RUMOR WAR EVENT ONE

[rubycitymods]

RUMOR WAR EVENT
Despair Disease

Good day, Ruby City.

It's finally time for the first Rumour War event of Ruby City; the Despair Disease. This event is going to be a little more involved and require a bit more participation, but don't worry; you are not at all obligated to have your characters contract the disease. Some will and some won't.

As you all know by now, Ikaros has been collecting stories. For this first event, thanks to a player submission, we'll be using a story from Super Dangan Ronpa 2 and altering it to ensure a Win or Lose. During this event we'll be using Chance Mechanics such as those used during the Summer Festival as well as a character-altering disease. Please keep in mind that while the nature of this event is Survival and Mild Psych Horror genre, not all Story Events will be.

We hope that this event will show how involved we would like stories to be, and will encourage you to suggest story event ideas that you may want to see as well.

A Note: Ruby City is in no way becoming a full "horror" game, despite its original genre. Ruby City is a story and survival game that will be capitalising on multiple genres through events, meaning that some events will incorporate horror elements, but will not be limited to them. Adventure, crack, entertainment, puzzle, and all other sorts of genres will be permitted and incorporated. Remember that not all events will be rumor war events and not all events will require this much attention! We will always have easier events in between as a "cool down" period.

QUICK SUMMARY:

Some characters will contract a contagious disease that causes symptoms of Despair. Others will be encouraged to cure them or to kill them. A lack of food will require Prize Cards to be traded for food or medicine inside of the city. Characters will be able to obtain more Prize Cards at Chance Kiosks.

IC EVENT DURATION

January 20 - January 30

EVENT GOAL

Obtain Prize Cards from betting machines to obtain either Cure Phials or more Prize Cards

Use Prize cards to obtain food or medical supplies, OR use Cure Phials to cure the infected of the Despair Disease.

Curing at least 60% of the infected individuals by the end date will ensure maximum Rumour Points for Chari (Charity).

Killing more than 30% of the infected will ensure maximum Rumour Points for Ratter (Wrath).

Failing to cure 60% of the infected will ensure maximum Rumour Points for Callie (Greed).

IC EFFECTS

Despair disease will infect those who have signed up. Though behavioural symptoms will vary depending on the person, there will be Three Strains of the disease.

The Despair disease is contagious and is spread through prolonged contact. However, some people will be naturally resistant to the disease, so you don't have to have your character catch it if you do not want them to.

For the first 1-3 days of someone having the Despair Disease, they will experience high fever and swirl patterns will be visible in their irises. During this incubation period, symptoms cannot be cured. Fevers will continue until the disease is cured.

Star Disease will be categorised by behaviours resembling hysteria and acute pleasure in despair OR by desperate apathy. This disease will be identifiable by the appearance of a star shape in the infected's iris. This disease can be cured using Cure Phial X.

Heart Disease will be categorised by feelings of subservience and gullibility or overpowering devotion and obsession to 'love'. And not in the happy way; characters afflicted with that particular disease will be willing to do just about anything for the object of their obsession, even kill. This disease will be identifiable by the appearance of a heart shape in the infected's iris. This disease can be cured using Cure Phial Y.

Triangle Disease will be categorised by inconsolable sadness (of the openly weeping variety) and inexplicable cowardliness or compulsive lying. This disease will be identifiable by the appearance of a triangle shape in the infected's iris. This disease can be cured using Cure Phial Z.

Because the disease is highly contagious, characters will be encouraged by Ratter to eliminate those who are infected, as it is both cheaper and quicker to kill them than to cure them.

Those with the disease, in addition to their specific symptoms, are all highly dangerous and will not feel remorse in killing or harming others, no matter how kind or "good" they were originally.

Even non-organic characters are viable to become infected by the disease. This has to do with the nature of the city during the event.

Three Phials of each Cure are required to cure each infected person. The infected can only consume up to two phials per day. This means that a character cannot be cured in under two days; please plan ahead, as no one can receive all three phials on the last day.

Until the third day of the event, characters will not be publicly made aware of the kiosks, cures, or disease. However, investigative minds may put together that the kiosks win them prizes…

ENVIRONMENT CHANGES

The Despair Disease will affect certain individuals.

Some characters may notice that certain buildings and environments may experience temporary visual glitches. These glitches will be visual only and will not affect the individual's ability to interact with the environment.

At the beginning of the event, every individual will receive 5 prize cards, whether the individual is capable of consuming food products or not.

All Characters will find their watches have changed in appearance to resemble miniature versions of the YELLOW television shown in this picture. At the back of their watches will be a space that holds prize cards. The network will function normally for the duration of the event.

Kiosks will appear in place of the three bulletin boards surrounding the Obelisk, where individuals may gamble to win more prize cards.

A Vending Machine will be placed in front of the obelisk at the city's center. prize cards may be traded in for ration boxes (of pre-prepared food), ingredients, medical supplies, or 1-5ct boxes of Cure Phials. NOTE: Food does include things specific to vampires, such as bags of blood.

On all sides of the pedestal of the Obelisk, a digital-looking board will be placed. On it, the words Charity, Wrath, and Greed are shown with opposing metres. What could this mean?

Food and ingredients will not be in stock in any of the unmanned stores during the event. Food that is already in a house or a manned store will remain there until it is consumed.

PLAY CHANGES

IC:

Individuals will be urged to play at kiosks. Similar to the summer event, which was a game of chance. However, individuals will be able to increase their chances at winning by betting more prize cards (up to 5) for a more successful roll.

Individuals will not experience consequences for murders of anyone infected by the despair disease.

OOC:

Participants who plan to be infected will need to sign up. This is so that we may track the percentages of those cured and those uncured.

Participants who are infected should list their characters underneath the "Infected" list in the Main event log. A blurb will be provided to fill out. Please do not list multiple characters under the same comment.

Players whose characters administer cures to the infected may post something along the lines of "[Character name] was given 1x Cure Phial Y on [Day]." When Three cures have been administered, the character will be considered cured and their symptoms will begin to settle.

Players whose characters murder an infected individual must comment to that Infected's comment with the day on which the character was murdered. Murders of non-infected characters must be filed the same way as usual, as to permit consequences. People murdered during the event will be restored at the end of the event, and will not have to wait a whole week to be restored.

KIOSK RULES:

Players will be given the option to bet between 1-5 cards. More cards will give a higher probability for a win. If a player wins, up to their first three cards will always be returned in addition to their winnings. The extra two will only act to increase their chances of winning.

Through a Random Roll + Probability, players can win between 1 and 5 cards in addition to what they bet. Should the player lose, they will receive one prize card in condolence.

Players can play as often as they want for as long as they want, every day during the event.

For an example of what the Kiosk Log will look like, click here.

VENDING MACHINE PRIZES:

The Vending Machine is a 'modern' style machine with a touch interface and a slot for cards. It is decorated with images of various ugly black and white bears.

BLOOD PACK: (1x prize card) Useful for anyone who needs blood, even from a living creature.

RATION MEAL: (1x prize card) A standard individual meal. Contains one portion. One portion is enough to feed a standard adult, but may be too little for those with larger appetites. These are dispensed in boxes.

INGREDIENT PACK: (2-5x prize cards) A set of ingredients such as flour, sugar, etc. in different varieties for those who would rather cook their own meals. Larger packs or packs that have more variety cost more.

CURE PHIALS: (2x prize cards) Available in three varieties. One says "Cure X" and bears a Star label. One says "Cure Y" and bears a heart label. The last says "Cure Z" and bears a triangle label.

3 COUNT BOX OF CURE PHIALS: (4x prize cards) A special deal! Every night after 7pm, you can purchase a box of Cure Phials for only 4 prize cards.

NETWORK CHANGES

The network will not experience changes for the duration of the event.

REQUIRED SIGNUPS

Those who will be infected are required to sign up for tracking purposes.

EVENT TIMELINE

January 20: The Virus starts with some of those who will be infected and they will experience the first stage. Kiosks appear as well as the scoreboard. The shops will be void of food at this time.

January 21: The primary infected become Contagious at this time.

January 22: Though there will be enough hints for characters to understand what is going on a this point, some NPCs will begin to make announcements and inform the populace.

January 30: The event will end. The following day, the city will reset to abide to the winner of the event.

OPT OUT OPTIONS

Your character does not have to contract the disease. You must sign up in order to be counted among those infected.

You may very well ignore what is going on, but note that the famine's existence will still apply.

EVENT MODERATORS

Head Mods and Stage Hands will be in charge of this event.

Comments

[goldeneyeball]

Some despair germs for JW please!

[coelestis]

Signing BRS up for infection

Re: INFECTED

[missleadingquestions]

Maya Fey will be infected!

[sthampede]

Eeeeeeexcellent. Thank you!

[superstylishsquid]

Do you mean that as in 'if it's less than a week until the end of the event, you don't have to wait as long, but if it's more you have to wait longer'? Since this is a ten day event.

[superstylishsquid]

This will end in tears.

[rubycitymods]

Everyone is restored in full the day after the event.

[arrowpoint]

I will never pass up an opportunity to make an immortal Elf sick. Count me in.

plottan

[anklegandr]

Posting this here to see if there are any others interested... but as kind of an opt out (sorry sorry I know), Rin's going to be holed up with a couple of the other children as well.

The plan so far seems to be that they'll be hiding out at Lancer's school with a couple of the stronger adults protecting them. I don't know if they're going to know what's actually going on (because they are kids and it depends on who breaks the news), but hey. Slumber party guise is as good as any right? The school is ideal because Lancer's gathered resources there and they can still stretch out their legs.

I don't know about protection spells or what yet, just trying to gather interest and see who wants to plot with this ?_?

[elfoflight]

Arafinwe will NOT be infected. However, he will be quite happy to help heal people after he's fixed his kin up. Just hit me up here or on fireduck if you want to plot something out!

[gordianknots]

Waver'll be happy (if out of his element) to watch over the kiddos. If Rin wants some help with bounded fields, also count Waver in.

[stylish_hunter]

After some terrible consideration, Dante is gonna catch it from Loki. Who wants to help wrangle him?

[oathshackledbird]

Sits here. Since it's Diarmuid's school and all. :-) Afonso will probably be around too since his mun will be away. We can put bows in his hair when he's not looking. LOL!

Re: INFECTED

[silvergift]

Celebrían will be infected!

[edwardian_adventuress]

I've been nice to Charley for too long.

Fuyuhiko, Davesprite, and Archer

[pocketmobster]

None of my guys will be infected and they all want to help!

Fuyuhiko Kuzuryuu IS PRETTY FAMILIAR WITH WHAT'S GOING DOWN HERE so, when people start showing the personality change symptoms and he sees the decorations on those vending machines, he is going to FREAK OUT. He'll be making a Network post as soon as he can trying to inform people with as much as he knows about the disease and will want to do everything he can to help out, though it seems a few of his castmates will be affected and he's gonna focus on them since he knows exactly how dangerous they can be. He's super against anyone trying to kill the infected and will work himself to the bone trying to get cures for people.

Davesprite will also want to help and will be useful for transporting food and medical supplies across the city to those who can't leave their houses. There was some talk about Dirk getting infected, though, so if that happens, he'll be staying with his brother and trying to help him get better.

Archer...is not against killing the infected, but he won't attack anyone who isn't purposefully endangering others. His initial focus will be providing food for the people he lives with, but I'm not against playing "hero" with this guy, depending on who wants to run into him.

[trigram]

I'm down with this. Sofia here can provide movies and other entertainment media, as well as protection and hunting.

[psych0p0mps]

Signing up Aradia as infected. WHO'S UP FOR TIN CAN PSYCHOPATH....

[scary_music]

Fuyu-chaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan don't stick Ibuki all alone in a creepy hospital agaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaiiiiiiiiin-

.... oh wait Ibuki's fine... nevermind.

Ibuki might help out a bit with getting supplies/medicine but otherwise she'll be sticking to house 7 a lot to take care of the Tanaka Kingdom D:

[gallifreytotrenzalore]

Both The Eleventh Doctor and Ryotaro Dojima will be infected.

[gallifreytotrenzalore]

How much of what is going on/how many cures you need/the rules of the game will be public knowledge/announced at the beginning of the event? If anything at all?

Also: Is it possible to fight on against the effects of the disease someone is infected with? And does their way of thinking change completely?

Adachi, Marlowe, Kiritsugu

[denialism]

Adachi will be infected with Star Disease. He'll be hysterical and sadistic, and he will also steal people's food without pity, because screw being hungry. He won't be a lot of fun to be around, to say the least.

Marlowe will not be affected, and he will be trying to help and cure the people of the city. He won't be killing any sick people, although he will defend himself or others, if necessary. If anyone will need assistance, Marlowe is glad to provide.

Kiritsugu will not be infected. He has no problem with killing others, but he believes his time is better spent protecting the weak, so he won't go out of his way to hunt people down. That said, he will think it's more efficient to kill people in this situation.

[psych0p0mps]

One last question - if an infected God Tier is killed but hasn't hurt anybody else yet, would they auto-revive or would it count as Just? If they do revive, do they continue to have the disease?

(I'm assuming it'll count as a Just death if they do hurt anybody else, since mind-altering effects don't seem to mitigate that.)

[airshipcaptain]

Everyone can practice braiding his hair.

Plotting

[trigram]

Sofia here would not be infected, but I'm up for bumping into anyone's characters going outside of the city to hunt for food or opt out of the event, because she'll be spending most of her time there this month anyway. I have an idea of Sofia finding her outdoor training area which she'll be building near a waterfall, or go exploring the wild. Both of which your character can join in with if they want to stay out of the city.

She will go back to the city from time to time, of course. Mainly at Spiral to get supplies to bring with her or deliver some food for anyone who requested her to hunt for them. So it's still possible to bump into her in the city.