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A Happy Privilege: A collaborative project to celebrate a special occasion
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As you may already be aware, over the holidays there was something of a "royal wedding" within the Foundry community. On her gaming livestream last week, and then on Twitter, former longtime STO dev/Foundry patron saint Maria "Zeronius Rex" Rosseau (now on the MTG dev team) delivered the bombshell news that she and veteran Foundry author johnnysnowball had just gotten married.
She did add that it was just a quick civil ceremony, and that they would have a proper one later in 2019. Nonetheless, this joyous and momentous occasion calls for a Foundry mission to commemorate it - and since I'd already been kicking around the idea of doing a wedding scene in one of my future projects, I have taken it upon myself to do the honors. The mission will be called "A Happy Privilege" (referencing James Kirk's opening remarks at the wedding in TOS "Balance of Terror") and I've already come up with a basic "plot" for it (see below). However, I don't want this to just be my own project, but to open it up to the STO Foundry community at large.
If you have one or two characters (they can be your in-game toons and/or NPCs from your own missions) that you would like to be a guest at this Foundry wedding, please RSVP in this thread with their names, species and genders so I can at least make rudimentary costumes for them. (Don't post or send complete slider settings just yet, as the Foundry costume editor is currently bugged so I may not be able to do finished costumes at this time.) First come, first served, as there is a limit of 50 custom NPC costumes in a Foundry project (and I do intend to max that out, with my own characters if I have to).
Also, for the reception portion of the mission I plan to let the player wander the map and talk to the guests, so if you have any optional dialogue you'd like to write for your characters, you can include that too, or post it later. (I'm not too concerned about spoilers for this mission, so you can just post your dialogue right in this thread, with or without spoiler tags.) Also be sure to let me know where/what you want your characters to be doing during the reception (sitting at a table, at the bar, on the dance floor or whatever). I will also be writing dialogue for various Cryptic NPCs I plan to have in attendance. I intend this to be a light-hearted and somewhat comedic mission, and a celebration not only of the happy couple but also of all things STO and Foundry, including plenty of obscure references and in-jokes galore, so keep that in mind when writing your dialogue.
All authors who contribute characters and/or dialogue will be credited at the end of the mission.
Here is your fair warning of what you'd be getting your characters into: "A Happy Privilege" will consist of just two maps - one each for the ceremony and the reception. The "plot" of the mission will take place entirely on the ceremony map; the reception map will have no mission objectives, but be loaded with optional stuff for the player to do (not unlike the "post-credits" map I made at the end of "Valley of the Shadow III"). Here is the plot summary:
She did add that it was just a quick civil ceremony, and that they would have a proper one later in 2019. Nonetheless, this joyous and momentous occasion calls for a Foundry mission to commemorate it - and since I'd already been kicking around the idea of doing a wedding scene in one of my future projects, I have taken it upon myself to do the honors. The mission will be called "A Happy Privilege" (referencing James Kirk's opening remarks at the wedding in TOS "Balance of Terror") and I've already come up with a basic "plot" for it (see below). However, I don't want this to just be my own project, but to open it up to the STO Foundry community at large.
If you have one or two characters (they can be your in-game toons and/or NPCs from your own missions) that you would like to be a guest at this Foundry wedding, please RSVP in this thread with their names, species and genders so I can at least make rudimentary costumes for them. (Don't post or send complete slider settings just yet, as the Foundry costume editor is currently bugged so I may not be able to do finished costumes at this time.) First come, first served, as there is a limit of 50 custom NPC costumes in a Foundry project (and I do intend to max that out, with my own characters if I have to).
Also, for the reception portion of the mission I plan to let the player wander the map and talk to the guests, so if you have any optional dialogue you'd like to write for your characters, you can include that too, or post it later. (I'm not too concerned about spoilers for this mission, so you can just post your dialogue right in this thread, with or without spoiler tags.) Also be sure to let me know where/what you want your characters to be doing during the reception (sitting at a table, at the bar, on the dance floor or whatever). I will also be writing dialogue for various Cryptic NPCs I plan to have in attendance. I intend this to be a light-hearted and somewhat comedic mission, and a celebration not only of the happy couple but also of all things STO and Foundry, including plenty of obscure references and in-jokes galore, so keep that in mind when writing your dialogue.
All authors who contribute characters and/or dialogue will be credited at the end of the mission.
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Here is your fair warning of what you'd be getting your characters into: "A Happy Privilege" will consist of just two maps - one each for the ceremony and the reception. The "plot" of the mission will take place entirely on the ceremony map; the reception map will have no mission objectives, but be loaded with optional stuff for the player to do (not unlike the "post-credits" map I made at the end of "Valley of the Shadow III"). Here is the plot summary:
You might call it a mash-up of DS9 episodes "You Are Cordially Invited" and "Badda-Bing, Badda-Bang", with a few of my own wrinkles. Capt. Shon of the Enterprise-F contacts the player to ask a favor: He was originally supposed to host this wedding aboard the Enterprise, but that ship is currently undergoing extensive system upgrades in drydock, so he asks the player to host the wedding aboard their ship instead, and or course to perform the ceremony too.
A holodeck program has been created to provide a tropical destination setting for the wedding and reception. It was supposedly written by "Felix", the same mysterious creator behind Vic Fontaine's program from the DS9 TV series. Unbeknownst to the player captain, it also contains one of Felix's infamous "jack-in-the-boxes"; in this case, it's triggered when the player captain signals for the ceremony to begin, and instead of gangsters, it merely leads to all manner of craziness in what had been expected to be a fairly conventional wedding ceremony. Luckily, the "out" for this jack-in-the-box is merely to make it through the ceremony despite all the craziness, and pronounce the couple as husband and wife.
A holodeck program has been created to provide a tropical destination setting for the wedding and reception. It was supposedly written by "Felix", the same mysterious creator behind Vic Fontaine's program from the DS9 TV series. Unbeknownst to the player captain, it also contains one of Felix's infamous "jack-in-the-boxes"; in this case, it's triggered when the player captain signals for the ceremony to begin, and instead of gangsters, it merely leads to all manner of craziness in what had been expected to be a fairly conventional wedding ceremony. Luckily, the "out" for this jack-in-the-box is merely to make it through the ceremony despite all the craziness, and pronounce the couple as husband and wife.
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