I'm gonna answer on Elbuddy again so Amity can answer on the mod acct because we tend to run different quests etc:
- My favourite to run was probably the initial quest with Moder (which like, none of you were here for that was old playerbase shit, I think Rubie/Sheep/Lavvy are our last holdovers of Moder's initial plotline). That, or the one where Wolfwood died because Elsword got taken over by Suri, that one was really fun especially due to player reactions lmao. - Log-wise I think my favourite one I've written is unironically this month's April Fools event, otherwise I had fun running last summer's beach + subnautica plotline simply because the mobster lobsters live rent free in my head. Side note, just tried to spell lobster as "lopster" so.
- I had no expectations going into Sticks (I was the side pickup mod). I have never modded a game until Stix, I am still learning things. I think my only expectation was "I should not act like [history's bad mod team here]" but that's a personal goal more than anything. - I do have several playerbase subverting expectations examples, although I will say I take those in stride because I'm used to DMing tabletop which is just like... you can't plan for anything people are simply going to DO things. Off the top of my head: --> You guys were not supposed to save Moder, Moder was supposed to die. I grabbed "the monster from The Ritual" fully intending for this to be a one-off borrowing/creature inspiration, and her ties to Zahliya's plotline was genuinely supposed to be left at "they want to kill each other". Then people saved her and I had to sit there and go okay fuck well let me just blur some history together boom done. --> You guys were NOT SUPPOSED TO KEEP ZONARI i'm CRYING about this still, along the lines of Zahliya's canon lore she was supposed to be fucking MURDERED but then I sent you guys her concept art and you all went "oh so we have to have her now" and now she's here and partly domesticated. In retrospect, I should have expected this from a group of people who friendship beam my one-off NPCs. --> I was, believe it or not, the mod who wanted less NPCs and kept trying to hard-limit things. You guys really like the NPCs, and I think at one point Kelly mentioned enjoying having them. and I was like. "well fuck, I guess we have a large cast of NPCs now". This really is a thinly-veiled D&D game. --> I was honestly not expecting anyone to want to try to revive Tehro, or Aurora, or boost Sinann. I was also super under the impression players were largely uninterested in Zahliya until there were 8 signups for his plotline and I was like "oh god I have got to split the party". --> Somehow, despite being canon-familiar with Els because (gestures), I was not expecting Add to make SUPER JAIL on the event log but I should have known, really, that introducing pseudo-jail would make one of y'all go off with mega jail. --> I was not expecting a Grove-wide polycule to be a) accepted and b) positively regarded?? I guess when you put 20 really excited multishippers into a discord server...... anyway, I hope with my whole heart that energy continues every day, because the shipping chart is really funny and I love looking in the server and going "wait who did Vash kiss today what did I miss" etc.
Anyway, none of this ruined my life, but I definitely have some baseline "this is my read on things" perceptions that get subverted every day.
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- My favourite to run was probably the initial quest with Moder (which like, none of you were here for that was old playerbase shit, I think Rubie/Sheep/Lavvy are our last holdovers of Moder's initial plotline). That, or the one where Wolfwood died because Elsword got taken over by Suri, that one was really fun especially due to player reactions lmao.
- Log-wise I think my favourite one I've written is unironically this month's April Fools event, otherwise I had fun running last summer's beach + subnautica plotline simply because the mobster lobsters live rent free in my head. Side note, just tried to spell lobster as "lopster" so.
- I had no expectations going into Sticks (I was the side pickup mod). I have never modded a game until Stix, I am still learning things. I think my only expectation was "I should not act like [history's bad mod team here]" but that's a personal goal more than anything.
- I do have several playerbase subverting expectations examples, although I will say I take those in stride because I'm used to DMing tabletop which is just like... you can't plan for anything people are simply going to DO things. Off the top of my head:
--> You guys were not supposed to save Moder, Moder was supposed to die. I grabbed "the monster from The Ritual" fully intending for this to be a one-off borrowing/creature inspiration, and her ties to Zahliya's plotline was genuinely supposed to be left at "they want to kill each other". Then people saved her and I had to sit there and go okay fuck well let me just blur some history together boom done.
--> You guys were NOT SUPPOSED TO KEEP ZONARI i'm CRYING about this still, along the lines of Zahliya's canon lore she was supposed to be fucking MURDERED but then I sent you guys her concept art and you all went "oh so we have to have her now" and now she's here and partly domesticated. In retrospect, I should have expected this from a group of people who friendship beam my one-off NPCs.
--> I was, believe it or not, the mod who wanted less NPCs and kept trying to hard-limit things. You guys really like the NPCs, and I think at one point Kelly mentioned enjoying having them. and I was like. "well fuck, I guess we have a large cast of NPCs now". This really is a thinly-veiled D&D game.
--> I was honestly not expecting anyone to want to try to revive Tehro, or Aurora, or boost Sinann. I was also super under the impression players were largely uninterested in Zahliya until there were 8 signups for his plotline and I was like "oh god I have got to split the party".
--> Somehow, despite being canon-familiar with Els because (gestures), I was not expecting Add to make SUPER JAIL on the event log but I should have known, really, that introducing pseudo-jail would make one of y'all go off with mega jail.
--> I was not expecting a Grove-wide polycule to be a) accepted and b) positively regarded?? I guess when you put 20 really excited multishippers into a discord server...... anyway, I hope with my whole heart that energy continues every day, because the shipping chart is really funny and I love looking in the server and going "wait who did Vash kiss today what did I miss" etc.
Anyway, none of this ruined my life, but I definitely have some baseline "this is my read on things" perceptions that get subverted every day.