END UP MAY UPDATES/ WHAT TO EXPECT IN JUNE
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heckinoocHey everybody! Thanks again for playing with us up until now. Many of you have been with us for over a year now, so congratulations!
We're excited to get out some updates for things that you'll be able to play with at any time regardless of what event is going on. We'll also be giving you a preview of the event coming up, which will be an event that opens up two different interactive spaces representing the Temperance/Fortitude rings and the Lust/Gluttony rings.
VOTING ON THE COMM CHANGE IS NOT YET CLOSED. We might not make that decision until July depending on the vote length but we'd rather get everyone's input than decide without having considered everyone.
By the way, we're gonna be introducing some potential prompts for things that you might have already been playing with. If you were, you haven't done anything wrong and can keep doing what you were doing! The prompts we're introducing are to help everyone else have some starting points to come up with things.
The first thing we're doing is reminding you OOCly that time in the afterlife is Nonlinear, which is why simultaneous prompt responses work. Of course, if your character can only experience time linearly (or alternatively, you only want to play with time linearly) you are welcome to play with that! But you also have the option to play with time splits or really whatever you want to play with.
Essentially it's day when some people need it to be day and night when some people need it to be night, but not necessarily when they want it to be. The party is as long as the partygoers need it to go. Which translates to: It's all up to you! It's literally your playground.
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This has pretty much always been true, but just a reminder that as long as they're not OP or particularly inflicting new powers no one mentioned before, you can switch your characters through all kinds of forms, especially if you just want to force them to deal with some shenanigans for a little while. Animalistic abilities are fine— say, your character might have better night vision as a cat than as a human, but shouldn't have like, laser eyes for no reason probably. If you do want to do something with extra powers, remember you can make contracts both with other player characters as well as NPCs— your character just has to trade something for it ; )
But this means you can drag them through different shapes if you're really feeling it, and you don't have to get approval first to do so.
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You're allowed to make NPCs at Heckin'! Unlike hotelgoers, Angels & 'winners' and Demons & 'sinners' are (generally) restricted to their own side, though from time to time you'll find either in the garden, where they lack any power to cause harm to the visitors from other worlds. But what are Angels/'winners' and Demons/'sinners' like?
Winners and Sinners seem to occupy a role they've had while they were alive on the Earth this afterlife is attached to, but many of them don't seem to remember the details of their past lives the longer they're in heaven. Just like Heavenbound and Hellbound visitors (you guys), they tend to take the forms of animal-people. Not one of them has a matching explanation for why that happens.
Winners, who lived on the Earth this afterlife is attached to before dying and coming to this Heaven, seem to have more personality the newer they are to Heaven, but no matter how old they are, they are completely convinced their lives are better here than they ever were on their Earth. They don't understand why Heavenbound visitors would want to go venturing down below. They're actually really content to mind their own damn business when it comes to the visitors, though a fair few of them have opened their arms as counsellors and the like. After all, contracts with them could maybe help some of those Hellbound visitors have an, er, easier stay.
Sinners seem to retain their personalities by becoming more and more violently anti-establishment. The thing is, most of them don't want to be in Hell either (though most of them will laugh at the idea of Heaven as an alternative, and yet never explain why…) but unlike Hellbound visitors, Sinners can't even get past the Garden level without poofing back down to the Hotel's ring. Their position leads to them usually forming tighter bonds with each other than they have with visitors or demons, but some of them are willing to form contracts to further their own goals. Some of them see it as a means to protect weak visitors, others as a means to exploit them. But oddly enough, most of them can't remember their lives on their Earth a lot faster than Winners forget…
Angels, who are beings that were crafted in Heaven, come in many forms and can often be mistaken for Winners, but unlike Winners will actually go around rings of Hell. On the flipside, most Demons are beings that were crafted in Hell and also come in many forms but don't 'poof' back to Hell the way sinners do when they try to go to Heaven. They do, however, lose a significant part of their strength when accessing the Garden level and higher. Either can come in a million shapes or personalities, but none of them will tell you any more about how Heaven and Hell work here… almost as if they can't do so because of some kind of contract…
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Don't want an NPC but still aren't getting enough action? Bring in a fourth. Fourth slots are open. Have fun.
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Also, you can now Dreamshare whenever you want thanks to the Sloth Ring opening up! It's a hotel floor that your characters can only access in their dreams— and they don't even have to be dreaming at the same time to interact!
Dreamers may or may not experience themselves getting on the elevator and pressing the only available button in their dreams before their dream starts. You can use dreams in event logs, normal logs, private logs/inbox logs, or ignore the Sloth ring altogether! It's just there for you for funsies.
These details and more will be added to the locations page soon, but until then you can reference the April event for prompts about dreams. You can really dream whatever you want, whenever you want!
–––––––––
Finally, the upcoming event will feature the following two locations:
JAM'S CLUB KARAOKE MEGAPLEX
A karaoke bar in heaven where YOU ARE THE STAR! …And, you already know the songs! Yes, no matter what universe they're from, even if they aren't yours, you don't have to follow lyrics on screen here at Jam's Club. You just know the music, because it's yours— it's theirs— it's everyone's. Music is for all at Jam's Club. Strengthen your bonds by performing together. Rent a private room to vent all your frustrations. Live your dreams together with the crowd on our stage. Or bypass it all and visit our stunning mall tailored to the needs of interuniversal visitors. Whatever you do, you'll enjoy your stay.
Presented by Temperance&FortitudeCoUnltd. All Rights Reserved.
666 FLAGS
THE VENGABUS IS COMING and it's bringing you to a special megapark presented by the LUST and GLUTTONY rings for the ultimate feature in overindulgence! Many portions are still under construction (seriously, stay out of there, 666 Flags is not liable for any injuries that occur on or off construction sites) but for JUNE only they'll be running a mini water park in their level among their many other indulgences. Looking to live like a real heathen but tired of not knowing where the hell in Hell to get your fix? Long no longer, because 666 Flags is your ticket to indulge in everything death has to offer!
We are not liable for anything you encounter or experience within the legally defined areas of the park.
There will be merperson-accessible portions to both the Heaven and Hell entertainment centers, and the non-mer parts of each center will remain accessible after June, so you'll be able to sin in Hell or get your rage out in Heaven whenever you want.
The event will feature such content warnings as mermaid-typical transformation and potential body horror, pool/swimming/ocean/deep water related subjects, mind-altering magic and magical substances, allusions to organized crime, hedonistic indulgences including drugs sex and alcohol, and auctioning and Sale of People/their Services, so please be prepared and mind the cuts when reading the event.
ok thanks so much have fun do your check in bye
We're excited to get out some updates for things that you'll be able to play with at any time regardless of what event is going on. We'll also be giving you a preview of the event coming up, which will be an event that opens up two different interactive spaces representing the Temperance/Fortitude rings and the Lust/Gluttony rings.
VOTING ON THE COMM CHANGE IS NOT YET CLOSED. We might not make that decision until July depending on the vote length but we'd rather get everyone's input than decide without having considered everyone.
By the way, we're gonna be introducing some potential prompts for things that you might have already been playing with. If you were, you haven't done anything wrong and can keep doing what you were doing! The prompts we're introducing are to help everyone else have some starting points to come up with things.
The first thing we're doing is reminding you OOCly that time in the afterlife is Nonlinear, which is why simultaneous prompt responses work. Of course, if your character can only experience time linearly (or alternatively, you only want to play with time linearly) you are welcome to play with that! But you also have the option to play with time splits or really whatever you want to play with.
Essentially it's day when some people need it to be day and night when some people need it to be night, but not necessarily when they want it to be. The party is as long as the partygoers need it to go. Which translates to: It's all up to you! It's literally your playground.
––––––––
This has pretty much always been true, but just a reminder that as long as they're not OP or particularly inflicting new powers no one mentioned before, you can switch your characters through all kinds of forms, especially if you just want to force them to deal with some shenanigans for a little while. Animalistic abilities are fine— say, your character might have better night vision as a cat than as a human, but shouldn't have like, laser eyes for no reason probably. If you do want to do something with extra powers, remember you can make contracts both with other player characters as well as NPCs— your character just has to trade something for it ; )
But this means you can drag them through different shapes if you're really feeling it, and you don't have to get approval first to do so.
–––––––
You're allowed to make NPCs at Heckin'! Unlike hotelgoers, Angels & 'winners' and Demons & 'sinners' are (generally) restricted to their own side, though from time to time you'll find either in the garden, where they lack any power to cause harm to the visitors from other worlds. But what are Angels/'winners' and Demons/'sinners' like?
Winners and Sinners seem to occupy a role they've had while they were alive on the Earth this afterlife is attached to, but many of them don't seem to remember the details of their past lives the longer they're in heaven. Just like Heavenbound and Hellbound visitors (you guys), they tend to take the forms of animal-people. Not one of them has a matching explanation for why that happens.
Winners, who lived on the Earth this afterlife is attached to before dying and coming to this Heaven, seem to have more personality the newer they are to Heaven, but no matter how old they are, they are completely convinced their lives are better here than they ever were on their Earth. They don't understand why Heavenbound visitors would want to go venturing down below. They're actually really content to mind their own damn business when it comes to the visitors, though a fair few of them have opened their arms as counsellors and the like. After all, contracts with them could maybe help some of those Hellbound visitors have an, er, easier stay.
Sinners seem to retain their personalities by becoming more and more violently anti-establishment. The thing is, most of them don't want to be in Hell either (though most of them will laugh at the idea of Heaven as an alternative, and yet never explain why…) but unlike Hellbound visitors, Sinners can't even get past the Garden level without poofing back down to the Hotel's ring. Their position leads to them usually forming tighter bonds with each other than they have with visitors or demons, but some of them are willing to form contracts to further their own goals. Some of them see it as a means to protect weak visitors, others as a means to exploit them. But oddly enough, most of them can't remember their lives on their Earth a lot faster than Winners forget…
Angels, who are beings that were crafted in Heaven, come in many forms and can often be mistaken for Winners, but unlike Winners will actually go around rings of Hell. On the flipside, most Demons are beings that were crafted in Hell and also come in many forms but don't 'poof' back to Hell the way sinners do when they try to go to Heaven. They do, however, lose a significant part of their strength when accessing the Garden level and higher. Either can come in a million shapes or personalities, but none of them will tell you any more about how Heaven and Hell work here… almost as if they can't do so because of some kind of contract…
––––––––
Don't want an NPC but still aren't getting enough action? Bring in a fourth. Fourth slots are open. Have fun.
–––––––––
Also, you can now Dreamshare whenever you want thanks to the Sloth Ring opening up! It's a hotel floor that your characters can only access in their dreams— and they don't even have to be dreaming at the same time to interact!
Dreamers may or may not experience themselves getting on the elevator and pressing the only available button in their dreams before their dream starts. You can use dreams in event logs, normal logs, private logs/inbox logs, or ignore the Sloth ring altogether! It's just there for you for funsies.
These details and more will be added to the locations page soon, but until then you can reference the April event for prompts about dreams. You can really dream whatever you want, whenever you want!
–––––––––
Finally, the upcoming event will feature the following two locations:
JAM'S CLUB KARAOKE MEGAPLEX
A karaoke bar in heaven where YOU ARE THE STAR! …And, you already know the songs! Yes, no matter what universe they're from, even if they aren't yours, you don't have to follow lyrics on screen here at Jam's Club. You just know the music, because it's yours— it's theirs— it's everyone's. Music is for all at Jam's Club. Strengthen your bonds by performing together. Rent a private room to vent all your frustrations. Live your dreams together with the crowd on our stage. Or bypass it all and visit our stunning mall tailored to the needs of interuniversal visitors. Whatever you do, you'll enjoy your stay.
Presented by Temperance&FortitudeCoUnltd. All Rights Reserved.
666 FLAGS
THE VENGABUS IS COMING and it's bringing you to a special megapark presented by the LUST and GLUTTONY rings for the ultimate feature in overindulgence! Many portions are still under construction (seriously, stay out of there, 666 Flags is not liable for any injuries that occur on or off construction sites) but for JUNE only they'll be running a mini water park in their level among their many other indulgences. Looking to live like a real heathen but tired of not knowing where the hell in Hell to get your fix? Long no longer, because 666 Flags is your ticket to indulge in everything death has to offer!
We are not liable for anything you encounter or experience within the legally defined areas of the park.
There will be merperson-accessible portions to both the Heaven and Hell entertainment centers, and the non-mer parts of each center will remain accessible after June, so you'll be able to sin in Hell or get your rage out in Heaven whenever you want.
The event will feature such content warnings as mermaid-typical transformation and potential body horror, pool/swimming/ocean/deep water related subjects, mind-altering magic and magical substances, allusions to organized crime, hedonistic indulgences including drugs sex and alcohol, and auctioning and Sale of People/their Services, so please be prepared and mind the cuts when reading the event.
ok thanks so much have fun do your check in bye