So I spent the time this afternoon putting my thoughts and ideas down. I had been thinking about it for a while. I just got done sitting down and putting it in the Soldiers of Azeroth discord. If you go over there I created a channel just for the event. It’s going to take alot of us pulling together to make this happen. I did an event similar to this years ago back when I was playing City of Heroes. The City of Villains expansion was coming out, so we did a Halloween “whodunit” event. The winner was given a pre order for the expansion, on us.
We had written articles for the event that were newspaper articles. Those gave some of the clues to who the bad guy was. The villain was stalking the night preying upon the innocent, leaving their ravished bodies, twisted and malformed, drained of all blood. We worked with an internet radio station and had a news report and also a press conference. Again clues were dropped.
Before we did the event we replayed the news brief and the press conference. The DJ also RP’ed live as a news reported and told people on air that all the murders in the city had attracted the eye of a paranormal investigator named Steven Vandergeist.
He started the event off. He gave a bit of the story, and gave them a clue to where the next person was. This was an RP event, so people had to RP in order to talk to the people in the quest chain. So Vandergesit lead to a clue to where someone else was in the event/story, who also had a clue to where someone was which lead to another person with a clue to the story, and so on and so forth. When they hit the last person and then had to email Vandergeist with who they thought did it. The first person to answer correctly was the winner.
One of the cool excerpts of the event was we had this kid “Little Susie” as one of the quest players that you had to talk to. She was pouting and crying, the girl playing her laid it on pretty thick and even made some people feel bad hahaha. She was talking about how the monster stole her dolly and went over there, as she pointed to the sewer.
When they followed her clue and went into the sewer their was the “monster” who was made to look like Frankenstein. He was holding the doll and hugging it because he was lonely and wanted a friend. Of course he gave a clue, but their was also this. If a player RP’ed and convinced the monster to give that person the doll, the guy playing the monster sent a message to the person playing Little Susie and told her about that player specifically.
So when the doll was brought back to her “through RP”, and it was that same player who RP’ed getting the doll, we dropped an end game enhancement (think phat loots!) on that person.
Before I even set up where the NPC’s were I made a level 1 character to see if I could get to the areas that I wanted to. Important because I knew people would come from other servers and I wanted everyone to be able to participate in the event. We had all sorts of nuances like that. So that’s the short version, I’m going to repost this in the event channel and I am going to see what records I have from the event. I save almost everything, being sentimental. What ever I have in terms of the scrips and such I’ll post. Also reposting this in the SOA Discord Event Channel.
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