tushanshu_ooc | Fourth Wall Info Post

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Fourth Wall Info Post

Greeting chelonauts and visitors! This post will contain all your OOC needs for the fourth wall event--feel free to use it for asking questions and plotting.

THE DREAMING'S FLATULENCE | APRIL 15-30

The morning of April 15th dawns cold, but clear. There isn't a cloud in the sky, the sun's barely risen, and in general the kedan are going about their daily lives - opening shops, heading to work, leading kirin through the city streets. In particular, there's a small but steady stream of people moving in and out of the College.

Then, without warning, a section of the College implodes.

Onlookers will hear a thunderous boom, then see a sizeable portion of the College building crumble to the ground. Once the immediate chaotic aftermath passes, it will become clear that - miraculously - no one was hurt. The part of the building which collapsed was mostly storage for the magic-nullifying salt extracted from the fog months ago. There was a lab or two and a meeting room, but through sheer coincidence no one was in that part of the building at the time. Some kedan were nearby enough to be shaken, and others - especially those who worked within the College - may have some bruises and cuts from where they fell or dropped something in surprise. Beyond that, however, injury seems to have been avoided.

During the following few days, however, a number of odd things will happen. First, an exact copy of that thunderous boom will sound randomly throughout the city, almost like several very belated echos - although no other buildings crumble, and any source of these belated echoes is impossible to trace, just as it's impossible to trace echoes bouncing off the walls of a gorge. Second, any investigators will notice that specific and exact sections of structural damage from the College appear on other buildings in Keeliai without any obvious cause - a crack in the wall here, a sagging ceiling there.

And third, an influx of strange Foreigners will appear, seemingly dropped randomly by the Dreaming throughout Keeliai.

Further details of the explosion and its aftereffects will be in the mod-posted event log, going up on April 15th!

EDIT: The IC log is now live!

PREPARING VISITATION RIGHTS - OOC INFORMATION FOR FOURTH-WALL CHARACTERS

Just a quick reminder that anyone is welcome to the fourth wall event whether they play or have ever played in Tu Shanshu or not, and that both canon characters and OCs are perfectly acceptable! As of a few months ago, we also accept canon OCs and CRAUs, the details of which can be found here. Canon OCs must have a canonical basis/reference (i.e., no long-lost twins never mentioned in canon), and CRAUs must have originally come from their canon universe - no AUed versions of characters.

Newcomers will primarily arrive inside the city, but it’s possible for some to arrive outside the city or even in Hatal. While the salt explosion is the cause of the fourth-wallers’ arrival, this doesn't mean such characters are limited only to Keeliai; they will be able to move freely through the entirety of the setting while they’re there. Likewise, it's not required to participate in the aftermath of the explosion -- some characters might be too busy trying to figure out what's going on, or dealing with some familiar faces!

The newcomers are Foreigners and will be ICly classified as such, but there are a couple of important differences between them and the Foreigners who live in the city long-term, namely:

• Fourth-wall characters will not have soul-jewellery. Information on the soul-gems can be found on the gameplay page, but in a nutshell: Foreigners usually get a piece of magical jewellery with an inset gem upon arrival. This gem is required to keep Foreigners’ souls anchored to Keeliai's world. The fourth-wall characters will not experience the symptoms that a regular Foreigner would if they were separated from their soul gem.

• Fourth-wall characters will be able to reply to network posts, but not create their own. This will be explained as a Dreaming glitch -- the consoles will register their names, but not let them make their own broadcasts, similar to how a real-life forum distinguishes between someone being logged-in and someone being logged-out while still labeling their replies with a nickname. Fourth-wall characters can also reply to characters' IC inboxes using this same reasoning.

Similarly, due to the way the community’s posting/membership allowances work, fourth-wall characters will not be able to make their own logs but are encouraged to make use of the mod-posted or catch-all posts made by members of the game. (Catch-all posts are essentially those made to cover a great length of time or a particular setting -- for instance, one of the Foreigners’ housing areas, the Midnight Hotel, will have a post covering the whole fourth-wall event specifically for fourth-wall characters.)

Do remember that this is a "live" fourth wall, meaning that what happens during the event will be completely remembered after the event ends, and any setting impact/changes/decisions that occur because of the fourth-wall characters will be upheld.

Don’t forget the Setting posts are available from Navigation as well, for your setting-related needs as the event progresses. Please note that while powers are not nerfed in the Tu Shanshu setting, we do limit world-or-game breaking powers as a matter of course. We welcome everyone to try out the game’s setting, but characters who are brought in solely to disrupt or "break" the game will be asked to leave.

The list of fourth-wall guests can be found here. Feel free to request character access even after the beginning of the event! Additional characters can request posting access up until April 30th, the last day of the event and the day when the fourth-wall characters will ICly disappear from the city. After that point, posting access will be maintained for any guest characters up until May 10th, to allow any threads still being played out to finish up. However, we do request that no fourth-wall characters tag any posts dated May 1st and onward, as ICly, their characters would have left the city by that point.

If you have any questions regarding these rules for the fourth wall, please don't hesitate to ask us!

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Please comment here with your character name and journal to be given member access to the communities as of April 15th. (Though you don't have to wait until then to sign up here, and you can add additional/new characters for comm access here after the 15th too!)

CHARACTER NAME: Howard Stark
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clarkesthirdlaw

CHARACTER NAME: Xin Zhang
JOURNAL:

stepfatheroftheyear

In non-"let's traumatize Gene" news:

CHARACTER NAME: Higure Anghel
JOURNAL:

mythtakenidentity

CHARACTER NAME: Avery Grey
JOURNAL:

witchcrap

...and because let's make this a proper family reunion:

CHARACTER NAME: Virgil Potts
JOURNAL:

virgilant

Edited 2016-04-14 12:42 (UTC)

soulofapoet

CHARACTER NAME: Lugia
JOURNAL:

FOURTH-WALL EVENT CHECK-IN

hehehehHEHEHEHEH

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MUN IS TERRIFIED BUT DOING THIS ANYWAY

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let's see how this goes! ＼(^o^)／

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Re: FOURTH-WALL EVENT CHECK-IN

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COOO!

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Miss me?

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Re: FOURTH-WALL EVENT CHECK-IN

... since he won't shut up

Because 4th walls are supposed to be fun... right?

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