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[NeoManicXZ]

finished?

[Layloken]

If anyone participates in the PM chat/game wrap up tonight can you post the chat? I have a final tonight and can't be a part of it, but I'm interested in hearing about it.

[Nightmare Tony]

Jamesi, thanks. I have not been catching up on the site there, thats all.

[Nightmare Tony]

Final game chat.

You have just entered room "nightpeoplepm."
MTKelvin07 has entered the room.
EdricGamez: hello there
MTKelvin07: Hi
NightmareTony: hey MT
MTKelvin07: What's up?
NightmareTony: not much, neo manic not replying
EdricGamez: how are you?
MTKelvin07: I am doing fine.
MTKelvin07: I believe we have not met
NightmareTony: The is Eric, the master of the entire shindig
EdricGamez: that's me!
MTKelvin07: oooh hehe.
EdricGamez: lol
MTKelvin07: Dang. . .nice to meet you!
EdricGamez: haha thanks
MTKelvin07: Welcome.
EdricGamez: So!
EdricGamez: since it's just you and Tony... how did you guys like the game?
NightmareTony: Me liked. was definitely more on rails rather than puzzles but still fun.
MTKelvin07: It was awesome!! I totally had fun.
NightmareTony: Was the first game I played since Synagoga/Wildfire
EdricGamez: that's so good to hear...
MTKelvin07: I want to participate in one
NightmareTony: Question from me I forgot, what made you pick me to begin the rabbit hole with?
EdricGamez: i thought you guys hated it, based on the last few posts on uF
MTKelvin07: That was not me posting
EdricGamez: oh, I picked a whole bunch of emails from the Contact: The Interaction thread
EdricGamez: and yours was one
NightmareTony: I didnt hate it. My criticism would be that the ending seemed a bit forced and we couldnt do ANYTHING to help Alan or stop the night people.
EdricGamez: point well taken...
MTKelvin07: True. True.
MTKelvin07: I was wondering what else was going to happen
NightmareTony: afk over here for a couple...
EdricGamez: well, I think the storyline would have been better suited for a book or movie rather than ARG, looking back
EdricGamez: it didn't translate as well as I'd hoped it would
NightmareTony: the one thing about the storyline, it really changes during a game, due to player actions. So it is more an interactive fiction.
MTKelvin07: Well, true. I really enjoyed the game. It kept my on the edge trying to help Alan
NightmareTony: You wouild want open ended points and branches and so on.
EdricGamez: yes...
EdricGamez: F!PR had that, but this one didn't because I planned it in pretty much 16 hours of nothing but writing... I wanted to launch, play, and finish in about a month.
EdricGamez: which I did
EdricGamez: and I think it worked PRETTY well
EdricGamez: yeah, you're right... this one was more interactive fiction than Arg
MTKelvin07: When will you start another one?
EdricGamez: well, I'm currently plotting out F!PR 2
EdricGamez: not too sure when that's gonna launch though
EdricGamez: early 2007 probably
MTKelvin07: awww
MTKelvin07: I wanna join in the fun
EdricGamez: why awww?
EdricGamez: you can play
EdricGamez: it's not gonna be TOTALLY dependent on F!PR
EdricGamez: new storyline, new major characters, just some of the old plot elements show up
EdricGamez: So, I think another problem I had with this GAIM was that people didn't post chat logs
Lail0ken has entered the room.
EdricGamez: hey, adam
Lail0ken: I guess I'm a little late
EdricGamez: no problem, we just got started
EdricGamez: more or less
Lail0ken: well hello everyone
MTKelvin07: Hi. I want to participate and be on of the characters
EdricGamez: hello!
EdricGamez: oh, I see what you mean
EdricGamez: you want to pm a game
Sylviaaaaaaaa has entered the room.
EdricGamez: hey Sylvia
Sylviaaaaaaaa: hello, how are you guys
Lail0ken: good, you?
EdricGamez: good! How're you?
Sylviaaaaaaaa: good
EdricGamez: great
EdricGamez: so... since more people have joined, I think we should probably start back at the beginning
MTKelvin07: Yes Edric!, I
EdricGamez: My name is Eric, and
EdricGamez: I was the PM for the Night People game
EdricGamez: (I feel like I'm at an AA meeting)
Lail0ken: Hello Eric!
Lail0ken: now you should really feel that way
EdricGamez: yeah lol
NightmareTony: Hey Lailo9ken, Sylvia.
Lail0ken: Hello Tony
EdricGamez: ok, ok, enough
EdricGamez: lol
Lail0ken: Okay so I guess this is the part where we ask you questions
EdricGamez: well, I like to start off asking you questions, and then you ask me
EdricGamez: at least, that's what we did for F!PR.
Lail0ken: sounds good to me, still kind of new to this
EdricGamez: so... what did you guys think?
EdricGamez: (don't worry, so am I...)
NightmareTony: We liked.
Lail0ken: I enjoyed the game
EdricGamez: good!
Lail0ken: The thing I liked most was the amount of interaction I was able to have with the characters
Lail0ken: It seemed like you were online chatting with us a lot
NightmareTony: basic question I wanted to ask, was there anything we could have done to influence the ending?
EdricGamez: yep
EdricGamez: *to Adam
Lail0ken: It really made the characters feel developed
EdricGamez: As far as the ending, well, Alan was always going to die in the end, and the Dark Ones were going to win..
EdricGamez: BUT
EdricGamez: I had a couple of different things built in for, like, how long you guys took to crack the password
EdricGamez: thanks, adam
EdricGamez: depending on the amount of time that passed, the greater the likelihood that Alan would fail.
Lail0ken: So there was some way we could have kept Alan alive? I felt like there wasn't anything I could do
EdricGamez: Just so you guys know, you've completely scared me off of doing password-protected stuff ever again
EdricGamez: lol
EdricGamez: just kidding...
EdricGamez: But, yeah, if you had gone a little faster at some points, then Alan would have gotten out of the asylum faster than he did, and they wouldn't have met up with Mark...
EdricGamez: sorta
EdricGamez: lol, it's kind of complicated to explain
NightmareTony: Casuality. Sound of thunder.
EdricGamez: huh?
EdricGamez: I found this awesome site that lets you log on with more than one AIM screen name at once
EdricGamez: which was EXTREMELY helpful for the big chats
Lail0ken: trillian will let you do that too
Lail0ken: that's how I maintained two names through the game
MTKelvin07: what's the website Eric?
EdricGamez: www.meebo.com
EdricGamez: it's awesome lol
EdricGamez: adam- wait, you had two names?
Lail0ken: yeah
Lail0ken: Faircloth1980 and lail0ken
EdricGamez: oooh
Lail0ken: I also used two email addresses in my correspondance
EdricGamez: I... I kind of thought they were two adams.
EdricGamez: lol
EdricGamez: whoops
Lail0ken: I was trying to be authentic
EdricGamez: well, yeah, they did seem like two separate people
Lail0ken: Christian seemed put off by me at one point so I started a new name to talk to him
EdricGamez: oooh
EdricGamez: ok
EdricGamez: You know what I really liked?
Lail0ken: what's that?
EdricGamez: Mike (Xtravanoia) creating a character to get to Alan
EdricGamez: I thought that was really cool
Lail0ken: that was a bit of genius
EdricGamez: yeah, that was really cool
EdricGamez: Oh, that was another thing that *might* have saved Alan... or at least sent things in a different direction-
Lail0ken: yeah?
EdricGamez: that was another thing that would have sent things in a different direction..
EdricGamez: ok... computer freezing...
Lail0ken: no worries
EdricGamez: ok better
EdricGamez: lol
EdricGamez: sorry...
Lail0ken:
EdricGamez: Steve Hand was invited into another chat, that he didn't show up for
Lail0ken: ah, Mike will be so disappointed. It was probably a matter of time difference
Lail0ken: Playing from Europe can have it's downsides
EdricGamez: he's in the UK, right?
EdricGamez: which is six hours ahead of the east coast?
EdricGamez: so, at 6 am here it would be noon there?
EdricGamez: the chat was at 6am my time...
Lail0ken: I think it is 4 during this time of year
EdricGamez: really?
Lail0ken: yeah, five during dst
EdricGamez: well, anyway, he shouldn't be disappointed...
EdricGamez: I'm not gonna say for sure whether it would have saved Alan.
EdricGamez: BUT what he did was awesome anyway
Lail0ken: yeah I agree
Lail0ken: so was there really a stegged image?
Lail0ken: No one ever found one
Lail0ken: andd we searched
EdricGamez: oh yeah! ugh that got me so angry
EdricGamez: not you guys*
EdricGamez: I downloaded jphide
EdricGamez: and stegged the image
EdricGamez: and re-uploaded it
EdricGamez: and waited...
EdricGamez: and then I realized it didn't work.
Lail0ken: ahh
Lail0ken: lol
Lail0ken: That makes me feel a bit better
EdricGamez: the one of Franklin and his wife was stegged too, with the password... lol
Lail0ken: I spent so many hours trying
EdricGamez: I'm so sorry...
EdricGamez: that still amazes me, that people spend hours trying to figure out my games... lol
Lail0ken: No worries, it was good practice for another time
Lail0ken: I was all over this game
Lail0ken: This was my first where I was in from the start
Lail0ken: and really got to participate
Lail0ken: Very exciting for me
EdricGamez: cool... and you enjoyed it
EdricGamez: i hope
Lail0ken: I did
EdricGamez: lol
EdricGamez: thanks
NightmareTony: It was a lot of fun, period. I like a good participation game. Synagoga got me into that. Am a Beekeeper, but that was a major crowd scene.
NightmareTony: so a thum,bs up from here
EdricGamez: after those posts saying the end was dumb, i thought i'd failed..
EdricGamez: thanks, tony
Lail0ken: I think he was disappointed that Alan died, we didn't know how we could have made it better
EdricGamez: ok
Lail0ken: Towards the end we became more spectators and less participants
EdricGamez: well, I can understand that
EdricGamez: and that was kind of on purpose, although not really... i wanted it to feel like things were spiraling out of your control
EdricGamez: but not so much that you felt like the end was being rushed
EdricGamez: which is what it wound up being like
Lail0ken: mission accomplished
Lail0ken: on the spiraling out of control I mean
EdricGamez: lol
Lail0ken: I'll admit, I did feel like I had lost
Lail0ken: It's reassuring to know that the intent was for Alan to die
EdricGamez:
EdricGamez: so, um, I guess questions for me now?
Lail0ken: Hmm.
Lail0ken: Were the archangels ever involved at all? So much seemed to be a potential ruse. I never knew who was true
EdricGamez: the archangels appeared to Alan, and posted on the Moyt website
EdricGamez: and the audio clip in the beginning
EdricGamez: and the binary code thing.
EdricGamez: the rest was demons, pretending to be archangels
Lail0ken: okay
Lail0ken: How about the file on canyouseethem.wetpaint.com?
Lail0ken: what was that about
Lail0ken: main page
Lail0ken: says file:////----------------------//
EdricGamez: ?
MTKelvin07 has left the room.
Lail0ken: Right under Do you see them too?
EdricGamez: just a sec...
Sylviaaaaaaaa: i also wondered about that
EdricGamez: ah... well, frankly I have no clue
Lail0ken: okay
Sylviaaaaaaaa: lol
EdricGamez: that was supposed to be just a spacing thing, like separating Alan from MArk
EdricGamez: I didn't even realize it turned into a file extension
Lail0ken: interesting
EdricGamez: sorry if that confused you guys...
Lail0ken: Did you feel like we caught on to the significance of the relic to early? At times you denied it's importance, and then it became the center of it all
Lail0ken: ie Chats with "Gabriel"
EdricGamez: well, yeah, I felt like you caught on too early lol;
EdricGamez: Christian mentioned it once, in an email to one person
EdricGamez: and before two days had passed he got a whole bunch of emails asking about its history
EdricGamez: that was supposed to be one of those, "wow, he mentioned that way back in the beginning" things lol
Lail0ken: Russ is quite the perceptive fellow
Lail0ken: Was there anything we missed IG that you were pushing for us to catch on to?
EdricGamez: yeah, no kidding, lol
EdricGamez: umm...
EdricGamez: the fact that mark was the traitor...
EdricGamez: : *
EdricGamez: i dunno
Lail0ken: I swore it was Christian
EdricGamez: the password...
Lail0ken: He changed up so quickly I knew it had to be him
Lail0ken: And I was arguing it to everyone
EdricGamez: lol
EdricGamez: he changed cause of Alan's freaky mind control thing
EdricGamez: so, you guys had an IRC chat, right?
NightmareTony: which Katy mentioned but denied all the other things at first.
Lail0ken: You caught me off guard with Mark being the traitor
Lail0ken: I was chatting through AIM with Russ the whole time
NightmareTony: What was her story about it all?
EdricGamez: katy?
NightmareTony: yup, our first chat with her
EdricGamez: just the typical, bitchy older sister who was annoyed with her brother for going and spreading his insanity over the internet
NightmareTony: Ah
EdricGamez: she refused to believe him because to do so would be to admit that maybe her perfect, self-created world doesn't work the way she thinks
EdricGamez: eventually, Alan's mind-control began to get to her
EdricGamez: and then she saw the demons herself, so of course she had to beliee
NightmareTony: aah. was wdonering her bit of things, thats all.
EdricGamez: believe*
EdricGamez: lol
Lail0ken: So splitting ourselves between good and evil in the end wasn't your intention?
EdricGamez: no, not really
Lail0ken: I guess my plan failed
Lail0ken: I was looking to split us to gain information
Lail0ken: And badgering Mark probably didn't help either
EdricGamez: lol no
EdricGamez: sure didn't
Lail0ken: I thought I would declare myself as good
EdricGamez: Also, the end probably seemed rushed because there WAS a big climactic chat... that never got posted
EdricGamez: with only two people
Lail0ken: really?
EdricGamez: yeah
Lail0ken: who?
EdricGamez: Katy and Alan got online at the same time
Lail0ken: ah
EdricGamez: and they were talking out their issues
EdricGamez: and someone said something negative to Alan (don't remember exactly what)
EdricGamez: and Katy typed for him to calm down, she could hear him breathing heavily from all the way in the other room
EdricGamez: and he said he was outside
EdricGamez: and there was no way she could have heard
EdricGamez: *on the porch on the laptop*
EdricGamez: and then both internet connections cut out at once
Lail0ken: wow, yeah I had no idea
EdricGamez: and then the next day, Mark posted that he'd killed them
EdricGamez: yeah, lol
EdricGamez: just the blog post *would* have seemed pretty random
Lail0ken: Well we knew it was coming anyway
Lail0ken: Mark told Russ his intentions
Lail0ken: I just tried to warn Alan and Katy
EdricGamez: yeah
EdricGamez: Sylvia- you there?
EdricGamez: have you seen my website lately?
Sylviaaaaaaaa: yes
Sylviaaaaaaaa: your main site for edricgamez
Sylviaaaaaaaa: yes two days ago
EdricGamez: with the new info on F!PR 2?
Sylviaaaaaaaa: yes
EdricGamez: *doesn't remember when he posted that
EdricGamez: lol ok cool
EdricGamez: so.
Lail0ken: All right well I'm out of questions I think. I really enjoyed your game.
Lail0ken: Any critiquing for me?
NightmareTony: we all did.
Lail0ken: It was my first so I'd love some feedback on how I did
EdricGamez: you?
EdricGamez: well I thought you did fine, lol
EdricGamez: you stayed in character throughout the entire game...
Sylviaaaaaaaa: well, I want to say I'm sorry i couldn't keep up with the night people chats but these chats are for better eyes than mine
Lail0ken: any suggestions or constructive criticism?
EdricGamez: you never broke TiNAG (which a lot of people did)
EdricGamez: that's ok Sylvia
Sylviaaaaaaaa: but other than that, you were pure a genius, i don't know how you managed to do all that by yourself, it would have drove me insane.
Lail0ken: all right. Well kudos to you. It is impressive how you managed to maintian all those different characters
Sylviaaaaaaaa: and I'm looking forward to F!PR 2
Lail0ken: and still create an enjoyable experience for us
Lail0ken: Thank you
EdricGamez: cool, Sylvia.
EdricGamez: Well, thank you guys
EdricGamez: I love playing so many characters at once
EdricGamez: it's such a rush... lol
Lail0ken: It has to be hard to keep up with sometimes though
Lail0ken: All the names, and who knows what
EdricGamez: LP
EdricGamez: *
EdricGamez: I knew someone was going to mention the names
Lail0ken: I wasn't calling you on it
Lail0ken: I was just saying
Lail0ken: You did have a few mixups
EdricGamez: lol, that's ok, I screwed up.
EdricGamez: a couple of times
EdricGamez: lol
Lail0ken: butthere was a lot to keep up with
Lail0ken: it's understandable
Lail0ken: or at least to me forgiveable
EdricGamez: lol thanks
Lail0ken: Any other questions for me?
NightmareTony: Sure, what is the air speed of an unladen swallow?
NightmareTony: sorry, just had to.
Lail0ken: nice
EdricGamez: lmapo
EdricGamez: lmao*
EdricGamez: so, you're all going to play
EdricGamez: Still Free! Psychic Readings, right?
Sylviaaaaaaaa: yes
NightmareTony: Yuppers. Wasnt in the first but looks like fun, count me in for the next time round.
EdricGamez: lol cool
Lail0ken: Me too
Sylviaaaaaaaa: Teri will be there too
EdricGamez: awesome
EdricGamez:
EdricGamez: I miss you all so much... I just had to make another one. lol
EdricGamez: that sounds really corny... but it's true
Lail0ken: All right well thanks again. I look forward to F!PR2
EdricGamez: ok, cool...
EdricGamez: goodnight, all!
Sylviaaaaaaaa: night
NightmareTony: nite
EdricGamez: happy holidays!
EdricGamez has left the room.
NightmareTony: ok, who posts the chat?
Sylviaaaaaaaa: go ahead, if you can't i will
NightmareTony: ok, I will, let me get this rolling...
Sylviaaaaaaaa: ok

[Ruuku]

Thanks Nightmare Tony, I can't wait for SF!PR (loel) either, ah, good old Miss Corrin

[XtRaVa]

Nice chat

FYI the time difference did make it a bit difficult to chat with them unfortunately, as often I would be at Uni during the day But I still thought it was good the way they let me get a character to speak to Alan who was seemingly unreachable.

[Nightmare Tony]

Was a good game, we all had fun. Eric kicked but in giving us a good time there.

[JohnLockeGuy]

Well, thanks, everyone, I had a great time too!

-Eric