[OOC/AU] Critter-specific Roleplay

[skinstealer]

ye that works for the starting town

still curious about my question for How Roleplay Threads Will Work

[AceOfNothing]

I like your idea of there being chill zones that are just... general spots. We need to think of a couple areas and what you do there
Maybe also a "job listing" thread where people can post like "Wanted for retrieval mission, cant find my knitting needles"?

[skinstealer]

oh, a board thread would be good and probably less clutter than people just making threads unprompted and having to figure out parties in the mission thread itself...we could definitely work with that

what would be good chill zones?

also i want there to be more tasks like "need help baking bread" as well as the adventure ones

"watch my pet for a day" and the pet is like, A Fucking Bear

[AceOfNothing]

Place ideas:
Tavern (like you said)
Beach (hang out area)
Nurses station? (For healing/healing items/idk immersive rp stuff)
Farmers Market (People can rp as any kind of merchant here!)
Ice cream bar (idk fight me. Also you can pretend your characters went on dates here)


"Please watch mittens for me" Mittens is snake and they escape and are hiding in the room. I will die for these missions

[Pichi2214]

we could probably start by defining what places all exist in the town and then going from there, figuring out how many of those need their own thread and which can be grouped together

[skinstealer]

maybe the ice cream bar and the tavern can be combined? just thinking about Food Places

[Pichi2214]

personally i feel like ice cream bar + beach would be a fun combination, would also give another reason to visit the beach if the ice cream bar is on/near it
(idk ice cream and beach is just kinda something that goes together in my mind)

[skinstealer]

oh true! thats a much smarter combo

[AceOfNothing]

Yeah I like that combination

Anyone got more ideas? Maybe like... a community garden?

[Wilds]

a community garden would be really cute... i loved the mention of farms earlier on (we've been playing a lot of farming sims and miel is excited about it haha) too... i wonder if there would be any kind of like, animal-raising for critters? that would of course involve More Fuckin Creature Designs but i think it'd be cute if characters could have like, pet bugs or pet rodents and stuff, or even places dedicated to rehabilitating and rehoming injured animals... you could also draw inspiration from purely text-based games like Dwarf Fortress (i think?) and Describe things without having to draw them, too - and/or let people come up with their own designs and critters

i'm also wondering about instant messaging type systems and electronic communication in general - i find those to be a really low-energy form of RPing so they'd be useful for that, but on the other hand a) don't want it to be too similar to felid factor and friendzoo, and b) i'm not sure if it'd mesh very well with the worldbuild so far, and i kind of like the idea of them Not having super advanced tech like phones LMAO so hmm. wondering what everyone's thoughts on those are!!

i have farming sims on the brain rn so i'm leaning really hard into those sort of vibes akjnsdfjkng i want a critter that makes artisan goods and trades them to people--

[skinstealer]

okay, here's what im thinking for thread ideas- i will probably make a subforum for this because we are having Things Happen, it wont be as extensive

BULLETIN BOARD- missions/tasks get posted here, if enough people sign up for one, a thread is made and people go from there. tasks do not need to be any one specific thing, though it's recommended that you post whether something is going to have a DM or is more of a DM-less task. kind of similar to TCPdex RP pocket adventures, if people remember that, but a lot less structured.

COMMUNITY GARDEN/FARMING AREA- people can run their own garden patches here- there are also stables, which is good for our weird little livestock species we're going to make. maybe we should have a horse equivalent someday? would be good for pulling carts and riding around

THREADS FOR "FRIEND AREAS" (need a term for this)/ HOME LOCATIONS (we also need to group critters, i will do this momentarily after posting this- also should i make playscenes in petz for these???), i figure making these into neighborhoods-sorta is a good way for people to interact more and would cause less clutter than individual threads for houses. will still probably get their own section because as critters go through the Expansion process (aka people buying more types or whatever we're calling them), there could be a lot of these

BEACH FT ICE CREAM BAR + DANCE HALL- place where people enjoy the outdoors safely and also gather for ice cream and parties. events probably held here?

INFIRMARY- roleplay your critters being Sick™ here- or being nurses/doctors! if your critter gets hurt during a mission, you can optionally send them here for a bit? after a period of time, they're free to go (how long is up to you? i really want to keep things freeform)

TAVERN + INN- combination indoor gathering place, eatery and place for people who are passing through to stay. very warm and cozy but also people do FIGHT occasionally. bar fights for all (alcohol optional? oh god i dont want to picture these things drunk)

MARKET- buy + sell stuff! ...do we want forum cash to be involved with this? because we totally could. it's a part of FFRP, i don't see why it couldnt also be applicable here? people can also just set up stuff for free because thats a part of the worldbuild anyway- maybe goods are by default free/for some kind of trade, and more special stuff (which is very subjective, but id encourage stuff that's either custom or comes with special assets, be it text blurbs, more extensive writing or graphical assets) could be exchanged with cash?

i think this is actually enough to start aside from figuring out the friend area equivalent (maybe we should just call them neighborhoods?), what do yall think?

[Ignispark]

a haunted snowcone machine, popcorn machine, or some other food vending object could be fun somewhere

[AceOfNothing]

Gache Corner, with vending machines and gache machines and claw machines. Probably connected to the market
I'm only half joking. You could have your critters own a machine here and half to refill it

Maybe the forum cash? Probably easier then making like... an imaginary currency and keeping track. Or the critters could work on a trade system like "I have a pair of mittens I would like to trade for three apples"

I think starting would be great! Maybe maybe we figure out cash first

[skinstealer]

i think people can put whatever they want in the market really...though that raises the question of whether the market should be its own section with people running diff threads so they can list prices and such- i am leaning towards in-character trading, free shit or forum cash though

we should also figure out the neighborhoods, i'll see if echer can respond to wattplants stuff first tho

[Wilds]

i think using the forum cash would be really fun actually akjnsdfkjnsf i like the idea that it's mostly used for special stuff... like, the image i have in my mind rn is of a character putting some stuff up for REALLY low cash trade because they're saving up for something more special that can only be bought with cash - whereas most things are trade-only and if you tried to buy like, food/crops/etc with cash, it would be a very weird thing to do ?? like the reaction would be like "uh. i'm looking for goods of equivalent value" p much.

the question becomes though how is cash acquired at all, what do people think of it, what is and isn't acceptable to use it for, etc etc. hope this at least partly makes sense.

[skinstealer]

in-universe cash could probably be earned in the sense of like...maybe its more...tickets or something given out by the guild for hard work (even to non-guild members, i like to think theyre good about that)- this could also be a way for people to earn cash, through missions...we'd be willing to use our admin powers to do that, so people setting up missions/tasks don't need to spend their own cash on "rewarding" people. i think it could encourage participation a good bit?

[Pichi2214]

Oh didn't we say the starting town Doesn't have money and functions more on a "as long as we have the resource anyone can use it, though tradung's appreciated"? (though obviously if yall prefer the money then I suppose nothing stops us from introducing that)

[skinstealer]

i think these are less directly money and more just...hmmmm how do i explain it

it's more like, you contributed to the community via a task/mission, and thus people in said community can optionally offer special things as rewards for people helping out, there's generally a vibe of "dont make EVERYTHING tickets" or you get yelled at, possibly even by the guild itself? maybe just straight up rules of you cant use them for basic food/ingredients and important supplies, maybe just custom goods (so like, making someone a fancy cake for a special occasion is good, ticket for an apple is not)

[Pichi2214]

Oh shit wait actually, the idea of this being a guild reward is neat however it just occurred to me that if we use forum cash to track this we uh need some place to Get it from
because if the guild is run by a player or some npc either way the person who does that would have to continously pay for it, unless a forum admin spawns the money in for this

[skinstealer]

oh i mentioned that id be spawning it in