minacia
perpetually sour
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On the opposite side of the isekai portal...
The Background Story:
A mysterious portal opened to an unknown isekai universe. We would like you to travel through it and write letters back about what you see.
Unfortunately, the portal appears to be mostly uni-directional (except for text messages), so it's not possible for you to return to Earth. However, if you (politely) ask the receptionist to send you a care package, maybe they will be nice enough to send it through the portal...
Gameplay:
As an isekai explorer:
Reply to this thread with a report describing what you see or did.
The report should contain a subject, which is the primary topic the report is about. Subjects should be easily classifiable topics, like the title of an encyclopedia entry. Examples of subjects include: "Goblin" "Scribble Village" or "Poison Flower".
Reports should also contain a body, which is a free-form written narrative.
Finally, sign the letter with your character's name.
As a portal receptionist:
Find a report that hasn't been filed and quote the post.
Evaluate whether you think it is believable. If yes, add the report to the Official Google Doc (classify the subject in the right category, such as Geography, Monsters, Plants) and link the original post. The purpose of the Google Doc is to help keep track of things that different players have discovered / added to the universe.
If you want, send a care package to the isekai explorer.
Rules:
- You cannot evaluate your own reports. Find someone else to evaluate your posts.
- Only one subject per report. If you have multiple subjects you want to focus on, split it into multiple reports.
- Try to be flexible. This is a casual world-building game, and it works better if we all understand the universe is flexible (i.e. multiple magic systems can co-exist, there are many species of dragons with different characteristics).
- Majority belief = canon. If 99% of everyone agrees there are three moons, yet one person says there are 19 moons, the majority wins...
- Don't do anything that breaks things for other players (i.e. blow up a city that a different player is living in).
And yes... this is basically a spin-off of the adventurer's guild, but a lot more casual and free-form.
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