An update from your local Poo Head
Have you ever felt Luceti is just a little bit too homogenous? You look around and it's just humans, humans, and people who look like humans but actually aren't. Isn't that just a tiny bit boring, all things considered?
A long, long time ago, someone named Jae put in a cool suggestion on an even cooler event suggestions post. It was all very groovy and I wish you'd all been there to see it.
From March 27th (12:01 AM EST) to April 2nd (11:59 PM EST), residents of Luceti will wake up a bit different than they did the night before. Raine might wake up and is no longer a half-elf, but is now instead a fully blooded dwarf with a very fine beard to go with it. Or maybe Caesar will find it terribly difficult to nap now that he's been turned into a merman. But it doesn't even have to be fantasy races! Batman might turn into a Krytponian and have to deal with all the side effects that come with it. Naturally these are all just examples. (So you don't have to use them unless you really want to).
So let's talk limitations:
None! The only thing we ask is to use your better judgment. That means don't turn your character into a species that's ridiculously big, or some unstoppable force to cause havok for everyone, or make up something out of nowhere.
You can turn your characters into stuff not from their own canon (for instance Rogue, a Marvel character, could become an Atlantean from DC canon). However to keep things from going overboard, we're going to limit it to only species that exist within existing canons represented in Luceti. Effectively this means that as there are no Kirby characters, you'll just have to live without turning Xion into an adorable Waddle Dee. Woe.
And yes, for the record, animals are okay too. Griffins and horses and ducks and flies. It's player discretion on whether they can be understood or not.
The event is optional and your character can transform when you want to and be back to normal at your own discretion.
ALSO that's not all! We have another event planned. Usually we don't announce them this far ahead, but this is kind of a special case because it will require quite a bit of player coordination.
Around the second or third week of April, we're going to do another AU (Alternate Universe) event. Unlike the one we had in August, surrounding the Earthquake event, this AU will work quite a bit differently. Once this second event starts, people will have no memories of their own universes. Instead, they will believe they are descended from settlers who arrived in the 'Luceti Valley' a few generations ago. Not only that, but their relationships with one another might be overwritten as well. Instead of just being friends, Katara and Shikamaru are siblings. Katara's real sibling? Well... Sokka is just this guy, you know? Married to Suki, raising their daughter Toph. (Why yes, for building family units in this AU, being consistent with ages isn't necessary).
Those are just examples though. In other words, CR may be totally reinterpreted into this new AU however you like. Some of it might remain the same, others might be different. That's up for you all to decide how it works. Chat with each other, plot, and so on. Make it fun!
That's all for now, but we'll reveal more info about the actual AU (and some more backstory) once it gets closer. This is just to whet your appetite and give you enough information to start making any plans you like. Feel free to make a separate plotting post to start coordinating things.
And that's about it! QUESTIONS AND COMMENTS GO HERE. Feel free to discuss and plot amongst yourselves the Change of Species event here as well!
Also, if I may, I'll just direct some people over here, which is a nice post from one of our players for people to help on getting some consistent threads in.
A long, long time ago, someone named Jae put in a cool suggestion on an even cooler event suggestions post. It was all very groovy and I wish you'd all been there to see it.
From March 27th (12:01 AM EST) to April 2nd (11:59 PM EST), residents of Luceti will wake up a bit different than they did the night before. Raine might wake up and is no longer a half-elf, but is now instead a fully blooded dwarf with a very fine beard to go with it. Or maybe Caesar will find it terribly difficult to nap now that he's been turned into a merman. But it doesn't even have to be fantasy races! Batman might turn into a Krytponian and have to deal with all the side effects that come with it. Naturally these are all just examples. (So you don't have to use them unless you really want to).
So let's talk limitations:
None! The only thing we ask is to use your better judgment. That means don't turn your character into a species that's ridiculously big, or some unstoppable force to cause havok for everyone, or make up something out of nowhere.
You can turn your characters into stuff not from their own canon (for instance Rogue, a Marvel character, could become an Atlantean from DC canon). However to keep things from going overboard, we're going to limit it to only species that exist within existing canons represented in Luceti. Effectively this means that as there are no Kirby characters, you'll just have to live without turning Xion into an adorable Waddle Dee. Woe.
And yes, for the record, animals are okay too. Griffins and horses and ducks and flies. It's player discretion on whether they can be understood or not.
The event is optional and your character can transform when you want to and be back to normal at your own discretion.
ALSO that's not all! We have another event planned. Usually we don't announce them this far ahead, but this is kind of a special case because it will require quite a bit of player coordination.
Around the second or third week of April, we're going to do another AU (Alternate Universe) event. Unlike the one we had in August, surrounding the Earthquake event, this AU will work quite a bit differently. Once this second event starts, people will have no memories of their own universes. Instead, they will believe they are descended from settlers who arrived in the 'Luceti Valley' a few generations ago. Not only that, but their relationships with one another might be overwritten as well. Instead of just being friends, Katara and Shikamaru are siblings. Katara's real sibling? Well... Sokka is just this guy, you know? Married to Suki, raising their daughter Toph. (Why yes, for building family units in this AU, being consistent with ages isn't necessary).
Those are just examples though. In other words, CR may be totally reinterpreted into this new AU however you like. Some of it might remain the same, others might be different. That's up for you all to decide how it works. Chat with each other, plot, and so on. Make it fun!
That's all for now, but we'll reveal more info about the actual AU (and some more backstory) once it gets closer. This is just to whet your appetite and give you enough information to start making any plans you like. Feel free to make a separate plotting post to start coordinating things.
And that's about it! QUESTIONS AND COMMENTS GO HERE. Feel free to discuss and plot amongst yourselves the Change of Species event here as well!
Also, if I may, I'll just direct some people over here, which is a nice post from one of our players for people to help on getting some consistent threads in.