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  • This is mostly for maintenance and board-wide stuff from admin.

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    TezT
    I’m out. Jumpscare’s in. Jumpscare will be the main server admin. Your admin team is jumpscare, junipersky, and pyrephox. https://brandmu.day/topic/698/tag-team-tez-out-jumpscare-in

  • This is a place for game runners to post about their games. Discussion on those games will happen elsewhere. Please respect this!

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    Below Gray Skies: a Deviant: The Renegades chronicle in New York City (now opening in beta) Below Gray Skies is a MUSH Deviant: The Renegades (CoD) game running on AresMUSH. The setting is New York, the five boroughs, the dead subway platforms underneath them, and the long gray drive up the coast into Connecticut. You are one of the Remade, changed by one of two conspiracies: the Revealers, who test old rituals on people nobody will miss, or Bio-Integra, a company so large and so legal that the paperwork always covers for it. You got out. Now you have to live with what you are. The mood of our game is gloomy; it is about struggle rather than power, paranoia and surviving against something so much bigger than yourself it broke your life. You don’t know where to begin, but there are places to help, and people you can find on your way to vengeance — or something else entirely. What is already built Character creation with a guided Divergence step for your Variations and Scars. Dice and combat tools work on the web as well as on telnet with a plugin for Deviant the Renegades. Added side-panel to help along the game in the Play area on Portal! 12 pre-made characters ready to be claimed if you would rather start playing than building, and a roster of NPCs. Things have been tested but not by a big number of people, bugs expected! We offer two Conspiracies so you have a range of flavour to pick from either more magically inclined or sci-fi! It is a beta and currently a one woman run game. That means some things will be roughish, although I did my best to polish to beta, and I want to hear about it. Bug reports, confusing wording, rules that feel wrong, a button that does nothing: all of it helps. It also means it might be a bit slow on approvals, though I’ll try to be on top of it. I will also be looking for people interested in helping! I’ll be approving characters on beta as a way to get traction and also hopefully find bugs, so being upfront on that. There will NOT be any reset, which is important to note, we will move to release from Beta when there’s more confidence on my part of bugs fixed and some more helping hands, fingers crossed. How to start Read the setting and the rules on the website or telnet. Make a character, or claim a pre-made one. Ask staff if anything is unclear. Would love answering a question and helping fix something rather than lose a player to a confusing screen.

  • Conversations and questions about current, upcoming, and advertised games and the hobby as a whole.

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    Thanks for the kind words! We’re happy to answer questions about the game as they come up, and we’ll try to check in here regularly. We did want to talk a little bit about the grid style. We’ve actually avoided doing a street-by-street geographic reproduction of the city; instead, the boroughs that are built – we’ve covered a little over half of the thirty-two-plus-one so far, as @Evilgrayson mentioned – are abstracted into regions that get represented on the grid as rooms. “Battersea,” for example, is a single room (one of a half-dozen that make up all of Wandsworth), and RP-able spaces in Battersea (like the Power Station, and sometimes individual neighborhoods when warranted) are linked off it. So, when you want to go from the Oxford and Cambridge Club to Harrods and don’t want to use +hangout/jump, you don’t go along Pall Mall to St James’ Street to Piccadilly to the A4 to the Brompton Road to Harrods: you just go from St James’ to Knightsbridge to Harrods. The idea is to make London navigable from the sort of high level view you get from, e.g., Google Maps, rather than requiring knowledge of the city and its streets and landmarks. Additionally, boroughs become more abstracted (get fewer rooms) the further they are from the city center. e.g., Hillingdon – though the second largest borough by land area – has half the rooms that Westminster does. Because Westminster has a lot more of what people think of as “London” in it than Hillingdon does. The great majority of what’s built is restaurants, clubs, museums, etc. – things that get cataloged in +hangouts. We love poking around grids and we’ve put some surprises in for people who do, but you can get by just fine never using anything but +hangout/jump and +meet. As far as an in-game map, stay tuned! We’re looking at how we can provide something that’s helpful but not overwhelming.

  • When you want to talk about HOW to do something when running a game, bring it here: Code, Theme, Policies, Game Design.

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    O
    Could you give a bit more on the tone and themes of the game, and a rough outline of the world? L&L is a pretty large genre. Dune, Bridgerton, Game of Thrones, Kushiel’s Dart, and a Court of Thorns and Roses are very different from one another.

  • Please post a playlist if you feel comfortable doing so, and if you are looking for old friends – try here! If you are looking for old enemies, consider a nap.

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    JinSheiJ
    Hey, just reaching out to let you know your discord is hacked, unless you really think I would want to invest in Mr Beast crypto. I don’t have other contacts, so if anyone knows other ones and passes it on I’d be grateful. Been absent with studying so no spare time. #IAin’tDed

  • Gloves off, but don’t be a total asshole.

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    GashlycrumbG
    @Deviant JK Rowling has claimed that she came up with the whole ‘wizard school’ idea independently of Yolen (in 1991), Pratchett (1983), Murphy (1974) and LeGuin (1968). LeGuin said that her own Roke Island wizard’s school was inspired by T.H. White having mentioned the folkloric wizard school Domdaniel in The Sword In the Stone (1938). Domdaniel is known to English speakers from One Thousand and One Arabian Nights. But Rowling says it’s coincidence, and the other authors have, wisely, not bothered to argue. [image: gotta-love-pete-v0-kct6x1ip5mfe1.jpeg?width=1080&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=3edd398fbc7ddd0d5df9c4779674afe7dc431980]

  • Comments, criticism, suggestions, feedback?

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    ToriT
    Thank you, @tez!

  • The place to put non-game things.

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    CobaltC
    @Testament I generally am unaffected by celebrity deaths— But I grew up watching TNG with my father. Patrick Stewart’s passing has made me depressed.

  • Video games, tabletop, etc.

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    JennkrystJ
    @Raistlin Obligatory ‘we already have this at home’ joke.