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"Thank God you've returned. I need your help. There's a great deal of history that you should know... but I'm afraid that I must continue my writing. Here - most of what you'll need to know is in there. Keep it well hidden. For reasons you'll discover, I can't send you to Riven with a way out." Welcome to Riven: The Sequel to Myst. This is a Reality Roleplaying Game which will be played in this thread and on a Discord server which you can find here: https://discord.gg/k9nXD3u. You’ll find the hardcore rules in the second post, an explanation of what exactly a Reality Roleplaying Game is in the third, and a very short what-you-need-to-know in the fourth. Player's Handbook v1.2 (Last updated 4/14) If you’re new to “peraMyst”, you might feel like you’re out of the loop on the story (I know we’ve been a bit clique-ish over the last year), but your character will be indigenous to Riven, so… you don’t really need that information. If you still want it, the best presentation is Bifauxnen’s comic rendition, which honestly is worth the read (and/or reread) anyway. Due to the nature of in-game information, there will be no spectator chat, and I'd ask that you please not make one. Achievements Gizmonic Map Database Engagement Grids peramene fucked around with this message at 07:16 on May 29, 2018 |
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These rules apply to all players for the entire game. By signing up to play, you are effectively ing yourself to abide by the spirit and letter of these rules.
peramene fucked around with this message at 16:37 on Mar 8, 2018 |
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Riven is a Reality Roleplaying Game; it shares elements of other games you might be familiar with that are run on these forums: forum reality games, Mafia, ambiguous number of shittalkers boardgames, etc. The most important element is that once the game begins, it is always on. The world is persistent - like an MMO. You may not always be active within it, but your character is. Your character will occupy a specific location on a 'board' and their communication, vision, ability to stab, and indeed the ability to be stabbed, rely very much on where you are located. This is represented by a chat channel on the Discord server. In this channel as well as others you'll eventually gain access to, you may plan, plot, and scheme your way towards your objectives. You won't really know who your friends or enemies are until you see how they behave, so you need to exercise caution. On the other hand you will need allies. Information is power. The second element is that every 48 hours - excepting Saturday - you'll submit "Orders", which are instructions for your character and their envoys to take concrete actions in-game. These include movement between spaces, attacking someone or something, or researching something in order to gain more information about it. If all you do is check in with your chats and put your orders in your character sheet, the game takes - sigh - 15 minutes a dayTM. Every 24 hours, I process everyone's orders - moving them to the appropriate places, handling combat between players, removing obstacles in-world, distributing new information to everyone's character sheets, and then reopen everything and the game is back on. This process is called a "phase", some folks will still call it a "day" and that's okay too so long as nobody gets confused about Saturday. There are only a handful of player-versus-environment objectives, and they'll require the cooperation of many players to complete. As we said at the end of Myst, "the real puzzles were the friends you made along the way." Your interactions with each other are 90% of the game. peramene fucked around with this message at 23:14 on May 18, 2018 |
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Riven is the name of the game but it's also the name of the Age in which the game is set. You can substitute the word "dimension" or "world" as far as synonyms go. Normally, travel between Ages is only possible by use of linking books, which are very difficult to write. The access to and location of linking books are the primary plot device in the original Myst games. Speaking of - your knowledge of Cyan's game series is useless. I have made major changes to the world, history, environmental elements - everything - in order to fit my design for this game. You will not be carefully listening for the sounds animals make, nor will you be learning Base 25. The survivors of Myst are hence collectively referred to as "strangers" or "the strangers". As a new character, you'll be playing a member of one of two indigenous castes:
Further, regardless of which caste you've been raised in, you'll still have at least some ancient Rivenese influence on you, which is expressed in one of the five traditions:
It might be helpful for you to think of your character's tradition as a "class archetype". Finally, as the game opens, a civil war is reaching a peak of violence.
Your character may be a member of one of these two factions, or they may begin the game as simply a villager or craftsperson; unaffiliated with either side. While it is true that Rive'ni tend towards loyalists and Rivenese tend towards the Moiety, there are people on both sides (and neither) from all walks of life on Riven. Including, now, the strangers themselves. Unless I've specifically instructed you otherwise (you would know), when you fill out the above application, you'll have the opportunity to select which of these options you prefer to play. I'm going to do everything I can to get you where you would prefer to be - but by necessity I'm gonna have to throw some people total curveballs. Play to your wincons such as they are, alright? One last thing: you're not supposed to have perfect knowledge of anything at any point. I might be lying to you somewhere, the information you're learning might be wrong, the people you're working with might be lying to you and planning to murder you just as soon as you hand over the gold or whatever. Crafting these falsehoods is necessary - in the case of players and information, to intentionally mislead you to your detriment and therefore verifying information is fun and cool and good - in my case, if you knew for certain that elements of the game were to work exactly as I explain them, things would be significantly less interesting. Play as your character, in the world that they occupy and with the knowledge they possess. You don't have to make any decisions on the above right away, and you're welcome to change your mind! I'm just hoping for estimates. peramene fucked around with this message at 08:16 on Mar 11, 2018 |
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[reserved <3]
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Finally, after a year of waiting, it is time. All of my training has prepared me for this. REVENGE SHALL BE MINE! I'M COMING FOR YOU, BITCH!!!
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I need you all to understand something. I am exactly as awful as you think I am. I have no redeeming qualities. There will be nothing I can tell you that will ever convince you otherwise. I came here to do a job, and I did it well, despite everything else. I’ve been given another job, and as long as you need the same thing I do, we’ll get along. There are going to be things you read about me that will make you wonder what based under-creature doomed you to such a fate that we must share the same air. I am not happy about this situation either. But I am a stickler for contracts, so you can believe me when I say I will stick to the letter of the law that I have agreed to. Many will die. I may be among the first. Who can say what will come from this desert of pain? I don’t see many ways out. Just know that I have striven to do what I knew was needed to succeed. To Chell, I speak directly: You knew what I was about. How many times did I run for the darkest corner of a room? How many times was I just out of sight, lurking, as we scuttled from world to world, always on guard, and never one to appease? You didn’t complain when I came from the shadows and nursed you to health, vowing to stick with you for the rest of the mission. I would think that you, of all people, of all compatriots, would understand that I am doing what I need to survive. You had the luxury of luck pulling you towards the so-called “honorable”rebels, while fate conspired to put me in the hands of Gehn. I have no love for the man. He is an insane monster that is as capricious as an active volcano. But his pockets are deep, and he has more use for me alive than dead. Never mind the fact that if it were not for me, Annie would have been delivered to you, absque vita. With me, with us, she has life, and a chance to see her sister once again. But I have heard you. You wish only harm upon me, with no room for interpretation. There will be no conversation. I will not weep upon seeing you. I will not flail my weapon upon the ground to prove something that you have no wish to acknowledge, only to have my own life snuffed out by an incompetent, lesser daughter of a greater woman than you will ever be. Though your axe may take me, I will not allow it to happen meekly. Stay away from me.
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Posting on page one
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Yes, me, hi, I'm not missing this like i missed Myst
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Chic Trombone posted:Yes, me, hi, I'm not missing this like i missed Myst
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Real talk, I'm hyped as gently caress and everyone else should be too. If you see this thread and don't sign up you will regret it for at least the next year when it'll be "wow you guys are still talking about Riven?" Don't be that person! Sign up!
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Max posted:Never mind the fact that if it were not for me, Annie would have been delivered to you, absque vita. With me, with us, she has life, and a chance to see her sister once again. *pauses, getting the weird feeling that she’s being talked about* (So so hype!)
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please reach out if you find any mistakes, typos, etc <3
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Sheet's finished, and I think something's wrong with the discord link. But sIgn me up anyway!
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peramene posted:If you’re new to “peraMyst”, you might feel like you’re out of the loop on the story (I know we’ve been a bit clique-ish over the last year), but your character will be indigenous to Riven, so… you don’t really need that information. If you still want it, the best presentation is Bifauxnen’s comic rendition, which honestly is worth the read (and/or reread) anyway. And if you can solve the puzzle I put in that comic that none of the survivors did (or noticed the existence of in the first place?) you can get major bragging rights!
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Max posted:I have no love for the man. He is an insane monster that is as capricious as an active volcano. well gently caress this is awkward hey
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E: never mind i guess
Juchero fucked around with this message at 19:15 on Mar 8, 2018 |
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I have now submitted my form!
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DIDNT READ OP, GAME WHEN????
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chaoslord posted:DIDNT READ OP, GAME WHEN???? April.
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*continues to be dead*
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I hope my new character also dies while I'm at a quidditch tournament with very little internet access that was fun
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Kept us waiting huh
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I'm worried that I won't be able to play enough to do this, or that I'll get so invested it'll actually be bad for me. (See FFVII where I woke up after 3 hours of sleep because I'd gone too deep on trying to win) But I'll play.
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And I've submitted.
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Natural 20 posted:I'm worried that I won't be able to play enough to do this, or that I'll get so invested it'll actually be bad for me. (See FFVII where I woke up after 3 hours of sleep because I'd gone too deep on trying to win) gently caress I'm sorry I shouldn't have said anything RUN WHILE YOU CAN
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Yeah haha you're screwed.
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Guys, guys! It’s ok. 15 minutes a day.
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Yes fine ok I’ll fill out the form and join the discord later
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Podima posted:Guys, guys! It’s ok. This seems right yeah
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hey whatever happened to Zulea
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what the gently caress's a myst?
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Bifauxnen posted:hey whatever happened to Zulea I have no idea.
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Survey sent!
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Meinberg posted:what the gently caress's a myst? To clarify: I have sent in my survey.
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GeneX posted:Yes fine ok I did both of these
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Bifauxnen posted:hey whatever happened to Zulea She jumped in a book and got me killed
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i i am myst
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curiousCat posted:She jumped in a book and got me killed that's it, that's the whole game
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I will solo this gam
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