Geartopia More Info!
Oct. 3rd, 2013 10:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stringmods ▼ Welcome everyone!
Geartopia is kicking off on the 5th! (delayed a day due to head mod having connection issues since last week).
If you've gotten an invite from a fellow player or just wanted to join in on the fun, here's what you'll need to know about this 4th wall event!
If you've gotten an invite from a fellow player or just wanted to join in on the fun, here's what you'll need to know about this 4th wall event!
▼ Character Rules
NO to Crack Characters or Characters based on real-life celebrities (so Nostalgic Critic or Steven Colbert are straight out.)
YES to relatives of your own characters, AUs, OCs or characters currently played in other games. As long as your characters do not cross or you keep munsterbation (playing two close characters by yourself) to a minimum, it is perfectly fine. You don't have to be in the game to join in on this fun either!
YES to relatives of your own characters, AUs, OCs or characters currently played in other games. As long as your characters do not cross or you keep munsterbation (playing two close characters by yourself) to a minimum, it is perfectly fine. You don't have to be in the game to join in on this fun either!
▼ WHAT YOU CAN AND CANNOT DO
If your game allows world hopping and/or is perfectly fine with your character disappearing to Geartopia for a short while, we are perfectly fine with this.
For members of Destiny Strings, this 4th wall event is not a 4th wall moreso than something that is canon and will be part of the game's actual history, so yes, traumatize them to your heart's content!
YOU WILL BE ALLOWED TO CREATE NEW POSTS We will be removing restrictions of who can create posts for the event's days. Along with our open posts, but only in the log community (![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
destinystrings). You will use the tag !geartopia to mark the event accordingly.
To make the best of the setting, please read the setting info below, or read the open introduction post.
THE EVENT ENDS ON THE 20TH But we will allow new posts to be created until the 24th and then it's backtag, backtag and backtag to your heart's content. And hey, if you like it here, you don't have to leave, you can come with us back to Hinoto-Ri!
For members of Destiny Strings, this 4th wall event is not a 4th wall moreso than something that is canon and will be part of the game's actual history, so yes, traumatize them to your heart's content!
YOU WILL BE ALLOWED TO CREATE NEW POSTS We will be removing restrictions of who can create posts for the event's days. Along with our open posts, but only in the log community (
destinystrings). You will use the tag !geartopia to mark the event accordingly.To make the best of the setting, please read the setting info below, or read the open introduction post.
THE EVENT ENDS ON THE 20TH But we will allow new posts to be created until the 24th and then it's backtag, backtag and backtag to your heart's content. And hey, if you like it here, you don't have to leave, you can come with us back to Hinoto-Ri!
▼ What does this event have to do with your game?
More than you know for now >B] We also figured it would be an interesting IC way to have a 4th wall event instead of having everyone stuck in the city. They're still stuck inside a city, just a steampunk one.
▼ Will there be mod-run events in this?
Yes! This is actually still tied to Destiny Strings, so there is plot involved.
▼ What is Geartopia like?
Geartopia is, to put it in plain terms, a cowboy-steampunk themed world. It was built a long time ago by aliens visiting the planet that granted intelligence to some native species. You can find a few remnants of their culture scattered around the land in the form of large stone carvings. The carvings also serve as guardians - once a character enters the planet, they are only allowed to visit the main town and surrounding area before they find themselves stopped by an invisible force field (there are other smaller towns, but they are far and few in between).
Technology is steampunk with a cowboy flair: there are trains, horses, chariots, lots of gears and dark clothing. The inhabitants are mostly humans, humanoid animals, alien natives and steampunk robots. The technology the elder aliens left them allows for contact with passing spaceships, but otherwise there is nothing futuristic going on on the planet - the aliens wanted it this way and for the most part, the population respects this.
Geartopia was visited by other Visitors before, including the crew of Transmigration 9, who helped solve a few mysteries twenty years ago. Now a new mayoress rules the city and new problems have arisen, with pirates posed to attack the place!
However you wouldn't know that.
There's just this fancy little thing that everyone probably forgot acting up again. The thing is, this world also has something similar, and just like you should never cross the streams, you should never cross the inter-dimensional space portals.
The result is a tear in the space-time continuum and a whole lot of people suddenly stuck in Geartopia that were not supposed to be there.
Oops. That might take a small while to fix. While the people of Hinoto-Ri will be able to go back and forth, everyone else without a proper destiny string is stranded until the situation is fixed...
Technology is steampunk with a cowboy flair: there are trains, horses, chariots, lots of gears and dark clothing. The inhabitants are mostly humans, humanoid animals, alien natives and steampunk robots. The technology the elder aliens left them allows for contact with passing spaceships, but otherwise there is nothing futuristic going on on the planet - the aliens wanted it this way and for the most part, the population respects this.
Geartopia was visited by other Visitors before, including the crew of Transmigration 9, who helped solve a few mysteries twenty years ago. Now a new mayoress rules the city and new problems have arisen, with pirates posed to attack the place!
However you wouldn't know that.
There's just this fancy little thing that everyone probably forgot acting up again. The thing is, this world also has something similar, and just like you should never cross the streams, you should never cross the inter-dimensional space portals.
The result is a tear in the space-time continuum and a whole lot of people suddenly stuck in Geartopia that were not supposed to be there.
Oops. That might take a small while to fix. While the people of Hinoto-Ri will be able to go back and forth, everyone else without a proper destiny string is stranded until the situation is fixed...
▼ Anything else I should know?
If you could post what characters you are bringing here, feel free to do so! We're excited to see who this might bring.
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