Season Isolation Arc 1 Application

[Halisi Valentine]

Hello guys long time no see, it’s Halisi here with my second attempt at hosting a season. I’ve been on hiatus since S3.5 or something and feel like this would be a good way to get back into the swing of things. So here’s my sales pitch!
I'll add more as needed/ when I think of it.


Season Isolation Arc 1



Setting: Harmony Essentials Corp.



Welcome to season Isolation are you ready my eager little kittens? Well of course you are hehe. This is intended to be a long season so I’m separating it into arcs. I am not committing to a an exact amount yet so don’t ask. I am also putting a lot of work into this season and the story is something I hope you’ll die waiting for it to unravel. But before you salivate over my tasty season you have to know what it’s about.



Summary: In this season you and your fellow players will play the parts of college student going on a course required field trip. Upon arriving you are greeted with a bustling workspace. As your first assignment on this trip you go on a tour of the facility. Your tour ends on the top floor, a single room lounge area. The tour guide allows everyone to rest and get settled. Moments later he gets a call on his Bluetooth. He tells everyone to stay here as he has to respond to an emergency. You do this for thirty minutes before the group decides to investigate the holdup. Eventually a noise leads you to a room in the center of the room a mysterious figure sits.



“Welcome, Welcooome! Are you enjoying your field trip kittens? No? Aw well let me spruce things up for you. I’m sure you have questions but there is no time… there is no time left this building is going to explode in *a monitor lights up showing a countdown timer starting at ten minutes*. Well you heard the screen let’s get out of here hahaa!”



Like where I’m going with this? The major story is still a mystery but here is the gist. Your and your classmates are trapped in the business headquarters and must find you way out before the maniac “me” kills everyone.



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Here are the rules

- You must have a motivation for killing someone I.E., You believe they are withholding important information, you have gone insane.

- No doing anything impossible I.E., Busting down a metal door with your body, Teleporting to rooms.



Unique Gamplay Elements

- Insanity: At my discretion/when you make certain actions I will contact you to inform you that you have gone insane. When this happen you are expected to act as so. You have permission to kill without motive, will be difficult to communicate with “irrational”, and will develop weird habits.



- The day/night cycle will be used in this season. Nighttime is between 9pm-8am pst. During the night things are harder to see. Also the host “me” might be roaming the the halls. You seriously don’t want me to catch you so your better off finding a good hiding place and going to sleep. Remember scary things go bump in the night, if you hear scraping sounds run!



I also won’t use the hunger system due to the nature of this season, you can still eat though it might give you special effects such as increased running speed or bloat with makes you sluggish. Otherwise I’ll be using S4 systems. I’ll also contact you when certain events happen such as “Mystio I see your being a naughty boy a roaming around after dark. You hear an odd scraping sound two rooms away. Let’s play tehahahehe!”.



Character Creation is as follows



Name:

Age: “use a realistic college age”

Characteristic: “list two things about you character that helps define him/her i.e., nice, short tempered, shy.”

Optional Picture or Physical description:

[Ravan]

Hiya, random scrub here. I think it sounds overall rather interesting, though I'm uncertain as to how I'd deal with the insanity mechanic. Is it forced, or are there ways to regain your sanity or prevent yourself from going insane? I might be a tad bit weird but I tend to aim for a more pacifistic approach while playing through seasons, though that may change sooner or later. That and it'd be quite a surprise come to think of it if a normally calm person or people decided to just attempt to murder us all, though that depends on what made them go insane I suppose. Overall I'm interested though, but I'm pretty much interested in every season so far so you may want more opinions!

[Sesarim Ylesva]

It seems like you are going for a more horror feel to this season. While I personally do not like the horror genre I think It's a rather interesting in the context of a game like this. I do have some questions as to the specifics of the insanity system, seeming as how insanity is rather vague. I just hope that the system itself does not limit the player so much that playing the game how desired would be completely impossible.

[Halisi Valentine]

Since there are some confusions about insanity I'll explain it in more detail. Insanity is a state forced upon you by me if I feel the circumstances allow it.

For example Naegi is unlikely to go insane due to his personality. I will be fair with insanity though. You can go insane if you see something traumatic, your character starts to act insane, your character gets lost, or I feel like adding some excitement to the game, etc. Wanting to go insane is a valid option, like if you want to kill someone without motivation.

There are quite a few things that I'll consider before deeming someone insane. Insanity lasts for variable periods dependant on the severity/ trigger, this also affects what I instruct you to do. For example getting lost in a maze of hallways might get you a pm like this "I told you not to get lost idiot. You are now a cannibal who will kill anyone you see but you can't leave this hallway. I will not penalize you for killing. This will last indefinitely unless you receive help from a classmate." this is an example of severe insanity that will have ample warning before I impose it.

Another example is " just died infront of your eyes, because of your timidness you have gone insane. For the next 3 day you will be hard to talk to/withdrawn. If someone tries to talk to you shy away, if they're persistent enough they might be able to help you."

These examples of insanity are subject to change. I'll also make insanity pms a lot more descriptive. I feel it will be a good way to spice up the game. Although insanity is just a specific form of active event similar to confrontations from S4.

[Sesarim Ylesva]

Oh, that makes sense. Will the season be in standard kill=trial format or are we looking at something more akin to season 4? It sounds like you are leaning more to the latter.

[Ravan]

I think that addresses my worries rather well then! I'm just worried about folks intentionally attempting to go insane so they can murder without a valid motive, but I think you'll be able to balance that out. I'm interested!

[King V]

Hmm... I think the idea sounds nice, but there are some things I'm curious about.

I'd like to know if there will be trials in this game, or if there is killing just to get rid of people.

Also, is our only objective to escape, or is that just our primary objective?

I would like to comment more, but I think there are some key aspects missing here for me to go into detail.

[Halisi Valentine]

Thank you for you query, what key aspects do you feel are missing. Don't be shy. I will explain what you asked about though.

I will use formal trials, but not for every murder. I'd like to experiment with a player run trial system. In the sense that they will investigate then decide who they think did it. They may then do with the person what they want lock them up, kill them, etc. I can see certain people using this system to their advantage well. If thing get out of hand, or in certain situations I'll revert to the standard trial format.

As for your second question escape isn't an option this arc. Your primary goal this season is to survive till the conclusion, I'll be sure to keep everyone entertained. Everyone who survives is a winner, easier said than done. The other goals are to unravel the story, not die, and not be caught by me during my patrols. There is another way to win but it's a secret goal.

Are your questions answered?

[King V]

Alright, I think all the main issues have been covered.

The only other thing I'd say that needs to be addressed is if you have enough time to manage this game, or maybe you'd need a 2nd mastermind to help?

[Halisi Valentine]

I do have time to manage the game but I would like to have a second mastermind. I could use someone who uses pst so I can fill in some of the time gaps. Also I'm changing night time hours, they are now 9pm-10am est / 6pm-7am pst. Some players might want to play past 6pm so that's where the second mastermind comes in. Nighttime will still be in effect at the given times however.