Every year for the Feast of Flesh we open a special little experience often referred to as "The Torture Shack." What exactly is the shack?

‘Feast of Flesh’. More than likely you have heard of it, but if you’re new to Requiem and haven’t had the pleasure yet, we are here to tell you a little about what you can expect from DR:NY’s time honored October tradition.

Since May, players and family heads have engaged with npc’s to negotiate an updated treaty of the fold. During Honor’s Fall, through actions and reactions, the 13 families were decided upon and a new High Lord Executioner was named. As the new High Lord, Essex Anastasia’s first order of business was to make official the negotiated Treaty of The Fold.

The name of our event comes from Honor’s Fall itself, when the High Lord Executioner suspends the Treaty of the Fold and the residents of Requiem settle all the scores from the past year. While we emphasize the Character versus Character (CvC) conflict we’re expecting Saturday night, most conflict during Honor’s Fall is Character versus Enemy (CvE).

Dystopia Rising New York encourages body positivity to all, without exception for gender or other characteristics. In order to promote this, and ensure all players feel safe dressing in the costume of their choice, we have the following announcements.

Dystopia Rising New York announcements will be posted on our site, emailed to players, and printed off for you packets.

In addition to the announcements we’ll release later today, we have two time-sensitive announcements.

As we finalize our preparations for Honor’s Fall, we have a couple of opportunities for you. Specifically, opportunities to beat up your friends with foam weapons. If you like trying to kill your friends’ characters in a consequence free environment, check out these opportunities.

The hardest thing about armor is actually wearing it. Our physreps can often be hot, uncomfortable, and hamper movement. Since Requiem sees a lot more hit-and-run tactics than standing battles, we wanted to come up with a new armor where the phys-rep was actually light and comfortable. Thus… the Fast Mover Vest.

This Honor’s Fall, on Sunday morning, we will have a special reward for all the Family Heads… the High Lord Executioner will give them each a Memento… a large metal coin that we hope will be a new mainstay of the setting. Inspired by the John Wick movies, Memento will represent a different sort of economy in Requiem - one of favors and backed up by honor amongst thieves.

Requiem is hard on religion… we know this. So when we put in our request for blueprints for Honor’s Fall, we wanted to make sure we got players of priests and other faithful something good. And they gave it to us - at Honor’s Fall, you’ll see the first of a new sort of print: Benedictions.

At Dystopia Rising New York, we have a pre-game tradition called #readytoreq, which is a hashtag campaign where you can earn up to 40 CAPs (enough for a mind refresh meal) by posting hype about the upcoming event. With us nearing 200 players for Honor’s Fall, we wanted to do something special. For Honor’s Fall… you can earn up to 80 CAPs… enough for two mind-refreshes!

Remember that phrase, “do the dumb?” Then Redline is for you. Do you like watching people play Cans but think “you know, this would be better if there were a chance for them to be mechanically blinded for this decision?” We have your answer. Do you ever lament that there’s just not enough drugs in Dystopia Rising? Well, get ready for a whole new reason to lament. Redline is here.

Last week, we announced that we would not have the Trade Agreement between Bravado and Requiem in effect during Honor’s Fall. Some players came to us with well-thought out opinions and requested we re-examine this, and so we’ve changed that policy. The Trade Agreement remains in effect for Honor’s Fall, however, we’ve placed some restrictions on specific items local to Bravado.

As promised after the July Event, Dystopia Rising New York has made some changes to its local mechanics regarding research. Specifically, we’re changing the Library ZoM from play, and clarifying how to use our Research in Requiem local mechanic.

As Honor’s Fall approaches, we’re pleased to offer opportunities for additional entertainers and vendors at our Bacchanal celebration. Anyone attending can apply for a spot, and we’ll offer the opportunity until we run out of space.

As we expect a large number of travelers for Honor’s Fall, we have some rules clarifications specific to this event. This page supplements our Local Mechanics.

This is Part 2 of our logistics announcements, where we talk about kitchen use and food preparation. Please see our Basic Information for details about parking, fires, and other important details; however, the information below trumps the information on that page. (Check out Part 1 for details on sleeping arrangements)

Welcome to Part 1 of our logistics announcements, where we talk about the campsite in general, and specifically where you’ll be sleeping. Please see our Basic Information for details about parking, fires, and other important details; however, the information below (particularly in regards to Med Sleep) trumps the information on that page.

We’re expecting our biggest game ever this August, and we want to make sure everyone is prepared and comfortable. To do this, we’re encouraging our players to take advantage of the warm weather and camp in tents, particularly if they can bring a genre-appropriate tent to enhance immersion.