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[reverie] Palace Game Sign-Ups
Hey, what's up internet. We're here today with sign-ups for Nessa's Palace Game. There's a lot of info in this post and a few things that still need to be decided, so if you're interested in participating, read on!
Who can participate in the Palace Game:
Anybody that has CR with Nessa, adult or teenager. There's no real specific amount I'm looking for, if you've threaded with Nessa at least a couple times, that's probably enough, but there is a mechanic in the game that involves sharing threads your character has had with Nessa, so there needs to be at least a couple! If you have no CR with Nessa but still wanna participate, well, what took ya so long, but there's still a bit of time to figure something out, just pop me a message and we can figure something out.
What is the Palace Game going to be:
As mentioned in the interest check, the game will be comprised of an Exploration Game and a Boss Fight. Here's some basic info about the game:
- You'll be exploring a setting filled with important locations and people from Nessa's life. You will have two overarching goals in the Palace: Discovering the treasure and growing stronger so you can defeat the boss. Exploring the Palace, speaking to characters, collecting memories, all of this stuff will serve both goals.
- There are six quests that you can complete during the Palace Game (two of which are basically just tutorials), these quests will involve a variety of stuff including receiving memories, sharing memories, creating your own spells, etc. I'm expecting this to give the game a bit more of a "guided" feel than a standard go where you want, explore how you want explora game, but I'm hoping it'll be an exciting story with a fun cast for you to interact with nonetheless. Participating in these quests will be the main way of interacting with the exploration game, but completing all of them will not be necessary to finish the game.
- Your character will be injured and lose their powers at the start of the game. There will be a mechanic for them to not only recover their power but earn SPECTACULAR witch powers as well! I've tried to come up with a system that'll allow you to mix your own powers with witchcraft from Nessa's world and I hope you enjoy it!
- The Exploration Game can be done solo or cooperatively. There will be an in-game mechanic that will allow you to work with other runners, share information, etc., and you'll also be allowed to be isolated from other runners and play by yourself if you want. The Boss Fight will be done as a group and will have mechanics requiring the players to coordinate with each other to win.
- There will be Numbers and Mechanics and Rolling Dice in both the exploration game and the boss fight, but I've tried to not make them too overwhelming. You'll be able to choose whether you do your rolls yourself or if you want me to do all of them for you in the sign-up.
- Death inside the Palace Game is not extremely likely, but is possible and will result in instant respawn. Death inside the Palace does not cause death outside the Palace, but significant damage taken will lead to status effects that your character will have to deal with after the game is over.
When will the Palace Game take place:
This is one thing that's still a bit up in the air. I'm going to be trying to do a bit of a "prologue" to the Palace Game using the upcoming feather plot this week, the Palace Game will start sometime after that. When exactly it happens, I'm looking for a bit of input from you. Right now, I'm planning to have the Exploration Game open for approximately two weeks, allow players to explore as much as they want at their own pace in that timespan, then finish up with the group Boss Fight on a scheduled date. This is all a bit flexible, if everybody participating is ready to move onto the boss fight in less than two weeks, that's cool, if somebody wants a little more time, that's cool too. If you want to schedule windows of a few hours for us to boomerang and then just lightly tag when you can the rest of the time, I'm completely open to that. My only hard date is that the boss fight needs to be done before February 15th. As noted by Al on the most recent Announcements, there will be a game on February 15th that will begin Reverie's transition into its endgame, I want the initial run of this game to be 100% finished before that (I am open to characters returning to the palace after the initial run, if there's any interest in that). So here's a couple windows I'm looking at right now:
- Exploration Game from January 15th (after all players have finished their runs in the game taking place that weekend) to January 29th, boss fight either the weekend of the 29th or sometime soon after.
- Exploration Game from January 20th to February 3rd, boss fight the weekend of the 3rd.
- Exploration Game from January 27th to February 10th, boss fight the weekend of the 10th.
Let me know what you think and what will work best for you. The main thing here is I want you guys to be able to play this thing how you want, at your own pace. If you guys all come in here and tell me, "just open it on the 13th and let us play for a month", that'll be a bit of a tight fit to finish by February 15th, but heck, I'll do it.
What is the story going to be:
- On Day 41, Nessa died during the task and was replaced with a younger version of herself.
- On day 75, she was confronted by her own shadow, who insists she's the real Nessa and the teenage Nessa is a fake. Nessa got kind of smacked around by her shadow in this confrontation.
- Since day 75, Nessa has been having some trouble staying awake during the day. Maybe she's not getting enough sleep for some reason?
- During the feather event upcoming this week, Nessa will be affected by a "Dreaming" Feather and will fall into a sleep that will pull in other characters. Participating in this dream event will not be necessary to participate in the Palace Game, but it will serve as a bit of a prologue that will make the stakes and objectives clear.
- After the conclusion of Nessa's dream, she'll be weak and in and out of consciousness. It'll be clear that it's necessary to that to fix what's wrong with her, players will need to use the MetaNav app and enter her Palace.
The purpose of this game (besides, y'know, having fun) is to bring a conclusion to the story that started back on Day 41 when Nessa died and was replaced with a teenage version of herself. I do know how this story is going to conclude and I think it'll be satisfying to all of Nessa's close CR and I'm looking forward to sharing it with you guys. :]
What do I need from you:
Sharing memories will be a significant mechanic in both the exploration game and the boss fight as will your character regaining their lost power. What I need from you in your sign-up is a list of your character's abilities, it only needs to be as exhaustive as you want it to be. You can fill free to include canon abilities, monster abilities, whatever you want. If your character doesn't have any crazy superpowers, just list off the stuff that they're good at and we'll figure something out.
It would also be very handy if you could include one or two significantly negative memories in your sign-up. Think "worst moment of your character's life" type stuff.
Between now and the start of the game, here's a list of some stuff you may want to just have on hand by the time the game starts, because it'll come up during quests or the boss fight. All of these memories can be from your character's canon or from their time in Reverie. They can be as detailed or as brief as you like.
- A memory of your character dealing with an unpleasant truth.
- A memory of your character in a fight with someone they care about.
- A memory of your character in a happy situation with someone they love.
- A couple general positive memories.
- Memories of your character interacting with Nessa.
Now, with all that talking out of the way, here's the sign-up sheet!
Thanks for reading and thanks for signing up for the game! I'm excited to share this little slice of Nessa's world with you.
Who can participate in the Palace Game:
Anybody that has CR with Nessa, adult or teenager. There's no real specific amount I'm looking for, if you've threaded with Nessa at least a couple times, that's probably enough, but there is a mechanic in the game that involves sharing threads your character has had with Nessa, so there needs to be at least a couple! If you have no CR with Nessa but still wanna participate, well, what took ya so long, but there's still a bit of time to figure something out, just pop me a message and we can figure something out.
What is the Palace Game going to be:
As mentioned in the interest check, the game will be comprised of an Exploration Game and a Boss Fight. Here's some basic info about the game:
- You'll be exploring a setting filled with important locations and people from Nessa's life. You will have two overarching goals in the Palace: Discovering the treasure and growing stronger so you can defeat the boss. Exploring the Palace, speaking to characters, collecting memories, all of this stuff will serve both goals.
- There are six quests that you can complete during the Palace Game (two of which are basically just tutorials), these quests will involve a variety of stuff including receiving memories, sharing memories, creating your own spells, etc. I'm expecting this to give the game a bit more of a "guided" feel than a standard go where you want, explore how you want explora game, but I'm hoping it'll be an exciting story with a fun cast for you to interact with nonetheless. Participating in these quests will be the main way of interacting with the exploration game, but completing all of them will not be necessary to finish the game.
- Your character will be injured and lose their powers at the start of the game. There will be a mechanic for them to not only recover their power but earn SPECTACULAR witch powers as well! I've tried to come up with a system that'll allow you to mix your own powers with witchcraft from Nessa's world and I hope you enjoy it!
- The Exploration Game can be done solo or cooperatively. There will be an in-game mechanic that will allow you to work with other runners, share information, etc., and you'll also be allowed to be isolated from other runners and play by yourself if you want. The Boss Fight will be done as a group and will have mechanics requiring the players to coordinate with each other to win.
- There will be Numbers and Mechanics and Rolling Dice in both the exploration game and the boss fight, but I've tried to not make them too overwhelming. You'll be able to choose whether you do your rolls yourself or if you want me to do all of them for you in the sign-up.
- Death inside the Palace Game is not extremely likely, but is possible and will result in instant respawn. Death inside the Palace does not cause death outside the Palace, but significant damage taken will lead to status effects that your character will have to deal with after the game is over.
When will the Palace Game take place:
This is one thing that's still a bit up in the air. I'm going to be trying to do a bit of a "prologue" to the Palace Game using the upcoming feather plot this week, the Palace Game will start sometime after that. When exactly it happens, I'm looking for a bit of input from you. Right now, I'm planning to have the Exploration Game open for approximately two weeks, allow players to explore as much as they want at their own pace in that timespan, then finish up with the group Boss Fight on a scheduled date. This is all a bit flexible, if everybody participating is ready to move onto the boss fight in less than two weeks, that's cool, if somebody wants a little more time, that's cool too. If you want to schedule windows of a few hours for us to boomerang and then just lightly tag when you can the rest of the time, I'm completely open to that. My only hard date is that the boss fight needs to be done before February 15th. As noted by Al on the most recent Announcements, there will be a game on February 15th that will begin Reverie's transition into its endgame, I want the initial run of this game to be 100% finished before that (I am open to characters returning to the palace after the initial run, if there's any interest in that). So here's a couple windows I'm looking at right now:
- Exploration Game from January 15th (after all players have finished their runs in the game taking place that weekend) to January 29th, boss fight either the weekend of the 29th or sometime soon after.
- Exploration Game from January 20th to February 3rd, boss fight the weekend of the 3rd.
- Exploration Game from January 27th to February 10th, boss fight the weekend of the 10th.
Let me know what you think and what will work best for you. The main thing here is I want you guys to be able to play this thing how you want, at your own pace. If you guys all come in here and tell me, "just open it on the 13th and let us play for a month", that'll be a bit of a tight fit to finish by February 15th, but heck, I'll do it.
What is the story going to be:
- On Day 41, Nessa died during the task and was replaced with a younger version of herself.
- On day 75, she was confronted by her own shadow, who insists she's the real Nessa and the teenage Nessa is a fake. Nessa got kind of smacked around by her shadow in this confrontation.
- Since day 75, Nessa has been having some trouble staying awake during the day. Maybe she's not getting enough sleep for some reason?
- During the feather event upcoming this week, Nessa will be affected by a "Dreaming" Feather and will fall into a sleep that will pull in other characters. Participating in this dream event will not be necessary to participate in the Palace Game, but it will serve as a bit of a prologue that will make the stakes and objectives clear.
- After the conclusion of Nessa's dream, she'll be weak and in and out of consciousness. It'll be clear that it's necessary to that to fix what's wrong with her, players will need to use the MetaNav app and enter her Palace.
The purpose of this game (besides, y'know, having fun) is to bring a conclusion to the story that started back on Day 41 when Nessa died and was replaced with a teenage version of herself. I do know how this story is going to conclude and I think it'll be satisfying to all of Nessa's close CR and I'm looking forward to sharing it with you guys. :]
What do I need from you:
Sharing memories will be a significant mechanic in both the exploration game and the boss fight as will your character regaining their lost power. What I need from you in your sign-up is a list of your character's abilities, it only needs to be as exhaustive as you want it to be. You can fill free to include canon abilities, monster abilities, whatever you want. If your character doesn't have any crazy superpowers, just list off the stuff that they're good at and we'll figure something out.
It would also be very handy if you could include one or two significantly negative memories in your sign-up. Think "worst moment of your character's life" type stuff.
Between now and the start of the game, here's a list of some stuff you may want to just have on hand by the time the game starts, because it'll come up during quests or the boss fight. All of these memories can be from your character's canon or from their time in Reverie. They can be as detailed or as brief as you like.
- A memory of your character dealing with an unpleasant truth.
- A memory of your character in a fight with someone they care about.
- A memory of your character in a happy situation with someone they love.
- A couple general positive memories.
- Memories of your character interacting with Nessa.
Now, with all that talking out of the way, here's the sign-up sheet!
Thanks for reading and thanks for signing up for the game! I'm excited to share this little slice of Nessa's world with you.
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Character: Minato Arisato
Preferred Schedule: Do you have a preference on any of the following:
1) No major preference! I can roll with any of the options listed
2) I'd love to! My schedule's generally pretty open--I WFH m-f and have p good availability for boomeranging a single thread any time from like 8 am to 6 pm MST (10 am to 8 pm EST). I can also be around in the evenings but I go to bed super early sweats.
3) The weekend of the 3rd is probably the best option for me, but I can roll with any of them
Do you want to do your own rolls or do you want me to do them? I can roll! It sounds like fun
Powers:
Minato is a Persona user, so he can use... a Persona! Actually he can use the twelve he has on him. They all have various abilities and spells and things. He has to have his Evoker on him to summon them. Otherwise, he's a pretty average lad, though he can use all sorts of weapons to varying degrees of success.
His strongest ability is probably the ability to use fusion spells between two of his Personas. They can cost a ton of SP so he can probably only use most of them once before he'd be wiped out, which could be fun to play with if the opportunity comes up!
Negative Memories: worst day of his life!. i may come back here with another memory later but i wanted to get this in
Status Effect Preferences: I'm not big on effects that make him act super differently personality-wise, but otherwise I like pretty much everything! Minato has had it pretty easy in his time here so hit him with whatever.
Anything Else? I don't think I have any questions yet! Thanks for running this, I'm looking forward to it!
BOSS MUSIC: the ideal boss fight song