We've got Wiki and its time to ante up

[jeregenest]

The Amazing bryant has set up a wiki for Age of Parnoia. That espionage game I've been blabbering so much about.

You can find it here

So who is in on this beast?
And when do folks want to start?
Weekly or every other week?
It will, needless to say, be in medford at my place.

Comments

[jeffwik.livejournal.com]

I find what I've read to be a newness and a thing that provokes interest. Even now I consider making the quick trip to the local library for this mysterious "karla trilogy" which promises to banish all doubt and confusion. But if... and this is what I suspect... if this troika be pursued by wolves; if the roisterers clamor for attention; if nine walk home empty-handed for every one who holds the green glass chalice, then perhaps I should hide and scatter.

[jeffwik.livejournal.com]

Which is to say I'm interested, but also a little intimidated and not so eager that I'm tripping over myself and so if you're having to beat players away with a stick -- I recall you wrote earlier you envisioned a smallish group -- then that's cool.

Although I did lend you vast amounts of Danger Man.

[bryant]

We're all so bashful. Probably a byproduct of the twenty people who showed up for Starchildren.

Anyhow, yes, I'm interested.

Weekly.

[chrislehrich.livejournal.com]

I'm in, but it's got to be every other week (or I'll miss 50% of the sessions).

And you're going to have to explain this whole Wiki thing to me, and what it's going to have to do with the game.

Chris Lehrich

[robotnik.livejournal.com]

How long do you think this will go? Can I just continue to kibitz for now with hopes of participating for real in a month or so?

[robotnik.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure precisely what Jere wants to do with the Wiki in this game, but it's a web application that makes it very easy for people to make web pages and link them to one another, creating a nested document (in this case, one describing the setting and events of the game). They seem extremely well-suited to the kind of interwoven bits of information that a conspiratorial RPG quickly generates.

The social implication of the technology is that it's meant to be a group endeavour--all the players contribute to the wiki, and to varying degrees to the game world itself.

The wiki for Jere's Nobilis game(s) is here (http://www.respectstartstomorrow.com/oceanwiki/HomePage) and the one for my Unknown Armies game is here (http://www.innocence.com/games/pmwiki/index.php/UnknownUSA/UnknownUSA). There's no best way to read them - you just have to wander around, clicking on whatever interests you.

[jeregenest.livejournal.com]

When is your thesis supposed to be done?

Yeah, more tha likely you can easily kibitz for a while. You know how this group is.

[jeregenest.livejournal.com]

mmm...wiki....

My intent is that a lot of the continual world building (NPCs, mission that happen off stage, etc) that get mentioned in passing will be developed in more depth on the wiki.

Also mission reports and stuff like that.

I'll try to write soemthing up a bit more coherent.