Extravaganza. September rises

The continuation of the concept of a social-role universe connecting real and virtual worlds. The article describes personal impressions of the “quests” carried out since the beginning of the month, and tasks for the second half of September were added to the calendar of events.







The main idea was to look for like-minded people and start creating something like a kind of social organization that looks after an imaginary fairy-tale fantasy universe. Social movement for those who are passionate about the gamification of life around them at some global level. If you translate this into the language of role-playing games, then the participants seem to be in some powerful magical or knightly orders - Houses. Of these four Houses (House of Spring, House of Summer, House of Autumn, House of Winter) is the organization Context Extravaganza, linking reality with the unreal.



You can read more about the concept in the previous topic: Context Extravaganza .



Here I will attach a brief summary of what Homes and Forces are:



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The House and Strength of each representative of the Context (as well as people who do not know about the concept itself) are determined according to the following scheme:



March - Spring House, Solvent

April - Spring House, Emitter

May - Spring House, Battery

June - Summer House, Transformer

July - Summer House, Solvent

August - Summer House, Emitter

September - Autumn House, Battery

October - Autumn House, Transformer

November - Autumn House, Solvent

December - Winter House, Emitter

January - Winter House, Battery

February - Winter House, Transformer



The house is a kind of “guild”, and the Strength is a certain “profession” or “class” of the participant. At the moment, the opportunities and areas of activity of different "classes" are given only in general terms:



The emitter is a creative beginning, the search for new concepts, public relations, conducting actions, experiments, training.



Battery - accumulation of best practices and their classification, research, project development, cataloging, analytical groups.



Transformer - inspiration, maintenance of the internal structure, creation and supervision of platforms for dialogue, experiments with existing developments, cultural events.



Solvent - hierarchy, settlement of conflicts and disputes, psychological research and practice, resolving issues of promotion and restrictions on rights, launching and closing projects.


Extravaganza. First days



One of the primary goals of the concept is that participants create game objects for the “virtual” universe, which can be interacted with using special game mechanics, which will manifest itself gradually. That is, basic material is being developed, which can subsequently become the basis for anything. In order to be able to do this in a playful way, a list of daily “events” for the first 15 days of September was compiled (presented in the initial article). And below I will tell you how the events of the first days of September developed for me personally.



September 1. Day of the magic grimoire



Quest
Get yourself a special diary (notepad, notebook or at least a text file), on the same day or later. Give it a name as if it were a magic book. Draw on it the sign of your House. In this book you can record further events.


I looked at a suitable grimoire notebook the day before, and today I opened it, examined it in more detail and attached adhesive strips depicting the symbol of the House of Spring on a thick black cover (since in the Context paradigm I am the Radiator from the House of Spring).



My newly appeared magic book was called Mythotore.







It is interesting that a similar white paper, a little larger in size, came across yesterday. On it, the sign of the House could be directly drawn. However, that book was in a single copy and mysteriously it did not have a barcode.



It was also possible to take wide notebooks with a bright cover, but for a long time he doubted what color to take, and then accidentally noticed that there were more interesting options.



September 2. Ideal Day



Quest
Remember one of the places in your city, located not far from you. Imagine a different, fantastic fantasy world in which this place could also be present, but would be different from its real prototype. Come up with a new name for this place from another world. Pick up 9 related concepts.


One of the interesting places nearby is the Main Department Store. Once upon a time there was literally a video game mecca stretching over a couple of floors. In addition to video games, there were films, books, and a bunch of other interesting things. There was also a spacious pleasant grocery department, in addition to a cozy cafe between the floors. Now there all this splendor has long degenerated into some formless nooks with things and the inner space looks boring.



Thinking about the GUM version from another world, a futuristic skyscraper flooded with neon light appears, where all kinds of attractions with access to virtual reality and located inside the trade with various devices, food, robots and other gizmos are located.



The name came up with this: Arkadrom



Related concepts:



  1. Update
  2. Neon
  3. Prize
  4. Competition
  5. Electronics
  6. Program
  7. Bazaar
  8. Weight
  9. Virtuality


September 3. Day of insight at a place of power



Quest
Go to the place you chose yesterday. Inspect it carefully. After returning home, cross out three (or more) concepts from the list that describes a different version of the place of power you visited, and replace them with others. You might also want to change the name you previously coined.


I decided to go to the main department store early in the morning to see it in a more twilight form than usual. True, on the street it turned out to be lighter than expected.



Yes, now it is no longer so elevated and visible - even healthier shopping centers rise on the sides, all kinds of kiosks are located around, various partitions have been added (parking). The style of the building itself is broken, covered with all kinds of trash, large inscriptions “PLANET CLOTHING SHOES”, “Fish” and so on. In the main "extension column" is located DNS, a computer store. A thin dark network, obscuring the view, is as if thrown over the main building.







Nevertheless, in the concept of a surreal cyberpunk shopping and entertainment center, Arcadrom, this all fits perfectly. Unless in concepts, I would replace the Mass on the Sea , the Program on Advertising , and replace some with a synonym.



Interestingly, on the same day I again had to urgently take a walk in the same place. Because you needed a digital store, take a hard drive there, and the one that you went to, turns out to be in GUM and moved. On the way, I looked into another one that I remembered - and that one also turned out to be closed, instead there was a game club. Which is actually surprising, because computer clubs have been rather rare lately.







So I had to go straight to the GUM, to the underground floor. Along the way, I examined what kind of dark network it was - in fact, a huge screen turned out to be where constantly something colorful was spinning. So I noticed from a distance that somewhere in that direction there is a large screen, but somehow I did not realize that it was directly on the store itself and was fixed. In the morning it was just turned off.



4 September. Autumn Portal Day



Quest
Do a little cleaning and find extra things, garbage that you should get rid of right now, without putting it off for the winter. If you are from Autumn House, instead or at the same time draw a diagram of the ritual with which the guild of your House meets the onset of its season. No need to make inscriptions, just draw something sketchy, no matter how it looks from the outside.


Well, what can I say. Cleaning - she is cleaning. After throwing out the usual garbage (and lying around, more or less whole videos that you don’t really want to ride due to the fact that these are more demo videos than full ones), I sat down for “digital” cleaning, deleted any unnecessary files from the system, and reorganized the folder structure - here that is all. And in the cloud all sorts of rough photos from the phone to clean at the same time. Now, when the film does not limit the number of shots, it’s just a certain cosmic quantity that gets stuffed — that is, I clicked it three times, chose the best, and it’s not the best, it takes its place.



Since I am not in the Autumn House, I did not need to draw an abstraction of the autumn ritual.



September 5th. Another day



Quest
In the afternoon, find and open the horoscope for your sign for the current day. Try to imagine such a development of events that could happen to you on this day and would be fully consistent with this forecast. Then open the forecast for any other sign and come up with the same story again, as if it were you and the forecast would be completely accurate.


So, what would happen in an alternative universe of working internet forecasts.

On this day for my sign (Aries) it is written that people around will have a lot of claims, not always justified, and if you attach importance to them and go on about emotions, it won’t end in anything good. Further advice is given to stay away from people unbalancing, but the second half of the day is suitable for new things and everything will work out fine with them.



Well, for this to come true exactly, it would be enough to post another non-standard article on any of the mass sites. Most often, this is starting to be neglected. Because it’s long, or because it’s incomprehensible, or because without fawning in front of the reader, or forcing you to think something over, or simply unexpected, or because “everyone mined, and I minus”, well and all that. The truth is that there is no tragedy, but it depends on the site - on the same dtf, the mined post is hiding from the tapes, that is, once again you are wondering whether to write anything there just and consider it more like an additional site. That is, emotionally reacting, as it were, to nothing, except that some kind of openly boorish and provocative commentary will be written with a satisfied look, "because I can." Well, this is the level of kindergarten and there’s no point in answering this, but people who understand it themselves, without comment from the trolls, will understand the issue.



Something like that. And in the evening new things really were outlined in the form of plans appeared for tomorrow.






Now imagine yourself as a representative of another sign, for example, Libra. I’m studying what is written for them today.



I see that they write this - troubles, difficulties, violation of agreements, unforeseen development of the situation. Which, however, can lead to the search for other opportunities and perseverance bears fruit, attracting allies. In addition, a pleasant meeting with old friends is possible.



Well, here I can roughly imagine how this would happen to me. Most likely it would be associated with some kind of event where other people are involved too. It seems that we agreed earlier, but everything began to break, to fail, the weather went wrong and so on. Consequently, a certain disappointment would have grown in the course of events. Nevertheless, since something does not stick together, it may be for the best who knows. I would be busy with other things, what to worry about. Well, there, yes, a sudden meeting could be outlined. Old friends may, after all, suddenly call for a visit - to play the same tables or role-playing.



6 September. Day of intersecting waves



Quest
Enjoy listening to completely new music for yourself. When you find a catchy track, think about where in your city there might be a musical place of power and which composition, of those that you know, would correspond to it.


On this day, a trip to the countryside took place, so it came to searching for music only in the evening, when I returned home. For starters, I typed various ost'y in youtube, but there came across purely instrumentalists, moreover often in the “music for background” format, but I wanted something more subtle and with voice / vocals. It was possible to watch openings for anime - tons of them not watched (I watched the most iconic titles for a long time, after which I somehow cooled down to new animes), I would definitely like something, they are quite intriguing, even for some mediocre titles. There was also the thought of looking for some electronic tracks, maybe even a purely instrumental.



In the meantime, I listened to selections of various popular hits, although here the chance to hear something unknown was minimal. Along the way, I unearthed a Bee Gees band for myself - I knew them on some tracks just like that, but I didn’t know what the band was. As well as about the group, I caught a glimpse of the course, but did not know the repertoire. In general, such situations are not uncommon - he listened to something, but did not know where it came from.



Then I came across Twenty One Pilots, the tracks are slightly rap, I often don’t like this, but there was nothing like that, with melody. Then one of Katy Perry's tracks, which I had hardly heard before, became attached. But the performer is not new for me, so I decided to look further. Instead of popular music, it’s useful to look for where to see something old and little-known. At Eurovision, for example, there are interesting tracks that do not occupy high places, but are simply remembered with their own special mood. Over the past ten years I have seen something from there, for example, I like Running Scared 2011 from the Azerbaijani duo, well, they won then. In some years, just do not catch anything. In some, a lot of sunk things happen.



I decided to watch Eurovision 83 just for fun. I liked the rather simple but atmospheric Sing me the song from a vocal Dutch participant. It’s true not to say that the song is really hooked. By the way, it sounds quite in the style of the average anime opening, if you think about it. I began to listen to different things further and then I realized that Twenty One Pilots still got attached. With the track Stressed Out.



As a musical place of power, I finally drew a square in the city center (bypassing the rest of the options). Despite various specialized musical institutions, it was there that I often heard some open-air concerts, besides the conservatory nearby, well, on the whole, solo performers are often found there. There is also a fountain and a museum, as well as a certain building where, it would seem, people are going to dance. Nearby is also a cinema, metro and everything else. Well, the musical composition for this place is Theme of Grandia (Noriyki Iwadare), the main composition from the console game Grandia.



September 7th. Guild Travel Day



Quest
Go to the place where you picked up the song yesterday. In another world, this is the residence of one of the Houses, possibly yours. Come up with a new name for her and pick up nine related concepts. If the residence is too far from you, then just go for a walk.



Come up with an unusual means of transportation on which heroes from another world could get from the first place of power you visited to the residence of the guild. Pick him a name and an arbitrary two-digit number.


The weather was not sunny, but not rainy, so you could get to the place. Not too close, but there are only a few metro stops, so almost there would be a mood.



When leaving the subway, the center was blocked, for the sake of the city marathon. Somehow coincided. I did not particularly watch the sporting event - the crowd, the fence, it is not clear where that leads, all kinds of rumble, coming from all sides. In general, it’s a kind of dissonance, I don’t like noisy large-scale events in principle, like such competitive mass events, especially right in the middle of the city, outside of some parks and green areas. It’s enough for its morning runs when you plan where and how much to run, and you never wanted to participate in mass catch-ups, and watching, accordingly, is also not interesting.



In the square, surprisingly, it was not so crowded, although he literally adjoins all this. I walked along it and took off the fountain because, in my opinion, he and the platform next to him are the most attractive and iconic part of the square, and there, more often, concerts took place there.







By the sum of sensations and memories, there would definitely be the residence of the House of Summer, and not some other.



It would be an enlarged version of the device of this fountain - a small lake, in the middle of which there would be a circular structure with jets of water beating upward. Accordingly, some music would be heard and the water would move in rhythm, highlighted in different colors. Actually, the fountain itself has a backlight tinting it at night.



It would be possible to go to the center along the paths - small park areas leading from the banks to the center, from several sides. This musical residence of Viva Rhapsody would be called, and the following concepts would correspond to it:



  1. Sounds
  2. The sun
  3. Flora
  4. Traffic
  5. Spirit
  6. The words
  7. A meeting
  8. Sign
  9. Crossroads.


An unusual means of transportation for the surreal world came up with this - medushod. Something like a jelly-like translucent round-shaped car with bone seats inside. During the ride, the jelly-like part partially goes underground, without resistance, and spring. Jumping from a hill, a medusobile soars for a while in the air, dropping.



Medusohod 37



8 September. Awakening Day



Quest
Look around - one of the objects surrounding you is a sleeping artifact, a gift from your guild that needs to be awakened. If you are a Transformer, then you can do it yourself, if not, then for this you need to contact any Emitter. The awakening person must come up with how this object looks in another world, pick up a name for it and an arbitrary two-digit number. Then the thing wakes up and becomes an artifact.


As an awakening artifact, I chose a green rubber ball, bought once quite spontaneously in the load for other purchases. So I don’t take trinkets, but then somehow the eye caught on and just took it from the calculation to put on a shelf or can then give it to someone.







Then he began to think to whom of the familiar Radiators to contact, so that an artifact would awaken me. Based on the Paradigm of Context, Emitters are those who were born in April, August, or December. As a result, I found the right person, briefly described the essence of the assignment to him, and he immediately created for me a very epic artifact - Wish Ball , number 77. As for the properties, I was told that the ball cannot be held in hands and it fulfills any wishes that have come to the head holding.



Wish Ball 77



These are my “adventures” at the moment. Until September 15, assignments are scheduled in the initial article, missed missions can be completed as necessary, in random order. And below are the new calendar events, from the 16th to the 30th:



Extravaganza calendar. Season One. September rises



16 of September. Domestication Day.



Take a walk. While walking, look for a small living creature or object that moves as if alive. Also remember other interesting things and objects that will catch your eye.



Returning home, think of any creature that would be a mixture of the living creature (or a moving object) you saw and another thing. Give a name to the resulting pet.



If you are a Battery, you can instead take any two words, one of which is a certain creature, and the other is an inanimate object, after which you also mix them and think of a pet.



September 17th. Day of dedicated achievement.



Find any available cards and draw one out at random. It can be ordinary, collectible, tarot cards, something similar to a deck of cards, an application or a site that allows you to "draw out" a random card.



Having looked at the drawn card, come up with an artifact for Extravaganza, which is symbolized by the images, meanings and other meanings of this card. Pick up pick up this two-digit number for this artifact.



September 18th. Day of the mysterious story.



Select one of the tasks you have already done, and repeat it in a new way.



If you are a Solvent, then instead of past tasks you can choose one of the future and do it ahead of schedule today, while retaining the ability to do or not do it in the future.



September 19th. Day of reasonable style.



On this day, you awaken the clothes of the adept of the Context, which was invented on the 14th. Give her a two-digit number. Inside Extravaganza, these clothes are intelligent and speaking.

Also awaken the hero you invented on the 10th by assigning him any three-digit number.



Choose one of the places of power of your choice (created by you or other participants in the Context). There, the hero controlled by you finds the clothes of an adept - take a calculator and multiply the number of the hero by the number of clothes. Look at the first three digits of the result and look at those concepts that are related to the place of power where this event takes place. These numbers are the answer to what happened - think of your own interpretation of the event. Did the hero wear a thing, break it, talk to her - what did the associations tell you?



September 20. Revaluation Day.



Think about which of the tasks done earlier turned out to be the most difficult (or not the most successful) and which is the most interesting.



September 21st. Day of the necessary phenomenon.



Invent and describe in general terms a book, film or game that should have existed in the modern world, but for some reason they are not.



If you are a Radiator, then instead or at the same time list those things that in your opinion are superfluous in modern books, films or games and they should not be.



September 22nd. Day road to the inexplicable.



Go to any place of power located within reach and take with you the personal artifact awakened on day 8.



Once in place, in some way "apply" the artifact.



Then you can calculate the result of this action - to do this, multiply the number of artifact by your birthday. The first three digits of the result indicate those concepts of a place of power that explain what happened and what were the consequences.



23 September. Day breakthrough irreality.



On this day, your very home becomes a place of power. Create a new name for him, the way it looks inside Extravaganza and pick up 9 relevant concepts for him.



If you are from the House of Autumn, then in autumn you yourself are projecting the aura of this place of power, not even being there territorially. That is, this place of power is always with you, during the fall.



September 24th. Day of the reviving satellite.



When you are at home, you wake up a pet invented by you on September 16th by assigning it a two-digit number.



Talk to the pet yourself - multiply your birthday by the number of the pet to find out what happened. The first three digits of the result indicate the concept of the place of power in which you live, on the basis of which you come up with the outcome of the conversation.



Introduce the pet of your hero, invented on the 10th and awakened on the 19th. To do this, also multiply them.



September 25th. Day of critical attack.



Today, three monsters with personal identifiers 15, 9 and 73 are attacking your home from irreality.



You can resist them yourself, your hero, pet, grimoire, magic clothes and other entities awakened by you. Multiply them by monsters until the numbers of the product come across pairs of identical numbers (11, 22, 33, 44, and so on) - when this happens, the monster is defeated, and the first three digits of the result describe exactly how it turned out.

If you can’t cope on your own, turn to other adherents for help - they can help you from a distance.



If you are a Transformer, then you reset one monster, add two digits to the number of the second, and you can swap the digits of the third.



September 26th. Day of concentration.



Today, devote free time to your own hobby or business that matters to you. Limit your internet browsing to a minimum or all.



September 27. Self Employment Day.



At any place of power, multiply your birthday by your own birthday, and then multiply the result by 27. The first three digits of the result indicate what you should do on this day or what to look for.



September 28th. Creative commotion day.



Remember your favorite books. Take the heroes of one book and imagine them falling into another book. What would happen?



September 29th. Energy Efficiency Day.



Set an alarm for 6-8 hours, go out for a morning run or walk. In the afternoon, do some physical exercise. Go to bed at 9-11 pm.



September 30th. Day of enlightenment.



On this day, cast a spell from your magical grimoire while at home. Multiply your birthday by the number of the book and figure out what happened.



After that, see how this spell would change if you were in any other places of power.



Thanks for your attention



You can share your thoughts in the “official” telegram group of the Context (if you are really interested):



t.me/openfeeria



In parallel there is a forum game on the dungeonmaster.ru site, where in addition to recording personal progress on quests, there is an additional mode in which the same tasks characters of players inside their worlds perform and game mechanics are more clearly revealed: dungeonmaster.ru/ModuleInfo.aspx?module=8768



That's all for me, have a nice day!



Today's quest
9th of September. Day of the bystander.



Analyze which Houses different members of your family belong to and identify the main House or Houses your family is in. Watch a film, the theme of which corresponds to that season or the meanings indicated by the main House. Full viewing can be postponed, but for now, watch a movie in part, or at least read the annotation and see the frames.



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