My name is Chris, or in AO Ryha. I am the Role Playing Event coordinator for the Clan Valor Eternal. I'd like to tell you a little about what I have been doing and then make a couple of requests.
I create and organize RP events for my clan... very much in the way Dr Tiny describes in his guide (rooted post above).
At this point you may be saying 'yah yah we all do that...or not...in any case let me give an example:
One of the first events that I ran was the kidnapping of the daughter of a Miir Executive. I set up the kidnapping by posting a Grid feed article reporting her disappearance a week before the event. In the following days I posted a description of the kidnapping through the victims eyes and then a character background for the kidnapper and then one for the informant that would get my clan involved.
On the day of the event the informant contacted the clan and requested a meeting. I created an alt to play as the informant. Several clan members interrogated the informant and found out that he had stumbled on the location of the kidnapper. I then switched to a second alt representing the kidnaper and waited for the players to find him. When they did he negotiated with them for a ransom. They demanded to see the kidnapped girl, I then switched to another alt representing the victim. After speaking with the girl, who I RPed as being trapped in a force field, they again met with the kidnaper. When they refused to give him the demanded ransom (1 million credits) he reveled to them that the entire kidnapping had been a ruse to draw out and identify dangerous clans. The kidnapper and his shadowy department have become the primary villain in the plotlines that I have been writing.
After the completion of an event I write an account of the events and post logs of the best parts of the RP so that those who did not participate in the events can follow the storyline. I also post to the storylines being written by the other members of the clan to introduce unifying elements to their plots.
So I'm posting here today because until now I have been working pretty much in isolation. I have been in a lot of orgs in a lot of games, but it is only in the past few months that I have begun running events. I would like to know if any of you, or your orgs are doing anything similar. (I’m assuming at least DrTiny is) If there is anyone else out there running org events like mine I would like to meet with all of you and exchange notes at the very least. Ideally I would like to start to work with you to weave our stores together and give Anarchy the involving moving plotline that its rich setting and back-story deserve.
I am interested in working with storytellers on all sides of the conflict to really give our orgs a ride. The stories posted on the forums and on our orgs forums are great but if those of us running things for our groups get together we could do a lot more! (If some kind of RP storytellers group already exists somebody tell me where the clubhouse is and slip me the password ‘cus I want in!...and if it doesn’t then let’s get it started!)
If your clan does not have anyone running events I would like to invite you to participate in one of VE's events. Just send me an email and I'll work you in. I would also be happy to work with anyone who wants to try running events for their clan (I have more ideas for events than I will ever be able to run).
In any case if you or your clan is interested in role playing I hope I hear from you.
-Ryha (Chris A Barney)
chris@marlboro.edu