New Event Ideas

[Liniya]

Any suggestions on any sort of like simple other online role playing game we could all meet up on and play?

We're waiting for people who know all the new rules and what we can do to pop in and post. So far we don't have a lot aside from straight-up roleplaying. x.x

[Kandarin]

I remember, I remember that I wasn't there. <.< It was a roleplay, obviously. Likely an EVoV. Speaking of which, technically I'm still supposed to be the responsible captain, last I checked. Look at that frickin awesomesauce siggy.

To be honest, I ended up slowing down and eventually dropping EVoV because after trying a bit to jumpstart everything back up, people at the time just didn't seem to be able to make it with their schedules or weren't that interested. Or, there just weren't enough people. Two or three at most at a time, maybe? Not enough to hold an event. I wasn't as interested as when things first started, to be truthful, and I'm not the roleplay master that Kandarin or Mac was. I volunteered in the first place because I hated to see us quit on a dear old tradition. Also, again to be honest, RuneScape just doesn't seem to hold the attention of most of the old EVoV gang anymore; I personally had moved on in gaming--and more importantly, in life--for years, even before I had been so enthusiastic about reviving EVoV. I didn't try hard or long enough maybe, but I did try, and I suggested that other people take the initiative when I couldn't be so active with my school problems going on back then. But really, it just wasn't the sort of thing people felt like doing in their free time.

Would it be different now? Do we just need to find some other games we have in common? Or an entirely new hobby? Geocaching, anyone?
/endrant

Seriously, do you guys want to do something like an EVoV or is it just our duty to RunePeace's memory?

The beauty of EVoV is that you don't need more than two or three people at a time to hold an event. It may take a while to get that first non-RP recruit at a given event, but after that the whole memetic flashmobby inertia of it all tends to keep it going on its own. That's one of the reasons why I like it so much - you may get dozens of people at the event, but you only get to know who a couple of them will be ahead of time, and as a result the plot is always a surprise. Obviously, having more people at the start makes the start faster, but all you really need is to have the time free to do it and a friend who's willing and has time free too.

However, that spontaneity also makes it hard to plan for EVoV events. It's trickier to schedule things and line people up to take part when you don't know what you'll be doing - and much of what makes EVoV so much fun is the near-certainty that you really don't know. This is why I've never tried to set a solid schedule and why the EVoV events I had recently were so spontaneous. Hopefully I'll have the time to run a few more in the coming months, but it'll always be tricky to plan.

[Liniya]

Well if you wanna try some EVoV events I'll help when/where I can. I don't like the idea of spontaneity, but I guess I can't complain. XP