name: Notes 5
posted: 2012-04-12
comment: |-
  {{{
  Propaganda posters for various factions
    Or encourage players to make them

  "The Place to Come"

  More detailed sketches of characters/plots:

  Judges (5 brainwashed, 5 semi-brainwashed, 5 independent)
  Factions are:
  Light, self-preservation and humanity, bustling cities, utilitarian
  Dark, self-destructiveness and heroism, untamed wilderness, voluntary human extinction/minimal impact/rescue everyone to get them out of the world
  Heaven, beauty and cleanliness, hierarchy/faschism
  Hell, degradation, democracy/forced equality
  Wild, freedom and chaos, anarchy
  }}}

  * B1. [[ThomasMorgan]], brainwashed brother
  * I1. [[Sid]] (Wild), starts trapped
  **  Reach some resolution with Max, doesn't know what Max deserves
  **  Escape
  **  Do something about the nature of Siggorts; make the Place to Come a place they 
  fit better?
  **  Make Siggorts not isn'ts in the real world or the Place to Come?
  ***    Answer some question about the nature of Siggorts?
  * I2. [[TrainMorgan]] (Dark), unbrainwashed judge who wants to save his 
  brother
  **  Wants to get people out, willing to sacrifice anything for his 
  brother

  Actors (9 random actors, 3 excrucians, 3 protectors)

  * R1. [[Max]], starts as an actor, was here pregame and trapped Sid
  **  If he's been here before, does he have a new question?  Probably.
  **  Still wants to keep dangerous people/things in the PwoR
  **  Starts with some extra knowledge
  **  Probably can't reconcile with Sid until he figures some stuff out
  * R2. [[MrsSchiff]], who just wants the show to go on
  **  Art is the highest thing
  * R3. [[Tantalus]]
  **  Outsider who wants to rule PwoR (was a king, now can't even get a 
  real job)
  * E1. Excrucian [[UnicornLover]]
  **  Get the Secret
  **  Get a real Unicorn
  * E2. [[IndianaJones]]-alike
  **  Wants to get stuff to put in a museum outside reality, then destroy where it came from so that the museum 
  is canonical
  **  Wants to get cool PwoR relics and then blow it up behind them, in addition to wanting to 
  destroy Earth
  * E3. [[Tara]], Buddhist Pirate Captain Excrucian
  **  The world is suffering, end the world
  **  Airily, Tara says, “I decided it’d be faster to bring enlightenment to all living beings if I skipped the last few million years of the process and just became a pirate.” and/or just destroyed the 
  false world
  * P1. [[AirshipDude]]
  **  Has an apocalypse compass, which is useful for determining the 
  stability of the Place to Come/the PwoR.
  **  Steampunk, flies his airship around averting apocalypses
  * P2. [[PulpScientist]]/Engineer
  **  Keep Earth from jumping the shark/keep it normal
  **  "All my weirdshit operates on solid scientific principles, your weirdshit is 
  right out."

  {{{
  The Excrucian apocolypse isn't black hole, but something like "everyone assumes this is a dream" or "everyone assumes they're already dead"

  What's the horrible secret that will destroy the world?
    What does it do?
      Make people disbelieve in reality?  Disbelieve in barriers?
    Secrets in canon: “It is a secret of the Underworld,” the Queen says. “Whisper to a corpse’s ear, ‘Be not ashamed to live.’ And it shall rise.”
      This whole fact could be 1/3rd of the secret
    “We can have no sympathy for boundaries,” Luther says, in that place and at that time, “because of the philosophical incompleteness of the notion. There is no firm line that one may draw between bodies, between minds, between souls. In this sense it is clear that the rights that each of us has to another are similar if not identical to the rights that each of us has towards ourselves; that the capacities of the individual must as a matter of basic morality be yielded towards the common good.”

    "You have no certain meaning outside your own boundaries."
    "There is no clear boundary that can be drawn between bodies, between minds, between souls."

    "Shame creates barriers."
    "Barriers create shame."
    "Acknowledge this and barriers disappear."

    "Barriers arise from human hearts."
    "Human hearts arise from barriers."
    "That which has no root cause…"

    "All barriers are created within."
    "Inside is separate from outside only by barriers."

    "All barriers are created by [the failings of] the human heart."
    "Fear, shame, and suffering are created by the barriers between people."
    "That which is its own cause does not exist."

    The Four Inconvenient Truths:
    "All boundaries are a result of Dukkha."
    "Suffering is created by the boundaries between people."
    "That which is its own cause does not exist."
    "Reality is but the boundaries we create."
  }}}