Outside of the 'illustrated poem' in the codex, are there any PMOG related bits of comicing? I ask as the idea of seeing something themed around this little experiment in social networking wold be rather interesting. That and seeing everything based in a giant mythical steampunk themed nation would be rather....interesting.

by lazaras 5 months ago
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The problem is we're past the alpha stage so any new features would technically not be doable. Then again who pays attention to alpha/beta distinctions anymore?

by lazaras 5 months ago
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True, and I've seen a few missions (which broke on me but nontheless WERE interesting) that prove the idea.

Back to the original subject though. If PMOG were done as a comic, what would be the premise. 'Stranger in a Strange Land'?

by lazaras 5 months ago
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Well I'm looking at the visual poem thing and seeing a premise there. 'course it has that eighties/tron/whatever feel to it of 'person A gets sucked into different world and thus you have your excuse to explain the oddities to the viewing audience while exploring the crisis/situation/daily life/whatever of the locals'

I suppose it would kinda end up highlighting the Order Vs Chaos 'war' going on as well as a few archatypical types showing up now and again.

by lazaras 5 months ago
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Of course one would have to wonder at how the technology (tools) work? Eh, its steampunk era, lets just go with aether for portals and st. nicks. Mines're pretty straightforward. Drop somewhere, wait for someone to show up, kaboom. Lamp posts're either archlamps, or gaslight, and armor, well, armor is armor so you're bound to see people walking 'round in full suits.. Data Points're straightforward enough, money left laying about (which brings to my mind the image of an entire city scouring about for loose change, but I digress)

Suppose we'd first end up seeing a Pathmaker adding new lamp posts to what was a dark and foreboding street, which is STILL foreboding, but only because we see exactly what's there :)

Then again what do these people do when not out on the prowl? A Seer has to have hobbies other than setting portals about, same for a Mine Layer or Avenger (though I imagine there's more than a few of the latter who's' wholly consumed with finding people with mines and swarming 'em with the little robot things).

This actually sorta ties into an idea I had for awhile based on the idea of 'what would computers end up looking like if anthropomorphic and put in a steampunk setting?' which I suppose is ripping Chobbits off a little, but considering my idea had computers of different genders and ages (as mine was fairly aged before it finally died his was represented by an elderly gentleman adventurer that, despite his advanced years, just never seemed to quit meddling).

Of course there's the question of story, politics, and how people get by on a day to day existence.

Postscript:
http://pmog.com/forums/social-to...

Coordination with these people would be good!

by lazaras 5 months ago
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I imagine that the DP would make sense as money, but I don't think having it just lying around would work out so well.I think that maybe we could earn it somehow, suppose there're resources that we can exploit on sites? I'm not quite sure how that would work, but I don't think just having money lying around is a great idea. Perhaps we use bartering and so have stones, trinkets, so on, which we pick up at each site.
I like the idea of a lot of these things being like W.A.S.T.E. in the _crying_of_lot_49_, a mail system that is below and around the traditional one. a sub society which everyone interacts in, but they have visages in the rest of the world too.

by patch615 5 months ago
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this is well know (I am indeed one of those vegans) There is also an interesting interplay based on the fact that you can have both chaos and order associations. so people can use "chaotic" or "orderly" tools to further their opposite.
It's sort of like how if the colonists in north America attack troops by surprise, fight, and kill innocents to get their point across they're freedom fighters, if Islamic fundamentalists do it they're terrorists. It's the same method but different goals. so that's an interesting deal.

by patch615 5 months ago
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it could always be along the lines of "honour among thieves" there's a standard of behaviour.
Have you ever read the book (or watched the television series on bbc) neverwhere? it touches on the same sort of thing. Their idea of fifedoms and so on would work nicely.

perhaps some of the things suggested for discussion here http://pmog.com/forums/gameplay/... would be good for fleshing out the stories and such. especially for those of us who are unable to draw (covered most everything else, but drawing evades me)
anyhow, it would be nice to make the story with the tools.

by patch615 5 months ago
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yea, I've been messing about with story missions. I did one that was fairly successful, but I want to do something different with the next one. We'll see.

by patch615 5 months ago
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