Okay, I'm over this.
Linda has no personality of her own.
I ask her what movie she wants to watch. "Whatever you want to watch, honey."
I ask her what kind of music she likes, "I like whatever you like."
I ask her what she wants for dinner, "What are you in the mood for?"
It's like she has no personality other than Please Robin, and THIS? DOES NOT PLEASE ME.
Sorry I didn't check in sooner, I was just kind of swept away with this place.
I'm living with Raymond. And my daughter. It's great but also weird? Are you all okay?
Yeah, so I tried to figure out if Eddie would want to know his future without telling him and what I got out of it was him telling me I'm an Aracorn or something. And no answer. I think he freaked out over how the future might be kind of awful for everyone.
I don't know what next, but I don't want to stay on it and have him get suspicious.
Maybe we should all figure out now if we want to know what happens to us if anyone gets memories like Robin did. Probably easier to say what you want before we get another Eddie situation. If you guys get anything on me, even if it's bad I want to know. Whatever you guys want, we all agree to keep to those choices.
Deal?
Um. So there's a girl at my place, and we live together. And share a bed, and SHE LOOKS JUST LIKE PHOEBE CATES. HER NAME IS LINDA. Yeah, I know. Really weird right?
And we work at Clothes Clothes Clothes (oh how original) together.
And I'm just rolling with this. She is really into me, and she's so cute.
Where are you?
PERCY, KATE, LOKI, & KEYLETH:
Hey there, dream team. How's it looking for everyone this week? Thought I ought to check in early.
CIRI:
Doing all right? Figured I'd check on you after last week. And make sure you haven't ended up anywhere intolerable this week, that seems like it's hit or miss for everyone.
Okay so first off, I did not touch anything. You should know that first. And I didn't attempt anything.
But, there are a lot of stuff in my apartment that make me think that I was probably dabbling in magic in this world. And by things, I mean spellbooks, potion bottles, weird ingredients, a scrying crystal, all that stuff. Do I have any memory of any of it? Not at all. But I think this case like that one time I turned into a magician from a werewolf which makes me believe I'm probably not a werewolf here either.
Any of you want to come and take a look?Help me out maybe because omg if I really have magic again!
I need to talk to you about Loki. He's been having headachesand some personaland has said that he went to medical to get looked over for them. He told me you found nothing.
But things are still wrong, and he's refusing to get help for the headaches.
I know, doctor/patient confidentiality, but this is something that's transcending the resets and keeps getting worse. Help me out here. Did the scan really turn up with nothing?
I fucked up.
Just remember you forced my hand.
Where the fuck are you?
On the seventh day at precisely 1:32 AM the campus disappears.
Everyone trapped in the experiment falls unconscious (if not sleeping already) only to wake up sometime afterward in a modest one bedroom apartment, in a stark minimalist building. You still remember yourself, you still remember Derleth, thankfully no one appears to be under the influence of an alternate timeline (again).
No, this is something else.
Next to where you sleep is a card. It has your name, where you work, an address and your next scheduled shift. It’s something suitable, perhaps within your current career field, or something else you might have chosen if only given the choice.
The back of the card simply says Hello. :)
Megalopolis. It isn’t much of a name. It might as well be Metropolis, Megacity, Cosmopolis, or any other dimestore thesaurus word meaning “big city.” Most people just call it the city.
Where is the city located? Impossible to say. There are no routes out of Megalopolis. The ships never leave the docks, despite shipments being loaded and unloaded from the boats. The highways lead straight back in or around the city limits. There is no airport. Most of the buildings are made of strange, geometric shapes. The place is big on brutalist architecture, which might give the impression that buildings, roads and whole swaths of the city might move and shift.
But it isn’t all brutalism, there appear to be pieces or chunks of things from other places. A heavy love of neon lights and eighties-retro inspired fashions that scream Blade Runner, flying cars and heavy machines that look like they were invented in the 1930s, redwood trees that sprout from somewhere deep below the city in all matter of random places, so tall, they’re impossible to see where they begin or end no matter where you crane your neck.
It’s a strange city made of borrowed pieces. And now it’s borrowed you. Derleth appears to be gone. Isn’t that what you wanted? To be free of its influence. Clearly whatever brought you here is only trying to help. It wants you to be happy.
There is another university here. Called The University, or The U for short. Maybe your character works there? Or goes to school there? Goooo, Mascots!
Not college age? There is a high school as well, for students and faculty to attend, City High School. Goooo, Buildings! (Rival high schools in the city include Street High School (go cars!) and Park High School (go trees!)-- They are very good school names, yes? The City is very creative.) The locals? Well.
They’re human and they’re alive. For the most part they’re friendly, mild mannered*. None of them seem to notice or think much of your arrival. If you tell them you’re new, they’ll say ”welcome!” and leave it at that.
Sometimes, it feels like they’re watching you. Or someone is watching you through them. Then the moment vanishes. What was that? Did you need something? The people here do their best to be helpful.
*There are exceptions. Criminal and unsavory elements do exist in the city and are much less kind. But it’s more like they’re playing a role, missing some important spark to them. Pick Your Day to Day
Finding (a Piece of) Derleth
Do I have to wake up in a one bedroom apartment?
WHERE ARE WE?
WHAT IS THE CITY LIKE?
WHERE IS THE CAMPUS?
WHAT ARE THE PEOPLE LIKE?
WHAT TO DO THIS WEEK
Do you work? Go to school? Something else? Maybe you’ve decided to forgo that. After all, it only lasts one week. Right?
It’s not like folks haven’t gone a week without Derleth before. Remember Dino Island? That was fine, right? Except pieces of Derleth have a way of popping up around the city. So maybe Derleth is here after all?
FAQ
Hey remember that post I made on the OOC community where you could give your character some optional plot? If you came up with something and a modest one bedroom doesn’t make sense in the context of that plot idea, then you can give your character a living space/situation that makes more sense.
In the future, if we go with this pilot, AC is going to be used in order to get vehicles, better living situations, etc. But save your activity for now! This is just the pilot, after all.
What about food, clothes, starting money?
Your character’s apartment is furnished, came with clothing, and has food. Is the clothing your style? The food to your taste? Do you have as much money as you’d like in your brand new banking account? That I leave up to your best judgment as the player to give yourself interesting material to work with this week.
I came up with a plot idea, do I have to go with that idea forever if we select this pilot?
No! You do not! However you can? Also if you want to change things up, there will be opportunities to do so as the City does its best to try and make you all happy. Please be the City’s friend.
On the card my character receives, does the job have to be legal/legitimate?
Not at all! It doesn’t even have to be an actual job. (Natasha’s Trust Fund Kid, for example.) But some of you prefer a life of crime. I’m sure if the City gives everyone what they want, that it will completely work out and will not be a source of conflict and strife at all.
Does my character have to go to school/their assigned job?
No. They could ditch. But then what would you have them do? Think about what you want your characters to do, accomplish and how you want to continue to develop your lines.
My character tries to escape the city! They fly away! Steal a boat! Something!
This is a pocket world, albeit much larger than Derleth. There’s nowhere to escape to. There’s only the City.
Hey! But there were some parts of the campus I liked! Ikol’s cool sky, the expanded Green that Julia accidentally created-- can we keep those?
They’re gone! Or perhaps “missing” is the most accurate term. There will be a plot to find Derleth. Keep your eyes peeled for a few optional IC/OOC events that will be happening during the pilot.
Can my character talk to the city? Psychic? Magic? Smoke signals?
We’ll save that for a future plot if this pilot is picked up. :)
I need a visual of the City!
I made a pinterest board.
This pilot is so small/short.
We’ll expand it later if it’s picked up. I thought I’d give you all a break from another 14 page document. (I KEPT IT SHORT THIS TIME, GUYS. YAY ME!!!!!)