The Exam: IC Community

This morning, Group messengers received a push notification with the rhyme above, everyone else in their group received an anonymous message that [Messenger Name] had information for them. The dice holder's dice will also start to quiver and bounce to try to get their attention. Since this is the first episode, it might take a little while for folks to IC figure out what they're meant to do, but that can be handwaved as much as you'd like.

Rolls are first come, first serve, however players only get to roll for one team per day Meaning, if Anna has characters in Monkey and Crocodile, she can only roll for either Monkey or Crocodile: not both. Since we have fewer players now, I won't be policing rolls, communicate with your teams if you'd like to do a roll the following day or if you feel like you aren't getting a turn. I'll keep an eye out for players who seem overlooked, but communication is important! Remember: if you didn't roll, you can still participate with the person who did roll.

Rolls will be kept track of on This Post. At the beginning of each new day, each team gets two rolls. Here is a list of the team members for reference. Once a character/player does a roll, they should write down the character Name, Player Name & Roll# in the "information" column on the tracking sheet like: Kylo Ren / Anna / 0

Once you've written in your roll (or asked someone in discord to write it in for you if you can't access Google Sheets) post on the comment below and you'll be given your prompt. Players must do something with the prompt on the network or in a thread and link to it under the link column of the tracking sheet for their team to get the points.

For more information on rolls, please see The Room Page.

Characters will now be able to explore outside of the town. If you look at the map, it is built on a grid of 5x5 boxes. Each tiny box = one hour of travel time. So, the forest thickens about two hours travel north of the village. The burned-out village to the east of Red Roof is about a 7/8 hour journey. Keep that in mind!

Characters do not have to roll to explore, but they won't find any quest specific items. If you're looking for something for your characters to do, you could either do a minor injury roll and create a situation based on how they get hurt, or you could try adapting a random plot generator plot to the setting of the game.

For example, I just got "The item that the protagonist has worked so hard to get turns out to be a complete myth." - I could adapt that by having Han Solo find some engraving in one of the villages pointing him towards an artifact that, while it may belong in a museum, turns out to be an entire red herring. This could be a side quest that goes on for a few days, involves other characters - whatever!

Side quests don't need mod approval unless they are going to carry major consequences for the game or indirectly for uninvolved characters. If in doubt you can always ask Squid, Lex or R.

The flora and fauna around the village is pretty tame, so for the majority of Episode 1, there isn't a huge risk of hazards. We're starting off easy.

But don't get too comfortable. There are still potential dangers out there.

For this room, instead of "Day" tags, the tags will be by level and episode. Since people will be moving through at a different pace, this will keep all the actions at a certain level/episode together. That said, a small "day" marker will go up to indicate a new day so people know when new rolls begin.