A âïž for a star! â€ïž
Okay! Sorry for the delay in answering (as usual) but I have a fic to talk about! Gonna blab about You Awaken in a Totally Tubular Place for a bit: This was my return to Yuletide this past year, and as mentioned in my author's note, it's based on a real game of YASP that I ran on Zoom for my family back during the plague times. We had the perfect storm come together for a TMNT parody, and I still have my notes from the game, so I used those when writing the fic version. I ran it for four players and so had the Oxventure also feature four players even though the game is designed for three. Mr. Ninja's character was Mister Sprinter, played by Andy, my sister was Scrunchy, played by Ellen, my brother was January, played by Jane, and my sister-in-law was Ralph, played by Luke. Assigning each of those characters to an Oxventurer came pretty naturally - each felt like a good fit personality-wise. I didn't 100% remember all of the story from the original game, but there were definitely events that I knew had happened, even if the details were a bit fuzzy. The original game did feature a conversation with the teenage girls in Pootropolis as well as with the mayor (whose name I *did* make up on the spot, just like Johnny), but I did not remember the specifics of the journey from the city to the villain's hideout, so some of those events were new-ish and based on the character's available skill checks. The details of the confrontation with the Slicer and the Hand Foot and Mouth clan were pretty fuzzy in my memories - and if I remember correctly, we kind of rushed the ending in the original game because it was getting late - so I took some creative liberties there as well. In terms of the dice rolls, again, some were pre-determined because I knew that things needed to go a specific way, but!! there were a lot of specific rolls that *didn't* need to go a certain way (like the rolls for items during commercial breaks) so many of those I *DID* roll using a random dice generator and write according to the results! AND, if I remember correctly, you, Mythy, once sent me an ask about whether I would ever write an Oxventure fic where I let the dice determine the outcomes. At the time, I thought that sounded like a lot of work requiring a lot of planning, so I answered that I was unlikely to ever do it... but then I absolutely went and did just that XD Anyway, this fic was a blast to write because that game was a blast to play, and I'm really proud of how both of them turned out and that I was able to share that adventure with more people by writing this silly fic about it.
