Heart Game Discussion

[kyriakosmods]

Hello Kyriakos! We know that there are a lot of new players to Heart Games, so this discussion post is so that everyone can help each other get the hang of it, whether you're running a heart in this round or not! If you have any questions, ask them here! Help each other! Hearts can seem somewhat complicated until you get the hang of them, so we want to do our best to make sure everyone is going to be as comfortable as possible with this style of game.

Heart Games are a very cool thing that are specifically designed for your character, and for hearts being run now and in the future, or even if you just want to do some spelunking, we hope this post will help! ♥

Comments

[menially]

I HAVE LOTS OF QUESTIONS YES

- Will there be a set amount of players to each heart, and is it only limited to team members?

- Will what they can and can't interact with be limited? As in, will that be up to the gamerunner to decide?

- As far as people entering hearts, how will they change things? I'm just thinking back to Aather's "boosters", so will there be items like that, or will it be more based on the interactions that they manage to have?

- If a character is to be injured or die in a heart, what happens?

[codecmoment]

Thanks for asking all of these, since these were my questions and I'm running one.

[taimi]

I answered them over here Kristiebutt ♥

[bestwestern]

- I think if they're doing it like the system in Aather, then it's up to the runner to decide how many players can spelunk into the heart and if they wanna limit it to specific cr

- Yeah, generally the runner decides what the spelunkers can interact with. So if you don't want someone to mess with a character's trust issues, then you can make that part of the heart off-limits/protected/etc

- If we're doing boosters, then that can certainly work to change things! Otherwise it is up to interactions that players have in the heart to change things. For example, let's say that in Heiji's heart, his relationships are stored in two filing cabinets: one for platonic and one for romantic feelings. If someone moves a character x's file from platonic to romantic, then Heiji can find himself with a crush on x. Another example: if Heiji is distrustful of Bob, but Bob has a really positive conversation with the representation of Heiji's trust in his heart, then maybe after the heart game, Heiji will be more trusting of Bob.

- I don't know how they're going to want to handle that, but typically if you get injured or die in the heart, unless there's a system in place in the heart itself (ie if the heart has auto-revives or something) then it's like if they get injured or die in a regular game and need to be healed/revived in endgame

[taimi]

1) This depends on the person that is running the Heart and what they think they can handle! Some people can handle running for more people than others, and if they can handle less they may prefer just team members and extremely close CR. There'll be a post up closer to the date where runners can post how many people they can take on along with any warnings for the Heart and if they have any preferences for who signs up in their comment.

Usually most Heart runners will allow for all kinds of CR to hit it up but that largely depends on the Runner! ;w;/ I'm sorry we can't say for sure, since this sort of thing will depend entirely on the people running the Hearts.

2) The person running the Heart will decide! It's up to them because it's their heart, and therefore full of symbolism important to their character.

3) There aren't going to be any boosters in this round, though that's not to say they won't appear in any potential later rounds of heart games. Generally, interacting with things or putting them in different places or even just leaving notes or items in places (if characters bring items with them) could change things, but what changes and how it changes is up to the person running the Heart.

4) There are two different things that can happen! Either the Heart has a built in mechanism to revive people or heal them, or the Echo that's running will provide it.

hi this is debs

[bestwestern]

OKAY GOOD TO KNOW I WAS MORE OR LESS RIGHT

[taimi]

YES YOU WERE AND I WAS ABOUT TO COMMENT TO YOU SAYING "YOU BEAT ME AND ALSO GET OUT OF MY HEAD"

[menially]

HI DEBS

Will the characters know that their interactions will change their comrades (ie. will the echo be explaining, even if it is vague-sih normal echo explaining), or will they be figuring it out the hard way?

[taimi]

THEY WILL KNOW, because the Jacks and the Arm Incident ruined Queen's ability to assume some characters have common sense and she doesn't want to totally ruin the people of Kyriakos.

[thevoidsdarkhorse]

More for the mods.

IF OFF TEAM CR IS ALLOWED, for people who have multiple CR up, will unscored runs be allowed like Aather does?

[taimi]

Yep! We'll allow for unscored runs to happen since this is Plot and we want people to get as much out of it as they want.

[thevoidsdarkhorse]

Sweet. Thanks! o/ I'm guessing it's the same rules of being at a different time too?

[unguilded]

I was just coming in here to see if anyone asked this because I have a bf and a teamie doing one so HFF HFFFFF!!

[taimi]

YES!! I promise we will allow for it because this is Plot, but just make sure that the runner can handle it.

[thevoidsdarkhorse]

The woes of having too much CR, sob.

[pchaaair]

Hey, just as a heads up we won't be allowing this after all after some discussion and concerns from the people that are running the Hearts; in the future this may be possible, but not for this. :( Sorry.

I understand the woes though BELIEVE ME

[wingtamer]

- FOLLOWING UP ON SAIR'S QUESTION, if we have CR AND team can we have play two people in one heart provided one is an unscored run; is that specifically something that heart game runners are allowed to choose?

[taimi]

That's up to the Heart runner on if they want to allow you into their Heart twice since that could potentially take up a slot for someone else in how much they can run for!

We wouldn't have them both be unscored as long as they're two different characters, but when signups go up please ask the person running the game.

[wingtamer]

will do! :|b& i was asking if one was unscored b/c i was considering having a scored run in a different heart for one character

[deadrising]

IF OUR CHARACTER HAS CR WITH NONE OF THE CHARACTERS signed up, would it be possible to still be involved? I know sometimes hearts in Aather allow outside of the CR circle but not always, and I'm just a little worried new or somewhat antisocial characters won't get to play because they don't know the characters in question :x

[experiencepoints]

That depends on the runners! It is up to them who they allow in the heart and how many people they think they can handle.

[deadrising]

Okay! Then will there be an alternate thing for people to participate in Plot if they end up being excluded from hearts? Assuming the heart games are the only plot thing.

[lucciola]

Okay, I... will probably have a lot of questions about this as I'm running a game for the first time at all, and I know next to nothing about it and A LOT OF IT IS SUPER CONFUSING but I really want to run stuff.

As I've figured it, it's kind of like mind-diving, but physical... interaction with whatever things you encounter will affect the running character's personality/mind? And we're allowed to have... pretty much anything going on if we want to make larger changes or what...not...

lmfao sob I'm sorry if I ask completely obvious questions, but I don't know why I feel so confused about all of this.

[experiencepoints]

It's okay, it's super-confusing at first!

And yes, you're correct on all of that.

[lucciola]

Because I've run a lot of mind-diving, dreamexploring and memory flowers and such before, and I love it to bits. The heart games just sound like two or three steps more advanced h-haha