AWASH

Bits of Paper
[ 6/14 - 6/21 ]

While it's about that time for weird stuff to start happening in the Town, at first...everything will seem surprisingly peaceful and normal. Characters can wake up the morning of 6/14 and feel reassured that there are no dragons, no crazy side-effects, and no sad newcomers at the bottom of the well. It's peaceful -- have some nettle tea and settle in for the day.

At least, until you notice your new gifts.

Each and every character has received a leather-bound notebook, and an old-style inkwell. The notebooks are boring, just a black leather cover and blank pages as far as the eye can see, but the ink will be your character's hexcolor.

And, naturally, as per all things like this from the Town? It's magical. You see, now it's time for the characters to write their own little additions to this fairy tale -- literally. Anything that they write will come true. If a character writes that their house is suddenly surrounded by flowers, it will come true in the Town. If your character writes that their neighbor's hats were all suddenly replaced with frogs, that, too, is entirely possible.

Changes written into the books will be permanent.

With that in mind, there are a few things to keep in mind!

• The bigger the change, the more ink it will require, even if it's only a few words. For instance, adding flowers to the landscape is a relatively small change, and will allow the character to make many more changes, but changing something about another character is a large change -- if they change another's character's hair color, for instance, it will take practically all of their ink.
  
• Please be sure to get player permission before making any changes to any other characters, seeing as how this is a permanent situation!
  
• Your characters do not have enough ink for gigantic changes such as: changing another character's personality, removing the woods, killing another character, or restoring color to everything in the Town. For a good scale of reference, characters can restore color to two separate items before running out of ink, or change one cosmetic aspect of another character, or make one large item appear from their world or elsewhere.
  
• Characters can combine their ink, but only for setting changes. Please let us know if characters plan on large setting changes, and we'd be happy to work with you on how much ink it will take and what's possible!
  
• Ink can be used to undo something that has been done, and will generally only require half the ink to do so. For instance, if a character's hair color has changed and they hate it, they can use their own ink to rewrite it the way it's supposed to be, and still have enough ink left over to do a few other things.

And, of course, as per all fairy tales... these books are extremely literal, so be careful! What you write is what you get, even if it's not really what you were imagining or wished for. Try not to become an Aesop Fable Moral, okay?

And as ever, if you have any questions, please feel free to ask them here. If you're not sure if the cost of changing something is too high, you can always ask us there as well, but for the most part we'll trust your judgments in playing with this! Thanks, everyone!