Ooooo. Carnies.

I have been thinking about our first VG-wide plot. The idea of something bouncing off of the Carnival of Shadows was generally well received by most folks, so that is where my brain is working. The obvious story, especially considering the Carnival's regular MO, is some sort of mass-abduction of the students from Sigma, leading to a story in which the Sigma girls are put through the Carnival indoctrination-wringer and -- presumably -- defy it and break free.

At first, this would suggest that teacher characters would have little to do -- but most of the teachers have student/staff alts and I believe Qiang and I are the only two exceptions. My current thought is to allow teacher players to instead temporarily adopt the role of specific Carnival bosses, whom they would then roleplay during the indoctrination process. The caveat would be that you could not be indoctrinating a Sigma girl who is the student of your faculty character. In other words, the RP is specifically designed to get you to RP intimate scenes with characters you may not otherwise get to.

I'm intentionally not setting down any detail on the end/conclusion of this plot, but I did think I might use it to bring in an ex-Carny girl as a new student -- since I don't have such an alt. Of course, this presumes we are not full by then. A new player is better than any alt I could make.

More on this story as it develops. Don't look for this plot to kick off very soon -- we have a party planned for Saturday, and I know one or two of our players are still doing subplots of their own. This is very much in the "working on it" stage, but I wanted to share the concept with all of you and I very much look forward to working more on it.