Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-25316824-20140913202421/@comment-24750690-20140914172910

You would basically establish the plot twist I guess. I mean you could clear it with an admin (Probably Heath, DMR or Fox) before hand, just to make sure it's commensurate with the rest of the canon. If it involves another person and their contributions to the wiki then you should probably make sure it's okay with them too.

But aside from that - it's you. You don't have one guy with a job to throw a story in a loop. That's crap writing.

Likewise we have to be flexible with our intellectual property. RPing is kind of like imporv comedy, you have to expect what the other guy is doing without either of you rehearsing it before hand. Sometimes that means you don't give the punchline. You might set it up, but the most important thing is that you don't get in it's way. Same with plot twists. If you sense someone else is trying to screw everyone up, maybe you can fly with his idea if you like it. That way, you don't get in the way of someone trying to make the game or story more fun.

People might have absolutely horrible ideas as well. My very first RP was the Flood Troll Crisis, (we still don't have a page for that) I had a plot twist then too. Get pregnant. Don't laugh. That was a plot twist. And got shot down. Hard. I don't blame anyone at all because it was a stupid idea. But you have to understand, people will make twists that will mess with your ideas, and you may try to mess with theirs and fail. And that's okay.

You should also make sure people know that you're trying to twist. The search for Heathcliff wouldn't have happened, or it would've been a complete mess, if Heath hadn't done his best to direct the flow of the story. He also used some incredibly clever writing to get out of situations he didn't plan, thus allowing the final reveal of Commander Heathcliff having different motives from THDF to occur with extreme awesome and granduer. If you can let people know you're going in a direction and still suprise them, you know you're doing it right.

Keep in mind these are all suggestions. Every situation is different. Now go in peace. Screw with your own story and other people's stories. And in the words of 1hs444 during one of the very first Team Heretic Dino Fox Role Plays "I can roll with any plot twist."

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(TL;DR: don't be a jerk about it and guess what the other guy is doing. The same can be said about poker, now that I think about it.)