What is the Bounty Hunter Inn (abbreviated BHI) about? Well, people create characters and they play around the titular inn. And as you may have also guessed, many of these characters are bounty hunters, of the Metroid kind. As to what they do, let's just say it generally involves fighting. And stuff exploding.
Here's
a link to the official BHI board. It petered out around 2011.
Interestingly, while the game is mostly centered on the Metroid universe, this has been merged over time with various other series:
- Doctor Who (AKA Whoniverse)
- Transformers
- Naruto
- Hellsing
- The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (one of the founder's player characters was Link after being Phazon-infused)
- Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles
Bounty Hunter Inn contains examples of:
- 20 Minutes into the Future: Not our future, but the timeline is set some indefinite time after the main Metroid canon.
- Aborted Arc: The Drakorian Invasion event had to be fast-forwarded when the event master Pyre_AssaultX left. It was later picked up again and retconned into the invaders having left the planet for unclear reasons.
- Cutscene Power to the Max: Scripted battles tend to happen in far less time than normal ones, even if more than one writer is involved.
- Kudzu Plot: Everyone can choose to build their backstory through flashbacks and random comments, and they are free to also write some sideline event.
- Myth Arc: Averted, as there is no ongoing plot around the events other than "they are at the Inn and still haven't died".
- Retcon: Several have been needed as a result of either the Metroid canon clearing up some wild theories, or because some player has left and their characters had a big role in the game.
- Total Party Kill: Whenever someone does something particularly stupid in the midst of a sequence, the Event Master has the authority of explaining why that was a bad move by describing the end of the lives of everyone involved. GAME OVER: Please insert coin to continue.
