Last One Standing
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We're opening character creation tonight and plan to run the opening event for our alpha next Friday 1/14/2022.
Last One Standing is at its core a gritty survival game, though it incorporates heavy elements of mystery, horror, action, and science fiction and takes inspiration from media like Squid Game, LOST, the Hunger Games, and Survivor among many others.
Last One Standing uses a loose and episodic framework for storytelling that allows for diverse survival-themed stories, impermanent death, and threads of continuity and overarching plot to connect the pieces.
Characters in Last One Standing wash ashore on a mysterious island - with no memory of who they are beyond their names - and discover that death, on the island, is impermanent; those who are killed disappear once their remains are out of sight, sometimes in the midst of a blink, and wash ashore the following morning alive once more.
At times, survivors on the island wake to find themselves in new surroundings, and sometimes with false memories, playing out different survival games only to once again wash ashore on the island when they inevitably die. The island provides a central mystery and establishes continuity between otherwise disconnected stories and allows characters to explore the relationships they build from their experiences. While we allow for PVP (with consent) we hope to focus on facilitating PVE as much as possible.
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The opening event is scheduled for tomorrow (1/14) at 5pm MST, though the timing may be adjusted an hour or two back or forward depending on players' availability.
Players will all be washing up on the Island fresh and will be given an opportunity to interact with each other and their environment and get a feel for their characters before diving into more intense scenes scheduled over the course of the weekend. I intend to run at least one scene in the late evening on Friday or Saturday and one in the early afternoon (MST) on Saturday or Sunday so that players in both the GMT time zone and in the Upside Down where everything tries to kill you and the toilet swirls backwards should hopefully both have a scene scheduled at a tolerable hour.
Edited to add: Thanks to some creative players, there are also quite a few ready-made characters available on the roster!
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Yesterday, the web portal stopped working on my work computer. It works fine from home, but from work, it claims that there's an invalid security certificate. This may just be a glitch on my end, but if other people are experiencing it, I figure I'd put it out there in case something could be fixed before the start of the game proper.
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@pyrephox said in Last One Standing:
Yesterday, the web portal stopped working on my work computer. It works fine from home, but from work, it claims that there's an invalid security certificate. This may just be a glitch on my end, but if other people are experiencing it, I figure I'd put it out there in case something could be fixed before the start of the game proper.
I don't think anyone else has mentioned this sort of issue, but I can't speak for @crayon . The SSL certificate currently being presented looks valid to me, and it looks like a bog standard Let's Encrypt certificate, so if you were running into issues on your work machine, I'd expect you to have pretty widespread errors on other websites as well. Might be worth trying a force refresh (ctrl-f5 in Chrome) if you haven't yet and making sure that the work computer's time and date are accurate.
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@sixregrets said in Last One Standing:
@pyrephox said in Last One Standing:
Yesterday, the web portal stopped working on my work computer. It works fine from home, but from work, it claims that there's an invalid security certificate. This may just be a glitch on my end, but if other people are experiencing it, I figure I'd put it out there in case something could be fixed before the start of the game proper.
I don't think anyone else has mentioned this sort of issue, but I can't speak for @crayon . The SSL certificate currently being presented looks valid to me, and it looks like a bog standard Let's Encrypt certificate, so if you were running into issues on your work machine, I'd expect you to have pretty widespread errors on other websites as well. Might be worth trying a force refresh (ctrl-f5 in Chrome) if you haven't yet and making sure that the work computer's time and date are accurate.
Alas, that did not fix it. I'm not having trouble with any other site, including other Ares games. It just abruptly started throwing errors yesterday, and then will not load now due to 'privacy concerns'. It's not my org's firewall blocking it, either. Ah, well. I'll hope that being shut off for a weekend will help reset it.
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@pyrephox Browsers sometimes have a cache for security certificates. If yours got messed up somehow (not sure how that could happen but eh, computers) you might need to clear that cache to remove the bad data. You can try it in a private/incognito window, or try clearing the SSL Cache (specific steps vary by browser).
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@faraday Oooh, it works in incognito mode. Thank you!
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For those who couldn't make the opening event, don't feel like you missed your chance to jump in. It was lots of fun but super chaotic; amid the opening poses of survivors first washing ashore on the island, a lot will have been missed without the chance to reread the first scene. You can achieve the same sort of "introduce your character" moment (maybe better) by posting a vignette, like this one here. There are also many plausible reasons for why your character wasn't involved in the initial exploration, e.g. they may have been mistaken for a dead body or been recovering from shock/injuries.
We have a friendly community who'll happily drag in stragglers, and @crayon's an A+ GM. There are also a few roster characters still available and more on the way.
