details about what will happen in their life according to the book. Naturally, they start to do things differently from what the book says. Maybe they just wear different clothes or suddenly get a boyfriend or something, but the words in the book start to change too. That day - "the present" - changes to match what happened in the real world, but then something in "the future" changes too so that maybe something bad happens to someone. Only the person who kept the book notices one day, but she's too confused about what's happening. Then we could even add in your second idea, if they didn't all go to the same school originally, then a fire breaks out at the other school, and now they're all attending the same school.

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2009. LESSER LAKE houses a little community quite befitting of its name. Being a small town it’s hard to communicate with the outside world. The teenagers have their internet and social messaging on their smart phones – there are cellular towers nearby – but most of the adults can’t stomach having an actual computer in the house. A big generation gap between parents and children emphasizes the odd technological vacuum that exists for the most part throughout Lesser Lake.

There is only one of every kind of store in Lesser Lake. Most of these stores are family-run businesses, so kids without family connections – or kids whose families are new to the area – usually end up working at the local library. At one point, each of our main characters worked at the library. Last year on the one day that they all shared a shift working for a book sale, someone discovered a book bearing an illustration eerily similar to some of their faces. Upon opening the book they were more than surprised to see that its contents mirrored their lives too. The book was excessively descriptive but cut off one year into the future – that would be 2009. Our characters were mildly interested at this apparent coincidence, but other than the fact that one of them bought the book to take home, nothing more was done. They parted ways.

Out of necessity of living in a small town, one year later they still know of each other. A few of them continue to work at the library. Some don’t. They’ve mostly forgotten about the book until its owner rediscovers it in the room in her desk one day. Has the book’s contents faithfully narrated their lives for this past year? What might have happened if our characters chose to act out in different ways?

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Please edit as you see fit! I think I got a bit confused and made it too wordy in places where I didn't know what I was talking about anymore.

complex_ity_ Report | 06/07/2010 12:46 am

I'm going to try and track down that thread I made last year, and both of us should see if we've come up with any better plots over the past few months. If you're out of school at the end of June (I'm guessing) we can settle on a beginning to the RP then?

I'm still online a lot too, but sometimes I forget to come on Gaia. My Facebook's been cut off, but I've been hanging out on Fanfiction a lot recently.

complex_ity_ Report | 06/04/2010 10:41 pm

Hello! Are you out of school yet? I've been thinking that the reason our roleplay never got off the ground was because we were trying to get things done in October. Ugh, I hated October.

But anyways, - p h y x a t e d - has been bothering me a lot since (before she mysteriously disappeared, that is) so do you want to give things another shot?

complex_ity_ Report | 11/19/2009 10:33 pm

Hey! You still there?

- p h y x a t e d - and Arria- well, actually, it's mostly just - p h y x a t e d -, but she's been bothering me about what happened to our RP. Shall we get started?

complex_ity_ Report | 10/23/2009 3:12 pm

Aw, but that shows you're dedicated! I miss my robotics team; that was the only extracurricular I put my all into.

Okay, look forward to hearing from you this weekend then.

complex_ity_ Report | 10/21/2009 1:19 pm

Ok. So how much of the plot do we want to already be set? I'm thinking we'll need to explain at least some of this stuff in a paragraph or something before the posts where people can start making up their own stuff.

complex_ity_ Report | 10/20/2009 9:39 pm

I like the first one, if we added a little bit more to it we could turn it into a plot-driven RP.

Let's keep your original idea for starters. So say their entire lives aren't mapped out by the story, but just their lives up to next year. At exactly a year from the date they find the book is where the pages are ripped out. So they're kind of interested, and wonder if anything special will happen on that day. They decide that they'll wait and see, but they don't pay much more attention to the book. Someone brings it home and puts it away in a desk or something. The important thing is they don't remember all the details about what will happen in their life according to the book. Naturally, they start to do things differently from what the book says. Maybe they just wear different clothes or suddenly get a boyfriend or something, but the words in the book start to change too. That day - "the present" - changes to match what happened in the real world, but then something in "the future" changes too so that maybe something bad happens to someone. Only the person who kept the book notices one day, but she's too confused about what's happening. Then we could even add in your second idea, if they didn't all go to the same school originally, then a fire breaks out at the other school, and now they're all attending the same school.

I don't know, is it all too much together? I think I made it sound like a horror story now ^^"

complex_ity_ Report | 10/20/2009 2:26 pm

So how's it going? If you have even a tentative idea for the story then people can start creating their characters, which is our favourite part, right? wink

complex_ity_ Report | 10/12/2009 9:44 pm

PM me whenever you have the idea for the story.

I created a thread where we can do the RP here: http://www.gaiaonline.com/forum/invitation-only-rp/title-pending-roleplaying-private/t.55104633/

If you think of any rules, etc. that you want for the thread, you can PM me too. We have to have something under all of those headings according to the rules of the subforum.