Channel 69

The Station producers are at it again, and this time they're going all out to be as culturally sensitive as possible!

And failing miserably, but what can you expect from aliens trying to accommodate all possible seasonal festivities for species, race, and religion?

It's autumn in the system, with the peak of harvest season on Iyama and the chill of winter creeping in on Vaigantu. (Xengides is always hot and miserable so no one cares.) With the change of the season, the producers decided to look to the many worlds and ways of the players to consider a celebration for all. Since no single event could truly encompass the interests of all players, they decided on a compromise: try everything!

The morning announcements go out, every player receiving a new alert as the station temperatures begin to drop. The environmental adjustments require light coats on lower decks kept at a reasonable autumnal chill, but the closer to the grand garden observation dome one gets, the colder it becomes, until players reach the converted space, now a winter wonderland with real ice and snow! As usual during large scale sponsored events, shops have set up here and there, offering Terran novelty delicacies like "pumpkin spice lattes" and "hot cocoa" imported from the planet. There are other offerings to represent all present players including sled rentals, ice-skating, dances, feasts, treats, costumes, all culminating in a (gently encouraged but not required) station-wide gift exchange event.

In the chilly, snow-covered dome, all manner of winter games and activities are available. Every five days for the next two months a massive feast will be held in which all food is completely free of charge, provided by sponsors of the broadcasts.

The first feast is for players only, no station staff or visitors allowed to attend. Attendance is compulsory for players and serves three functions: welcoming former station players returning as vip guests to celebrate the anniversary of the station's new management, welcoming new players just arriving, and explaining the next major payout challenge: a horror film.

Upon recently discovering the phenomenon of the horror film genre's popularity, the producers have decided to increase their viewership by terrorizing the players. Won't this be fun?

All (questionably willingly) event registered players are being sent to an island on Vaigantu for one week. Players will be assigned the role of "killer" and "victim" in an elaborate game of tag. A killer catches a victim and enacts with them a square of their choice, not the victim, and ONLY the killer can fill a square on their card. After that, the killer is reassigned the role of victim, and the former victim becomes the killer, and chases begin anew.

No laws or protections are in place on Vaigantu. the only guarantee is that medical personnel are on call and ready to assist in the event players are grievously injured.

Beware, just because players are on a "safe" island does not mean that raiders may not be present and the flora and fauna are always dangerous! But, after a week, all villains with successful captures (and sexual encounters), whether they complete a square on their card or not, get a 1000 credit bonus for EACH encounter. The villains reap the rewards of their wickedness!

After the week is up, players may enjoy all the celebrations free of charge.

Enjoy the season, Players. Put on a good show!

Waking one morning ( or afternoon, or evening, depending on the character ) the Players find an alert from Channel 69 waiting to be read. Opening the link starts a short video with rousing music inspired by grand fantasy adventures. In the video a group of people in a collage are shown to all put on the new at-home VR headsets while laying down in their respective beds on their respective worlds, to suddenly all be loaded into a game together, in the same virtual world, each one a character presumably of their design, wearing various types of class-based outfits. They run off together into a brilliant dawn towards a back-lit fantasy medieval kingdom, the dazzling title of the game coming into focus, shaped from gold and flames.


HEROES FALL

A narrator advertises the latest installment of a favorite VR game with the release of the latest at-home VR hardware. All new Players are being gifted a VR set of their own, which they are allowed to keep provided they clock a certain number of hours on Heroes Fall Online, which will act as entertainment and publicity. Other games can be purchased for the headset if the Player so desires, but the VR only comes with Heroes Fall installed for play.

Heroes Fall is a fantasy adventure game in which Players explore a large world plagued by great evil, which they can choose to fight against or join. Many dangers fill the land in the form of demons, wicked spell-casters, mutated flora and fauna, and even other Players. The Players can run afoul of many things that may change them over time, as everything a Player eats or drinks has potential life-altering effects.

As a game designed for people on The Station to interact with others off-world, naturally it's heavily focused on sex. This can, of course, be avoided if a Player is particularly canny, but the most important aspects of the game allow Players to experience things otherwise impossible by their physical standards, helping to fulfill more complex articles on their bingo cards.



[OOC Note] The game used for the VR Heroes Fall basis is Fenoxo's Corruption of Champions ( first edition ). People can make their own threads about playing in the game with other players. This post is for the sole purpose of each player having a place to put an updated avatar description. The way this will work is that you design an avatar in Corruption of Champions that your character would start with in Heroes Fall. Play CoC as though your character were playing it. Assume your character can feel and experience everything that happens to their avatar in the game! How will this have an effect on them, mentally and emotionally? What sort of guilty experiences do they seek out? This is an excellent way for characters to discover things about themselves they might have been too embarrassed to explore, or that just aren't possible (gore/vore/corruption).

As a character progresses through CoC, what they look like often changes, sometimes dramatically. Be sure to update your character post whenever you go to start a new thread about playing in VR with other players. That way people have a consistent reference for your character's avatar.