Silvermoon: the forum I am cheating on you with
Posted: 18 Apr 2009 09:02 pm
So, I've been pretty thoroughly absent for a while; a lot of this was my life being a total bastard to me for months at a stretch, but these days it's mainly that I'm not spending time on any pet sites at all anymore (though the Swallowed City still niggles at me from the back of my mind) and don't have a lot to say about 90% of the goings-on here. This is horribly sad for me, because whenever I stick my head in, what I see is awesome people I love talking about stuff I don't have context for or can't really involve myself in.
However, there is hope. (For one thing, I'm just making a point of sticking my head in more often.) I am online a lot these days, and I'm spending a great deal of my time at Silvermoon, a forum-based RPG which I think, and hope, is right up the alley of many of the writers and gamers here. Don't worry if you don't know your way around forum RPGs; I hadn't done this before either. On a continuum with tabletop D&D at one end and freeform round-robin writing at the other, it's a bit right of center.
Silvermoon is a pulp fantasy/space opera with its tongue firmly in its cheek. It concerns the politics of two empires -- the Golden Elysium, which rules most of Earth, and the Silver Millennium, which occupies Earth's moon and the rest of the solar system -- as they negotiate their way towards, or away from, alliance, and the relationships and dramas and pratfalls of those empires' people. The characters are the major movers and shakers of their homelands and homeworlds: royalty, government officials, high-ranking clergy, famous artists, corporate CEOs, sought-after detectives, and lots and lots of pirates and troublemakers. Silvermoon is slapstick jokes about serious things and serious conversations about ridiculous things. Silvermoon is about twisting the volume knob off and not even apologizing.
The setting is based very loosely, at the level of the basic structures of the world, on the Sailor Moon mythos (specifically the live-action cheesefest that was Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon), but I'm not particularly familiar with Sailor Moon and I'm not sure I would be able to spot it if I didn't already know. All the countries and planets are player-created (and there is plenty of room for more, especially on Earth), and include such delights as fantasy Shinto Japan, the Arabian Nights as remodeled by H.P. Lovecraft, reverse Gor, and entire nations and/or planets full of ultra-spiritual potsmokers, wacky Discworld-style philosphers and kids who SMS continuously at the dinner table.
Also, we spend a lot of time talking about beer. So if you're into that, welcome home.
A random sampling of my favorite characters, most of them not even created by me:
Leonel Irien (hilariously thinly-disguised Rahm Emanuel INNN SPAAAACE), Mordecai Jamin (rat bastard superspy Wilson to Leonel's House) and Delilah Varinius (who writes slash about the preceding two).
Sutton Vanceaux, the ur-teenager, and his terrifying mother.
Oberon, Titania, and Robin the Puck as you have never seen them before. Unless you watch a lot of mob movies while you drop acid, in which case this should be hauntingly familiar.
Tybalto Logmadr-Freyjason, who is played by Tim Curry -- I don't think I need to say any more about that -- and his sexually frustrated robot.
And Vlad Harvester, possibly the greatest character in anything ever. I just ... you have to read it. There are no words.
And favorite threads, which do mostly involve me:
Having That Dream Again
The Barfight at the End of the Universe
Fake Mardi Gras Presents: Spectacular Spectacular (anything involving Sutton and/or Francine is almost intolerably funny)
All Fun & Games Until Someone Loses an Eye
Not Your Average Emissary
Also check out the jukebox, which contains close to two hundred fifty songs assembled by seventeen people and is therefore completely insane, and also features drop-dead gorgeous character banners created by Cal, the game owner (and a few by me).
Come play with me. You can find me there as Squid or one of my enormous roster of characters; I am pretty active in the chatbox.
However, there is hope. (For one thing, I'm just making a point of sticking my head in more often.) I am online a lot these days, and I'm spending a great deal of my time at Silvermoon, a forum-based RPG which I think, and hope, is right up the alley of many of the writers and gamers here. Don't worry if you don't know your way around forum RPGs; I hadn't done this before either. On a continuum with tabletop D&D at one end and freeform round-robin writing at the other, it's a bit right of center.
Silvermoon is a pulp fantasy/space opera with its tongue firmly in its cheek. It concerns the politics of two empires -- the Golden Elysium, which rules most of Earth, and the Silver Millennium, which occupies Earth's moon and the rest of the solar system -- as they negotiate their way towards, or away from, alliance, and the relationships and dramas and pratfalls of those empires' people. The characters are the major movers and shakers of their homelands and homeworlds: royalty, government officials, high-ranking clergy, famous artists, corporate CEOs, sought-after detectives, and lots and lots of pirates and troublemakers. Silvermoon is slapstick jokes about serious things and serious conversations about ridiculous things. Silvermoon is about twisting the volume knob off and not even apologizing.
The setting is based very loosely, at the level of the basic structures of the world, on the Sailor Moon mythos (specifically the live-action cheesefest that was Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon), but I'm not particularly familiar with Sailor Moon and I'm not sure I would be able to spot it if I didn't already know. All the countries and planets are player-created (and there is plenty of room for more, especially on Earth), and include such delights as fantasy Shinto Japan, the Arabian Nights as remodeled by H.P. Lovecraft, reverse Gor, and entire nations and/or planets full of ultra-spiritual potsmokers, wacky Discworld-style philosphers and kids who SMS continuously at the dinner table.
Also, we spend a lot of time talking about beer. So if you're into that, welcome home.
A random sampling of my favorite characters, most of them not even created by me:
Leonel Irien (hilariously thinly-disguised Rahm Emanuel INNN SPAAAACE), Mordecai Jamin (rat bastard superspy Wilson to Leonel's House) and Delilah Varinius (who writes slash about the preceding two).
Sutton Vanceaux, the ur-teenager, and his terrifying mother.
Oberon, Titania, and Robin the Puck as you have never seen them before. Unless you watch a lot of mob movies while you drop acid, in which case this should be hauntingly familiar.
Tybalto Logmadr-Freyjason, who is played by Tim Curry -- I don't think I need to say any more about that -- and his sexually frustrated robot.
And Vlad Harvester, possibly the greatest character in anything ever. I just ... you have to read it. There are no words.
And favorite threads, which do mostly involve me:
Having That Dream Again
The Barfight at the End of the Universe
Fake Mardi Gras Presents: Spectacular Spectacular (anything involving Sutton and/or Francine is almost intolerably funny)
All Fun & Games Until Someone Loses an Eye
Not Your Average Emissary
Also check out the jukebox, which contains close to two hundred fifty songs assembled by seventeen people and is therefore completely insane, and also features drop-dead gorgeous character banners created by Cal, the game owner (and a few by me).
Come play with me. You can find me there as Squid or one of my enormous roster of characters; I am pretty active in the chatbox.