Idea..submit your input.

[Verto]

This idea is not a new one, but I thought it was always a fun one. It will be a story in which each Apolytoner can write a part. That is, someone will start it off, then someone else will come and add a bit, etc. When the story goes out into left field and evolves into the physical emodiment of Off-Topic/Spam, then it can be ended.

The story line would follow the lives and happenings of the crew of a spaceship sent to Alpha Centauri.

What do you guys think?


EDIT: Oh yeah, think Red Dwarf.

[SKILORD]

hmmmmm.........

Not a bad thought, I would help.

this is the (pure) idea to the neverending story though, bear that in mind. (It's been perverted a long way)

[Zevico]

Nice idea, I'd like to do it too

[PresidentMarcos]

Count me in.

[Lord Zalzabad]

Hmm. There will be a problem with this, the same problem with all multi author stories, that of conflict between authors. For example (using somthing completly out of context), you could say I have 100 tanks, marching on your capital, while your opponent could say "oh yeah? I have 500 Nuclear Missiles heading to your capital" and then you could say "I have an unbeatable SDI defence", and then they could say... It would just go on and on like this. That is, however, if the plot has not been decided.

If all the Authors can think up a common plot, which they all stick to, insted of making up the plot as they go along, this could create a great multiauthor story (for the reader, that is). That is, not just that the ship is going to Alpha Centuri, but all the twists, and turns, the love affairs and the feuds, the life threatening problems and the sucsesses all mapped out before the story is actully written, with a central moderator looking over the charicter development and plot progression, making it less fun for the authors writing the parts.

I, due to time restraints, and a massive Essay workload for this semester, will regretfully not take part in this story, but I wish you the best of luck in its writing, and hope that some of my sugestions can be used.

[Verto]

Originally posted by Lord Zalzabad
Hmm. There will be a problem with this, the same problem with all multi author stories, that of conflict between authors. For example (using somthing completly out of context), you could say I have 100 tanks, marching on your capital, while your opponent could say "oh yeah? I have 500 Nuclear Missiles heading to your capital" and then you could say "I have an unbeatable SDI defence", and then they could say... It would just go on and on like this. That is, however, if the plot has not been decided.

This really only happens during the SNES with the different authors competing against each other. I don't see that scenario happening, although certainly there will be different styles of writing and plot twists and complete nonsense thrown in. This just makes for more interesting reading.

[Samuel Johnson]

We actually did this once before but people would kill off other people's characters.... see

http://apolyton.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=49900

I still think it was a good start for a story but for some reason it died.

[SKILORD]

If all the Authors can think up a common plot, which they all stick to, insted of making up the plot as they go along, this could create a great multiauthor story (for the reader, that is). That is, not just that the ship is going to Alpha Centuri, but all the twists, and turns, the love affairs and the feuds, the life threatening problems and the sucsesses all mapped out before the story is actully written, with a central moderator looking over the charicter development and plot progression, making it less fun for the authors writing the parts.

Perhaps have a basic plot, a reakl wireframe plot that is given to each author when he signs up. This lets them twist it as they please, as long as they keep the story.

[History Guy]

Hmm...well, I'll be away once again for the next two weeks...

However, I do hope something happens here with this (and with my Ghosts stories, which I actually do intend to get done, time permitting...). After all, I might just get to roleplay the great man himself - Francis Urquhart!

On second thought, a wandering squid salesman might do me just fine...

[jdd2007]

I would like to contribute to this.

[PresidentMarcos]

Plot idea: It is 120 years after Planetfall. Everyone has survived it, and now, all is prospering. The Believers, however, have been at war with the Zakharov-Morgan Federation ever since Day One of Year One. Now, a team of elite commandos have dicovered a relic of the Ancients that could tip the balance of the war in favor of the Zakharov-Morgan Federation. All they have to do is fight through over 120 divisions of Miriam's Army, Navy, and Air Force. And there are other factions trying to get the relic, too...

[History Guy]

But President! That means having to go to the AC-Fiction Forum!

Why not a nice and brutal political intrigue satire bit? Huh?

[PresidentMarcos]

There's always a bit of that. For instance, the President always spills his coffee when he drinks it. Miriam (or some other funny name) is a bible-whipper.

[Mr. President]

Ahhhh! It's the reincarnation of the Chiron Chronicles!

/me runs away screaming

[SKILORD]

I hope we get this going, so as to breathe a bit of life into the forum. Things are getting reaaaaaaaly slow here.