E V E N T ; "Phase 4444"

[singularitymods.livejournal.com]

Just a heads up for everyone about the next event.

Starting whenever I finish the write up in the next couple days, Sacrosanct is going to experience a mysterious shut-down (lights down, power down, etc), and the back-up systems will kick in. Much of the station will go dark and be without power, except for emergency lights and such. There will also be glitches in the remaining systems, including one that will cause every holographic projector on the station to go haywire. For the duration of the event, parts of the station (open spaces, wilderness and garden areas) will have a touchable holographic overlay of the MMO game, Ever Breath of Fantasy MMXIV. This means your character can look at something he/she knows is an empty street or plaza and will see a generic rpg fantasy grassland, or wooded area, or even a beach with an accompanying lake or ocean. RPG Monsters will roam these areas but cannot affect your character, unless he or she chooses to log into the actual MMO game via their network device. Logging in will automatically generate a holographic "skin" for your character, either a default appearance (for example, T-800 will have a default holographic T-800 skin) that can be changed or customized if the character bothers to. You can either keep the default skin or choose a generic fantasy class. Otherwise, if your character has played the game previously, the skin will be of the RPG avatar (mage, paladin, etc) that your character had previously created. This skin is the only way to interact with game holograms, so don't bother emptying a clip into a holographic monster. Yet.


For characters who choose to log into the MMO, they can interact with the holograms exactly as if they were playing the game. Characters logging in for the first time will start at level 1, etc, and any monsters in the nearby vicinity will take notice of them.

Touchable holograms only have as much substance as the power being fed into them. In the beginning, the holograms will have some substance but can be pushed through, like pushing through water or gel. When the game decides that a holographic structure needs to be completely solid, it will become completely solid. To anyone with a holographic avatar skin, the holographic surfaces will be completely solid, as the game laws will not permit an avatar to walk through something that is meant to be solid inside the MMO.

Because the projectors are glitching, this holographic overlay will show up on any high tech HUD like the real thing, so heat readings will show objects that aren't really there, energy readings will be completely thrown off by the huge influx of power used to maintain the holograms, etc. Previous maps of the station will slowly become compromised, as the holograms will create structures and obstacles (buildings, locks, rifts in the ground) that, by the logic of the hyper-realistic game rules, will become dangerous. If the hologram says the floor is lava now, that floor will probably kill you somehow if you choose to ignore the hologram. Dangerous surfaces will often be electrified.

There are billions of projectors built into every surface of the station, so there are very few areas where the holograms would not be able to manifest, even in the wilderness areas.

For certain parts of residential areas, a different type of holographic overlay will appear. See the IC Event post for details.

Characters are not required to participate in the event, and can choose whether or not they want to bother with the holographic world that will slowly be enveloping the station during the event. The holograms will, of course, become increasingly more intrusive, but it's certainly possible for any character to find a safe place to hide and stay there.

EDIT: lol new stuff. The event will progress over several days with Phases updating everyone OOCly about what new things their characters will encounter. There will be a puzzle story to put together and also an NPC, this guy right here, helping things along if characters have IC questions. This is not an event that requires the players to accomplish certain goals for the event to end, so feel free to sit back and react, or sit it out, and we'll wrap up in maybe a week or two, depending on how slowly I write.

As mentioned in the IC post, Hypatia will not be present during this event. New arrivals can still listen to automated messages telling them where they are and what is going on and directing them to the chemical showers etc, but Hypatia herself is for all intents and purposes offline and will not respond in realtime. Any new arrivals that need medical attention/rescue from the junkyard can still be rescued and given care in the medbays by automated drones without Hypatia's direct intervention.




More information will be available in the event start post, but if you have any questions about how the holographic technology works or about the event itself, please leave a comment here. OR YOU CAN CONTACT ME on aim at brigantinefranke or drop me an email at twopoinsettias@gmail.com or PM the NPC journal or idc.

Comments

[alaspooryork]

brb makin' a paladin character

[bastione.livejournal.com]

Level 40 Paladin with his shiny Holy Sword

[alaspooryork]

That's right yo.

[alaspooryork]

Also I would like to note that Emile is going to be emptying some clips into holographic monsters no matter what you tell him.

[idkmybffhanna.livejournal.com]

oh man

hanna you had better drag this dude into making a warrior character

it are necessary

[idkmybffzombie.livejournal.com]

Hell yes you are. Even a level 20 black mage can't level grind by himself.

[idkmybffhanna.livejournal.com]

... gdit I will be level 1


this will be hilarious as the black mage has to protect the weedy little warrior until he's got enough XP to actually be a threat

[idkmybffzombie.livejournal.com]

cue Hanna dragging zombie into a high level area so he can gain 10 levels in one go. It's a brilliant strategy!

[idkmybffhanna.livejournal.com]

1. that icon is terrifying

2. yes this is a brilliant plan that cannot possibly go wrong and will certainly not end in rocks-fall-everyone-dies B|

[idkmybffzombie.livejournal.com]

1. tis the season

2. AT LEAST RESPAWN IS STILL ON? oh wait.

[idkmybffhanna.livejournal.com]

rocks fall


everyone dies






ps I ATTACK THE GAZEBO

[idkmybffzombie.livejournal.com]

Dear god if this entire event devolves into D&D I'm changing Sing's entire scenario so I can DM.

[idkmybffhanna.livejournal.com]

...

oh man do not tempt me

I will find my dicebag it is in my house somewhere

[idkmybffzombie.livejournal.com]

and like all D&D sessions, it devolves into six hours of nerd jokes and OOC conversation and one kobold party dead.

[idkmybffhanna.livejournal.com]

you forgot 'and somebody running in circles due to a caffeine high'

[cmdr-renegade.livejournal.com]

I do not have an icon that properly expresses just how freaking excited I am for this.

[dug-the-dog.livejournal.com]

This is pretty close.

[bastione.livejournal.com]

BAWWW DUG

sob it's a halloween event, I swear there will actually be Scary Shit later and not just D&D and JRPG jokes

[dug-the-dog.livejournal.com]

Scary Shit AND gamer jokes?

That just doubles the awesome :D :D :D

[cohesions.livejournal.com]

>the floor is now lava

oh hell yes

[heterochromiia.livejournal.com]

question

due to sollux seeing with psychic powers (i assume he gets a sort of cross between visible light and a sort of "touch") will he be able to "see" the underlying actual reality

because if so he will just be ignoring all the warnings and getting killed SOB

IF I MISSED ANY TYPOS IT'S BECAUSE I'M FUKKEN SLEEPY AUGH so much editing on this post

[idkmybffhanna.livejournal.com]

...

/rescues?

[heterochromiia.livejournal.com]

omg do eet.

he will join your party as the mage if you convince him to. ♥

[heterochromiia.livejournal.com]

OR WAIT HANNA IS MAGE FUCK

w/e he'll still be a mage, haters gonna hate, it's his gorram title and everything :T

[idkmybffhanna.livejournal.com]

he could be a red mage

or if we're gonna go all out with the craaaaaazy DnD references, he could be that one weirdo who plays a psion.

[heterochromiia.livejournal.com]

come on.

he's the mage of doom, man.

MAGE. OF. DOOM.

does that say anything but black mage to you?

[idkmybffhanna.livejournal.com]

...

you make a strong case...

we will just have TWO black mages (ah ha ha)

[heterochromiia.livejournal.com]

it will be so beautiful

SO BEAUTIFUL

now if they can just get karkat to join in

[idkmybffhanna.livejournal.com]

thing is, Karkat would also be a fighter. so we'd have two fighters and two mages. unless somehow you convince him to go for paladin, which would be the most goddamn hilarious thing ever.

[heterochromiia.livejournal.com]

fuck yes

karkat for paladin i entirely support this

[karcrab.livejournal.com]

PALADINS ARE STUPID AND FOR STUPID ASSHOLES

):B

[heterochromiia.livejournal.com]

come on kk you know you want two

[karcrab.livejournal.com]

okay sorry I'm done

[scalyjustice.livejournal.com]

[bastione.livejournal.com]

Supernatural or extrasensory perceptions would probably be able to see through the holograms, unless you don't want them to, since it'll be a Super Advanced Network Of Energy or whatever. Whether he can see through the holograms or can't or can Sense The Difference isn't going to make much of a difference when they start solidifying/turning into jillion watt electric fences, so it's completely up to you!

...and to keep him from running headlong into things he can't see at all, if that's what you'd prefer, the HUD on his network device will be able to map the new obstacles and detect energy fields.

[heterochromiia.livejournal.com]

okay cool! thank you very much.

[notsoloyal]

ahaha this will be awesome

if HUDs pick up the heat/energy signatures, would shockwave be able to pick that stuff up as well with his powers? infared, x-ray etc.

[bastione.livejournal.com]

Totally up to you if you want him to be able to see through the holograms or sense they're somewhat different from real objects or whatever from the particular energy/heat signatures. By the time the event gets into full swing, knowing whether or not they're holograms... isn't going to make a bit of difference.

[notsoloyal]

oooo this will be fun. thanks!

[allshock-notalk.livejournal.com]

Due to Soundwave's very sensitive hearing, is there anything to be of note here for him?

[bastione.livejournal.com]

Feel free to have him notice the change in ambient noise around the station, since half of the systems will be shut down and the other half will be going on crazy overdrive. If he can hear the humming of the projectors or electrified surfaces, that's fine too.

There'll be some audio in later holograms that he might find of interest, but I'll detail that in the event start post.

[allshock-notalk.livejournal.com]

Awesome! Thanks for the heads-up, bb. ♥

[windowsftl.livejournal.com]

This is AMAZING. Brb, fangirling.

[bastione.livejournal.com]

ljfsd thank you!

[standaloneshell.livejournal.com]

Motoko has several modes of vision, so I suspect she'll be able to tell fairly quickly that things are not real, because...
...

...well. Some things just don't look right. I mean she hasn't got ranger eyes like Batou, but still. Yes?

Of course, there's also that everything is different from before and also insane and jRPGish. That's a bit of a clue-in. This is going to be interesting.

[bastione.livejournal.com]

Yep, feel free to have her notice the difference! The MMO areas will look very different from "normal" wilderness areas, and the memory holograms will have a distinct decor style.

[standaloneshell.livejournal.com]

Excellent, just making sure it was kosher

[hows-the-knee.livejournal.com]

So let's say, hypothetically, that someone is paranoid and suspicious and does not want to join the MMO or create an avatar at all. How far could she get without doing so? If Sarah this hypothetical person has a buddy wearing an avatar to walk around with her and open doors etc., could she get through the entire event without creating an avatar, without being completely locked out of doing/interacting with anything? Could she and her friend still interact - will people wearing avatar skins still be able to see/hear people who are not?

This event is completely awesome, btw - thanks for all your hard work.:D