User:Sbp/notepad

This is a notepad for me to collect various interesting things that I'm working on for Ghyll. For example, the first Encyclopedants' Progress Report was initially developed here, as was the Ghyll Timeline. Some of these things are in-game and some are not: it should be obvious which is which without me having to tag it all for context.

What's In The Notepad?

• Draft Rules - a more holistic approach to laying down some rules for Ghyll; work in progress.
• First turn: an initial summary - now mainly incorporated into Encyclopedants Progress Report 1 instead, but may be of historical interest, and a point for further summary development.
• The Ghyll Timeline was first developed here, but has now been moved to a canonical part of the wiki.
• Initial draft of Altoxian Bulb.
• The Ghyll Who's Who was first developed here as The Who's Who of Ghyll.
• Favourite Bits 'n' Bobs - stuff that I like about Ghyll so far.

Notes

Abandoned: Quirks of Ghyll; These probably need tracking already! We have quayres, glitterthought, vorpcaras, etc.

Issue: Alezan, Alarius, Altox, Arariax, Avazian? Starting to think that some of these ought to be changed outright. All of them except for "Agony uncle" show a yearning to coin new names, but when seven out of eight entries do that, I think that's a bad precedent for future turns. Discussed this on IRC with Morbus.

@@ Styles of the entries, time systems, the geography, characters, inventions, themes.

Players

We've taken great effort to describe all the comings an dgoings of the game itself, but what about its participants? Let's track the players that have been contributing to ghyll in the first three turns and see which ones have dropped out and which ones have come in...

A:

Plus: Bartmoss, Christopher Schmidt, Doctor Phineas Crank, DrBacchus, Edward Shwarmph, Eric Vitiello, Fingest Arnia, Ginestre, Jcowan, Joe Bowers, Juzh Iruk, Makarii Spitignev, Melik Fizzou, Morbus Iff, Prothall, Qwentyth Pyre, Sean B. Palmer, Tamlin Moon.

B:

Bartmoss, Christopher Schmidt, Doctor Phineas Crank, DrBacchus, Fingest Arnia, Ginestre, Jcowan, Joe Bowers, Juzh Iruk, Melik Fizzou, Morbus Iff, Prothall, Qwentyth Pyre, Sean B. Palmer, Tamlin Moon.

Plus: Araes Domandred, Bast ResNovae, Darus Ixa, Dok, Talliesin.

Minus: Edward Shwarmph, Eric Vitiello, Makarii Spitignev.

C:

Bartmoss, Doctor Phineas Crank, Dok, DrBacchus, Jcowan, Joe Bowers, Morbus Iff, Prothall, Sean B. Palmer, Talliesin, Tamlin Moon.

Plus: Despicable Shimmy.

Minus: Araes Domandred, Bast ResNovae, Darus Ixa, Fingest Arnia, Ginestre, Juzh Iruk, Melik Fizzou, Qwentyth Pyre.

Wait... we can't've lost that many players on C, can we? Well apparently we did; Morbus: you might want to poll them and ask why they were unable to participate. If it's because there was too little time or the game's getting boring to them, hopefully that can be fixed.

Summary:

• A: +18
• B: +5, -3
• C: +1, -8

The Test Zone

And now for something TeXy:

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