Welcome to Night Vale OTT/Short MUSH?

Cobalt

Hullo!

I'm thinking of maybe doing a short Welcome to Night Vale-inspired mini-mush or OTT over the summer while my class load is now (thankfully) low. I can't say that it'll last too much beyond summer time, but maybe!

Is anyone interested?

(theno mod voice: title edited by request of @Cobaltasaurus)

Roz

oh my gooooooooooooooooood

il-volpe

Yep.

Rainbow Unicorn

@Cobaltasaurus Do it.

Songtress

Please do! Perhaps it could start a revolution!
I love Nightvale's.. whacky horrorm I guess you could call it.
I mean everything is as a terrifying as FNAF 4, in NightVale.. but... man...

Silver

Glow Cloud...

Tempest

I have no idea what Nightvale is. Should I?

Monogram

@Tempest Me neither. What is this about?

Bobotron

@Monogram

http://commonplacebooks.com/ perhaps? Looks like a WoD-style podcast about a 'radio show' from a small town with supernatural stuff going on in it.

Thenomain

Night Vale, two words.

About as WoD-like as Buffy.

Edit: I take that back. Far less so. No dogs are allowed in the dog park.

il-volpe

It's magical realism, though thus far I've never seen any review or commentary about it where the writer uses the term.

Wizz

I'd say it's magical realism with a heavy splash of surrealism, with those dream-like transitions, absurd juxtapositions, and non-sequiturs. BUT HELLS YEAH

Thenomain

@il-volpe said:

It's magical realism, though thus far I've never seen any review or commentary about it where the writer uses the term.

I looked this one up and I have to say that it's kind of a dumb term.

Also, a splash of surrealism? Do not look too deeply into the dog park.

Beware of Librarians.

Cobalt

@Thenomain said:

Night Vale, two words.

~augh~

Can you edit the title of the thread please, sir?

Cobalt

My eternal shame aside:

Here are some things I am interested in knowing from the folks who want to play:

Do you want to play with stats? (e.g. Roll things out in ST'd scenes.)
Do you guys want to set up a particular day of the week for 'official scenes', but have free RP amongst yourselves outside of that?
Do we want to be in -Night Vale-, or another city? (Hey! We could even be in Svitz or Luftnarp!)
Um, anything you feel you need to tell me?
Careful, the sheriff's secret police are listening.

Roz

The one question out of those I have strong feelings about would be definitely setting it in Night Vale proper because w/e I don't care about any of those ~other~ cities.

Wizz

Hm, I feel like setting it actually in Night Vale kind of limits the theme -- I've also seen other Night Vale-centric RPs become contests to just mimic the style of the podcast, which seems like it would get stale after a while. But I'd still play there.

spasticgoat

@Wizz
Set it in a companion city and flit back and forth for different groups to operate out of, maybe? You still get Night Vale and a diverse option without losing anything in the bargain.

Rainbow Unicorn

If I may, I'd suggest using Fate's city creation system. Let's you and your players take an active hand in it's development.

il-volpe

@Thenomain said:

@il-volpe said:

[..] magical realism [..]

I looked this one up and I have to say that it's kind of a dumb term.

Also, a splash of surrealism? Do not look too deeply into the dog park.

The term itself?

The below is not really relevant unless you, like me, get all happy about granular taxonomies. I do rabbit on.

The idea, eh. Surrealism addresses issues about cognition, how the subconscious informs ones perceptions, blurred lines between dream and reality, sanity and madness, that sort of thing. Magical realism addresses how culture informs our perceptions about what is uncanny and what is mundane.

Welcome to Night Vale is a work of surrealism if you consider yourself, the listener, to be the primary character -- are you dreaming this radio broadcast, WTF? But few of the other characters (so far as I know, I've not listened to every episode) appear to find themselves to be living in a distorted reality or to find any of the weird stuff that happens to be outside of the realms of the canny and cult. There's only Carlos, and he doesn't take it that hard either.