Event: One Hundred, Part One

[snowblindmods]

ONE HUNDRED

Day 100 dawns--or at least, six in the morning arrives--without the click of doors unlocking. In fact, everything seems very still today. It's odd; things have always been very quiet, but now it's as if some subtle background noise has slipped away unnoticed. Five minutes pass. Ten. A message from @ADMIN, finally: Maintenance must be performed. Lockdown will remain in effect until further notice. We suggest taking this time to rest. The windows glaze over. It's impossible to see outside anywhere. For those who do sleep, time passes as normal for as long as they remain unconscious. For those who don't (or can't, due to a sudden, strange insomnia) sleep, time seems to stretch and stretch like a rubber band. Every hour feels like a day, and anyone around you, in person, seems to be moving and speaking in slow motion. Only over the tablets do conversations seem to progress at an appropriate speed. Those under the effect of this time dilation will suffer strange mental disturbances, having the urge to stand for hours in corners or beside sleeping housemates, engage in repetitive, sometimes harmful movements such as banging a head against the wall or pacing back and forth like a caged tiger, and a tendency to lose the ability to speak rationally, instead spilling out incoherent streams of consciousness. These effects do not strike everyone to the same degree, or at all--though they tend to get worse the more people you're with--but all time dilation events and lockdown will last for the duration of day 100.

Comments

QUESTIONS

[snowblindmods]

Re: QUESTIONS

[rattlingthestars]

Is part 2 of this rolling out during the next three OOC days or is it a seperate event somewhere down the line?

[snowblindmods]

Part two will be rolling out during the next three OOC days.

[phaseshifter]

If a character is speaking to someone in the same room as them via tablet, will the video/text/etc be out of sync with the view they have of the other in person? Or does speaking to roomies via tablet effectively fix the time dilation for the duration?

[snowblindmods]

The video/text/voice will be out of sync with the view they have of the other person. It's very nausea-inducing.

[phaseshifter]

oh no but rhys barfs at the drop of a hat anyway and tHIS IS GOING TO BE THE WORST

(thank you)

[0thingsonmymind]

how does the time dilation work if one party is communicating in person and another is, say, responding with texts while sitting next to them?

[snowblindmods]

What's happening on the tablets will be out of sync with what's happening in reality. This causes nausea.

[ecks]

Is it only people who move in slow motion, or do other things seem to move slowly-- like say if a character dropped something, would it fall slowly? And if a character is alone without someone else to observe, would her own actions seem to her to be in slow motion?

[snowblindmods]

Everything, including objects and a character's own actions, seem to be in slow motion.

Re: QUESTIONS

[brokethefirst]

Are actions and visual observations the only things slowed down? AKA; Will a character's own voice be heard by themselves in slow motion? Will their thought process be sluggish as well, or will they think and emotionally process things normally?

[snowblindmods]

Physical things that can be observed seem to move slowly: objects, a character's own body, their voice, etc. Thoughts and emotions process normally.

[brokethefirst]

Just checking another thing, but I'm assuming AIs wouldn't be able to re-sync themselves to the changed speeds, correct?

[snowblindmods]

Correct!

[brokethefirst]

Thank you!

Re: QUESTIONS

[bookofnope]

Specific question, but! Kesara, doing as she do, will ask her tablet to explain what maintenance means. Does she get the usual line about servers, or anything more informative?

[snowblindmods]

She'll get a general definition of the term maintenance and then the usual line about servers! How exciting.

[deus_ex_phs]

Are there any factors that determine if a character is affected by the strange insomnia, or any particular mental disturbance? Or is that up to the player's discretion?

[snowblindmods]

Player discretion! We wanted to provide a lot of options for people based on what they may or may not want to play.

[deus_ex_phs]

Okay, thanks. o/

[silverfuller]

Suppose you're a smashy type eager to continue with a day of marching.

What happens if you try to break a window?

[snowblindmods]

The window doesn't break. If you hit it with something hard enough, the force may rebound on you if you're not careful.

[fairygodtroll]

What if Vriska and Handsome Jack attempted to break a window with the jury-rigged rubbledust spear and the rest of her sharp bits of rubble? Still no joy?

[snowblindmods]

They may scratch the window a little, but it's entirely superficial and will also bounce back in their faces.