IC Alien based mini-events (Are Chumtoad Auths for passive RP a real thing?)

[JustAnotherBlankProfile]

So for a long time I've been doing these little "Mini-events" where a small critter of sorts will pop up, and the characters nearby, if they want, can choose to participate. It spices up the world a little bit and is easier than waiting for an admin or donator to come along as a headcrab or zombie. A little while ago I was doing one and was voided by staff (Apparently you need staff to authorize a non-gameplay, In-character chumtoad...?), is that because we have an NPC pack with those things now? Once I did snarks and a CP team participated, honestly went better than today's snark event. Are they okay? Also if anyone's seen/been in one it'd be nice to have feedback

 

[Daniel Sanders]

Best guess; chumtoads are somewhat powerful since they can quite literally teleport someone away. They likely want it to be somewhat contained/regulated due to that.

 

[JustAnotherBlankProfile]

As far as I know that ability was just randomly added by admins to joke around and teleport people. Not an actual ability of the species to do that. I realized it might've been some weird retcon so I've started changing the chumtoads in my "mini-events" to be based off the beta "Six eyed" chumtoad, as an explanation to why these ones don't magically teleport people. (I guess its weird making up a creature on the spot but someone made some blue antlions in the map and said its an adaptation, for a creature that lives in the sand. So I figured its fair game.)

 

[The_Grass_Man]

So for a long time I've been doing these little "Mini-events" where a small critter of sorts will pop up, and the characters nearby, if they want, can choose to participate. It spices up the world a little bit and is easier than waiting for an admin or donator to come along as a headcrab or zombie. A little while ago I was doing one and was voided by staff (Apparently you need staff to authorize a non-gameplay, In-character chumtoad...?), is that because we have an NPC pack with those things now? Once I did snarks and a CP team participated, honestly went better than today's snark event. Are they okay? Also if anyone's seen/been in one it'd be nice to have feedback

Yo Marvin's events are cool, 0 complaints 10/10 would RP again

 

[Conundrum]

I've seen Marvin events. They're mostly harmless and add flavor to the game by showing that Infestation Control still do the rounds, managing the odd minor Xenian pest. If he could have special permission to run these player events I think I'd enhance the atmosphere by a lot.