Claude's Ideal World (Notes)
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tothelightGame was here! A lot of the minor stuff ended up being made up on the fly, but most of the core elements were set beforehand.
GENERAL
۞ Premises were 1) "a world without loneliness." 2) "A world with no conflicting obligations." 3) "A world outside the caves." The first was embodied by all the people it contained (more importantly the Friends and Loved Ones it contained), and could contain; the second by the physical existence of more than one "Claude"; the third by Expel, specifically Arlia and its surroundings, which he has the strongest associations with in memory and embodies everything Sabra is not.
۞ There were three "Claudes" present. Canon, Sabra... and old!Sabra Chrysos. The Sabra one with the bracer was the true Claude, though the other two were tied to him on a representation level (canon one more strongly than Chrys.) So each of them could be fully committed to their own "worlds" and the people therein-- hence why the spacecaptain Claude the party first ran into didn't recognize them at all. But there was some overlap, and the Claudes were comfortably aware of each other's presence-- canon!Claude was the one helping to shuttle some of Sabra!Claude's friends over to party in Arlia--- but the real Claude wouldn't actually be able to acknowledge the unlikeliness of the other one unless it was pointed out to him by the players (which would be a Big Trigger).
ULYSSES
۞ The spaceship stage was an embodiment of the dream of being able and free to go anywhere he wanted, to anyone he wanted-- if Heiji had checked what was on the captain's console instead of the one he did he would've found a list of coordinates to all kinds of different locations. "London, 18XX AD.". "Clow, ??". "Shinonome, 19XX AD." etc. (But being a fake world, the players wouldn't have been able to make the ship go anywhere-- and it's questionable if the "ship" really was in any form of outer space at all, as Yayoi found a hint to. :Db)
۞ There was actually a way to completely disable the ship if the Engine Room had been gone into, which would've been another possible Big Triggers to hit |D because everything onboard would've started looking more cardboardy due to LACK OF POWER. This wouldn't immediately destroy the world but it would've made things on the planet side look a little less realistic too. As it stands the only thing that was done was to break a door in front of Claude, which was a lower mid-sized trigger.
۞ The other rooms would've been populated more with people from both Sabra and canon!Claude's sides, though only the ones more likely to be spacefaring; the Crew Quarters might've had a couple of people just incoming from another world. (Offscreened: the Crew Quarters was in fact where Sabra!Claude "woke up" in into the world, with the idea that he'd finally managed to reach Expel, and would be meeting with "everyone" again. There would've been clues to his having been there there.)
۞ Ulysses is a completely imaginary vessel with no canon basis but I figured it was fitting name for a ship connected to the premise of long odysseying :(
۞ If anyone had tried to bust out of the ship Kool-Aid Man style they would've ripped through a whole lot of cardboard and found themselves.... in a generic forest in Expel. With a giant cardboard replica of a spaceship behind them. Needless to say this could've been a big trigger too.
EXPEL
۞ The planet stage was... where I should've started from honestly '-';; it showed the more core parts of the Ideal; for one, where it was the good clean honest sunlight and wind and wild nature that made him love Expel more than Earth (in his time), and that he's been remembering and just. Everything he hasn't had in 286 days. It was meant to be an incredibly beautiful place but I didn't prepare the flavor text for it in time so it probably didn't carry across too well. orz
۞ If the Psynard had been flown high enough it would've crashed into a ceiling of the "blue sky". :Db likewise from a high vantage it was visible that the boundaries of the "world" only extended so far as past the mountains, so it was something like a suspended piece of 'land' in the middle of a sphere of "sky".
۞ Arlia Village was the Meeting Place and hub of recognizable faces. Majority from current Sabra, a number from canon, a few oldSabrans to be noticed if one looked. All alive, at peace and happy and enjoying themselves and being with their friends without burden of murdercave or war or eternalwanderingquest or the like. The kids Claude knew from Sabra could be seen actually getting to be kids, and so on.
۞ Rena would've been in her own home (as per canon), along with her mother Westa and Claude's mother Iria. There would've been a big table set up for many, and steak cooking in the kitchen '-' Other canon companions that weren't on the Ulysses (Ashton, Dias, etc.) could be found here hanging out, as well as Claude's father Ronixis. If canon!Claude hadn't been rattled enough to stay on the ship he would've followed the party down and headed for here to see Rena. This place would've the center of his ideals, and had many elements, but not all, of Sabra!Claude's.
۞ One of the houses was meant to be slightly different in architecture from the rest, would've had a workshop attached to it. In it would've been Chrysos and Red Kenni along with Skylos, Ceres, Spirea, etc. This area stemmed from a smaller hope/wish/ideal that Chrys could've had his happy ending, too.
۞ The Sacred Forest was the real Claude's location. It was difficult deciding whether it would be Red/Syaoran or Feathers in the clearing with him-- went with Red and Syaoran since they're in reality currently the furthest from the ideal he would like for them :') which is to be not only free from Sabracave but to be able to be happy. Memories intact, mind not screwed up, all the guilt and trauma able to be put in the past and to just finally have the chance to laugh and be unburdened. With him.
۞ I was pressed for time in this segment, though, so the fake Syaoran was delayed by his princess elsewhere '^' so I only had two people to play instead.
۞ There were more notes I wanted to type but too tired to remember so may add later... I guess I didn't really talk about the metaphysics of his ideals and how to break the world so much...
OVERALL it was fun but also stressful and I learned a lot about planning this kind of game that I will try to put in practice in future '^';; Any questions/comments...
GENERAL
۞ Premises were 1) "a world without loneliness." 2) "A world with no conflicting obligations." 3) "A world outside the caves." The first was embodied by all the people it contained (more importantly the Friends and Loved Ones it contained), and could contain; the second by the physical existence of more than one "Claude"; the third by Expel, specifically Arlia and its surroundings, which he has the strongest associations with in memory and embodies everything Sabra is not.
۞ There were three "Claudes" present. Canon, Sabra... and old!Sabra Chrysos. The Sabra one with the bracer was the true Claude, though the other two were tied to him on a representation level (canon one more strongly than Chrys.) So each of them could be fully committed to their own "worlds" and the people therein-- hence why the spacecaptain Claude the party first ran into didn't recognize them at all. But there was some overlap, and the Claudes were comfortably aware of each other's presence-- canon!Claude was the one helping to shuttle some of Sabra!Claude's friends over to party in Arlia--- but the real Claude wouldn't actually be able to acknowledge the unlikeliness of the other one unless it was pointed out to him by the players (which would be a Big Trigger).
ULYSSES
۞ The spaceship stage was an embodiment of the dream of being able and free to go anywhere he wanted, to anyone he wanted-- if Heiji had checked what was on the captain's console instead of the one he did he would've found a list of coordinates to all kinds of different locations. "London, 18XX AD.". "Clow, ??". "Shinonome, 19XX AD." etc. (But being a fake world, the players wouldn't have been able to make the ship go anywhere-- and it's questionable if the "ship" really was in any form of outer space at all, as Yayoi found a hint to. :Db)
۞ There was actually a way to completely disable the ship if the Engine Room had been gone into, which would've been another possible Big Triggers to hit |D because everything onboard would've started looking more cardboardy due to LACK OF POWER. This wouldn't immediately destroy the world but it would've made things on the planet side look a little less realistic too. As it stands the only thing that was done was to break a door in front of Claude, which was a lower mid-sized trigger.
۞ The other rooms would've been populated more with people from both Sabra and canon!Claude's sides, though only the ones more likely to be spacefaring; the Crew Quarters might've had a couple of people just incoming from another world. (Offscreened: the Crew Quarters was in fact where Sabra!Claude "woke up" in into the world, with the idea that he'd finally managed to reach Expel, and would be meeting with "everyone" again. There would've been clues to his having been there there.)
۞ Ulysses is a completely imaginary vessel with no canon basis but I figured it was fitting name for a ship connected to the premise of long odysseying :(
۞ If anyone had tried to bust out of the ship Kool-Aid Man style they would've ripped through a whole lot of cardboard and found themselves.... in a generic forest in Expel. With a giant cardboard replica of a spaceship behind them. Needless to say this could've been a big trigger too.
EXPEL
۞ The planet stage was... where I should've started from honestly '-';; it showed the more core parts of the Ideal; for one, where it was the good clean honest sunlight and wind and wild nature that made him love Expel more than Earth (in his time), and that he's been remembering and just. Everything he hasn't had in 286 days. It was meant to be an incredibly beautiful place but I didn't prepare the flavor text for it in time so it probably didn't carry across too well. orz
۞ If the Psynard had been flown high enough it would've crashed into a ceiling of the "blue sky". :Db likewise from a high vantage it was visible that the boundaries of the "world" only extended so far as past the mountains, so it was something like a suspended piece of 'land' in the middle of a sphere of "sky".
۞ Arlia Village was the Meeting Place and hub of recognizable faces. Majority from current Sabra, a number from canon, a few oldSabrans to be noticed if one looked. All alive, at peace and happy and enjoying themselves and being with their friends without burden of murdercave or war or eternalwanderingquest or the like. The kids Claude knew from Sabra could be seen actually getting to be kids, and so on.
۞ Rena would've been in her own home (as per canon), along with her mother Westa and Claude's mother Iria. There would've been a big table set up for many, and steak cooking in the kitchen '-' Other canon companions that weren't on the Ulysses (Ashton, Dias, etc.) could be found here hanging out, as well as Claude's father Ronixis. If canon!Claude hadn't been rattled enough to stay on the ship he would've followed the party down and headed for here to see Rena. This place would've the center of his ideals, and had many elements, but not all, of Sabra!Claude's.
۞ One of the houses was meant to be slightly different in architecture from the rest, would've had a workshop attached to it. In it would've been Chrysos and Red Kenni along with Skylos, Ceres, Spirea, etc. This area stemmed from a smaller hope/wish/ideal that Chrys could've had his happy ending, too.
۞ The Sacred Forest was the real Claude's location. It was difficult deciding whether it would be Red/Syaoran or Feathers in the clearing with him-- went with Red and Syaoran since they're in reality currently the furthest from the ideal he would like for them :') which is to be not only free from Sabracave but to be able to be happy. Memories intact, mind not screwed up, all the guilt and trauma able to be put in the past and to just finally have the chance to laugh and be unburdened. With him.
۞ I was pressed for time in this segment, though, so the fake Syaoran was delayed by his princess elsewhere '^' so I only had two people to play instead.
۞ There were more notes I wanted to type but too tired to remember so may add later... I guess I didn't really talk about the metaphysics of his ideals and how to break the world so much...
OVERALL it was fun but also stressful and I learned a lot about planning this kind of game that I will try to put in practice in future '^';; Any questions/comments...
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Date: 2011-11-08 01:27 am (UTC)i had a huge DeeDee from Dexter's Laboratory moment thinking "oooooh what does this button do?"
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Date: 2011-11-08 04:47 am (UTC)IT WOULDN'T HAVE EXPLODED ANYTHING but it would've just powered down that particular station, making it look a little less real. The NPCs would've politely ejected you from the bridge after that though :Db