frequently asked questions.

[falsitates]

IC COMM. Navigation OOC COMM.
GAME APP AU ARRIVAL SETTING ACTIVITY
DEATH DROP HIATUS OTHER GAME INFO

WHAT IS VERITATI?

Veritati is a short-run, invite-only game that is inspired by cetana and recolle.

Characters can either be AU'ed into the setting or arrive directly from their canons. Shortly after the jamjars arrive, everyone will find an unknown app on their phones that cannot be deleted. By solving the app's missions, characters can learn what is happening in the city and how some of them can go home.

WHAT ARE THE EVENTS LIKE?

Veritati is a team-based game with a focus of co-operating on plot-related missions every other month and CR-building during non-plot missions. It will begin as a slice-of-life and most missions will be relatively harmless, but as it progresses, the genre will shift to psychological horror and missions will become more distressing.

WHAT IS THE TIME RATIO?

Veritati will operate on a 1:1 ratio. 1 day IC = 1 day OOC.

HOW LONG WILL THE GAME RUN?

The game is slated to run approximately ten months, but character choices may determine a shorter length or continuation past the projected timeline. ​

IS VERITATI OPEN TO THE PUBLIC?

Yes and no. Veritati is currently an invite-only game. For the first month, the game is open to those on the mod's plurk timeline, after which players within the game may extend a single invitation to a newcomer. When the newly invited player submits their application, they must specify who they were invited by. The player who extended the invitation must then comment on the newcomer’s application to confirm that they did invite them.

APP INFO

WHEN ARE APPLICATIONS OPEN?

Applications are always open and are first-come, first-served with no challenge applications.

WHAT TYPES OF CHARACTERS ARE APPABLE?

The game accepts canon, canon AU, CRAU, and original characters. Silent and customizable protagonists are also accepted should canon provide a basis for their personality through extra content, dialogue choices, or various other canon materials.

DO CHARACTERS HAVE TO BE HUMANIZED?

This is up to the player’s choice. Keep in mind, however, if the character is too large for the game setting, we will ask players to at least shrink the character’s size down to an average human’s height.

ARE POWERS NERFED?

At the beginning, yes. Characters will be stripped of their abilities and will solely have to rely on their own strength. However, players may regain back their characters’ powers by providing bonus activity later down the line.

WHAT HAPPENS TO DEAD OR INJURED CHARACTERS?

Characters who were dead prior to their arrival will be revived, but in regards to any injuries that they might have received while they were either alive or dead, it will be left up to the player’s discretion. Players may choose to have their characters completely healed or still suffering from their wounds. Any fatal injuries will be mostly healed to the point that they are no longer serious, but they will still be extremely painful and may potentially restrict movement.

HOW ARE CANON UPDATES HANDLED?

Canon updates will be handled on a case-by-case basis. Please contact the mod in order to discuss the methods that can be used.

IS THERE A CHARACTER CAP?

There is a cap of two characters per player. Players may apply for two characters at once.

IS THERE A PLAYER CAP?

There is currently a cap of 15 players, not including the mod. This number may be subject to change in the future.

AU INFO

HOW ARE CHARACTERS AU'ED?

Characters are born on Earth and have either grew up in or moved to Vitae - a modern-day American city. Growing up in a mundane setting, they would have led ordinary lives, and magic/supernatural activities are purely fictional. Until they receive the mysterious app, they will act and behave like a NPC.

HOW CLOSE SHOULD THE AU BE TO CANON?

Players are encouraged to be creative when creating their AUs, so it is up to their discretion on how closely they'd like to match canon. However, the AU'ed character should still be recognizable in personality and core aspects.

WHAT CAN WE DO WITH AU'ED CHARACTERS?

Players can either choose to keep their characters as a purely AU'ed individual or have their character begin regaining canon memories, appearances, powers, and items. If the latter is chosen, players are allowed to decide how much canon regains their character will receive.

HOW DO REGAINS WORK?

Players are allowed to regain memories at their own discretion. They do not require mod approval. However, appearances, powers, and items must be regained through bonus activity. This information can be found in the section of activity.

EXAMPLE OF AN AU AND REGAIN

Raidou Kuzunoha XIV of the Devil Summoner series is from the early 1900s in Japan. In canon, he is a high schooler who works as an assistant to a detective agency, but it's a cover to hide his true occupation as a devil summoner. He has the ability to see, hear, and interact with demons, and he can control the ones in his possession.

In an AU, Raidou is a high school student who is part of a detective's club, which focuses on solving trivial mysteries and finding lost pets. He has the uncanny ability to easily befriend animals and tame them, and he owns a few cats as well. During a memory regain, he recalls that he slipped on a banana peel in a time period and area that he's not familiar with. He then regains one of his canon abilities, which allows him to now see demons running around the city. While he's taking in the new sights, he regains an item - a sheathed sword - that falls from the sky and hits him on the head. While fixing his hair, he realizes that he regained part of his canon appearance, which are two anime side bangs that will always remain pointed and sharp.

ARRIVAL INFO

WHAT HAPPENS UPON ARRIVAL?

Canon characters will find themselves waking up in random locations in the city, whether they're in suspicious alleyways, on a busy road, or a locked rooftop. They will have the belongings they've had on them prior to their arrival, but any items that are taller than a foot are missing. In addition, if an item is powered by a specific object, entity, or concept from their canon world, they will not function in the game.

WHAT IF THEY DON'T HAVE A PHONE?

They will find a Nokia brick phone on them when they wake up. It has the mysterious app, which works and loads normally. However, the phone does not have any reception and characters will not be able to text or call until they get a plan. It also cannot connect to the internet without insane load times, but it does have a free game called Snake.

WILL THERE BE LANGUAGE BARRIERS?

No. Upon arrival, characters will discover that they can speak English. They will still be able to communicate in their canon language.

WHERE CAN CHARACTERS STAY?

Unless they're carrying around American dollars or find a kind samaritan, they're stuck on the streets. They will need to find a job and provide for themselves.

SETTING INFO

WHERE DOES VERITATI TAKE PLACE?

The game takes place in Vitae - a modern-day small city in northeastern United States. It's busy and somewhat isolated, hours away from the next pocket of civilization, but it's peaceful. Citizens were able to enter and leave the city whenever they wanted, but upon the arrival of canon characters and the mysterious app, it is completely engulfed by a transparent barrier that is connected by balls of white light. No one can get in or out.

WHAT ARE THE NPCS LIKE?

The NPCs are regular individuals, going about their daily lives, but they are completely oblivious to the strange events occurring in their city. They will deny the existence of a barrier and will be unable to see or interact with the mysterious app. All acts of magic are considered as tricks and weapons are toys.

ACTIVITY INFO

WHAT ARE THE ACTIVITY REQUIREMENTS?

Activity Check is 20 comments across two threads. Upon their acceptance into the game, players must comment on the permanent AC page for their character. Underneath that top-level, players must submit their activity each month with a new comment. There will be no reminders or warnings for the Activity Check, so players must be diligent at submitting their AC on their own. Players may submit their AC whenever they like, whether it’s at the beginning of the month or at the end, as long as they do it before the last day of the month at 11:59pm EST.

More details about the AC requirements can be found on the permanent AC page.

WHAT IS BONUS ACTIVITY?

For players who achieve more than the basic AC requirements, they may submit their additional threads for in-game rewards. They may use their bonus activity to regain canon appearances/powers/items, gather plot clues, or various non-canon items.

More details about the bonus activity can be found on the Regains page.

WHEN MUST BONUS ACTIVITY BE SUBMITTED FOR REGAINS?

Players must submit their bonus activity threads started from the previous or current month to apply towards a regain. For example, if it is October, players may only use threads which started from September or October for their bonus activity. Threads from August will not count and will be considered lost.

IS THERE A LIMIT ON HOW MANY REGAINS CAN BE OBTAINED?

No, there are no limits on the overall total or monthly amount of regains.

DEATH, DROP, AND HIATUS INFO

HOW IS DEATH HANDLED?

Deaths that occur within the game will be permanent and is at the discretion of the player. Permadeath will never be sprung as a surprise without the player's acknowledgement and agreement.

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A CHARACTER IS DROPPED?

If the character was AU'ed into the setting, they will return to a NPC status and fail to recall anything in-relation to the mysterious app. Jamjar'ed characters will also turn into a NPC, but they will lose their canon memories, abilities, and appearance. They will believe that they lived in Vitae their entire lives and will provide a vague backstory when asked.

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A PLAYER GOES ON HIATUS?

When a player goes on hiatus, their character may either be on auto-pilot or become a NPC.

OTHER INFO

GOT A QUESTION?

If you have a question that is not answered above, please comment with your question below in this entry or contact a mod.

Comments

[morient]

Are unusual hair colours acceptable for AU'd chars (white, grey, blue, etc?)

[falsitates]

Unfortunately, they are not. AU'ed characters will begin with natural hair and eye colours, and unusual colours must be regained. However, characters are more than free to dye their hair in whatever colour they want.

[hippocarnival]

What are the limits on how an AU character is established into the setting, from a meta perspective? Like are there named NPCs they should be careful not to have a remain with, or is there a limit how central they or their backstorty is to the named locations, etc? How deeply can they be part of the setting vs being something of an outsider?

[falsitates]

They can be as deeply ingrained into the setting as you wish! There aren't any real limitations, so asides from being related to the founding members of the city, most things will work. If you're not sure, you can always ask, but most things should be okay!

[hippocarnival]

I come with more questions.

Since it seems there's not a TDM, I wanted to clarify a little more what game start is going to look like thematically. It's mentioned NPCs don't reconfirm anything word going on--are they partially impervious to the weird shit happening, like being locked inside, or are they just living in another reality where there's always a mundane explanation for why literally nobody is coming in and out anymore?

Also, to what degree are the characters aware they're part of secret missions to save the town? Is it just a suddenly weird thing happening with no solid direction or is there a trigger point where they're told outright they're responsible for solving things like idk, some sort of special chosen. Basically is it more magical girl secret superhero, or horror 'your reality has changed and you don't know why'.

[falsitates]

NPCs will always find a mundane explanation for everything that is strange! In fact, most of them don't really have a desire to leave the city, stating that they have everything that they need in Vitae. Furthermore, if any of them do want to get out, they'll always run into issues that prevent them from leaving, such as their car suddenly breaking down, vacation being cancelled, and such on.

Characters will quickly find out that their actions will affect the city and that completing missions will bring positive outcomes. However, they won't understand why or how it is happening, so it's definitely more of the latter - their reality has changed and they don't understand what's happening. As the game progresses, they will hopefully be able to discover the reason why they were chosen.

I hope that answers your questions!

[morient]

For characters whose powers affect their appearance (Noah's body crystallizing because of using his magic) do they have to be regained separately or as one regain?

[falsitates]

They may be regained as one!

[hippocarnival]

Important: Which state is Vitae located in?

[morient]

Do OU chars get like fake ID scards from the app? So that they can take jobs and stuff maybe :|a

Can PCs see other PCs' names and stuff on the forum?

[falsitates]

Vitae is located in New York!

[falsitates]

For now, OU characters do not have any fake IDs, but if they complete the second mission and survive, perhaps they will get them as a reward, who knows :0 for now, they must find jobs that pay under the table.

And yes, PCs may see the profiles of every user on the app.

[morient]

So for new characters they'll be 'homeless' until they find a place to bunk upon which their address will change right?

[falsitates]

That is correct!

[stormsoff]

me me me I have a question

so in using the IC comm, what limits are there, or aren’t there? Should we treat this strictly as a logs comm, or could someone post the equivalent of an action-only post using just brackets? What about forum/network-only posts using Ava? Or should we be waiting for mod posts only right now and holding off on posting ourselves?

Thank you!!!

[falsitates]

There are no limits for the IC comm! Since the game is so small, there will not be a separate network comm, so you may put up logs (either in prose or brackets) or network posts in the same space. Players are free to start posting whenever they like.

[ape]

hello mods! i have a question regarding bonus rewards— on the bonus activity page, it states that if we are requesting plot clues, we need to specify on which topic. is there a brief list of topics to choose from in case we are stuck on what to ask? (for example, i'd love to go after a plot clue, but i'm not sure what i should put to specify— "app"? "city"? and so on)

[falsitates]

Hi, Owlie! So sorry for the late reply. In regards to the plot clues, there is no list as players can request whatever topic that they wish to explore. Some general areas to focus on, however, are the app, city, NPCs, barrier, and missions. If there is something that you'd like to focus on, please let me know and we can make it work!

[ape]

no problem! and this already helps clear any doubts! thanks, mods!

[ape]

piggyback riding on this question: how do we count posts and top levels for ac or bonus ac? for example, does a post or top level count as one singular thread or separate threads dependent on the # of people who respond?

[falsitates]

They will be counted as separate threads! For example, if you create a post/top-level and five people respond, you will have five threads for AC. However, if you create a post/top-level and no one responds, you will have zero threads :(

I hope that makes sense!

[ragewheel]

Hi! Got a couple of questions regarding powers and such:

1) If a character's power isn't shown in their canon, but it is mentioned that they have it in official materials, then does it also need to be listed under the powers section of the app? Subsequently, does this also go for the reverse situation?

2) For characters carrying big and heavy weapons (i.e. Ash toting around a large chakram)- when their powers are nerfed, would the weapon be like stuck in the middle of the sidewalk or something to that extent?

[falsitates]

Hello!

1) Yes, please mention them! So then you will be able to regain them through bonus activity.
2) The weapon will be next to them wherever they wait up. If it's too big and heavy for the character to pick up, it'll just stay stuck there until they can.

I hope these answer your questions!

[ragewheel]

Awesome, thank you very much!!

[ojiya]

HELLO i have a quick question! if a character tried to take apart their phone, what would happen… like is it just a normal phone and now they’re stuck with it in pieces until they can figure out how to put it back together?