THE MOD ACCOUNT (noexitsmod) wrote in noexits, @ 2022-09-15 16:37:00 |
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On the seventh day at precisely 1:32 AM, the campus once more resets. Everyone trapped in the experiment falls unconscious (if not sleeping already) only to wake up sometime afterward in their assigned bed, in their assigned room, in their assigned dorm in the exact condition they arrived, wearing the precise clothing they arrived in.
Gone is the chaos or excitement of the previous week. What remains of Derleth University has returned to its gentle void so all its guests may recuperate peacefully. The dining hall kitchens have been restocked, the damage to the campus from last week's zombie apocalypse is undone. Butler Hall remains in its original format with zero whimsy.
The void itself is an unsettling endless white, with an impressive illusory sky. Almost as if the university has locked itself away within a massive planetarium, projecting an astronomical image above that switches between night and day in real time. You can step outside the campus, walk for hours as if you've traveled a long distance, but when you turn around the buildings of campus are only several feet away. The void is safe, but after a time can also be terribly dull.
Characters from The Good Place might find it not too unlike Janet's void, minus the sky. Characters with a programming background might think of it more like a computer simulation where many of the surroundings have yet to be rendered. How your character views the void is up to you.
You may opt to roll on the “random Derleth weirdness” table! One hundred percent optional! Don’t use if you want to have a totally normal rest week for your characters! But also, do use it if you want to give yourself a little prompt to react to!
ROLL # | RESULT |
1 | Wake up this week in different clothing. That’s not what you wear when you reset every week! Weird. Do the clothes tell a different story of something your character might have done or will do? |
2 | Wake up with a different hair style and/or color. Again, kinda weird! Does it matter in the grand scheme of things? Probably not. (Alternatives: different eye color or different teeth.) |
3 | Species adjacent! If you’re a vampire, you might wake up a slightly different kind of vampire with different vampire rules. If you’re a human, you might wake up a morlock or a half elf or something! It doesn’t really make a big difference, again, just a little weird. |
4 | Powers adjacent! If you have powers, they might work slightly differently this week, or may be a slight variation. If your character doesn’t have powers, they might have one minor one this week or a slightly enhanced ability. |
5 | Black & white (and colorblind). For some reason, you’re in grayscale this week as if you’re a character in an old timey TV show. You also can’t see color around you, so you can’t tell you’re different from anyone else around you and will initially believe the entire week is black and white. (Spoiler: it’s just you.) |
6 | You understand the squirrels this week. Holy fuck you understand the squirrels this week. They’re intelligent. They remember resetting each week, too. You think they may be plotting something, but now they’re onto you. Shit. What are the squirrels plotting? |
7 | Void Sight: you can see beyond the boundaries of Derleth’s Void. Your eyes pick up the shapes of strange Lovecraftian monsters that dwell just on the other side, looking for a way in. You wish you couldn’t. Sometimes time moves so slowly outside the void, the creatures appear frozen. Other times you get only blurs or flashes. Beyond the monsters there are dim lights in the far off distance. You’re not sure what they are or if you want to know. |
8 | Whispers: You can hear the whispers of other Derleths existing parallel to yours. Perhaps you even catch hints of something familiar like the residents of Dark Derleth or the Vampire/Hunter/Werewolf Derleth or Derthleths that haven’t even broken off into their own void yet! Unfortunately, they can’t hear you. |
9 | Temperature Change. You are alarmingly hot or extremely cold to the touch. It’s as if your average internal temp has changed. As a result if you’re warm/hot to the touch you spend the rest of the week freezing, trying to bundle up; if you’re ice cold to the touch you spend the week miserably hot, trying to find places to cool off. |
10 | An emotional trigger causes you to float. You can’t control it. If you feel [player choice] emotion, gravity lessons its grip on you, and you’ll start to float uncontrollably as long as you still feel [X] emotion. Even if you are very good at hiding [X] emotion, the floating doesn’t lie. (Examples of emotional triggers: love, anger, embarrassment, sadness, envy, etc.) |
11 | Theme Music. For some reason Kenny Loggins’ 1986 smash hit “Danger Zone” plays for you at random points throughout your day. It’s extremely loud. You’ll hear it at least once every few hours. Go to the kitchen to get a snack? ”HIGHWAY TO THE DANGER ZONE!” Need to pee? ”RIGHT INTO THE DANGER ZONE!”
Could it get any worse? Why yes! Yes, it can! If your actions veer towards anything approaching romantic or intimate, you’ll be serenaded with Berlin’s “Take My Breath Away”. (At least it’s not Cbat?) This prompt brought to you by your mod watching Top Gun for the first time recently and laughing about how hard the movie goes on those two songs. I was only going to do ten prompts, but… |
12 | Host Duplicate. You wake up and find a physical copy of yourself in the room in the same Wild West clothing you wore last week. Creepy, huh? The host body doesn’t appear to be active. (It does not have a “pearl” inside its head where memories/ personality/ programming would be stored. See Julia and Rick for that.) Congrats! You have a host back up body to do what you please with, without having to pay 2 AC for! You get it for free! (Whether your character would have wanted it or not. >.>)
Don’t want to use the back up body feature? That’s fine! You have a very fancy crash test dummy that looks exactly like you in wild west clothes, basically. |