Monday, March 17, 2014

The Scion AMA!

We're keeping this post pinned to the top of the blog for a week so folks can find it easily - if you're looking for new blog posts, scroll down!

Okay, everybody! After this post last week garnered a good amount of interest, we're going for it. We're going to do an in-character Scion AMA (Ask Me Anything), and you're all invited to participate!

While we considered several platforms to do this, in the end we decided that we would probably keep it on our blog for the safety and comfort of players and question-askers alike, and that while we do love the "here's three hours, go nuts" form of Reddit AMAs, we have too many folks around the globe in different time zones to make that as feasible. So here's what we'll do: starting today, please email us any questions you want to ask a character at ampstorytellers@gmail.com. We'll keep them in a running file for one week, and then send them on to the players. And finally, we'll post all the answers, and you guys can go nuts in the comments. :)

There are a few ground rules, as there always are with AMAs:

1) Be respectful. Most of you guys normally are so we don't anticipate any problems, but it still needs to be said. The players are real people, even if their characters aren't.
2) The players reserve the right to refuse to answer. Hopefully they won't - after all, answering questions is the whole point! - but if your question's answer would reveal something that is still a secret in-game or they just aren't comforable with it, they may have to say no. (They might be able to provide teasers, though!)
3) You can ask questions of any Scion that has been a PC in our games, living or dead, in any universe. In the very rare case that the player is not available to answer (there are only a few that would fit this criteria), John or I will do our best to answer instead. NPCs are out of bounds.
4) Remember that you're asking the character a question, and you will receive an in-character answer. Don't ask personal questions of the players themselves.
5) Questions are unlimited - you can send in as many as you want and email as many times as you want! That said, try to make questions unique and interesting. We probably won't follow through on any "Ask this exact same question to every single character!" requests.
6) If you can, please send questions in to our email rather than commenting with them here. It'll be easier for us to coordinate. If you can't email for some reason, you can drop it in a comment on this post instead, but please give email a shot if you can!

And that's all we've got. :) We've spoken to several players already who are totally excited about doing this, so now's your shot, everybody. If there's something you've always wondered about a character, a question you have about their thoughts and motivations or just some situation you'd like to hear them explain in their own words, they are at your disposal.

5 comments:

  1. How should the e-mail be addressed?

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    1. However you want - just be clear about what questions are for which characters so we know who to send them to.

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  2. I accidentally sent mine in twice. Sorry about that...damn mail server's been acting up al week!

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