Brainstorm time

[Ian Gray]

Jun 26, 2008 19:30:42 GMT Bradyn Reed said:

I'd probably let one of my characters Die but certainly not bray.
He's tough like a horse and probably wouldn't pass stage one if he got it.

Oh oh while I was putting away dishes I got an idea for the Cure.

Uhm, with everyone getting sick and dieing, the students and teachers alike are nervous about themselves and their friends and everyone's looking for a cure but no one agrees on how it should be done.

Soon to factions appear First being led by liz as Daniel Hubbles ( hopefully ) believing that there is a Charm/hex/spell cure for the sickness and students can join that faction somehow and give him a hand.

Second faction being led by lynn as Jane Beckket (hopefully) believing that there is a medicinal herb cure and students can join that faction in a similar way.

May be crazy but it could add a bit of drama and conflict...?

The idea of stages is clever! I think that would be fun to play around with.

A bit unfair to already assign leading positions, though. You should keep it anonymous for now, and have people apply for such positions (Like they apply for adult characters). That way, the best person for the job is chosen.

Edit I think whoever wants to get sick, can get sick, but we cap how many of your characters can die/ get sick. That way people aren't limited to what they can do, and if they want to get involved, don't have to wait for permission.

[angelinagomez]

oh! and i was thinking, we could make the disease like highly contagious, so that anyone who gets it, is immediately placed in quarantine, and allowed little or no visitors until the school figures out what is goin on...

[Bradyn Reed]

Ah, I guess that's true.. I just named them since their the Charms professor and the Herbology professor. That way it'd be like, the leader's a professional even if most of the workers are just students.

And even still, yes, anyone could get sick if they wanted to but we'd need an OOC thread to mark who's sick and how sick they're getting. So even though you'd have freedom, it still needs some sort of regulation.

[Felicity Locke]

I like the sickness idea, cause every can join into it. Adults, Teachers, Students, it's nice.

I agree with Nicole with the people getting sick. We should have a limit, because otherwise this will get riddiculous.

Because if the whole school gets affected, well, then, we're screwed.

I'd be willing to put up some of my own characters (just not Fay xD ) for this.

(I didn't think this would catch on so fast << >> )

[angelinagomez]

hahaha, admit it, I am a genious!

[Ian Gray]

Yeah, what I meant was put a cap on how many of an RPer's characters can get the illness... so the rest of them would be healthy.

Why not have their progress be shown in their biography? Like, right at the top in bold, like as follows;

Ian is suffering from Stage II: Symptoms include a deep coma where he is able to predict the future yet unable to wake up and prevent it from happening.

You know?

[Bradyn Reed]

I'll admit your a genius when you spell it right, hun.

edit: that sounds, you know, worse than stage three.. I'd rather be awake but not able to walk that... in a coma ):

edit again: omg, ally! XD! THAT'S WHAT I BASED IT OFF OF.
Syphilis or whatever that has three stages.

[Felicity Locke]

It wasn't only you who made up this plot Kris, remember that xD

I like nicole's idea for stages, because then it catches people off guard (reminds me of STDs too << )

As for the whole medical team thing, I think whoever wants to step up to that has a right, but it might just be first come first serve. Like, We'll put up a thread for the investigation, and whoever has an idea for it can post, and some people will decide who wants to lead?

I'm not quite sure who should be in charge of this whole thing, but I put nicole up for nomination? xD

(and good idea with the Bio thing, I like that x3 Or maybe they could put it in their signature? People look at that more often)

edit: Can't forget health class now can we nicole? xDDD

[Loren Hayes]

Matt's magical epidemic idea is just as good now as it was back then, so I'm all for it.

Don't agree with having 'leaders' as such, though. That sounds like it could produce a lot of closed threads.

And NO Azkaban, Jesus... half the Slytherins would be wandering around claiming to be hardened convicts, masters of wandless magic and unbeatable Charizard animagi. x(

[Professor Ashton Laurent]

haha, true Ally dear, very true.

hmm...maybe we can have like Stage II: Part A- Sudden dizziness and fainting and Stage II: Part B- which would be the coma...?

[Ian Gray]

As for the whole medical team thing, I think whoever wants to step up to that has a right, but it might just be first come first serve. Like, We'll put up a thread for the investigation, and whoever has an idea for it can post, and some people will decide who wants to lead?

Hmm... I think we should scrap leaders all together, really. It should be a joint effort of all the teachers and all the students. And if someone does want to have authority, then will have to make a new character, or apply for it. It'd be easier to regulate than first come first serve, also.

I'm not quite sure who should be in charge of this whole thing, but I put nicole up for nomination? xD

Ridd has never needed someone to be plot leader before, I'm sure it could do without one now. All we really need is a plot summaries thread, as we have had in the past, to keep people updated.

(and good idea with the Bio thing, I like that x3 Or maybe they could put it in their signature? People look at that more often)

Oh true. Signatures work loads better!

Edit Also, I wasn't serious about that for stage II. Just throwing ideas out there. I don't think the stages have been decided yet, have they?

I think Paralysis is too non-magical for stage III. We should make these stages crazier... Like, things you'd want to be able to do (Predict the future) but having them end up being extremely warped and twisted in the end.

[Bradyn Reed]

The stages would need to be worked out from Simple to complex..
and I'd like them to be a little more... magical...

-likes the first step being Fever and aches and congestion, though. The simple cold symptoms wouldn't worry our first victims at all.. and I think the first victims would be the ones where we're like "die now! D<" and the later ones would be like "I hope the cure comes soon, don't die on me..."

[Felicity Locke]

Alright, leaders are nixed.

But I think we should keep the stages. Because that
A) gives people more time for a cure
B) gives people more to Rp about
C) is more interesting than just a few common symptoms

I like the flu symptoms for stage one, but I kind of agree with Darin on the more 'magical' symptoms.

The magic zapping was an interesting idea before, but what if we did magic overload?

Like, because of the sickness, their magic starts to run haywire and all these crazy things start happening to the user. Like backfired charms, only they didn't cast any spell. Something like that?

[Ian Gray]

But I think we should keep the stages. Because that
A) gives people more time for a cure
B) gives people more to Rp about
C) is more interesting than just a few common symptoms

Definitely! But, we shouldn't decide what exactly the stages are. It would be fun to have the RPer have some freedom, but follow a basic outline of what should happen during that certain stage. That way not everyone is describing the same thing and actually get to RP rather then fill in the blanks, you know?

The magic zapping was an interesting idea before, but what if we did magic overload?

I think magic overload would be better than the flu for the first sickness. That's more fun than sneezing and you can do a ton of funny things with it. And people would definitely notice a lot of wonky spells and things.


But on another note: What about the other aspects?
Where did this illness come from? Is it a natural thing? Is there a pattern of who gets affected or is it just haywire? Are only people in Hogwarts suffering, or world wide? Or in a different direction; is someone targeting Hogwarts students and poisoning them?

... Plot holes are fun, aren't they?

[Bradyn Reed]

i just said they needed to be more magical, ally.

Yeah no one said we'd drop the stages completely.

And maybe instead of them going from simple to complex they could go from.. Muggle-like to wizard-like?

edit: I was thinking about mentioning that someone was setting this on Hogwarts but I thought that was crazy and plus, we'd need to come up with our nonplayed villain and what would be his vendetta?