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THE ADVOCATE ORACLE - A RIP VAN WINKLE IN TIME
INTRO
Hello Kenos! Welcome to the Advocate Oracle! Did we say Stargazer? Shhh no we didn’t. As we hinted earlier in the Discord, the conclusion of this Oracle will lead to a timeskip that Bearers will be subjected to in the end. How long? Well, that depends on your choices, and how well you exemplify the Advocate Oracle.
Just like with the Exalt Oracle, and to keep things even until a little closer to the end game, this Oracle has been predetermined to go to Zenith.
Just like with the Exalt Oracle, and to keep things even until a little closer to the end game, this Oracle has been predetermined to go to Zenith.
SWEET DREAMS ARE MADE OF BLISS
Bearers will find themselves being pulled into a deep sleep, where the Advocate Oracle will beseech them for their knowledge of home and seek understanding. Where did you come from? What made you as you are? What were the victories and challenges of your land? How did you become the you that you are? The Advocate seeks understanding and wants to see others achieve happiness. Does your world bring you happiness, or would it be cathartic to see it lost?
As the Advocate learns bits and pieces about Bearers, it will become clear that their dream is closing in on something that the bearers who have experienced it will recognize as the Timestream. The Advocate is not a thing, but a presence, and bearers will be able to sense the force (amorphous and shapeless) reaching into the Timestream, and you know – know that they are reaching for something on your behalf. As it slides out, you can feel a calming sense of joy, because you recognize it. It fills you with joy, bliss, or perhaps frustration and disgust, as you recognize the feeling of being home.
Everything will go white, and your one-on-one time with the Advocate will be at an end.
As the Advocate learns bits and pieces about Bearers, it will become clear that their dream is closing in on something that the bearers who have experienced it will recognize as the Timestream. The Advocate is not a thing, but a presence, and bearers will be able to sense the force (amorphous and shapeless) reaching into the Timestream, and you know – know that they are reaching for something on your behalf. As it slides out, you can feel a calming sense of joy, because you recognize it. It fills you with joy, bliss, or perhaps frustration and disgust, as you recognize the feeling of being home.
Everything will go white, and your one-on-one time with the Advocate will be at an end.
CLICK YOUR HEELS TOGETHER, DOROTHY!
Bearers will open their eyes and will find themselves in a new world. This is not Kenos at all, but familiar or not, you know it is someplace in the scattered worlds.
Where is it? Well, it’s either your world or another Bearer’s! That’s right, it’s a world share event! Bearers will find themselves scattered either on their own or in groups (up to you!) in a new world, that could be familiar or not, depending on your CR net. The Advocate has pulled the memories and description of a world from the Timestream, and for what purpose… well, that will become clear with time. However, these are not the worlds that characters came from, not exactly. These are worlds that are AUs of your character's canon, and this can be in very minor ways that would be essentially the same as canon, or it can be in very large, dramatic ways. Up to you!
You are not required to share a world, however, bearers will feel a strong compulsion to invite the Advocate to experience their worlds in their vision with the Advocate. (This leaves you all options to opt out of sharing your own world, but for those characters who may be less inclined, this is your opportunity to do so!)
But first, the logistics! Bearers will be in worlds for 12 hours each. You will not experience hunger or tiredness – but feel free to eat or sleep your way through worlds as you so choose (we expect there to be a lot of them!) – and the scope of each world is about what is discoverable within 12 hours. (You don’t need to describe the entirety of your world, but a city or area. Please make sure it's large enough to accommodate the entire shard-bearer population. For example, the Millennium Falcon would be too small, but a Star Destroyer would be fine. It should be a place that provides significant hold over your character.) There will be an open header here for players to post a short description of their world. If your character wants to go hang out at a coffee shop and watch shit go down, feel free! (The mod team has examples, and we will be sharing those shortly!) Please have your descriptions in by 03/15/2024 at 1:30 PM so that everyone can choose participation in other characters’ worlds before they get their TLs up!
For characters that are from shared worlds, we’ll leave it up to you how you all share that, but if you choose to have different regions or cities to share, go for it! For example, Batman might choose Gotham, whereas Superman might choose Smallville. Again, this really should be what’s feasibly travelable within 12 hours – they will cycle like the rest of the worlds – and your characters will not have money or funds on them for travel, so don’t feel like you have to describe the entirety of your characters’ worlds. Just a small blurb (you can include links of course!) to give players a general sense of what they can discover.
Also, these worlds will shuffle in the order on the taken list, just so the Savants have an unsolvable puzzle to chew on. (heh)
Characters will experience every world that is submitted into the header, but the Advocate’s last impression will echo as you move from one word to another. “Is this worthy of saving?”
Your twelve hours can be spent in one of three ways. Bearers can do whatever they want, and simply experience the world as they wish, they can hunt for the soul of the world, or they cant hunt for the soul of the dreamer.
There will be a header on the turn-in post to list if your character chooses to keep the different Aspected Shard of themselves. If you find someone else’s Shard, and you keep it to the next world, it will return to that Bearer to decide what to do with it. Essentially, if you don’t shatter this Shard, they’ll be able to do with it as they see fit before you leave their world. If you do shatter the Shard, there will be no consequences to the owner. Or at least none that will appear in this event.
It goes without saying, but please plot this with that player, so there are no surprises!
Where is it? Well, it’s either your world or another Bearer’s! That’s right, it’s a world share event! Bearers will find themselves scattered either on their own or in groups (up to you!) in a new world, that could be familiar or not, depending on your CR net. The Advocate has pulled the memories and description of a world from the Timestream, and for what purpose… well, that will become clear with time. However, these are not the worlds that characters came from, not exactly. These are worlds that are AUs of your character's canon, and this can be in very minor ways that would be essentially the same as canon, or it can be in very large, dramatic ways. Up to you!
You are not required to share a world, however, bearers will feel a strong compulsion to invite the Advocate to experience their worlds in their vision with the Advocate. (This leaves you all options to opt out of sharing your own world, but for those characters who may be less inclined, this is your opportunity to do so!)
But first, the logistics! Bearers will be in worlds for 12 hours each. You will not experience hunger or tiredness – but feel free to eat or sleep your way through worlds as you so choose (we expect there to be a lot of them!) – and the scope of each world is about what is discoverable within 12 hours. (You don’t need to describe the entirety of your world, but a city or area. Please make sure it's large enough to accommodate the entire shard-bearer population. For example, the Millennium Falcon would be too small, but a Star Destroyer would be fine. It should be a place that provides significant hold over your character.) There will be an open header here for players to post a short description of their world. If your character wants to go hang out at a coffee shop and watch shit go down, feel free! (The mod team has examples, and we will be sharing those shortly!) Please have your descriptions in by 03/15/2024 at 1:30 PM so that everyone can choose participation in other characters’ worlds before they get their TLs up!
For characters that are from shared worlds, we’ll leave it up to you how you all share that, but if you choose to have different regions or cities to share, go for it! For example, Batman might choose Gotham, whereas Superman might choose Smallville. Again, this really should be what’s feasibly travelable within 12 hours – they will cycle like the rest of the worlds – and your characters will not have money or funds on them for travel, so don’t feel like you have to describe the entirety of your characters’ worlds. Just a small blurb (you can include links of course!) to give players a general sense of what they can discover.
Also, these worlds will shuffle in the order on the taken list, just so the Savants have an unsolvable puzzle to chew on. (heh)
Characters will experience every world that is submitted into the header, but the Advocate’s last impression will echo as you move from one word to another. “Is this worthy of saving?”
Your twelve hours can be spent in one of three ways. Bearers can do whatever they want, and simply experience the world as they wish, they can hunt for the soul of the world, or they cant hunt for the soul of the dreamer.
- The first is self-explanatory, of course. Each world is full of life, from creatures to people, to everything in between. (Conspicuously missing would be anyone of significant “closeness” to the character who manifested this world – think of it as the difference between a friend/family and an acquaintance.) Characters can create chaos, go to a café, find a precious spot you’ve heard about, and go wild! This is your opportunity to learn about your CR’s homes in a first-hand experience kinda way! This is your have fun and deepen connections sort of prompt.
- The second, the Soul of the World will be a shard to be found by any who are searching for it. It is something that anyone can simply find, but it will be hidden. We ask that our players choose the location and list it in the description of their world, so players can actively plot for it! This is your opportunity to sneak, steal, fight, and destroy each other over the soul, it will come with a distinct benefit as you move onto the next world! They will be somewhere that is difficult to find, surrounded by shadows that creep closer and closer to the shard.
- The last is the Soul of the Dreamer, which is, interestingly enough, a second Shard that matches the person who dreamed it up. The odd thing about these shards in these worlds is that they are of a different Aspect of the character that exists in game. (For example: Amos the Harbinger, or Hayame the Advocate) The character it belongs to will feel a pull toward it, but it is no guarantee that they will find it. Maybe someone else does! And maybe that’s a kind soul, or maybe it’s someone who would think to shatter that this Shard. Or maybe you keep it!
There will be a header on the turn-in post to list if your character chooses to keep the different Aspected Shard of themselves. If you find someone else’s Shard, and you keep it to the next world, it will return to that Bearer to decide what to do with it. Essentially, if you don’t shatter this Shard, they’ll be able to do with it as they see fit before you leave their world. If you do shatter the Shard, there will be no consequences to the owner. Or at least none that will appear in this event.
It goes without saying, but please plot this with that player, so there are no surprises!
AROUND THE WORLDS IN 60 SECONDS 12 HOURS
As you close your eyes, in that last moment, the Advocate will reach out to all of the Bearers that have made it to the end of this world, and beseech them to make a choice. Does this world have something of value? Something to be preserved? Do you understand the Bearer who dreamt of this world better, now? Do you think that this world has enough value to continue its existence? Before you open your eyes into the next world, Bearers will be compelled to answer yes, or no. This will be on a separate header post that will go up on the turn-in log. You will have until Wednesday March 27th at 10:00 PM.
As an aside, whatever bearer has captured the soul of the world will count to double their action's choice. (For example, if they choose to destroy, the total destroy votes will be doubled.)
We’ll be tallying the results, so there will be some extra exciting consequences to your choices as Bearers! Always keep in mind the tenets of your faction as you make your choices, bearers. Now that you have lost your leaders, the members of your faction back home are looking to you for victory. Of course, your choices will also determine the state of the world when you return, and how long it has been. Stay steadfast, and understand that you will have to make choices based on what your character believes is the best path forward. Your leadership trusts you – or if they don’t, they will have no choice, now will they? It’s up to you now, Bearers.
As an aside, whatever bearer has captured the soul of the world will count to double their action's choice. (For example, if they choose to destroy, the total destroy votes will be doubled.)
We’ll be tallying the results, so there will be some extra exciting consequences to your choices as Bearers! Always keep in mind the tenets of your faction as you make your choices, bearers. Now that you have lost your leaders, the members of your faction back home are looking to you for victory. Of course, your choices will also determine the state of the world when you return, and how long it has been. Stay steadfast, and understand that you will have to make choices based on what your character believes is the best path forward. Your leadership trusts you – or if they don’t, they will have no choice, now will they? It’s up to you now, Bearers.
FAQ AND QUESTIONS
This Oracle is a touch more free-form than previous Oracles, and that is intentional! You are not required or expected to explore or have major action in every world. In fact, it's strongly discouraged, since this will provide opportunities for all players to have an opportunity to make big decisions! Even if you do not thread in the world, please still vote for them before 3/27/2024 so that we can have an accurate tally! The votes will make a difference in what our world looks like moving forward.
And finally, since they didn’t fit in the above, here are some quick FAQ style questions and answers about things we figure might be asked:
Are these really our worlds?
These are versions of bearer worlds. They can be very close (ie: identical) expressions of your character's worlds or they can have one event change such that the world is rather different. So they are alternate universes, but not so far that you're making up a whole world on the fly! The Advocate, unfortunately, cannot bring back your worlds. There's a lot of options out there in the Timestream. :(
What About Discord?
Characters do not seem to experience heightened Discord. Weird!
What happens if my character dies in the event?
They will fall into a deep, deep sleep and can no longer participate in the world-hopping adventures! They may be asleep for some time, depending on when they are dissipated, as they won’t revive early compared to their fellow Bearers. Whatever votes your character made leading up to the point that they died will count toward the goals of the faction. The Advocate accepts you for your efforts, even if they draw short.
Please make sure to post your deaths to the death page! You're gonna be sleeping a long time, and there may be things your Bearer discovers as they dream...
Are characters depowered?
Your powers will work perfectly fine! Oddly, if you are in a world where powers don’t exist, the denizens of the world may stare blankly, as if they Do Not Perceive. You gotta protect those little minds somehow.
We hope you have fun, and happy plotting!
And finally, since they didn’t fit in the above, here are some quick FAQ style questions and answers about things we figure might be asked:
Are these really our worlds?
These are versions of bearer worlds. They can be very close (ie: identical) expressions of your character's worlds or they can have one event change such that the world is rather different. So they are alternate universes, but not so far that you're making up a whole world on the fly! The Advocate, unfortunately, cannot bring back your worlds. There's a lot of options out there in the Timestream. :(
What About Discord?
Characters do not seem to experience heightened Discord. Weird!
What happens if my character dies in the event?
They will fall into a deep, deep sleep and can no longer participate in the world-hopping adventures! They may be asleep for some time, depending on when they are dissipated, as they won’t revive early compared to their fellow Bearers. Whatever votes your character made leading up to the point that they died will count toward the goals of the faction. The Advocate accepts you for your efforts, even if they draw short.
Please make sure to post your deaths to the death page! You're gonna be sleeping a long time, and there may be things your Bearer discovers as they dream...
Are characters depowered?
Your powers will work perfectly fine! Oddly, if you are in a world where powers don’t exist, the denizens of the world may stare blankly, as if they Do Not Perceive. You gotta protect those little minds somehow.
We hope you have fun, and happy plotting!
Ruby's (ak)edgy crew
PLAYER
NAME: Ruby
CONTACT:
Goro Akechi
CHARACTER
NAME: Goro AkechiCANON: Persona 5: Royal
FACTION | ASPECT: T1 Zenith | Iconoclast
Give us a blurb about them: for most of the game, akechi presents himself as extremely charismatic, with a mind and schemes so sharp that even as a teenager he earns the moniker of Detective Prince. but his niceties are all a mask, and in reality, Akechi is just well versed in the art of deception and motivated by personal revenge, in a way that makes him proud, selfish, and unable to open himself up to Power of Friendship. he prefers to work on his own, though he is capable of cooperation with, ugh, teammates. if he must!!
due to having grown up alone, akechi is desperate for love and recognition. he especially values bonds with adults over those with people his own age, and his craving for validation is so strong that it makes him susceptible to manipulation, though once he realizes he’s been made a “puppet” he absolutely refuses to let anyone else decide his fate. no matter how good he is at pretending otherwise, he has grown to be disconnected from his true feelings, to the point of misconstruing his jealousy and admiration for his rival and only friend as hate. His true nature is chaos itself, and though by late game he takes on a mostly formal yet blunt personality with a cynical view of the world, he lets loose in combat, ruthless and unhinged in equal measure.
TLDR: big angy baby throwing temper tantrums, actually desperate for love but do not touch him. (also hates god-like beings and pancakes.)
Event specific plans:
I still need to take a good look at all these worlds available, but Akechi will be going hardcore on the Shard hunting business! Dreamer Shards will probably be spared (this time) but he'll be especially gunning for World Shards that he can promptly destroy!! Since he hasn't outed himself as a Full Crazy to (most) of the enemy side, I'd personally love for him to tag-team with a Meri and cooperate in finding a Shard together, only to betray them and steal it at the last second!! Zenites are definitely welcome to join maybe begrudgingly so but at least he's not trying to permakill anyone right now...??
Things your character can offer: He'll happily do it on his own but he'll be willing to do the teamwork thing! And also the betrayal thing when appropriate!! He can put up a good fight and dissipation is on the table, but if he can get away with just messing up with your character's mind and that's something you'd be interested in, hit me up!
Do you want your character to find your shard? If it's a good opportunity for CR building, yeah! Otherwise I'm not leaning either way, but I do ask that you check with me if you want your character to find/shatter it!
Optional shitpost:
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Ryouma is foolishly holding out hope that he doesn't have to take a harsher stance with Zenith than his willingness to kill them if provoked, especially since some Zenites aren't automatically downvoting worlds, which he hopes might even tempt some people to Meridian. He'd be willing to believe Akechi is a more moderate Zenite, and he will even be super nice to him
so I hope Akechi feels bad about it later. (:I will say that Ryouma would try to kill him after he did it, but I am willing to find a reason why Akechi gets away if you'd rather he survive the encounter! Maybe they're cutting it close to the end of their time in a world, and then the timer expires, and they end up yeeted into different sections of the next world and never run into each other again. Or anything else! I have literally no other plans set in stone~
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but YEAH since this is his first oracle and zenith is winning, i want to spare him from dying
you know, more than he does in canonthis time around so it could either be something like their time is up or they could get in a scuffle that ends in a stalemate, whatever works! since akechi is not trying to kill anyone, his betrayal could be on the stealthier side or even just resort to a lil berserk incident if it would work on ryouma? that's like... his entry level hostility lmao.ALSO are there any dreamer/world shards you have your eyes on??
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I don't have any particular dreamer/world shards in mind that I'm set on! They could go after a Shard in a difficult location or involving a situation Akechi could take advantage of and get away before Ryouma really has a chance to do anything, whether it involved fighting something or doing something unpleasant.
I did consider Rin's world since it's a Fate/ AU. His last event in canon was literally him encountering his double, who was a version of himself from an AU where he was a normal Heroic Spirit and not a Counter Guardian. No pressure to actually do this!! I'm not even sure if it's an available Shard lol it's just one idea I had earlier because I was thinking of ways to do a Master/Servant AU that wasn't just vibing and doing exploration and the Advocate trying to get people to understand each other seemed like a sufficient excuse why it might throw a Meri and a Zeni together for that.
So, they could potentially get forcibly thrown together as a Master/Servant pair, which would also give Akechi 3 Command Seals to use (but it only takes one to ruin his day lmao). Ryouma would try to explain them without admitting that they can be used to have total control over a Servant because he actually does not enjoy the Master-Servant experience and doesn't like the idea that someone can control him, but like, TOO BAD I GUESS??
Anyway, they could encounter an obstacle along the way, like a trap or something that can't be breached by ordinary means that puts Akechi in danger. That would force Ryouma to fill in more details about what Command Seals can actually do because you can do some reality-bendy things you can't ordinarily do if you use them, and Akechi would be able to use one to solve the problem.
Or, there is a ton of lore just scattered around the place for nerds to find, and Akechi could pick the knowledge up somewhere and keep the fact that he knows what he's doing a secret until the end. Akechi is definitely bright enough, even without any magical knowledge, to figure out how to use that if he wanted to just from context clues, so either would work.
Ryouma would expect a greater likelihood of a betrayal in this case only because he recognises his own vulnerability to his own canon bullshit, but Akechi could easily seem like someone who wouldn't pull that, especially if they seemed like they were working well together the rest of the time.
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i also like the idea of akechi figuring things out on his own even it means ryouma would be on alert for a possible betrayal because, depending on where their CR goes next, he could either try to reason he was just doing what the world required of them for a more positive-ish outcome (he isn't the type to make a whole Performance out of shattering the shard in front of people) OR try to paint ryouma as another zealot (like the rest of meri!!) who's keeping an irrational grudge on poor lil him!! :'')
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I'm glad it works for Akechi as well! I LOVE that he'll have options for how he wants to spin it I can't wait to see what bullshit he comes up with!! I am cool with writing up a starter if batty gives the green light, so feel free to ping me on disco later either way (because if not we'll find the next best option hehe).
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hes also an annoying perceptive protagonist type who no matter what will be like. ohhh this fucker, im going to befriend the shit out of this guy. it probably wont work but he will try.
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also trying to befriend akechi even post-betrayal, don't be a stupid protag, chrono, power of friendship doesn't work on him.............
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power of friendship out of the question huh... then he will just do it out of spite honestly. sorry akechi
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