METAPLOT AND OPEN COLLABORATION

[modormenace]

METAPLOT AND OPEN COLLABORATION

The world of Mask or Menace is intended to be a dynamic, evolving environment where character actions have meaningful impact. We aim to accomplish this by building a setting that generates a broad range of hooks for player engagement. Other plotting options (e.g., player plot requests, reporting NPC injury, etc.) are on this page, where all comments are screened.

Players are encouraged to approach us on this page to brainstorm with other players and othewise engage with or investigate the setting! Please make sure to use the subject line to indicate what you're trying to accomplish:

Plot Brainstorming

These are open calls for collaborating on a plot idea with the mod team and other players. To open a brainstorming session, please submit a central idea or jumping off point for discussion! The team will unscreen these once we've determined viability to allow for input from other players who may be interested in developing the idea with you. In most cases, submissions involving investigation of modplot elements should be submitted like this to allow for collaborative planning.

<big><b>PLOT BRAINSTORMING SUBMISSION</b></big> <b>Player:</b> Your name/handle <b>Character(s):</b> Yours and those of whoever else might be already involved. <b>Plot Pitch:</b> A broad stroke summary of your idea in 1-3 sentences. (e.g., 'a renaissance faire goes wrong,' 'time-loop,' 'a zombie attack') <b>Details:</b> Please lay out any elements and ideas you've already got covered and are not looking to change. <b>Looking for</b>: If you have any particular plot hooks or themes you're hoping to get other players interested in exploring with you, this is the place to list them! <b>Anything else:</b> Anything not covered above!

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as requested:::: PLOT BRAINSTORMING (??):: TAKE TWO

[dragony]

PLOT BRAINSTORMING SUBMISSION

Player: olesia
Character(s): ruka, almost certainly husbando jaime, (???????????)


Plot Pitch: lmao I DON'T KNOW!! I JUST GOT HERE

Details: so i asked a question over on OOC wrap-up regarding "hey, if the world changed(??) when we weren't looking(??), how do we know we're in the right place(??)" and i got a COME OVER TO THE SCREENED POST reply so here i am on the screened post!!!

in-game wise for justificationy: while in the f2020 world, ruka obv noticed the nanite tattoo was gone and used knowledge of that to try and find other Mom-Verse imports (with limited success, turns out it's hard to find people when there's only like five of you and three don't check their phones), and so on ""returning"" and still... not having tattoo, is kinda suspicious

she's done world hops and she's done world reality rewrites and also a ton more world hops and is very stressed all the time because of it investigation-wise it would probably start with snooping around on publicly-available world documents (news, history, etc) for Other Things That May Have Shifted (LOOKS SUSPICIOUSLY @ JEOPARDY), and w/ inevitably bullying husband-with-a-supercomputer-in-his-spine this will likely also include hackin some mainframes for the deeper dive????

Looking for: ANSWERS???????? im howling how do i keep accidentally hitting the questions that veer into IT'S A SECRET TO EVERYONE territory.

Anything else: not editing any of my sleep-deprived previous commentary but adding a note here: moving the discussion to this entry for the sake of emails!!! we need emails. or at least i do.

Plot brainstorming

[verunandesu]

PLOT BRAINSTORMING SUBMISSION

Player: rel
Character(s): Sypha Belnades, probably Martin Blackwood and Jon + more occult imPorts but I haven't actually talked to anyone about this yet haha

Plot Pitch:

Sypha is super curious about this Church of the Ancient/Unholy Web Mistress and she canonically is all about storming castles/holy sites and laying waste to the evils within (tm) and also she is not impressed by the supernatural.

So I'd like to have her be involved in some sort of investigation in to the Church, but also I am not good at plotting/planning/carrying through these plans. So while I can Get The Gang Together, I actually kind of suck as a thought leader in rp :P Thus where other PCs and mods come in.

Details: haha what

Looking for:

-exploration of ooky-spookiness of Jeopardy in general and the Spider Cult in very specific
-WHO CONTROLS OUR FATESSSS srsly I'd love for some existential questioning of free will and philosophical ~tension~ to come out of this
-Lots of monsters to kill: ample opportunity to flex fighty muscles
-Psychological horror: what it says on the tin

Anything else: lmk if this is the right place for this...

Employment Opportunity: Project Walkway

[numberthree]

Project Walkway is a multi-billion dollar media entertainment empire promoting acting and modeling the world over (through movies, fashion shows, magazines, interviews, & updates on all platforms). Its headquarters is stationed in Nonah, but it has satellite offices in every city and several other non-porter locations worldwide.

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Allison doesn't own it. She just works here. There used to be more than hers here, but she's the only one left currently in-game. This location is open to all players.

There are any numbers of jobs people can do in relation to Project Walkway: acting, modeling, directors, editors, producers, composers, photography, costume designers, makeup artists, journalists, social media management, publishers. The sky is really the limit on how you might want to align yourself with the company and the numbers of jobs that touch a media empire!

(I'd request knowing anyone who joins up to PW, so we can all properly give shoutouts to each other, rub elbows as being coworkers in places, and even plot-hook each other!)