Dopewars

This proposal is to onboard hir0 to work as a Quest designer/writer for our Dope City Metaverse.

Sponsors: HPMNK, Larko, Pm

Message from hir0: Hey everyone! Love the project and looking forward to working on it. A little about me: Copywriter for 20 years. Worked on crypto content/communications since 2014, full-time since 2017. Been involved with lots of crypto initiatives, starting with Nxt, more recently a content/comms role in a top-tier DeFi project. Loved playing text adventure games as a kid (Hitchhikers Guide-style stuff) and later early point-and-click games like Space Quest, then the first release of GTA. Worked on writing a few games for fun, especially back when it was easy to create your own text adventure games with relatively little coding experience. Love the idea of taking a creative role and helping build the metaverse. I’ve a feeling it’s going to catch on :)

Summary for Quests proposal by hir0: Write up 10 initial ‘alpha’ Quests, introducing the player to major characters, areas, principles, and culture of Dope Wars. These will involve finding your way around key locations in Dope City. There should be no on-blockchain activity (no PAPER, NFT, or CRED rewards), but the framework should pave the way for these to be used in the beta release and beyond.

Content: All of the seven Quests sketched in the original quests gdoc, written up in full. Some will be single-part quests, others will have multiple sections. Ideas from the community should ideally be incorporated. Additionally, work on some of the characters and ideas from preliminary work done by hir0.

Sub/quests: Welcome to Dope City (1 section) The Last Hustler (1 section) Soundwave Sammy (3 sections) The Word Reporter (5 sections; drop blockchain/security content and combine with Q5) Get Geared Up (4 sections, hir0 suggestion) Respect (2 sections, hir0 suggestion) Detective Harry Trent (3 sections) Lenny “The Bets” Baxter (3 sections) The Clue/Oracle Jones (5 sections) The Dope Wars Hustler (1 section)

(Some sections may be condensed/built out when writing so the final number of sub-quests could change a little.)

RATE Section counts are provisional (initial estimate ~29). Length of quests will differ. The sample quest I wrote (which would become Q1, The ID Card) was a little under 300 words, which works out at close enough to $69 for a rate of $250 per 1,000 words (my lower-end commercial rate). At 29 quest-sections this would total $2,000, which I suggest we establish as an upper fee for this block of work (unless work turns out to be way more extensive than anticipated, though no fault of mine).

Quests are to be reviewed by the sponsors once they are completed. Sponsors are able to request any changes during this review period. Once the quests are accepted as final, an invoice will be given to the DAO in the Dev Fund channel. The PAPER value for the reimbursement will be calculated at the time of invoicing for the next on-chain Tally vote for distribution.

Any additions or subtractions from the plan above will be calculated at the same rate.