This week, I happened upon a relatively new RP game-focused site called Optional Realities. I reached out and couldn’t be happier that Jeshin offered to showcase OtherSpace among the games on their connections page and allowed us a subforum in their community section.
I recommend visiting their site, checking out other games in the mix, and get to know some of the other folks who enjoy real-time roleplaying in text-based games!
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Sometimes I think I should’ve stopped OtherSpace after the first five story arcs. So far, between 1998 and 2015, we: Kidnapped players to fight in an ancient war between two alien races and save a little boy in 2650. Toppled a pirate king. Overthrew a dictator. Shook up the Stellar Consortium government. Collapsed the Nall…
OLYMPIA DOME, MARS — Martian council member Rafael Santiago addressed a group of reporters today outside his council offices on Mars regarding the recently leaked documents suggesting large budget cuts to terraforming research. “Am I concerned about these cuts? Absolutely I am. Am I outraged that certain councillors hid this in confidential committee report? You…
“MUSH” stands for “Multi-User Shared Hallucination.” Really, it’s just a silly shorthand for a type of MUD (Multi-User Dimension) that uses a specific codebase, called PennMUSH (or TinyMUSH or TinyMUX or…you get the idea), to create a special text-based platform, accessible online around-the-clock, for purposes of roleplaying. Some simple comparisons to help give a better…
Three updates this week? What is the world coming to?! Last night I discussed short term plans and some ideas… Have had some interest and feedback so far, and appreciate it. With that being said, I can announce the following: Coruscant has been built! Yes! The center of power for the Galactic…
The Fringe is an independent territory that includes: Tomin Kora Ungstir Antimone Odari Fagin’s Riches is the most dominant organization in the region, a collective of pirates, smugglers, and thieves who are ruled by a shadowy figure known as Lord Fagin the Pirate King. He has his headquarters beneath the city of Freewheeling on Tomin…
As with any evolving community or society, JTS has certain expectations for how players act toward each other and toward the staff, as well as how things work within the parameters of the MUSH. Here are a few tips: Write poses in present-tense. Our project assumes actions happening (generally) in real-time. Work within a scene’s established pose…
