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The Marquis de All The Knives ([personal profile] balsamandash) wrote2017-01-28 12:43 am

Let's play a creation game, or, please help me be a productive writing thing this year.

I still plan on going back and doing a bunch of old ones, but my recent desire to worldbuild, and specifically character-build, got brought up, and a thing coalesced, so. I'm gonna paste together and bastardize a couple of old memes in the service of character and world development.

Here's the game. I have a set of characters, numbered from 1 to 20. They come from 5 different original worlds and stories that I want to be working on this year. Some of them know each other; some, even from the same world, don't; some of them have been kicking around in my head about a decade, and some of them are sitting on that list with a three-word character description in the hopes I'll have named them by the time I'm done here.

You can:
  • Ask questions about what they're like/what they like. ("What's 4's favorite ice cream flavor", or, "What was 9's family like".)
  • Ask questions about their role in the story. ("What is 11's driving motivation".)
  • Ask more meta questions about what they're like. ("What House would 19 be in" or "What would 12 think of 8".)
  • Propose scenarios and I will describe how they'd go. ("1, 5, and 10 are on a roadtrip together; where are they going and how does it go?" or "16 has to pick someone else on the list to go on a date with; who do they choose?")
  • Ask any other question you can come up with.
  • Ask multiple questions about one character.
  • Ask questions about as many characters as you'd like.
  • Ask the same question about different characters.
  • Jump in on another thread and ask additional/tangential questions that occur based on what someone else has to ask.


At some point, when I have a fair few questions, I will either edit this post with the list and start answering questions in the comments, or put up a new one with the list and answers - it largely depends on how many questions I get. (And once that's done, you're free to toss in additional questions, either before looking at the list, or that come up in response to previous answers.)
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[personal profile] rootsofthestories 2017-01-28 01:38 pm (UTC)(link)
What would be 16's favorite genre of music.
What is 2's goals within the story.
What kind of books would 9 rec to 15?
1, 7 and 14 have to decide on a pizza, who wins that fight?
What is 3 like when they are tired?

I will come back, I just wanted to be sure I gave you a first round.
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[personal profile] teaotter 2017-01-28 10:25 pm (UTC)(link)
#4 has to give a speech. What is it about and how does it go?

How does #11 relax after a hard day?

#20 has a dream about #5. What happens in the dream?

#10, #6. and #19 are the last three players in a mafia game. Which of them is the last assassin standing, and do the other two manage to figure it out?
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[personal profile] rootsofthestories 2017-01-30 04:38 am (UTC)(link)
Told you I'd be back.

What kind of characters would 6 RP, if they did such a thing?
What does 8 dream of having that they probably won't ever get?
3 and 12 are on a roadtrip together. Who drives?
13's last meal is?
16 wants to take a vacation. Where do they go and who would they take with them, if anyone?
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[personal profile] silveradept 2017-02-12 01:42 am (UTC)(link)
What exactly did 14 do that got everyone so upset?

17 got to cook by themselves, for themselves. What did they make?