Topic

Purple

I would like more ways to enjoy purple flowers in the game.  The flowers themselves are pretty tame, and the essence is pretty over the top, but the range of purple experiences has yet to be fully explored.
Where would these new things come from?  They could be potions that use essences of purple, or alchemical powders or cocktails that use purple flours as an ingredient.  Perhaps we would even use a knife and board to turn purple flowers into "purple flour" and cook it into treats.  However we get it, here is a list of things that purple could do to you.

Bizarre Actions
A purple effect could cause bizarre actions to be added to your verb list with various things.  For example. you click an icon and one of the options is "Nibble."  You click a tree and one option is "Smelt."

These actions take three to five seconds, cost some energy and generate some imagination, and, naturally, put corresponding weird messages in local chat and in the chat of another glitch who you perform them on ("Humbabella as squeezed you.").  They don't do anything else though.  Throw in a couple of actions that can't otherwise be performed in the game like "Absorbing" or "Defenestrating."

Unexpected Destinations
A purple effect could cause you to not end up where you mean to when using street signs.  Basically every time you use a sign to you go to a random place instead of where the sign is supposed to take you to.  It could just be places in Ur, or it could include your friend's streets or all player streets, but if it included player streets you'd probably want to do an initial check (Ur or player streets) to properly weight the odds of each.  For extra fun, let this effect take you to Naraka streets without being dead or to other such strange locations.

Purple a Street
Release some sort of purple gas that allows the Scion to manifest on a street outside of the Voyage.  Obviously this would have to do some kind of wonky things, perhaps in some ways similar to a rook attack, but adding rather than subtracting imaginativity to the street.

Palette Shift
Make your whole world look purple, or even more extremely, make your world look like the purple basement street, with all the backgrounds going purple and all the foreground and game objects becoming silhouettes.

Have the Scion give you meaningful prophecies
When the scion says something like, "your destiny is in <street name>" temporarily set some kind of trigger in that street for that player so they can actually see what the scion sent them for.  Have other such triggers.

Posted 6 months ago by Humbabella Subscriber! | Permalink

Replies

  • +1 zillion for any and all parts of this.
    Posted 6 months ago by Tathak Subscriber! | Permalink
  • +bacon

    This is almost* as good as bacon.

    *Just kidding, bacon is a lot better than this.
    Posted 6 months ago by NO DELETIN BACON>:O Subscriber! | Permalink
  • So what you're saying is you want purple bacon, then?
    Posted 6 months ago by Tathak Subscriber! | Permalink
  • + sideways 8, I've always thought there could be a little more to my purple trips.
    Posted 6 months ago by Muncey Mango Subscriber! | Permalink
  • yes yes yes! please please do this, the Scion of Purple is actually my favorite NPC of the game, and I have really grown to love the whole concept of the purple.
    Posted 6 months ago by Hanael Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Perhaps the Scion of Purple intermittently chooses to possess/manifest on the tripmonkey in question? Specifically, I'm thinking of the already-available Scion mask appearing on the character's face and not being removable as long as the effects last, plus occasional appropriate remarks being issued involuntarily.
    Posted 6 months ago by Bina Q. Dry-Roast Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Oh, this would be NEAT. I especially like Bina's idea of the Scion mask.
    Posted 6 months ago by Vandesdelca Subscriber! | Permalink
  • + 1,000,000

    Has to be done!

    Having Scion appear on any street you choose, xD
    Posted 6 months ago by Yee Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I like all of this except the defenestration bit.
    Posted 6 months ago by diaveborn ♥ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I like the defenestration bit the best, so I think those might cancel each other out.
    Posted 6 months ago by Magic Monkey Subscriber! | Permalink
  • wow that sounds wacky but i like it
    Posted 6 months ago by ❧ℜook❧ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Now with tons of numbers:  http://mathemaglitch.blogspot.ca/2012/06/purple-numbers.html
    Posted 6 months ago by Humbabella Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Yesyesyesyesyes!!!
    Posted 6 months ago by Carl Projectorinski Subscriber! | Permalink
  • That is... So awesome... I find I do not understand why Hum has yet to be hired as a TS consultant.

    Especially with all the numbers balanced and ready for implementation ;) All TS has to do now is create all the sprites for the item and do all the code for the crazy actions and buffs and other such things I don't understand!
    Posted 6 months ago by Liza Throttlebottom Subscriber! | Permalink
  • They're not hiring Humbabella because they're getting all this good advice for free!
    But yes, if we could ELECT Hum to staff, Humbabella would have my vote.
    <this post has been edited for gender neutrality>
    Posted 6 months ago by CrashTestPilot Subscriber! | Permalink
  • (Edit: CTP: "him/he" ;))

    Amazing! Well thought out (of course) and sounds really fun! 

    <3 the purp
    Posted 6 months ago by Bradamus Prime Subscriber! | Permalink
  • +1 for wacky
    Posted 6 months ago by Janitch Subscriber! | Permalink
  • WOOOOOOOOWOWOWOWOWOWOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    +1 trillion!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    Posted 6 months ago by Misty Power Subscriber! | Permalink
  • You guys have to be careful with how you react to suggestions like this. Purple is going to do more things, wow, who is going to be against that?

    My reaction is this.

    Purple does one thing because that's what it does. It's a quirky item that most (all?) of you think is awesome. I thought it was gimmicky at best.

    Having said that... I like the ideas you are presenting here, but maybe for different items. Let's not force every gimmick on Purple.
    Posted 6 months ago by Mr. Dawgg Subscriber! | Permalink
  • +1
    Posted 6 months ago by Grupletruge Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Mr. Dawgg, I completely agree that not everything has to be purple, and my idea of randomly teleporting could easily fit into another type of item (and I would very much like a random teleport item in any form - door drinks being only semi-random).  Purple is, however, Glitch's hallucinogen, so I think some of these suggestions best fit purple.  And many of us do love the Scion a lot and generally like purple.

    At any rate, I expect TS isn't overly moved by comments on the forums.  I don't mean to say they don't listen to feedback because I'm very sure they do, I just mean that if they see an idea and think it is good, they may come up with a better implementation of it than is suggested in the ideas forum.
    Posted 6 months ago by Humbabella Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Sure.
    Posted 6 months ago by Mr. Dawgg Subscriber! | Permalink
  • +1 Especially for the idea of having "Defenestrating" as an action. I guess we'd need windows first.
    Posted 6 months ago by Tegwin Subscriber! | Permalink
  • No. No, no very much PLEASE.

    I do NOT want to think of broken bones and death while playing Glitch.
    Posted 6 months ago by diaveborn ♥ Subscriber! | Permalink