Heart Run Set-Up

[stigmateyes]

Here is what I have for a general plan:

Heart starts at 6 PM EST Thursday since this seems to be the time most people are around. It will run as long as people want to play. I don't want to rush people so I will be running this out of normal Aather time.

As previously mentioned, this heart has an objective, that being the boss fight. There are things characters must do to initiate this. My idea was to go into boss fight if initiated and run that thread and exploradora threads at the same time, concurrently. In general, changes that can occur as a result of exploradora will not affect the boss fight. The boss fight is affected purely by characters' responses.

I would also like to coordinate the endgame of the boss fight when that point is reached. So I'm not super concerned with it now.

If you have any suggestions/concerns with the basic design of this run (stuff mentioned above), mention them below and we'll try to sort this out as a group.

Comments

[stigmateyes]

As to the other two points:

- I can have Eureka deliver damage to Alpha and then end up with one of the other NPCs for a bit?

- I am totally game with the idea that Jill can influence the battle through Dream assistance.

[idkmybffnirvash]

1. That sounds good! Really, I am easy with her, because she cares about results ahead of whatever she may want to do.

2. Aha, that wasn't quite the idea in mind. Since Jill will be leaving on extended quest, I would like her to be able to do something that helps Night out in a long-term and appreciable way. If Alpha were not going to be destroyed, then she adds an extra level of barrier on him or a boost to Night as an example. With that in mind, are you still interested?

[stigmateyes]

Hmm, that's a bit harder since I have elements in the exploradora intended to help Ryner with most of his non-Alpha issues, if interacted with. And fully awakened Ryner is somewhat more stable than Ryner-with-Alpha.

His biggest issue remains losing Amethyst... so something to affect that would probably be the only thing that really needs help.

[idkmybffnirvash]

If interacted with can be a large if, so you could potentially use it in that direction.

In any case, it is a sudden and large offer on top of planning this, so maybe you could take some time and see how the game pans out? It would give you time to think of how would like to use it for Night in a way that isn't only limited to heart game mechanics of extreme symbolism and so on.

The situation is largely that Dream would be willing to help with what is going on, but he will be relying on Jill to give it a focus which, I would assume, would be something positive to help Night out. It does not have to necessarily be only internal and can manifest in an outside form, but I would only ask that it touch his ~feelings~ and ~special place~ in a strong manner.