#10, 11: A Brief History of Game -- Skotos & Marrach

[ShannonA]

The newest TT&T is now posted. It's "A Brief History of Game, Part Four" and present the history of Skotos Tech, so you can know where we're coming from. Here's an excerpt:

Tenebrae, as it happens, is a Latin word for shadow, and Chris liked that imagery. When he used up Latin, he began to work through a Greek dictionary, looking for similar words that might be available. Finally, he found one. It was the Greek word for the shadows that are seen just before the dawn. Skotos. On January 16, 1999, Chris sent around a piece of email discussing this name. It was titled: "Temporary Name – Skotos Tech?"

The article is available at http://www.skotos.net/articles/

Shannon

[JeffCrook]

Originally posted by ShannonA:
darkness

When I got back from GenCon, the first thing I did was drag out the big Webster and look up Skotos in the foreign words. I was wondering, what the hell is a Skotos? When I found that it was Greek for darkness, I thought, so they're a bunch of devil worshippers.

Actually, this article does a good job of detailing, in its hints to storybuilders, the agonies my game has been going through in the last week. I hope to have an article of my own ready for veiwing next week, where I reveal the significant changes to Qigung, including, no less, possible name changes?

[Kas Sommers]

Originally posted by JeffCrook:

I reveal the significant changes to Qigung, including, no less, possible name changes?



I have been wondering if it possible to change the name of a character. I have just discovered there is another character with a name just one letter different to one of my characters. As mine has only interacted with four or five players, I'd be very keen to get a different name - still recognisable as the same persone, but distinguishable from this other.

How do I change a name?

Kas

[Seidl]

If you've only interacted with a couple of people, why not just make a new character with the same physical description as the old one, and a new name.

If you have item you REALLY want to trasfer, just hide in an out of way place, drop them and loging with the new character and take them. Or ask another player to help you with the transfer.

-=- Matt aka. Martel

[LadySilverwolf]

Originally posted by Kas Sommers:
As mine has only interacted with four or five players, I'd be very keen to get a different

Hopefully you will let those four of five players know who you are if you decide to actually do this. Your not the only one who has this slightly problem, as I have noticed several others of late with a very slight variant of prominent player names.

If you really feel that you want to change your name, go for it, but perhaps it might make it interesting for the other players to actually become confused. For example, the case with Anastacia and Anastasia. That was really interesting to watch the confusion on folk's faces when they thought Martel's Ana was the one who put the Poison on Edouard's Sword!

These kind of confusions are actually fun to RP out... In the above mentioned case, Faer used the excuse that there was a slight inflection of sound difference in the name. Once she stated this, some folks quickly grabed on to the idea and it RPed out very nicely!

Think of the wonderful mayhem and intrigue that could happen from this if the opportunities arose?! http://www.skotos.net/ubb/cool.gif

[ShannonA]

The newest TT&T is now available. It contains last week's history of Skotos, this time talking about the evolution of Castle Marrach.


Some of the first notes are fairly ironic. Mike wrote the following about StoryTeller characters in the Castle: "Relatively few (servants, the Chamberlain, musicians, the Ice Queen and her maids, a few guards, birds, dogs, the Omphaloomp, the Talkative Gargoyle, etc.)" A few days later Lisa added some notes on things that didn't happen in the Castle: "Extended persistence [and] long, elaborate,continuously running plots."


Read it at http://www.skotos.net/articles/

Comments quite welcome.

Shannon