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Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2011 5:42 am — Post subject: Heritage Night in the Hood of Illusions
So, we chatted briefly about this in the "Creative Uses" thread and this idea was run today by the Heritage Night attendees, and it looks like everyone is in favor of it so I thought I would start a thread for it and open the floor for discussion and ideas.
Basically, we're going to combine two successful fan enterprises--Heritage Night and the Gray Hats' illusions. Normally what we do during Heritage Night (for those who don't know) is tell the story of Gametap MO:UL for the benefit of those who couldn't be there (as well as for those who were but like the nostalgia of reliving it). We were thinking it would be fun to have a special Heritage Night event in the Hood of Illusions, and use the Gray Hats' tricks to provide "special effects" for the event. Among other things, we'd like to have official characters like the DRC, Yeesha and the Bahro make appearances (IC-ly, we're saying these are actors with very realistic costumes.)
The exact nature of the event is still open for input. I have some ideas but I'd really like to hear others' suggestions. I'll update the next little section of this post once we decide on what we're doing--at that time we can figure out how much time is needed for preparation and schedule an official date and time. It will probably not be until AFTER the current cycle of Heritage Nights ends (so, 3 weeks from today at the earliest).
EVENT DETAILS: To Be Determined
EVENT DATE & TIME: To Be Determined
Meanwhile, I'll go ahead and tell you the best idea I've come up with. Normally we only cover a segment of the story in a single Heritage Night (HN)--one night for pre-episode MO:UL, and one night for each of the 5 episodes that ran on Gametap. I was thinking that the Hood of Illusions HN could be a bit different. Instead of just covering one segment of the story, we could perhaps summarize the whole thing in a kind of "pageant" form. Instead of a "host" we would have one or two "narrators" who would frame the story for us and summarize events between major scenes. Whenever the narrators reach an important, critical event in the story, the event could be acted out by Gray Hats playing the parts of official characters like Cate or Watson, and the two narrators acting as generic explorers in the scene. So, for example, in a scene depicting the Wheely rescue mission, Marie, Cate, and Engberg would all be present (played by Gray Hats), doing dialog similar to what was actually spoken during that time, and the narrators would have scripted lines representing explorer reaction. Scenes like this could be done for key events like the first close-up Bahro appearances with the corpse in the Sanctuary, the return of Phil and later Watson, the hostile Bahro coming to the cavern and Yeesha's appearance to save the explorers.
I'm more than willing to write a script for something like this--writing is basically my favorite thing to do anyway--but I'm interested to hear what everyone else thinks of this idea. I'm also interested in hearing what OTHER ideas people have. So, please feel free to post with input and feedback.
Basically, we're going to combine two successful fan enterprises--Heritage Night and the Gray Hats' illusions. Normally what we do during Heritage Night (for those who don't know) is tell the story of Gametap MO:UL for the benefit of those who couldn't be there (as well as for those who were but like the nostalgia of reliving it). We were thinking it would be fun to have a special Heritage Night event in the Hood of Illusions, and use the Gray Hats' tricks to provide "special effects" for the event. Among other things, we'd like to have official characters like the DRC, Yeesha and the Bahro make appearances (IC-ly, we're saying these are actors with very realistic costumes.)
The exact nature of the event is still open for input. I have some ideas but I'd really like to hear others' suggestions. I'll update the next little section of this post once we decide on what we're doing--at that time we can figure out how much time is needed for preparation and schedule an official date and time. It will probably not be until AFTER the current cycle of Heritage Nights ends (so, 3 weeks from today at the earliest).
EVENT DETAILS: To Be Determined
EVENT DATE & TIME: To Be Determined
Meanwhile, I'll go ahead and tell you the best idea I've come up with. Normally we only cover a segment of the story in a single Heritage Night (HN)--one night for pre-episode MO:UL, and one night for each of the 5 episodes that ran on Gametap. I was thinking that the Hood of Illusions HN could be a bit different. Instead of just covering one segment of the story, we could perhaps summarize the whole thing in a kind of "pageant" form. Instead of a "host" we would have one or two "narrators" who would frame the story for us and summarize events between major scenes. Whenever the narrators reach an important, critical event in the story, the event could be acted out by Gray Hats playing the parts of official characters like Cate or Watson, and the two narrators acting as generic explorers in the scene. So, for example, in a scene depicting the Wheely rescue mission, Marie, Cate, and Engberg would all be present (played by Gray Hats), doing dialog similar to what was actually spoken during that time, and the narrators would have scripted lines representing explorer reaction. Scenes like this could be done for key events like the first close-up Bahro appearances with the corpse in the Sanctuary, the return of Phil and later Watson, the hostile Bahro coming to the cavern and Yeesha's appearance to save the explorers.
I'm more than willing to write a script for something like this--writing is basically my favorite thing to do anyway--but I'm interested to hear what everyone else thinks of this idea. I'm also interested in hearing what OTHER ideas people have. So, please feel free to post with input and feedback.
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