Save the Earth Mods

BASICS

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The echo boundary area includes the 23 special wards of Tokyo, and all of Tokyo bay.

Tokyo is a large city and capitol of Japan. Notable places include The Imperial Palace, Akihabara, and of course,Toyko Tower

The teleporter exit is located in a small Go Parlor in central Tokyo, run by an older gentleman who does not speak English.

Map and The Weather.

FOR VISITORS

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While there are those who are sympathetic to the numbered in Tokyo (Some are even excited to see you!), unfortunately nobody has enough room in their house to let all of you stay over. Looks like hostels, hotels, and other “pay your own way” locations are your best bet. May we suggest a Ryokan?

BASICS

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The echo boundary area is within and on the M25 motorway, which applies to approximately all 33 boroughs of the Greater London area.

London is a large city and capitol of England and the UK. Notable places include Buckingham Palace, The Tower of London, and the London Eye, as well as other monuments and many museums and theaters.

The teleporter exit is located in the basement of a back alley pub in central London, called “The Cod’s Wallop”

Map and The Weather.


FOR LOCALS

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Locals can have a British Citizenship, EU citizenship, or residency permit. London is a large city and has a wide variety of job opportunities. It also has a number of universities.

Players may make up companies, restaurants, schools and similar things; please do not make up tourist attractions, towns, mountains and things of that nature.

FOR VISITORS

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While there are those who are sympathetic to the numbered in London, unfortunately nobody has enough room in their house to let all of you stay over. Looks like hostels, hotels, and other “pay your own way” locations are your best bet.

BASICS

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The echo boundary area is the size of the island itself. Notable features include a large National Park which makes up 63% of the island, which is on the tropical side. Most people speak English, but both Mandarin and Cantonese are spoken in some communities. Christmas Island is also known for it's red crab migration. The main migration of crabs is predicted to start between December 17th to 19th, and should last for about two weeks. Around late January or early February you might find bitty baby crabs on the beach.

The teleporter exit is located a half kilometer outside the "Island Crab Campground" on a large tree. Watch out for the crabs if they're in season.

Remember! The Christmas Islands are located in the southern hemisphere, which means that the seasons are inverted - Summer in December and Winter in July.

Basic Island Map and The Weather.


FOR LOCALS

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Locals can have Australian citizenship, or residency permits. The population is primarily Chinese-Australian. Flying-Fish Cove or "The Settlement" hosts one-third of the Island's residents. The job opportunities here center around tourism, particularly the national park, but also including diving instructors, and dock workers for the Yachts that tourists often rent.

Players may make up companies, restaurants, schools and similar things; please do not make up tourist attractions, towns, mountains and things of that nature.

You may add a comment about both made-up locations and real life locations below; just drop a small note of it in the appropriate section of the comments. It's only for the purpose of allowing players to coordinate elements together. For example, how many of the school age characters go to the same school? Does someone work at another's favourite pizza joint? If your character works/goes to school/is a member of/etc a place on the list, you can comment to the top level comment of that place. Changes to the places should also be added by way of a comment to the place comment. Example (which is an actual part of the map of Locke City). You may also include links in the general description.

LOCATIONS

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↬ Educational facilities
↬ Public services
↬ Food can be acquired here!
↬ Entertainment
↬ Stores
↬ Other


FOR VISITORS

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Near to Flying-fish Cove there is the "Island Crab Campground" affectionately called "The Crabby Camp" by locals due it's proximity to a red crab migration path. There are various tents for roughing it, and a few simple cabins. The crabs themselves largely ignore the place, but a stray one might wander in. Kitchen and bathroom facilities are shared in a central location. The owner, Kevin Zhāng, is sympathetic to the numbered and will allow them to stay at the older and less popular area of the campground, which has five tents and three cabins.

BASICS

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This echo boundary is by far the largest: It covers all of Finnish Lapland plus a tiny part of Russia (the entire 20 km radius around Korvatunturi mountain). Large parts of this area are north of the polar cycle, so there are days of the year when the sun never rises/never sinks. Winters are cold and have ample amounts of snow, summers are warm and have ample amounts of mosquitoes. Most people speak Finnish and a good amount of English, some speak Sami languages and a select few Swedish. The population density is low (for Europe, anyway).

The teleporter exit in Lapland is located in a backroom of Santa's Post Office in Santa Claus Village near the state's largest city Rovaniemi.

The weather.


FOR LOCALS

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Residents of Lapland will likely be ethnic white Finns, Sami (Nordic natives) or immigrants. Being a state with fairly little in terms of educational facilities and complicated industries, characters that are not children or teenagers are likely to either work in the services industry/retail or have to do with logging, mining or reindeer.

Players may make up companies, restaurants, hotels, farms, schools and similar things; please do not make up major tourist attractions.

You may add a comment about both made-up locations and real life locations below; just drop a small note of it in the appropriate section of the comments. It's only for the purpose of allowing players to coordinate elements together. For example, how many of the school age characters go to the same school? Does someone work at another's favourite pizza joint? If your character works/goes to school/is a member of/etc a place on the list, you can comment to the top level comment of that place. Changes to the places should also be added by way of a comment to the place comment. Example (which is an actual part of the map of Locke City). You may also include links in the general description.

LOCATIONS

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↬ Educational facilities
↬ Public services
↬ Food can be acquired here!
↬ Entertainment
↬ Stores
↬ Other


FOR VISITORS

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David Graibiger's aunt, after a rather spectacular escape through half of Europe ended up in northern Finland in the 1940ies and married a silviculturist there. Her family stayed, and one of his cousins and her husband (Raakel and Paavo Virtanen with their younger children Arvo and Armo (m, 18) and Minttu (f, 6)) still live on their parents farm roughly an hour to the northeast from Rovaniemi. The farm is large enough to house up to twelve numbered at once if people sleep on the floor, has a sauna and three snowmobiles that can be borrowed, and two of the children can drive and will volunteer to pick people up from Santa Village or the airport.

The eldest daughter, Sara, owns a small apartment in the city that can host up to three numbered for a limited number of days, put people will absolutely have to sleep on the floor/couch.

Conventionally

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Reincarnates can travel between echo boundaries as every other person. They will however lose their echoes to a degree: Memories will become fuzzy, sometimes seeming as if they were just a dream, physical alterations will be heavily diminished and echoed abilities and powers will be much weaker. This effect grows stronger the further they are away from the next echo boundary, and recedes once they get closer to one again. Upon entering another or re-entering the same boundary, everything will be as it was.


By Teleporter

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Since the night of the 10th/11th of August 2014, the reincarnate-run Espresso Yourself in Locke now houses a teleportation device. The teleporter main terminal is located in the basement of the former Willow Ridge Boarding Academy. The machine is comprised of a metal booth roughly the size of a shower stall and a touchpad interface which displays a monochrome map of the world. All echo boundaries that are currently active are shown in colour. If a reincarnate touches Locke on the map, nothing will happen. If they touch one of the other areas, the area will light up and a glowing sigil will appear on the floor of the metal booth. The sigils are only outlines and no details can be seen. They look like this:

(drawing by joysweeper)
*Las Vegas shows the sigil of a lobster-crab-like being.
*The Neuschwanstein Area shows the sigil of a two-headed-swan-like being.
*Lapland shows the sigil of a humanoid figure with horns and horse hooves.
*The Christmas Islands show the sigil of a mushroom.
*London shows a sigil that resembles a cloud or a hairball.
*The Santarem Area shows a dragonfly.
*Tokyo shows up as a kappa.
*The Galapagos Islands show up as a very strange fish that looks like a mix of a shark and a whale.

If a reincarnate steps onto the symbol, they will disappear in a flash of pink light and find themselves touching a glowing sigil of the same shape in the other location. The sigils can only be seen by reincarnates; touching them will transport the person to Locke. After using the teleporter, the individual will have to wait four hours before they can use it again.
- In Vegas, the sigil is located at the bottom of a pool, though if a bright mind checks the ceiling of the room below the pool, they'll find it there as well.
- In the Neuschwanstein area, the sigil is located halfway up the Pöllatschlucht Gorge below Neuschwanstein Castle.
- In Lapland, the sigil is located in the back of Santa Claus's Post Office.
- On the Christmas Islands, the sigil is located on a tree near FLying Fish Cove.
- On the Galapagos Islands, the sigil is located inside a unisex rest room on a hiking trail at Tortuga Bay. It's a 15-20 minute walk from the teleporter to Puerto Ayora, on Isla Santa Cruz.
- In London, the sigil is located in the basement of a back alley pub in central London, called “The Cod’s Wallop”
- In Santarem, the sigil is located at the busy fish market.
- In Tokyo, the teleporter exit is located in a small Go Parlor in central Tokyo, run by an older gentleman who does not speak English.

Only numbered and inanimate things can be transported with the teleporter. There are, at the moment, two exceptions: Echoed living beings and wolpertinger that travel with a numbered person.


By Ghost Zone

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Since the 16th of September 2014, portals to the ghost zone have started to show up everywhere within all echo boundaries, though not outside of them. They can show up to remain for days, weeks or months. They can have any shape or form and appear in any location, and they all lead to the Ghost zone - basically a parallel dimension that's just green as far as the eye can see, filled with floating doors that can be exits but also can lead to ghosts' "lairs" and sometimes rocks that may or may not have stuff on them. While there are no ghosts in the zone when it shows up, reincarnates are not the only ones who will be able to enter it... and everyone who is not a reincarnate that does will be turned into a ghost, and all except for humans will remain one even after leaving it. This includes the beings from Oublie and other echoed locations as well as Vermini, Vermedi and Vermaxi, but also random animals...

Distance there works differently. If you enter the Ghost Zone in Locke, go five feet, and exit back into the human world, you may well end up in another echo boundary, but definitely not five feet away. If you figure out how to navigate it, it could be handy. Or you could just end up stuck in the middle of a lake, or two hundred feet above ground in thin air.

BASICS

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The echo boundary area is roughly 50x30 km large. It covers the area between Halblech, Roßhaupten and Kempten in Bavaria, Germany and Weißenbach am Lech in Tyrol, Austria. Due to the Schengen Treaty there are no border controls. Notable features include Neuschwanstein Castle and skiing opportunities. Notable municipalities include Kempten, Nesselwang, Füssen, Halblech, Reutte.

Right on the border, north of Vils, an Orbital Elevator has shown up as the echo boundary was created. Farms and other houses that were standing in the area are now located inside the ground level of the elevator, including some of their fields and a few forests.

An approximate map of the echo boundaries and the weather.


FOR LOCALS

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Locals can have Austrian, German or a foreign citizenship, since the boundary crosses a border. Note that EU citizens will have an easier time moving and living there than those from non-EU countries. There is a university in Kempten and all kinds of vocational training are open to youngsters in the echo boundaries. During wintertime, working as skiing instructors is a wide-spread job especially with younger adults. Employment is possible in all sectors, though all kinds of touristic and related ones are likely; the area is also known for its violin-makers, small companies and small-scale agriculture.

Players may make up companies, restaurants, schools and similar things; please do not make up skiing resorts, tourist attractions, towns, mountains and similar things.

You may add a comment about both made-up locations and real life locations below; just drop a small note of it in the appropriate section of the comments. It's only for the purpose of allowing players to coordinate elements together. For example, how many of the school age characters go to the same school? Does someone work at another's favourite pizza joint? If your character works/goes to school/is a member of/etc a place on the list, you can comment to the top level comment of that place. Changes to the places should also be added by way of a comment to the place comment. Example (which is an actual part of the map of Locke City). You may also include links in the general description.

LOCATIONS

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↬ Educational facilities
↬ Public services
↬ Food can be acquired here!
↬ Entertainment
↬ Stores
↬ Other


FOR VISITORS

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In gratitude for her rescuing by reincarnates, Petunia Bonbright will help out with the stay of visitors. She has completely booked the Hotel Lilie in Reutte and also takes care of there being cars for the reincarnates. Her daughter Rose, who currently lives in Innsbruck, will drop in every once in a while to check that really only numbered people are taking up the offer.

Please keep in mind that the echo boundary crosses country borders and your character might need visa for Austria and/or Germany due to their nationality.

SETTING

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The game's location is ordinary and familiar, planet Earth in the year 2014. The world's human history will be completely identical to the real world with the exception of game events and the existence of the city which acts as the early focal point of gameplay. As time progresses, the setting will expand to a completely global setting and characters will be allowed (and plot will encourage) them to go elsewhere. Nothing supernatural exists, although certainly lots of the unusual. It's a place which contains all the things that make up a world. Nature, mankind, peace, war, love, hate. But it has nothing special. It's just the same as the real 21st century Earth.

With just two differences. The first is that the planet itself is alive and sentient, a cosmic entity that guides the development of life on Earth very loosely by deciding which soul to place in which body. The second is that a mysterious entity that appears to be from another reality attempted to encroach on the planet in its ancient past. The sentient life force of the planet realised it was in danger and had no adequate form of defence. In response it used the breach the entity created to gather the 'souls' of dead beings from destroyed universes and implanted them into new born lifeforms. Now when dangerous breaches occur, these people are slowly reformatted to match their old lives in an attempt to act as the world's guardians, whenever they get involved in the unfolding conflict. However, their souls were not chosen for reincarnation by any method further than being from dimensions beyond; the people they might find themselves becoming may not be the most obvious choices for the Earth's protectors.

The characters won't know this for a long time. They will probably be more focused on keeping themselves alive, as the game will have a lot of dangerous events that will largely revolve around the previously mentioned entity attempting to take a foothold in this reality through a series of schemes. There will be no self resolving events. Players will have to be proactive in dealing with what is occurring.

The story begins in Locke City, NJ, USA. It's a particularly massive city on the coast of New Jersey, USA, and contains everything you'd expect a city to contain: slums, business and industrial districts, suburbs, hotels, schools. The city has a very strong multicultural make-up, and features an equivalent to a 'Little Italy' or 'China Town' for every culture you can think of. The exact contents of the city and its surroundings are left to the players and the requirements of the plot. In other words, world building is a community effort. For further information about Locke and to add to the city's geography and to see the contributions of others, go to the Locke City Location page.

A second location is Las Vegas, NV, USA. This location is smaller, with the echo boundaries only including a part of the urban area. The real world make-up of the city is subject to changes that are brought on by plot and player actions; most significantly there is currently a mountain rising up from under the city while parts of it have been flooded. More information about it and a place for player contributions can be found on the Las Vegas Location's page.

A third location that will open up shortly is an area at the southern slopes of the alps including Füssen, Bavaria, Germany and Reutte, Tyrol, Austria as well as the fairytale castle Neuschwanstein. The real world make-up of the city is subject to changes that are brought on by plot and player actions. Most significantly, there is an Orbital Tower on the border. More information about it and a place for player contributions can be found on the Neuschwanstein Area Location's page.

A fourth location is the whole state of Lapland, Finland. The real world make-up of the state is subject to changes that are brought on by plot and player actions. More information about it and a place for player contributions can be found on the Lapland Location's page.

A fifth location is the Christmas Island, which belongs to Australia and is located a good distance off the coast of Java, Indonesia. The real world make-up of the island is subject to changes that are brought on by plot and player actions. More information about it and a place for player contributions can be found on the the Christmas Island Location's page.

Whilst it has already been decided the game will undergo 'seasons' and 'arcs' where when one ends the setting changes, much of what will occur with the plot will be a response to the player's actions. The only NPCs will be normal humans, monsters and the enemy (and their minions) with no untouchable NPCs that are in control of the setting.

Something like a memory loss game and something like an AU game, the idea is that you do not play your character but their reincarnation from their canon in this game's setting. They will have lived their whole life there as an ordinary human being, with the player creating an AU history and personality. Players will be allowed a few major deviations (and lots of minor deviations) from the canon character's personality to make them logically fit into their AU life, but as they spend time in game they will have parts of their previous life returned to them as memories, personality traits, powers, appearance changes and be given items etc. that link them to their past selves. This process is called an Echo. For more detail on Echoes, see this page. Upon receiving their first echo, characters will also receive a number that grants them access to the network.

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Season specific information

The game is currently in the second season. This means that the existence of the numbered and the existence of the supernatural is public knowledge. Current and in-detail information can be found in the plot posts and media posts.

The atmosphere in the three echo boundaries is developing very differently and almost independently of each other, as does the atmosphere in the various affected and unaffected countries:
Locke: Hostile. This is to large parts due to Albero's influence, but there are also other factors. Numbered actions in the city are more likely to influence the national and international opinion of the numbered than the local one. Right now, everything is unsure and up in the air.
Vegas: Ever-changing and highly dependent on local developments. All kinds of opinions exist at all times, and it depends on the current mood which ones manifest themselves; the situation in Las Vegas is characterized by massive mood swings and extremes. Player actions may thus have a significant impact on the public opinion.
Neuschwanstein: Cautiously positive. The situation in Locke is regarded as highly condemnable, and for the most part people do not consider the numbered particularly dangerous or as having brought them trouble. Numbered actions will have an impact on the public opinion, but there is a general disinclination to jump to conclusions.
Outside of the boundaries: It is of note that while in the US the public opinion is leaning towards the negative, it leans the further to the positive the further east you go from there, and the further to the neutral the further south you go.