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Working Title: Deadly Decadent Court: From YKTTW
Meocross: excellent use of Plot Holing the sarcastic tone of this page is just Lo L.
Kilyle: Intriguing. This entire entry is, with the help of those links, an exercise is irony. And if we have that irony page up and running by now, I believe we should get a link between the two to show an excellent example of just how irony (in this case meaning "the words don't mean what their surface meaning is") works. Assuming I even have the concept of irony straight in my head, of course.
Gemmifer: I'm glad you like it :) I'm not sure if this is irony either. I was trying to imitate the way that characters in such a setting never mean what they say, like a selfreferential article. You could set the link and wait if the hivemind agrees.
So It Begins: As part of the hive mind, I just want to say that it kinda took me a while to figure out that Pot Holing was even going on (and if the title hadn't included "deadly" and "decadent", I'da probably never figured it out at all. Your choice, though.
fleb: I cut Earnest's picture and caption, because it's really overly wide, plus: I have no friggin' idea what VampireCourt.jpg has to do with the Greek afterlife, formal names for newborns, or the sixth millennium B.C.. Help?
- http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/VampireCourt.jpg
[[caption-width:408:Elysium: Chewing up neonates since 5000 BC.]]
Earnest: It's a joke based on the World Of Darkness game Vampire: The Masquerade. Neonate = newbie vamp, Elysium = the place they hold court and all the snarky coold vamps hang out, and sixth millenium BC is roughly when Cain (the first vamp) was around.
And all things considered, it's not that big, especially compared to Replicant Snatching. Still, anyone got any other picture options?
Tanto: I once had an idea for a video game set in a place like this. The idea was that you were one of the many children of a mad king in a barbaric fantasy kingdom, and tradition holds that when a new king is crowned, all other possible claimants to the throne are put to death in order to maintain stability. The game would feature you arranging the assassinations of your older siblings (or doing it yourself) until you became the heir apparent, then defending yourself from the ambitions of your younger siblings, until dear old dad finally cacked it and you could reign supreme.
It would be a Wide-Open Sandbox-type game with many possible routes to power. A big part of the game would be building temporary alliances with your fellow siblings to take out whoever was currently the top dog, while always having to be wary of double-crosses. You could embezzle money and hire mercenaries or assassins to protect you, or you could join the army and become a military dictator, or you could keep all your killings covered up and become a Villain with Good Publicity, or you could form alliances with the other nobility and get them to do your dirty work for you.
I don't know why I felt the need to bring this up.
Gemmifer: This would also make a good online RPG, somewhat like Survival Of The Fittest but less anarchic and direct, instead more sneaky. (As I understand SOFT, I've never played it)
Leliel: I tried to create striken text in the links, but I'm not sure how. Little help?
Anonymous Mc Cartneyfan: Start the section you want to strike through with [[strike: and end it with ]], and you will get striken stricken struck-through text.
Gemmifer: To be honest, I liked it better without the strikes (like it is in the YKTTW. What do you think, tropers, which one is better?
