"Timeline 350-Demeter's?"
"Cancelled. They ran out of funds."
"2-Sigma?"
"Jess Warner ended the world when he realized he didn't need the Wiki-Wars. He also became Exodus himself."
"Polamo-HH3?"
"Sucked into a Rift and all of the Warriors became Victorian-era Folk Heroes."
"Well, I suppose it's our turn to leave a mark. Timeline M83: Theta Sigma's first Wiki-Wars will officially commence. Starting now."
After months of waiting, and more months than that of promotional packages and TV commercials, you have it. A copy of the brand new game: Anubis. This game, a virtual reality roleplaying game themed around Egyptian mythology, was hyped up a bunch, appearing at E3 and PAX East, and you honestly cannot wait to dig in. After popping the game into your disk drive and installing it, you slip on your headset.
But, when you get in, something unexpected happens. Rather than the normal start-up screen depicting pharaohs and hieroglyphs, you instead see a Monarch butterfly, with computerized TRON lines dashing through it's wingspan. You hear a voice, computerized, yet calm and soothing. "Greetings, human," it says, "My name is E.D.U. I was created by the Monarch Foundation as a sapient and feeling Artificial Intelligence, better known as a Human Intelligence, for the purpose of both education and entertainment. My masters have informed me that you are now unable to play your game, Anubis. They have drafted you. A war with randomized avatars and environments. A bloodbath. I do apologize. But there is no escape. No log out." E.D.U disappears, and the screen cuts to black.Kept you waiting, huh?
After my semi-retirement from Forum Games, Wiki-Warfare: Cataclysm has ended. But from it's ashes, I return with an idea roseheart granted to me themselves: a virtualized Wiki-Warfare game. Well, it's
close to their idea, at the least. So, here we are. So, what's different?
The Avatar System. Your first two articles no longer adjust your sex and nationality. Now, the first article governs your in-game Avatar, including Name, Species, Gender, Nationality, as well as the normal set of Assets, Abilities, and Allies. To accommodate for this, sub-wikis are being changed. Rather than just the last wiki-links of your sheet being from non-Wikipedia Wikias, now a custom d5 determines how many of your articles are from sub-wikis, while a coin flip determines if they're the first wikis or the last ones to show up. This system should encourage roleplaying and in-character decisions while also providing fun new ways to kill your enemies. For instance, if your Avatar is Freddy Krueger, you could invade dreams, and if your character is Darth Vader, you can use the Force.
The Wishes system is also changed. While the winner of each Chapter
does still get a wish of basically whatever they want, the wish must be approved by the Monarch AI, E.D.U. Meaning no tricks involving Porunga this time around.
Otherwise, the four modes are also different. Always determined by a d4, they are:
1. Deathmatch: A standard, one life, no waitlisters kill 'em all.
2. Team Deathmatch: One life, 5v5. Use your actions in the Open, or Spoil them to concoct secret plans.
3. Assassination: A competitive gamemode where you are tasked with being the first person to kill either a Boss or a Target. Respawns and Waitlisters allowed.
4. Classic: First to 10 kills wins. Respawns and Waitlisters Allowed.
Players: 10/10:
Failbird105, HugeNerdAndProudOfIt, Hotfire90, The_Two_Eternities, DolosusDoleus, Rockeater, FallacyofUrist, roseheart, Detoxicated, Hiddenleafguy
Waitlisters: 8/Infinite:
NRDL, TamerVirus, ManOfPaper, 0cra_troper, King Zultan, Person, piratejoe, Leodanny
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