Parelle
Posts: 1084
6/3/2016
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Her Majesty has sent your team to investigate the mountain palace of Aspel, now ruined, to find out its secrets and determine what value it may still have.
Aspel is an experimental interactive experience designed for multiple players, featuring asymmetric information and collective decision-making. The text you see on the screen won't necessarily be the same as what everyone else sees, so you'll need to communicate with your fellow players in order to experience it most fully.
The XYZZY awards for interactive fiction were announced today (congratulations for Sunless Sea winning Best Setting!) One of the awards was for Emily Short's Aspel. It's a multi-player interactive fiction - as in, groups need to go into together and play the game at the same time.
Anyone interested in arranging a play-through some time?
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Parelle, Lady Joseph Marlen. The Singular Librarian. A Midnighter, a Player of the Marvelous.
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Zero
Posts: 136
6/3/2016
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I'd like to play, if you can bear the sometimes wonky grammar of a non-native speaker. I love Emily Short's writing.
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Jermaine Vendredi
Posts: 588
6/3/2016
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I'd be up for it. (BST)
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Kharsirr Lynx
Posts: 318
6/3/2016
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I'm not native speaker too, but count me in.
GMT +3
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Vavakx Nonexus
Posts: 892
6/3/2016
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I fear that time zones may turn out to play a large part, but if that is not a concern, I would be interested. Also, how many players total would this game require?
Oh, and GMT +3 here.
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Estelle Knoht
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6/3/2016
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I am interested as well, as a non-native speaker. GMT+8 here.
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Parelle
Posts: 1084
6/3/2016
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Hmm. I'm GMT-4/EDT. I don't mind if the rest of you go on together though - as I think it might be a bit hard for me to coordinate with the rest of you!
I also spaced and forgot to add her blogpost on this (note a spoilery post mortem is also on her site)
https://emshort.wordpress.com/2015/04/04/spring-thing-2015-and-aspel/
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Professor Strix
Posts: 616
6/3/2016
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I'm GMT-3, but I stay home at days and work at nights.
(First one to make a vampire joke will be viciously bitten.)
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Erika
Posts: 528
6/4/2016
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I'm AUS Eastern Time/UTC+10. How large are are the recommended groups? Would organising two different playthroughs, 12 hours different from each other, be viable (to better allow for varying timezones)?
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Shadowcthuhlu
Posts: 1557
6/4/2016
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EDT - 04 over here
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https://www.fallenlondon.com/profile/Dirae%20Erinyes. Closed to calling cards, but open for all other social action. I also love to roleplay.
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Vavakx Nonexus
Posts: 892
6/4/2016
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I know that it is free to play, and that we probably shouldn't touch it before we arrange a group and everything else.
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Blabbing, the Hobo Everyone Knows: The One Who Pulls The Strings. A Clarity In The Darkness.
Charlotte and the Caretaker: A family?
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malthaussen
Posts: 1060
6/4/2016
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Sounds interesting. Zulu -4 here.
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Parelle
Posts: 1084
6/4/2016
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Too large a group might be a problem (as Cecil mentions) upon reading again: you need a minimum of 3 and >7 is definitely too many. So splitting up by time zones may suit to keep the groups smallish.
We may also want to run a separate chat of some sort as there's only limited chat logging in game.
So, GMT -4 (+/- 1) folks (Mal, SC, PS): I'm busy over the weekend but free a bit more during this coming week in the evenings post-8PM EDT. Professora, you mention working at nights so perhaps that won't suit?
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malthaussen
Posts: 1060
6/4/2016
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I regret that I keep to a fairly rigorous schedule of going offline around 9PM local, Parelle. So not available for more than about an hour after 8.
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Will do all socials except Loitering or Private Evenings (all my Free Evenings are accounted for), and Affluent Photographer Betrayals only, please. I am not currently accepting calling cards.
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Parelle
Posts: 1084
6/4/2016
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What I don't have a good feel for is how long it is. If an hour and a half will do it, we could start closer to 7?
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Vavakx Nonexus
Posts: 892
6/5/2016
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I think we could get at least 3 people at roughly GMT+2(+/- 2) to make a team. Both groups still have to choose a time to gather and play the actual game though.
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Amets Estibariz, the Moulting Eidolon: Cradled by a sun all their own.
Blabbing, the Hobo Everyone Knows: The One Who Pulls The Strings. A Clarity In The Darkness.
Charlotte and the Caretaker: A family?
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