122078-wildstar-improv-night

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Originally from here.
 
Disclaimer: I have absolutely never tried to do an event like this before, and have not even tried acting nor improv that wasn’t part of a school project. If anyone has any tips on how to make this happen, I would appreciate it if you’d share it.
 
Improvised Acting, also known as just “Improv” for short. It’s one of the building blocks of RP—there is no script to follow, you can’t read your fellow actors minds, and most importantly, you have absolutely no idea what’s going to come next (which is either the best part or the worst part, depending on your opinion).
 
Given my own distaste of “sit around in bar, get drunk, talk about stuff” I was wondering if the Exiles/Dominion would like to take a break from the Boulder/What-The-Dominion-Bar is (apologies to Dommies, I haven’t been back there in a LONG time) and go do something planned, entertaining, and open in an open world setting?
 
Here’s how it’s going to go down:
Maximum of five or three people—volunteers from either before the event or when it’s already started—get up on stage and do a comedy improv. Post order is predetermined, and will not be broken as much as possible.
The audience watches and, during predetermined moments—like after every 5 or 3 posts—are allowed to vote how to decide on how the “show” must go on or randomly throw in a new element that the actors are forced to shoehorn in. Perhaps Axis Pheydra is secretly a highly intelligent Jabbit, and now they have to find some way to communicate with her now that she is bereft of her Mechari shell.
There’s a maximum amount of posts that the group is allowed, for sake of brevity and not being kept up all night. Something like 20-30 posts, total? So the “actors” have to make their most entertaining show in that amount of time, whether or not it makes narrative sense. So long as they keep going with whatever happens.
If there is time or interest, the show keeps on going.
 
Guidelines for the Actors
You can’t say “No.” Your character may verbally disagree, but whatever your other actors and the audiences tells you or pushes you to do, you will have to do it, even if your character is screaming disagreement the entire time.
PG-13. Violence, death, mild innuendo? Sure. Imagine something that you’d show to a group of middle schoolers or high school students. Or very, very bored army that can’t be raunchy because the officers are watching.
Be considerate. Just because your character can order everyone at their feet doesn’t mean you should do it. Unless it will be hilarious and entertaining, then please, do it.
You don’t have to make sense. Just be funny and entertaining. Perhaps the serious military discussion can be about a missing rubber ducky—Toric Antevian’s, and he is not pleased.
 As almost none of our characters are professional actors, players are HIGHLY encouraged to figure out how their characters, like a grumpy, veteran, scarred soldier, is supposed to (attempt to) play a hyper, chipper ultra-positive mailman with a bomb in his truck that can’t go faster than 5 mph or it explodes.
You don’t have to be a good actor—you just have to be entertaining about it. If your character complaining about their role their entire time is more amusing than actually playing the part do it.
Proposed Locations (Exile)
Woodhaven, Celestion
Sylvan Glade, Celestion
Tremor Ridge, Algoroc
Gallow, Algoroc
Black Hoods Bar, Thayd
Arborian Gardens, Thayd
Proposed Locations (Dominion) (Apologies to Dommies again, I’m not familiar with the crown jewel of Nexus)
 Bloodfire Village, Deradune
 Feralplain Collective, Deradune
 Lightreach Mission, Ellevar
 Luminous Gardens, Illium
 
Proposed times are probably going to be middle of the week, except for Wednesday as it conflicts with my own guild’s events.
 
I can’t promise you this will actually happen, but I figure throwing up ideas into the air can’t hurt.	
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