FAQ

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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

The Game

- What is Airlocked?

Airlocked is a five-part murdergame in the same weekly format of Trustfell or Dangan Roleplay, but with an extraterrestrial twist. This one is set in space!



The premise is that Champions from various worlds have been brought together as representatives of the best and the brightest that their homes have to offer. With the guidance of the Overseers and the mysterious, invisible Benefactors, the Champions will have the ability to rise to the challenge, or else succumb to the despair and attempt to escape with the one option available to them: murder.

- How long is this going to last?

Round 5's Endgame Weekend will be April 6-8th, 2018, and Round 5 will be complete no later than Monday, April 9. The Final Log of Airlocked will be posted the following Saturday, April 14, 2018. 1 OOC day = 1 IC day, except for investigations and trials, which are on a 2:1 day scale (meaning: investigations and trials take place on Fridays ICly, but Friday-Saturday OOCly).

- Who can I app?

Survivors from Rounds 1-3 of Airlocked are appable to Round 5.

- Do I need to reserve before I app?

Yes. We will only be processing and accepting apps that have been reserved. We also require you submit your app with the same account you used to reserve (this does not have to be your character journal, as long as you tell us the character journal you plan on using in your app).

- I want to app but I won’t be around to reserve right away!

For this round only, we are not honoring proxy reserves. Because of the very limited appability pool and the results of the poll that we took prior to the intermissions, there is enough room for everyone who is eligible to participate in the round. If for some reason the amount of reserves exceeds 24, we will be able to work in anybody else over that amount.

- When do apps open/close?

Apps are due February 2nd,, reserves and apps open January 27th. Reserves will be closed after the first 24 characters. Once we reach 24 reserves we will post a mod comment marking the reserves as closed for the time being.

- What if I reserve, but then decide not to app?

Because of the limited cast, we would appreciate it if you would tell us if you change your mind and decide not to app, either by leaving a comment on your original reserve or by contacting us via PM or PP.

Activity requirements

Living characters must submit two minimum ten-comment threads with two different characters per week (hereafter referred to as AC). Dead characters need only comment to check-in as a formality.

We will also be awarding incentives as a reward for checking in on time! Submitting the minimum amount of comments for both threads (10 comments from you, 10 comments from them for both threads totaling to 40 comments), characters will receive one free item from the Benefactors. This is essentially the same as a free roll for the Benefactors' Hold. For another 10 comments (50 total), characters will receive a Sabotage/Boon from the Overseers. If you're a total all-star and turn in two threads that total 200 comments (or 100 from your character) in one week, you get a one-time Shield Token. This means if the Overseers approach your character with a Sabotage, you can spend the shield token to bounce that sabotage back on the character who targeted yours. Each character cannot hold more than one Shield Token at a time, and they cannot earn more than two Shield Tokens over the course of the game. The mods will reply to your AC with what rewards you have earned.

AC threads may come from the weekly mingle log or any player-posted logs from the check period, but since the trials have their own activity requirements they are ineligible for the activity check.

IMPORTANT: The strike policy has changed. Please read this section thoroughly. If you tell the mods ahead of the AC deadline that you don't have AC for that week, you can get one strike. A strike means that the following week, you must turn in four ten-comment threads with at least two different characters, or twice the normal AC. If you don't turn in AC and you don't tell the mods, your character will be automatically death rolled unless you can provide the missing AC within 12 hours of the death roll contact. If you don't reply to the mods' death roll contact within two days, your character will be "punished" instead of participating in an ordinary case. The second half of the password is Murder.

For a simpler explanation:

Miss AC once, tell the mods before the deadline - take a strike and turn in double AC the following week in order to avoid being death rolled.

Miss AC with a strike - automatic death roll

Miss AC once without telling mods - automatic death roll

Miss AC once and don't respond to death roll - automatic "punishment" instead of a regular case

AC will go up on Sundays for the previous Sunday-Friday, and will close at 12:00 pm (EST) on the following Friday. Activity checks will be screened, to preserve some sense of secrecy for the distribution of Boons and Sabotages.

IC FAQ

- How did we get here?

You were chosen for your exceptional talents to represent your homes as Champions.

- Is there a network?

The Personal Identification Program on your non-dominant arm has a limited note-taking function (allowing you to add notes about your fellow Champions and make a list of your belongings - you know, like a Last Will) and unlimited customizable appearance screens, but there's no video, text, or audio communication functions.

- What does Champion even mean?

It means exactly what you think it does, honestly. It means that whatever you're the Champion of, you were noticed for being the top of your field. Congratulations, that is quite an honor.

- What happened to my powers?

For your own protection and to encourage creativity, your powers have been dampened for the duration of your stay.

- What kind of boring slice-of-life game is this?

Contrary to what you may think, this game isn't going to be slice of life at all! (Well maybe. A little. At some parts, if you want it to be.) Nobody wants to watch the cream of the crop just sit around and be boring.

So we're going to liven things up a bit! You see, just going around making friends is boring, so we're going to provide a little incentive. You were all brought here to represent your homes - and the only way to prove yourself the Ultimate Champion and win a ticket out of here is to kill somebody and get away with it.

- So wait, how exactly is this "game" going to work?

Starting the Sunday of the week before that death is slated to happen, your lovely and bootylicious mods will make a roll for the victim and culprit. This will effectively give the involved parties a week and some change to hammer out the details of the crime. We will proceed to contact both players, who will have until Monday at 12pm EST to check in with one of us in any way shape or form (email, PM, Plurk, AIM, messenger pigeon) to let us know that they received the notification and are on board for the trial.

The mods will then put the Victim and Culprit in contact with one another to work out the details of the crime (note: the Victim and the Culprit are not predetermined. The players will decide amongst themselves once they've been paired up which one is the Victim and which is the Culprit). The mods will release a motive the following Tuesday in the weekly log. The players will have until the Thursday before their trial weekend to plot out their crime, so as to encourage as much detail as possible.
Friday, the dedicated and hardworking mods will diligently write the body discovery log and post it. This will be the Investigation Start.

A full autopsy report will be broadcast to each character's Personal Identification Program once the body is identified, which is the One Free Clue that everyone will get. The other clues will be distributed by the mod team as the log progresses, depending on the activity of the log AND what the characters are doing. There will also be a list posted that includes the number of total clues to be found, the number of clues in each location, and clues will be listed there for player reference once they have been found.
After the successful body investigation comes the trial. Trial logs will be posted on Saturday, and the players will have 24 hours to fulfill the trial requirements.

- What are the trial requirements?

On the off chance that you thirsty little fighter jets don’t ferret out the killer within the time limit, we have separate win conditions that aren’t dependent on the characters actually solving the crime. 75% of the surviving cast have to post a comment anywhere on the trial log (this does not have to be a top-level!! Threadjacking is encouraged, to create a more despairing trial atmosphere), and a specific comment count has to be met. This comment count will fluctuate depending on the difficulty of the case, the demonstrated skill of the players, and the stage of the game. So the first case's requirement will be much lower than the last non-mastermind case's.

- Okay, so the players don't know about the comment count. Then how will they know when they've met it?


If the win conditions are met: Congratulations! You figured out who the killer was!
Now comes the fun part – the Execution! Each execution is tailor made to the culprit in the interest of maximum justice and written out in loving detail by your caring and patient moderators. The execution will be posted on the trial log, and players are encouraged to thread out the aftermath of the execution. Just remember, attacking the Overseers is against the rules, and will be punished accordingly!

- So what happens if the players don't meet the trial requirements?

Luckily, this has literally never happened. On the off chance that it does, the result depends on what exactly went wrong. If the case was completely unsolvable, a failure to solve it will not be held against the players. We like to think we've got this down to an art form by now, but we're not infallible. If the OOC trial requirements are met but the case isn't ICly solved, the execution will be posted anyway with an explanation of the crime.

If the trial doesn't meet OOC trial requirements (aka lack of activity) AND IC trial requirements (aka failing to trigger a vote and execution), the mods will post a poll asking about what went wrong/what prevented people from tagging in as well as a couple of options. While the options will depend on each case's specific circumstances, in all likelihood for a normal trial they will be something like A) have everyone wake up on Sunday from the same vivid dream, with the case participants still alive (effectively scrapping and re-rolling the trial), or B) allotting an extra day or two to solve the trial.

- So how is endgame going to work?

The endgame weekend is currently scheduled for April 6-8th, 2018, and will follow a much more traditional format. There will be a Final Investigation on Friday, April 6th, and then a Final Trial on Saturday, April 7th that will comprise of two parts: the solution, and the Mastermind Confrontation.

- What about Golden End? How do we know if we got it?

You will know by Sunday, April 8th whether you have met or exceeded the requirements for Golden End. If all the conditions have been met, then there will be an OOC registration post during the following week for a big Golden End celebration. More information about this log will be available on the registration post, but it will be open to characters who were not participants in any canon round of Airlocked, so long as they meet the following criteria:

-Closely connected with a participating character (e.g. Takumi or Xander could not have one of his siblings' retainers for a guest, but he could have his own).

-Has a positive relationship with a participating character (e.g. Akande could not have Winston or Tracer for guests, but he could have Reaper or another Talon member).

-They can have a negative relationship with a different participating character or characters, as long as they are not the "guest" of that character (e.g. Ignis could be a guest of either Noctis or Prompto, but not Ardyn. Ravus could be Lunafreya's guest, but not the guest of anyone else.)

-No more than two (2) guests per participant. There will be a spreadsheet keeping track of this, because there are 85 player characters and if all of them have two guests then that's 255 people in one log and that's. A lot.

- What happens to the characters when they die? Do I still get to play in the game?

Thanks to the amazing, unstoppable, ingenious Lu, who joined Lynny and Ri on the mod team, Airlocked! has a deadland in the form of Super Special Premium Subscriber Content! After your character dies, they'll be uploaded into Deadland, there to explore an unfamiliar location in the company of some unfamiliar people. The only way to find out more is to die...

- What if my character gets rolled but I have plans for them?

There are no opt-outs for this round of Airlocked.

- Can I volunteer for death roll?

Absolutely! In fact, there's even an achievement for it!

- Achievements?

Right here! Achievements are both an IC and OOC completionary scale to measure the progress of the game overall. The individual achievements can be viewed (minus description) on the PIP by characters who have earned them, while the game achievements at this moment are ICly hidden. The purpose of these achievements for the moment are a mystery...

- I still have more questions!

If you have a general question about the setting, mechanics, or apps, then post it as a reply here and the mod account will respond accordingly. If you have a specific question, ie whether a certain character or canon is applicable, then contact the mods either through PM (to the mod journal) or on Plurk (ResplendentRi, frickninja, and lluosogrwydd).