Yellow Brick Institute

You guys are probably wondering what's up exactly with therapy so here's a post to clear things up for anyone who is confused.

You can assume your character has gone to their therapy at any time. They will be escorted to the room either gently or by force (if necessary). The moment you enter the room you'll start to feel relaxed and nearly sedated. The fight, if you have any in you, will drain and you will be passive. Details as to what you talk about will be vague and centered around your home world; you might remember talking about the climate, what the people are like, etc. but nothing beyond the mundane.

When you exit the room after your hour-long session, it's up to you if your character still feels relaxed or not, but they won't remember any of their false memories just yet. They might feel especially disoriented, but when they next go to sleep-- be it a nap or for the night-- they will recall a small bit of their memory.

To copypaste something I said earlier about significant vs small: Small is something like remembering a haircut you had and what point of your life you had it at. Or maybe how the tones sounded when you dialed your own home phone, drawing pictures in a certain room of the house, etc. Vague snapshots that are relevant.

Whereas significant is varied from character to character. Basically the idea is something that is significant to your character's (false-memories-'verse) development-- a precious memory. You'd also recall more of an event rather than a snippet, IE the time your best friend confessed to you vs the vague memory that someone confessed to you and it was uncomfortable.

Everything recalled would be vague to a point of course but significant is supposed to be much more vivid.


Additionally, we've decided on the new pace for therapy! It will be every third day from here on. And every third session a significant memory will be regained; these days will be noted.

For this therapy session please leave a comment here with what you'd like to have your character remember and we'll let you know if it's not okay.

Thank you!

Hello everyone. This is medjed and I've taken over as the current mod for this game. We've had a lot of things happen the past week and I am really hoping that we can salvage the game due to requests made by the players.

Due to the abruptness of the situation, I am asking all of our current players to reply to this post with whether or not they plan to continue playing or if they are dropping. I would like to tidy up the taken lists as soon as possible. If you would like to continue playing, but need a break, please comment here to be placed on hiatus status (which means your character has relapsed into their coma).

I would also like to remind all players that therapy is this week and it is mandatory. I look forward to seeing the community spring back to life this week with all of the reflections of the new memories gained. If you have any questions regarding therapy, please don't hesitate to ask.

There also were a couple of edits made to the DAY FOUR announcement. Thanks for checking it out.

Hello, hello!

Just another mod post, this time to get opinions on Tagging entries in the IC Community. Currently we only tag the poster with the exception of actions post, but some members have mentioned they'd like/ are used to another method which is to allow commenting characters' tags be added to the entry. So we'd like to get some opinions!

If we are to change to the second method, it will be up to you to add your tag to entries you comment on. (But kind members may also do it if they spot the tag is missing!) What we are considering, with this change, is that it become mandatory to add tags to the entries with activity that will be counted for the Activity Checks. In order to keep things organized, you will have to ensure your tags are on entries you make and comment on in order for it to be considered valid.

We'd like your feedback on this! It's not yet set in stone.

Also, your input on Therapy sessions would be great! We're taking into consideration some concerns from the anonmeme, and are thinking of possibly reworking how therapy works. Please go and get your say in!

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And finally, reminder of an Activity Check to becoming up in roughly two weeks after next week's scheduled therapy session. (So please hurry and get your say in on potential changes to therapy!) It'll be a standard link-your-passing-threads with short summary, but we also intend on having you guys tell us there what your character remembered for the therapy session.

HI GUYS, a few things I'd like to bring up to everyone!

First of all, I'd like to point you in this direction. That's an advertisement code! Please don't hesitate to help us advertise around and get more players. It's been slow and I think that's also in part to us being a smaller game, so everyone, let's grow!

SECONDLY, therapy is soon. Due to a concern brought up on an anon meme we'd like to ask you guys your opinion on how that goes-- every four weeks may be too long a wait to keep players interested. Losing your memories we're definitely going to keep the way it is, but gaining is what we're unsure of.

Also due to some issues regarding micromanagement-- we can't possibly keep track of everyone in the game-- we're also definitely changing it so things are more clockwork. You'll gain significant memories every third session instead of starting to gain significant ones from the third session outwards. So keep that in mind.

This coming therapy will stay the same as outlined in the FAQ (vague things recalled next week) but for future therapies, which is better:

- Keep it the same. So that means every four weeks you gain a small piece of memory, and every third therapy (that's three months) you start to gain things that are more significant. I can clarify on what small and significant means in this case.

- Change the pace. So every third day is therapy, and you gain more significant memories every second therapy session.

- Keep the pace, step up the significance. So every fourth day is therapy but you remember things that aren't so small right off the hop.

- Something else! Tell us your ideas, we'd love to hear what you think.


Then thirdly, activity check! That's also coming up after therapy. It'll be a standard link-your-passing-threads with short summary, but we also intend on having you guys tell us there what your character remembered for the therapy session.

LET THE GAMES BEGIN

PS: Go check this page out!

The game will be officially opening on the 11th of October.

Until then, feel free to introduce yourselves here in the OOC Community or chat with other players/ applicants in the AIM chat remodelchat. We look forward to getting to know you!