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Post by June Scarlet on Jan 28, 2017 22:56:59 GMT -5
June Scarlet Sure thing! How about if I go through while I have some time this afternoon and make a draft list of ideas to put on the poll. Then we can post it here and people can point out things I might've missed or say if a suggestion wasn't a serious suggestion, etc. I'd be really appreciative if you'd do the making of the poll, though xD Sure, that'd be super helpful, actually. Thank you so much!
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Post by Reiqua on Jan 28, 2017 23:10:50 GMT -5
Well here's a list. I don't expect this to be its final form, so if there's anything that you think we've already ruled out based on discussion, or if there's anything I missed that you'd like to see on the list (and there are probably plenty!), now is a great time to speak up! - Altador Cup Cancellation
- Defenders of Neopia – Series 3
- Deserted Fairground – “Closed for Renovations”
- Key Quest Returns
- Neopets Mobile
- Petpet Uprising
- Smuggler’s Cove Revived
- Stock Market Crash
- UC Paintbrush Release
- Weewoos Retire as NT Mascot
If you have a new suggestion that you're bursting to see considered for this year's April Fools, feel free to mention that too, but just keep in mind that we're mostly looking to refine the list we want to vote on for now, rather than add to it.
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Post by June Scarlet on Jan 29, 2017 21:16:40 GMT -5
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Post by June Scarlet on Feb 6, 2017 22:54:59 GMT -5
So, the voting is over, and Defenders Series 3 won as the topic for April Fools 2017. My question is, do we want to make a new thread for discussing stuff for that, or just stick with this one?
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Post by Twillie on Feb 6, 2017 23:51:29 GMT -5
Would accounts be kept on whose entering (similar to the collabs), or would the topic still be used as a place to bounce ideas? I think it'd be fine to keep things on this topic (with a title change perhaps announcing the chosen theme), but it wouldn't hurt to make a new thread for cleaner bookkeeping if that's involved too.
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Post by June Scarlet on Feb 6, 2017 23:55:35 GMT -5
No bookkeeping for April Fools in the past, and I don't want to create more work for myself anyway. At any rate, because it's a smaller group limited to the NTWF, it's much easier to keep track of everyone. There's no one from the Neoboards to neomail reminders.
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Post by Carolyn on Feb 7, 2017 0:08:39 GMT -5
I think I may have made a quick NTWF list and mentioned it to Rabbit if she wanted to advertise to specific people or something. A second thread may work--I don't mind attempting to keep up with that. It's (mostly) just us, after all, and Rabbit ♠ and I can invite some former participants directly over Neomail. C:
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Post by Shinko on Feb 14, 2017 14:51:29 GMT -5
I think I have an idea for what I want to write, if anybody is interested to hear my brainstorming. ^.^
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Post by Twillie on Feb 14, 2017 14:58:57 GMT -5
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Post by Shinko on Feb 14, 2017 15:06:47 GMT -5
Okay, so you guys remember the cobrall charmer from Piper Panic? I had the fun idea to do a story (either short or continued, we'll see how well I reign in my usual propensity towards not being able to shut up ever) about his evil twin. Said evil twin heads up to Terror Mountain and uses his snake charming powahs to entrance the Snowager, and then uses the giant ice snake to start a crazy protection racket whereby he makes people pay out the nose to not have the Snowager attack their town. DoN, in their usual infinite wisdom, thinks the Snowager has just gone bonkers for whatever reason and send a Defender out to stop it. This Defender happens to be a Hissi. Goes about as well as you'd imagine. From there is where the story would hypothetically pick up for the player to do their thing. =D
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Post by Duke Pikachu on Feb 14, 2017 15:13:26 GMT -5
Okay, so you guys remember the cobrall charmer from Piper Panic? I had the fun idea to do a story (either short or continued, we'll see how well I reign in my usual propensity towards not being able to shut up ever) about his evil twin. Said evil twin heads up to Terror Mountain and uses his snake charming powahs to entrance the Snowager, and then uses the giant ice snake to start a crazy protection racket whereby he makes people pay out the nose to not have the Snowager attack their town. DoN, in their usual infinite wisdom, thinks the Snowager has just gone bonkers for whatever reason and send a Defender out to stop it. This Defender happens to be a Hissi. Goes about as well as you'd imagine. From there is where the story would hypothetically pick up for the player to do their thing. =D Sounds like a fun story idea, though not something TNT hadn't played with before:
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Post by Shinko on Feb 14, 2017 15:17:52 GMT -5
Okay, so you guys remember the cobrall charmer from Piper Panic? I had the fun idea to do a story (either short or continued, we'll see how well I reign in my usual propensity towards not being able to shut up ever) about his evil twin. Said evil twin heads up to Terror Mountain and uses his snake charming powahs to entrance the Snowager, and then uses the giant ice snake to start a crazy protection racket whereby he makes people pay out the nose to not have the Snowager attack their town. DoN, in their usual infinite wisdom, thinks the Snowager has just gone bonkers for whatever reason and send a Defender out to stop it. This Defender happens to be a Hissi. Goes about as well as you'd imagine. From there is where the story would hypothetically pick up for the player to do their thing. =D Sounds like a fun story idea, though not something TNT hadn't played with before: ^^;;; I seriously doubt most casual readers will be acquainted with the archives of the Caption Contest enough to know about those. I certainly wasn't.
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Post by Reiqua on Feb 14, 2017 15:24:26 GMT -5
Sounds like a fun story idea, though not something TNT hadn't played with before: I dunno, I don't think those really count... They're just caption contest pictures, aren't they? Not something TNT ever really did anything with. And the idea that someone once had the thought of hey, what if a snake charmer could charm other snakes too? doesn't invalidate Shinko's original and interesting storyline as a good idea. Plus it's just generally a fun concept XD
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Post by Twillie on Feb 14, 2017 15:29:40 GMT -5
Shinko That's a really cool idea, very creative! =D I suppose then that the player will be a specific personality in the story as well, or would the story be the lead up right until the player takes the reigns? Actually makes me think about the different possibilities one could take in writing a user player into the story, whether it be making them a character, keeping their identity vague (and perhaps being tongue in cheek about it), or even writing the prose like video game controls. Makes me curious what others may think about that. Sounds like a lot of fun, though, and it has the potential to reach some large scales (cuz giant snake, ha). If you pick that idea, I'll definitely read it =D
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Post by Shinko on Feb 14, 2017 15:37:47 GMT -5
Shinko That's a really cool idea, very creative! =D I suppose then that the player will be a specific personality in the story as well, or would the story be the lead up right until the player takes the reigns? Actually makes me think about the different possibilities one could take in writing a user player into the story, whether it be making them a character, keeping their identity vague (and perhaps being tongue in cheek about it), or even writing the prose like video game controls. Makes me curious what others may think about that. Sounds like a lot of fun, though, and it has the potential to reach some large scales (cuz giant snake, ha). If you pick that idea, I'll definitely read it =D I actually do have a pet who is canonically a member of DoN! So I'll use him as the "player" in the story. ^^
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