♥ October (Lasohm) Fourth Wall Log

[hugtopiamods]

October (Lasohm) Fourth Wall Log

❥ Speaking of Wall Breaking...

The ghosts in town sure are weird, huh? But they're settling down, as the month draws to a close. They're becoming less anxious and random, their behaviour growing sort of… focused. As time passes some of them begin to develop features. They can interact with the world more consistently. You can… hear their voice.

And then suddenly they are people, real and physical and just as confused to be here as you are. They could be anyone, from your world, someone else's world, a place you've never heard of… some of them could even be you, from a different universe, a different timeline, an unknown reality. What does all this mean?

IT'S FOURTH WALL, Y'ALL. Tell your friends, people interested in apping or just playing around in the setting, anybody! Time to break the wall down and have some fun.

This post serves as a replacement for the usual Test Drive Meme, in order to consolidate the chaos a bit. Though it is being posted now, timeline-wise, this shift will occur ONLY during the weekend prior to applications opening: October 30th to November 2nd, after which point characters will either disappear or become permanent residents via the application process. This also means that the rest of the event effects will have worn off, and characters will be their normal selves through the duration of this prompt.

Some ground rules for the 4th Wall event:

For characters/accounts not in-game:

• a character does not have to meet application qualifications to post to the 4th Wall Event, except in cases where there is an intent to apply when applications open. Duplicates, CRAU, AU, etc. are permitted for the event.
  
• we do ask that crack shenanigans are reasonably limited, game rules are followed, and that the event involve characters only, not players or real people.
  
• anyone can toplevel! It'll be a free for all. Go wild, have fun.
  
• characters will be given a temporary, low-tech communicator for the duration of the event with limited network access, due to limited availability of the real deal.
  
• you will not arrive with any items/companions beyond the clothes that you wear
  
• check out the Setting or FAQ pages for location details! Also, have a look at the October event log, to see what else is going on these days.

For characters/accounts currently in-game:

• players can decide for themselves at the event's conclusion whether or not memories of certain visitors remain, and to what extent; memories could become fuzzy, faces or communication obscured, they could disappear entirely, or they can remain fully intact whether the person apps into the game or not.
  
• network communications with 4th Wall visitors that don't (or can't) app in will be wiped, with the locals citing a data error related to the older communicators being used. Technology can be unpredictable, huh!
  
• any communication exchanges that you WANT to keep can remain with some discretion; for example, if a spouse visits and you happen to take a selfie with them, and they do not (or cannot) app but having that photo of them would give you comfort, feel free to keep it.
  
• Similar to the TDM, 4th wall threads cannot be used for AC or AC Reward purposes unless it is between characters already in-game.
  

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Click the above prompt to expand for details. Timeline-wise, this occurs October 30th to November 2nd. For players currently in-game, if you have any questions, please direct them to the FAQ or to the Mod Question thread on the original plotting post.

On this post, we've created both another Questions Thread and a Toplevel thread (see below) for visiting players, the latter so that anyone can track and see who's posted! When you've made a toplevel, feel free to comment HERE to let everyone know.

Comments

[silversoldier]

What exactly do you think I've been doing? [ Oh, yes. Sephiroth understands exactly what she meant by that. His eyes seem to burn in their intensity before he takes a proverbial step back. ] Things are not that simple. It will take time.

[superstring]

How am I to know what you have or have not been doing?

[Watching him, she folds her arms across her chest.]

Though with the way your ego speaks, I am not surprised you would defy others. But what do you mean by it not being simple? Is your power not enough?

[Is that a dig at him? Maybe. At its a remark about how arrogant he seems]

[silversoldier]

[ As always, her insults garner no visible results. Sephiroth merely inclines his head the slightest bit. ]

If it was as simple as that they would already be dead. [ He says this matter-of-factly, with all the confidence in the world. ] As one-dimensional as you are, it has likely not occurred to you that there are many complex factors to research and consider first.

[superstring]

[Or he could simply not be as powerful as he thinks he is. That is actually her first thought as she stares at him for a moment.

He's so annoying with these constant insults. If only he knew what she was capable of.]

You really shouldn't assume so much about those you do not know anything about.

[silversoldier]

[ Galaxia has spent the vast majority of their time making implicit or explicit reference to how powerful she is and following up with yet more talk implying a general lack of finesse. ]

I'm sure I will [ not ] see you around Verstael's Information Center then, ready and willing to prove me wrong.

[superstring]

[Meanwhile Sephiroth here lacks tact all together. And is just insulting for no reason.]

Is that what you're doing? Seeking out information there? What are you even attempting to find out?

[silversoldier]

What else? A way home. It is not so simple as merely traversing space. [ If only. ] There is also an element of time involved, and possibly dimensional travel.

[superstring]

[Hmm. She actually breaks her gaze away and stares off towards the ground. Thinking. At first she had considered the possibility of this simply being a world in another galaxy. That might explain why everything felt different and why her powers ...

Also did not feel as they should.

But the rest if that could explain a lot as well, though she's not sure what he expects to find about the subject in books. If that sort of knowledge is just lying around surely it'd have been utilized already. Unless everyone here lacks the ability to do so.]

Traveling through space-time is a simple task, you only need a key. Obtaining one would be difficult however.

[Almost impossible but not out of the realm of possibility.]

If we are in another dimensional plane, well ... that depends on where exactly this place resides.

[silversoldier]

[ And with that, Sephiroth is interested. Or, at least, more interested than he was before. Anyone who can be of assistance in getting him home is worth talking to, and she does have some measure of power to back up her words. ]

You are able to accomplish such a thing here?

[superstring]

[Oh look suddenly he seems interested in talking with her. Guess he must really want to get back to wherever he's come from. Too bad that while she also wants to escape this place, she also isn't sure he's even deserving of her assistance.

He's full of himself and she fails to see how that'd be of any help to her.]

I don't know what the full effect this place has on my full abilities. But I could use a time key if we were able to obtain one.

[Though technically all anyone needs is the key to use it.. Which would mean finding the guardian of space-time and well, last she saw Galaxia had killed her so ...]

The door of space-time could most likely be used to cross the boundaries of many things ... Probably other worlds.

[silversoldier]

[ Sounds like she does have some potential use then. Although, this might just be more of her sounding off about how powerful she is. He'll take it with a grain of salt. ]

How would we obtain one?

[superstring]

[Well, that might be a problem all things considered, but he doesn't need to know what she's done so.]

We'd have to find a Guardian of Space-Time. Like I said that would be the difficult part. Or since there are supposedly something like gods here, hope that one has some connection to Chronos who is said to be the god of time.

[silversoldier]

[ All foreign vocabulary to him, but any possibility of escape is worth investigating. ]

And you believe the so-called gods here would permit this? They are the ones who brought us here.

[superstring]

I doubt that any being who wishes to keep others prisoner would permit something like that. But I also do not care about what they want.

[Because what she wants is what matters most.

Even if she isn't completely sure what that is anymore.]

[silversoldier]

That is good to hear.

[ There is much he is willing to do and to tolerate to achieve his ends. ]