Just in time

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Anon talk continuation, since rp_anontalk isn't here yet.

Recaptcha totally said I could.

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Canon/cast discussion
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[anonymous]

So Anontalk, I had been thinking. There are a few High School RPs out there, most of which are AU. There are tons of events where characters in an RP act as if they're in a high school. But has there ever been a non-AU High School type game or dressing room? I had thought about it like this.

It's one of those "WAAAAAAAH YOU WERE IN YOUR WORLD BUT NOW YOU'RE HEEEEERE IN THIS TOOOOWN" type of games, but generally, it'd be set up where the characters involved would be forced to go to school and do something there, be it a student or a faculty worker, janitor, teacher, cafeteria worker, all that. I'd figure that it would also be one large school, for anyone who wants to app an adult, child, teenager, whichever.

I figured it'd be pretty interesting to see characters from a large group of universes interacting, and all the clubs that could possibly be formed within the school. You know, such as a Host Club being formed or a Haruhi Suzumiya coming in to create the SOS Brigade to search for aliens walking within the school and all that. Plus whatever other clubs that could be thought up.

I'd also imagine that most supernatural powers (you know, magic, flying, being able to sprout limbs) would be limited or possibly casted aside or something like that.

Thoughts, Comments? Anyone that thinks it's such a good idea that it could be adopted and made into an actual game, since anon is terrible at modding?

[anonymous]

It could be fun, but it wouldn't be too appealing to me--I'm not too fond of high school games just because I wasn't that fond of high school. ...Then again, I've had fun at high school events in games before, and I know some people do really like that game, so it could be a fun twist on the typical jamjar.

[anonymous]

So would you be able to app pre-canon versions of characters? Not AU, but of school age, if you'd rather them study than teach?

[anonymous]

Maybe, if you can think of how they'd be pre-canon/if they hadn't changed much at all.

[anonymous]

Kewlie beans.

[anonymous]

I've thought about something like this, except normal high school bores me, so I was thinking about a weird mystical interdimensional very bizarre and sliiiiiightly creepy type of school. The thing is, with all the setting ideas I liked it was starting to get really complicated. Some of my concepts included:

- Normally, all characters would be apped as students (teachers being an option, but likely only to established and trusted players or such). To show how serious the school is about this, their physical ages would be changed appropriately.

- Characters could leave when they graduated from the school. This could be done normally over the course of years, or alternately, players apping them could pick a "life lesson" character development thing which would allow the character to graduate if they ever managed to learn it. The characters would not be told about this.

- Classes would be held at utterly random times and in strange, magical, or nonsensical subjects as well as normal ones. Characters with powers would not be able to use them until they took a class on something at least partially similar.

And so on. I'd play there in a heartbeat, but I sure wouldn't try to write a comprehensive explanation of the thing.

Anyway, I'm all for non-AU versions of games people would normally default to AU. I don't care how repetitive the jamjar thing gets, I'm much more interested in seeing my character thrust into a strange new situation than in seeing them be someone else.

[anonymous]

If it isn't AU then you're really going to have a compelling reason for people to go to freakin' school instead of trying to escape or leave - but one not so terrifying that they can relax into a school routine.

[anonymous]

Yeah, this. I like high school AUs just fine, but a high school jamjar is a little... I dunno, it just seems like something you'd make for the purpose of being able to go LOOK GUYS WHAT A TWIST. And it's not that great of a twist.

[anonymous]

Boring.

Not to say "your jamjar needs plot" but it definitely needs more than "get a big cast together and leave to their own devices." If it runs on that, there's no way that it'll survive early days, when there will not be enough characters.