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hannah blue
hannah blue

Aug-9-2007 14:58

there should be an ocean liner that one could get on ( a substitute for a city ) and one could solve a mystery around the ship ( the grand salon, the kitchen, the boiler room, the cabin, etc. ) and a computer game of 21 could be in the grand salon. one could stay on the ship to solve mysteries but the ship would not have any treasure hunts and one could not buy an apartment on the ship. from time to time the ship would dock in shainghai, and everybody would be kicked off the ship and find themselves in shaingahi..the ship would stay in shainghai for say 3 days and fill up again ( perhaps a limit of 20 players only ) and then sail off so to speak to arrive in london two weeks later..then everybody would get kicked off and one could get back on to be the next 20...the deal is when the ship leaves port you do not know to which city it will travel next..you
take your chances and every two weeks it kicks you off...perhaps one could limit 20 players from always staying on the ship by either charging a higher and higher fee to get on if you kept getting on all the time to stay on the ship or perhaps the computer would just let the first 20 on or perhaps the computer would take the last 20 who just got off and not allow them to get back on in the next 3 days at all....it could be called "the sleuthetania"...


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Brasco De Gama
Brasco De Gama
Old Shoe

Aug-15-2007 06:32

I agree with SS, it would fit in the the AVH idea.
In fact it could be a great way of finishing an AVH, say, with the cruise finishing up at Shangri La to let you collect your prize or allow you to get home for 1 turn if you failed. Perhaps this might be easier to program in to the existing format?


Paranoid_Android
Paranoid_Android
Story Teller

Aug-15-2007 06:56

...without wishing to confuse the idea any further, coz I think the simple original idea with amendment was great.

However... thinking about VH's and the like (and I know VH's aren't everyone's cup of tea. I know I'm burnt out :) ) I wonder if a 'second tier' of this idea might be that the ship / cruise 'could be' (optional) the culmination of the VH.

So you had to get on the ship to take your prisoner back to Shangri La, and you could have the option to risk your captive and therefore your prize by accepting one of these mini hunts on the ship.

A double or nothing type deal, that might be interesting. Kind of if you fail, your villain escapes and you get nothing for your 4 or 5 days of hard slog, but if you succeed you get something 'extra'. eg an additional stat added to the gear you win, a different 'coloured' gear to show you'd done this.

Anyway that's just an idea, without wishing to detract, or lose focus, from the original.

AmazingAmanda253
AmazingAmanda253
Well-Connected

Aug-15-2007 10:34

It would be great if there were SM's on the cruise...

Stooby
Stooby
Well-Connected

Aug-15-2007 12:22

I had an idea for an SM on a cruise but wondered how to work it back in the city. I also saw someone's early stage SM that started on a cruise and would have made more sense if ti could finish there to.

Dave Von Wave
Dave Von Wave
Well-Connected

Aug-16-2007 06:55

It would also be interesting to have an Orient Express type thing.

Problem there is that you tie yourself down to very few cities. In fact "Orient Express" went from Paris to Istanbul. And while one incarnation started (sort of) in London, there is no reasonable city to the other end to. Possibly Cairo, Shanghai or Shangri La. But all of those are iffy to me.

I'd Like a Cruise Ship AND a Cruise Train. I have an SM idea or two for both. But I'll be happy for a Ship.

Sleuth Admin
Sleuth Admin
Tale Spinner

Aug-16-2007 09:59

I want to simplify the idea a bit so we can have something that we could potentially do in the next few months without being a serious draw away from Shades of Mystery. We can add other stuff like specialized skills later.

And how about...

1 Ocean Liner "The Sleuthetannia" - Travels back and forth between New York and Shanghai.

1 Train "Name?" - Travels back and forth between London and Delhi (yeah, I know, no chunnel)

In addition to individual mysteries, what kind of hunts would you like to see?

Stooby
Stooby
Well-Connected

Aug-16-2007 12:25

I like the idea of timed quests. Either timmed AV Hunts or Squirrels double or nothing idea.

Lots of potential for development. Like we said new skills needed, new contacts on the ship.

The fact that it is on a ship could see a murder take plac and you need to catch the murderer before the ship docks as otherwise all disembark. And new ship related intros etc.

And what about (not sure if this can be done) other crimes like thefts?

Rosamund Clifford
Rosamund Clifford
Tale Spinner

Aug-16-2007 12:27

Maybe Sleuthville Express? Or Sleuthville Belle? Or Flying Sleuth? I did my homework on famous trains and found out that there was a Rheingold Express between Holland and Switzerland in the twenties, how about Ringold Express? :D

Maybe we could have individual hunts on the train (AV hunts or something new) and team hunts on the ship, with ad-hoc teams of detectives formed after we board.

I suppose there will be a time limit for both, depending on the kind of hunts.

Dave Von Wave
Dave Von Wave
Well-Connected

Aug-16-2007 14:20

The Noir Express :)

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