Armageddon General Discussion Board

See this thread:  https://gdb.armageddon.org/index.php/topic,60405.0.html


EDIT:  A little back and forth or talk about things is fine, but let's keep the discussion in THIS THREAD to a minimum so as not to bury suggestions.

Real stories, real consequences.

Like Second Life, but less brutal.

Armageddon: Where endings collide.

Armageddon: Vices, Vanquishing and Victory.

Armageddon: Red Sun, Red Sands, Blood Red Schemes.

"Mystery, riches, glory."

I had:
Outwit. Outlast. Outrule.

But uhh.. OoOooooo OOO.. ooo :(

How about a short sentence like:

Tell your own story in a post-apocalyptic Zalanthas, a ruined land ruled by sorcerer-kings and their powerful templarate...

(If you live)

Quote from: MarshallDFX on May 28, 2024, 05:41:27 PMHow about a short sentence like:

Tell your own story in a post-apocalyptic Zalanthas, a ruined land ruled by sorcerer-kings and their powerful templarate...

(If you live)

Whatever format (within reason, guys, no ascii vulgar art) you like, we'll look at them all.

Survive. Adapt. Conquer.
The desert remembers
Your choices write the next chapter
Survival demands sacrifice
Will you bend or break?
Your choices, your consequences, your legacy.

Not a suggestion but just a comment to add.. To me the Arm themes I am most attached to are: the mud's post apocalyptic desert, sorcerous stylings; the fact that it's permadeath and a survival game; and it's roleplay enforced.

Sul-Krath always rises.

Corruption, betrayal, revenge.  Just need to stop leading with murder really.

Corruption is great it gives criminals space to be naughty and drives continued low to medium stakes conflict.

Betrayal is still key I think.  It's not a big part of my play.  But it speaks to volatility and politics. 

Murder is fine, but the point is not to lead with it. So what do we want to go with corruption and betrayal? Revenge! Perpetuate the cycle. 

Gaslight, Girlboss, Gatekeep.

Armageddon: Blood, Sand, and Betrayal
Armageddon: Swords, Sorcery, and Shenanigans
Armageddon: Sand, Swords, and Sorcery
Armageddon: Dark Sun meets Dune
Armageddon: Desert Fun Beneath a Blood Red Sun
Armageddon: Silt, Sorcery, and Spice
Armageddon: Blood, Fury, Sand
Armageddon: Silt, Sand, and Silk
Armageddon: Where Roleplay and Writing collide
Armageddon: Fury, Silk, and Sorcery

Sand, Spice, Sid.
Stories Between The Sands.
The Desert Takes All.
Shade and Water.

Armageddon: How long can you survive?

Beneath a dying sun, legends will rise

Quote from: kahuna on May 28, 2024, 07:14:02 PMBeneath a dying sun, legends will rise

I really like that..or something near it! Anything that doesn't have betrayal in the Tag line.

Armageddon, in a dying world how will you survive?
Armageddon, choose your path through the sun scorched wastes...



I don't know anything that doesn't scream 'hey be a dick because that's more important that rping a realistic character.' Thats how the old tag line read to me. I hated the old tag line. It need to be inviting but hint to the harsh nature of the game.

Quote from: Bast on May 28, 2024, 07:32:42 PM

Quote from: kahuna on May 28, 2024, 07:14:02 PMBeneath a dying sun, legends will rise

I really like that..or something near it! Anything that doesn't have betrayal in the Tag line.

Armageddon, in a dying world how will you survive?
Armageddon, choose your path through the sun scorched wastes...



I don't know anything that doesn't scream 'hey be a dick because that's more important that rping a realistic character.' Thats how the old tag line read to me. I hated the old tag line. It need to be inviting but hint to the harsh nature of the game.

What about the rearranged:

Armageddon MUD: Legends will rise beneath a dying sun

or does that emphasize a dying sun that we don't ACTUALLY have?

Face your destiny. By blood, by stone, by magick, by coin. What legacy will you leave behind?

Not serious ones:

Armageddon: Softly, softly
Armageddon: Are you a geddon?
Armageddon: The Ladies Love a Stone Mage
Armageddon: Feed us your boots.
Armageddon: Consent?
Armageddon: F*ckin' Runners!
Armageddon: Flee, Flee, Flee, Flee, Flee, Flee, Flee
Armageddon: I'm the bad guy, duhh

(I had to get those out, the struggle)
Actual suggestions

Armageddon: This World is What You Make It.

Armageddon: A story wrought in scars, in the ashes of an Empire

Armageddon: Broken, Damned, Drained

Armageddon: A world where embers of hope burn the hearts that hold them

Armageddon: Life alone above Truth, Fate ruling over Kings, and Deceit prior to Death
(The last one was taken from the kruth rules for Whira's Luck, it only works if we make sure to keep that line in the helpfile, imo)




For real, Shade and Water hit me as iconic, relevant, and evocative. Nice work Kavrick.

Smurf City, Except Not.
ArmageddonMUD: The One Game Disneyworld Doesn't Want You To Know About.

Just kidding. I still like the original: Murder, Corruption, Betrayal.

I also like Kavrick's "The Desert Takes All."

A general game tagline idea:
Despair, Deceit, Defiance

And a Season One-specific tagline idea:
Of Copper and Corruption

I wasn't sure if this was going to be a per-season thing, or just going forward across potentially many seasons, so I figured I'd tailor my suggestions to both possibilities!

Merciless Sands.

I like Rheaghe's "Where endings collide."

ArmageddonMUD.

The world was broken.

Will you be ?

Ahem.  *movie trailer voice begins*

In a world of where despots and sorcery contend for the fear in your heart and  a sun-scorched wilderness strives to grind the meat from your bones comes a body of words in constant creation, collected collaboratively, shared competitively, and uniting under a banner of hopes and dreams that can suddenly churn into cries of elation, gasps of joy, and tears of loss.  Creation fights survival, stories are spun, weaved, and lost, and through all of it, the ever present sandstorm rages.

Armageddon:  Where your hopes rise and fall like Empires, your story swells and ebbs like winds, but only the sand remains.

ArmageddonMUD
Legends from the Sands


(we can then call it arm legs)

Armageddon: Feckin' Dickens-whelps.

I was thinking about what makes the game compelling to me.  One is the harshness and desperation of the world.  One is the intrigue of how we all interact with one another.  And the last thing is the thing we don't talk much about which is the insane beauty in this game.  Like there are rooms out there that are breathtakingly beautiful in their description.  And there are clothes and jewelry designs as well.

With that in mind, here's a few ideas.  Someone else can probably do better.

Turmoil, Beauty, Intrigue

Ruin, Splendor, Power

Wanna drive new traffic?



Thirstyworld


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Armageddon:

Shoulda
Woulda
Coulda

Armageddon:

Hindsight is 20/20

If we are not happy with "murder", why not change it to survival?

Armageddon: Corruption, Betrayal, Survival
Armageddon: Survival in a world full of Corruption and Betrayal.

My only real contribution, I'm not good at this:

ArmageddonMUD:  Survival in a Corrupt World

Quote from: Halaster on May 29, 2024, 08:14:15 AMMy only real contribution, I'm not good at this:

ArmageddonMUD:  Survival in a Corrupt World

This is very much like mine. :) I like this.

The tagline has always advertise some of the game strengths. The game should continue to do so with making it sound like utter fantastical bullshit.

This would be my choice:

Corruption. Betrayal. Death.

But i agree this could work too:

Corruption. Betrayal. Survival.

Would add the line: Everyone dies under the harsh desert sun. Will you be remembered?

Without permadeath, and the excitment that comes from needing to watch your back even from your friend this game would not have been an exciting experience for everyone. Or that feeling of build up when you go into a mission where someone could die even due to npcs. You arent surviving or even living without death. Permadeath is what a important part of what makes this game special.

My vote would go to not having a tagline at all. I think we'd be better off without one.

Bone fucking swords.

In the end, the desert claims us all.

In the end, the desert takes all.

Hrm.

I'd go with one of these inspired by Goosebumps book titles

How I Got My Shrunken Head
Let's Get Invisible
Egg Monsters From Yaroch
Bard Lessons Can Be Murder
The Dwarf That Ate Everyone
Why I'm Afraid of Elves

I always thought the tagline should reflect the gameworld actively playing out. An interesting opportunity with each season.

Armageddon Season 1:

"Shifting sands and strange skies"
"Tektolnes meat preview"
"No Muk No Cry"

I do kinda like the idea of changing seasonal taglines, they could be season/chapter related!

All in on Allanak

forged in sand

Ozymandias Online.

"Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away."

Unfortunately I cribbed all this when I was looking for -words- online. (A 2017 review, and Shelley.)

Friendship * Happiness * And Nobody Dies

Quote from: perfecto on May 30, 2024, 05:59:01 AMFriendship * Happiness * And Nobody Dies

lol. Makes hello kitty island adventures sit down and take notes?

Armageddon - The Highlord's Shadow
Armageddon - Loyalty, Corruption, Betrayal
Armageddon - Empire of Shadows
Armageddon - Forged in Darkness

Armageddon: Beauty and Betrayal Amidst the Blood-soaked Sands

Armageddon:

Grunt. Aye. Ruff circle.

Quote from: Halaster on May 28, 2024, 05:44:12 PM

Quote from: MarshallDFX on May 28, 2024, 05:41:27 PMHow about a short sentence like:

Tell your own story in a post-apocalyptic Zalanthas, a ruined land ruled by sorcerer-kings and their powerful templarate...

(If you live)

Whatever format (within reason, guys, no ascii vulgar art) you like, we'll look at them all.

Welp, there's goes my giant middle finger idea...

My reluctant backup offerings:
"What will your legacy be?"
"Create, Corrupt, Destroy"

The ABCs of...

Armageddon: Betrayal, Corruption, Domination

Some alternative Ds: Devotion, Defiance

ArmageddonMUD: Death is only the Beginning

Quote from: Eurynomos on June 02, 2024, 07:26:49 AMArmageddonMUD: Death is only the Beginning

Please let the season bring on a zombie horde or skeletons or liches!

Obsidian, blood and oppression.

Armageddon

"Stories Scrawled in the Sand"

Much like sand art (or sand mandalas if you prefer), everything can come and go. Every experience in and of Armageddon is transitory and we should never forget it.

"Death, Disaster, and Darkness"

You could theme these by season. Coming back to read up on this season, I noticed there's a LOT of darkness/death suggestions vaguely mixed into events that happened, between the Tablelands, the Grey Forest, and so on until now. Going forward, staff could theme these in a way that's perhaps suggestive of whatever overarching plots they might have been focusing on for the season. Of course that doesn't prevent you from doing anything, but still.

"Apocalyptic Adventures Written in the Moments"

More general and welcoming to new people without much thought. It draws attention to one of the things which MUDs always captured to me and makes it so addictive but Armageddon did a unique job of. Any random moment might be death, but sometimes, because you burned the scrab meat you and another buddy nearly died for, a story exists. Whole stories exist as every moment actively, collaboratively written. Not truly planned, but just experienced and intricate by its very nature.

Quote from: Eurynomos on June 02, 2024, 07:26:49 AMArmageddonMUD: Death is only the Beginning

The Aetherials from Grim Dawn would like to speak to you pertaining to your car(casse)'s extended warranty. Also, that would be a cool Nilazi idea.

my riff of an entry:

Blood on the sands
A boot on your back
The history of those who survived
and last moments of those who died

ArmageddonMUD:
Tales of Sand and Blood

ArmageddonMUD: Spice, Vice and Artifice

I propose: Treachery, Scarcity, Brutality

Within the unforgiving land of Zalanthas, what are you willing to do to survive?

Treachery is an defining theme of this world. This isn't a setting where you can trust easily or freely. Most people are often looking out for themselves, or their own selfish interests and will sell family into slavery to survive. Whether its your friends or your rulers, people will lie and will try to take advantage of you, those that don't are often fools that you'll take advantage of yourself.

Scarcity is often the driving force for many in this setting. The world faces severe scarcity of water, food, and metal. The setting is a desert where everything you need to survive is hard to get. This makes the divide between the haves and have nots even more grotesque. You can die from getting stuck outside the walls without enough water.

Brutality is the main pillar of the world. In this setting, being beaten within an inch of your life and being left naked in the desert is a form of mercy. Torture, slavery and other indignities are as common as the sand itself. The moment you step into the game, whether it be from a person or an animal your character may be brutalized physically, mentally, spiritually and will someday die under the brutal merciless sun.

ArmageddonMUD: Choose Thy Fate

hehe

(from the login screen)

    1.    "Survive the Desolation, Thrive in the Shadows."
    2.    "Where Legends Battle the Apocalypse."
    3.    "Forge Your Fate in a World on the Brink."
    4.    "Chaos Awaits: Rise from the Ashes."
    5.    "The End is Here. How Will You Survive?"
    7.    "In the Darkness, Only the Ruthless Survive."
    8.    "Embrace the End. Conquer the Void."
    9.    "Where Hope Fades, Power Emerges."
    10.    "Beyond Despair Lies Your Destiny."
    11.    "In the Shadows of Doom, Legends are Forged."
    12.    "Survival is Just the Beginning. Domination is the Goal."
    13.    "Out of the Ashes, Into the Abyss."

I asked an AI to review the game website and offer some new taglines.
"Survive, Scheme, Conquer"
"Desert of Deceit and Destiny"
"Endure, Deceive, Dominate"
"Struggle, Intrigue, Triumph"
"Chaos, Cunning, Survival"

If I could be bothered to use my human intelligence, I might suggest:
"Immerse in Adventure"
"Stories of Defiance and Survival"
"Your destiny is written in the sand"

And a silly suggestion:
"In the desert, everyone can hear you scream"

*movie trailer voice begins*

In a world of where ... <stabstabstab>



Somewhere in the desert halfway to that black-stone Outpost, the spice began to take hold.




..., not even you will remember if we were good men or bad. All that will be remembered is that here, few stood against many.  All I ask,.. grant me revenge!



How do you make an Armageddon? 
Take a finger of Conan mixed with one of Heavy Metal, with some bitter Dune, a dash of Game of Thrones, and garnished with a hint of Survivor.   Set if on fire and drink.
Its the kind of cocktail that becomes a one way trip.

Because Halaster mentioned Bonkers on Discord it made me quote the theme song for the tagline if we can pay Dizzee Rascal the royalties.

Some people pay for thrills
But I get mine for free
Man, I'm just livin' my life
There's nothin' crazy about me

Bonkers

All I care about is sex and violence
A heavy bass line is my kind of silence
Everybody says that I got to get a grip
But I let sanity give me the slip

This is now closed, thank you for your submissions.  Staff will take a couple of days to pick the top 4 or 5, then we'll open it for a vote to everyone.