by Gregore » Sat Dec 21, 2013 8:20 pm
As the game can be a microcosm, so can the inception of this guild be considered a microcosm for how ideas are formed. You can take any idea and keep going back and back and back and out and all over the place and find all sorts of sources intertwining to create the eventual idea. That's why it's preposterous when someone claims, for example, to have invented The Internet.
We have to start somewhere, however, so we can look at a "natural" phenomena, the fact that, in this world, NPCs all have a word bubble that says "Click to Talk" as the source. (You could go farther looking into what influenced Robby in choosing that particular phrase- the origin of the computer mouse would figure in among other things). MisoSoup brought other ways of thinking about that phenomena, highlighted it, showed it's humor, to me. Someone may've done the same for him. So there's an observation and playing with the natural phenomena. Then, on the beach, Blob was starting a guild and we were voting on names. I suggested Click to Talk and it was the only name that didn't get voted down. So, I was kinda like the talent agent that picked out the brilliant artist and Blob was the business man that made it a reality. On the other side, Blob had a pretty clear vision as to what he wanted the guild to be, social, etc. I was, then, a conduit between Miso's riffing on natural phenomena and Blob's vision for a social guild. And then there were all the other people there who weighed in their approval/disapproval- Mighty Champion NicoRobin being among them.
As a historical side-note: When we arrived at the Guild House, name in tow, pooface happened to be there. He is the only member who has been enrolled in the guild for its entire history (there was a time when Blob was leader that I was not a member and vis a versa). Had he not happened to be there, the guild very well may've folded by now. There is chance even in the best ideas.
Happy B-Day Bloodstrikez! We expect great things from you during this next year of your life.