TL;DR: Roleplay Community and Framework for Remix and Timerunning characters!
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Would you like to do roleplay within Remix phases?
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Would you like to meet other characters stuck in a similar predicament?
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Would you like to be notified of events players organize in Remix and Timerunning?
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Would you like to have your character be part of a ‘secret society’ even after Remix and Timerunning is over (and/or in between Remix seasons)?
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Would you like to roleplay cross-faction within (or outside) a Remix and/or Timerunning season?
If the answer to even one of these is yes, Mark of the Infinite could be of interest to you!
Mark of the Infinite is a new in-game WoW Roleplay Community (not a guild!) and Discord where players who have an interest in playing characters who ‘for some reason’ (options below) have gotten ‘stuck’ in one of the Infinite Dragonflight’s schemes and/or other time related maladies.
The goal of this community is to offer you a way to get in contact with other players and their characters while also providing a (hopefully) chatty Out-of-Character RP discussion experience as well through an ingame community chat channel. Although my character and the initial ‘push’ of this community is coming from the Horde side, it is meant to be Cross-Faction (within the limitations of no Tongues potions unfortunately within Remix).
What will be provided?
- An ingame WoW community + chat channel.
- An optional Discord community.
- An optional weekly IC meeting for your characters to join and chat with other characters.
- An optional set of frameworks and scenarios you can tie your Timerunning character to in-character (which remain valid even after Timerunning)
- More optional events for you to join if you wish!
- Keep a fun group together (hopefully) after a remix phase ends for potential aftermath.
As mentioned above, the only thing which is ‘mandatory’ in this initiative if you wish to take part is the ingame WoW community + chat channel. This is required for cross-faction communication. Otherwise everything is optional and you can get as much (or not) out of this initiative as you desire. If you’re just interested in Roleplay focussed chat channel ingame while you timerun/remix, that’s also fine!
Infinite Universe RP Framework
‘Space and Time’ in any lore is a tricky subject and in order to keep things fair for all involved while remaining within lore constraints, there are some general framework items we would like to ask everyone to adhere to with their character. They are not firm ‘rules’ but should be generally considered as a manner of ‘good taste’ and ‘respect’ to your fellow player. These items are part of what we from this point forward call the ‘Infinite Universe RP Framework’ which is aptly named after any time phase or situation within RP created by the Infinite Dragonflight.
The below are generally guidelines and you don’t HAVE to stick to them. Deviating from them is allowed but please know it could have your character go on a slippery slope in terms of lore. Always make sure to stick to common sense!
How did my character get here?
There are three ways your character from an In-character perspective could have gotten involved in this.
- Your character can be involved as a volunteer, either by reaching out to an Infinite Dragonkin in Valdrakken (because you are a thrillseeker) or them reaching out to you and offering you an interesting ‘deal’ of sorts. The deal would involve some minor alterations to your character’s storyline compared to before (but nothing extremely major and in line with what the Infinite are saying in-game). Examples would be a reclaimed minor heirloom or some more ‘combat experience’.
- Your character can be involved after being bribed or ‘softly forced’ (or blackmailed) into the situation by a rogue Infinite Dragonkin. This would be a ‘rogue’ element which takes the ‘freedom’ Eternus and his kin have in ‘experimenting’ with timelines a bit too far. They can’t be going any further than Eternus and his kin do, but they might have ‘ulterior’ motives in curiosity for your character.
- A combination or something unique. However, keep in mind the lore very clearly states you CANNOT alter the actual timeline. It’s up to you to define this but please keep in mind yoinking a character from the Second War into Pandaria could have too many consequences attached to it at which point the Bronze could be stepping in as guardians of time.
A note on characters which weren’t ‘there’ in a time phase before (e.g. Nightborne and Vulpera in Pandaria).
- This will be a bit tricky. Make sure to not do anything which would alter the timeline because otherwise the Bronze could be intervening. Some workarounds include saying as a Nightborne you’re a rogue group of Night Elves or as a Vulpera you’re a member of a ‘native tribe of grimalkin’. Yes, that might be very awkward.
What are some guidelines while RPing an infinite marked character?
- Your character will be forced to swear an oath of secrecy while they are within a time phase campaign. You -can not- speak to any random character about being marked. If you try, your character’s throat will feel like it’s clenched close by an invisible power and you feel your words are being lost to you.
- There is one exception to this: Fellow Timerunners! There will be a specific hand signal shared to share with Timerunners by the Infinite upon entering. This hand signal is using your indexfinger to draw a clock ‘anti-clockwise’ three times.
- So feel free to speak about anything with your fellow Timerunners about what is going on and your shared predicament and/or make friends, relations cough one-night-stands cough
- You will not know what actually ‘happened’ in a time phase before (e.g. your past). It’s as if your memory is ‘wiped’ temporarily of what happened. However, an invisible hand (consider it the limits of time and space!) will always move the events in such a way to the point they happen like they’ve happened before. This means if your character lived through this, they will be guaranteed to live through it here, your character just doesn’t remember anymore! Small deviations on a character development level are fair game though (friends, small events, relations, etc).
- You will be told your memory will be ‘mostly’ wiped at the end and you forget anything which does not reflect what actually happened…if you kept your actions mundane that is! If you found the love of your life and got into a relationship with them, you’re not magically going to have children when you get out of the time phase again ‘into the future’ but instead you’ll feel a lot of ‘grief’ and a sense of loss instead.
- Other than that, all events will happen in Pandaria as they have. No major alterations. Your characters aren’t important enough to make major changes. You can make minor changes to your character’s storyline, but life or death decisions are sort of ‘forced’ on you one way or another.
What’s the aftermath?
- At the end of all this, your character will essentially wake up and realize this was all a dream. A very long, LONG dream because this would take essentially 90 days on average. Your awakening would essentially happen ‘the next day’ after your character agreed to the bargain with the Infinite. You would have just had a rough night.
- As with any dream, you will be able to remember things rather vividly the moment you wake up but the memories will pass within hours of waking up! If you try to write anything down, you will feel as if you’re losing memories quicker compared to the speed you can write down. If you write down too much, you’ll find your notes face sudden calamities on their own! (E.g. the notes fly into a furnace or disappear through a window).
- VERY STRONG memories between those marked (e.g. friendships, good talks, coughs one night stands coughs) will remain ‘somewhat’ and you will remember the faces and strongest memories of being with these people involved but not their names. You will be able to investigate these people in archives later IF they were around in that time phase (e.g. military records). If you meet each other ‘IRL’ later, you will remember each other and you WILL remember the most strong memories. This may create very awkward situations and potentially time altering events! This is the Infinite’s secret malicious goal in the end. At least that of the rogue Infinite elements!
But I want to keep my memories!
As with everything here, these are guidelines and nothing is set in stone. You’re obviously free to deviate from them entirely. That’s the nature of this concept. That being said, do know that you may be going onto a slippery slope here as it’s the Bronze’s duty to ensure the timeline isn’t broken. Having memories of a time altering event could endanger just that! Keep that in mind, if you somehow still have your memories after all of this, consider being very tight-lipped about your experiences as otherwise the Bronze might come after you!
Want to join or have questions?
The community is listed in WoW’s Community finder as ‘Mark of the Infinite’ so feel free to apply!
You are also more than welcome to join our Discord linked below to meet up and keep updated on potential events organized by fellow remix/marked players.
Discord: eb2VNHTeFV (With discord.gg in front of it!)