mimalover
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| 23 Sep 2012 11:17 AM |
I love horror movies and I always wanted to do something like this. I'll try to explain how I thought this would work. First we pick a good horror film (slasher subgenre seems best), or we hybrid a few movies together and of course make some changes our selves.
That's the setting, now on with the core. I was thinking of a normal type where people do as they please during the RP (they control their character fully). I will control the killer and when I pick a victim, I will notify them and then that character and everyone around him will turn into a free choice mode to make it more interesting. So, the person would control the actions but I would control the outcome.
This is just an early draft, actually it's just a simple idea but I think it has potential. Anyone interested? |
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mimalover
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| 23 Sep 2012 11:19 AM |
Kk.
Any suggestions?
We have to make this work! |
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loppolh
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| 23 Sep 2012 11:23 AM |
Now there is your problem!
Maybe different era from modern.... |
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| 23 Sep 2012 11:25 AM |
Well for slasher, Nightmare on Elm Street should be crossed off.
Going with the more known ones, Scream seems like the best choice. As it takes place within a town, and with a few tweaks it should be usable. |
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mimalover
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| 23 Sep 2012 11:25 AM |
It will take place in the modern era but it is best to take inspiration from the classic horror movies.
But still, you got me thinking, different eras would be cool as well. Like the wild west, medieval or Victorian era. |
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loppolh
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mimalover
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| 23 Sep 2012 11:27 AM |
| @Gavin, we can find inspiration in many great movies. Halloween, Friday the 13th, Texas chainsaw massacre... and so on. |
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Dreadnor
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| 23 Sep 2012 11:30 AM |
Why stay with movies? There are plenty of other wonderful, horrifying things. You could broaden your terms by going with horror in general.
You could make it a thread of horror extravaganza and have us all make characters for a scenario, play it out, and then have a new scenario. It'd be a cycle of sorts, with each scenario inspired by a certain work of horror. It'd need a good writer, though, to make sure that it functions uniquely as well as elegantly. |
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mimalover
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| 23 Sep 2012 11:31 AM |
@Dreadnor,
Yeah good idea. We could expand on other horror peaces. It's just that I'm a real horror movie geek and that is my favorite. |
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| 23 Sep 2012 11:32 AM |
Yes but personally, out of the most known and watched ones [Friday the 13th, Halloween, Nightmare of Elm street, Texas chainsaw massacre, and Scream.] all besides Texas Chainsaw massacre and Scream are extremely unrealistic, don't get me wrong I still love watching me a Friday the 13th movie, but it is just really unrealistic.
Texas Chainsaw massacre revovles around a killer, and his family.
While scream revolves around just the killer. [This is excluding the victims and such.] |
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| 23 Sep 2012 11:33 AM |
| Thats actually a really good idea Dreadnor ;o |
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mimalover
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| 23 Sep 2012 11:35 AM |
| I understand that there is a certain doze of unrealism but that is alright. It makes it scarier and sometimes more interesting. Although here, yeah we should leap towards realistic but maybe we can add a few paranormal features to the killer. |
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| 23 Sep 2012 11:37 AM |
I agree with you mima :)
But like taking Jason, he is just too unreal.
Part 8, shot 6 times, didn't flinch. Stabbed in eye with pen. Hit with car. Is perfectly fine.
Part three, hung, takes axe to head before 'dying'
:P |
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mimalover
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| 23 Sep 2012 11:44 AM |
Let me make a sort of a list of what we want.
Interesting killer Good setting Good plot Interesting characters
If you got any suggestions concerning any of the listed things, please don't hesitate. |
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loppolh
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| 23 Sep 2012 11:45 AM |
| What about a detective tied in like Sherlock Holmes. |
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| 23 Sep 2012 11:47 AM |
The characters should be LOOSELY based off of the sterotypical horror movie characters but with their own twists and stuff.
Like have a jock, a joker/party guy, the pretty girl, the nice girl.
With more characters who you see in a few different ones but aren't that frequent like the smart kid, the 'bad boy', the mean girl [Who could be the pretty girl :>] |
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mimalover
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| 23 Sep 2012 11:48 AM |
Never fought about it. Has this kind of thing ever been mixed with horror? I'll think about it.
I have this plot in my head where kids discover this abandoned subway/ sewer/ some sort of interesting, big abandoned place. They start playing there but later find out it was shut down because a bunch of kids went missing there 50 years in the past.
What do you think about this? |
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mimalover
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| 23 Sep 2012 11:49 AM |
| @Gavin, exactly. Each character should be planned out before we start and there should be many different types to keep it interesting. |
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Dreadnor
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| 23 Sep 2012 11:50 AM |
Alright.
I like my idea as well, so I suppose I'll pursue it out of this collab.
Anyway.
Mima. Your idea is alright, but a bit cliche. Is there anything about it that sticks out from the crowd? |
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| 23 Sep 2012 11:51 AM |
| Each type should also be unique so you can tell them apart from their stereotypical character. |
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mimalover
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| 23 Sep 2012 11:51 AM |
| Not really. I know its a cliche but it's the best I've got. You just can't be original these days when everything has already been done... |
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Dreadnor
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| 23 Sep 2012 11:53 AM |
Well, you're correct when you say a lot has been done.
But the thing is, we have to make it good. Give it some sort of interesting edge that might have an air of mystery or horror to it. We'd have to take it slow and develop the place. |
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| 23 Sep 2012 11:54 AM |
Maybe there doesn't have to be a direct setting.
Maybe the parents of the characters did something horrible to someone in the past, and the person they did the horrible thing to, is out for revenge.
And maybe they want the parents to suffer, instead of die, by killing their kids? |
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mimalover
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| 23 Sep 2012 11:55 AM |
| Alright then, first we have to decide the setting. I think the era of technology would be familiar to everyone and easy to use but there are also other eras so I'm not sure which one to chose. The past seems a bit more mystic but I feel like if we go to deep we get more and more limitations. |
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