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Minigames.

Opt-in • Medium • Heavy
No teams?
Demigods as participants

The majority of events in Paraprima will be "minigames" run ICly by demigod characters. Minigame proposals may be sent to paraprima.mods@gmail.com. You may send in a minigame proposal even if you don't play a demigod, if you'd like someone else to adopt and run the idea in your stead.

More info on demigods can be found here.

A demigod must expend a small amount of discord in order to expand their shrine domain onto their surroundings. This amount is the same regardless of what kind of minigame it is or how long it takes, though a longer minigame will eventually physically tire them.

The amount of payoff a demigod can harvest from a minigame is roughly as follows:

Opt-in:

The demigod may create a scenario that only brings in people who agree to be brought in, where no one is required to do anything to each other. Let people make flower crowns together in a meadow for a while or something.
This kind of minigame does not usually generate more discord than it costs to run it, so a demigod cannot give rewards at the end, nor can this type of minigame be used to stave off degradation at monthly AC turn-in. Unless someone decides to stab someone at the function unprovoked. Then you can get some discord out of it I guess.

Medium:

The demigod's shrine may forcibly bring in anyone who comes near enough to the area; the demigod may give all, or only certain people the right to leave after they see the conditions of the scenario, or the demigod could even make it opt-in to everyone except this one specific guy they dragged in who they have beef with. Other demigods may be brought into the scenario, but can't be forced to participate and may leave if they want.
Some sort of requirements or objectives are set to create disparate goals among the participants and generate discord. Competition format is an easy way of doing this but isn't strictly necessary.
Participation may often be incentivized with rewards, punishments, or status effects, but is not magically enforced.
Participants may potentially incur degradation if they choose not to comply with the objectives, or if they 'lose' in a win/loss structured minigame.
Conversely, participants who 'win' or otherwise engage heavily may automatically recover a piece of themself previously lost to degradation.
This kind of minigame generates enough discord for the demigod to conjure objects permanently in reality, such as food or tools, both for the demigod as well as for the participants if the demigod chooses to include rewards. Demigods can also use this to permanently modify their shrine's 'default' state–that is to say, adding some interior decorating so that even when their domain isn't expanded, their pocket dimension always has a bed, or a blue sky.

Heavy:

Attendance may still be optional but is more likely to be enforced. Other demigods may still freely choose to participate or leave
Requirements/objectives are usually more contentious. Violent, invasive, or psychologically harrowing scenarios will give higher discord payoff.
Any magically enforced participation is in this category. A mistletoe event where two characters are trapped beneath mistletoe and must kiss to get out, but have the option to leave by incurring a punishment of water balloon to the face instead, will give a medium-level discord payout; conversely, a mistletoe event where two characters are trapped and can only kiss to escape, with no other alternative, will give a heavy-level discord payout. Compelled actions, mind control, and possession-type effects (such as betrayal ghosts or the hunger effect in dangerbear) are also possible forms of magically enforced participation.
This kind of minigame generates enough discord for the demigod to gather into a high enough concentration to trigger the appearance of godflesh, which the demigod may then consume to acquire a new power or upgrade a pre-existing power. If the minigame is ESPECIALLY discordant and distressing to participants, material rewards and shrine upgrades can also be acquired and offered on top of that.

How do I run a minigame without teams?

Some familiar formats for minigames can easily be run with individual attendance/scoring (such as bingo-style mingles, or minigames organized into tables/sessions like candyland or hunger games/battle royale, or ones where characters are paired off such as Hook&Sea Witch/marriage game), but we also have room to experiment with different formats.

Minigames that require team-like groupings can also still be run! For this sort of game, the runner should post signups beforehand with an early enough cutoff to know how many players you're working with so you can determine how to organize them.

Smaller, closed minigames may also be designed and run as personal plots involving only a handful of characters, rather than blocking out that period of time for the whole game. For example, a demigod could run a heart game on a pawn, with only that pawn's close CR OOCly invited to attend.

What happens when a demigod participates in another demigod's minigame?

When a demigod is brought into a minigame run by someone else, they have the choice to leave or to participate. They may leave at any time. As a participant, they can gain the same rewards for victory (or suffer the same punishments for loss) as any other participant. If they leave, they cannot get these rewards, nor can they bring anything out of the minigame with them.

So long as they do choose to participate, then they are subject to whatever conditions are determined by the runner. This includes mental effects, powercaps, possession, compulsions, etc. (Though they will always technically retain the ability to leave, these conditions may potentially impede their decision-making and prevent them from leaving, such as because they are no longer in control of their own actions, or because they just forget they can leave.)

A demigod in another demigod's domain cannot use their power to influence the world within the minigame, but they can still manipulate the flow of discord to some degree. For any minigame that generates medium or heavy discord payout, a demigod who participates through to the end can siphon off some of the generated discord to obtain a material reward for themself. This will be in addition to any other reward that is given to all participants at the end. Most of the discord will still ultimately go to the demigod who runs the game.

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