>>40
I acknowledge your IRC channel, and I won't be joining it at this time. Later, possibly, once I've decided how much of an identifiable persona I want to attach to my involvement in this project. I'd prefer (near-)total anonymity, but productivity requires sacrifices and this may turn out to be one of them.
That said, I do have some thoughts for a prologue. I'll need to set up my thought process here. Bear with me.
Before people jumped in and started pushing for collaboration, I was actually planning to do this without sex scenes; I've been writing too many of those lately, I invariably make them weird, and I wanted to take a break from doing that. However, people talking about them like a foregone conclusion has helped me develop mental images of some of the characters.
(I'm still focusing on names and personalities from SICP itself and ignoring the touhous; I don't "get" Touhou and can't do a decent job of writing those characters without first researching the franchise and its outrageously prolific fandom. That really sounds like a lot of work I don't want to do, on top of all the work this project will already involve.)
Alyssa and Eva are central to SICP and its "fandom." For now, I'll treat them as the primary heroines. Because of memes, I've decided they must be dating each other already, but the player can to some extent romance either/both of them.
They need a strong contrast between them. Eva is tall and Alyssa is short. Eva is rigid, serious, and definitely autistic; Alyssa is playful, maybe even slutty. Eva is a rationalist (hard R) and Alyssa is a pagan or even a Discordian.
The player first encounters Alyssa in a crowded public place of some kind, maybe a train, before discovering she's his classmate. They bump into each other as total strangers and flirt somehow. Maybe she grinds on him or invites him to grope her. When they run into each other again on their first day of class, things are a little awkward. Eva picks up on their chemistry and acts jealous and protective. Maybe she doesn't like or trust men.
At this point their relationship is destabilized. By getting closer to either of them, the player might destabilize it even further, and one of them eventually ends up in his bed. After that, they can reconcile, or just continue dating the player, or they all have a threesome. Whatever.
I can add more romance options, but after these first two, I will make each of them increasingly ridiculous, especially if they're touhous. Pick your poisons, people.
While >>21 is (hopefully) busy composing a memorable and heartwarming soundtrack, I'll suggest this: http://daifukkat.su/files/We%20conjure%20the%20spirits%20of%20the%20computer%20with%20our%20spells%20(Extended%20%60%60Satori''%20mix).mp3
>>41
For romancing/sex scenes, making them weird and even far removed from what one could consider romance or eroticism should be part of the appeal. I don't know if you've read any of the old /prog/ kopipe but a lot of it is centered around bizzare fetishistic situations.
If you don't want to write about Touhou then someone else like me probably will, we can stitch it all together haphazardly at the end anyway. I thought what might be cool is have each character will have a parallel with another, like one SICP character will have a Touhou counterpart, etc. That might mean having to accommodate their personalities, but Touhou characters are pretty open to interpretation by nature.
If you ask me attaching names beyond the site itself goes against the spirit of an anonymous project, so I wouldn't worry about needing an 'identifiable persona'. One nice thing about IRC is you just pick a name and connect, you can just use a different one every session if you want.