Our July event, POWDER KEG, introduces a new threat to Lorado: Memetic Fixations. These are more potent and easily spread versions of the original Fixations that have plagued the residents of Barker Meadow. Memetic Fixations are intense, destructive, and maladaptive intrusive thoughts that characters must confront throughout the event. Their effects will be more specific, brutal, and swiftly resolved than before. Possible vectors now will include the terrifying potential of it spreading through discussions with the Fixated about the individual's mental state or the phenomenon itself, sprawling out through Lorado as a virulent idea.
Designed for characters who enjoy medical, psychological, and resource-based gameplay, Memetic Fixations will be a pervasive threat beginning with a module on Friday night in-game. They are not a "coming-into-town" mechanic for the purpose of mechanical interactions.
Fixations follow a Prompt and Resolution format. To be considered Fixated for mechanical purposes, you must have an active Prompt. Roleplay of being Fixated should convey being plagued by intrusive thoughts and desires, but giving in to fulfilling Fixations is a combined in-character and out-of-character choice.
The physical Fixation Prompts can be picked up at a location that will be central in the playspace and may be drawn if desired to swap out or when receiving redundant pulls from available Fixations, when receiving Fixations in the course of play.
Note that detection and treatment of Fixations is challenging since they are not Fractures or Diseases and do not respond to traditional methods known in the Wastes.
Players will need to discover methods to detect, treat, and eliminate the threat of Memetic Fixations throughout the weekend. Players can opt their characters out of Memetic Fixations during play or start with immunity if they wish. We are also offering an option to begin the weekend with an experimental inoculation having been applied to your character by shadowy forces, an opportunity we’ll be providing more details on in the coming days. What could go wrong with that, right?
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P.S. Contact Emily B. on Discord if you have the [LATENT] tag on your character or believe you should. No reason, just checking!