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Good evening! As mentioned earlier, I will be reworking the system to how you get your items in game. This is to promote players to create posts and mingle around outside of games, and also to relieve me of some time to work on more IC threads, mod planning, and plot points! Win-win for all! I’m here to explain how I propose it should work.

Nana will use her own powers to allow players to facilitate and help themselves and be less reliant on others and herself. Basically, each family will have their own “bulk tasks” that they can do and once these tasks are satisfied, they will “dream” about it and wake up with the item inside their home, right by their front door delivered in pretty packages.

Each team will have their own set of tasks that they can accomplish which we will call achievements. These will not change every month like it used to (once upon a time…), but instead there will be a whole list of general themes that you can work with! Some should promote family cr and some should promote cross-family cr. The only limit is some items will have a cap so you don’t end up getting 1000000 cars a day and also to limit characters icky who might go harder than our ooc bodies can handle.

These tasks I took suggestions from in discord channels and also some I thought would be fun/appropriate. There’s a varied amount so you should be able to play with what you want. If you have more suggestions, let me know in this post under your team headers! Please keep in mind, tasks are not 10000% going to be locked to one family. They are also not required to be 10000% on family themes at all the times. Siren's Melodies and Unholy Disorder can both make arguments to host parties so I don't want to lock a family out of things like that!

Things you cannot get from achievements alone at this time:
◆ Boat adjustments / rooms.
◆ Full room-size upgrades and renovations (some adjustments to rooms like furniture and stuff is okay).
◆ Healing items.
◆ Unique Magical items that did not exist previously.
◆ Plot-related items.
◆ Animals.

For Locations and Location Unlocks, they too will get a slight revamp due to the achievement changes. Every OOC month (or at least an ic week), families will need to do a specific task to temporarily access these facilities.

However! If they want to unlock one specific location unlock permanently, they can request that from Showmaster and perform a game of their own. Ping me if you want to do one and I'll schedule you in. Please note, if one family like Forge unlocks the Weapons Room permanently, other teams can do the same, but you do have to share the space.

Feel free to ask questions if you have any here but discord is probably better. I'll put discord questions here though!

ALSO PS these tasks are subject to change so you might see more or less once the page is up.

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Now these are current updates to the game at this time!

♢ First of all, I'll likely be adjusting the canon powers limit of the five memory pre-requisite. I think it'll be a pain to gamerunners and players both to keep track of. I'd like to adjust it further until I have a better idea, but for now, we can go with:

Canon powers can be given as prizes, it is up to the gamerunner whether you can get either a power OR a vision, or just strictly visions. There's no pre-requisite for now.

This might become something else later, but we'll keep it like this for the time being until I decide what I want to do with it.

♢ Achievement re-work! As I've stated in your team channels, we will be redoing achievements so that it's a monthly list you can work off of, where if a character wants to receive items or specific unlocks, you will have family-specific quests that you can do. That way you don't have to rely on me to change things every month and you have tasks that you can make your own posts with. These will have vision options also! It'll hopefully accomplish three things:

1) Those with huge memory backlogs can get memories faster but not overwhelm the game with players who have smaller registries.
2) Give me less things to keep up with and update so I can focus on other things that needs priorities.
3) Give post ideas to those who are shy about creating posts.

I'll take all the discussion and I'll make a general post of all the rules and expectations. Probably this weekend.

♢ The game calendar currently looks insane up until December but please do not worry. Most of these are blocked out sections and not actual official permanent game days. Several of these games are just 1-2 days max, but we won't know what the gamerunner's schedule is until closer to it.

♢ Gamerunners are also getting fun things soon, yay. :3c

♢ I'VE ADDED LORE TAGS and have gone back about half the comm to notate where you can find ANY IMPORTANT LORE DROPS. I'm gonna do it for the rest this week. Please don't feel obligated to do this for me because some things are lore drops for things you don't realize so I'll get it. Also helpful hint, if you look up "master" in a post, you'll see my comments and replies. They'll be the following tags btw:

♢ Speaking of, on a tangent, anytime you're in the middle of a thread and it's going a little too slow or you need to have a ballpark idea of info, tap me and I can give you a summary so you're not threadlocked.

♢ Speaking of on a tangent tangent, I stated I was going to tag teams with Ticketmaster in regards to canon powers. OBVIOUSLY, I didn't do that,,, I did say it was oocly okay to play with powers and assume she stopped by, but some might feel it icly weird to run around without that confirmation and I can understand that and might also just want to talk to her about it! Or just flirt and talk with her!

SO WHAT I WILL DO TO HELP PACIFY THIS, players can assume there was a brief text message sent to everyone about the blessings way back when I announced the powers are live. It was probably brief and short but let them know it was active. And now, she'll stop by post game here if you want to discuss things with her. I'm posting it now just because I do work tomorrow, but icly this is AFTER THE GAME. Feel free to interact only if you want, I will have team headers for it though. If I wait for team posts, I might lose traction and brain power so it's easier this way!!!

♢ Since we're about a year in, I'll be looking into coming up with good-ends but tbh I expect these will usually be very individualistic situations based on a character's needs and arc trajectory. There can also be "off-screen" drops/good ends where they're out doing something until it seems like there's a point where characters could always come back closer to the end of story if they so choose.

♢ BLESSINGS WERE DONE, IF YOU REPLIED BACK, I'LL BE GETTING THAT NEXT.

♢ ACTIVITY CHECK ENDS TOMORROW DO YOUR A/C IF YOU NEED A HIATUS BUT YOU FEEL LIKE YOU DON'T DESERVE IT, SHUSH YOU AND EMAIL ME ANYWAY!!! IT WAS A FLAT SEASON GUYS, a flat season on top of a rough year as is, pleeeeeease just let me know.

♢ If you missed it, EVERY CABIN HAS A ROOM WHERE THEY CAN SPEAK TO "GHOSTS" IF THEY SO CHOOSE. If you do, ping me. Try not to overwhelm me with a bajillion requests a day but I'll def play with youuuu.

♢ IF YOU HAVE A VISION FROM A TUNNEL RUN, you can use them in the projectors. PING ME FOR THAT TOO.

♢ DEATH AND INJURY PAGE!!

♢ POWERS PAGE!! (that will have stuff rewritten sob)

♢ NEW AU PLANNINGG POST!!

♢ Game trajectory post if you missed it!!

♢ VERY LAST THING, It is about a month until the anniversary of Limelight Stage. I genuinely cannot believe it, time flies so fast. There's over 300k comments already, and I think this has brought me so much joy to have ran it, I didn't think it would last this long and yet here we are. So the only way I can repay everyone is to share my love with all of you ~~and let you date the npcs in a dating simulator game~~. I LOVE YOUUUUUUUUUUU GUYS >3SUN SIGN
Mizi (Alien Stage)

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AU Backstory Planning Post

✯Information

Every month, we'll have a post where new characters and old characters can plan out backstories with one another. This should hopefully get characters something to work with when coming up with their alternate universes and get some prebuilt CR for those who are looking for it! This is NOT a requirement, you could be an unattached person if you'd like! However, for those who do want it, this is the place for you!

Before you start with making an AU, I would recommend getting familiar with some of the information to get an idea of how the setting works here.

◆ How to Build an AU
◆ What are Families?
◆ The Eight Families
◆ Names
◆ Full Navigation for any other questions/curiosities!

Once you get done with that, you can comment to the post!

✯New Potential Players

Thank you for having interest in joining! When you post your comment looking to plot, please toplevel the post with NEW CHARACTER | CHARACTER CANON NAME (CANON) and then fill out the following:

Player Name:
Character:
Canon: Please also list if they are post game!
Potential Family Option: List the teams you're considering! Nothing here is permanent/guaranteed.
AU idea(s): What kind of story are you looking to have? Did you have multiple ideas but not sure which one you like? List em here! If you're amnesia, go ahead and list that too!
Roles/CR you're interested in: Parent looking for kids, teachers looking for students, neighborhood cat looking for pets, local gamer needing ppl to dunk on, etc. Just a general idea of some things you're interested in.
Wants and Dreams: anything else that hasn't been mentioned yet, please note it here!!

Please don't take anything listed here as "official". Players are allowed to refuse whatever they're not interested in and they can change their minds if they haven't played it out yet!

Once you comment, please join the discord and LINK your post into the links subchannel. If you haven't received access to the discord, DM Celi! If you haven't gotten permission to join the game yet, you'll have to DM me anyway since this game is friends only!

✯Established Characters

For established characters, you can use this post as well! If you have an "open to all" type of CR where you're always needing a certain type of CR, you can do that here! This includes a restaurant needing regular patrons or a teacher needing students, guinea pigs for experiments, etc. Open to All is literally Open to All, it is never closed until the OP player adds a CLOSED comment so if you're a new player, don't feel like you're overwhelming them by commenting!!

When you post your comment looking to plot, please toplevel the post with OPEN TO ALL | CHARACTER CANON NAME (CANON) and then fill out the following:

Player Name:
Character:
Canon: Please also list if they are post game!
Family:
Looking for You can included things like regulars for cafe, regular patients, students, past lovers, etc.
Any other notes:

Whenever you reach your CR limit, feel free to comment to your toplevel with the header CLOSED to let new players know that you're not taking any more CR for the time being (of course you can still tag new potential players!). It will also close automatically once the new monthly post goes up.

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Hello, hello! No new placements today, but I figured I'd still have a "things that are going on" announcements for now! Some of it has important information and some changes so please make sure to read it thoroughly!! I'm going to split it in two, one for kind of discussing the trajectory of the game and then the other for general updates!

I had some questions from a few different folks about the current trajectory of endgame and what I've got planned for that so I'd thought I would answer some of it and share with others. I can't address everything just for spoilers sake but these should be fine.

Will characters be able to go back to their home at the end?
The answer is YES. This isn't a situation where their worlds are not available to go back to, they aren't exploded, they aren't stuck in Estoria forever. There are perhaps some shenanigans as to how they can exist in Estoria

Can characters continue on in Estoria (or another world) instead?
The answer is also probably YES. Again, there are probably weird shenanigans as to how this world works, but if a character's canon world is just bad (or they're dead there lols), there are ways to mitigate that ending to fulfill their desires. And honestly, if you headcanon your own ending, that's also okay, I can't stop you from that!!

The original ooc intro in the introduction page states :"These characters have always believed they lived in Estoria, but it's not true. At some point, they lost their original canon selves, whether through fake memories or amnesia and as they continue to partake in the performances, they realize that perhaps they've been forced to act out a new role against their will. " Does this still apply?

Yes, this part can still apply, but it has hopefully expanded to allow different interpretations for different characters. The original was very very limited, and honestly would be bleak if it continued this way based on the actions so far so it needed to change a bit.

Are the Estoria lives completely fake? Depends on the character you ask. The experiences they had are their own, and depending on how they view their canon lives, they might either say "well this life is real, too, because I lived this out" or "I was forced into this role against my will because they took me from my original home".

IS THIS STRAIGHT UP REINCARNATION?
Based on MY INTERPRETATION of reincarnation as a theme, I'd say no, it is not straight up reincarnation and like I said, people can go back home in the end. But there are probably similar themes to where if a character were to interpret it that way (and also depending on a character's canon after all....) it's not farfetch'd to say so. IDK how to explain it without spoilers further than, there's obviously some weird meta story/legend/myth reasons for these things and you can be pretty open-ended on how your character got to this world (some characters are also meta adjacent with their canons). ~~everyone is secretly a fate/stay night servant but this is probably not a completely inaccurate adjacent interpretation that can be extrapolated~~.

I can't answer these wholesale because I cannot speak for every character. The endgoal is that there's enough to allow different characters to have the endgame that they want and to live their lives the way they want because that's their story they wish to tell OR their life to live. Is my character just a character? Is the life I live in Estoria real or fake? There are multiple narrators in this game that has THEIR answers on these questions, but the characters will also likely have their own and that difference is what I look forward to seeing.

Why are some answers just PROBABLY or YES AND NO?
Here is how this plot came to be and how it gets adjusted. I had general themes and ideas that I wanted to follow and I created new lore along the way based on actions players took in the beginning, and depending on how players take that lore and the choices they made, I would then adjust the plot to fit it. The reason I do this is because if I had a very 100000% solid story at the very start with no flexibility to it, people's actions would often lead to dead ends unless I beat them in the head with very obvious clues as to what they need to look for.

I DON'T FIND THIS FUN BECAUSE I'M NOT GOOD AT IT. I'VE TRIED IT BEFORE, I'M NOT VERY SUCCESSFUL because I either get bored or players get frustrated.

I am much better at following character's train of thoughts and combining them and make them feel meaningful that way. I also find it more exciting to have random plot beats that don't make sense at the start and then watch them slowly come together and you find that everything is connected in some way. That can be frustrating when you want an answer from something you found in October, I def. get that. but a lot of my fictional preferences are like this so it's my default storytelling method.

Because of that though, some of my original thoughts and predictions to where the story would go has done a 180. Some of the things I might have said or predicted/planned at the start has swiveled and I cannot help that because I want to tell the stories of the players and characters, not just my own. The original reason as to why everything has happened has completely changed trajectory because of what characters have done and said, and in my opinion, it's for the better.

So yes! Some things can change, and that's why I say PROBABLY. That might make it difficult for playability for some, and I apologize for that, I get it. This is how I run plot things (which this game ALSO became waaaay more plotty than I expected) and I can only adjust as I go along. I haven't modded a big plot game since I was 20 years old (crying lmao im a grandmother) so I cannot be perfect at what I do, but I can only give you my word that I'm trying very hard to make sure that the ending will make as many people satisfied as possible.

IS THAT WHY THERE'S THIS PLOTHOLE!!!11!
Yes....... I'm sorry......... I can't keep track of every plot beat and might miss a few things. Forgive me, I value excitement/people solving things over 100000% accuracy, but also I'm a foolish potato.......

That said, as you can see, some of the mysteries ARE starting to get resolved or answered and it'll likely ramp up in that direction and less about (ooo mystery clues ooooo). The first things that are starting to come together are the Estorian Legends obviously, but the Showmaster's story is also starting to be touched upon. And then there is of course, the Ocean and the Ticketmaster as well, which will then lead to the answer of the final question, "Why am I here?".

I'm not a masterful writer or storyteller but it's the story I want to try and tell and I hope you get SOME fun somewhere out of it. If not, that's okay, I understand and no hard feelings!

I WILL ALSO SAY, at this point, a lot of the story beats are now solidified so there won't be as many secret huge change after this point and there is a chance characters will probably run into dead ends more often than before. However, because there are now so many different leads and people HAVE the clues, they should be able to find what they want in the end.

I apologize this might all be confusing, my brain is a mass of confusion, I am sure I warned you all of this at some point. I don't have much reference for AU games so I'm doing a lot of experimenting so it's a bit messy, I get it. ANYTIME YOU HAVE CONCERNS please email me at any time! I have no problem trying to hash things out to make things playable/fun for you to the best of my ability!

OH YES ONE MORE THING, I currently have it set where the game will last at least 6 months to one year more. THAT'S A MINIMUM FTR "AT LEAST" IS THE KEYWORD HERE! I'm not saying it will last ONLY that amount, but just that I'm trying to prepare for at least that amount of time, and can extend it further out as needed but I am not running a game that lasts five years lol. I WANT A SATISFYING ENDING SO! Realistically another year or so isn't too crazy unless everyone finds they want to move on in which case, I'll be ready to do that anytime. :9b