ARRIVAL/WELCOME POST

[nightmods]

ARRIVAL/WELCOME POST

The change doesn't come with a sudden sleep or falling down a hole. It comes with a step forward. One foot is suddenly in another world and the next foot falls before you can stop it. You feel the shimmering shift of dimensions over your skin and briefly see the glittering veil between wolds. As you step through that shining curtain, unable to stop mid-step no matter how hard you try, sucked in by a force beyond your control, you feel...changed.

On the other side is a cloudless night and you may be in a different part of Earth than you just came from - if you're not from an entirely different world besides Earth altogether. Perhaps you'll find yourself in the biting cold just outside Santa's workshop in the North Pole. Or maybe you'll be elsewhere in the world, in need of picking up by one of the Guardians in Santa's sleigh.

In either case, a voice, unimaginably ancient and heard by very few, whispers to you. It sounds like liquid silver, strange and unworldly, and somehow you know it's coming from the Moon, glowing bright in the sky above you.


For good or ill, the children of this world have chosen you. The voice quakes with weakness that didn't used to be there before. We can no longer protect them.

Understanding is simply placed into your mind about your new situation. This is a world of myths and magic, a world shaped by Belief. A great evil named Kuk has been released from Its prison and is trying to destroy this world - and every other world after. In your mind's eyes, a shadow shape looms in a sickly greenish-black realm viewed through a crack in a twisted dark door.

But Kuk doesn't go unchallenged because this world is protected by the Guardians of Childhood, who have vowed to protect the children of the world. You see them rising up in your minds, larger than life, fighting clawed shadow beings in defense of some children.

They were all chosen by the Moon and he chose wisely. They are kind and determined, nurturing and ferocious. But despite their drive and nobility, they are losing. Most of them have been captured. This world is falling to shadow. The end of everything is almost nigh.

Soon the longest night will fall.

That's where you come in.

This world has many dreamers and the nature of this world's belief means that some have dreamed of stories from other worlds, stories like yours, thinking it fiction. They have spread that story far and wide in this world. The belief of the children has brought you here from the place where you're real to a place where they incorrectly think you're just a character from something.

And their belief has changed you, made you into something else: a myth. A living legend whose power can only grow as you become more legendary.

You can't undo this change. And while you can choose to turn your back on this fight, if this world falls so does every other - including your home.

So the Man in the Moon entreats you to become a Guardian and help the only Guardian left. To watch over the children of the world because in doing so you'll save all worlds. To guard with your life their hopes, their wishes, and their dreams.

For they are all that we have, all that we are, and all that we will ever be.

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OOC INFO
Your app just got approved? That's great! Now please take the following steps:

❇ FIRST: Set up an HMD post (mandatory) on your journal. It doesn't have to be anon-enabled.

❇ SECOND: Fill out your PERMISSIONS and set up any optional posts you need or want linked in your taken and contact list entries, like inbox pages etc.

❇ THIRD: Per the rules, create an opt out page if your character has potentially triggery material in their background.

❇ FOURTH: Fill out the form on the TAKEN LIST.

❇ FIFTH: Join the OOC comm goodbyemoon, this will be approved before any IC comms are so you can access the contact list.

❇ SIXTH: Fill out the form on the CONTACT LIST.

❇ SEVENTH: Join the IC game comms:

✧ longestnight
✧ nightlogs

Your character will not be approved for the IC comms unless you've posted to the taken and contact list.

❇ EIGHTH: Post to the comms! New characters can start logs in nightlogs. Or you can post to the magical watch network longestnight. You can also introduce yourself oocly in goodbyemoon. You can intro a character in the greater world if you want to thread out them being attacked by Kuk's forces and helped by PCs or you can have your character handwaved as being taken to the Pole quickly and start play from there.

❇ NINTH: The mods recommend following the mod plurk longestnight for game announcements.

❇ TENTH: Players can assume their characters are taken aside by Jack shortly after arrival at the Pole, given a comm, and explained the concept of a center so they know to start figuring theirs out. They will also have a magic charm cast over them (with permission asked) to make it so Kuk's forces can't magically track them.