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OOC

A Bright and Beautiful Moon is a storyline to be run primarily within the FF14 MMO with scenes in Discord for supplementary material. It’s not tied to a specific FC, and will accept any player who wishes to sign up for events. 

The scenarios for this storyline are small, meant to hold 4-6 participants at a time. They will be scheduled in advance for sign-up for all available members, and will usually occur on weekday evenings.

Events are scheduled in the Roll Eorzea Discord server, and IC posts and events taking place outside of the game can occur there in a separate IC channel. Events will primarily take place on Balmung server, but Travelers and Wanderers with an interest are welcome.

Content Warning

This is a storyline about war crimes and collaboration with an occupying regime. While they won’t always be at the forefront of each event, you should expect those themes to inform much of the plot. As such, you should expect reference to a large variety of potentially triggering content, including but not limited to: Self-harm, suicide, drug use, violence (both graphic and not), systemic and individual forms of abuse, and implied sexual assault. While the storyline won’t be entirely bleak, you should consider if engaging with such content would be more harm to you than not, and plan accordingly.

Rules

This is a dice-based storyline, and uses the ED10 system linked below. It’s a system designed to be used in-game with /random read as 3d10 instead of a d1000, and should be accessible to all players. If you need assistance with building a character sheet or understanding the rules, members of the Discord are happy to assist.

ED10: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WGQ8lEFzF1qEGZR1nlbD0ERlSU5jwKneie-9vS123J8/edit?usp=sharing

Storyline-Specific Character Creation Rules: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hStY30aSPU1LeuuUuKNvAcItMKlliygFeEiZ65Ha-V8/edit?usp=sharing

Storyline Structure

The storyline takes place in chapters, in which one or more (usually more) events are posted for players to sign up for as they see fit. Scheduling for the event is posted with the sign-up list, but if players are having difficulty attending to the extent an event can’t happen, then they can be rescheduled.

It’s considered polite to only sign up for one event in a chapter, even if there are multiple events you think your character would want to attend, unless it’s only a couple of days before an event starts, it has very few attendees and nobody has yet taken an interest. 

Turns

Most of the storyline will be event-based, whether that’s in a Discord channel or in-game. Sometimes you may want to do things on your own, or you decide your character is going to be proactive and do something for which there is no event. That’s what Turns are for.

Every chapter you’ll get two Turns. You can use them between events like so: 

Background actions, doing things like research, spying, gathering information, shuffling money around, and recuperating from past events. If the DM decides you’d have to roll for it and success or failure could be significant, this costs one Turn.

You can also do an IC writeup of the results of your action. This is optional, but if you do, you get a free reroll on your next event.

Schedule a group event. You want to take the fight to the enemy, confront someone unexpectedly, or break into someplace risky, and bring along some friends. This costs at least four Turns among everybody attending, and everybody attending has to spend at least one Turn.

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