Content Warning: The themes of this event can and will brush against the experiences of the real world. This event involves themes of incarceration, a flawed justice system, prison violence, and NPCs that run the gamut of criminal experience from innocence to homicidal guilt. We understand these stories are not for everyone and encourage anyone who does not want to engage with these themes to purchase a non-attending ticket.
Our Good Home Prudence Penitentiary for the Peregrine and Penalized, often pilloried as Killhouse, plays host to three species of detained individuals.
The first of which is the Penitent; the annual congregants of Killhouse who, by breach or break, via the Gauntlet or at the long end of a Lawdog’s gun - finds their way to the expansive General Population wings of the only incarceratory force in the San Saba Territories. Each year they are, in October, expunged of their sins and expelled into the Lonestar as new and freshly pressed as a churchgoers best - redeemed by Our Lady Tabitha St. Mercy, Warden of Killhouse.
The second species of detained is the Lifer, those truly reprehensible few who have earned a life sentence at Killhouse - for as long as their wretched durations might last. These dolorous and ill-starred maniacs who are the beating and fetid heart of Prudence’s purpose lie in the vaunted XXX Wing where they are not allowed to die - as for the Lifers of Killhouse - death means freedom.
The third species of incarcerated that Our Good Home plays host to is a temporary one; driven to her hermetically-sealed halls by the promise of an old-world ventilation system. This third species is You, Brave Survivor.
Hellbent as you are to outrun the screaming cloud of death pouring from of the cracked and broken ground beneath new Bravado and spreading with terrifying rapidity across the face of the Lonestar Wastes - you must make it to Killhouse, the only promise within a hundred miles, of maintaining the unruptured state of your breathing organs and bastion of the most dangerous criminals in the contiguous San Saba.
And there the Warden of Killhouse, entrenched in her own traditions and on the eve of the Indulgence, will welcome you inside with the caveat that you must be canonized as her Justices on this day of holy work and earn your clean and unkilling air by honoring her praxis and redeeming those who seek it - and damning to darkness the unyielding few who make her infernal jailhouse necessary.
Our event takes place loosely from Friday, October 30th - Sunday, November 1st with primary content happening from Friday, October 30th at 9pm - Saturday, October 31st at midnight.
Additionally we are changing the schedule to allow for more mod series, but fewer mods on each, to keep mod capacity more full and give people more time to enjoy the soft rp rooms!
Registration
Registration opens Friday, October 16th at 1:00pm. There will be two types of tickets offered:
Text-Content Only Ticket/Non Attending Ticket
This ticket type is not capped. This is the ticket to buy if you just want to purchase build for the event, or do non-mod content (and Grab Bag perks if purchased).
This ticket allows you to participate in soft-roleplay channels, OOC channels, access to our text adventures, videos, and other multimedia content. It also provides access to any general channel puzzles, minigames, and more.
Additionally, if there are mod slots with open seats at the time of the mod start, then Text Content Ticket holders are welcome to join. This ticket type still has the option to earn Cali-Co Caravan Points (our loot system) through participation.
Mod-Participation Ticket
This ticket type is capped at mod capacity. This ticket allows you to sign up for 3 online voice-participation mods during our Friday & Saturday content series. Mod signup will go live on October 16th and is limited to Mod-Participation tickets only in advance.
For both ticket types, you can backbuy extra XP, but cannot backbuy items earned.
7 Deadly Sins Grab Bags
There will be a $5 grab bag for this month which will include the following:
7 Named Scrap or Herb of the Player’s Choice
7 Brass
3 Pips and 1 Deadly Sin Tag (see Tags and Pips below)
Special Scene Grab Bag (Limited):
Access to a Grab Bag group scene run by Aesa (approximately one hour). This grab bag is sold in bundles priced for 5 players (though fewer folks is fine) and include all the above for the characters involved for a set time slot. We recognize that scenes in the virtual space haven’t given a lot of in-character time for inter-personal angst and drama with your close friends, and you might feel weird playing out those themes on a mod or in the soft RP rooms with a bunch of people who didn’t sign up for that. This is your opportunity for those sorts of scenes that can include as much or little mechanics and combat as you opt into. Signups for these closed-group grab bags will close 10/28 to allow for prep time and communication with the GM.
Discord Server
Discord server and Soft RP Ettiquette/Nettiquette
This month we are adding soft-rp voice channels in addition to our usual text soft rp channels and OOC hangout spaces. These spaces will be more clearly delineated and labeled.
The Lonestar Skies Discord Server is here, and is where all our primary interactive content will be held other than the text adventure(s) and multimedia content.
Announcements
This link is where you can see all Lonestar Skies related updates and content links, including info from our first two Lonestar Skies events.
Bravado Bones
We are using a Powers by the Apocalypse conversion system for Dystopia Rising: Texas to convert your LARP skills into Virtual LARP skills.
How do I use my Dystopia Rising Character Sheet for Virtual Mods?
How do I learn skills?
Please email us at info@dystopiarisingtx.com to request any XP expenditures on your sheet for this event or put it on your Cali*co Caravan Points form. We are not doing Professional Focus Achievement trials at this time.
How do I craft/trade/sell things?
To simplify the logistical burden of virtual events, everyone has the ability to earn the same amount of Cali*Co Caravan points which are then converted to items, currency, and resources just for participating in our content. Please see the Cali*Co Caravan Points section of this post further down for more info.
What are Tags and Pips?
Throughout the event, a character may acquire temporary equipment, powers, or consumables in the form of Pips or Tags. Events may also provide players with the opportunity to craft Pips and Tags outside of mods.
A “Pip” is a one-time use item that adds +1 to any STAT roll. Narratively, these expendables are often grenades, drugs, or flashes of borrowed power. The use of a Pip to augment a roll must be declared before the roll is made. No STAT roll may benefit from more than one pip.
A “Tag” is an adjective noted in [brackets] on the character’s sheet for the duration of a Bones event. When a character gains a tag, that character may treat the tag as an additional achievement for the purposes of spending mind points when taking actions related to the [tag]. Narratively, Tags represent specialized equipment and knowledge the character has gained throughout the event.Example Tags: “[Explosive], [Attuned], [Researched], [Superheated], [Shielded]”
At the end of each Bones event, all Tags and unused Pips are lost, these items do not carry over.
If you require further assistance, please post in the Discord server or contact staff!
Virtual Mod Signup
Starting on Friday, October 16th you will be able to see and signup for mods through your database login at https://characters.dystopiarisingnetwork.com/events. Each Mod-Participation ticket-holding player may sign up for three mods initially. If there are open seats on other mods before they start, the STs will put out an all-call in the discord channel for last-minute alternates. If you fill a seat last-minute, it does not count as one of your three mods.
Mod schedule is subject to change, so please check your mod schedule occasionally to ensure you’re signed up for the appropriate number of mods of your choosing.
I need help signing up!
Check this link for more information about how Mod Signup works!
Event Time Table October 2020
Friday, October 30, 2020
9:00 PM Opening Announcements & Prologue.
Discord channels open for soft player-driven RP. Our wonderful room stewards will also be available to facilitate rp.
10:00 PM Act 0
This kicks off the first of 6 Acts which are scenes run by a GM to people who have signed up.
Saturday, October 31, 2020
8:00 AM Lonestar Skies: Justicalia Text Adventure Goes Live
10:00am - 12:00pm Act 1
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Break for RP and Food!
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM Act 2
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM Break for RP and Food!
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM Act 3
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM Break for RP and Food!
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM Act 4
9:00 PM - 10:00 PM Break for RP and Food!
10:00 PM - 12:00 AM Act 5 (Final)
12:15 AM Closing Announcements!
— end of staff-provided content —
Sunday, November 1, 2020
10:00 PM Discord Server Closes
Cali*Co Caravan Points
Our virtual events are primarily aimed at roleplay and story, but we understand that for some, economic and crafting play is most enjoyable. While Lonestar Skies events do not provide traditional crafting opportunities or check-in skills, you are still able to earn resources and currency by engaging in the various parts of our event and then converting those experiences into Cali*Co Caravan Points.
After the event ends, a survey will go up that will ask you to indicate what you did for each of the main 10+ hours of content time. More engagement = more ability to earn Cali*Co Caravan Points. These are points you get for engaging content and your fellow players throughout the day that can be spent to generate things like items, prints, and story opportunities.
When we return to live games, Cali*Co Caravan Points may be spent at Check-in. If you are not a local DR:TX player, our logistics coordinator can work with you to have those items assigned to your character in the National Database before your next Live Event.
Cali*Co Caravan Points Assignment Rubric
10 CCP
4 CCP
+2 CCP
Per Two (2) Hour Mod in a #mod-room during a Module Series
or
Per One (1) Hour of soft/crafting RP in one of the IC Hangout Areas during Module Series
Per Two (2) Hours spent continuously in soft/crafting RP in one of the IC Hangout Areas during a Module Series. This Player Behavior stacks with the above.
The maximum number of CCP an individual can earn per event is capped at 30. We’re making the choice to standardize this because we think it is the most elegant and honest way to evoke the generation of resources in a setting/environment where we don’t have the same resources as when we are running live events. Storytellers are not individually empowered to give you extra CCP - but they are definitely empowered and expected to give you story rewards and consequences that affect the live playspace.
*This does not guarantee your LC Society Membership as a rule. This guarantees you an honest conversation with a Face NPC and the start of a larger story about your LC’s investment in that faction.
Questions?
Please message us on Discord, on Facebook, or email us at info@dystopiarisingtx.com for assistance! We will do our best to answer before/during the event but responses may be delayed at peak hours.