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For a while, I have been playing with the idea of doing a little experiment. No, scratch that. A series of little experiments. This thread, and what will transpire on it, is such experiment. As it is an experiment I don't know what will happen. It may work or it may not. It may be fun or it may be horrible. And as I am not the darkest of all underlords, it may be the powers that be decide to stop this little thingie of mine before the end.
On your end the experiment involves nothing but us playing a little game together. This game isn't a videogame, nor is it a CYOA kind of thing. You could say it's one of those 'alternate reality games.' The game will play out in the real world, and the gamemaster, your favorite super-duper-sexy and extra-mega-charming asian Witch, will both explain and coordinate the game by means of this thread.
I will not reveal what the game will encompass just yet, but I want to make one thing clear: You are free to leave the game whenever you want, as it's nature is to be nothing but a game. Even more so, if you are ever taking this as something more than a mere game I would suggest you take some time away to cool off and then continue from where you left. The game is not a race: There are no time limits nor any such thing. You play when you want, and you take a vacation when you feel like it, and then you come back if and when you want.
This game we will playing is an odd game, yet it can be pretty amusing if the proper conditions are met. Will they be met? That I do not know. It is a simple game as well, for all it requires is that you to pay attention, that you take don't yourself seriously, and that you have IT. What's IT? I am unsure. IT may be talent, or IT may be something else entirely. So the game is also a bit of a bet. If you lose the bet, if you don't have IT, you will probably not even notice. The world will remain the same, and so will you. And if you win the bet, if you have IT, well... Let's just say you will like that which will happen. Probably.
The simplicity, however, can be deceptive. Not to take yourself seriously, it is much harder than most assume. Yet to do so is neither a suggestion nor an option, but the first rule of the game. That's why this is a little game, and nothing more. That's why you are a player, and nothing else. If you take either as something more than game and player, you will lose. Even if you have IT, it will be all for naught.
If you follow this first rule to heart, you will be able to complete the first step of the game. And only then, for the first step is maybe the hardest one as well as I will ask you to suspend your disbelief for as long as the game lasts. Yet I don't require that you suspend your disbelief continuously. Instead, I only ask that for as long as the game takes place and as long as you decide to be part of the game you suspend your disbelief just in two particular cases. The first case is whenever you are in this thread. The second case is whenever you decide to play the game. The rest of the time you may believe whatever it is you want to. Yet in those two particular cases the suspension of disbelief must be absolute.
The starting scenario is as follows.
Now I will give you a while to suspend your disbelief, before continuing.
THE THREAD, ALONG WITH ALL PRE-2016 POSTS, HAS BEEN PRESERVED IN ITS ORIGINAL FORM FOR RPGCODEX HISTORICAL REASONS
I ACCEPT NO LIABILITY FOR DAMAGE TO YOUR BODY AND/OR IMMORTAL SOUL CAUSED BY FOLLOWING THE PREVIOUS ACCOUNT-USER'S INSTRUCTIONS.
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For a while, I have been playing with the idea of doing a little experiment. No, scratch that. A series of little experiments. This thread, and what will transpire on it, is such experiment. As it is an experiment I don't know what will happen. It may work or it may not. It may be fun or it may be horrible. And as I am not the darkest of all underlords, it may be the powers that be decide to stop this little thingie of mine before the end.
On your end the experiment involves nothing but us playing a little game together. This game isn't a videogame, nor is it a CYOA kind of thing. You could say it's one of those 'alternate reality games.' The game will play out in the real world, and the gamemaster, your favorite super-duper-sexy and extra-mega-charming asian Witch, will both explain and coordinate the game by means of this thread.
I will not reveal what the game will encompass just yet, but I want to make one thing clear: You are free to leave the game whenever you want, as it's nature is to be nothing but a game. Even more so, if you are ever taking this as something more than a mere game I would suggest you take some time away to cool off and then continue from where you left. The game is not a race: There are no time limits nor any such thing. You play when you want, and you take a vacation when you feel like it, and then you come back if and when you want.
This game we will playing is an odd game, yet it can be pretty amusing if the proper conditions are met. Will they be met? That I do not know. It is a simple game as well, for all it requires is that you to pay attention, that you take don't yourself seriously, and that you have IT. What's IT? I am unsure. IT may be talent, or IT may be something else entirely. So the game is also a bit of a bet. If you lose the bet, if you don't have IT, you will probably not even notice. The world will remain the same, and so will you. And if you win the bet, if you have IT, well... Let's just say you will like that which will happen. Probably.
The simplicity, however, can be deceptive. Not to take yourself seriously, it is much harder than most assume. Yet to do so is neither a suggestion nor an option, but the first rule of the game. That's why this is a little game, and nothing more. That's why you are a player, and nothing else. If you take either as something more than game and player, you will lose. Even if you have IT, it will be all for naught.
If you follow this first rule to heart, you will be able to complete the first step of the game. And only then, for the first step is maybe the hardest one as well as I will ask you to suspend your disbelief for as long as the game lasts. Yet I don't require that you suspend your disbelief continuously. Instead, I only ask that for as long as the game takes place and as long as you decide to be part of the game you suspend your disbelief just in two particular cases. The first case is whenever you are in this thread. The second case is whenever you decide to play the game. The rest of the time you may believe whatever it is you want to. Yet in those two particular cases the suspension of disbelief must be absolute.
The starting scenario is as follows.
You are part of an online community, Codexia. Back when the big geckos ruled the Earth and the Dodo still had a chance, it was a forum in which to discuss role playing games - Yet it has grown to be something else. It has attracted all kinds of maladjusted individuals: Basement dwellers, nerds, geeks, fetishist pseudo-Nazis, transexuals, autists, faux elitist douchebags, mysoginists, mysanthropes, weaboos, conspiracy nuts, nigers, joos, superhuman bunker architects, and so on. The scum of the Earth, plus one buzzing spelunker who is totally huggable. As it is bound to happen with such a colorful selection of individuals this pseudo-location did develop it's own cultural identity, it's own soul. In time it even developed a pseudo-sentience of its own, a twisted mind by primal imperatives driven to reach out and bring even more troubled souls, plus the occassional wayward dove eyed victim, to itself, as some kind of cheap Silent Hill virtual knockoff. ChonSuNim, the striker of ass and leg.
The setting in which this happens is very similar to the real world. It would dare say it would be the very same were it not for one major difference, which is that Sorcery exists. Yet not the Sorcery of movies and novels, nor the Sorcery of videogames. Neither the Sorcery of old dusty books read at candlelight. It is something else, yet we do not know what it is. All we truly know is what it can do, if properly approached. And even that we know only up to a point.
What separates those who are, or at least can be, Sorcerers from those who neither are nor can be is this mysterious IT I spoke of. We do not know much about IT, but we do all have theories - Drops of truth in a sea of wishful thinking, more often than not. Yet whatever IT is, you just happen to have IT. Truly, you do.
And it also happens that among those troubled souls who wander Codexia there is a cute asian Witch. She has issues, and those issues are both legion and cyclopean, but that shouldn't really matter - After all, how many cute asian witches have noticed your potential and offered to teach you all they know for free, no strings attached?
None?
Well, she just did.
In the thread she just started, she claims there will be neither tricks nor riddles. That she will explain everything plainly and to the best of her ability, without reserves nor 'fool's errands.' That she will go over everything she knows, from the very basics to fairly advanced stuff, and that she will answer any questions you may feel like raising as she does so. And that you are free to do with it as you wish - She doesn't care about your beliefs, your moral values, your philosophical inclinations, nor any other such thing.
And, look! She even assures you there is neither catch nor hidden agenda!
Honest.
Aren't you just lucky?
The setting in which this happens is very similar to the real world. It would dare say it would be the very same were it not for one major difference, which is that Sorcery exists. Yet not the Sorcery of movies and novels, nor the Sorcery of videogames. Neither the Sorcery of old dusty books read at candlelight. It is something else, yet we do not know what it is. All we truly know is what it can do, if properly approached. And even that we know only up to a point.
What separates those who are, or at least can be, Sorcerers from those who neither are nor can be is this mysterious IT I spoke of. We do not know much about IT, but we do all have theories - Drops of truth in a sea of wishful thinking, more often than not. Yet whatever IT is, you just happen to have IT. Truly, you do.
And it also happens that among those troubled souls who wander Codexia there is a cute asian Witch. She has issues, and those issues are both legion and cyclopean, but that shouldn't really matter - After all, how many cute asian witches have noticed your potential and offered to teach you all they know for free, no strings attached?
None?
Well, she just did.
In the thread she just started, she claims there will be neither tricks nor riddles. That she will explain everything plainly and to the best of her ability, without reserves nor 'fool's errands.' That she will go over everything she knows, from the very basics to fairly advanced stuff, and that she will answer any questions you may feel like raising as she does so. And that you are free to do with it as you wish - She doesn't care about your beliefs, your moral values, your philosophical inclinations, nor any other such thing.
And, look! She even assures you there is neither catch nor hidden agenda!
Honest.
Aren't you just lucky?
Now I will give you a while to suspend your disbelief, before continuing.
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