STATE OF THE GAME

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STATE OF THE GAME

Hello, passengers!

We've passed our two-month anniversary, and so we'd like to take this opportunity to check in with our players, to see what's working for you guys and what could use improvement. You can consider this post a place to freely share your thoughts, both with us and the game at large. If you'd like to engage with the mods one-on-one, please see our Mod Contact page!

Feel free to converse amongst yourselves, whether it's about expectations, concerns, or anything else.

Character Activities

We also wanted to introduce a new page we set up, to make it easier for your character to contribute to the ship and also notice those contributions! Please check out that page here.

You guys can use this page to post and track any background behavior or activities your character and others are up to, whether now or at any time in the future. Basically, things that aren't big enough to merit a player plot, but are still important to how your character engages with the setting! Think of it as something adjacent to a handwaved CR meme; you can see examples on the page itself.

We'd also like to give you guys the opportunity to plot amongst yourself, insofar as the group activities go. There were a few of these mentioned on the warden meeting posts, so if you have an idea for a group activity and would like to present it to the game at large, please post it under this header! Then, if it gets enough traction (or has received support elsewhere, like plurk), submit it to the proper header on the Activities page. Other players can show their support by adding a +1 or -1 in the subject of their replies. Let's say there should be participation from 4 or 5 characters for it to count!

That said, if a group activity doesn't get enough support (or your character wouldn't bother trying to get support and would do the activity solo), please submit it as an individual activity! You can always bump it up to a group activity in the future, if more passengers participate later.

Please note that this page is not meant as a substitution for threading out cool things or player plots. Rather, we'd like to give everyone a neat, easy way to see what's going on around the ship at any given time, so wardens and inmates can stay on the same page with their activities and share plot hooks.

Since this page will be a mainstay, if you have any questions, please ask them on our FAQ!

Comments

GROUP ACTIVITIES.

[returnjourney]

Activity: Describe the activity. Is it for wardens or inmates?
Location: Where is it located?
Frequency: When and/or how regularly does it happen?
Availability: Who can notice this activity? Is it observable to everyone, or is it for wardens or inmates only?

<b>Activity:</b> <b>Location:</b> <b>Frequency:</b> <b>Availability:</b>

Warden movie night!

[dealwiththe]

Activity: A semi-regular, semi-organized movie night aimed at allowing wardens to de-stress from a stressful job, socialize a bit and potentially share bits of their cultures with each other. Maybe just throw popcorn at each other. Any wardens are welcome, presumably not all will be there on any given night, since the inmates probably shouldn't be left totally unsupervised for a few hours, they can swap out if there's enough interest, Lucifer won't have to be there every time so Grace the others can have some fun time without him :P Also a different person can pick the movie each time (Lucifer will pick the first one) - they can set up a rotation or whatever if necessary. A good chance to have characters talk about each other's worlds a bit!
Location: The theater in Warden Command
Frequency: idk once a week or once every couple of weeks probably, it doesn't have to be set in stone
Availability: Starting out as a socialization opportunity for wardens only, but hey if eventually somebody wants to figure out a way to bring along an inmate as a reward for good behavior or something why not. Also Lucifer would not try to keep it a secret though he obviously won't be talking it up to inmates, so...if you think your inmate character would reasonably know about it or find out somehow, GO FOR IT

[prinks]

penitence suggests letting inmates in being used as a treat for good behavior. 'dont stab anyone this week and you get to watch the fast and the furious'

(she doesn't know what the fast and the furious is. or movies. but u get the idea)

!! i just reread his comment (look today was long) and noticed it's in warden command; i don't think inmates can be in there? but maybe they can do some kind of SIRE equivalent or some point, idk. something to think on

[dealwiththe]

YEAH idk maybe eventually they can do something in the mess hall? Maybe someone can pick up a projector screen in a port or they can simulcast to everyone's commlinks or something

BUT at least at first, I think Lucifer's intent IC is to give wardens a fun, de-stressing activity that they can do without the ~pressure of needing to be wardens~ for a couple of hours, so maybe the "reward for good inmates" could come further down the line, if an inmate has demonstrated real progress or whatevs

[prinks]

yeah! we can figure out the details later o/

and i love this idea, i think itd be very valuable as well. only having warden meetups when things are stressful or at a crisis point isnt super healthy long term. thank you for coming up with this!

[dealwiththe]

YES EXACTLY eeeeeee glad u like it

[counterstep]

i love this idea and bucky would love it too, even if he never attends! if he heard about this icly, he would back it but never show up, so i'm not sure if that counts toward the actual interest count, but he would definitely want to help facilitate the activity if lucifer isn't there (for grace) or otherwise.

at this point in his life, watching films is something he prefers with like one or two people at most, but he's that guy who sits in the lobby of a comedy club during the show and opens the doors when the show ends, and he'd be fine doing that!

[dealwiththe]

bucky you are a true bro

he can make sure the inmates dont get up to any shenanigans while the movie is running or something lol

[nineteenfortyfive]

Claire will go since she thinks this is a good idea and maybe see what's "hip" in other times/places 😣 warden bonding is v important

[dealwiththe]

DOCTOR CLAIRE SO GLAD YOU CAN MAKE IT

Combat Training (for Wardens)

[counterstep]

Activity: Bucky will regularly host combat training sessions to help wardens with self-defense and basic combat (free form). Most of this is to help better defend against unruly inmates but also to provide inexperienced wardens some ground to feel more capable overall. He won't be pulling from any specific martial art but will provide a mix of what he finds to be the most useful on the Peregrine. This will also include quick cuffing techniques.
Location: small-medium sized room in the Athletics Dept. i'm assuming there are mats? if not, he'll find a substitute.
Frequency: 1 hour, MWF evenings, near bedtime but like a wind-down activity time.
Availability: he'll post something on the network to all wardens, and people who are nearby in the athletics dept will likely be able to hear when it's going on.

[prinks]

another great idea! count penitence in

[dealwiththe]

reversing the roles here, lucifer will 1000% support this idea even though he has no need to make use of it himself.

please teach the other wardens self-defense bucky it is a great idea!

[nineteenfortyfive]

claire will come to watch but will need coaxing into lessons X(

[shiftedshape]

Loki's in! He needs the practice and can help with demoing, including magic stuff that might come up during events or if someone gets their powers back (largely the telekinetic blasts).