imeeji_backstage | weekly announcements!

Good morning, Imeeji! (it's morning somewhere!) Here are announcements!

• First off, we want to start with a serious note: it's come to our attention that there's some OOC unrest and unhappiness circulating around plot and the accessibility or lack thereof; we are aware that this is something that can only be improved upon, and as you well know, we are taking steps, such as adding event helpers to the mod team, to make the plot more accessible for players to engage in.

It's a slow-going process and we ask for your patience, both for ourselves and for your fellow players: please remember that everyone is here to have fun and encourage, not hamper, each other's fun. In addition, we'd like to remind everyone that IC=/=OOC, and ideally Imeeji's environment should be one where negative CR can be enjoyed - after all, like it says in the rules, negative CR is a plus for play, not a minus!

• To encourage more effective plot planning, we've opened up plot discussion and plot links Discord channels! We hope that this will be conducive to making both mod plot and player plot more accessible going forward. As always, if you have any questions or suggestions or concerns, we can be found via the mod email.

• As a reminder, Fourth Wall signups are ongoing! Have at, everyone!

• Plus, the rules for the game that will be running during the Fourth Wall event are up! Please read them in advance if you're participating and uncertain of what to expect. If you have questions about the rules, please ask them in this post.

• Activity check emails have been sent out!

• Apps are open!

• Finally, fanmail is up & we have one re-placement on a temporary 9th slot:
BARiTONES
Luna

And that's it! See you next week!

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

WRT murder cards -- are units ICly or OOCly deciding who will be the victim? Also, will the victim unit know who is the chosen murderer from the perpetrator unit before signing up?

As mods, we do not care if you choose ICly or OOCly. We recommend going by OOC preference if someone on the unit has a strong preference for or against, and IC preference if no one does.

The victim does not know which unit is targeting them, and thus will not know who the murderer will be.

Also, wrt to purchasing back memories & relationships -- do these still fall under the status effect rules (nothing returns for 3 IC days) or are these immediate returns? Or maybe they're not available for three days in the shop. idk.

They're in the shop immediately afterwards, and you can purchase them however you like. If you're going to break through the block on your own re: relationships, that can happen whenever is appropriate.

Regarding debts: who exactly are the debts for losers owed to? Presumably the production crew and not the winning units? Will this apply only to playing unitmembers or entire units regardless of involvement?

It applies to the "unit", but it's not necessarily a price that everyone will have to pay. When it is inflicted, the mods will check with the unit to see who is interested in taking part in the payment, whatever that may happen to be.

On reading the rules for the GM game, I'm concerned about the lose condition that has unit debts being called in at an unknown later date, and in an unknown manner.

I can understand that there are all sorts of good reasons that the precise penalties for losing need to be kept mysterious. I'm afraid, however, the lose condition might mean that I was signing my characters up for something I wouldn't have agreed to if I'd known about it beforehand, or might be okay with in theory but only want to play out with Character A, though Character B's unit is the one being penalized. I don't have many squicks, but I do have some and they have come up in gameplay in the past - and some of the things that happen to the characters in trauma games are things that I'm only okay with having happen because they're temporary, and even for losing units can be relatively easily reversed. Consequently, I'm worried that I'll end up having to play out something I'm uncomfortable with due to factors that are largely out of my control.

This is especially concerning for me as the penalty would appear to apply to the whole unit and not just the characters who played... and this seems like the kind of game that both my units are likely to have a hard time pulling off a win in.

Edited 2019-11-04 07:11 (UTC)

No one will be forced to play with something they're uncomfortable with. It's been left vague partially so the mods can tailor it to the units that end up getting the punishment. We didn't want to write something specific and then have it inflicted on a unit where no one wants to deal with that!

So we will be contacting the losing units to make sure that the punishment is okay and only involving the players that wish to play with it.

But ICly characters will be informed there is a punishment to up the IC pressure.

Edited 2019-11-04 17:42 (UTC)

Would the mysterious debt penalty seeming to apply to the whole unit also include characters who were on hiatus for the game as well?

Please read the above two answers.

A few questions 8U!!!

1) Will units know who played against them ICly after the round is complete? Like, if Taisho plays an itch card on Avante does Avante get to know it was them?

2) Are powers on throughout the game? So if, say, someone is injured or killed during round 1 can they be healed or revived during round 2 when teams are allowed out of their private rooms to mingle? Or are they dead/maimed for the remainder of the game? (And I guess can people also try to use powers to fight between rounds, on the other end of the spectrum)?

3) Does the rule about being physically incapable of discussing plays apply to all play in the game generally, or just plays already made? I.e. would two teams be allowed to discuss striking up an alliance during mingle, and just be barred from talking about whether or not they actually followed through after the fact?

4) What happens if a unit hits 0 points?

That's all for now I think, thank youuuuuu!

1) No, since imeeji tries not screw over people who play hard, who played what will not be revealed.

2) Powers are on, except during murders where the victim has their powers turned off.

3) It applies to all play in the game generally. You can't ICly game it to all hit each other in a circle, make new alliances for the sake of the game, etc, though you can privately (in your unit's room) discuss your own plays and alliances you've made before forth wall happened.

4. Play can continue even if a unit is in debt, hitting zero does not remove them from the game. They can try to climb up into having points before the game ends

1) How heavily (or not) time sensitive will this game be for?

2) Can 4th Wall characters be 50/50 when it comes to amnesia vs non-amnesia?

1) This is already covered in the rules, apologies if it was unclear or difficult to find.

Each round will take 2 ooc days in which units are to submit their unit's turn-ins and deal with punishments from the previous round

2) Yes, that is fine. Characters may be partially amnesiac, having forgotten everything but regained some of their memories before participating in imeeji's fourth wall event.

WRT being able to come and go from rooms as they please: are characters free to leave the game tower, or are they going into a common room? (Is this like The Last Supper in that regard?)

Will individuals and/or units be allowed to take PVP action against one another when outside of their private rooms, regardless of knowing whether or not a unit played on them?

1) Yes, you will be able to leave the Game Tower!

2) Yes, you can! Of course you still can't talk about the game outside of the unit rooms but you can absolutely go to town PvPing whoever.

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