DarkFriday1408
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They all sound great but, personally i would like to see the second and/or third options being developed for a thread.
Now @duskford has me thinking about other bedroom groupings in the alternative start story (with Madison)
* Zack/Chloe/Gavin/Taylor (supported by Zack's musings in the car about Chloe's body shyness and Gavin's unsociability, with Taylor as Substitute Big Sister for them)
* Brandon/Ashley/Hannah (Ashley's big sister)/Victoria (Ashley's best friend)
* Heather/Kurt so she can keep an eye on him
* Madison (Not with Brandon or Kurt)/Lisa (Not with Zack or Kurt)
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* Zack/Chloe/Gavin/Taylor (Taylor as Substitute Big Sister for Bashful Chloe and Unsociable Gavin)
* Brandon/Ashley (lovebirds!)
* Heather/Kurt so she can keep an eye on him/Hannah (who won't take any guff from Kurt)
* Madison (Not with Brandon or Kurt)/Lisa (Not with Zack or Kurt) / Victoria
@duskford suggested moving Lisa as an alternative to my original chapters:
* Master bedroom: Brandon, Ashley with Ashley's BFF Victoria and Brandon's sister Madison.
* Lake bedroom: Heather, Taylor, and Hannah.
* Small bedroom 1: Gavin, Zack, and Chloe plus Lisa
* Small bedroom 2: Kurt (Nobody's friend, and he has a reputation.) minus Lisa
Gavin having a sister sounds great, especailly the fact that she will be/could be his total opposite in terms of personality. I think it would work better if she would be his twin and if she would be friends with Heather, Ashley and Madion; it could set the way for Gavin to end with one of the girls. Also if i may, i would suggest Nikki from the deleted The Cabin at Silver Lake(?), i don't remember the name of the story, but from what you wrote about Nikki she seemed to be more direct and confident than Gavin and she was friends with the girls. Also it would be cool if you could make/keep Nikki (if you introduce her) lesbian. She could try to go after Victoria or Chloe, though i would say Victoria, which seems to be - at least to me - either a closeted lesbian or bisexual, or bicurious. But i like the way she has been developed in other threads.
I was thinking about making her a year older and already on college, the reason she knows the girls being that she was the cheerleader captain the previous year, before graduating and passing the torch to Heather. On the other hand, the Nikki idea feels intriguing too. Maybe a combination of the two ideas.
About Vicky, she's actually the straightest of the girls, along with Chloe, Lisa and Madison. Heather and Ashley are the bi curious ones. Taylor experimented, but considers herself straight. Hannah is the only true bisexual at the start of the story.
If I make Gavin's sister a lesbian, maybe there's potential for a plot where they get interested on the same girl.
Interesting developments in the latest threads posted by Boomer97, which i like. Personally i hope that Gavin will end up with Taylor, i understand that there is a age and maturity difference between the two of them, but i think that it would be possible for them to be a couple. But, i understand that the author may have a different view from my own and now it seems that Madison has also become interested in Gavin. I think that Zack will join Heather and Hannah for the threesome, which to be honest, it would be nice and fitting for him, considering what has happened to him so far. I did not expect that scene from Chloe, but it was nice to see that she was confident and went after what she wanted and Carlos got his dream. But, i agree with darkfriday1408's comment in the thread, that what Chloe said and did makes her somewhat of a hypocrite and she might just get more angry at Kurt if he has sex with Susan. I am curious to see what will Kurt do from now on and if the relationship between Chloe and Kurt could be salvaged, and i am also curious to see Chloe's reaction to Kurt's change in behaviour and if Kurt will tell her that he saw her have sex with Carlos and tht he has had sex with Susan (which i think he will). I would also like to know, if possible with who will Chloe end up.Maybe she will manage to salvage the "relationship" with Kurt, maybe she will end up in a relationship with Zack or maybe she will also go after Gavin (he seems popular with the ladies in Boomer97's threads) Or maybe she won't end up with anyone.
The great thing about boomer97's threads is that you don't know what to expect, and that's awesome from a reader's point of view. What you have to keep in mind is that just because character A had sex with character B first, it doesn't mean that A will never fuck C or end up with D, it's a really wild ride.
I still want to do Zack/Chloe some time.
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What does Z<3C! mean? Just curious.
Or: natural disaster: earthquake, fire, storm -- the cabin is cut off temporarily, but perhaps there's some local threat in the meantime they have to deal with that they can't avoid by holing up in the cabin. Maybe they have to escape together. That could be plenty serious in both the struggling-with-other-people and the dealing-with-trouble-together ways.Another possible plot for the rework popped up kinda out of nowhere over the past few days when I met a friend with whom I used to write non-erotic fanfiction several years ago. We hadn't seen each other for about three years, and then I showed her 'At the Cabin' the next day and she gave me what I thought to be an intriguing suggestion. "Why don't you make it a more serious story, with a real conflict going on?"
We brainstormed for a while and came to a possible conclusion. What if the characters go to the cabin as they would in the normal version, but then, on the very first night, something happened that wiped out a good portion of the world population, screwed up the electricity, etc? Then, they would have to learn to live in a harsh post apocaliptic world, meeting survivors (friendly and hostile) as they struggle to survive themselves. What we couldn't decide on was the reason for everything; a strange mist, alien attack, science experiment gone wrong, etc. The sex part would develop in a quite different way though, since the characters would be changed by what happened and be forced to live together in critical conditions.
Thoughts?
Or: natural disaster: earthquake, fire, storm -- the cabin is cut off temporarily, but perhaps there's some local threat in the meantime they have to deal with that they can't avoid by holing up in the cabin. Maybe they have to escape together. That could be plenty serious in both the struggling-with-other-people and the dealing-with-trouble-together ways.
Prison break/fugitives/hostages is probably overused. I don't see our cabin crew as a good cast for a horror/crime/terror/revenge plot, but maybe that would float some people's boats.
Something that takes the cabin (and perhaps part of the lake/park area) into a strange other place could make it simpler since you wouldn't have to justify what was happening with the rest of the world.
I was sort of thinking that a dimension twister accident that throws Heather's family cabin onto a strange alien planet (maybe with some part of the surrounding area) could give a wild twist to things. The plot of the "1632" series (little town in West Virginia gets swapped with a piece of rural Germany from 1632 during the Thirty Years' War) is like this, but "thrown into the past" instead. Maybe Heather's dad has some equipment down in the basement that was some sort of prototype. Or use the plot for "Buck Rogers", where the modern-day characters are catapulted into a future subjugated society ruled from glittering coastal cities while the underground-dwelling rebels cherish hopes of revolt.