Traveller's Café: Discussion, brainstorming & advice

[Escalan Corps-Star Island]

Despite this, Elfen High has a very rigid and solid canon that stretches across not just three arcs, but possibly a dozen roleplays and has a very in-built world.

Basically,

We've accidentally crafted a Tolkien-esque world, complete and resplendent in its complexity and comprehensiveness, all built around dick jokes and lesbians.

That is one of the more brilliant descriptions I have ever encountered.

[Nationstatelandsville]

Well, no, I haven't met Nationstateslandsville. So that's what psychopaths are capable of! I do find the sheer crass weirdness quite enjoyable though...
Perhaps it's because I haven't done that much lurking in EH- I get the impression that it's a huge, monolithic, intimidatingly sized thread that's harder to acquaint oneself in. Like a more disturbing Doctor Who with more Eldritch Abominations.

I'm not sure how to explain Elfen High.

Nat, NEI, explain Elfen High.

OK, so you know Harry Potter? Forget it, because it's nothing like that.

Right. So there's this school. It's only sort of a school, though, because the last time anyone went to class after the first day was in 1926, and they got lost on the way to the bathrooms.

It's a magic school, in England, near London. There's a lot of magic, but there isn't a lot of school. It's run by Aleister Crowley (but not that one), who is the greatest hedonist to have ever lived, while also the most powerful wizard in the world. Surprisingly, this works. The staff is made up of psychopaths. Entirely. The one sanest one was a drunk half-orc who abandoned his son. Then you have the students, who are stuck-up, snotty, bratty, hormonal, and completely fucking stupid.

Everyone hates everyone, except when someone else hurts one of them, at which point the entire school beats that someone to death.

There are angels, and there are demons. They live, collectively, in Heaven - a despotic theocracy, Hell - a wasteland of the bizarre and bloodthirsty warlords who make Genghis Khan look like an amateur, and Heavensgate - a colony of Heaven's in Hell, which is the most progressive out of the three in that not everyone's life is shit (usually). They all hate each other, and humanity, and it's Elfen High's job to keep everything peaceful. Elfen High does this by being drunk (everyone, all the time), late, and inexplicably naked.

Also, there are these abominations from before time called the Fae, who are trying to kill everyone, everywhere. And then's there another abomination who is trying to kill everyone, everywhere, but even more so, called Leviathan. And then Satan and God are in there somewhere, but no one really knows how. Nor does anyone care, because they're all crippled emotionally and are shitfaced.

Also, there are dick jokes. Mainly dick jokes.

[Olthar]

I think I should put out that I'm not exactly a stranger to that kind of thing.

I've also lurked at Adventuring Days. O_O
How do you people do it.

I'd say drugs, except for Olthar and myself. The Penis Queen must have some funky Wisconsin cheese to do that sort of stuff. How a Mormon manages to come up with nonsensical crap like the rest of Night's homesizzles without any drugs is something you'll have to ask the Lord about, since I don't have a clue.

Nope. Just all-natural, home-brewed insanity for me.

[Nationstatelandsville]

Despite this, Elfen High has a very rigid and solid canon that stretches across not just three arcs, but possibly a dozen roleplays and has a very in-built world.

Basically,

We've accidentally crafted a Tolkien-esque world, complete and resplendent in its complexity and comprehensiveness, all built around dick jokes and lesbians.

Oh, and this world is now coming to end in a massive gambit by Night and myself to wrap it up by the end of the century in a way that isn't completely disappointing.

It's like if Tolkien did a shitload of LSD, made all of his hallucinations canon, and stopped in the middle of The Two Towers and decided to wrap everything up in the next five pages.

[Nightkill the Emperor]

Despite this, Elfen High has a very rigid and solid canon that stretches across not just three arcs, but possibly a dozen roleplays and has a very in-built world.

Basically,

Oh, and this world is now coming to end in a massive gambit by Night and myself to wrap it up by the end of the century in a way that isn't completely disappointing.

It's like if Tolkien did a shitload of LSD, made all of his hallucinations canon, and stopped in the middle of The Two Towers and decided to wrap everything up in the next five pages.

In another way of explaining, Arc 3 is currently over 120 pages long. Most rps don't get even half this long.

If this were a decently long movie, we'd have finished the first half hour.

[Nationstatelandsville]

Oh, and this world is now coming to end in a massive gambit by Night and myself to wrap it up by the end of the century in a way that isn't completely disappointing.

It's like if Tolkien did a shitload of LSD, made all of his hallucinations canon, and stopped in the middle of The Two Towers and decided to wrap everything up in the next five pages.

In another way of explaining, Arc 3 is currently over 120 pages long. Most rps don't get even half this long.

If this were a decently long movie, we'd have finished the first half hour.

We have spent these 120 pages dealing with a completely unrelated plot pertaining to Nazis, because, you know, why not?

[The Magnified Union of Aligned Communes]

Well, thank you very much!
Even the descriptions alone have a dehibilating effect on my ability to respond.

[Astrolinium]

In another way of explaining, Arc 3 is currently over 120 pages long. Most rps don't get even half this long.

If this were a decently long movie, we'd have finished the first half hour.

We have spent these 120 pages dealing with a completely unrelated plot pertaining to Nazis, because, you know, why not?

Elfen High would really need to be an HBO mini-series with three point five seasons or something rather than a set of movies.

[Nationstatelandsville]

Well, thank you very much!
Even the descriptions alone have a dehibilating effect on my ability to respond.

The only way to understand it is to read it.

And we're all just guessing here, anyhow.

If you think that Elfen High is any good because it's lasted so long, you're wrong - it just means that none of us have anything better to do.

[Escalan Corps-Star Island]

Well, thank you very much!
Even the descriptions alone have a dehibilating effect on my ability to respond.

The only way to understand it is to read it.

And we're all just guessing here, anyhow.

If you think that Elfen High is any good because it's lasted so long, you're wrong - it just means that none of us have anything better to do.

And the fact that we read it and laugh as hard as we do means we have nothing better to do either.

[The Ferret Revolution]

Oh, and this world is now coming to end in a massive gambit by Night and myself to wrap it up by the end of the century in a way that isn't completely disappointing.

It's like if Tolkien did a shitload of LSD, made all of his hallucinations canon, and stopped in the middle of The Two Towers and decided to wrap everything up in the next five pages.

In another way of explaining, Arc 3 is currently over 120 pages long. Most rps don't get even half this long.

If this were a decently long movie, we'd have finished the first half hour.

Almost all 5 of the Sylvan IC's ended between 200 and 250 pages I believe. And now we are working on a sixth based after the events of the first 5 and an additional 3 that I didn't get to finish so I just explained it in the OOC so we can move on from that plot.

[Tiltjuice]

Well, thank you very much!
Even the descriptions alone have a dehibilating effect on my ability to respond.

The only way to understand it is to read it.

And we're all just guessing here, anyhow.

If you think that Elfen High is any good because it's lasted so long, you're wrong - it just means that none of us have anything better to do.

Yeah, we know that feeling.

The difference is, outsiders being confused amuses us greatly, so we don't try to explain it. It's just there.

[The Magnified Union of Aligned Communes]

We have spent these 120 pages dealing with a completely unrelated plot pertaining to Nazis, because, you know, why not?

Elfen High would really need to be an HBO mini-series with three point five seasons or something rather than a set of movies.

There are people that could tackle Elfen High without going slightly mad?
Or is that why the fourth season got cancelled? =|

[The Ferret Revolution]

Well, thank you very much!
Even the descriptions alone have a dehibilating effect on my ability to respond.

The only way to understand it is to read it.

And we're all just guessing here, anyhow.

If you think that Elfen High is any good because it's lasted so long, you're wrong - it just means that none of us have anything better to do.

Yeah but your IC posts are long as all hell... I tried reading it once and I got to the end of the first page and I was just like "Yeah... so much for reading another 100 pages..."

[Nationstatelandsville]

The only way to understand it is to read it.

And we're all just guessing here, anyhow.

If you think that Elfen High is any good because it's lasted so long, you're wrong - it just means that none of us have anything better to do.

Yeah but your IC posts are long as all hell... I tried reading it once and I got to the end of the first page and I was just like "Yeah... so much for reading another 100 pages..."

Don't get me wrong - we have some very good writers in Elfen High, who (particularly in this arc) have written some professional work.

But it's still mainly about dick jokes.

[Nude East Ireland]

Elfen High would really need to be an HBO mini-series with three point five seasons or something rather than a set of movies.

There are people that could tackle Elfen High without going slightly mad?

Yes, us.

Just kidding. We're all mad.

[Astrolinium]

Elfen High would really need to be an HBO mini-series with three point five seasons or something rather than a set of movies.

There are people that could tackle Elfen High without going slightly mad?
Or is that why the fourth season got cancelled? =|

No, you misunderstand.

The whole production team is already mad, as are all the actors, except for Christopher Lee, who merely wanders the set and occasionally smiles affably in an attempt not to get eaten.

[Nationstatelandsville]

There are people that could tackle Elfen High without going slightly mad?
Or is that why the fourth season got cancelled? =|

No, you misunderstand.

The whole production team is already mad, as are all the actors, except for Christopher Lee, who merely wanders the set and occasionally smiles affably in an attempt not to get eaten.

Christopher Lee isn't even in Elfen High.

We just keep him in a cage and feed him carrots.

[Constaniana]

Yeah but your IC posts are long as all hell... I tried reading it once and I got to the end of the first page and I was just like "Yeah... so much for reading another 100 pages..."

Don't get me wrong - we have some very good writers in Elfen High, who (particularly in this arc) have written some professional work.

And we also have me.

[Nude East Ireland]

No, you misunderstand.

The whole production team is already mad, as are all the actors, except for Christopher Lee, who merely wanders the set and occasionally smiles affably in an attempt not to get eaten.

Christopher Lee isn't even in Elfen High.

We just keep him in a cage and feed him carrots.

On late nights, we drink ourselves to near-death while he sings some heavy metal.

[Astrolinium]

No, you misunderstand.

The whole production team is already mad, as are all the actors, except for Christopher Lee, who merely wanders the set and occasionally smiles affably in an attempt not to get eaten.

Christopher Lee isn't even in Elfen High.

We just keep him in a cage and feed him carrots.

He's actually the Queen of the Rabbits.




The normal people here probably don't realize that's only a joke halfway.

[The Ferret Revolution]

Yeah but your IC posts are long as all hell... I tried reading it once and I got to the end of the first page and I was just like "Yeah... so much for reading another 100 pages..."

Don't get me wrong - we have some very good writers in Elfen High, who (particularly in this arc) have written some professional work.

But it's still mainly about dick jokes.

But at least it's professional dick jokes. Like a dick dressed up nicely in a 3 peice suit with a brief case walking with a fancy cane to his job where he makes millions as an Ceo. It's still a dick... but at least it's a fancy dick *nods*

[Nightkill the Emperor]

Don't get me wrong - we have some very good writers in Elfen High, who (particularly in this arc) have written some professional work.

But it's still mainly about dick jokes.

But at least it's professional dick jokes. Like a dick dressed up nicely in a 3 peice suit with a brief case walking with a fancy cane to his job where he makes millions as an Ceo. It's still a dick... but at least it's a fancy dick *nods*

I greatly enjoy this idea, merely for the image of a giant throbbing penis dressed up like that.

[The Ferret Revolution]

But at least it's professional dick jokes. Like a dick dressed up nicely in a 3 peice suit with a brief case walking with a fancy cane to his job where he makes millions as an Ceo. It's still a dick... but at least it's a fancy dick *nods*

I greatly enjoy this idea, merely for the image of a giant throbbing penis dressed up like that.

Yeah, now you can get that image in your head everytime you think of Elfen High

[Nightkill the Emperor]

I greatly enjoy this idea, merely for the image of a giant throbbing penis dressed up like that.

Yeah, now you can get that image in your head everytime you think of Elfen High

Nah, we think of far worse.