Post by icon on Jul 2, 2014 23:40:06 GMT -5
You know, for once it would have been really nice if we hadn't had to worry about everything going to bits.
It was so simple. It was brilliant in its simplicity. Purgatory Inc, merging with Ethereality Ltd to form Fourth Wall Capstone Enterprises? Two of the biggest metaphysical corporations combining their efforts to oversee the events within this universe’s constrained canon? They both existed outside of the confines of stories. It should have gone off without a hitch.
And yet, for some reason, it didn't. Something went wrong, something that left me here feeling like I've got a six-dimensional hangover as I try to piece together what just happened—
Memory floods back in. They all crashed, all of them together. Netwaffle. Wafflenet. Aifam, Clue, Medieval, Mistonarc, the Guilds and the 'Bloids—everything. Hell, knowing our luck we've probably got traces of freakin' Neopia over here. Do you know how many safeguards TNT puts up against this sort of thing? Do you know how badly you have to screw up for Neopia to become a cause for concern?
Ah well, no use fretting over spilled salt. Time to get this mess untangled. After all, that’s what Fourth Wall Enterprises was going to do anyways, right? It can’t be too hard to split all these converged canons, right?
...Right?
The lowdown
ALRIGHT GUYS so some of you may have heard me mention that I've had an idea for an NTWF story sitting around for a while. Well I’m declaring it today that I am in fact gonna make an attempt to actually write this story, aww yiss
As you may have been able to glean from that opening bit of text way up there, the basic premise of the story is a giant, friggin' enormous panuniversal story crash which brings together a bunch of different NTWF RPs, games, events, headcanons, you name it. Forum Mafia games or Medieval? Sure! Antics from Tabloid Town or elements from the Guildverse? Why not? Heck, the Cruise has hardly even been announced but if you've got characters and ideas I’ll be willing to take them! When it comes to worlds from which characters can arrive, I'm planning to keep my mind as open as possible.
Which raises a pretty important question... how canon will this story be, exactly? I’d like to think that it’ll be somewhere in between the reality of designated RP canon and obviously definitely crackfic – if you want to declare parts of this story things that could have actually happened, go ahead! At the same time, if certain scenes within the story conflict with your secret stash of KelceyxBardsley fanfiction, well, you’re welcome to ignore the contradictory parts. Heck, ignore as much of it as you like! None of this is actually real, that's the fun part about telling fake stories on the internet. 8D
The caveats
Yeah, as great as a giant NTWF crossover fanfic sounds it has its catches to it. As is par for the course with NTWF stories, I’d like to get permission from everyone before writing them into the story; it's only poor form otherwise. That said, since this story is not only about NTWFers but about NTWF characters as well, I'd like to get permission to use people’s story characters too.
Here’s how it works: if you're interested in the prospect of seeing your NTWF characters interact in ways you never imagined possible, sign up by posting your interest here or shooting me a PM. I’m operating under the assumption that if you sign up, I may use your NTWF persona and/or any of your characters from NTWF Stories. The inverse is true as well; if you don’t actively make it known that yes, I do have permission to use your characters, I can’t stick 'em in. That's how the rules work.
If you have any characters you would rather I don’t use (or rather, if you only have an explicit number of characters who you do want me to use), by all means please please please know that you’re still welcome to clarify that in a PM or on the sign-up thread here. I just want to make things as convenient and clutter-free as possible. It’s a case of “can't use anybody until you say yes, but once you say yes pretty much anything's fair game unless you clarify otherwise.” I'll probably check in with people for certain scenes just to make sure that everything is in-character and hunky dory, but it'll be pretty open-ended for the majority of the story.
What qualifies as an NTWF story? Ideally I’d like to keep things closely-tied to our own little patch of the internet here – games and events like Medieval, Mafia, Clue, the Guildverse, and original characters from Tabloid Town and the Taco are all fair game, along with anything else that you wish to offer up in suggestion. I may also be inclined to stretch into Neopets and Neopian Times stories as well, in order to honor our humble Proboards forum’s roots.
Given that there are, y'know, several universes worth of characters to choose from, it may be that I don’t use all of your characters. While writing something with every single permutation of each character encountering every other one would be a feat worthy of awe, I am not one prepared to face that feat.yet. i mean what
The things which I am going to most likely try to keep to a minimum
Should you have any other points or comments or concerns to raise, go ahead and post them! It’s going to take me a pretty large amount of time to script out the story and begin actually writing everything down – I don’t think you guys should expect it to appear at the rate of, say, The NTWF Games. I do in fact have a life, and awesome as you guys are writing stories about your fictional characters is not my number one priority in it, sad but true.
Thanks for reading through all that text. Wow that was a bit of a doozy.
And with that, sign-ups are now open! =D HAVE AT IT Y’ALL \o/
The Master List of NTWFers Who HaveVolunteered for Tribute Signed Up:
It was so simple. It was brilliant in its simplicity. Purgatory Inc, merging with Ethereality Ltd to form Fourth Wall Capstone Enterprises? Two of the biggest metaphysical corporations combining their efforts to oversee the events within this universe’s constrained canon? They both existed outside of the confines of stories. It should have gone off without a hitch.
And yet, for some reason, it didn't. Something went wrong, something that left me here feeling like I've got a six-dimensional hangover as I try to piece together what just happened—
Memory floods back in. They all crashed, all of them together. Netwaffle. Wafflenet. Aifam, Clue, Medieval, Mistonarc, the Guilds and the 'Bloids—everything. Hell, knowing our luck we've probably got traces of freakin' Neopia over here. Do you know how many safeguards TNT puts up against this sort of thing? Do you know how badly you have to screw up for Neopia to become a cause for concern?
Ah well, no use fretting over spilled salt. Time to get this mess untangled. After all, that’s what Fourth Wall Enterprises was going to do anyways, right? It can’t be too hard to split all these converged canons, right?
...Right?
Plothopper: an NTWF Tale
The lowdown
ALRIGHT GUYS so some of you may have heard me mention that I've had an idea for an NTWF story sitting around for a while. Well I’m declaring it today that I am in fact gonna make an attempt to actually write this story, aww yiss
As you may have been able to glean from that opening bit of text way up there, the basic premise of the story is a giant, friggin' enormous panuniversal story crash which brings together a bunch of different NTWF RPs, games, events, headcanons, you name it. Forum Mafia games or Medieval? Sure! Antics from Tabloid Town or elements from the Guildverse? Why not? Heck, the Cruise has hardly even been announced but if you've got characters and ideas I’ll be willing to take them! When it comes to worlds from which characters can arrive, I'm planning to keep my mind as open as possible.
Which raises a pretty important question... how canon will this story be, exactly? I’d like to think that it’ll be somewhere in between the reality of designated RP canon and obviously definitely crackfic – if you want to declare parts of this story things that could have actually happened, go ahead! At the same time, if certain scenes within the story conflict with your secret stash of KelceyxBardsley fanfiction, well, you’re welcome to ignore the contradictory parts. Heck, ignore as much of it as you like! None of this is actually real, that's the fun part about telling fake stories on the internet. 8D
The caveats
Yeah, as great as a giant NTWF crossover fanfic sounds it has its catches to it. As is par for the course with NTWF stories, I’d like to get permission from everyone before writing them into the story; it's only poor form otherwise. That said, since this story is not only about NTWFers but about NTWF characters as well, I'd like to get permission to use people’s story characters too.
Here’s how it works: if you're interested in the prospect of seeing your NTWF characters interact in ways you never imagined possible, sign up by posting your interest here or shooting me a PM. I’m operating under the assumption that if you sign up, I may use your NTWF persona and/or any of your characters from NTWF Stories. The inverse is true as well; if you don’t actively make it known that yes, I do have permission to use your characters, I can’t stick 'em in. That's how the rules work.
If you have any characters you would rather I don’t use (or rather, if you only have an explicit number of characters who you do want me to use), by all means please please please know that you’re still welcome to clarify that in a PM or on the sign-up thread here. I just want to make things as convenient and clutter-free as possible. It’s a case of “can't use anybody until you say yes, but once you say yes pretty much anything's fair game unless you clarify otherwise.” I'll probably check in with people for certain scenes just to make sure that everything is in-character and hunky dory, but it'll be pretty open-ended for the majority of the story.
What qualifies as an NTWF story? Ideally I’d like to keep things closely-tied to our own little patch of the internet here – games and events like Medieval, Mafia, Clue, the Guildverse, and original characters from Tabloid Town and the Taco are all fair game, along with anything else that you wish to offer up in suggestion. I may also be inclined to stretch into Neopets and Neopian Times stories as well, in order to honor our humble Proboards forum’s roots.
Given that there are, y'know, several universes worth of characters to choose from, it may be that I don’t use all of your characters. While writing something with every single permutation of each character encountering every other one would be a feat worthy of awe, I am not one prepared to face that feat.
The things which I am going to most likely try to keep to a minimum
- Trawling through stories from 2005 just to include that one obscure character who had two throwaway lines: I'm not going to be that pedantic about looking through old NTWF stories, this isn't some sort of scheme to embarrass everyone by resurrecting posts from eight years ago, c'mon here
- Overly-ridiculous OOC events: If you’re worried that I’m going to write a character’s voice poorly, feel free to voice your concern! I’ll try to be as accommodating as possible when it comes to this since I know that lots of people are occasionally touchy about others handling their characters and all.
- Licensed characters from any franchise other than Neopets: This is the one that I feel a bit harsh for saying; I realize that this gets rid of like, half of the Taco, I know guys, but I do want to give precedence to NTWF-specific characters first.
- Other things?: There may be other issues I’d like to clarify, but I’ll face those as they appear.
Should you have any other points or comments or concerns to raise, go ahead and post them! It’s going to take me a pretty large amount of time to script out the story and begin actually writing everything down – I don’t think you guys should expect it to appear at the rate of, say, The NTWF Games. I do in fact have a life, and awesome as you guys are writing stories about your fictional characters is not my number one priority in it, sad but true.
Thanks for reading through all that text. Wow that was a bit of a doozy.
And with that, sign-ups are now open! =D HAVE AT IT Y’ALL \o/
The Master List of NTWFers Who Have
