Setting Contest: Initial Notes
Yes, I think I'm finally ready to write this game. And Clinton's Solar System is astonishingly appropriate. Andy K better watch out.
Possible Title
Folkways
Premise
Tricksters, skinchangers, and storytellers owe a debt to the folkways for their gifts and must repay it with devoted service in a purgatorial afterlife until they work through all their masks.
At this point, that probably doesn't mean much to anyone other than myself, and maybe the 3 people who's payed attention to the various versions of Quixote & Coyote, Storypunk, Facedance, Beneath This Facade, etc. (all based on the same basic concept) over the last several years. I'll get into the details more later.
The protagonists should be literary characters or historical figures romanticized in literature such they they are more myth than truth. Examples follow:
Storytellers
Scheherazade
Marco Polo
Gulliver
Aesop
Jesus
Falstaff
Don Quixote
Victor Frankenstein
Zhuang Zi
Tricksters & Skinchangers
Loki
Sun Wukong
Raven
Coyote
Anansi
Iblis
Dionysus
Feste
Hop-Frog
Note to Self
I need more female examples.
Possible Title
Folkways
Premise
Tricksters, skinchangers, and storytellers owe a debt to the folkways for their gifts and must repay it with devoted service in a purgatorial afterlife until they work through all their masks.
At this point, that probably doesn't mean much to anyone other than myself, and maybe the 3 people who's payed attention to the various versions of Quixote & Coyote, Storypunk, Facedance, Beneath This Facade, etc. (all based on the same basic concept) over the last several years. I'll get into the details more later.
The protagonists should be literary characters or historical figures romanticized in literature such they they are more myth than truth. Examples follow:
Storytellers
Scheherazade
Marco Polo
Gulliver
Aesop
Jesus
Falstaff
Don Quixote
Victor Frankenstein
Zhuang Zi
Tricksters & Skinchangers
Loki
Sun Wukong
Raven
Coyote
Anansi
Iblis
Dionysus
Feste
Hop-Frog
Note to Self
I need more female examples.
posted by Jonathan Walton at 4:29 PM
3 Comments:
Scheherazade’s Sisters: Trickster Heroines and Their Stories in World Literature by Marilyn Jurich
Madcaps, Screwballs and Con women: The Female Trickster in American Culture by Lori Landa
Thanks!
I came up with some others later: Eris, Kitsune, Selkies, Titania, etc.
Weirdly, I've actually written a couple stories about Scheherazade and masks. I want to hear more about this setting!
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