Arx
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Second is Player to GM, and this is going to be primarily GM tables, where GMs (whether player or staff), have tables of groups of players to run stories from, manage the stories of the PCs at them, help guide them on adventures, keep track of what they need to do and what can happen. I didn’t like how often people stalled out in Arx 1, and specifically I think the ambiguity of whether a next step existed at all caused way more harm than good. I think we can make enough mystery without not knowing whether a story is over, or if it’s waiting on it to be written or if a PC needs to do things first in order to advance.
You probably already have a solution in mind for addressing this, but Pathologic 2 and 3’s Mind Map might have some ideas to steal: https://www.gamedeveloper.com/design/pathologic-2-mindmap-a-questlog-people-actually-read
Pathologic are games built around philosophy, mysticism, and mysteries, and the Mind Map works really well as a quest log for that atmosphere as well as the word heavy narrative. Unfortunately, the Mind Map is built heavily around the GUI so some work would need to be done in translating it into something that works on a MU*
EDIT: Maybe have some sort of GUI on the website? But that makes the player have to leave the MU* client to go look at their “quest log.”
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I can think of some history related things that I’m not sure were ever made clear to players, such as how the war between the elves and the dragons started, Tyrval’s mom, wtf the Thicker was (I don’t know what the Thicker was), that the Primordia were all female, why Diamond lost his fool mind.
There’s a lot of stuff that I think only a few characters knew, like the entire deal behind the Castle of Yesterday, the origin of the spirit’s hatred of blood magic, White Bear’s existence, or, iirc, that the bottom of the ocean led into the Abyss.
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All I hear is I’m going to fuck around with alchemy and find out by a demon eating me because I can never leave well enough alone.
I’m in.
Unless SOME PEOPLE try to give me visions of the violent death of my soul less teddy bear again.
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@Apos Halfway through this turned into a Bloodborne narration in my head and I am buzzing.
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