Let's play: SCRAMming up!

[Eternal_Freedom]

Allright fellas, the new thread is posted here.

At present, the characters are:

SPACE PILOT (Myself)
CO-PILOT/FRONT MAN (Zixinus)
COMBAT JANITOR (Shroom)
REPAIR GUY (Faxmodem)
QUIET HISTORIAN (Force Lord)
MILDLY DERANGED PHYSICIST (Simon_Jester)
CREEPY RUSSIAN (Scottish_Ninja, if he is still interested.)

There is an opening for Fajner if he still wants to join the madness. Fajner, just post something. You are whatever is making that loud noise. Try and be human though.

Any other former characters that want to re-appear can do so, please PM me and I'll write you in.

[noncredible]

So can I join the new thread?

[Eternal_Freedom]

So, I think I should make this formal and official. I have PM'd PeZook with a fancy-worded formal request which I shall post here after he responds. I have created a vote thread in Testing for the players to make up their minds.

Please vote ASAP guys!

[Zixinus]

If we are to restart, can we also make a new thread while at it?

Not to be pushy, but I think we sort of need to throw inactive team members in a closet (perhaps just loitering around the hangar?).

Yes, a suitably DRAMATIC DEATH would give some transmission well.

[PeZook]

Well, you're in Libertarian Russia and many powerful people want exclusive use of your spaceplane around the same date.

It's not inconceivable you'll get into a firefight somewhere along the way

[Eternal_Freedom]

If everyone was happy with it, I was thinking of having me killed, that way it forces all the characters to come to terms with my death and the resulting changes in TEAM LAME.

[Zixinus]

Well, personally, I think I can take his place with Simon doing the math for orbits and such.

[noncredible]

True. He could just gradually fade him into a minor character. Or he could be revealed to have been an agent of the CIA/RAAF/Russian mercenaries Glorious Capitalist Enforcers of Capitalism

[Zixinus]

For similar reasons as to why it's usually a bad sign that directors star in their own films: ego can easily come into play.

PeZook controls several characters, but they are more like NPCs rather than played characters.

[noncredible]

Why would you need to remove yourself as a player? I mean, the... author?... of the thread controls several people already (the dog, Tropical Beauty, the hobo, the owners of Okhtosk).

[Eternal_Freedom]

I would take it on, but it may be difficult to remove myself as a player, seeing how I'm the pilot and all.

I can give it a try, if you guys want me to.

[noncredible]

I'm actually quite surprised that when I asked if I could join, nobody started yelling at me

Why would we do that?

Well, there was a thread a while back about SDN taking over the government of Tropico and setting up a new one. I completely missed the "theme" of a TGOD, and basically started spamming random stuff. Then Thanas got angry at me and I created basically a carbon copy of the thread on another board.

[Zixinus]

So, again, does somebody feel like taking over PeZook's place? Preferably someone who himself isn't a player or can remove himself as one.

I'm actually quite surprised that when I asked if I could join, nobody started yelling at me

Why would we do that?

[noncredible]

I'm actually quite surprised that when I asked if I could join, nobody started yelling at me

[PeZook]

Since it's semi-officially over now, I feel like now is the right time to ask: what direction did you originally see this going in? What did you figure that we might do?

Because I know from my own experience that those predictions are almost never close to what actually happens.

Well, I envisioned it as an actual Let's Play, where a bunch of players who barely know anything about spaceflight would make decisions on what to do with the spaceplane and when.

And thus inevitably die in a fire

It turned out into more of an RPG.

The CAPITALIZATION was not RANDOM.

Was it based off of The Editing Room's abridged movie scripts?

Actually I based it on MUDs: I tried to keep the RANDOM CAPITALIZATION to NOUNS and ADJECTIVES like OLD MUDS did due to LIMITATIONS of DATA STORAGE.

It drifted a bit, yeah, but was never random

[noncredible]

The CAPITALIZATION was not RANDOM.

Was it based off of The Editing Room's abridged movie scripts?

[Scottish Ninja]

Since it's semi-officially over now, I feel like now is the right time to ask: what direction did you originally see this going in? What did you figure that we might do?

Because I know from my own experience that those predictions are almost never close to what actually happens.

[Eternal_Freedom]

It had a good run. Given how much time I have kicking around right now, I would volunteer to keep it running, but I won't be able to start until this coming Sunday.

Also, I doubt I have PeZooks humorous writing skills. But I'll give it a go if people want this to continue.

[Zixinus]

Yeah, I would volunteer but definitely not now (and not sure that I would be the best candidate anyway: I think we would need someone with a better sense of humour). I have school-leaving exams in the next week and the weeks to come.

Still though, I don't want to let this die without at least trying to see whether we can keep it alive a little longer, we were just about to start making a serious business and all.

[PeZook]

Huh. I didn't think anyone would want to

But sure, why not. It would be interesting to see.

P.S.

The CAPITALIZATION was not RANDOM.

[Zixinus]

Yes, humour is much more difficult to write than one would think. Or at least, for some people. I don't think like that.

Tell me though, what if someone else took over?

[PeZook]

I was simply running out of jokes

If we ever do anything remotely like that again, I will analyze the problems and try to come up with solutions.

[Zixinus]

Oh well, I was getting unfunny and all-business anyway.

Still though, it was a fun attempt. Perhaps part of the problem is too many random people joining in and needed to be kept track of (and the people that hang in once or twice and then disappear)?

Either way, thanks PeZook for the fun already provided.

[Simon_Jester]

Rats. I know how it goes, but. Well.

I hope that somewhere out there, in some dreamlike space-Valhalla, the lunacy goes on.

I'll always remember the AMATEUR ZERO-G FIGHTING, the MAD SCIENCE, the RANDOM CAPITALIZATION.

But what I'll mostly remember was the laughter. And the CACKLING.

[FaxModem1]

Darn.