Letters From Home

[Cam]

Would anyone be interested in playing a game in which the entirety of the story is told by writing letters?

The premise is simple. At the beginning of the game, you are given a broad group of facts about the world. From there, you extrapolate a story by creating letters, journals, and other documents. The more you write, the more we learn about our story.

The game I'm imagining almost resembles an archaeological dig.

[MST3K 4ever]

Okay you got my interest with this.

[Nevermind]

Maybe interested

[code gary]

i like the idea, i think it gives the potential for cool formatting in posts too, like crossing out shit or imitating what erase marks might look like in text. ideas are endless

[Cam]

I'm glad to see that the idea has a little bit of support behind it. To show my thanks, I'll flesh it out a little bit more for you.

The goal of the game is simply to interpret the story based on the evidence we create as a group. The evidence being the letters and other documents we write together.

However, I fully encourage a degree of contradiction to be present. People make mistakes, remember things differently, and even outright lie all the time.

As more evidence presents itself, our interpretation of the story changes. The world grows.

You have an unlimited number of characters at your disposal, but of course there can and will be recurring characters.

Unless otherwise noted, it would be acceptable for multiple players to write for the same character.

The game will be subtle. The game will be long. I hope that there will be a lot of depth to it.

Myself included, I would like to have five people to start, although more are welcome. I don't usually shut the doors on my RP's.

Are there any questions thus far?

[code gary]

im game whenever youre ready.

[SilverRain]

What's the setting going to be? Can I write my posts as Dear Diary entries instead of letters? Can I keep a character for myself?

[Cam]

SilverRain said
What's the setting going to be? Can I write my posts as Dear Diary entries instead of letters? Can I keep a character for myself?

I'm going to keep the setting fairly vague in the beginning. Suffice to say that I want to explore an entire era. Everything exist anywhere inside a window of thirty to fifty years of time.

The world will be a fictional one. Similar to earth but not quite. Quasi-modern as far as technology and society goes. No aliens, nor space travel. The world is at the brink of a cataclysmic event. World war, famine, the like. Everyone can have their own story. They need not necessarily link together right away.

Dear diary writing is perfectly acceptable. Any sort of written document that could be recovered by historians.

I'll allow you to reserve characters for yourself, but a limited number of them.

I have my first post written up and ready to go. So long as those who have posted here are game, I can have an OOC and IC up and running by tomorrow.

[MST3K 4ever]

Let's do this.

[MyCatGinger]

Link us. Might be interested!

[Chromane]

Neat concept, very interested to be a part of this!

[I am the Black Wizards]

I'm also very interested in this.

[Rhymer]

I'm interested. This reminds me of a game I played on another forum set in a 'weird fiction' type universe filled with ancient horrors and cthulu like gods. The players were professors or soldiers or whatever that slowly uncovered the unfathomable scope of the universe and time..play was mostly letters, but some wrote diary entries and news flashes-I think we had radio transmission dialogue too but I can't remember. Anyways, I'm certainly interested.

[Captain Paper]

Sounds cool. I am interested.

[Ardent Dawn]

I'm interested - I'm looking forwards to seeing how this plays out :)

[Rhymer]

Anyone still interested? Even if Cam is not around I would like to give this a shot.

[Girlie Go Boom]

Hi~~!!

Interested. Me. MEEE!!^-^!!

[MST3K 4ever]

I'm in.

[Malikoy]

Sounds interesting, count me in.

[Girlie Go Boom]

Soooooooo... Rhymer, did you mean you would hijacks this thread and then you would runs the RP? K. So like what kind of setting did ya have in mind?