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What is this?
The Amusing Awards Artifact Adventure (or AAAA for short) is a new competitive forum game inspired by the relic hunting format previously seen in Living Game and Nexus of Chaos. In this game, players will be separated into teams and tasked with exploring the Waluigi Time Amusement Park, where they will meet many colorful characters with quests and special artifacts to give out! The goal, of course, is to complete these quests to obtain as many artifacts for your team by the end of the game as possible. Unlike previous games, the gameplay here is more akin to investigative style games you may have played in the past.
How does it work?
The game is split up into three rotating phases, continuing until every quest has been completed.
- Explore Phase (48 hours) - During this phase, you can explore the park's various attractions. By posting in the game thread, you can examine areas more closely and interact with NPCs to get information from them and discover quests. RP shenanigans with NPCs or other players are allowed to some degree, as long as it doesn't get excessive. Please note that Explore Phases work on a "look, don't touch" rule, you can investigate the environment but can't make any meaningful changes to it. Also, no sweeping (i.e. "Search every location for X" or "Ask every NPC about X").
- Action Phase (24 hours) - During this phase, you will choose a specific location in the park and submit the actions you wish to perform there in your team PM to make progress on quests. Submissions don't need to be long, roughly a paragraph is fine. If two teams manage to complete a quest at the same time, the artifact will either be given to the team who came up with the more creative solution, or based on a coin flip if that is not applicable.
- Intermission (24 hours) - No player action required, this is just some buffer time for me to get results written up!
Each team will generally have their own "instance" of a quest, meaning that any progress you make during Action Phases only carries over to yourself and your teammates. That way, you don't have to worry about your competitors piggybacking off of the progress you made and stealing an artifact from under your nose at the last minute! (The Temporal Committee is going to hate this...) Once a team completes a quest, it is taken out of play for all players.
This is not necessarily a "winner take all" game where the team with the most artifacts wins and everyone else outright loses. To encourage continued participation, each team will instead be competing for a leaderboard ranking based on how many artifacts they collect. Additionally, Bonus Stars will be handed out at the end of the game based on what you did while playing! These won't impact the final score, but they're meant to give a little extra recognition.
Sign-ups
Before I let you sign up, I need to be upfront about something very important! Because of the nature of this game, I need to be fairly strict about player activity. Failure to participate doesn't just affect you, it actively hurts your team. If you miss submitting for an Action Phase without prior notice, I will replace you with someone else ASAP and work on remediation for the rest of your team. Basically, if you don't think you can commit to staying somewhat active, please don't sign up for this game.
With that out of the way, I'm looking for 9-15 players to get this game going. (UPDATE: Because of high interest, I'm expanding this to a maximum of 18 players.) You can also sign up to be a replacement player. Sign-ups will be open until , and the game will begin the next day.
Players:
- Flygon64 (@Monokuma11037)
- @Hooded Pitohui
- Shoey (@Daniel Dyce)
- @Superchao
- @GBA
- MCD (@Nathan Fielder)
- Toadettefan (@Polterpup)
- @Roserade
- @Yoshi the SSM
- @Revin
- @Fun With Despair
- InsaneBlathers (@Sir Pentious)
- @Snack
- @Turboo
- TPG (@TPG (2))
- Gabumon (@Lin Beifong)
- @BBQ Turtle
- Smasher (@Smashley)
- MegaBowser64 (@June)
- Cosmic Cowboy (@Venture)
- @Power Flotzo
- @fantanoice
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