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2022-12-01T19:59:19Z

‎Entertainment

Marr0w at 01:16, 12 August 2022

2022-08-12T01:16:59Z

Marr0w at 04:15, 21 October 2019

2019-10-21T04:15:29Z

Marr0w at 05:14, 5 September 2019

2019-09-05T05:14:41Z

Marr0w at 00:21, 5 August 2019

2019-08-05T00:21:40Z

Marr0w at 15:36, 25 July 2019

2019-07-25T15:36:17Z

Marr0w at 15:34, 25 July 2019

2019-07-25T15:34:40Z

Marr0w at 15:26, 25 July 2019

2019-07-25T15:26:26Z

Marr0w: It's Mabase City, not Twisted City. We shouldn't have a TPD unless it's world-wide.

2019-04-07T15:47:16Z

It's Mabase City, not Twisted City. We shouldn't have a TPD unless it's world-wide.

Marr0w: Added new information. SURPRISE!!

2019-04-07T06:10:23Z

Added new information. SURPRISE!!

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 ===Entertainment===
-Being a multiverse setting, the options for entertainment are pretty unlimited - which is why certain things are in high demand. Video rental kiosks called [[24*7#Canarybox|Canaryboxes]] exist randomly around the grid and stores are likely to always have that one unique item that only someone from a particular world could identify. It is assumed that the television and radio stations are handled in much the same way with a rather ridiculous assortment of shows from [[2009-02-06_(PreU)_And_now_a_word_from_our_sponsors|various universes]]. This, however, poses a small problem since everyone is in a form of media in another universe it seems. Typically people try not to make a big deal of it. If it's logical for your character to have watched a TV show about another character that's fine. Just don't be a fanboy about it unless both parties are OOCly okay with it. Don't use knowledge about a character's on-screen weakness against them.
+Being a multiverse setting, the options for entertainment are pretty unlimited - which is why certain things are in high demand. Video rental kiosks called [[Canarybox|Canaryboxes]] exist randomly around the grid and stores are likely to always have that one unique item that only someone from a particular world could identify. It is assumed that the television and radio stations are handled in much the same way with a rather ridiculous assortment of shows from [[2009-02-06_(PreU)_And_now_a_word_from_our_sponsors|various universes]]. This, however, poses a small problem since everyone is in a form of media in another universe it seems. Typically people try not to make a big deal of it. If it's logical for your character to have watched a TV show about another character that's fine. Just don't be a fanboy about it unless both parties are OOCly okay with it. Don't use knowledge about a character's on-screen weakness against them.
 Normally if a character is active on the grid, that character's "original media" just-so-happens to be a rare thing at the time. This is out of respect. That being said, be careful when leaving Twisted as characters might just end up where they don't belong or worse - someone might make a TV show out of you...

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 ===Entertainment===
-Being a multiverse setting, the options for entertainment are pretty unlimited - which is why certain things are in high demand. Video rental kiosks called [[24*7#Canary_Box|Canary Boxes]] exist randomly around the grid and stores are likely to always have that one unique item that only someone from a particular world could identify. It is assumed that the television and radio stations are handled in much the same way with a rather ridiculous assortment of shows from [[2009-02-06_(PreU)_And_now_a_word_from_our_sponsors|various universes]]. This, however, poses a small problem since everyone is in a form of media in another universe it seems. Typically people try not to make a big deal of it. If it's logical for your character to have watched a TV show about another character that's fine. Just don't be a fanboy about it unless both parties are OOCly okay with it. Don't use knowledge about a character's on-screen weakness against them.
+Being a multiverse setting, the options for entertainment are pretty unlimited - which is why certain things are in high demand. Video rental kiosks called [[24*7#Canarybox|Canaryboxes]] exist randomly around the grid and stores are likely to always have that one unique item that only someone from a particular world could identify. It is assumed that the television and radio stations are handled in much the same way with a rather ridiculous assortment of shows from [[2009-02-06_(PreU)_And_now_a_word_from_our_sponsors|various universes]]. This, however, poses a small problem since everyone is in a form of media in another universe it seems. Typically people try not to make a big deal of it. If it's logical for your character to have watched a TV show about another character that's fine. Just don't be a fanboy about it unless both parties are OOCly okay with it. Don't use knowledge about a character's on-screen weakness against them.
 Normally if a character is active on the grid, that character's "original media" just-so-happens to be a rare thing at the time. This is out of respect. That being said, be careful when leaving Twisted as characters might just end up where they don't belong or worse - someone might make a TV show out of you...

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 Twisted is no longer a world. It is the remains of a city suspended in that darkness that it was created from. All around it are fragments of the world it was to become and locations that bled through from other realities. Some of these smaller floating fragments would be pulled into the city, others connected by bridges of varying quality. Each of these pieces are still bound to their original worlds and because of that they have their own skies, air, and even time (as time itself is a quantifiable resource in the Darkness.) The more stable of these fragments can even be used to enter and leave these worlds as easily as one would once have walked down the Twisted Street.
 ===The Council===
 Since Twisted was colonized, there have been those who've sought to bring order to this world, and some who have tried to control it. Currently control is held by a ruling Council who reside in a floating palace above the center of the remaining city. They act in place of the missing woman who was elected to govern Twisted, the [[Setsuna|Lady Setsuna]]. She vanished a year after being chosen leaving behind the AI Synth, [[Bishop 3.2]], who was already brought to Twisted to maintain its stability. Because of this Bishop himself chose the Council which now governs. It was shortly after this that the Twisted Street was destroyed. Through their valiant efforts peace has been maintained in the newly rechristened city of Mabase. But how much longer can that peace last?

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 Since Twisted was colonized, there have been those who've sought to bring order to this world, and some who have tried to control it. Currently control is held by a ruling Council who reside in a floating palace above the center of the remaining city. They act in place of the missing woman who was elected to govern Twisted, the [[Setsuna|Lady Setsuna]]. She vanished a year after being chosen leaving behind the AI Synth, [[Bishop 3.2]], who was already brought to Twisted to maintain its stability. Because of this Bishop himself chose the Council which now governs. It was shortly after this that the Twisted Street was destroyed. Through their valiant efforts peace has been maintained in the newly rechristened city of Mabase. But how much longer can that peace last?
-===M.C.P.D. and Other Worlds===
+===M.C.P.D.===
-The Mabase City Police Department, or M.C.P.D.,  was founded by [[Rayne|Rayne Hurris]] after the previous peace keeping entity [[:Category:TASK|TASK]] was disbanded. TASK was originally put in place to prevent "contamination" from reaching worlds which found themselves connected to Twisted - a futile effort as other worlds where simply another layer of Twisted and portals where simply an easier means of passing between them. Already stretching themselves thin trying to maintain stability and order as TASK - the recent discovery of the veil of worlds was decided enough to finally clean the slate of the organization so that a proper police force could be put in its place.
+The Mabase City Police Department, or M.C.P.D.,  was founded by [[Rayne|Rayne Hurris]] after the previous peace keeping entity [[:Category:TASK|TASK]] was disbanded. TASK was originally put in place to prevent "contamination" from reaching worlds which found themselves connected to Twisted - a futile effort as other worlds where simply another layer of Twisted and portals where simply an easier means of passing between them. Already stretching themselves thin trying to maintain stability and order as TASK - the recent discovery of the veil of worlds was decided enough to finally clean the slate of the organization so that a proper police force could be put in its place. The M.C.P.D. is now a respected institution run independent of any current ruling Council and is focused on helping the citizens of Mabase and preventing crime from running rampant.
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-The M.C.P.D. is now a respected institution run independent of the current ruling Council focused on helping citizens of Mabase and preventing crime from running rampant as it's nearly impossible to control the influx of people arriving from other worlds in the multiverse. While typically everyone arriving from other worlds is given a fair chance at being a good citizen, M.C.P.D. has the ability to reach out to neighboring worlds and request information about criminals who may be at large within the city. This is usually only done for specifically bad troublemakers or when additional information simply can't be acquired through other means.
 ===The Usual Restaurant===
 Noteworthy in the city of Mabase is [[The Usual Restaurant]] which was the first structure ever connected to the once great Twisted Street. As multiple realities are simply another layer to each other some constants, like the UR, become nearly indestructible permanent features of Twisted. This means that while a location like the Usual can be damaged or destroyed the influence of its multiverse counterparts tend to repair the damage much like a rising tide. There are a few constants like this across multiple realities, but the UR is a very unique example. Because of its nature people from other worlds can find themselves entering their own world's Restaurant but step out finding themselves on Twisted or vice versa. Usually such events are attributed to Chaos as they cannot be prevented or controlled. Luckily such occasions are extremely rare.
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 Luckily the Usual Restaurant is largely the same across the multiverse and entering the establishment in one world will drag a character back to Twisted. This isn't immediately apparent at first, but if a Twisted character should go into a UR with a group on one world they would leave the Restaurant alone back on the Twisted Street upon trying to exit. Something that makes remembering the way back very important.
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 ===Exploration===
 While there are many ways a person could conceivably obtain money on Twisted a new addition is exploring the surrounding void for the most valuable resource - land. Chunks of the old cities and pieces of lost worlds drift in the darkness waiting to be rediscovered and somehow pulled to be reconnected to the main land mass for a hefty profit. Talk to staff if you're interested in running or participating in one of these types of plotlines! Having your own transportation is a must.
 ===Entertainment===

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 ===Technology===
 With the overlapping realities which make up Twisted most businesses operate in a state somewhere around 20th-21st century Earth in terms of layout and technologies. This was chosen partly because of the ready familiarity to them, but mostly because many of the buildings themselves where uprooted and deposited into the city whole. That being said it's not considered out of place to find a holographic informational kiosk nestled between two vending machines offering goods from whatever world they originated. Despite the recent destruction cars and other vehicles are still a fairly common sight. Luckily there seems to be a surplus which have fallen through the cracks between worlds over the years.
 ===Entertainment===

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 Noteworthy in the city of Mabase is [[The Usual Restaurant]] which was the first structure ever connected to the once great Twisted Street. As multiple realities are simply another layer to each other some constants, like the UR, become nearly indestructible permanent features of Twisted. This means that while a location like the Usual can be damaged or destroyed the influence of its multiverse counterparts tend to repair the damage much like a rising tide. There are a few constants like this across multiple realities, but the UR is a very unique example. Because of its nature people from other worlds can find themselves entering their own world's Restaurant but step out finding themselves on Twisted or vice versa. Usually such events are attributed to Chaos as they cannot be prevented or controlled. Luckily such occasions are extremely rare.
 ===The Twisted Street===
 Twisted is the name given to the planetoid which the city was built upon. Likewise Twisted Street was the first street built on Twisted and depending on whom you talk to, the road existed everywhere at the same time. The world was originally a chaotic, uninhabitable landscape which few where willing to attempt to visit let alone build a settlement. However, necessity being the mother of invention, enough people found themselves here that a city was built and the chaos was pushed back.
-The Twisted Street mostly built itself in this chaos. It was formed from pieces of roads from all those overlapped worlds and had it not been destroyed one could have chosen a direction and walked it only to find themselves deposited on any of those possible worlds purely at random. For this reason elaborate measures were taken to prevent this. Walking in one direction would /usually/ bring you to the other side of the Street to allow you to keep walking in the same direction. While this disorientates some, it was considered the safest alternative. Going out past the wastelands that surround Twisted City was too dangerous for even the toughest explorers with the best possible equipment.
+The Twisted Street mostly built itself in this chaos. It was formed from pieces of roads from all those overlapped worlds and had it not been destroyed one could have chosen a direction and walked it only to find themselves deposited on any of those possible worlds purely at random. Currently the road appears to end just past the current edges of the planetoid and fragment off into the darkness. However in reality the street still continues on and the broken pieces are all slowly attempting to pull themselves together...
 ===People===
-People on Twisted are usually lumped into two groups. Natives and visitors. Natives of Twisted have either been here their entire lives or have been born here over the years that the settlements have existed. Visitors are the standard fare who find themselves uprooted from their home world and deposited somewhere in the habitable areas at random. Many times they aren't even aware of the transition. For this reason people are assigned specifically to greet newcomers and most citizens are happy to explain the situation to confused visitors or at least point them towards a place where they can get settled in.
+People on Twisted are usually lumped into two groups. Natives and visitors. Natives of Twisted have either been here their entire lives or have been born here over the years that the settlements have existed. Visitors are the standard fare who find themselves uprooted from their home world and deposited somewhere in the habitable areas at random. Many times they aren't even aware of the transition. For this reason people are assigned specifically to greet newcomers and most citizens are happy to explain the situation to confused visitors or at least point them towards a place where they can get settled in. Currently these greeters can be found in the M.C.P.D. Courthouse Welcome Center.
-===Staying===
+===Housing and Economy===
-For new visitors places like the [[Integra%27s_Arms_Apartments|Integra's Arms Apartments]] and The Usual Restaurant exist where people can find food and shelter for free. Abusing technologies which exist only because of the multiversal nature of Twisted, these locations offer their services free of charge to anyone who enters. Because of this the UR also adopted an open door policy for employment where upon anyone may come in off the street and put on a uniform to be a barkeep or waiter. Wages are paid exclusively from tips.
+For new visitors places like the [[Integra%27s_Arms_Apartments|Integra's Arms Apartments]] and The Usual Restaurant exist where people can find food and shelter for free. Abusing technologies which exist only because of the multiversal nature of Twisted, these locations generally offer their services free of charge to anyone who enters. Because greed still exists there are still shops who demand payment of some kind for services rendered. For these shops any form of currency is accepted as long as it's obviously a real one.
-===Technology===
+This is one of the many smaller details about the world that generally we turn a blind eye to. Some people enjoy making characters work at jobs and keeping track of how much money they have and what the value of that money is. That's fine. Most do not. As always just do whatever feels most appropriate to the scene.
-With the overlapping realities which make up Twisted most businesses operate in a state somewhere around 20th-21st century Earth in terms of layout and technologies. This was chosen partly because of the ready familiarity to them, but mostly because many of the buildings themselves where uprooted and deposited into the city whole. That being said it's not considered out of place to find a holographic informational kiosk nestled between two vending machines offering goods from whatever world they originated.
-===Economy===
+===Technology===
-Economy is a strange thing on Twisted as something of value to one person isn't necessarily of value to another. Usually people will simply accept currency from anywhere so long as it's obviously legit and not hand-written. Many places are also free establishments much like the Usual Restaurant and the Integra's Arms Apartments. This is one of the many smaller details about the world that generally we turn a blind eye to. Some people enjoy making characters work at jobs and keeping track of how much money they have and what the value of that money is. That's fine. Most do not. As always just do whatever feels most appropriate to the scene.
+With the overlapping realities which make up Twisted most businesses operate in a state somewhere around 20th-21st century Earth in terms of layout and technologies. This was chosen partly because of the ready familiarity to them, but mostly because many of the buildings themselves where uprooted and deposited into the city whole. That being said it's not considered out of place to find a holographic informational kiosk nestled between two vending machines offering goods from whatever world they originated. Despite the recent destruction cars and other vehicles are still a fairly common sight. Luckily there seems to be a surplus which have fallen through the cracks between worlds over the years.
 ===Entertainment===

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-==Welcome Travelers!==
+==Twisted and the Nature of the Multiverse==
-===Twisted===
+In the beginning, there was Darkness. An infinite expanse of black. Then an event happened and that Darkness was engulfed in light. It was from this that Chaos was born. The two engaged in a constant conflict until a being pierced the veil and poured untold power into the Chaos creating a world. That world became known as Twisted.
-Twisted is the name given to the planetoid which the city of Twisted is built upon. This is not the only city, but it's the primary one. Likewise Twisted Street is the first street built on Twisted and depending on whom you talk to, the road exists everywhere at the same time. Twisted is a product of chaos. A planetoid which has formed due to the crossing of countless universes overlapping one another at a fixed point in space. Because of this the world was originally a chaotic, uninhabitable landscape which few where willing to attempt to visit let alone build a settlement. However, necessity being the mother of invention, enough people found themselves here that a city was built and the chaos was pushed back.
-The Twisted Street mostly built itself in this chaos. It is formed from pieces of roads from all those overlapped worlds and if one where to choose a  direction and somehow make it out past the wastelands they would find themselves deposited on any of those possible worlds purely at random. For this reason elaborate measures were taken to prevent this. Walking in one direction will /usually/ bring you to the other side of the Street to allow you to keep walking in the same direction. While this disorientates some, it was considered the safest alternative. Going out past the wastelands that surround Twisted City is too dangerous for even the toughest explorers with the best possible equipment.
+===T.P.D. and Other Worlds===
 ===People===
 People on Twisted are usually lumped into two groups. Natives and visitors. Natives of Twisted have either been here their entire lives or have been born here over the years that the settlements have existed. Visitors are the standard fare who find themselves uprooted from their home world and deposited somewhere in the habitable areas at random. Many times they aren't even aware of the transition. For this reason people are assigned specifically to greet newcomers and most citizens are happy to explain the situation to confused visitors or at least point them towards a place where they can get settled in.
 ===Staying===
-For new visitors places like the [[Integra%27s_Arms_Apartments|Integra's Arms Apartments]] and [[The_Usual_Restaurant|The Usual Restaurant]] exist where people can find food and shelter for free. Abusing technologies which exist only because of the multiversal nature of Twisted, these locations offer their services free of charge to anyone who enters. Because of this the UR also adopted an open door policy for employment where upon anyone may come in off the street and put on a uniform to be a barkeep or waiter. Wages are paid exclusively from tips.
+For new visitors places like the [[Integra%27s_Arms_Apartments|Integra's Arms Apartments]] and The Usual Restaurant exist where people can find food and shelter for free. Abusing technologies which exist only because of the multiversal nature of Twisted, these locations offer their services free of charge to anyone who enters. Because of this the UR also adopted an open door policy for employment where upon anyone may come in off the street and put on a uniform to be a barkeep or waiter. Wages are paid exclusively from tips.
 ===Technology===
 With the overlapping realities which make up Twisted most businesses operate in a state somewhere around 20th-21st century Earth in terms of layout and technologies. This was chosen partly because of the ready familiarity to them, but mostly because many of the buildings themselves where uprooted and deposited into the city whole. That being said it's not considered out of place to find a holographic informational kiosk nestled between two vending machines offering goods from whatever world they originated.
 ===Economy===
 Economy is a strange thing on Twisted as something of value to one person isn't necessarily of value to another. Usually people will simply accept currency from anywhere so long as it's obviously legit and not hand-written. Many places are also free establishments much like the Usual Restaurant and the Integra's Arms Apartments. This is one of the many smaller details about the world that generally we turn a blind eye to. Some people enjoy making characters work at jobs and keeping track of how much money they have and what the value of that money is. That's fine. Most do not. As always just do whatever feels most appropriate to the scene.