I was really inactive already and was hoping to use the event to dive back in amd get some threads going

But I just can’t figure out how to interact with this event in a way I don’t hate

And there’s like an official Did You Die list so I don’t feel like I can just ignore it

tbf the dead/alive list was literally for one purpose and that was "tracking if people wanted to get killed/wanted to stay alive in action threads"

since a lot of the initial plotting was done in various plurks/on discord

Okay but like

There was no way to survive

you can absolutely just handwave "well they managed to stay alive" and be done with it

Other than joining the hunt

no?

Two weeks on the run from textually unstoppable hunters when the only safe place is a magic tent that kicks you out after three hours?

you can absoutely just handwave "and then i hid out in the woods for two weeks and I Managed"

100% death rate

i know some characters barricaded down existing fae-made structures like Fort Avengers

they're not unstoppable they're just unkillable

you can still incapacitate them or trick them and shit

the forest was marginally safer iirc becuase it wouldn't eat you and i believe beasts were neutral parties

For two weeks?

yeah

Neutral or allies, but more importantly: Individuals. Some Beasts will sell out the Adopted to the Fae, and others will help temporarily hide the Adopted. But, the local animals are by and large sympathetic to the Adopted and will at the very least help in a way that wouldn't be any trouble to them.

The forest, which usually kills people who are lost within it overnight, is willing to let the Adopted hide there overnight for once. It won't try to stop or hinder the Fae, but it won't help them catch the Adopted any faster either.

It will be blanketed in a thick fog to obscure things equally for both sides, but if the forest already doesn't like you, it's more likely to snitch on your location to the Fae.

also fae need to like...eat and sleep, it wasn't a 24/7 thing

so like, harrowing but still survivable

I can’t find that on the event post

it's in the first mod toplevel, the FAQ

this one!

it's a collapsible cause it's quite long

Buried in the faq. Great

"Will Adopted have any chance to find sanctuary/set up camp and sleep?
Yes. The NPCs in the town are quite varied in behavior and need to sleep and eat as they usually do; while the Hunt is technically going on around the clock, not everyone is giving their all, 100% of the time. They get hungry, they get tired, they aren't omniscient."

like it's literally the first question

Look if you liked this event great but I hated it

i'm not trying to make you like it though there were textually answers to the problems, but if you don't like any of it that's also fine?

it's basically a whole survival thunderdome that goes on for two weeks, that's not everyone's bag

It felt to me like it was really focusing on death mechanics?

Which is my least favorite part of most rps

Hmm, I can see that! I kinda think it's more that there were extended death mechanics because otherwise it'd be kind of a bummer for people who wanted their characters to eat shit to be locked out of doing anything

but that's my perspective on it. it'd be like, punishing people who chose to have their characters die if there wasn't Something for them to do ig

but i do understand like, "oh this event focuses on changing how death works in this rp, which i already don't care about"

"and now i double don't care about it, why are we focusing on this"

Like if this didn’t hit so hard I’d be fibe just kind of skipping it

But theres no way to ignore this one

It fundamentally changes the players’ relationship with the fae to learn they can just Do This

if it helps at all there IS player confirmation that like, there was a signal that made them all go crazy so it's not just. "well we've decided to hunt you for sport today <3 yay <3"

more induced bloodsports than "we just decided we didnt like you on a whim" thing

It’s taking the game in a direction I’m not a fan of

that's very fair

Whether or not they were in control it still happened

I don’t know

i mean like, if you don't like it you don't like it

you feel the way you feel

The presentation of it just felt bad and I was already kinda hemming and hawing

if you're not having fun, there's no shame in dropping