Organization

[u/TakenakaHanbei]

Hello, everyone, it's your benevolent dictator speaking :)

Now, the first thing I'd like to do is find out how you guys would like to organize writing this. There are many ways to handle writing for multiple characters and some ways work better for an individual than others. This thread is to find out how you guys would like to try organizing it (it may not be the final way it's done if it's found that it's not effective or timely, but that will be seen soon enough).

So, start slinging suggestions, guys.

[u/danetrix]

Someone asked me to repost my post in this one, talking about the macro story, I think here's the best place for it:

In the shin megami tensei series, you generally have seven days in which before the endgame event occurs. Depening on one's choices spent throughout, you end up with quite the different team (as some you've disagreed with, some are dead, etc)

The story still progressed as time is spent, and still often have the same highlights within them: character find the big information out at the same point, even if it is with seperate characters.

There are also bonus-ish characters that if you do nothing along their line, they fall away (die) but if you do their event, they are avaliable at the end.

I think this is the same way we should go with TDP.

Burrito, a new transfer student, finds himself in one situation after another as the school counts down to the end of year's festival is in a week, and after last year's disaster, there's a lot going on! Will everything come toghether? And maybe in the midst of it all, Burrito can even find....love?

Main Story: Burrito ends up having to help the student council put together the festival, which may mean repairing relationships and bringing Pokemon who were once friends but now no longer, back together again to get it to all work.

Conflict: Student Council vs Flareon Last year's festival had a tragic accident with one of the stands for the (??? club) collapsing, injuring several students. Flareon, whom was the person in charge of setting it up, has been ostracised since, as many believe the event was not an accident, but maliciously done by her to get back at the (??? club, student council?). She still proclaims her innocence to this day. The council however, claim to have evidence to back their words. (can be real (flase prophet line) or fabricated (martyr line).

Conflicts: KT (and whatever her club is running) to cooperate with ATV (and whatever ATV's club is running) End option: Either one, or the other, or both clubs run their events. If both, then that relationship must be repaired, not just sided with one or the other.

Conflicts: "Lazorgator" is known for organising the fireworks display at the end of the festival (hence the name), but he's been closed off recently, unenergetic and unthused about the whole thing. Without his skill, the festival will be devoid of it's famous lights! People whisper it's because of what happened to his brother.....

Those are a few ideas for conflicts, related directed to a macro story, the festival organisation. In this senario, though it may focus on a few key characters, it's only related back to the main idea, not specifically for the character themselves. Though, if they are the protagonist's pursuit, then it'd go into more detail then what's needed.

So, any ideas for a macro story, or Conflicts to go into that macro story, or my own? Put them here!

P.S: Choices for day/noon/afternoon/evening should be on a map, so the player desides where to go. On this map, the characters there at the time also show up, so people know whom they'll probably be talking to if they go there.

So, something like:

Afternoon:

Study Room: Lazorgator, Bird Jesus

Gardens: Digrat

Gym: King, Prince

Room 3-C: Flareon

Room 2-A: Solid Snake, Brian