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It's that time again!
Hey there, trainers and breeders! After some delay, here it is! Fresh off the freshest presses, still with that new event smell, we present to you the first Fourth Wall of the new decade, which will start on January the 24th running all the way until January the 26th!
For those who have never had the chance to experience a Fourth Wall, to keep things short: things are going to get a little wacky this weekend. Or perhaps a lot wacky. Nephelis will be rounding up a lot of new visitors from all over to come and play, and those normal power restrictions? Gone! Create a fireball, create two. You can do it now! (Assuming you could do it before you came here, ain't nobody suddenly learning magic) Forced to occupy a strange and squishy human form during your normal time here? Not this weekend! Shake off those last traces of humanness and stretch your legs, wings, tail and other weird limbs you may or may not possess ordinarily.
But it wouldn't be the Fourth Wall if there wasn't some special craziness happening on top of the rest of the craziness. Hope you bought bread and milk, because this weekend, all of Johto and Kanto, and even the farthest reaches of the Sevii Islands, will be dealing with a Snomstorm!
Wait, a snowstorm, right? Nope.
Among all the thick fluffy snowflakes and heaps of perfectly malleable, begging-for-a-good-snowball-fight snow, there will be Snom. There will be so many Snom. Oh the Snommanity, they are everywhere. Hide yo children, hide yo wife, he's coming for you!
For reference, here's the basic FAQ:
What is a Fourth Wall Event?
A Fourth Wall event is an in-game event where people from other games, random characters, even players themselves, just randomly interact with your characters. It's a literal breaking of that invisible "fourth wall" that separates the game-verse from... the rest of the internet. It’s meant to be a silly and fun time thought all kinds of CR can take place during it.
How do you participate?
In short, a character makes a post in the comm or a top-level in the mod-posted catch-all and others tag it. Feel free to just tag around if you don’t want to start a thread of your own. You do not have to stick to your in-game character accounts during this event; you can use characters from other games, crack accounts, player accounts, etc to play!
What kind of characters can participate?
Anything and everything, from AU’s to characters from other DW games, ponies, disembodied heads, zombies, Arceus with a saddle, the players, Hello Kitty, and the list goes on...
What about characters coming in, can they have a Pokémon too?
Sure thing! You can bring in any Pokémon from any generation and challenge whoever you want for however much you want. Feel free to knock down or burn down anything. Ride Arceus into battle wearing nothing but a pineapple on your head. It's all good!
Current players are also allowed to have whatever else they want in their party, but all Legendaries will depart after the weekend is over. No keeping the Groudon that followed you home!
Can my character catch Pokémon to KEEP during the event?
Yes, they may! Feel free to saddle your character with some odd Pokémon they weren't expecting to have like a surprise Magikarp appearing inside their backpack.
There are some exceptions-- Pokemon not listed on the availability pages (Johto, Kanto, Sevii) cannot be kept after the event. For example, your character may encounter a wild Chansey in Lavender Town and keep their new friend, but you would not be able to catch and keep Articuno.
Characters also may not keep Pokemon that were given to them by visiting characters-- feel free to get vague and wibbly-wobbly about how a shockingly similar wild Pokemon (as long as it's on the Availability List!) wound up in your character's possession, but nothing that a visiting character gifts to a resident one will stick around once the weekend is over.
We’re also trusting that players will keep this reasonable, and stick to just one or two Pokemon to keep after the event.
Would my non-human character remain in their VR form for the event? What about powers?
Up to you! Your character can return to their original form, powers intact, or whatever you like! Have fun.
What about the environment?
With all the strange things going on, feel free to have your characters experience anomalies while they are travelling. Routes that took days to travel before can now be crossed in minutes. Characters can suddenly find themselves waking up in a different city altogether! The landscape around them may warp and change to reflect various other canons. If your character is far from where they started out when the event ends, feel free to have them remain there!
Can my character keep items they find during the Fourth Wall?
If this item is normally easily obtainable in the world of the game, like a Pokeball from the store or some choice rare berries, then yes. The exception to this is that we don’t want people keeping rare items or TMs.
Items like a new house that didn’t previously exist on their street, twenty Masterballs, a car, or piles of rubies that appeared during the event can not be kept. This includes items they may have had access to using their abilities or interacting with the warping environment, or any items from home they didn’t already have with them. They will all disappear at the end of the event!
Will my character remember the event once it’s over? What about previous Fourth Wall events?
It is up to you if your character’s memory suddenly becomes clear and they remember previous Fourth Walls during the span of the event.
Once the event ends, your characters’ memories will be somewhat fractured and mixed up. Recalling the events of the weekend will feel like recalling an especially vivid dream, but they are honest to goodness memories. If you need a number for reference, figure that a character can remember about 80% of what happens during this three-day period.
What happened to those three days our characters mysteriously lost?
There's still no explanation for that one. The Professors won't even be reachable for a few days; don't expect them to answer your calls. To make it worse, you may not be where you were last...
Does this count for the activity check?
Fourth wall threads and posts carried out by characters who are current residents of VR are fair game for AC. Fourth-wallers and AU versions of a character currently in VR (for example, the same character played as from a different canonpoint, etc) do not count towards AC, even when played by the same player.
What if I just arrived and haven't made an in-character introduction post yet?
Feel free to arrive in the middle of the event! Your character will probably just be that much more confused. You may also hold off until after the event if you wish, in order to not become lost in the confusion.
What if I don't want to participate?
Fourth Wall is not a required event. However, it does affect the game's setting, so logging would have to be backdated or forward-dated to before or after the fourth wall. If you choose not to participate, your character may enter a glitch or be asleep during the event. They will still lose three days’ time and be disoriented like everyone else.
I have a different question…
No worries! Just comment HERE and we’ll get on that!
I’m ready to plot!
Awesome! Start a thread below and get to plottin’!
For those who have never had the chance to experience a Fourth Wall, to keep things short: things are going to get a little wacky this weekend. Or perhaps a lot wacky. Nephelis will be rounding up a lot of new visitors from all over to come and play, and those normal power restrictions? Gone! Create a fireball, create two. You can do it now! (Assuming you could do it before you came here, ain't nobody suddenly learning magic) Forced to occupy a strange and squishy human form during your normal time here? Not this weekend! Shake off those last traces of humanness and stretch your legs, wings, tail and other weird limbs you may or may not possess ordinarily.
But it wouldn't be the Fourth Wall if there wasn't some special craziness happening on top of the rest of the craziness. Hope you bought bread and milk, because this weekend, all of Johto and Kanto, and even the farthest reaches of the Sevii Islands, will be dealing with a Snomstorm!
Wait, a snowstorm, right? Nope.
Among all the thick fluffy snowflakes and heaps of perfectly malleable, begging-for-a-good-snowball-fight snow, there will be Snom. There will be so many Snom. Oh the Snommanity, they are everywhere. Hide yo children, hide yo wife, he's coming for you!
For reference, here's the basic FAQ:
What is a Fourth Wall Event?
How do you participate?
What kind of characters can participate?
What about characters coming in, can they have a Pokémon too?
Current players are also allowed to have whatever else they want in their party, but all Legendaries will depart after the weekend is over. No keeping the Groudon that followed you home!
Can my character catch Pokémon to KEEP during the event?
There are some exceptions-- Pokemon not listed on the availability pages (Johto, Kanto, Sevii) cannot be kept after the event. For example, your character may encounter a wild Chansey in Lavender Town and keep their new friend, but you would not be able to catch and keep Articuno.
Characters also may not keep Pokemon that were given to them by visiting characters-- feel free to get vague and wibbly-wobbly about how a shockingly similar wild Pokemon (as long as it's on the Availability List!) wound up in your character's possession, but nothing that a visiting character gifts to a resident one will stick around once the weekend is over.
We’re also trusting that players will keep this reasonable, and stick to just one or two Pokemon to keep after the event.
Would my non-human character remain in their VR form for the event? What about powers?
What about the environment?
Can my character keep items they find during the Fourth Wall?
Items like a new house that didn’t previously exist on their street, twenty Masterballs, a car, or piles of rubies that appeared during the event can not be kept. This includes items they may have had access to using their abilities or interacting with the warping environment, or any items from home they didn’t already have with them. They will all disappear at the end of the event!
Will my character remember the event once it’s over? What about previous Fourth Wall events?
Once the event ends, your characters’ memories will be somewhat fractured and mixed up. Recalling the events of the weekend will feel like recalling an especially vivid dream, but they are honest to goodness memories. If you need a number for reference, figure that a character can remember about 80% of what happens during this three-day period.
What happened to those three days our characters mysteriously lost?
Does this count for the activity check?
What if I just arrived and haven't made an in-character introduction post yet?
What if I don't want to participate?
I have a different question…
I’m ready to plot!
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First of all, our apologies for the somewhat late answer. It took some discussing among us. In the end, we decided that Connie'd just pop up in the TR headquarters, much as she would have had she been apped during a regular week, just with the additional jumbled memories from her time during the Fourth Wall Weekend.