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ghoulburger) wrote2016-01-21 03:32 pm
ghoulburger) wrote2016-01-21 03:32 pm
What's a meme game?
What's a meme game?
It's like a regular rp game, just run through a series of meme posts. There are no apps, no hiatuses, no activity checks, no "network" or "log" communities. The setting is a sandbox, and you can build whatever you want. People who want to hop in and play should just do so.
However, player activity does determine what happens in the next chapter. In For Your Safety, Chapter 1 is a "fuck or die" meme. If there isn't enough sex, the city will be bombarded by artillery and thousands of people will die. Chapter 2 might start with a healthy, safe city facing a new challenge, or it might start with a hollowed-out ruin and survivors desperately trying to rally.
There are consequences for everything, but it's all completely up to the players. The sandbox plot is driven by specific activity that will be noted in each chapter.
Things you can do in a meme game:
It's like a regular rp game, just run through a series of meme posts. There are no apps, no hiatuses, no activity checks, no "network" or "log" communities. The setting is a sandbox, and you can build whatever you want. People who want to hop in and play should just do so.
However, player activity does determine what happens in the next chapter. In For Your Safety, Chapter 1 is a "fuck or die" meme. If there isn't enough sex, the city will be bombarded by artillery and thousands of people will die. Chapter 2 might start with a healthy, safe city facing a new challenge, or it might start with a hollowed-out ruin and survivors desperately trying to rally.
There are consequences for everything, but it's all completely up to the players. The sandbox plot is driven by specific activity that will be noted in each chapter.
Things you can do in a meme game:
- Just play in it like it's a meme, ignoring the world-building.
- Run off and do your own thing with the setting, ignoring the prompts and building your own short-term or long-term plot.
- Play in it like you apped into this game and want to stay in the setting.
- Play in any role and status you want to, from "king of the whole world" to lowly sewer dweller. You don't need to assign your character a job, you don't have to earn ranks, and your character can have as many or as few of their powers as you want.
- Play network threads or log threads or TFLN threads or anything else you want.
- Have exclusive access to anything. If 5 people start threads where they are all the head of the city, the mod will neither intervene nor attempt to reconcile them. They are in 5 different AUs, as far as the game is concerned. Should one of those players want to thread with another, it will be up to them to figure out how to position their characters.
- Expect mod-driven consequences to your thread's individual actions. If your character is breaking the law and you want the police to get involved, you'll have to write them in yourself.
- Ignore what other people are looking to play. Please pay attention to and respect what other people are looking to play out, and don't try to get them to play other stuff.