Re: [HoE] Meta-Plot Adventures [John]

[Olympiad1@aol.com]

In a message dated 3/19/00 12:55:23 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
johngoff@erols.com writes:

<< snip bunch of comments about posse determined outcomes>>
 
<< One of the ideas that seemed neat at first was a voting coupon that we'd
 determine a majority, then draw one at random from the winning votes,
 contact the group, see if one of them wanted to write a story, wait for them
 to write it, then fit it into the next available slot in an Epitaph.
 Problems: can't reach the winning group (how long do we attempt?); winning
 group, once reached, doesn't want to do it (repeat process); get a really
 flukey story like you guys have already mentioned, ala Cyborg Doomsayer
 assainates Lincoln, Grant and Jefferson Davis with a particle accelerator
 (now we've got no easy out, short of telling the group, "Yeah we said we'd
 use it, but this _sucks_" <g>); the group is late sending it in (heck, we
 have had trouble getting people we're _paying_ to do it on time <g>). All of
 this conspires to making planning the publication it's going to be printed
 in a production nightmare. And that was one of the best.
 
 However, if you guys--who have been our most loyal fans and _my_ primary
 target audience--are that dead set against it, maybe we should just do a
 simple majority vote and forget the individual posse idea. >>

Why not combine the two ideas?  In other words, include a voting coupon that 
must be submitted with the 500 words or less story of the outcome.  Use the 
coupons to determine the storyline direction and then draw/ choose from the 
stories that match the majority result.  You wont have to read all the 
stories, but will still go with a majority outcome.

Scott "my two cents" Mickelson