Silent Heaven: Small-town Horror RPG

[TNP]

Responsive staff, willing to acknowledge mistakes, and implement changes in response to feedback/complaints?

Just… damn.

[Vulgar Boy]

I feel like I should admit that I’ve been following this thread for months and playing there since it opened and this is the first time I realized that it’s Silent Heaven, not Silent Haven.

[Raeras]

@Vulgar-Boy I also had that same thing happen. A realization when i finally joined the discord that i’d had the name wrong the whole time

[Selira]

Still very impressed by this game, as the horror elements are starting to kick up. @Jumpscare is a beast of a coder and a headwiz, and the playerbase is by and large great. Looking forward to seeing the next few phases of the game roll out.

[junipersky]

Guys. Gals. People of all genders. It is 3am.

I’m locking the thread for a little bit until the other admin can come look at it.

Chill out.

[junipersky]

We are unlocking this thread with the following notes:

1. This is a reminder to please adhere to the rules of engagement for this section of the forum. This is not rough and rowdy. Do not be rough and rowdy.

2. No one gets to decide another person’s sexuality. No one gets to gatekeep or invalidate another person’s sexuality, or gender expression, or anything of the sort. This is not appropriate at any level. Further actions on this will be grounds for a ban.

3. Accusing a game of bigotry is a big thing to throw around. Come with real receipts, not just because they took disciplinary action against you.

[Roz]

I feel like these posts should also get moved over to the Rough & Rowdy thread.

@Pavel said in Silent Heaven: Small-town Horror RPG:

@HannahBananna Oh, honey, you have no idea. But this isn’t the personal attacks section of the forum.

AND YET you couldn’t resist throwing gasoline on the fire and doing it anyways.

[Tez]

@Roz said in Silent Heaven: Small-town Horror RPG:

I feel like these posts should also get moved over to the Rough & Rowdy thread.

Yeah. I’m of two minds on that myself, personally, which is why I didn’t immediately. Let me temperature check on that.

[Pavel]

@Roz said in Silent Heaven: Small-town Horror RPG:

AND YET you couldn’t resist throwing gasoline on the fire and doing it anyways.

I could not.

[Ashkuri]

@Tez Silent Heaven seems like a nice little game, honestly. I think the posts should be gently moved, so that new viewers don’t have to scroll through the rowdy content in order to get a sense of “what is this game.”

[Pavel]

@imstillhere said in Silent Heaven: Small-town Horror RPG:

@Tez Silent Heaven seems like a nice little game, honestly. I think the posts should be gently moved, so that new viewers don’t have to scroll through the rowdy content in order to get a sense of “what is this game.”

Agreed. Move the nonsense that barely relates to the game from a disgruntled former player. Keep it around, but it doesn’t need to be here.

[Tez]

Forked off a big ol chunk to https://brandmuday.mythicus.net/topic/410/silent-heaven-gaslight-gatekeep-girlboss

[somasatori]

For what it’s worth, by the way, I really liked my time at Silent Heaven and always found people very helpful. Jumpscare is good about looking into player complaints and does a good job at resolving things. I kind of bounced off of Silent Heaven because I don’t think RPI is the thing for me these days, but I really respect the work she’s put into it. Aside from the theme and setting, the technical aspects of the game are stellar, that chargen will be burned into my brain (in a good way) for a long time. So, if you haven’t tried it, I’d say give it a go.

[Tez]

Moved a post from HB and a reply from Pavel off to the SH:GGG thread, so if you thought there was one here, you aren’t imagining things. I’m just gaslighting you by moving them.

[Pyrephox]

@somasatori said in Silent Heaven: Small-town Horror RPG:

For what it’s worth, by the way, I really liked my time at Silent Heaven and always found people very helpful. Jumpscare is good about looking into player complaints and does a good job at resolving things. I kind of bounced off of Silent Heaven because I don’t think RPI is the thing for me these days, but I really respect the work she’s put into it. Aside from the theme and setting, the technical aspects of the game are stellar, that chargen will be burned into my brain (in a good way) for a long time. So, if you haven’t tried it, I’d say give it a go.

Going to enthusiastically second this. It didn’t end up being quite my thing, but the technical aspects are amazing, and I love the chargen, as well as things like the journal bit where you could keep staff updated on what your character was doing.

[Rinel]

@somasatori said in Silent Heaven: Small-town Horror RPG:

I don’t think RPI is the thing for me these days

what is an rpi

[somasatori]

@Rinel said in Silent Heaven: Small-town Horror RPG:

@somasatori said in Silent Heaven: Small-town Horror RPG:

I don’t think RPI is the thing for me these days

what is an rpi

Roleplay Intensive! It’s usually a MUD or MUD-adjacent game where there are minimal OOC commands for the sake of immersion. You may also not see character names until you engage in an introduce command. There are usually other things involved like character occupations, automated economy, items, etc.

ETA: On Silent Heaven, for example, there are no channels for speaking, but there is a ‘whispers’ system that allows you to kind of connect to people at a distance. There also isn’t a tell/page system. All of the OOC channels are on a discord, so the game itself is its own experience.

There used to be a game called Towers of Jadri that was a fantasy setting which incorporated a lot of these kinds of systems as well, as well as a MUD called Iconoclast that – while not using introduction commands – was RPI insofar as you had occupations, plots, engagement from that perspective, along with robust clothing and equipment options, mobs that would occasionally attack you, etc.

[Rinel]

@somasatori

Interesting! That sounds… in some ways like it would make being immersed a lot harder. But interesting!

[Third Eye]

@somasatori said in Silent Heaven: Small-town Horror RPG:

ETA: On Silent Heaven, for example, there are no channels for speaking, but there is a ‘whispers’ system that allows you to kind of connect to people at a distance. There also isn’t a tell/page system. All of the OOC channels are on a discord, so the game itself is its own experience.

This something I’m genuinely curious about the logic behind. Doesn’t the Discord introduce an OOC element that the game itself is built around minimizing, if that’s the design choice being made? Was it just seen as necessary for some kind of OOC communication and the Discord was already in place when the game opened?

[Selira]

@Rinel I actually find it a lot easier to get immersed! There’s a reality the character lives in that has some more verisimilitude, like not knowing who people are on sight. It’s basically something a little more code-heavy than Arx is, for reference to a game you have experience with. Silent Heaven has things like move speed, labor effectiveness, attractiveness adjectives, and how fancy you can make clothing all based off of your stats.

@Third-Eye There’s really not a sense of OOC being not a part of this game. There’s anonymization of the help channel and we’re not allowed to share character info on the game’s Discord, but the OOC channel is pretty freely used.

Also a mild correction – there is an OOC channel, but it’s only for within the same room, and there are tells, but they’re in the form of the ‘hiss’ command and they’re ICly part of the in-lore explanation of how communication happens. OOC communication over hisses is largely discouraged unless actively needed for a few things – basically, the goal seems to be minimizing OOC chatter but not removing it.