OpenRP concept: Chain ((General concept and possible future OOC thread))

This is a bit of a spontaneous and slightly surreal idea so it'll be a little difficult to explain, but here goes:

An OpenRP where each post is its own mini-story that in some way connects to the previous one before it, no matter how significant the link, which would range from direct contact between characters of both stories to simply the current post's character passing by just as the events of the previous post comes to a close and the events of the new post begins. There's no overbearing arc and each story can be, quite simply, whatever you want it to be (within reason).

For example, one poster's story could end with someone falling off a rooftop. Cue the next post where its author writes about his character narrowly avoiding being squashed by a falling body before continuing with his own story and so on.

Of course, the problem with such a thread, disregarding for a moment that the general opinon of certain Onionites is that if there isn't ample opportunity to one-up one another for no reason other than to one-up one another then nobody will bother, is the risk of people constantly ninja-ing purely by accident and putting the thread on the fast track to derailment.

Any ideas, suggestions, or such? :\

Interesting idea, as to avoiding one-upping, how about giving the thread some boundaries, ie a agreed setting , say Atlas park and those zones physically linked, or focused on a target hostile group. The other though I have is the issues of sequence and divergence, ie Man falls of roof, two or more people all write the follow up , so the one roof faller lands on multiple people in different stories, each having a different fate for the roof faller. You may need some clear way to hand off to the next writer. Lastly, a time line, how will you cope if story A takes place over an hour and story B over a week ,while story C wants to react to the first part of story B and only lasts for twenty minutes, and story D wants to run from the middle of story A to the middle of story C.

I like the idea, but I feel it may need a Mod/Editor to keep it on track and focused.

I'd be up for this because it wouldn't (hopefully) involve sitting at the keyboard every hour of every day waiting for the next post/opportunity to add something.

Consider me interested.

I quite like the idea regarding a common zone or enemy group. No doubt someone will derail with some kind of quasi-dimensional self-eating plot* but then one only has to endure their post until the next story pops along!

*I may have put that there to at least try to discourage such tomfoolery

Hey, I happen to like my quasi-dimensional self-eating plots.

Now where did I put that Temporally Relativistic Alternative Initialization Neutronic Warp Reconstitution Energetically Combobulative Kaleidoscopizer of mine?

Oh and please, no matter how many people say 'I think it's a good idea' - NO VOTING ON INDIVIDUAL STORIES!

This sounds like a lot of fun. I do disagree with the idea of putting together a roster however. Having to wait for a specific person to post may not be a problem initially, but after the first week or so, the chances of the thread dying because someone has been unable to get on the forums (such as myself this past week) become much greater.