Re: [HoE] Meta-Plot Adventures

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In a message dated Sun, 19 Mar 2000  2:47:50 AM Eastern Standard Time, "Nick Zachariasen" <zacharin@pluto.dsu.edu> writes:

> 
> Yay!!  I had a good idea!!  Anyway, what I was thinking you could do for
> different plot points that will matter in the long run (definitely the
> survival of The Ghost in this one), you could list them at the beginning of
> a form and have check boxes, e.g.:

Beat you to that one Nick. :-)

> ... and so forth.  You could then have the space on the form (which would,
> presumably, be double-sided) in which to write the synopsis of the posse's
> exploits.  

Not quite. First--we're talking about a graphic piece which I'm dropping on our already overburdened production guys. (Likely this is going to slow down the printing of Ghost Busters, BTW.)

Second, remember how some folks felt the Boise Horror felt rushed at the end, because of space? Well, a double-sided form will eat up even more of that precious space...

Originally, I'd planned for a 1/3 page coupon the size of a piece of art. I think I'm going to go back to that. Mind you I'm going to catch holy Hell for it from the production guys now...

Anyway, the coupon has one question with four options to which any group that completes the adventure can only answer one of the options. 

Then, if they _want_ to participate, they attach their story to the coupon (since it's only 500 words, they shouldn't have to staple _too_ many pages <g>). Folks who don't want to write it still get to vote, though.

We randomly choose the story from the group with the most votes. Done and done.

I'm not even going to bother mentioning how we'll look at stories involving Harrowed-Syker-Templar-Child-of-the-Cat-Shamans and defeating the Ghost with a probability manipulator and teleport tubes while flying backwards on a piece of melba toast. 

To put everyone's mind at ease on this sort of thing, I review everything DL-related before it gets printed; John H. does the same for HOE. Even if we paid for it, it doesn't go into print if it doesn't meet with our approval; we won't loosen those standards because it's a contest. And, any submission will also be editted prior to publication. I'm sorry I didn't make that clear earlier.


John