After several months, most of Staten Island has been recovered and is now back under human control. The South West part of the island, around Tottenville and covering several miles out to sea is still affected. Anyone who enters the barrier there will be affected in the same way.
Entry without magical protection will result in memory loss and forgetting that the character had a life outside the barrier. Magical amulets can be used to protect memory, but not against the rest of the enchantment. Also, the amulets are difficult to make and their availability should be limited.
Advanced technology or weaponry etc does not remain as such. Anything they have has been changed to suit the transformation.
This means that communication devices etc will not make it - it would make for much confusion to actually see this RP'd out.
Buildings and structures under the dome are also transformed. Some are towers, others pillars or mountains and in some cases, buildings are just gone entirely. There's also people who have migrated to live underground, because that suits their transformation.
There are also supernatural creatures living there now. Feel free to run encounters with fantastical beasts. Centaurs, Minotaurs, Red Caps, Elves, Pixies, Gnomes … almost anything you can think of, or imagine, could be living there. They have organised into areas - it's not that they don't comingle, just they tend to live in the same area. Just remember - annoying a group may result in retaliation, or it may not.
Weapons that are held by people today do not transfer under the dome. They *may* transformed to something more in keeping with the theme or they may simply just disappear.
22 March 2020
After a lot of hard work by many players, the central crystal was located and destroyed. Most of Staten Island has been restored to its former glory although many people are still dazed and confused about what happened. It will take several months for the aftermath of this to sort itself out.
The area to the South West of the island, around Tottenville and several miles out to sea is still affected and can be used for IC shenanigans.
20 January 2020
Magical investigation of the barrier over Staten Island has revealed that it is possible to protect peoples memories when entering the area. Zatanna Zatara has provided WAND with a spell to create amulets that provide this protection.
Should other magic practitioners or artificers wish to create similar devices or spells, that is entirely doable. The materials are difficult to get and the creation of an amulet or item will take time to do. A spell without an anchor will only last a few hours.
Inside the zone, people will discover:
Advanced technology or weaponry etc does not remain as such. Anything they have has been changed to suit the transformation.
This means that communication devices etc will not make it - it would make for much confusion to actually see this RP'd out.
Buildings and structures under the dome are also transformed. Some are towers, others pillars or mountains and in some cases, buildings are just gone entirely. There's also people who have migrated to live underground, because that suits their transformation.
There are also supernatural creatures living there now. Feel free to run encounters with fantastical beasts. Centaurs, Minotaurs, Red Caps, Elves, Pixies, Gnomes … almost anything you can think of, or imagine, could be living there. They have organised into areas - it's not that they don't co-mingle, just they tend to live in the same area. Just remember - annoying a group may result in retaliation, or it may not.
Remember:
Wayne Manor, the Batcave, Clocktower, other areas where heroes live in Staten Island are specifically excluded from being covered by the Dome. If you have a location you don't want to be affected - it isn't.
Technology does not work under the dome.
Weapons that are held by people today do not transfer under the dome. They *may* transformed to something more in keeping with the theme or they may simply just disappear.
19 January 2020
The majority of Staten Island has been covered by a darkly, glittering dome. Residents of Staten Island who were in the affected areas are trapped there because they have been transformed to a fantasy DanD version of themselves.
There is no advanced technology or weaponry. Anything they have has been changed to suit the transformation.
Buildings and structures under the dome are also transformed. Some are towers, others pillars or mountains and in some cases, buildings are just gone entirely. There's also people who have migrated to live underground, because that suits their transformation.
It is absolutely possible to walk into the dome - there's no protections stopping people. However, once a person does, they lose their memory and become the character they are transformed in - forgetting there is an outside world and not wishing to, or realising they can, leave the affected area.
The dome has just gone up. What is left of SIPD (and most of it is covered by the Dome) and the NYPD have set up cordons to try and stop people wandering into the area.
SHIELD have been notified and have set up a command post near the Bayonne Bridge. They have not taken control of the situation but left it with NY authorities. (OOCly: This is to allow SHIELD characters to investigate the problem if they want to.)
Batgirl and Oracle have set up a 'command centre' in a ground floor apartment in the unaffected area, for the Bat allies to congregate and talk.
The current problem to solve - is how to get under the dome and find out what is going on, without losing memories.
Anyone who wishes to incorporate a Clockroach into one of their scenes may do so but there are a number of caveats.
- Street level vigilantes and villains: The gangs of Staten Island have been 'organised' by a bigger power. That power now has control of the majority of the Island. Perhaps your character has family that is caught in the dome. Perhaps your villain has connections.
- Mages and the Occult: There's magic afoot, supernatural beings, faeries and more. More importantly - how are people going to get into the affected area to see what's going on?
- Bat family and their allies: It's the duty of the Bats to protect the people.
