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Meta commentary!
This is a post for any meta commentary about the haunted house story as it goes along!
That way you don't have to write,
(hey what on earth is going on here?) in the story post itself!
;)
So, how do you like the story so far? I'm planning on making it MUCH SPOOKIER as we arrive in NEW ORLEANS!



I need to catch up! I'm sooooooo sorry! Work hours have been a horrorshow, I'm going to try to catch up a bit this weekend...
It's okay, we're just getting started! 😊
We're totally running out of your diner now though, hee!
Nooo, come back! I can cook better!!!
Yummmmm okeee
🎂🍭🍝🍰☕
I've decided to add some spookiness myself! You like it? Lemme know. I also loove the variation in characters and their interactions with one another. I suggest once this one is over we start a different story like this :D
If you want to add any more spookiness, we should actually chat it over first! Since I want to weave a believable tale, any monsters or antagonists have to fit together in the narrative; or be things that I'm very aware of so that the story fits together.
PM me in discord and we can chat it over!
I am loving it too!
ack, I muddled my intent with my last post. Todd was passing the "buddy system" note to Sam because he's worried about/scared of Jake and/or whatever is possessing him, and a little confused about Barbara's personality shift. I was going for a "oh crap let's move this guy away from sharp objects and people." :)
but! since I didn't write that very well, I'm trying to retrofit an in-character explanation for why Todd would buddy up with someone dangerous. He knows his horror movie tropes pretty well. Maybe he thinks making friends with Jake will guarantee his own survival?
I should sleep and revisit in the morning.
Oopsies, i misread that i think, i thought you were proposing a buddy system to Jake 😅
yeah, I should have made the action more direct-- pass the fries/note, relocate Jake, start asking questions, none of this "whoops, forgot my fries" stuff. :)
Todd really wants to help Jake, but he also wants to minimize the number of people killed on this trip. He also overestimates his ability to do either ;)
Totally fine! Actually, let's scratch that particular scene. I didn't know Jake intended to be possessed and I didn't really want there to be that level of activity yet. Let's fresh-start and pretend that possession did not happen. Shoulda done a better job of clarifying, I guess?
I was intending the narrators to control the monsters / haunting, and you guys to control your characters and choices!
So... no worries! :D
That works! Todd really wants to share his fries with the group so they like him :D
Sorry if i went to far, but now where do i go with Jake? It was kinda his character arc, i dunno what to write now
it's all right! try to come up with a character arc that does not depend upon a specific ghost or haunting narrative, so that he can react to whatever haunting happens here!
you don't know what will happen... that's why it's spooky! (:
YAY FRIES
Aaaah! But what has been erased exactly? All the weird acting of Jake or just the possessing?
Can we actually not have Jake be possessed? I suppose he can act "weird", but it's, as it turns out, actually quite difficult for me to write the story if someone else aside from the narrators is in control of an antagonist. <3
Yeah i got that he shouldn't be but i didn't know what was what for a moment