GNOSIA INFECTION PLAYER PLOT

[expiationmods]

Monday, July 15. Characters wake to a message on their tablets, bearing a seldom-seen emergency symbol. Leaving their homes, the Chosen realize two things: one, the locals seem to be glitching more than usual, and two, somehow, they cannot leave the city. The message they receive is as follows:

⚠️GNOSIA INFECTION DETECTED

THE ERADICATION OF YOUR EXISTENCE IS IMMINENT; PLEASE TREAT THE INFECTION ACCORDINGLY. YOU HAVE 7 DAYS BEFORE YOUR PROJECTED DESTRUCTION.

IT IS IMPERATIVE THAT YOU ELIMINATE THE GNOSIA.

Shortly after the message goes live, all characters are assigned a role: GNOSIA, DOCTOR, GUARDIAN ANGEL, AC FOLLOWER, or CREW. Somehow, you know intrinsically.

In short, July’s world effects have triggered a citywide Gnosia infection. Welcome to the event for July! We’ll be playing a city wide round of Gnosia, y’all. For context, Gnosia is a werewolf style game wherein there are two factions: GNOSIA VS HUMANS.

Gnos is seemingly an alien force or God. An aberration, a kind of glitch-like creature that infects people and turns them into Gnosia. Gnosia all have the same goal: the extinguishment of life and subsumption into the Gnos. But what is Gnos, in actuality? I won’t spoil the fun; that may be more plot relevant than you know at this moment.

All of Aldrip will be forced to interact and engage with one another in a much smaller and more tight knit proximity than usual. NPCs are not behaving as expected; you may notice that they appear to be “loading” when you enter locations, and that they aren’t behaving as humanly or seamlessly as they should. Should players opt out of this event, they’ll be able to retain some level of normalcy despite this. While this happens, participating characters in Aldrip will be pushed closer and closer towards the center of the city.

We have five roles: Gnosia, Doctor, Guardian Angel, AC Follower, and Crew.

GNOSIA

So, when you’re infected with Gnos, you become Gnosia. You have an instinct to kill and cannot fight it. Some Gnosia are inclined towards sadism and brutality, even going as far as to do very unsavory things to their victims before killing them (or holding them hostage) while others are actually more honorable, not wanting to kill their victims painfully or lie to achieve their goals. It aligns with the person’s personality, ultimately. To be Gnosia is not a complete subversion of your personality or some transformation into a villain, inherently – it’s moreso a state of being that taps into the worst parts of you and coaxes them out to extreme degrees. All Gnosia have to kill, and while some are capable of feeling guilt over it, it does not deter them from manipulating, lying, or brutalizing people.

A murder by Gnosia is certain death, as they warp reality to essentially wipe you out of existence. It does not matter how physically powerful or capable you are; Gnosia have the ability to effectively bend the laws of reality and stop time to remove you from the world as we know it. Gnosia try to seem as human as possible to avoid being detected. Gnosia have special forms that they can activate on will, so feel free to get wild with how their appearances might change! Gnosia generally work together, but it’s up to you whether or not you want your character to cooperate. All Gnosia are privy to who else is Gnosia. We’ve also implemented a mechanic that allows Gnosia to kill each other if they so desire. Not in the game, but who doesn’t love a little friendly fire, right? Gnosia can only use their insta-kill mechanic once per day.

AC Follower

A standard human being who is a devout follower of the Gnosia; it’s a form of cultism, where a human being will do anything to help the Gnosia achieve their goal, even if they’re inevitably killed by them.

On the CREW side, we have:

Doctor

A Doctor, in this event, is a person who can cure a Gnos infection. Within the context of this event, curing someone essentially kills the “Gnos” part of them. They can only do this once per day. You can decide how you want your character to cure this infection. Want to play out surgery? Go for it! Regardless of your character’s medical credentials or morality, they are the only people capable of eliminating Gnosia.

If your character is Gnosia and was cured, they can either be unconscious for the rest of the event or become Crew.

Guardian Angel

Can protect anyone from a Gnosia’s insta-kill attack. They can only do this once per day. Guardian Angels have the ability to interfere with the space time continuum and block Gnosia attack. Think of it as a magical ability your character has been granted.

Crew

A regular human being, but still integral to winning.

This event ends after seven days. So, on Monday, July 22, the invisible walls keeping characters in Aldrip disappear. Everyone who was killed comes back. Any former-Gnosia who was cured and unconscious wakes up. The NPCs return to normal. There will, as always, be an OOC poll that goes up when the event post drops.

How does this work OOCly?
Players will either choose their character’s role, or can sign up for RNG in the comments of this post, where we will randomize it for you. Opting out of the event takes the form of assigning a character the role of “crew” and letting them live their normal life.

Characters keep their normal powers and abilities regardless of the role they are assigned. Additionally, all effects from the July SOTG/plotting posts will remain in play, if you wish to use them.

The exposition and message provided will be more extensive in the log itself. This is a plotting heavy event; however, if you are more OTA to spontaneity, you can mark any future top levels indicating that you’re open to character death and so on. This event deeply encourages and emphasizes CR–it was explicitly designed to give characters opportunities to kill or save others when they typically wouldn’t. It is oriented around testing the limits and boundaries of your CR, or cultivating new CR in a fraught week, rife with tension as people have to gauge who is being honest and who isn’t. Please feel welcome to get creative with and ask as many questions as needed!

Comments

RNG SIGNUPS FOR ROLES

[expiationmods]

[drugsnotclubs]

👀👀👀

Gimme rng they all sounds great????

[nilhilistic]

rng me into the deep.

[grappler]

let's fucking go

[garbagecanned]

fuck me up

[killjoyprince]

You didn't see me fat fingers delete my og comment

[marakunda]

RNG please! They all sound hilarious.

[conflictresolution]

What's the worst that could happen?

[nullificates]

woop

[spidermenaces]

bleep

[icequeenly]

RNG please 👀

[everblooms]

god could stop me but i wouldnt listen anyway

[cartridgerefill]

do it coward RNG ME

[coolerjunpei]

hit me

[mightymorphin]

I'm here for some chaos

[starringsecond]

hit me up, fam

[arachnerina]

hit me with your best shot

[apeshift]

marco will be deeply unhappy with whatever role he gets so hell yeah fuck me up fam

[murderingjustice]

RNG my pancakes.

EVENT RELATED / OPTIONAL

[bonobos]

Hi everyone! I'm the one responsible for this event and will be writing a majority of the log for it. Just wanted to throw some tidbits in here.



Gnosia characters have stats! This will not be a part of the event beyond inspiring specific prompts, but feel free to think about them in relation to your character for funsies. I'll be posting a template soon. Gnosia themselves also 1) are informed by past trauma and will canonically be reminded of it 2) have cool forms you can come with! (this image is hard on the eyes, so be careful!)

If you have any specific questions, qualms, or suggestions about what you'd like to see implemented in the log feel free to let me know. I'd like to make this event as accessible and engaging as possible.

NON-RNG ROLES

[expiationmods]

For those who aren't taking part in the RNG, please post the roles you're picking here so we can keep track of who's who!

manjiro sano

[invinciblemikey]

lmao doctor

[rebellions]

Some quick questions for this event! I think I have a general idea of how each role would play out, but just to make sure I get it right:

-) for Gnosia, the insta-kill mechanic is limited to once per day, but how about the good, old murder of the normal variety? Is there anything limiting that, too, or could someone hypothetically go on a completely unhinged killing spree if capable of doing so? Asking for a friend, of course.

-) for AC followers, I assume they have no way of discerning who is a Gnosia, and would need to find out by other means if they want to help someone, correct?

Thanks in advance!

[bonobos]

1) Hilariously enough we discussed this as we were plotting the event -- there is in fact nothing stopping you from simply murdering people. Just beware that Jerry might be able to get you on that one.

2) I had to think about this one, but based on how AC Follower works in game, the implication is that they know who the Gnosia are but the Gnosia don't know who they are until they start showing efforts to actively help them. So basically, the AC Followers can discern who Gnosia are and I'll leave it up to you guys how you want that to manifest. Is it the look in their eyes? Their smell? A sense? Who knows!

[drugsnotclubs]

Another question! The Gnosia can be cured-- do the AC Followers have to be restrained and/or killed to make them stop?

(ride of die simps smfh )

[bonobos]

Yes! If the Gnosia they're especially attached to gets cured, you can absolutely grapple with that conflict, especially because AC Followers are human. But ultimately, AC Followers are loyal to the Gnosia first and foremost.

2 EXTREMELY SPECIFIC QUESTIONS, 1 GENERAL

[ashaya]

1. If a gnosia-gnosia duo working together hypothetically established a kind of tenuous mental connection and one was cured, what would happen? Would it be a tug-of-war situation wherein they would have to battle out the influence of the other? Or would the one that was cured be able to cure the infected individual passively?

2. If a gnosia was, say, a telepath that can cause emotional transference through skin-to-skin contact, what would that do to someone who is uninfected?

3. Given that some of these gnosia aren't overt in their methods and some are pacifistic at baseline, I assume more creative methods would also satisfy their bloodlust? For example: kiting other gnosia who are indiscriminate in their killing into traps, using traps and passively collecting prey in a specific location for later dates and/or individuals, etc.? More complicity instead of overt murder, in other words. This is more for the benefit of others as I was able to dig around do research myself and it seems to be fine(?), but of course I wanted to clarify it!

[bonobos]

1. It would be a psychic battle and a fierce one at that — the cured party would be capable of hearing a flurry of disembodied voices as well, many of which belong to other Gnosia, so the aggregate subconscious driving the need to kill. Have fun with that!

2. It wouldn’t infect someone else so to speak, but some of that bloodlust would transfer, even if momentarily — being Gnosia also pries open a lot of mental wounds that have informed you, so remnants of and responses to trauma that the character has internalized would transfer as well.

3. Absolutely. There is canonically a character who has an ending where she makes you her “pet” for the rest of the eternity and the unsavory implications that come with that. While the endgoal is to kill someone and subsume them into the Gnos, you can absolutely play with your food and derive satisfaction from it so to speak.

[memori3s]

Idk why this hasn't been asked yet but. Will death penalties still be in place for the event? Like how if you die IC you come back a week later a Little Off? Or will that be turned off like it was during the most recent Tower event?

Listen this just seems like highly relevant information. Ok. I would like to see it.

[expiationmods]

It'll be like the Tower deaths! Aren't you lucky this time...