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WHAT TIME IS IT?
Hey there, Johto! It’s time for the first of our twice-yearly Fourth Wall Events! The wacky weekend will start on May 25th, and last until May 27th!
The usual rules from previous fourth walls will be carrying over here, and the gist of the event is that STUFF’S GETTING WEIRD AROUND HERE. Johto and Kanto will both be subject to a lot of unfamiliar new visitors from across multiple different universes as Nephilis rounds them up to come and play, and each will be given a Pokemon! Even better, the normal restrictions on everyone’s bodies or powers will be lifted. Anything goes for the weekend!
A mod-hosted mingle will go up at midnight, which will act as a bit of a catch-all for general fourth wall threads from both new and old characters. Players can make their own logs and network posts if they don’t want to use the catch-all and guests are more than welcome to hit up those as well!
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 traveling. 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’!
The usual rules from previous fourth walls will be carrying over here, and the gist of the event is that STUFF’S GETTING WEIRD AROUND HERE. Johto and Kanto will both be subject to a lot of unfamiliar new visitors from across multiple different universes as Nephilis rounds them up to come and play, and each will be given a Pokemon! Even better, the normal restrictions on everyone’s bodies or powers will be lifted. Anything goes for the weekend!
A mod-hosted mingle will go up at midnight, which will act as a bit of a catch-all for general fourth wall threads from both new and old characters. Players can make their own logs and network posts if they don’t want to use the catch-all and guests are more than welcome to hit up those as well!
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!
QUESTIONS
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For this Fourthwall, Ford's going to be spending most of it as a wee little twelve year old! He'll have vague memories of people he knows, but they'll be through the lens of a twelve year old's brain. So he'll recognize friends as friends and know some basic stuff about them, but maybe not be clear on all the specifics of everything that's gone on in VR or anything pertaining to discussion of stuff that happened to him as an adult. He's also absolutely the kind of kid to chalk it up to 'time shenanigans' and be super into this explanation. He'll be spending most of the event running around after every rustling bush or snapping twig that might be a legendary Pokémon.
I also do have high school Ford available if anyone wants a well-meaning insufferable idiot instead of a nerdy ray of sunshine.
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any dad is better that canon dad honestly please give this child literally any positive adult male interaction
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+ 1 giant robot dog
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Bill will be hanging around, being generally evil and plotting dumb schemes.
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/Possessed Dipper hates his life.
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/human body Bill WOULD hate his life, but he hasn't tripped over his long sexy legs yet and broken both of them
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and blind themselves with human sodano subject
For those not in the know, this is Reiner Braun, the antagonist/protagonist of Attack on Titan (it's complicated). This will be the third Fourth Wall where he's shown up, and while he usually just hangs out with Bertolt for the weekend, I'm going to top level with him this time. So if anyone wants to talk to a beaten down war veteran who's an old man at twenty-one years old, Reiner is your guy! He'll also know more about the AoT universe and will, for the right person, spill some of those deets.
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Ask him about Trost, Shiro. Find out what really happened to Marco!
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definitely this guy
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like how to tell your buddy he's a furry
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let's just say yes
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So Dipper's getting possessed because I'm terrible. So. If anyone wants to get freaked out by why Dipper is suddenly talking WEIRDLY and has weird eyes. HELLO THERE!
Also if anyone wants to have Bill creepily know stuff about their character. I'm 100% open to having that and have Dipper not remember any of it.
cw: he's a metaphor for a lot of dark themes
If yes, I'm bringing the Beast and also his forest from the Unknown. For people who don't know what the means....welcome to, "How is This a Kids Show, Cartoon Network? No, Not the One With the Magic Gems."
The Beast is a totally nice guy who will see you safely through his forest. Or at least you know, help you get more and more lost until you give up on hope and life and become part of the forest. Then you'll turn into a tree and he'll use the oil from said tree to keep his lantern lit.
He'll be around or maybe he'll just be in the background, being creepy and singing opera. He does that too. The forest will be here though and it's the type of forest that screams, lost. You are lost. The more depressed, tired or just fed up with life you are, the more you are likely to lose energy and start to become a tree.
If anyone has any questions, or wants to get their character almost turned into a tree, or halfway a tree. Or just talk to the weird guy with the lantern. Hit me up. Or hit up whatever I post in the 4th wall. :P
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/says no one but the Beast.
Aka: yup. it also works if you've just run out of energy and are completely physically drained as well.
But the real spirit behind the forest and beast is that the more lost you are mentally, the more lost you become in the forest. And if you give up, or just rest when your mind is like that, the forest will start to move in. Branches will start to grow around you, slowly turning you into a tree for the beast to harvest for oil.
Also you get this asshole singing in the background/nearby because apparently the creepy metaphor tree creature likes opera.
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He will in no way, keep you distracted enough that you don't notice the tree branches growing over you.
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One: Botan can now visit your character's dreams, this is the only way she can appear to people in her spirit form. Whoops.
Two: Maka can see your sooouuuullll. Her other abilities can only be shown with Soul (Eater, the boy) and aren't developed at this point, but Soul Perception is on point.
Three: Xion is here. She has a giant key and can do magic now. Otherwise she's mostly the same (except certain people might see her with a different face.)
Also possibilities: one (1) space-bending dog girl god, and...I don't know, possibly people here depending.
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I'm probably going to bring in parts of Edwards Island and with it, the time glitching loop. So if you want to walk somewhere with Alex and then suddenly get sent back to the start of that moment a few times......
She's going to be really annoyed. But happy because anyone with her will remember the time loops. Also hey background music changed (Oxenfree has really good background music)
Also the real Sunken might show up if anyone wants to meet a bunch of trapped spirits who will not be pleased Alex managed to get out but they didn't.
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Rakka come experience annoying time loops with Alex. She'll be so happy you actually remember them that it will take the sting off of, OH GOD THIS AGAIN, at least a little.