Hey, what do you know, a song about a creepy doll. I recently heard it because its part of the current Humble Music Bundle, go check it out for cheap legal music yo: http://www.humblebundle.com/
Anyway, that reminds me of a creepy doll we saw recently. Especially the fact that the doll just kind of follows that guy around in the song. Originally, Moomba was going to just chill out around our characters, doing creepy things a bit like the Sheep might if we didn't kill it as soon as we say it. Just a way to inject horror into our everyday stuff, like maybe Eshe's bloodtaps running endlessly or something.
The Moomba idea of course grew out of the doll image at the bottom, but I had no idea what to do with my idea for a while. I was like, "Hey, wouldn't it be silly if someone RPed as that doll?" I also considered roping that blocky fellow you see next to the "Who's Online" thing somehow, but it would have been forced.
A lot of things about that Moomba plot shifted about. At first Celestia would be put in a doll that looked like her, but the body switch Captain Ginyu style seemed more interesting so that was scrapped. I also might have involved the Onion Knight doll in the plot if the tractors had not favored the bar enough in the conflict.
The Doll is around still as a remnant of that "Sticking around to cause horror" element, except Calabat and The Doll exist so I always have someone (something) in the bar to RP with in case the others are busy. Also, in case I have a cute or silly idea for something, or something that my other characters couldn't do just randomly.
Also, I originally had Phantomon randomly show up near the end because I thought he might have to transfer the soul of Celestia back into her, but I was just like "Eh, let's just have Moomba's death fix all it's evil magic."
Also, RP seems kinda slow now huh? At least the past few days felt that way. I have a few things I might do, but I have so many new vidja games I might not implement them. If you saw that post with Izzy, that's one of them. Olympic mascots are so weird these days. I actually considered including a different one, but he wasn't era appropriate and... He wasn't a ridiculous Whatzit!
So yeah, let's see how August goes. I guess it's the last month of RP so hopefully it's a good one!
I think RP is slower due to our userbase shrinking further. We've lost Alex, Inurian, Designate, Gezora again, Brilliant Kid, and Ogopogo, Godbot is trapped under a robot-and-squid-shaped writer's block, Cornwind seems to have put all his other characters on hold until Sine is sorted out (August has done nothing since early June!), and Draco and saberwulf will vanish for days at a time. That just leaves you, me, Del, SK, Erebus, M Sheep, and RedSpy to carry entire days by ourselves.
ReplyDeleteIf we can't get the Zoofights staff to get their shit together and figure out what to do with the forum, its registration, and Zoofights, we're in trouble of withering down to nothing. We need a real tournament to get people to come here, operating on a real schedule, and new people need to be able to join the forums without hassle.
On the flip side, I do like that this year is not as completely bonkers as last year was. I appreciate the extra time in my schedule.
Also, if we stop RPing in September, we should have a Halloween special as well as our Christmas special. I've had a 90s-themed Halloween costume for Celestia ready since before this year even started!
I've actually toned it down because of JRM commenting that I tend to 'intrude' on other RPing instead of joining in, and story plots have just kinda made it that only Des can really wander in ATM, and bad luck keeps happening with her being freaked out first by Eshe and then Morgana.
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