MOVIE - Ready Player One RPG

[Hollywood Heidi]

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Interested Participants (Last confirmed interest):
1. Hollywood Heidi (12/21/18)
2. Ariel (12/21/18)
3. Sharizha (12/23/18)
4. The Jester of Tortuga (12/23/18)
5. Lady Lee-o (12/21/18)


Post your three top choices of the character you'd like to play. It's first come, first serve here, so make sure that your #1 choice is a character that has not already been listed as the #1 character of someone who has posted before you. There is a chance that someone who requested to join will drop out, so that character will be offered to the first person who put them as their #2 or #3 choice.

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[Hollywood Heidi]

I want to play around in the Oasis! It's like a huge pop culture filled Holodeck! I'm fine with it being based before, during, or after the events of the book/movie.

1. OC
2. OC
3. OC

[Lady Lee-o]

I'll join in, could be fun! I do want to see the movie

1) OC
2) OC
3) OC

[The Jester Of Tortuga]

I'd be down. Could be fun. Would be OC all the way.

[Ariel]

Haven't seen the movie yet but interested !

[Anduin]

Yay, now I've watched the whole movie - and really really love it! 


And if anyone else (Heidi and Ariel, you were already reconfirming your interest ^^) is still interested in this one we would reach the minimum - am I right?! 

[Hollywood Heidi]

Well, Jester's been too busy to post for over a month now so until he's back to reaching the forum minimum of at least one post a week in the RPGs he's already in, we can't exactly count him as one of the players for a new RPG.

Stay tuned though! Maybe that'll happen, soon, maybe later. We'll play by ear! I'll add you to the list of interested parties!

[The Jester Of Tortuga]

Reconfirming in this.

[Ariel]

Reconfirming!

[Hollywood Heidi]

Reconfirming my interest!

[Lady Lee-o]

Reconfirming my interest

[Anduin]

Reconfirming

[Hollywood Heidi]

Lee-o is back in! That means we have 5 again! Everyone has reconfirmed their interest in the last few days except for The Jester Of Tortuga. If he's still in, then we are a go.


Until we get confirmation from him, we should probably get the ball rolling on a general plot. I'm actually at a total loss with any details! When should it be set? Before, during, or after the film? Should it be in the earlier days and/or sometime when Halliday is still alive? Do we wanna set it exact same time and do our own spin on the story?

Eager to hear all your ideas!


Ariel The Jester Of Tortuga Lady Lee-o Anduin

[The Jester Of Tortuga]

I am still down to clown in this.

I think it should be either well after the events the book/movie, like their death or something and it begins to revert back to the way it was or at the beginning of Oasis' peak. IOI is just becoming a company with power to throw around. It's expanding every day constantly becoming something new and different.

[Ariel]

Not gonna lie, I haven’t seen this movie yet. But I’m gonna make it my mission to watch it this week while I have time off because I totally want to be apart of this!!!

[Anduin]

I’m also still interested in this one.

I watched the movie just one time, so I’m not too confirm with all the things of the background stories.

But I suggest starting the RP directly after the movie. Maybe we’ll find another idea for a new plot.

And I like the idea to create a RealLife-Char and it’s Game-Char. So we could play in the RL-World and in the online-World.


Hollywood Heidi Ariel Lady Lee-o The Jester Of Tortuga

[Hollywood Heidi]

I'm more in line with Jester's way of going; either way in the future or during the early times. That way, we don't have to worry about too much of the canon, especially since there were so many things different in the movie from the book. If we do right after movie, we'd have to pay attention to canon so much more.

Of the early Oasis days vs. the future where it possibly might be getting to the time for Wade to pass the torch, I'm leaving more toward future. We could even set it not so far that they're nearing end of their lives. We could put it two to even up to six decades later. Wade was still pretty young so we've got a lot of time to work with. An adult/older Wade and Samantha could still be characters that people could play. Maybe even have their teenage or young adult kid(s) be a character, possibly dealing with a threat of IOI resurfacing as something new.

Definitely agree with having the Oasis version and our characters' real life versions playable. Remember, the Oasis is now shut down twice a week so that people will actually live life in the real world as well.

[Ariel]

Of the early Oasis days vs. the future where it possibly might be getting to the time for Wade to pass the torch, I'm leaving more toward future. We could even set it not so far that they're nearing end of their lives. We could put it two to even up to six decades later. Wade was still pretty young so we've got a lot of time to work with. An adult/older Wade and Samantha could still be characters that people could play. Maybe even have their teenage or young adult kid(s) be a character, possibly dealing with a threat of IOI resurfacing as something new.



Definitely agree with having the Oasis version and our characters' real life versions playable. Remember, the Oasis is now shut down twice a week so that people will actually live life in the real world as well.

I agree with both of these points!! I found a way to watch the movie now, so I'm hoping to watch it asap.

[Anduin]

I didn't know that there was a book before the movie. ^^


To be honest I would be down with each version.
I just like the topic in general.

[Hollywood Heidi]

Since this is a Movie/TV forum, I tend to encourage that we use the movie or TV version of titles rather than whatever other mediums they may have been on. On a side note, I do recommend the book. I listened to the audiobook twice because I really enjoyed it. The book is really different from the movie. Same basic conclusion but the games and several situations are vastly different. The book might give you better insight into Halliday, Oasis, IOI, etc. but what you learned in the movies should be enough. Those of us who did read the book might be able to answer any questions you may have regarding details you might need that weren't shown in the movie.

Sharizha, I agree, I love the topic or general idea of this world. So much fun! We get to play around with pop culture. Ariel, so glad you finally found a way to watch the movie! Hope you like it!


Anywho, once you get around to watching, looking forward to your plot ideas. The more I've thought about it, the more I think going into the future rather than the past would be a better idea. Lots less canon to have to worry about, especially for those who didn't read the book.

[Hollywood Heidi]

See the Player Collaboration thread. As soon as everyone decides and agrees on a general time frame and general overall plot, please let me know in Collab or here, since I'll be a part of this title. I'll get the boards created as soon as we have a general direction that everyone is happy with!

[Anduin]

Hollywood Heidi Ariel The Jester Of Tortuga Lady Lee-o

Maybe we shall start a ballot?
(or election - if it's the better word. I have no Grammarly at the Moment because I still have to install some programs on my Computer.)


We could choose between "before the movie" or "after the movie".

But maybe we should determine that everybody has only one vote.
(So we all have to think about what Version we prefare and it won't end up in standoff because everybody choose both versions.)

[Hollywood Heidi]

I don’t think we’re quite ready for a poll yet. I think it’s too limited to just say “before” or “after” without saying why. We need to add the “because”. If we end up with more than one good sounding synopsis, then we vote.

For example, here’s my time choice along with my “because”:

I’m leaning toward future because then we don’t have to worry about doing something that might end up contradicting canon, especially if we go to a time when Halliday is still alive. Then you’re worrying about the canon of Halliday and the entire Oasis. Plus in the after, we have the two days a week the Oasis is closed, giving us good reason to make use of times they can’t be in the Oasis or can somehow hack in to deal with baddies or something. I’m thinking that it might be fun if Wade and Artemis are still around. Older, maybe not having to immediately pass the torch but kinda getting ready to. So they could be playable characters if someone wanted or they could be supporting characters when needed.

I have absolutely no ideas yet as for the character I’d create but thought the idea of possibly playing their young adult daughter might be neat. Again, I’ve still pretty much got a blank slate so I’m not hitching my hopes on that. I want to hear what other general synopsis ideas people have and I’m thinking there’s a good chance I won’t start forming a mental idea of my character until I see what other characters are created.

So we’d need to figure what the villain(s)’s objective would be as well. The games that took place in the movie are done with. The money and company belong to Wade and if IOI takes back over the Oasis, that doesn’t mean the money goes to them. Contest is over. I’m guessing anyone who wants to take it over is banking on future income gained off the Oasis. Like IOI had planned to do on top of getting that large sum of money. Bad guys could be IOI or next level of them, quietly rebuilding and rebranding over the decades. A sort of real world virus just waiting to infiltrate the Oasis again.

Bad guys could be different from that though. Something much smaller in scope. Could be some sort of cyber scammers using the Oasis, taking over identities, people ending up dead in the real world. Or maybe some kind of cyber stalker/serial killer. Something along the lines of making them have to sometimes function in the real world.

If any of you were liking the idea of the past because you like the idea of a time when the Oasis still was being built, had issues/glitches, etc, that could work in post movie plots as well. A virus making problems or maybe something activated that kill switch and they have to build from scratch.

There could be another contest and it doesn’t have to necessarily include passing the torch. I feel like that’s copying the movie too much. Wade makes more money than he can spend so he can come up with his own contest or maybe he’s been doing that every now and again throughout the years in honor of Halliday’s contest. Only problem is someone would have to come up with ideas for the puzzles and such. I’m already kinda at a loss for what games I’m gonna create for the Tri-Wizard over on Harry Potter so I definitely can’t take that on here also!


Just tossing out bare bones ideas in hopes it’ll get everyone’s wheels turning.

Does anyone have any form of what they’re picturing as their character? The kind of role you’re seeing for them? We could try to spin ideas off of that as well.

[Anduin]

I also rather like to Play in the future of the movie.


The "because" is already mentioned by you, Heidi.

We could create own plots, we have some days offline to play the RL-alter Egos and we won't end up someday in re-enacting the movie.




I was thinking about my character choise: (it's just a first draft)
Maybe I'll play a boy/young man who is the son of an old IOI-member.
I wouldn't call him a bad guy but surely he isn't well-disposed towards Wade and Artemis because his mother or father lost her/his Job thanks to them. So he might try to hack the Oasis or doing some mischief.
And I think he will use a female Game-Char. ^^ 

[Ariel]

I am also swaying more towards playing in the future, pretty much for the same reason as Heidi stated. We could also have more free range in regards to where we take the story of the Oasis without interfering with what's already happened in the movies.

For our bad guy, I like the idea of a serial killer infiltrating the game. He or she could come off as charismatic and likeable enough to lure people IRL into a location where they would be killed.

As for my character, I'm thinking of a male character probably about eighteen who is most likely going through an event in his point in time that's facing to be difficult to deal with, so the Oasis is his escape. His game character will be male and will look like a medieval hero type character modeled after a character that he looks up to from his favourite movie/book.


Hollywood Heidi Anduin Lady Lee-o The Jester Of Tortuga

[Hollywood Heidi]

Sounds awesome, you guys!


So I'm not hearing any objections to setting it in the future. We do have a couple players who've been pretty silent on the plot discussion front but so we can move on past the time setting, I'm going to assume they're okay with it.


I'm thinking I like the idea of some sort of serial killer would be a fun twist. We have all these ginormous big boss, arch nemesis type villains in all our other RPGs. A baddie on a smaller scale, at least for the start, I think would be much more interesting. Oh! What if, like Wade, this baddie is all obsessed with Halliday and the games from back in the day and with pop culture but in an unhealthy way? Setting up people in games in the Oasis and real life centered around pop culture clues and such?

If I do play someone related to Wade, that could help bring the bad guy onto the radar of our storylines and our characters. For example, authorities showing up to talk to the Oasis peeps in charge to bring to light that this bad guy/girl is using the Oasis to find their victims and try to work with Oasis to catch him/her. Maybe my character could be Oasis friends with your characters or uses the Oasis database to pull some statistics on who would be most helpful in unburying the serial killer. Or some of the characters could have had a connection to someone they knew IRL who was a victim. Or one of the characters could be someone with the FBI (with or without Oasis experience) or whatever authoritative team is on the case.


So question now is, is someone possibly interested in playing the bad guy? Ilona's not in this one so we can't hit up our usual go-to baddie. XD

[Ariel]

If no one is available to play our baddie, I am available to help out and temp play as needed once we have him/her sorted out

In regards to bringing the bad guy onto the radar, my character's IRL location will be stationed on a university campus in a dorm. I was thinking maybe the university has an Oasis club or group where they all go in and hang out with one another once or twice a week. A couple of students start to disappear IRL without a trace and my character grows concerned, he could be acquaintances or friends with your character Heidi and decide to confide in your character in game regarding the disappearances of his fellow students.

[Hollywood Heidi]

Building the boards for this title! Please use the official Plot Discussion thread that I'll be creating in a few minutes from now on. Now that you've all hopefully narrowed things down to a general idea of when it'll take place and an idea of what'll be going on, the discussions can be more precise and geared toward our RPG!

Whoever first posts in the official Plot Discussion, please give a short summary of what's been decided so far on this thread so we don't have to jump back and forth between there and here.