PLOT IDEAS↴ Sometimes, the player knows best - so this is the page for submitting your plot ideas, suggestions, and proposals for the mods to look at! Lost Carnival is always open to the idea of player plots, and plans to even go as far as letting players run entire world tours, if they are so inclined. Here is an idea of what you could use this page for:
Asking for approval to run a self contained event or plot that will involve a large number of characters or make an impact on the rest of the game.
Inquiring about timing and logistical concerns regards mod plots that are currently being run.
Submitting ideas for worlds you'd like the carnival to visit, or general ideas that you'd like to see more of.
Submitting a proposal for a tour of a world that you'd like to plan and moderate! This is best used for if you'd like the carnival to go to the world your character comes from, which the mods may not be familiar with. We would be happy to accommodate something like this, but of course we would be unable to moderate a setting we are unfamiliar with ourselves.
Asking for permission to do things to NPCs or asking about what NPCs are going to do to you.
Anything else plot related!
Comment are currently unscreened, though if you want to keep a plot secret we can take it to a private channel instead. Otherwise, we'd like to leave it open so that the community has an idea of what is on the table, and so they can second ideas that they like.
There's not much preparation to this event. At the start of Day X, characters will wake up to find the carnival on a distant planet, underneath a biodome. They'll also find themselves changed into a more alien form (more details on that below!). Characters who don't sleep will have blacked out for a few minutes so that the fun magic can take shape.
The Ringmaster will give the carnival members a brief overview which basically consists of welcome to the Space Olympics, you can compete in one event, don't compete in Space SILLY SPORT HERE because she is going to get that gold medal herself, dammit.
SETTING↴
You stand on a distant planet Skyline of red plateaus Strange air and vegetation You're a winner!
Welcome to the Space Olympics! The year is 3022. This year's host is Zargon, which is only hosting because the four previous hosts all dropped out. Still, Zargon's put lot of time and money into developing a complex perfect for the Space Olympics. Floating above the planet's atmosphere is a large spaceship turned athletic arena, obviously named Olympic Spaceship. Stadiums are on every corner, there's swimming pools every other block, and a large racetrack surrounds the city. Places in Olympic Spaceship that aren't arenas either cater to athletes (training facilities, locker rooms, medical facilities, saunas) or cater to those watching the games (concession stands, shopping malls, merch stands, quiet rooms where people can just sit down). Space public transit can get you from one end of the ship to another in mere seconds.
The athlete's village is on Zargon, as well as the carnival. People can either stay at the carnival or in the athlete's village. Though Zargon doesn't have any oxygen, a combination of biodomes and terraforming technology have made it so that all athletes can breathe comfortably on Zargon, no matter what their species! Just stay inside the biodome. Space shuttles go from Olympic Spaceship to Zargon at regular ten minute intervals. Those staying in the athlete's village will get a junior suite: basically a small, hotel room type set up with queen sized bed, microwave and refrigerator, and an attached bathroom. The Ringmaster will only cover minor incidentals—so keep your ass out the minibar!
The Space Olympics comprises literally every sport that people can think of, both summer and winter. There's track and field, ice skating, luge, and beach volleyball, but there's also more alien sports: three dimensional chess, pod racing, space poker, mechanical bull riding but the bull's some sort of weird Doctor Who type alien, and so on and so forth. All sports inexplicably have the word 'space' in front of their name. There will be plenty of opportunities for characters to try out any kind of sport when the arena is not in session! Any fake games from character's canons will not be represented, but if you ask around you can find suspiciously similar substitutes. Want to play a game of Space Muel Donsters? How about a round of that popular card game Space Schment?
PATRONS↴
► OTHER ATHLETES: There are other athletes here of all races, species, sizes, shapes, colors, etc. Most of them get along fairly well with the carnival on the basis of friendly competition and goodwill throughout the galaxy but a few of them are a bit too competitive for their own good. Thankfully, nothing gets to Tonya Harding levels of competitive, though there is plenty of trash talk in the games themselves.
► SANDY AMBURG: He's the main coordinator of the Space Olympics and certainly isn't Andy Samburg in a dumb wig. He'll answer all your questions, direct you to wherever you need to find, and happily reassure everyone that they totally have everything under control!
DANGERS↴
► BUDGET SNAFU: The Space Olympics do not have everything under control. There was a bit of a budget snafu. As such, various events are canceled, the schedule's constantly in flux, there's not as much food as expected, and some of the buildings in the athlete's village are still under construction when people arrive. The Labor department will be conscripted to help patch up as many buildings as possible, while the Kitchen staff will be conscripted to help make do with what supplies they have to help feed the athletes. Good luck figuring out what the hell that fruit is.
Some necessary goods can't be found, tempers are short, and while fighting in the athlete's village is strictly prohibited, some athletes are willing to overlook that in order to get their aggression out. Those working under the Warden & Nightrunner will be asked to help patrol the area and break up any fights they see. Of course, it's a bit harder than expected to break up fights between two eight foot tall creatures. Don't get punched!
► MECHANICAL FAILURES: Midway through the event, things start to break down. Members of the Carnival will be drafted to help with these mechanical failures. As they're independent athletes, there's less chance of the Space Olympic Commission getting sued by the planets! Mechanical failures can range from crawling through this ventilation shaft to unstick whatever's stuck at the end to rewiring this complex piece of future technology to good ol'fashioned elbow grease. Engineering, this is your time to shine! The rest of you...well, good luck anyway.
All of the mechanical failure is noticeable, but the most annoying is the artificial gravity inducers, which break multiple times during the event. Brace yourselves cause there's no gravity. The universal translators break a few times too, much to the annoyance of the Wookies, Ewoks, Judoon, etc.
► STRANGE AIR AND VEGETATION: Want to rent a spacesuit to explore Zargon? You can do so! Feel free to go explore outside of the biodome area! Just be careful of the man-eating plants, poisonous mold spores, and pockets of hallucinogenic gas.
► THE ALIEN HORDES: A log for this will go up near the end of the event. But basically? Aw heck, it's an alien invasion. Thanks, Sandy Amberg, you did wonderful at this. There'll be a drag down, knock out fight for a bit before the Ringmaster decides "fuck this noise," pulls everybody back into the carnival, and they get the heck out of dodge.
REWARDS↴ ► SPACE MERCH: Like every sporting event, there's merch to be bought, all emblazoned with the mascot of this year's Space Olympics, Johan the Athletic Porg! Buy a shirt with Johan playing basketball! Buy a mug with Johan on a sled! Who cares that Porgs technically aren't native to Zargon, they're cute and there's no way the planet's native species, the Zargon Death Flytrap, would ever make a halfway decent mascot in the first place. Unfortunately, there was an ordering snafu and the merch tables are just STACKED high with merchandise. Some sellers are still trying to actually pawn off the merch, but a few of them have resorted to just giving it away.
► YOU'RE A WINNER: Want to compete in the Space Olympics? Guess what! You can! The Ringmaster's crew has been shoved under the catch-all leftover label of Independent Athletes. Keep in mind that it will be very hard to actually place in the Space Olympics, as characters are going up against literally the best of the best in the entire universe. But if you want your character to at least make an attempt at winning a medal, drop a line in the 'going for a medal' section, icly justify your case with either info from your app or linked ingame examples/in canon scenes of your character doing the thing, and we'll RNG to see how you do! Winners actually get a physical medal and bragging rights. All participants get a consolation prize of a space gadget, the effects of which will be RNGed. Don't think this is anything cool, however, most of the space gadgets are things like 'kitchenwear' or 'outdated children's toys.'
The way that medaling works is that you'll comment to the 'going for a medal' comment and say whether your character is poor, fair, or good at the sport they're going for. We'll roll a d20 for successes: poor means you need to get a nat 20 in order to reach bronze. fair means 18-19 for bronze, nat 20 for silver. Good means 16-17 for bronze, 18-19 for silver, nat 20 for gold. If two people are competing in the same sport and hit the same medal tier, the higher point gets the medal or there'll be a roll-off.
EXAMPLE RANKINGS: SPACE HORSE RACING Poor: Cole has ridden a horse once or twice in his entire life. Fair: Strange knows how to handle a horse, though he's mostly ridden them going from place to place, not in any sort of competition. Good: Lambert knows how to handle a horse, calm it down, keep it from being spooked when huge monsters are attacking, etc. thanks to his witcher training. His canon has horse riding contest sidequests and Lambert's been doing this for literal years. He also rides horses on a regular basis in the carnival, thanks to his Pokemon.
There will be a separate thread where you can tell which medal your characters are going to attempt to go for and where you can justify if they'd be fair or good at the event. All dice rolling will be done in a mod plurk, midway through the event.
► SPACE KNOWLEDGE: Got that pesky change that you're still getting used to? Developed a weird power that you're having trouble with? There are literally aliens of all shapes/sizes/types here at the Space Olympics. One of them can help with your new changes/provide that IC justification you need for Jim Bob to get better at fire-breathing.
CHANGES↴ Coincidentally, any home planet where a player character is from are unable to participate as well due to various accounting errors. As this is the case, the Ringmaster's decided to slap a few changes on people so that they'll fit in better. All members of the Carnival will be changed into aliens. Some will adopt a few superficial alien characteristics or two: ridged foreheads, tentacle arms, antennae, etc. Some characters will change shape entirely, looking like different aliens from fiction. These will solely include physical changes and characters will NOT gain any powers of the aliens they look like. Possible species for consideration include:
VULCANS: You suddenly get pointy ears and green blood! SONTARANS: You're short, brown-skinned and oddly potato shaped. WOOKIE: You're taller, fuzzier, and communicate in growling noises. Sure is nice that there's universal translator technology all over the place because buddy, you'll need that. SKRULLS: You're green, have pointed ears, large eyes, and ridges on your chin! TRIFFID: You're a tall, quadripedal, plant-like creature with a whip-like proboscis. MAU: You look like a perfectly normal human except for the fact that you might have a cat tail. GREEN SKINNED SPACE BABE: You're green. That's about it. FLORA COLOSSUS: You are Groot. H'LVENITE: You look like a literal squirrel.
You can't turn your character into any of the in-game aliens. However, you can have your character turn into a different alien from a character's canon. So you can't be a Homestuck troll, but you can be a Wookie. Characters may keep one common or uncommon change from the event.
- SUBSECTIONS: investigation, going for a medal, others as needed? I don't mind going for a medal to be linked on the ooc post instead of the main ic log. The tolls will be halfway through the event, so that everybody can stake their claim in time. - I'll be in charge of the dice rolling & prize distribution just to save you a headache - the prizes will literally be the most useless things imagineable. like, space as seen on tv shit or an out of date vhs tape (it's ancient technology!!!). someone is gonna win themselves a space snuggie. Likewise, considering that December might have an item gain event, I'm up for not having the prizes/just having the prizes be bragging rights. - winning is hard on purpose because this is the literal SPACE OLYMPICS and absolutely none of the carnival people are olympic level anything. Still, I'm 100% up for tweaking the winning mechanics if ya want - wow, how weird that the ray guns of the alien hordes are all set to stun, they must have had a budget snafu as well. - this is lighthearted and silly and fun and there will be no fatalities, just light comic injuries and dumbness. - what's the dumbest space sport that RM can win a gold medal in (because she is WINNING THAT MEDAL)
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There's not much preparation to this event. At the start of Day X, characters will wake up to find the carnival on a distant planet, underneath a biodome. They'll also find themselves changed into a more alien form (more details on that below!). Characters who don't sleep will have blacked out for a few minutes so that the fun magic can take shape.
The Ringmaster will give the carnival members a brief overview which basically consists of welcome to the Space Olympics, you can compete in one event, don't compete in Space SILLY SPORT HERE because she is going to get that gold medal herself, dammit.
SETTING↴
You stand on a distant planet
Skyline of red plateaus
Strange air and vegetation
You're a winner!
Welcome to the Space Olympics! The year is 3022. This year's host is Zargon, which is only hosting because the four previous hosts all dropped out. Still, Zargon's put lot of time and money into developing a complex perfect for the Space Olympics. Floating above the planet's atmosphere is a large spaceship turned athletic arena, obviously named Olympic Spaceship. Stadiums are on every corner, there's swimming pools every other block, and a large racetrack surrounds the city. Places in Olympic Spaceship that aren't arenas either cater to athletes (training facilities, locker rooms, medical facilities, saunas) or cater to those watching the games (concession stands, shopping malls, merch stands, quiet rooms where people can just sit down). Space public transit can get you from one end of the ship to another in mere seconds.
The athlete's village is on Zargon, as well as the carnival. People can either stay at the carnival or in the athlete's village. Though Zargon doesn't have any oxygen, a combination of biodomes and terraforming technology have made it so that all athletes can breathe comfortably on Zargon, no matter what their species! Just stay inside the biodome. Space shuttles go from Olympic Spaceship to Zargon at regular ten minute intervals. Those staying in the athlete's village will get a junior suite: basically a small, hotel room type set up with queen sized bed, microwave and refrigerator, and an attached bathroom. The Ringmaster will only cover minor incidentals—so keep your ass out the minibar!
The Space Olympics comprises literally every sport that people can think of, both summer and winter. There's track and field, ice skating, luge, and beach volleyball, but there's also more alien sports: three dimensional chess, pod racing, space poker, mechanical bull riding but the bull's some sort of weird Doctor Who type alien, and so on and so forth. All sports inexplicably have the word 'space' in front of their name. There will be plenty of opportunities for characters to try out any kind of sport when the arena is not in session! Any fake games from character's canons will not be represented, but if you ask around you can find suspiciously similar substitutes. Want to play a game of Space Muel Donsters? How about a round of that popular card game Space Schment?
PATRONS↴
► OTHER ATHLETES: There are other athletes here of all races, species, sizes, shapes, colors, etc. Most of them get along fairly well with the carnival on the basis of friendly competition and goodwill throughout the galaxy but a few of them are a bit too competitive for their own good. Thankfully, nothing gets to Tonya Harding levels of competitive, though there is plenty of trash talk in the games themselves.
► SANDY AMBURG: He's the main coordinator of the Space Olympics and certainly isn't Andy Samburg in a dumb wig. He'll answer all your questions, direct you to wherever you need to find, and happily reassure everyone that they totally have everything under control!
DANGERS↴
► BUDGET SNAFU: The Space Olympics do not have everything under control. There was a bit of a budget snafu. As such, various events are canceled, the schedule's constantly in flux, there's not as much food as expected, and some of the buildings in the athlete's village are still under construction when people arrive. The Labor department will be conscripted to help patch up as many buildings as possible, while the Kitchen staff will be conscripted to help make do with what supplies they have to help feed the athletes. Good luck figuring out what the hell that fruit is.
Some necessary goods can't be found, tempers are short, and while fighting in the athlete's village is strictly prohibited, some athletes are willing to overlook that in order to get their aggression out. Those working under the Warden & Nightrunner will be asked to help patrol the area and break up any fights they see. Of course, it's a bit harder than expected to break up fights between two eight foot tall creatures. Don't get punched!
► MECHANICAL FAILURES: Midway through the event, things start to break down. Members of the Carnival will be drafted to help with these mechanical failures. As they're independent athletes, there's less chance of the Space Olympic Commission getting sued by the planets! Mechanical failures can range from crawling through this ventilation shaft to unstick whatever's stuck at the end to rewiring this complex piece of future technology to good ol'fashioned elbow grease. Engineering, this is your time to shine! The rest of you...well, good luck anyway.
All of the mechanical failure is noticeable, but the most annoying is the artificial gravity inducers, which break multiple times during the event. Brace yourselves cause there's no gravity. The universal translators break a few times too, much to the annoyance of the Wookies, Ewoks, Judoon, etc.
► STRANGE AIR AND VEGETATION: Want to rent a spacesuit to explore Zargon? You can do so! Feel free to go explore outside of the biodome area! Just be careful of the man-eating plants, poisonous mold spores, and pockets of hallucinogenic gas.
► THE ALIEN HORDES: A log for this will go up near the end of the event. But basically? Aw heck, it's an alien invasion. Thanks, Sandy Amberg, you did wonderful at this. There'll be a drag down, knock out fight for a bit before the Ringmaster decides "fuck this noise," pulls everybody back into the carnival, and they get the heck out of dodge.
REWARDS↴
► SPACE MERCH: Like every sporting event, there's merch to be bought, all emblazoned with the mascot of this year's Space Olympics, Johan the Athletic Porg! Buy a shirt with Johan playing basketball! Buy a mug with Johan on a sled! Who cares that Porgs technically aren't native to Zargon, they're cute and there's no way the planet's native species, the Zargon Death Flytrap, would ever make a halfway decent mascot in the first place. Unfortunately, there was an ordering snafu and the merch tables are just STACKED high with merchandise. Some sellers are still trying to actually pawn off the merch, but a few of them have resorted to just giving it away.
► YOU'RE A WINNER: Want to compete in the Space Olympics? Guess what! You can! The Ringmaster's crew has been shoved under the catch-all leftover label of Independent Athletes. Keep in mind that it will be very hard to actually place in the Space Olympics, as characters are going up against literally the best of the best in the entire universe. But if you want your character to at least make an attempt at winning a medal, drop a line in the 'going for a medal' section, icly justify your case with either info from your app or linked ingame examples/in canon scenes of your character doing the thing, and we'll RNG to see how you do! Winners actually get a physical medal and bragging rights. All participants get a consolation prize of a space gadget, the effects of which will be RNGed. Don't think this is anything cool, however, most of the space gadgets are things like 'kitchenwear' or 'outdated children's toys.'
The way that medaling works is that you'll comment to the 'going for a medal' comment and say whether your character is poor, fair, or good at the sport they're going for. We'll roll a d20 for successes: poor means you need to get a nat 20 in order to reach bronze. fair means 18-19 for bronze, nat 20 for silver. Good means 16-17 for bronze, 18-19 for silver, nat 20 for gold. If two people are competing in the same sport and hit the same medal tier, the higher point gets the medal or there'll be a roll-off.
EXAMPLE RANKINGS: SPACE HORSE RACING
Poor: Cole has ridden a horse once or twice in his entire life.
Fair: Strange knows how to handle a horse, though he's mostly ridden them going from place to place, not in any sort of competition.
Good: Lambert knows how to handle a horse, calm it down, keep it from being spooked when huge monsters are attacking, etc. thanks to his witcher training. His canon has horse riding contest sidequests and Lambert's been doing this for literal years. He also rides horses on a regular basis in the carnival, thanks to his Pokemon.
There will be a separate thread where you can tell which medal your characters are going to attempt to go for and where you can justify if they'd be fair or good at the event. All dice rolling will be done in a mod plurk, midway through the event.
► SPACE KNOWLEDGE: Got that pesky change that you're still getting used to? Developed a weird power that you're having trouble with? There are literally aliens of all shapes/sizes/types here at the Space Olympics. One of them can help with your new changes/provide that IC justification you need for Jim Bob to get better at fire-breathing.
CHANGES↴
Coincidentally, any home planet where a player character is from are unable to participate as well due to various accounting errors. As this is the case, the Ringmaster's decided to slap a few changes on people so that they'll fit in better. All members of the Carnival will be changed into aliens. Some will adopt a few superficial alien characteristics or two: ridged foreheads, tentacle arms, antennae, etc. Some characters will change shape entirely, looking like different aliens from fiction. These will solely include physical changes and characters will NOT gain any powers of the aliens they look like. Possible species for consideration include:
VULCANS: You suddenly get pointy ears and green blood!
SONTARANS: You're short, brown-skinned and oddly potato shaped.
WOOKIE: You're taller, fuzzier, and communicate in growling noises. Sure is nice that there's universal translator technology all over the place because buddy, you'll need that.
SKRULLS: You're green, have pointed ears, large eyes, and ridges on your chin!
TRIFFID: You're a tall, quadripedal, plant-like creature with a whip-like proboscis.
MAU: You look like a perfectly normal human except for the fact that you might have a cat tail.
GREEN SKINNED SPACE BABE: You're green. That's about it.
FLORA COLOSSUS: You are Groot.
H'LVENITE: You look like a literal squirrel.
You can't turn your character into any of the in-game aliens. However, you can have your character turn into a different alien from a character's canon. So you can't be a Homestuck troll, but you can be a Wookie. Characters may keep one common or uncommon change from the event.
NOTES:
- I'll be in charge of the dice rolling & prize distribution just to save you a headache
- the prizes will literally be the most useless things imagineable. like, space as seen on tv shit or an out of date vhs tape (it's ancient technology!!!). someone is gonna win themselves a space snuggie. Likewise, considering that December might have an item gain event, I'm up for not having the prizes/just having the prizes be bragging rights.
- winning is hard on purpose because this is the literal SPACE OLYMPICS and absolutely none of the carnival people are olympic level anything. Still, I'm 100% up for tweaking the winning mechanics if ya want
- wow, how weird that the ray guns of the alien hordes are all set to stun, they must have had a budget snafu as well.
- this is lighthearted and silly and fun and there will be no fatalities, just light comic injuries and dumbness.
- what's the dumbest space sport that RM can win a gold medal in (because she is WINNING THAT MEDAL)
I haven't read all of this yet but
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