This year at Honor’s Fall, we’re adding a “new” tradition to our Game of the Year: After the Bacchanal, we’ll encourage players to host After Parties. An After Party is a player-created event after the Bacchanal, meant to keep the party going and enhance the experience for everyone involved. Since this is a new event, we wanted to make sure you had guidance on how to organize your After Party.
The Basics
At midnight on the first night of the event, the Bacchanal will wrap up, and various After Parties will spring up. We’ll work with players to put together a list of locations so that people can go to the parties they want. However, we’re making sure the party spaces are relatively small so that people have to move from party to party. We don’t want you to go to just one After Party… we want you to try a few of them.
In addition, all After Parties should happen inside, which allows you to “Zone For Content” (see below). If you want content that might be higher risk than we typically see at a Dystopia Rising event, we’ll work with you to create a Zone For Content.
Realize that there might be a party in your cabin until about 2 am… just like at any other game. We will not put a Zone For Content in sleeping spaces without the consent of everyone sleeping in the space.
Zone For Content
The difference between an After Party and a regular player event is the opportunity to create a Zone For Content. Similar to how we do the Feast of Flesh, we’ll allow you to set up areas where players can opt-in to content that we might not portray in regular Dystopia Rising scenes. Examples include:
Scenes of extreme torture and body modification (this is what we normally do in October for Feast of Flesh).
A Hedon Party that is more risque than normal.
Scenes of extreme and realistic gore, including disturbing scenes that would require a “trigger warning.”
The purpose of a Zone For Content is to establish consent for these scenes; the content will be clearly labeled before a player enters the zone, and by entering they consent to witness the content. However, the DRNY Staff is responsible for the entire event and also needs consent to the content. We will not consent to the following:
Use of any controlled substances, including alcohol or marijuana.
Displays of or references to sexual assault.
Any content that could be considered harassment (i.e. racism, sexism, transphobia, etc).
If you would like a Zone For Content, you must email us directly at info@dystopiarisingny.com. At a minimum, we’ll want to know:
What is the content you want to include?
How will you make sure the content remains in an enclosed area?
What’s your plan to make the content entertaining and in genre?
Not all Zones For Content will be approved: we’re not going to approve a zone that’s “Hedon Sex Party With Actual Sex,” as it’s a heightened risk we don’t want to take. However, we promise that we’ll consider your ideas and be respectful; the only thing we ask is that you accept a response of “no,” from us as you would hearing “no” from another player.
What Next?
Got an idea? Email us at info@dystopiarisingny.com with the subject “After Party.” We’re hoping for a lot of different ideas, so please, send us a pitch!