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As an interactive storyteller,
you are important because...
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Storytelling is an oft-neglected, but vital part of
any virtual world. Think of your own life, what is it but a collection
of stories? Events occur, which affect your life. You respond to
those events causing further alteration, and possibly, in turn,
affecting others. The chain of events continues, spiraling forever.
Now, try and picture a life in which, no matter what
you do, it has little effect on the outside world. You make a change,
it affects the world around you for a few minutes - maybe even a
few hours - then everything slowly goes back to how it was before
you changed it. No matter what you do, you make no mark on the world,
no impact. Could you live in a world like that?
That is the reality of most of today's virtual worlds.
That is what our characters put up with. Our worlds need stories,
they need plots. The players must be able
to change the world, to make a lasting difference, and have
their characters remembered in the legends of the world. To do this,
we need stories.
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Further Information about
our Storyteller resources
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Your job is one of the hardest of all. Telling a story is easy.
Telling a good one, and telling it well, is not. Worse, to
tell a story, that is continually evolving, changing even as you
script it, every player that becomes involved, adding his, or her
little nuance to it, is one of the hardest things to do.
Our resources for interactive storytellers are still meagre, but
growing too.
- We look at mythology / theology - how could all those wonderous
events from the various religions have taken place? What's behind
them? dismantling every movement, every folklore, every ceremony,
into it's root components, so that you can create your own, shape
your own religion, form mighty battles, and avoid cliché
storylines.
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