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Setting
PREMISE
This Earth is, as far as anyone could tell you, exactly the same as ours. Same year, same place, same everything. The only small change is that in the south of England, right at the Channel, the Moss River, Mossgate, and some surrounding locations has been added to the map.
That is what any person living on Earth could tell you, anyway. What they could not tell you is that Earth itself is alive and sentient, a cosmic entity that asserts only very loose control over those living on her crust. But she is powerful beyond belief, and that is why, when many years into the ancient past of the multiverse, a terrible danger threatened to destroy all possible realities, she had the power to withstand. And withstand she did, and not only that: She dove into the shambles of destroyed worlds and realities to rescue what shards she could find there, gathering from all times and places, and storing those shards in her belly until such a time in which she would be threatened.
Because the danger would return, perhaps not today, perhaps not tomorrow, but one day in the far flung future. And it knew her. But it could not know what shards she had gathered, and Earth counted on the element of surprise and unpredictability for her future defences. She still counts on it. For the time when, one day, the Enemy should return.
For now, she sleeps, and so do all her defences. But at times, they stir. At times, danger draws close and they are called upon. At times, shards are implanted into forming life.
What is a shard?
It is the core of a sentient creature - a soul, if you so will, but more: Memories, powers, physical and mental attributes, even items that they felt tied to their person in life. They can rest in a living creature for a lifetime, acting as their soul, and never be activated. But ever so rarely, they become active, they reformat the person they have been implanted in, imparting more and more of their old lives on the new. And those who find that they are not living for the first time, that they have had a life or more before, will have to deal not only with that realization but also with the threat that they were awakened to combat.
A CHARACTER'S PERSPECTIVE
The characters will not know about most of this for a long time to come. They will find themselves receiving echoes which return parts of their preincarnations to them, and slowly be drawn into the conflict between Earth and the cosmic danger threatening her.
At the beginning, they will be normal people living normal lives in Mossgate and its surroundings.
More information about the game can be found here.
SEASONS
The game will go through seasons. The length and nature of the seasons largely depends on player action, though there are a few cornerstones of development that transition between them. Each season comes with their own set of directives.
Currently, the game is in Season One. The directive for the season is that characters may not reveal the existence of the numbered to the public. There may be close calls, there may be reveals to individuals like parents or spouses, but there may be absolutely no effort to make the public aware of the Numbered's existence.
This Earth is, as far as anyone could tell you, exactly the same as ours. Same year, same place, same everything. The only small change is that in the south of England, right at the Channel, the Moss River, Mossgate, and some surrounding locations has been added to the map.
That is what any person living on Earth could tell you, anyway. What they could not tell you is that Earth itself is alive and sentient, a cosmic entity that asserts only very loose control over those living on her crust. But she is powerful beyond belief, and that is why, when many years into the ancient past of the multiverse, a terrible danger threatened to destroy all possible realities, she had the power to withstand. And withstand she did, and not only that: She dove into the shambles of destroyed worlds and realities to rescue what shards she could find there, gathering from all times and places, and storing those shards in her belly until such a time in which she would be threatened.
Because the danger would return, perhaps not today, perhaps not tomorrow, but one day in the far flung future. And it knew her. But it could not know what shards she had gathered, and Earth counted on the element of surprise and unpredictability for her future defences. She still counts on it. For the time when, one day, the Enemy should return.
For now, she sleeps, and so do all her defences. But at times, they stir. At times, danger draws close and they are called upon. At times, shards are implanted into forming life.
What is a shard?
It is the core of a sentient creature - a soul, if you so will, but more: Memories, powers, physical and mental attributes, even items that they felt tied to their person in life. They can rest in a living creature for a lifetime, acting as their soul, and never be activated. But ever so rarely, they become active, they reformat the person they have been implanted in, imparting more and more of their old lives on the new. And those who find that they are not living for the first time, that they have had a life or more before, will have to deal not only with that realization but also with the threat that they were awakened to combat.
A CHARACTER'S PERSPECTIVE
The characters will not know about most of this for a long time to come. They will find themselves receiving echoes which return parts of their preincarnations to them, and slowly be drawn into the conflict between Earth and the cosmic danger threatening her.
At the beginning, they will be normal people living normal lives in Mossgate and its surroundings.
More information about the game can be found here.
SEASONS
The game will go through seasons. The length and nature of the seasons largely depends on player action, though there are a few cornerstones of development that transition between them. Each season comes with their own set of directives.
Currently, the game is in Season One. The directive for the season is that characters may not reveal the existence of the numbered to the public. There may be close calls, there may be reveals to individuals like parents or spouses, but there may be absolutely no effort to make the public aware of the Numbered's existence.