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luxflowmod) wrote2020-08-13 01:22 am
luxflowmod) wrote2020-08-13 01:22 am
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+ FAQ.
GENERAL
So, really, what's this about?
This game takes place in an odd realm where the forest can eat you alive, the locals glitch out and go mad over the smallest provocations, and there's rabbit-mask wearing punk teenagers on roller-skates.
Prayer used to work here but no longer has quite the power that it used to; the working theory is that characters were prayed into the Nameless Space in order to save it ... But from what? There's a sense of dread here that pervades, power failings at the worst moments, and a land that tells secrets -- but never divulges enough.
Characters are bid to survive as much as they are to figure out the city, the land, the odd sky and the sun that never sets.
Events will run bi-monthly, and they'll be based around the land's secrets and the strange locals.
Inspiration?
Luxflow is inspired by certain songs and the feelings they give, the Mary's Room thought experiment, and cosmic horror in general. Check this space later for a playlist.
IC to OOC day ratio?
1:1
Any caps?
Not right now.
APPLICATIONS & JOINING
Who can I app?
Canon characters, OCs, fandom OCs CRAU. What you can't app is fandom OCs with a relation to a canon character, or fan AUs of canon characters.
Reserves & app cycles?
Reserves and apps are, as of now, always open. Reserves will be held for one week. Applications are considered on Saturdays, about 11 pm at the latest.
Items/weapons?
A character can have up to six items. Bags/etc. are not included in items unless that bag/etc. is magical or something. Clothes are not included. Pets/summons/pokemon are counted as items.
How many characters can I play?
Four. You can reserve/app up to two in one cycle. There's a week 'cooldown' before you can app or reserve another.
Dead characters/characters with unique needs/giant characters?
Dead characters will be alive, with a scar or not; that's up to the player. They will remember how they died, and in excruciating detail.
Characters with unique dietary needs, like vampires and ghouls and the like, will find that they can eat typical human food, but that they feel an underlying thirst/hunger that doesn't seem quenchable; this can be as intense/maddening or mild as the player would like.
Giant characters will be shrunken down from over 8ft to 8ft or shorter, within reason; this is up to the player.
Powers/nerfing?
Powers will be left intact, but are subject to the whims of the setting. That is to say, sometimes the Setting Sun will take powers, and sometimes they'll be left alone; sometimes still, powers will be granted, or changed somehow. This place likes to keep one on one's toes.
Required pages?
Application, permissions, and an inbox. No HMDs are required.
PLAYING
What is AC?
A check in and a write-up of what your character has been up to. That's it.
What's the network like?
Characters' devices range from flip-phones to old brick-like phones from the 80s with large screens, or the fanciest iPhones out on the market. This is up to the player. All of them will have screens, and all of them will glitch from time to time regardless of how fancy the phone is. They have texting, audio, and video capabilities. They are hackable and quite easily tampered with.
What's the character's arrival like? What do they know before they're set loose?
They arrive in the Feeding Forest and are taken back to the City; the locals like to go about once a week or so to look for the strange arrivals. As the PCs breathe, an orb of light escapes them. This orb of light is either an ability or a memory; the Setting Sun takes it and keeps it.
On the way in, they're told that the Locals aren't sure why the player characters are there, but that prayer used to work, and that they think that might be the clue.
They're warned about the Drifters (see NPC page) and the Tattles (see Setting page). They're told where they can stay -- which is anywhere they can find that's uninhabited, really -- and then they're dropped off in City limits. That's all they're told.
SETTING
Can you provide a little more info about the setting and atmosphere?
Strange, unreliable, unsettling. A mish-mash of aesthetics and feelings, but with a general sense of dread and melancholy over all. This can be intense or not, it depends. The City is surrounded by the Feeding Forest, with its terrible vines and creeping fog. Beyond that, no one knows. The Tattles are fixtures in the land shaped like little bubbles, ranging in size from a quarter to a basketball. If one pops the Tattle, the Tattle will 'tell' a secret of the land. That is, the character will be shown a memory that happened in that place.
The land gives, the Setting Sun takes.
Death? Canon updates? Hiatus?
Characters can and will die, but they'll wake up in the Feeding Forest again. With each subsequent death (up to five), the characters will be more and more tangled up in the vines. Even when they move from their clutches, their limbs will be covered in the greenery. It'll fall off after a day (first death) to a month (fifth death). The vines sometimes get a little unruly and grow up your arm and try to choke you, so be careful and mindful about trimming them.
Canon updates ... A character will wander off into the Feeding Forest for three days. They'll come out like they would if they died, but the vines won't stay on them.
On hiatus, characters will go on autopilot or will, again, be fed to the forest.
I have another question!
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- What about 2-in-1 characters, such as characters who share the same body?
- What about characters that don't normally have a body?
I'm considering a character who... is technically a piece of jewelry. He has a "host" whose body he can possess if the host is wearing the jewelry - and there's only one guy who he's been able to possess successfully (many attempts made, usually folks just incinerated from the soul out within moments of the jewelry trying). The host-character and the jewelry-character can talk with each other internally - and/or internally-fight over which of them gets to "drive", but usually only one at a time controls the body; sometimes the one "in the backseat" is still aware of what's happening with the one "driving", sometimes only the "driver" stays aware while the other one hibernates.
I'd be equally fine with either "and, somehow, the jewelry Has A Proper Body Now" or "the host and the jewelry are just a weird twofer-character", but like... it's A Question sorta situation. Would the Jewelry or the Host+Jewelry Combo even be appable here?
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A character like that would have their own body instead of being stuck in jewelry/someone else's form. Both the jewelry-character and the host would be appable, so they'll be separated.
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They'll be given a flesh and blood body for ... plot reasons.
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Yes, memories and abilities can be gained back. They might be tampered with, however, depending on how they're returned.
This will happen not terribly often, and during events, which are every other month.
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I see what you've written about canon OCs; how would this work for malleable protagonists? I'm interested in TDMing/possibly apping my FFXIV Warrior of Light here, but I want to make sure she'd be allowable first, as different games/mods tend to consider Warrior of Light OCs in different ways. ^^
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WoL and malleable protagonists will be allowed; in the case of WoL specifically, one of each class will be permitted but will be capped at four individual characters.
Hope that suffices!
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To follow on from that question: canonically, the WoL can switch classes. I figure that each individual weapon/job crystal would count as an item, but are they limited to only one when coming in, or are they allowed to have more than one?
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Are vehicles allowed to be brought in as items? Like tied to ones powers sort of vehicle. The character I'm considering has a motorcycle that acts as a sort of conduit for her powers.
Also, her powers are based on a bridge manifesting from her world of thought to help her find lost things. Would that be an ability still in tact?
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I hope that works! I'll be happy to work with you if it doesn't.
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Also so excited more people than just me know of this seriiiiiiies!no subject
As a followup to the above—it mentions characters with unique dietary needs will be able to eat human food. What about characters with no technical need to "eat" at all? Or characters with periodic maintenance requirements?