name: Notes 1
posted: 2012-02-01
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  Muppet Purgatory:
    Just 2 rooms: back stage, front stage
      Audience was GMs, God, Satan, observers
      Kermit getting skits rapid-fire
    Backstage:
      table of muppets for horde roles
      props/costume
    Skits had required muppets and number of people range
    Plots:
      Solve who caused accident (all 8 PCs guilty, only one convicted)
      Horde members have evidence

  How do people spend their time:
    Give only limited amount of time to plan shows, to limit wanking?
    1/3-1/2 of people put on shows, rest don't, but should watch.
    Judges get cookies to share with actors when something specific happens.
      Or if a play with something wins
      Or if a play with something doesn't win
        (Sets of 3 shows, judges vote for one)
    Other than shows:
      Answer questions to get out?  Notebooks?
      Metaphysical contests?
        Nobilis-style allegiance, trying to shape the world in their way
        Winner gets to pull something in a given direction
      Politicking about who does what in shows
        Characters and/or factions have goals
  Tower got taken into the Place Without Recourse with cast and some audience
    Divide between "get back to meatspace" and "shape this place"
      Plays shape the place, the cast wants to get out,
        judges want to shape here and stay
        the cast need judges to get out
        some people may be undecided

  Personal plots:
    Keep someone else from escaping
    Tech plots that feed into answering questions or into plays
    Personal plots taking advantage of magical stuff being shaped
    Set up a new life here
    Find someone to trade places with when you go back?

  Ideas:
    Martin got trapped by a question and needs others' help as an overall plot
      or the Tower itself
    Giving secrets let others attack you but also helps you or them with ?s
    Once the world is shaped, actors can visit the world and quest in
      Shadowruns or modules of some sort?
      Demonstrate aspects?

  Five Nobilis Factions:
  Heaven
  Hell
  Light
  Dark
  Wild

  Metastructure:
  2 judges from each faction
    Judges don't know their partners or their enemies to start
      Is there some reason not to be public about your faction?
        Binding mechanic?  Attacks that work better against a given faction?
        Faction is an aspect, you guess aspects to get a bonus in conflicits
          What's the stakes?
            Plays create pieces, combats place or move pieces
            Actors have ways to get information, useful for combat
    Their conflict is all through shows?
  5 judges at large
  15 actors, mostly initially neutral
    1 with natural biases towards each faction

  Timing:
    15 minutes prep, ~15 minutes of shows, 30 minutes free, for 4 hours

  Story elements:
    Literal things
    Truths about the world ("no one loves you like your shadow does")
    Morals

  TODO:
    Send links to related stories.
  }}}