The current story line we’re doing is finding a kingdom and having an ‘enemy’ starting to get really active. A special request for people to play the ‘bad guys’ is given with reward things for it. The post:

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Staff Special Request Minerva
Recruitment (5/2) Wed Apr 03, 2024 8:45am

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The next major plot point for Atharia is to reveal Ren to be a villain. He is likely a part of the Council of the Devoted. I repeatedly say that I don’t really hide what is intended to happen, even if I don’t give all the details. What happens to Ren will depend on players (kill him, convert him, save him, etc).

I explained all that for a reason. My semi-plan is that Ren is the current leader of the Council of the Devoted. What I would like is a couple people willing to play members of the Council, publicly known as such. This means the character will be a villain and likely temporary, though, I am not against the character becoming permanent if people end up enjoying the story line for the character, which will likely be a redemption arch to where they ‘become Good’ (or at least an anti-hero type) since sometimes people have issues with getting into scenes with villains.

You can totally be part of the Council on a current character that gets exposed along with Ren or before him. IF you’re worried your character concept won’t work, we can figure it out to make it happen.

[[[Council of the Devoted]]] (https://atharia.net/wiki/council_of_the_devoted) for more details on the Council.

My ideal would be at least 1 sub-leader and 2 or 3 ‘general members’.

As this will be a temporary character (unless you decide otherwise), 50% of any XP you earn on the character can be transferred to an alt, if you desire. If you don’t care about the XP we can discuss alternative ideas for a ‘reward’ for playing a character that is destined to be ‘dealt with’ in some form. Rewards can be anything, within reason. It can be you can ask for a plot line that is strictly geared for your character, work out an angle of getting a position you would like for your alt, you can add some specific details to theme files that you feel would add to the game (subject to review and possible modifications if it is to off theme), etc. If it works for the game IC or OOC, I’m willing to talk it over. You can play more than 1 Council member but the ‘reward’ only applies once. So, if you play 5 characters the reward will be once over all not once for each character.

Contact me if interested.
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(1) Minerva replied on Sat Apr 06, 2024 8:03am
These temporary characters can absolutely be Children of Gods but it needs to fit with the alts rules. That is to say, if you have a Child of Gods PC already, the temporary one can not be one. This is so that if you decide you enjoy playing the character’s story you don’t need to give up either character unless you want too.

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The ability to go beyond available CG points is no longer a thing. We’ve transferred everything over.

@EDI7078 Thanks for the heads-up. I’m already playing there, and have been enjoying the place.

@sonata The Grand Opening for Ascension Sojournes is December 8th! Now accepting group applications. Some bonus chargen dots will be given to each person applying in the group. This offer ends on December 8th!

Discussion thread!

@icanbeyourmuse said in Atharia:

I am specifically looking for someone who can work Evennia code (or wants to learn) or a wiki expert

I can’t dedicate time to fully being involved and I’m far from a legitimate programmer but I can offer suggestions and advise on how I’ve hacked my code together.

Server wonkiness hopefully wrangled.

Today Concordia was launched and we’ve already had 16 characters get picked up from the roster with a few currently going through character generation. If you’d like to check it out as we are now open in Alpha:

https://concordiamu.aresmush.com/

And in case interested in scoping out the roster:

https://concordiamu.aresmush.com/roster

A little chaotic here since it is launch day, but would love for folk to check it out.

This is a neat little game. Smaller, but exactly the kind of speed that I appreciate in a game.

It may be a slight struggle for me to get in a sandbox based game without a narrative to follow or goal to chase, but it’s something that is pretty easy to overlook. Especially when the RP is pretty pleasant all around.

FYI,

If anyone still needs to grab descs or finish anything up, I’ve been sick with some unnamed ear/nose/throat/chest cold for like ever now so have not bothered to take the game down.

So lets just give it until the end of April.

Game Update: Opening Events starting on Saturday, March 18 2023.

6ix Remains is set to move forward into official Alpha plot launch with a trio of Opening Events this coming Saturday. In the past month the survivors have been busy securing their community-building and finding supplies to sustain themselves through the crisis. The opening events are now set to allow them to explore beyond the safety of their haven, and attempt to find out what is happening in the rest of the city. What they find may well shake their views of the new reality that they think they know.

Will things improve for the survivors? Or will things get worse before they get better? Come join us and find out!

Please direct any discussion to the appropriate thread.

Update, 3/5:
So tonight was the last major event related to the game’s prologue, meaning we’re in the process of wrapping that particular arc up. Chapter 1 will begin within the next 2-3 weeks and will focus on one of the game’s larger megacorps/criminal syndicates

We hit a few big milestones that I would like to share:

349+ completed scenes one month and some change later. Consistently between 12-15 active players during the day and 20+ actively players in the evenings. 20+ scenes in progress. 3 approved player-run-plots. Addition of one staffer.

I wanted to take a moment to thank my active playerbase. Everyone has been very inclusive and typically goes out of their way to make new players feel welcome. We have a plethora of solid writers. People proactively establish pre-existing relationships/connections, which dramatically reduces the prevelence of awkward first conversations and interactions. There’s a strong sense of community, at least from my perspective, and I am routinely surprised by/pleased with everyone’s contributions.

I intend to continue to prioritize quick responses on jobs involving application reviews, grid additions, and lore clarifications. My goal turnaround time is less than a day, if not less than 3 or 4 hours from job creation.

I hope everyone still hanging around is having fun. Anyone reading this is more than welcome to come check us out. Feel free to message me on ‘Director’ if you have questions. Cheers!