[OOC] The Pit Stop

[rhaiber]

Originally Posted by lostcheerio

Ok! rhaiber and zevonian -- I have your team name. Is that also your game name?

Trying to figure out which genre you have chosen. Your player will see the characters and premise from your chosen genre. Your GM will also see settings, monsters, and the tables for rolling after post 12, 24, and 36. There is a steampunk one, a scifi one, and a fantasy one. It sounds like your team name is a mix of all three? Do you want to just be added to all three of the GM threads so you can see all three sets of info?

All right, yes, we have settled on our genre: Scfi-fi-fantasy-diesel-punk!
Why settle for one genre, when you can have 3? Or as my daughter was fond of saying back when she was a toddler, "My favorite color is all the colors!"

You can go ahead and add me to all 3 GM threads and I may end up cherry picking from them if not outright mashing things together.

[bothers]

Congrats, banana and step! Though now whatcha gonna do, huh, huh, the rest of us won't finish for aaaaaaaages

[penbeast0]

Originally Posted by bothers

Congrats, banana and step! Though now whatcha gonna do, huh, huh, the rest of us won't finish for aaaaaaaages

Why, start another one in another genre. You can do all three genres by the end of the week!

[stepanxol]

Well, I was sort of thinking of offering myself up as a GM in case it's needed (but not for another 48-hour rush!). But at this point I don't think so...

[rhaiber]

Congrats to our fast-finishers crossing the line already! ��

Looks like zev and I have some catching up to do. On that note, we have a game name now: ”Whispers in the Aether: Mysteries of Magic and Machinery"

[PlaidPeregrine]

Congrats on the first group(s) for pushing through like champs!
Congrats to Rhaiber for having a game name!

Much support to those playing their hearts out. Gonna eat some popcorn until Our Time Arrives.

[lostcheerio]

Ok, rhaiber and zevonian, your game thread is up! rhaiber I added you to all three GM threads. zevonian, I gave you all the premises and all the character pregens to look at. I don't know how you guys are going to manage mashing up all of that, but however it turns out, it will be exciting to read! Good luck to you both.

[bananabadger]

What's the latest news at Race HQ?

[lostcheerio]

AFK, but will have an update tonight! What's your news, badger? Switching all your team logos and color scheme over to team... oh, wait, could you and psuedenim give me a team name?

[Fillyjonk]

Congrats step and bb! <3

[lostcheerio]

Announcement #3 7/11/2023 10:13 PM | 48 in 48? How about 36?! This is day 3 of the race! We have six teams on the course and one team past the finish line!! Huge congrats to Stepanxol and bananabadger who finished their steampunk adventure in less than 36 hours. Well done! squirmonkey and Mitsubachi: post 15 bothers and Dworin: post 9 bananabadger and stepanxol: post 48! lostcheerio and penbeast0: post 11 psuedenim and bananabadger: post 1 Aethera and Fillyjonk: post 1 More teams starting tomorrow! Everyone is doing so well. The pacing for this game is kinda crazy isn't it? A couple of questions for our 36-hour finishers: 1. Was it harder or easier than expected? 2. How was it incorporating random rolls from the tables? 3. Do you have any advice for the rest of the field? I'll collect the answers in the next announcement.

[stepanxol]

hi cheerio and everybody, I'd like to answer to all the questions above but I'm afraid it'd be a little bit spoilery. I can say I found the whole thing relatively hard, but not as much as I thought (even considering a 7-hour gap in our time zones).

Of course I had banana as GM, and that helped a lot, not only because he rules (he does), but also because we go way back. This allowed us to find "the flow" right away and also -- most importantly -- to use an IM like Telegram to communicate in real-time during the (long) sessions when we were practically playing in real-time. This of course requires although we might have achieved a similar result, a bit clunkier, with Discordsharing a RL phone contact, and I understand it's not for everyone, but it's been crucial for our speedrun. I figure the OOC thread will be enough for people aiming to finish in 2 weeks (esp. if you've set up in advance a twice-daily posting rate with specific times).

About the game proper, and specifically the random rolls, I think maybe cheerio and Filly were afraid that... there was not enough plot in the scenario? The result has been a constant sequence of plot twists (at a certain point, practically one every post!), which may have been too much for its own good. GMs may want to tone that aspect down, if the game doesn't show a need for it. That said, of course a game that's fully resolved in 24 player posts is by its very nature a strange beast, so... it's difficult to evaluate. We must do it again soon to verify my hypothesis!

My advice is to have fun and don't be afraid to do weird stuff. Think of your future readers, you'll want to entertain and amaze them!

[Aethera]

Originally Posted by stepanxol

Think of your future readers, you'll want to entertain and amaze them!

It just hit me that this would make an epic compendium of "how many takes can you get with the same scenario" stories to publish as a massive tome. I hope we'll get to read everyone's in time, though I begin to wonder where I'll find the time.

[lostcheerio]

All the game threads will become public at the end of the race!

[lostcheerio]

Eight teams are now on the course. Good luck to team Mythical Badger and team Lost Star.