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Bionicle: Secrets of Mata Nui

Secrets of Mata Nui

@Forsythe, @Cleveraptor

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"In the time before time, the Great Spirit Mata Nui descended from the heavens, and brought the matoran into an island paradise. The Matoran tribes were separated, so the Great Spirit gave them the three virtues to follow: Unity, duty and destiny. Now working as one, the people named their island home Mata Nui, in honor of the Great Spirit.

But the Great Spirit's brother, Makuta, grew jealous of the people's reverence of his brother. So, he betrayed him, casting a spell that put the Great Spirit into an eternal slumber. But the people would not offer their praises to Makuta, so he cast a shadow over the land, causing the great Rahi beasts to go on a rampage.

And now, the Toa, six mighty heroes, have arrived as was prophecized. Together, they must find the great masks of power, and then confront the Makuta, to banish him once and for all and awaken the Great Spirit."

Or so the Turga's legends say.

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Overview

SoMN is a game following an alternate Bionicle timeline, where extra characters are introduced in the original 2001 saga. The characters are those destined to transform into a different set of Toa with a hidden past and destiny they have to uncover, while learning to use their powers and facing the fallout of their unexpected arrival.

The story explores how the addition of these characters would change the Bionicle storyline going forward. Any and all changes to the canon prior to the start of the game must be made in a manner that would leave the canon events happening as they did, without change.

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Character sheet

Character sheet code

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[b][color=steelblue]Species: [/color][/b]Prefix-Species. (Acceptable species is Matoran, possibly with the intent to change into Toa at some point. Acceptable elements are those of the tribes of Mata Nui, or those that match their color scheme and would not stand out - E.g. black and purple Ba-Matoran in Onu-Koro, or Green-blue Bo-Matoran in Le-Koro. Av-and Kra-Mayoran are not available due to canon coherency.)
[B][color=steelblue]Gender: [/color][/b](Any gender is acceptable, canon mono-gendered matoran tribes are dropped in this AU)
[B][color=steelblue]Kanohi: [/color][/b](For matoran, the usual variery of Great and Noble shapes is acceptable. Characters that undergo Toa transformation can have the shape changed according to what they perceive to be the ideal of a Toa, and pick from greater variety of powers. Due to the story setup, immoral kanohi are allowed, if the character would not be opposed to using such powers for the greater good)

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The Wall of History

Place to link to important posts.

Avengers Academy: Junior Year 💥

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Location: The Kingston-Gray estate
Outfit: ASTRA Armor
Skills/Powers/Equipment: N/A

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"Baseline averag-" Victoria deadpanned, before realizing Dorian was right. He couldn't see. She took her phone, filmed a panoramic shot of the estate and the surrounding area, and then connected to the phone and edited the shot to look like what she saw, before sending it to Dorian. "There. Now you can. The place is so-" she struggled to find the right word. Bewitched? Cursed? "-Enchanted, it is a unicorn short of me thinking it was woven out of a rainbow." she explained.

Then the news dropped, and the whole conversation about Nemo being dead through Dorian apparently having visions of the future to Danni bringing up talking to ghosts - Because that's a thing, apparently. - happened. Vicky merely nodded in agreement: "One of the staff was Arcade's plant and tried to kill us, another has the philosophy that we have to suffer in life to amount to anything good. So plus one on checking he actually died, and this is not one of Nimue's pain games. At this point, if a member of the MC Institute staff says the sky is blue, I'd still rather check."

Her gaze followed the direction to the estate after James suggested they go inside, but one look at the creepy hand of a doorhandle that looked like it belonged to a SCP foundation's containment cell made her decide there was no way in hell she was touching it first. Instead she turned to Mads. "I'll be fine, thanks. Whatever this is, it's working wonders." she tapped the piece of jewellry around her neck. Hanging there very loosely. One tug from being snapped off, and sending her to the afterlife.

She pouted, grabbed an edge of her armor's chestplate and instructed the piece to detach to expose her silver, gold printed skin. She told the nanites to let the object pass through, and the necklace sunk below her nanite skin, now safe from being removed. Nodding approvingly, Vicky reattached the chest plate.

Primality: Act 1

@Carlyle Still recruiting? I'm thinking of a metal/iron, or possibly magnetism as an element.

Forsythe's 1x1 ideas (Craving Bionicle & Dragon riders)

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Forsythe's 1x1 ideas (Craving Bionicle & Dragon riders)

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Keywords

Fandom, Original settings, OCs, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Casual, third person past tense, OOC chat, PMs, GoogleDocs, post-by-post, DnD 5E, Marvel d616

Urgent cravings

Bionicle G1

Starting off with the original plotline (2001 rahi saga), and evolving the story due to our characters being extra to the cast.

An amnesiac toa (My character) is unearthed by a group of matoran (other characters). She posesses a ringlike toa stone that activates others like it, which the group that found her happens to possess, transforming them into toa like her. The new team then has to discover their new abilities, as well as why destiny brought them together.

Young dragon riders

Human kingdoms and the Dragons have waged wars in the past. The wars were ended with a peace treaty. As part of the conditions, the humans have to send children to the dragons every year to be trained as dragon riders.

Doubling - Each of us would play one dragon and one rider.

The menu

Original settings

Fantasy: Prince/ss x Servant

A member of the royal family is being in some way mistreated by their royal parents. Deciding they have had enough, the royal heir runs away from home and sets to find their own destiny, taking only their most trusted servant with them.

My character: Servant

Sci-Fi: Human x Awakening AI

The human's job takes a new turn when a highly sophisticated computer he is using slowly starts thinking on its own. Can be a computer in a science lab, spaceship, android, ...

No character preference

Fandoms:

Mass Effect: Twins

Post ME2: I'd like to play a setting where there are two Shepard twins - a paragon-ish Shepard stays with cerberus and tries to steer them the right way, and a renegade jerk says 'fuck the Alliance and their jail' and makes Omega their new base of operations.

No character preferrence.

Knight rider: tRust

Original and 2009 crossover. A descendant of a Foundation employee finds an pile of old looking computer parts when sorting through things after their FLAG employed relative passed away, deciding to reassemble and reactivate them to find out what they are, unaware that they have unearthed the remains of the original KARR.

My character: KARR (OG)

Harry Potter and the Parent Trap

Instead or as well as Harry, the Potters had paternal twins. As an extra safety measure, Dumbledore decided to split the twins up after Voldemort's fall, keeping the twins oblivious to each other.

My character: Non-Harry twin, cared for by Severus Snape

Personal details

• Have an idea of what you want to do before contacting me, whether you like something I posted here or if you have some of your ideas, at least a general overview.
• I am at UTC+1 (DST applicable) and I work anywhere between 4:50 and 17:00, from home on mondays and fridays, so those would be my main posting days. Sadly I don't have the time anymore to do hours long back and forth on google docs. Poke me in a PM or on Discord if I am taking too long for your liking =)
• I don't have the energy and time to write advanced these days, so casual it will be. If the settign is a comedy, I'm up for whatever, even free through discord and some such.
• Typos are OK, we're here to have fun not to get our English grade. But have mercy and at least try ;D
• Not too fond of slice-of-life. Real life takes care of that all too well.
• No romance for the sake of it being there. If it evolves naturally in the game, great, but nothing predetermined.
• As for multiple characters and doubling - I'll play whatever and whoever I feel like, usually just the one main character. Others would be secondary/NPC in most cases unless I have a clear idea of how the character should fit into the story, or they are in groups not interacting with each other.
• I prefer PM or guild thread for playing, I can do GDoc with the limitations stated above.

Avengers Academy: Junior Year 💥

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Location: The Kingston-Gray estate
Outfit: ASTRA Armor
Skills/Powers/Equipment: N/A

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Oh. Oooooh. Ooh shit.

Victoria was in full panic mode. First her limbs stopped sending diagnostics, then they seized up completely. She was glad she had the armor on, otherwise she would have probably collapsed in a heap. Her ears were catching the conversation, but only sporadic words were really registering - ...Agatha...Advance...Discuss... - Was this some scheme of the witch? Did she have to pay something up front in order to not be obliterated?!

In between that and reviewing the myriad of diagnostic logs, she made a note that the magic corruption was not a linear function of time, but seemed to get progressively worse with it. Pray she be excused for never investigating, she was content in avoiding it entirely - When she was aware it was coming!

Just as she was about to kick into emergency action (or the bucket, as it seemed), and blast herself back through the portal before the second scenario occurred, mr. Gray put a piece of jewellery around her neck and the influx of errors stopped, and whatever was happening to her seemed to be getting undone, and fast.

That calmed her enough to listen to mr. Gray explain what was what. Alright. It seemed the other witch actually seemed to care for her well-being and gave the adults here a heads-up. "Thank you. I'm all too happy to keep this on me. I'll have to thank professor Harkness as well."

She flexed her arm when the diagnostics came back online to try and check how long it would take for all of her code to return to normal, and then she gave Dorian a bit of a stink eye. "I remember telling you that I died to circumstances like these once already. I know you mentioned your home was magical, but you forgot to mention it was a bloody deathtrap. I hope that was a slip of mind or you thought I wasn't serious, and you would have the decency to tell me to my face if you wanted me dead."

The Fourth Wall Inn (Guild's HISHE Super Café/Villain Pub)

Hello! I've been working on this concept for a while. This isn't ready to put into action yet, and I'm currently looking for whether people would like to do something like this, as well as comments to the concept itself, before putting any more significant work into this, like making art and maps.

The Fourth Wall Inn

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Have you ever wondered:

Where do the characters go, when they are not actively participating in a game?

Whether between posts or entire games, the Fourth Wall Inn is one of such places where our characters can spend their time, just like actors once they leave the theatre or the filming set. The Inn is heavily inspired by the Villain pub and Super Café by HISHE.

Inn staff

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Diamond Frost - Owner, bartender
Victoria van Dyne - Barista, waiter
Taraah - Security, game master

Locations

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WIP

The pocket dimension

The Inn is located on a circular piece of land surrounded by a sky blue void. Where the land and water meet the sky, clouds of white mist can be seen, obscuring any and all senses. If one were to dig down, they would find an impenetrable layer of rock some 10 meters below the surface.

The reality of this place is malleable and bends to the wishes of the guests, so that Cthulhu and Plankton can play a game of ping-pong without a height difference problem, if they so desire. The Inn staff seem to be the only people in the area who can override everyone else's influence and generally keep the madness at a reasonable level.

The Inn itself is set in the middle of the area, a log cabin style house the size of a small castle. When facing the entrance, you are standing at the parking lot and the sea shore is to the left. The rest of the area is a thick, fenced off forest, awaiting future expansion projects.

Parking lot and transit stop

This is the entry point for most of the characters. Those visiting the Inn without their own transport find themselves waking up on the bus, tram or train that deposits them at the stop. Likewise, when one wishes to leave, they need only to board the transport of their choice and they will find themselves exactly at the time and place where and when they left for the Inn.

Those with their own transport may use that to reach the Inn, appearing from the mist at the edges of the landmass in their road vehicle of choice. The staff mandates you park your vehicle at the lot, stable or the rail depot across the road, unless a special event is being held.

The beach and the pier

For those wishing to arrive or depart via air or water, their transport of choice will dis/appear in the mist over the sea. Boats may land at the pier, which also contains a runway and pads for flying transportation.

The beach is an ideal place for lounging on sunny days or playing sports, and one is of course welcome to have a soak in the sea and dive to the coral reef.

Ground floor

Reception

Just behind the door sits a large desk made of Mahogany, with a computer terminal and a bell to summon staff when one wishes to check in or out. On the left side is a staircase leading to the top floor and the basement, next to which is a map of the area and a newsletter board.

Club & bar

The main attraction of the ground floor, this is where you go to forget your problems. Taking the right door from the reception, you will find yourself within a warmly lit room. The walls have dark wood panneling carved into intricate shapes and has plenty of leather seating. A fireplace is a centerpiece of the room, and on the far end is a bar serving just about any potable liquid.

Café & restaurant

TBD

Guest floors

Library

TBD

Guest rooms

TBD

Basement

Game room

TBD

The fighting pit

TBD

Rules

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General rules

1) Guild rules apply, duh.

2) Game staff may make a ruling not included in these rules, if the need arises. The rulings will be posted on the newsletter in the original OOC post, so check it out periodically.

3) Rules may be added, removed or edited as the need arises. Watch the newsletter for changes.

4) Staff rulings may be disputed once, in case staff missed some information that may be vital to the decision. Staff decision after the dispute is final.

Gameplay rules

1) Only original characters are allowed entry to the dimension. (E.g. no Optimus Prime) This rule applies to expies that are mostly similar to source material. This rule does not apply to characters with customized appearance from materials that are designed to accept player choices (E.g. custom commander Shepard from Mass Effect, but not with their default appearance). You may use new characters here to test them out.

2) Multiple instances of the same character are not permitted to enter at the same time (e.g. two Jane Does , one from a DC comics roleplay and another from Marvel, or same Marvel Jane Doe aged 20 and 40)

3) Characters do not retain memories of what happened in the Inn dimension while they are in their source RP, nor do any other effects (Wounds, buffs, purchased goods etc.) transfer to or from the Inn dimension without the permission of that game’s staff.

4) The fourth wall is gone in the Inn dimension to a limited degree. The characters may refer to their players in third person, but the players cannot directly communicate with the characters and vice versa, nor are players permitted to insert themselves into the game.

5) As characters may need to be quickly summoned for their game, it is perfectly normal here for your conversation partner to suddenly disappear. (e.g. if you get ghosted, move on)

6) Death is temporary in the dimension, but staff insists all fights happen in the fighting pit. If a character dies, they can choose to be ejected back to their universe or reappear at the reception in the state they were in before their death.

7) Inn staff may declare special events that modify the standard behavior of the dimension. Participation in these is not mandatory, but their effects on the dimension may not be ignored. Special events will be announced in the newsletter.

8) Special events may award an in-game currency that may be used to purchase perks in the Inn dimension. Check with the receptionist what is available to purchase.

9) Looking for a job outside of being a RP character? Check with the receptionist about open positions in the Inn!

10) To make it easier for other players to reference the source games, the following post format is mandatory:

Post template

[center]Optional image - Keep it reasonable height. Do not use this section if not using a picture. Do not use discord or other storage with limited time.[/center][center][h3]Character name[/h3][b]Origin: [/b]Link to character sheet of the original RP the character is from. If using a fresh character, post it in the Inn’s CS thread and link there.
[b]Location: [/b]Current location in the Inn’s pocket dimension. If you are transiting, mark it as ‘Former loction --> New location’
[b]Tags: [/b]If you want to @mention anyone, do it here.[hr.][/center]IC post starts here.

Sample post

Victoria van Dyne

Origin: Avengers Academy
Location: Home universe --> The Fourth Wall Inn pocket dimension
Tags: @Forsythe

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Victoria has ben excited for this. Ever since miss Frost has agreed to take her on as hired help, she has been fidgeting, wondering when she could start. Since her time in her RolePlay has been a little allowing recently, she had a lot of her week to kill, and this looked like just the place. She landed in front of the building, and excitedly pushed the door open.

"Hello?" she called out, not seeing anyone at the front desk.

Avengers Academy: Junior Year 💥

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Location: Margaret Carter Institute --> The Kingston-Gray estate
Outfit: ASTRA Armor
Skills/Powers/Equipment: N/A

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The date of the contest was approaching rapidly and everyone else seemed to be more and more consumed by it. Victoria almost hoped that the teachers would slap some extra tests and/or homework on the students not participating if only to make the population shut up about it.

Herself, she was conflicted about going. Of course, she had things she considered important to do there. She could not wait to talk with Agatha, cryptic as she might be. There was apparently an organization that lined up her life, and she wanted to know about her most recently discovered overlords, for sure!

But there was also the issue of her mother likely showing up, not to mention the, to her, out of the blue invitation to stay at Dorian's house. Sure, they were friendly, although Vicky didn't think they were on sleepover terms. Not that she minded, but it did make her consider some things.

More immediately pressing decision needed to be made though. Did she bring her armor with her? Sure, she wasn't in the contest, but what were the odds she would stay out of trouble given what she was about to delve into? For once, she listened to the Ultron inside her and opted to be prepared.

When the day arrived, she joined the others at the place of departure, her helmet hanging on the clip at the armor's waist. To her dismay, a portal then opened, and they needed to go through. She approached it carefully, as she gained a healty amount of fear respect from magic that folded space. When she didn't immediately start glitching out, she braved it and stepped through, and immediately regretted it. Ah! What the hell? How are robotic fingers getting tingly?! she cursed inwardly, shaking her hands as if that would somehow make the spellwork exit her code. Then she looked up and saw her surroundings.

This was what she imagined an acid trip to feel like. Pain. I finally discovered what pain is like, Dr. Whitehall. she thought. Restarting her optical driver didn't help whatsoever. The reality of this place was out of whack. The worst part of it was the house itself. Her eyes could see the telltale signs of heavy spatial distortion magic. It was making her head swim. This would be a... problem.

One that would have to wait for a little while as understandably, the group dissolved into mushy family reunions. The sight made her smile despite the fact that she was presently located in a psychedelic hellscape. It also stung a little. Victoria wasn't going to lie to herself, she envied them.

Her train of thoughts was derailed though as Mr. Gray called out to her. Omg. I didn't even say anything yet to put a foot in my mouth. What's going on? They're not robot-averse, are they? Dorian I swear if you didn't clear up my being here with your parents I am going to- Right, respond first. She walked closer, feeling her steps grow heavier and clumsier the closer she got to the estate. "Good afternoon mr. Gray. Thank you for having me over. What is the matter?" she asked, hoping her vocalization still worked without issues.

Avengers Academy: Junior Year 💥

Index

• Contest auditions
• Team formation and 1st training sessions
• Time skip collabs
• Contest qualifiers
• Monster mash
• Arcade's soft launch
• Time rewind
• Arcade aftermath
• Mandatory therapy sessions
• Post-therapy collabs
• Travel to the contest

Avengers Academy: Junior Year 💥

@Morose Done.