It’s one of the single most influential experiences I had on tumblr. Since BOTGD started, I managed to hang out irl with four people from across the country, and plan to find the ways to meet face-to-face with more of these friends. I became extremely good friends with lots of the bloggers. I actually plan on someday modifying and adapting this story into a refined three book trilogy (with the help of another BOTGDer). I hold extreme fondness for the story, which somehow - in all its chaos - had lots of legitimately COOL and GOOD things. It really became QUITE the roleplaying experience. We divided the story into five main “Seasons” based upon the conflict and growth of story arcs. We created long-term plot arcs and conflicts, all leading up to a final climax of (of course) Ragnarok. We dealt with gods, demons, human-animal half breeds, Helheim, magic, countries, kingdoms, religious organizations, you name it. The universe we were in became its own thing, still containing dragons, but also its own unique mythos. Almost everyone created their own roleplaying side blogs to accommodate our level of constant activity. Characters were fleshed out, drawn, given backstories, more. Spontaneous replies and hours turned into a system of who responded next. First person emotional screams turned into third person roleplayed responses. Over time, this became more and more refined. Tumblr turned into… chaos… on the HTTYD fandom’s dashboards… with lots of scattered posts, tons of screaming, ridiculous ad-libbing, and little idea what the THOR was going on. I hoped that a FEW people would remember my idea and make my prank not a failure. And then I decided to pull a prank on the person who was Warden by secretly coordinating everyone I could to message her at the same time… saying we were rebelling and breaking free of the dungeon. There were some silly verbal spars back and forth. We even decided who had the lowest cell, the second-lowest cell, and who was the Warden guarding the dungeon of these horrible fans. The HTTYD fandom had this inside “joke” that people who posted humorous Stoick death material would be sent to a “dungeon” as punishment. It was most active between 20, involved over a hundred people over its run, and really stuck with a approximately two dozen very active members over the course of its duration. The great HTTYD-inspired roleplay I was involved in was called Battle of the Grounded Dungeon, or BOTGD for short. Ahhhhhhh sorry for responding slowly to this! Haha, yeah, there’s even a wiki for this thing with almost 600 pages of info.įor people who want a refresher, or people who never heard about this ordeal…
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