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GAME CONCEPT The elevator pitch: Exiles meets Diana Wynne Jones’ Homeward Bounders. If you’re familiar with Sliders or Quantum Leap, there’s a bit of that too. Synodiporia is an AU-hopping panfandom exploration game where ‘event’ and ‘setting’ are one and the same. Unknown entities have gathered a group of people from across the multi-verse, and sent them on a long, strange journey together, crashing into one world after another, meddling in local affairs, and then whisking them off again. Each visit is between two and eight weeks long, and in each world some of the travelers are ‘investigators,’ conscious of the fact that they’re new arrivals in a foreign dimension, and some are ‘infiltrators,’ believing themselves to be natives, immersed in local customs, with implanted memories of a life that never was. As the travelers progress from world to world, they learn new skills - from the natives or from one another. In prohibition-era Chicago, Al Capone might teach someone how to shoot a tommy gun. In a fantasy kingdom, you might pick up a little bit of wizardry. A fellow PC from the Persona franchise might teach you how to unlock your own Persona, even if you’re playing from Marvel comics. You can also learn to manipulate the psychic network linking all your fellow travelers together, gaining telepathic or dimensional manipulation abilities. People won’t be able to pick up these abilities without effort, however: extra Activity Check turn-ins will be required. The point is, as you change the worlds, the worlds change you. AU and post-game versions of characters will be permitted to app, as long as they fill out an extra app section explaining their proposed changes, and as long as they have a firm grounding in original canon. When you app, your character can be new to Traveling, or a veteran who’s been doing this for quite some time. Dropped or idled characters will fall into pocket dimensions, and may be reclaimed by their original players, or new versions of them may be apped by new players. However, multiple versions of the same character will only be allowed if there’s an AU/PG variant to all but one of them. Besides all that, there will be additional mini-events in pocket universes, player plots, dream explorations, Shadow Selves… and the ongoing investigation into the mysterious forces that drew you here. You’re pawns in a game spanning time and space, but a pawn who advances far enough can make big changes, and there are plenty of secrets to uncover. Synodiporia has an app round once every two months, in between Jaunts. If you have any questions to ask, comment right here, and if they're Asked Frequently I'll put the answers somewhere prominent. See you soon, Fellow Travelers.