Not politics
.... I've been thinking recently that I want to do more with Scian and Rai than I have thus far. I feel like they've faded away, to the point that few people even remember the characters anymore, and Scian's just an alias I go by online. Even the people who are closest to me at this point, with a couple of exceptions, never really even got to -meet- Scian while I was playing him.
Unfortunately, the more I've thought about it, the less likely it seems that I'll ever actually sit and write a book. There's no interaction there. No outside stimuli, no... no life, it's all just whatever happens to fit into a novel. People reading it might get a general feel for the character, but they'd never really hold a conversation with him.
I thought about a video game at one point, but after talking it over with some people, I came to realize that the production process would simply annihilate the real characters, and the people who came to know them wouldn't know -them-, but some horrendously homogenized, popular-cultured version of them that has little to do with how -I- see them.
The only avenue I can think of that would really work would be an RP.... but there doesn't seem to -be- an RP around that would work. Most people with an established setting aren't likely to let me come in and start telling a story like Scian's, even -if- I could find one that took RP seriously and had a setup similar enough to Scian's origin that I could start from.
I could create an RP setting. I still have some notes from the Darengon setting I put together at one point. But... who would play? I might be able to convince a small handful of people to be interested, but then with just the few I'm pretty sure would be in, there'd be the issue of time differences and the like. Not only that, but an RP setting isn't something I could do by myself, and no one seems to have the time/energy/interest to actually devote to it.
So... does anyone know anything I can do about this situation...?
Unfortunately, the more I've thought about it, the less likely it seems that I'll ever actually sit and write a book. There's no interaction there. No outside stimuli, no... no life, it's all just whatever happens to fit into a novel. People reading it might get a general feel for the character, but they'd never really hold a conversation with him.
I thought about a video game at one point, but after talking it over with some people, I came to realize that the production process would simply annihilate the real characters, and the people who came to know them wouldn't know -them-, but some horrendously homogenized, popular-cultured version of them that has little to do with how -I- see them.
The only avenue I can think of that would really work would be an RP.... but there doesn't seem to -be- an RP around that would work. Most people with an established setting aren't likely to let me come in and start telling a story like Scian's, even -if- I could find one that took RP seriously and had a setup similar enough to Scian's origin that I could start from.
I could create an RP setting. I still have some notes from the Darengon setting I put together at one point. But... who would play? I might be able to convince a small handful of people to be interested, but then with just the few I'm pretty sure would be in, there'd be the issue of time differences and the like. Not only that, but an RP setting isn't something I could do by myself, and no one seems to have the time/energy/interest to actually devote to it.
So... does anyone know anything I can do about this situation...?