On A Dark Desert Highway
May. 3rd, 2013 04:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
teaberryblueSo, for those of you who are interested, some developments:
--All the characters in the hotel must be characters from a classic song (folk, rock, jazz, etc). Still trying to decide what date is the cutoff for "classic" but it will be at least through the 70s. So if you want to write with us, start thinking about songs that you might want to use as your character's backstory. They should be actual people from songs with a narrative and characters. I guess the best way to put it is you can choose Jojo or Prudence or Jude or even the narrator of "Yellow Submarine," but you can't write a character based on "Let it Be" or "Revolution." There are some songs I'm going to reserve to use as framing storylines, so I might have to deny some of them, but for the most part, all is good.
--The hotel's calendar is perpetually set to February 3, 1959.
--I think I have a good sense of what the framing storyline for the first story will be.
--All the characters in the hotel must be characters from a classic song (folk, rock, jazz, etc). Still trying to decide what date is the cutoff for "classic" but it will be at least through the 70s. So if you want to write with us, start thinking about songs that you might want to use as your character's backstory. They should be actual people from songs with a narrative and characters. I guess the best way to put it is you can choose Jojo or Prudence or Jude or even the narrator of "Yellow Submarine," but you can't write a character based on "Let it Be" or "Revolution." There are some songs I'm going to reserve to use as framing storylines, so I might have to deny some of them, but for the most part, all is good.
--The hotel's calendar is perpetually set to February 3, 1959.
--I think I have a good sense of what the framing storyline for the first story will be.
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Date: 2013-05-03 10:00 pm (UTC)Quick digression: After hearing about the film "Six String Samurai" (not even seeing a frame of it, oh dialup days...) I built this overly-complicated big-budget action movie version of a similar setup where a group of these sorts of characters/anthropomorphized ideas would team up with Buddy and Dio to fight Death Metal and his father the Wizard of Ozz for the fate of Lost Vegas.
Then I actually watched the movie and it was not that and I was sad. Then the video game Brütal Legend happened and was kinda a lot like that thing I thought up even though I didn't have fun with it.
/digression
Anyway, I know I already did a thing with him once but if Major Tom is open, I so call dibs.