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info | faq
Aug. 2nd, 2024 04:50 amINFORMATION:
FAQ
Q&A.
WHAT IS THIS? WHAT AM I LOOKING AT?It's a sandbox! A relaxed environment and a loose setting to play in as you wish. Have fun, be nice to the other kids and don't break the game, then we should be good!
WHAT IS THE THEME OF THE GAME?
Fantasy-esque slice of life with some political intrigue in the mix. Arrivals aren't only in a race towards finding out what their divine purpose with being here is, but potentially also against the powerful political forces trying to make them stay.
IS THERE A PLOT?
Yes and no. There is an overarching idea with the events taking place, but the plot can be swayed depending on the characters involved's choices and actions.
IS THIS A PRIVATE AFFAIR?
No. We're generally open to all, with a few exceptions. Read the rules.
APPLICATIONS? ACTIVITY CHECK?
None! You sign up with the info required, and you're in. After that, you do pretty much what you want. Did I mention it's a relaxed RP environment here?
SMUT?
Very welcome.
WHERE ARE WE?
Ancient Greece, the Lesbos of Sappho's day! Loosely. Although we try to draw on historical background info, there is a lot of leeway and fantasy elements.
WHO IS SAPPHO?
All NPCs are introduced here!
HOW DOES MY CHARACTER ARRIVE?
From one moment to the next, they opened their eyes and found themselves in a new, unknown world. The city-state of Mytilene, at the edge of cliffs within walking distance of the city. Seemingly no one is surprised that they've arrived, and they will be shown more or less gently to the special office set up for "visitors". Once they've been noted in the archives, they are on their own - though Myrsilus has secured a villa for visitors not far from his own home.
WHAT DOES MY CHARACTER ARRIVE WITH?
Everything they were carrying with them on their person at the time of leaving their own world or dimension. Unless they have an item with them that is world-breaking, in which case that particular item will be gone. Please note in sign-up what you expect your character to have with them and mod will determine whether it's possible or not.
IS THERE A NETWORK?
No. This sandbox doesn't operate with a network. All interaction will either be in person or the epistolary way. In the mod journal, monthly a TFLN meme will go up where we can play pretend that Ancient Greece had phones, but it's not in-sandbox canon.
info | npcs
Aug. 1st, 2024 09:24 pmINFORMATION:
NPCs
GORGO. The most renowned singer in Lesbos, due only to the absence of greater singers like Alcaeus and Sappho. However, she revels in her popularity and milks it for all that it is worth, teaching young girls and leading wedding processions and other festivities with poetry and song. She is, unusually for her time, unmarried and her father is influential enough not to need find her a husband, so she instead lives in his house still.
GONGYLA. First, she was a pupil of Sappho, but when Sappho had to go into exile, she became a pupil of Gorgo instead, in order to avoid returning home to Colophon where she is from. She will soon have finished her training, but she and Gorgo are trying to persuade her father to let her stay in Mytilene and become Gorgo's yoke-mate rather than going back to Colophon.
ANDROMEDA. A woman who came from an originally humble farmer's family with a farm outside Eresos, but olive oil has grown in value since and they are now relatively well-off, living in Mytilene. She is married to a merchant who is more often away than home, trying through the men around her to persuade Myrsilus to make it possible for women to inherit, so she can inherit her father's business, and also in a relationship with Atthis, another of Sappho's former pupils.
ATTHIS. A former pupil of Sappho who was engaged to be married before Sappho went into exile. Now married to a male poet who cannot compete with Gorgo for popularity, but can provide for them nonetheless. She is one of the only remaining people in Mytilene who is loyal to Sappho and although in a relationship with Andromeda, her heart belongs to the singer in Sicily.
MYRSILUS. Tyrant of Mytilene. Trying to change politics in regards to the aristocrat families on Lesbos, a tough act. He works closely with Pittacus who is his extended arm, but most of the politics are his own and extremely unpopular. He is not a well-loved king and he doesn't try to be.
SAPPHO. The original Lesbian singer, now exiled in Sicily away from all she knows and loves. Is not mentioned except in whispers by people back in Mytilene, out of fear of angering Myrsilus, but everyone knows what happened to her and how it might happen to everyone else among the aristocracy. Will be allowed to return ten years later, four years of her time in exile already passed.
concept | info
Jul. 31st, 2024 04:18 pmMELOUS:
concept & setting
WELCOME TO SAPPHO'S LESBOS, 600 BC.
Except, it isn't Sappho's any longer...For four years already, Sappho has been in exile in Sicily, the community of the city-state, Mytilene, instead coming together around her former rival, the singer and teacher, Gorgo. Public processions, symposia and festivals are now led by a singer Sappho would have despised to see fill her sandals, while Myrsilus - her nemesis - is at the helm politically.
Yet, fill Sappho's sandals, Gorgo does.
To such a degree, that the Gods have given her the inspired idea of starting a new festival, one in honour of Apollo, the God of the arts. During the festivities, however - perhaps deliberate, on the bidding of the Gods, perhaps not - the singer's chanting opens a rift in the universe and in the days and weeks that follow, strangers start showing up. Strangers from others worlds, strangers from the future, and Gorgo - with her entire group - has to welcome these newcomers into Mytilenian society.
Only once they fulfill their function, Apollo tells Sappho's successor in a dream, can they return home, but what their function is, is left up to them to find out.