Yep! Or a musebox if you want to make one for like ~all~ your characters.

Which is like .. a private community. So that the other player(s) can start logs.

Ahh, I have been wanting a muse box. Perhaps I will make this happen.

And then that way I can do the private log I want but also facilitate crack involving Hagrid.

Ehehehe YES

OK then! Now to come up with a name.

I feel so RP lame lately. . . should I admit that I mostly have been smiling and nodding about 'museboxes' whenever they have come up?

I DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY ARE

. . . I have been guessing.

They're just a community that you make for yourself.

Then I have been wrong! . . . I somehow have managed to interpret it as 'character practice do-whatever comm' hahaha

But, assumed them public somehow.

Hm, maybe sort of! You can use them for anything you feel like doing, really. Including voice-testing

I guess the only real advantage is that other people can also start logs in them.

Now I know! And knowing is half the battle. =D

I was only 50% wrong!

Whereas if you did it in your own journal you'd have to do all the starters.

Like, when jenius and I used to do Renata/Robin RPs, we ended up with half the scenes in my char journal and half in hers.

yeah, all the naughty bits

It seems like great fun. And I like the idea of being able to play without committing to a game necessarily.

Another piece of lingo you might see is "psl"

Funny... a private RP with Robin was what I wanted the whole thing for. Though there will not be smut, sadly.

Which means "private storyline"

aw, robin would love a private rp.

So like ... let's say I wanted to write something with Anders meeting Hagrid, and they became BFF in that log, so we ended up writing a ...

... long series of Anders and Hagrid being bros everywhere. That would be a psl

again, like the naughty bits.

. . .but that sounds potentially worthy of being a public storyline. Anders and Hagrid palling around being bros everywhere.

Yeah, except that they aren't necessarily from any particular game

like, Anders isn't a book character so he can't be in bookgame with Hagrid

But yeah, i can grok the use of them in some cases certainly!

but if I really wanted to write him hanging out with Hagrid at the End of Time, we could do a psl in Bri's musebox

hagrid could be on exsili though

old lady using the lingo

I know but! it's just an example XDD

or ok what if I wanted to write about Wesley Willis hanging out with Hagrid

I'm pretty sure no game would accept Wesley Willis

. . . this also seems worthy of being read.

The best PSL would be Ari and Elric running a McDonalds in a foreign land.

I'm not sure where.

Somewhere exotic and/or remote.

Which I suppose is why some museboxes turn into actual comms of some kind?

The only McDonalds in Siberia.

What with, most of these ideas you are tossing out are things that Should Be Done and Should Be Seen.

Hee. People can subscribe to other people's museboxes!

I .. think there's also sandboxes? like big comms where lots of people play around?

but at that point I get unclear on the terminology

I have a new Bookgame rule for us!

"If you want to just thread tons and tons of smut with another character in many private threads, take it to a musebox." =D

Pretty much

This seems the perfect use for them!

In fact this seems to be what happens with smut nowadays!

It is certainly what I do with my smut.

No one wants to see that stuff. If they really want to read crazy mage buttsex they can subscribe to my musebox.

gazebo,where's your musebox again? i want to join. [there is such a 'that's what she said' joke there...]

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I should likely join it for when a chance instance of Wesley Willis hanging around with anyone might happen.

I should make a Wesley Willis journal.

Of course, then I'd be tempted to troll my own private threads.

That may be an art form.

Lezard is trying to make out with someone, and Wesley Willis comes barging in singing about how he whupped Batman's ass.

I think that everyone everywhere needs to be BFF with Hagrid.

I hope Hagrid may join us at bookgame =D

And also I am amused by the McDonalds idea, too. <3

He can pal around with Roose and they can make a giant leech land.

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. . .you need to take this.

I miss Hagrid. I feel that I have more serious chars I should app first, but he was so much fun to play!

ok but I need to found it with Ari

Oh I forgot about the leech pond! Yes this must happen!

Rickon can show off Shaggydog to him

Severian can show off his tricycle.

/me is something like halfway through Claw of the Concilitator now.

does Severian give a fuck about anything yet? XD

Sort of. In his super half-assed way.

does he have any friends yet

He does!

And he just. . .had dinner. XD

who are his current friends

Jonas.

I . . . think. Severian seems to like him at least. The fucks he gives are so moderate it's always hard to tell. =P

And when he does give a fuck, he's never very forthcoming to the reader as to WHY.

Also I think he lies alot, which doesn't help.

Hagrid would love to meet Shaggydog. that would be so cute.

Yes, yes it would.

Yes. Severian lies a lot.

And then very nonchalantly doesn't bother keeping up the pretense later.

so like two books later you're staring at an offhand remark in narrative going "wait, what? did I miss something"

*in his narration

I wish I could pull off a good Ziani from the Engineer Trilogy. It sounds like he and Severian would have interesting conversations.

Sadly, I am so not that smart.

Oh man. They really would.

I rather want to write Severian palling around with Elric, arguing over who gives fewer fucks.

Severian of course, what with Elric giving many fucks and claiming to give none. =P

But this should be pointed out to him.

Severian: too indifferent to point it out

Indeed. Severian could not manage it.

Ari and Elric could discuss his issues with fake apathy over flipping burgers.

Severian: looms with Terminus Est

Severian: a threat to Grimace

Shoggies: get into the burger meats.

SIBERIA IS DESTROYED.

I miss playing Shoggies so much.

Can Ayla come to Siberia and invent the secret sauce?

I feel we should make goldenarches a closed sandbox for shenanigans such as this.

And play 100 characters whenever we want, including real people.

This seems like a good use for it!

Wesley Willis LIVES at the McDonalds and is the fry cook.