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D versus D: The Writeupening II
The Setting
The Metaverse is big. As many grains of sand as there are in a desert, there are multiverses in the metaverse. All works of fiction (as we know it in our universe) exist across two multiverses. They are named Dogoda and Dozaro. There is no pattern to which canons are from which, but all are from one or the other.
G.O.D
Dogoda and Dozaro are jointly owned by a hyperdimensional being known as G.O.D. If pressed on the subject of what it stands for, it replies that it stands for G.O.D Over Dogoda. Or maybe G.O.D over Dozaro. If you ask what THAT G.O.D stands for, it just gets confusing fast.
The Problem
G.O.D has been suffering from severe budget cuts. He no longer can afford to continue maintaining both Dogoda and Dozaro at the current budgeting levels. If he wants to avoid being shut down by the Board of Multiverse Management, he has to do something, and fast.
Thus, he invented D.
The Plan
D is a pocket dimension, somewhere in the metaspace between Dogoda and Dozaro. G.O.D is bringing people in from both multiverses to live together in D, as part of his last desperate project. The contestants brought to D have one purpose: ENGAGE IN CONTESTS TO GAIN POINTS FOR THEIR MULTIVERSE.
The Contests
These can be many forms of competition. Fighting. Card games. Dance-offs. Boat building. Free-verse poetry. Football. Whatever the battle, all victories add to a master scoreboard in the heart of D. Nobody knows the scoring system but G.O.D.
The Judges
The contests are judged by two main groups, when judging is necessary. First is G.O.D himself, whose tastes are... complex, and difficult to discern. The second is a panel of celebrity judges from across the metaverse. OOCly, some of these will be NPCs and others... will be characters coming in from Dogrobo - the multiverse containing all the other RPs. In other words, regular mini-crossover events.
The Stakes
At some unspecified point in time, G.O.D claims he will choose a winning multiverse. When this happens, the losing multiverse will get its funding cut by 50%. Everything in that multiverse would become lame. Legendary monuments replaced with cheap knockoff monuments. Gourmet restaurants replaced with imitation fast food. Mighty empires replaced with kind of crummy republics. No more good music. It would suck. And be lame.
So fight hard for your homes!
D
D is about the size and shape of a decently sized city. It is divided into sectors of varying shapes and sizes, by fields of pale blue light. Crossing these fields does nothing to the PCs... but the city is completely different in each sector. One sector might be steampunk fantasy, and the adjacent sector is feudal Japan, with both neighboring a futuristic city block with flying cars. As the general NPC masses cross the sector lines, they transform as well - a warlord in a horse-drawn carriage leaves his sector and becomes a mob boss in a slick black car. If you look hard enough, you might even find a sector of your homeworld in D.
The edge of D is a shimmering wall of light, looking kind of like a waterfall. It does not block your movement - you can walk into it as if it were water. As soon as you do, though, you tumble chaotically through strange spaces for a few seconds, then get spat back out at a random point along the barrier.
And if you look closely during the transition, you might see the eyes.
The Secret
D isn't just a deciding mechanism. It's also a TV show.
G.O.D is hosting D vs D, the metaverse's biggest upcoming piece of reality television. All the struggles and dramas of your characters are being shown to a live pan-dimensional studio audience. The lowest common denominator of hyperdimensional superbeings are eating this up as cheap entertainment. And if it's popular enough, he just might be able to raise enough money to keep both multiverses at full quality...
...but the fans are not easily pleased.
The Fans
In a way, the crazy fans of D vs D are the 'villains' of the RP. They are numerous, ill-tempered, and all have different ideas about where THEY think their favorite reality show should go. And they're very powerful.
Every now and then, a Fan manages to break through D's defenses. Most of the time, they do this so that they can change the course of the show to their liking. This can mean sudden genre shifts, or even just wanton destruction. Wild chaos. G.O.D requests the help of all contestants in hunting down and aprehending rogue fans, so that they can be ejected from D and the entertainment can continue as normal.
Going Home
This is a jamjar, but going home IS possible! It's hard, though. The process is confusing, arbitrary, and changes constantly. It's different for every person. Making progress could take weeks, months, or even years.
Basically, whether or not you can leave of your own will is up to the OOC decision of the player.
Fiddly Bits
-When characters arrive, they are given an informative color pamplet that explains the situation in short.
-Powers partially restricted to keep people from blowing up the whole city or whatever.
-You can come back when you die... once. After that, permadeath.
-Contests and Fans form the two kinds of events in the RP.
-Damage to the city is repaired by bizarrely competent civil services people.
-I'm sure there's more to hammer out.
The Metaverse is big. As many grains of sand as there are in a desert, there are multiverses in the metaverse. All works of fiction (as we know it in our universe) exist across two multiverses. They are named Dogoda and Dozaro. There is no pattern to which canons are from which, but all are from one or the other.
G.O.D
Dogoda and Dozaro are jointly owned by a hyperdimensional being known as G.O.D. If pressed on the subject of what it stands for, it replies that it stands for G.O.D Over Dogoda. Or maybe G.O.D over Dozaro. If you ask what THAT G.O.D stands for, it just gets confusing fast.
The Problem
G.O.D has been suffering from severe budget cuts. He no longer can afford to continue maintaining both Dogoda and Dozaro at the current budgeting levels. If he wants to avoid being shut down by the Board of Multiverse Management, he has to do something, and fast.
Thus, he invented D.
The Plan
D is a pocket dimension, somewhere in the metaspace between Dogoda and Dozaro. G.O.D is bringing people in from both multiverses to live together in D, as part of his last desperate project. The contestants brought to D have one purpose: ENGAGE IN CONTESTS TO GAIN POINTS FOR THEIR MULTIVERSE.
The Contests
These can be many forms of competition. Fighting. Card games. Dance-offs. Boat building. Free-verse poetry. Football. Whatever the battle, all victories add to a master scoreboard in the heart of D. Nobody knows the scoring system but G.O.D.
The Judges
The contests are judged by two main groups, when judging is necessary. First is G.O.D himself, whose tastes are... complex, and difficult to discern. The second is a panel of celebrity judges from across the metaverse. OOCly, some of these will be NPCs and others... will be characters coming in from Dogrobo - the multiverse containing all the other RPs. In other words, regular mini-crossover events.
The Stakes
At some unspecified point in time, G.O.D claims he will choose a winning multiverse. When this happens, the losing multiverse will get its funding cut by 50%. Everything in that multiverse would become lame. Legendary monuments replaced with cheap knockoff monuments. Gourmet restaurants replaced with imitation fast food. Mighty empires replaced with kind of crummy republics. No more good music. It would suck. And be lame.
So fight hard for your homes!
D
D is about the size and shape of a decently sized city. It is divided into sectors of varying shapes and sizes, by fields of pale blue light. Crossing these fields does nothing to the PCs... but the city is completely different in each sector. One sector might be steampunk fantasy, and the adjacent sector is feudal Japan, with both neighboring a futuristic city block with flying cars. As the general NPC masses cross the sector lines, they transform as well - a warlord in a horse-drawn carriage leaves his sector and becomes a mob boss in a slick black car. If you look hard enough, you might even find a sector of your homeworld in D.
The edge of D is a shimmering wall of light, looking kind of like a waterfall. It does not block your movement - you can walk into it as if it were water. As soon as you do, though, you tumble chaotically through strange spaces for a few seconds, then get spat back out at a random point along the barrier.
And if you look closely during the transition, you might see the eyes.
The Secret
D isn't just a deciding mechanism. It's also a TV show.
G.O.D is hosting D vs D, the metaverse's biggest upcoming piece of reality television. All the struggles and dramas of your characters are being shown to a live pan-dimensional studio audience. The lowest common denominator of hyperdimensional superbeings are eating this up as cheap entertainment. And if it's popular enough, he just might be able to raise enough money to keep both multiverses at full quality...
...but the fans are not easily pleased.
The Fans
In a way, the crazy fans of D vs D are the 'villains' of the RP. They are numerous, ill-tempered, and all have different ideas about where THEY think their favorite reality show should go. And they're very powerful.
Every now and then, a Fan manages to break through D's defenses. Most of the time, they do this so that they can change the course of the show to their liking. This can mean sudden genre shifts, or even just wanton destruction. Wild chaos. G.O.D requests the help of all contestants in hunting down and aprehending rogue fans, so that they can be ejected from D and the entertainment can continue as normal.
Going Home
This is a jamjar, but going home IS possible! It's hard, though. The process is confusing, arbitrary, and changes constantly. It's different for every person. Making progress could take weeks, months, or even years.
Basically, whether or not you can leave of your own will is up to the OOC decision of the player.
Fiddly Bits
-When characters arrive, they are given an informative color pamplet that explains the situation in short.
-Powers partially restricted to keep people from blowing up the whole city or whatever.
-You can come back when you die... once. After that, permadeath.
-Contests and Fans form the two kinds of events in the RP.
-Damage to the city is repaired by bizarrely competent civil services people.
-I'm sure there's more to hammer out.
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