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rubycitymodsMOD NOTE: This event comes with a personal apology from Fi-mod for its late timing. As a result the 'official' start date has been moved to the 23rd of November, and it will run until the 30th. Should it prove popular, it may be extended. I do not want to make any excuses, but I hope you will enjoy this regardless.
The odd sensation that some people may have felt over the course of the month so far worsens considerably over the day of the 23rd, and the flickers in the corners of people’s vision become more than just flickers. They become things to focus on - shimmers in the air that shift like the colours on the surface of a soap bubble, but in a muted monochrome. This is a side effect of the repeated forays into memory and dreams over the last months, and a symptom of the city purging itself of a perceived problem.
Though these ‘bubbles’ appear everywhere, most are small and cause only brief visions of a Ruby City from long ago, cast in washed-out colours and populated by many people in strange clothing. In these momentary flickers, the buildings will change - sometimes significantly, and sometimes not so - but it is clear that the way the city looks now is not how it was originally intended, and that it was never built to be the strange prison that it is now.
In some places, however, where strong emotions made a more lasting imprint, the points where the past presses into the present are more stable and form ‘loops’ which take place inside bubbles which can be entered and exited at will. These bubbles differ from small ones, in that they will continually loop through the same short sequence of events and can be interacted with, allowing people to gain more information from them. They can be observed without interruption multiple times, and they can be ‘messed with’ to the point of taking an entirely different direction. However, when the loop resets, everything will play out as it did before.
Where these cracks form, the past pushes through more solidly. People inside will feel as if they are really there. Everything inside will feel solid, and anything that happens will be real both inside and outside the boundary of the bubble.
So what do I do with these past-bubbles?
Anything you like! The five ‘big ones’ can be walked in and out of, though the ‘loop’ of events resets each time you exit. Your characters can be harmed inside them, and those injuries will carry over to the present time. The people inside them can be interacted with, too, for as long as the loop lasts, and they will see your character as an integrated part of the scene. How, exactly, your character is integrated (ie, what social class, etc) can be entirely up to you, and will affect how they might respond to you should you try to ask them questions. If you choose to have more than passing interactions with the people of the city’s past, please post a link to the relevant comment below and a mod will get back to you ASAP!
The smaller bubbles are not quite as stable and only offer disorienting, momentary flashes of the past from different stages along the initial invasion of the city by the Levia clan and the two brothers who would later become known as the Watcher and the Interloper. While mostly harmless, they may cause headaches and visual disturbances with repeated exposure.
What kind of people used to live in Ruby City?
Once upon a time, the city was a thriving settlement. The people there viewed themselves as a ‘tribe’, though their tribal days were long since behind them, and their leader was still referred to as the ‘Elder’. They are divided along a very defined line between those who are slaves, and those who are not. The unfortunate but true fact is that the city’s history is far from glamorous, and one might even say that they deserved their fate…
When the city, the land around it, and the surrounding ocean were split away from the world they once inhabited, the city was just reaching a pinnacle of industralisation. It was something the had rushed towards, buoyed by a recent alliance with a nearby clan that many had considered to be bad news. Those who chose to voice their misgivings about the alliance and subsequent fast-paced developments were dubbed ‘Metal Protesters’ and swiftly demonised in order to discourage those who might be swayed towards their cause.
Suspicion is something of a way of life, and no one really believes that anyone could do something for nothing.
So, Ruby City wasn’t always a bubble universe?
Nope! At the time of the first cataclysm, the city was fully integrated into a world all of its own. It’s what happened after the arrival of the strange and powerful brothers that caused the fracture and the magic built around it.
What? How did that happen?
Well… now we’ve taken the first few steps, perhaps you’ll find out one day.
How will this end?
Once the city has ‘purged’ itself of the problem, the places where the past events press through will reseal. Characters will still be able to find localised effects, even far outside of the city, where the last whispers of those who managed to escape still linger around their skeletal remains. In the library, the curious may find a small number of books written in a strange text that - unlike everything else - does not translate into the native language of the individual looking at it.
All questions will be answered promptly, so please comment below.
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The odd sensation that some people may have felt over the course of the month so far worsens considerably over the day of the 23rd, and the flickers in the corners of people’s vision become more than just flickers. They become things to focus on - shimmers in the air that shift like the colours on the surface of a soap bubble, but in a muted monochrome. This is a side effect of the repeated forays into memory and dreams over the last months, and a symptom of the city purging itself of a perceived problem.
Though these ‘bubbles’ appear everywhere, most are small and cause only brief visions of a Ruby City from long ago, cast in washed-out colours and populated by many people in strange clothing. In these momentary flickers, the buildings will change - sometimes significantly, and sometimes not so - but it is clear that the way the city looks now is not how it was originally intended, and that it was never built to be the strange prison that it is now.
In some places, however, where strong emotions made a more lasting imprint, the points where the past presses into the present are more stable and form ‘loops’ which take place inside bubbles which can be entered and exited at will. These bubbles differ from small ones, in that they will continually loop through the same short sequence of events and can be interacted with, allowing people to gain more information from them. They can be observed without interruption multiple times, and they can be ‘messed with’ to the point of taking an entirely different direction. However, when the loop resets, everything will play out as it did before.
Where these cracks form, the past pushes through more solidly. People inside will feel as if they are really there. Everything inside will feel solid, and anything that happens will be real both inside and outside the boundary of the bubble.
So what do I do with these past-bubbles?
Anything you like! The five ‘big ones’ can be walked in and out of, though the ‘loop’ of events resets each time you exit. Your characters can be harmed inside them, and those injuries will carry over to the present time. The people inside them can be interacted with, too, for as long as the loop lasts, and they will see your character as an integrated part of the scene. How, exactly, your character is integrated (ie, what social class, etc) can be entirely up to you, and will affect how they might respond to you should you try to ask them questions. If you choose to have more than passing interactions with the people of the city’s past, please post a link to the relevant comment below and a mod will get back to you ASAP!
The smaller bubbles are not quite as stable and only offer disorienting, momentary flashes of the past from different stages along the initial invasion of the city by the Levia clan and the two brothers who would later become known as the Watcher and the Interloper. While mostly harmless, they may cause headaches and visual disturbances with repeated exposure.
What kind of people used to live in Ruby City?
Once upon a time, the city was a thriving settlement. The people there viewed themselves as a ‘tribe’, though their tribal days were long since behind them, and their leader was still referred to as the ‘Elder’. They are divided along a very defined line between those who are slaves, and those who are not. The unfortunate but true fact is that the city’s history is far from glamorous, and one might even say that they deserved their fate…
When the city, the land around it, and the surrounding ocean were split away from the world they once inhabited, the city was just reaching a pinnacle of industralisation. It was something the had rushed towards, buoyed by a recent alliance with a nearby clan that many had considered to be bad news. Those who chose to voice their misgivings about the alliance and subsequent fast-paced developments were dubbed ‘Metal Protesters’ and swiftly demonised in order to discourage those who might be swayed towards their cause.
Suspicion is something of a way of life, and no one really believes that anyone could do something for nothing.
So, Ruby City wasn’t always a bubble universe?
Nope! At the time of the first cataclysm, the city was fully integrated into a world all of its own. It’s what happened after the arrival of the strange and powerful brothers that caused the fracture and the magic built around it.
What? How did that happen?
Well… now we’ve taken the first few steps, perhaps you’ll find out one day.
How will this end?
Once the city has ‘purged’ itself of the problem, the places where the past events press through will reseal. Characters will still be able to find localised effects, even far outside of the city, where the last whispers of those who managed to escape still linger around their skeletal remains. In the library, the curious may find a small number of books written in a strange text that - unlike everything else - does not translate into the native language of the individual looking at it.
All questions will be answered promptly, so please comment below.