name: Notes 6
posted: 2012-05-24
comment: |-
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  Possibly there are obstacles in game that are vulnerable to the each of the Four Inconvenient Truths?
  Possibly the Excursions have context or hints towards the truths

  What's in the PwoR:

  Religious Relics:
  Holy Grail:
    Opposed by atheists?
    Bring back King Arthur to take over some part of the real world?
    Sad girl whose mom's dying of cancer wants this
  Buddhist relic, apparently an enlightened mouse (animal)
    Technically a Boddhisatva who came back as an animal
    Interacts with Tara, the Buddhist
  Hindu relic
  Flying Spaghetti Monster Relic (Piece of Toast)
    End world hunger with large quantities of sphagetti?
  The Golden Book of All the Beautiful Proofs (of math)
    Could be useful 
  Ambrosia
    In-game stat boost effect, addictive
  Fairy Godmother Wand
  Flying Castle
  Baba Yaga's Hut (a "Bad House")

  There may be some sort of quest tech tree, where you have to have some specific L1 stuff (a unicorn) to get something L2 (the Holy Grail)
  Possibly all Cool Stuff is obvious and you can only have one at a time
    The museum guy wants to get the Display Case of Holding

  Character ideas: (S: semi-brainwashed judge; I: independent judge; R: regular actor)

  S1. Wants to take over but make the PwoR a utopia/heaven
    Could change the ragged things to snatch "good people who die"
    Opposed by the strong Christian who thinks God already has a heaven
  S2. Judge who doesn't like their faction but likes being a Judge
    Needs to swap with an actor and back with a judge
  I3. Someone who wants to destroy the PwoR 
  R4. Sad girl whose mom's dying of cancer
  R5. Pure mathematician who wants the book of proofs
    Wants to figure out the principles this place works based on HPMoR
    Pretending to be a robot to cover up for lack of social skills/logic
  R6. Drug lord who wants Ambrosia
  R7. Someone who wants to make the PwoR into a reality show people watch from earth
    "The Place without Recourse is just like a sitcom."
  R8. Apocalypse by Tribbles!

  Judges:

  You can swap a Judge and a PC
    This is how you, as an actor, take over the PwoR
    Possibly could include other parts of your nature?
    This could be a ritual that all judges know
    Metered by roleplay, but you want to figure out which faction you like
      Or which faction is going to win
    This also gets you some psychlims
    By default, most escapes work on actors but not judges, so many independent judges want to do this
  What happens to the PwoR by default?
    More interesting if it stays evil by default
      Maybe this is the result if one of the brainwashed judges win

  Faction/Genre:

  fairy tale: Hell
  mythological: Dark
  space opera: Heaven
  postapocalyptic: Wild
  hard SF: Light

  Escape:
    By default, the winning actor(s) may go free
      If a non-brainwashed judge becomes king, they may be able to let a different set of actors free
    If you've answered your question as an actor, you can go free but can't take anything with you
    Some more epic "create an escape" plot
      Possibly L1 actors L2 actors and judges plot
      Detrimental to the integrity of the PwoR
      Probably requires several Cool Things
      Could require or be easier with Inconvenient Truths proving lack of boundries

  Secrets:
    The ones handed out by Judges (especially brainwashed judges) have information about backstory and the Place Without Recourse worldbuilding, so this information gradually makes it into game.

  Backstory:
    The reason all the cool stuff is here is that at some point in the past, someone was all "all these magic items and creatures are really messing up reality and making things dumb, let's get rid of them so that humanity can be great."  This created the Place Without Recourse and the Ragged Things.
      Mr. Kong?
        Maybe a brainwashed judge Confucius has some hints about this, and someone (math guy, etc) is trying to figure this out
  }}}