https://threshold.oxfordrpg.com/ 2026-05-07T11:33:05+00:00 https://threshold.oxfordrpg.com/ https://threshold.oxfordrpg.com/_media/wiki:logo.svg text/html 2024-10-28T17:42:18+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://threshold.oxfordrpg.com/acacia_labang?rev=1730137338&do=diff Acacia Labang She/her Player: Tara S (she/her) About: Acacia is a spindly and consistently office-attired woman -- no surprise given the intensity she practically radiates about her Administrator duties. Her expressions occupy the narrow range between moderate strain (at her worst) and impassivity (at her least bad). She enjoys a number of hobbies, including minding your business for you, keeping her own under combination lock in her private safe, and doing the sudoku. text/html 2024-10-11T18:07:22+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://threshold.oxfordrpg.com/accessibility?rev=1728670042&do=diff Policy As a GM team, we want to make Threshold as accessible as possible and have considered accessibility while organising the game. We understand that everyone’s accessibility needs are unique and therefore encourage you to reach out to us at gm@threshold.oxfordrpg.com with any queries or concerns. While we will do our best to accommodate accessibility needs, it may not be possible for us to accommodate all accessibility needs but we will do our best to help! text/html 2024-10-28T17:42:32+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://threshold.oxfordrpg.com/adonis_iscariot?rev=1730137352&do=diff Adonis Iscariot He/him Player: Ace D (he/they) About: It would be awfully clichéd to say that Adonis Iscariot was a man of contradictions. Few other conclusions can be made, however, in the unfortunate instance of encountering him. Attention may be drawn first to the skin, adorned with the unmistakable ink of the Selca-Clanabe sects, intricate patterns of the gods coiling and flowing and snaking as one. It indicates commitment to a smaller creed, one which favours balance, control and servitu… text/html 2024-10-28T11:14:50+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://threshold.oxfordrpg.com/alsodoesn_texist?rev=1730114090&do=diff @USER@ @PAGE@ text/html 2025-03-13T13:05:44+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://threshold.oxfordrpg.com/amnesia?rev=1741871144&do=diff Amnesia The walls are open. No longer are minds forcibly wiped before citizens go to another block - now they can visit as they please. They have claimed their freedom, and in their wake the once prolific Machines are reduced to scrap, their operators either disciplined or breathing sighs of relief. The Machines that remain are few and far between. text/html 2024-10-28T17:42:47+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://threshold.oxfordrpg.com/bird?rev=1730137367&do=diff Bird Any Player: Sophia dM (she/her) About: Bird's flighty nature, small stature, and shiny, colourful appearance earned them their name in the Threshold, and that's about as much as anyone knows about him, including herself. Clad in jester's clothes and decked in symbols of Clanabe-Selca, this peculiar figure raises a lot of questions, not least of which is how zie ever plans to ascend. text/html 2024-10-28T17:43:00+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://threshold.oxfordrpg.com/bishop_antonius?rev=1730137380&do=diff Bishop Antonius He/They Player: Rose G (she/her) About: A reserved, slightly haughty man seldom seen without a tome from the library, Bishop Antonius seems to spend most of his days buried in strange theories and mutterings about… turnips? Beneath floppy grey hair, stubble and ornate-chained glasses lie eyebags that have burrowed into his skin; a sleepless theologian in death and in life. Though his archaic vestments are amusing to the modern eye, and he can be friendly enough, there is somet… text/html 2024-11-12T13:37:48+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://threshold.oxfordrpg.com/biweekly_bulletin?rev=1731418668&do=diff Biweekly Bulletin An announcement released by the officials of Psychopomp in the days prior to each biweekly check-in, containing the updated housing and recent news events. There is no bulletin for Uptime 1. Uptime 2 Uptime 3 Uptime 4 Uptime 5 Uptime 6 Uptime 7 text/html 2024-11-12T13:35:08+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://threshold.oxfordrpg.com/bulletin_2?rev=1731418508&do=diff Housing Announcement Lots of movement this week, I'm happy to release this week's tiers with so many people in Ascendant Housing! Remember, the more work you put into rehabilitation the better the amenities you receive! I'm hoping to see even more of you unlock those rewards! That's all for this week. text/html 2024-11-26T12:31:57+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://threshold.oxfordrpg.com/bulletin_3?rev=1732624317&do=diff Housing Announcement Hello again everyone! I am glad to see more citizens are being recognised for their efforts this week. While the quality of your accommodation should of course not be the single goal of your work, it certainly makes the days pass more pleasantly. The past weeks in the wake of our last meeting have surely been worrying, but let us hope for good news and answers to address any fears in the days to come. text/html 2025-01-20T12:04:04+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://threshold.oxfordrpg.com/bulletin_4?rev=1737374644&do=diff Housing Announcement Mis amigos, another two weeks have passed us by. And so I have the pleasure once again to give you an update on the state of Block 2845. Normally I would have a new order of housing arrangements to announce, but after the request made in our previous meeting, the ranking has been successfully removed. I have been asked to give you all a reminder that the system was set up this way to give a feeling of progress towards your ascension. With this in mind, I want to encourage y… text/html 2025-02-04T12:02:54+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://threshold.oxfordrpg.com/bulletin_5?rev=1738670574&do=diff Ascensions After the recent ascension of Diego, I (Charlie Show) have taken over writing this Biweekly Bulletin. His positive, adventurous presence in the Block will be sorely missed, but we should all be glad to have known him. Additionally, Lumière Amélie Rose Aimée De La Tour has also ascended recently, and we should take this time to reflect on the contributions she has made to the Block. text/html 2025-02-18T16:40:44+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://threshold.oxfordrpg.com/bulletin_6?rev=1739896844&do=diff Announcement I don’t know if I’m an Invigilator anymore. I don’t even know if we can have an Invigilator in a Block with no Tower. But, no matter my official role, I will continue to act as a leader in this Block. I left in the middle of the last community meeting because my home had been destroyed by people who seemed to show no remorse. Not only my home, but the homes and offices of dozens and dozens of people who have dedicated years to the service of this Block and all of you in it. I admi… text/html 2025-03-04T12:35:29+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://threshold.oxfordrpg.com/bulletin_7?rev=1741091729&do=diff A Fresh Start Hello once again my friends! With no Invigilators overseeing things, I have done my best to put together a small announcement of the happenings these past weeks. I am hopeful indeed that we can continue to make this block a more encouraging community as time goes on. I may no longer wish to act as a Guide, but I absolutely want to help in any way I can. I may no longer have an office, but my door remains ever open - at least in a figurative way. Though I anticipate no check-in on … text/html 2024-10-28T17:43:18+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://threshold.oxfordrpg.com/celeste_o_mordha?rev=1730137398&do=diff Celeste O'Mórdha She/her Player: Effy G (they/she) About: She may have had short-lived stardom as a psychic gracing television screens in the late 70s, but you wouldn't recognise Celeste O'Mórdha as a household name. The show was hastily cancelled, the tapes lost. She returned to her small, eclectic premises, tucked away above an off-license in Kentish Town. She had a steady stream of clients. She was as successful as she needed to be. Nothing more, nothing less. Out of the limelight. She di… text/html 2024-10-11T18:05:48+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://threshold.oxfordrpg.com/character_creation?rev=1728669948&do=diff Character Creation Character Creation in Threshold consists of the following components, each of which is detailed below: * OC information: Inform the GMs (and eventually your fellow players) about your name and pronouns. In addition you will need to supply an email address and if you are under 18 you will need to alert the GMs for safeguarding reasons (this information will not be shared, as per our text/html 2024-10-19T14:37:27+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://threshold.oxfordrpg.com/conduct_and_themes_policy?rev=1729348647&do=diff Conduct and Acceptable Themes Policy We as the Threshold GM team wish for the game to be an enjoyable and memorable experience for all players involved. 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Black dots mark the tips of some of the fingers on his right hand. He can usually be found carrying a notepad, with a few miscellaneous pens in his pocket, and a confused - or troubled, perhaps - look on his face. text/html 2024-10-28T11:16:04+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://threshold.oxfordrpg.com/doesnt_exist_istg?rev=1730114164&do=diff @USER@ @PAGE@ text/html 2024-10-28T11:13:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://threshold.oxfordrpg.com/doesn_t_exist?rev=1730113991&do=diff @!!PAGE@ text/html 2024-10-13T20:34:32+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://threshold.oxfordrpg.com/downtimes_emails_and_turnsheets?rev=1728851672&do=diff Downtime, Emails and Turnsheets Between each session of Threshold, two weeks of in game time will pass. During this time, players can communicate via email and take actions as conveyed to the GM team through Turnsheets. In-Character Emails As with previous Society Games, we have set up an email system which allows players to communicate with each other and with GMs after a session ends; in character, these emails represent in-person interactions you might have with PCs or NPCs, as well as any… text/html 2024-10-28T17:44:46+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://threshold.oxfordrpg.com/emmota?rev=1730137486&do=diff Emmota She/her Player: Elizabeth B (she/her) About: Emmota is deeply religious, a member of an obscure and now long forgotten religious order, devoted to recording the events of the world, and often spends a lot of her time around the Library, or asking people if anything particularly interesting has happened recently. While she has been here for a while and doesn't seem in any particular hurry to move on (after all the chief tenant of her faith is to act as a silent witness to the world) she… text/html 2025-03-13T13:21:15+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://threshold.oxfordrpg.com/eternities?rev=1741872075&do=diff Eternities "“Where do we turn now that the very premise of our world has changed? Now that we stand at the threshold of revolt? We turn toward the fight, toward change and then toward an eternity that belongs to us alone!” - A revolutionary, to the crowd text/html 2024-10-28T17:44:58+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://threshold.oxfordrpg.com/euphemia?rev=1730137498&do=diff Euphemia She/her Player: Faith C (she/her) About: Euphemia is nothing if not striking. Raven's-feather hair styled in an elaborate updo; gold chains; draped sleeves; heavy layers of dark velvet and a bold lace trim. Everything about her is decadent, larger-than-life, noticeable. You hear her before she walks into a room, whether it is her laugh and sweet words, the soft bite of jewellery that follows her everywhere, or heels like knives on marble. And when you see her, you can't look away. Da… text/html 2024-10-28T17:45:12+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://threshold.oxfordrpg.com/everard?rev=1730137512&do=diff Everard He/him Player: Luke P (he/him) About: Everard fought for the English Parliament in the seventeenth century Civil Wars when he was alive, and died of a gunshot wound to the chest, which left a tracery of tattoos where his heart should be. Since he arrived he has been adding to them at the Stick n' Stab, and style-wise he sits somewhere between dishevelled seventeenth-century labourer and punk, arms often bared so the tattoos can be seen. He has covered his body with words from the Less… text/html 2024-10-28T17:29:05+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://threshold.oxfordrpg.com/felix_mortimer?rev=1730136545&do=diff Felix Mortimer He/him Player: Milo S. (he/they) About: A recent arrival to Block 2845, Felix is often seen wandering around rather than doing anything of use: hanging around The Farm, staring at crops, or people-watching at the Market Place, to the extent that he could often be counted as simply part of the scenery. He doesn't seem to have much active interest in ascending, and tells a different story each time someone asks him about his past. In his long black coat, colourful scarf, and alwa… text/html 2024-10-13T21:01:15+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://threshold.oxfordrpg.com/glossary?rev=1728853275&do=diff Glossary Over the course of Threshold, you may come across words or phrases that you are unfamiliar with. This page mainly contains Out of Character terms (information, events, places and people which exist in the real world, i.e. outside the world of text/html 2025-03-13T15:03:31+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://threshold.oxfordrpg.com/gmsnpcs?rev=1741878211&do=diff GMs and NPCs You can contact the GMs by two methods: * Message us on Discord * Drop us an email at gm@threshold.oxfordrpg.com. Emailing is not anonymous, but the RPGSoc's MailDragon system is set up such that it is not always immediately obvious who is sending the message, so please do make it clear who you are! All of the GMs will be able to read your message, so if you'd like to contact just one specific GM, doing so via Discord will be most effective. text/html 2024-10-11T18:03:19+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://threshold.oxfordrpg.com/governance?rev=1728669799&do=diff Governance Psychopomp The more mythologically-inclined citizens in the Threshold may have been familiar with the concept of a psychopomp when they were alive: an entity that is tasked with guiding the souls of the deceased from the world of the living to the afterlife, common in the mythology and beliefs of a number of religions. text/html 2024-11-03T21:25:48+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://threshold.oxfordrpg.com/harry_arnold?rev=1730669148&do=diff Harry Arnold He/him Player: Rei F (any) About: He’s a middle-aged accountant who is very tired of his 9-5. His shirt is never quite fully tucked, and his tie never centred. He has rectangle-framed glasses that he has to clean regularly. He has short, messy, brown hair; and brown eyes. He’s quite pale and has massive eye-bags that may or may not be from staring at too many spreadsheets. He’s not grumpy per say text/html 2024-10-19T14:39:14+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://threshold.oxfordrpg.com/intro_to_the_wiki_system?rev=1729348754&do=diff Intro to the Wiki System For those of you who are new to ORPGsoc Society Games, this page is here to serve as a primer to the wiki and how we use it for the game. As always, if you have any questions regarding any of this, please don't hesitate to email the GM team. The Wiki text/html 2024-10-28T17:45:50+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://threshold.oxfordrpg.com/john_le_tillyer?rev=1730137550&do=diff John le Tillyer He/him Player: Eloise P (she/her) About: You'll most likely find John at the farm -- though this farm isn't quite what he was used to in life. The last time he saw the fields he called home was in the early months of 1461 CE, and technology has moved on just a little since then. Quiet, but warm towards those who know him (and you probably know him text/html 2024-10-28T17:46:05+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://threshold.oxfordrpg.com/jude?rev=1730137565&do=diff Jude She/they Player: Ameal W (they/them) About: Jude wears black leather jacket and platform boots. She is pale, and has dark hair and makeup. Dark purple bruising marks her neck. She’s generally pretty easygoing and friendly, despite being widely thought to be a Lost Soul. text/html 2024-10-28T17:46:18+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://threshold.oxfordrpg.com/juliette_daubeny?rev=1730137578&do=diff Juliette Daubeny She/her Player: Liana W (she/her) About: Juliette Daubeny is a young woman with perpetually flushed cheeks, often found in a long dress haunting the library or the Dome. Email: <juliette_daubeny@threshold.oxfordrpg.com> text/html 2024-10-28T17:46:30+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://threshold.oxfordrpg.com/livith?rev=1730137590&do=diff Livith She/her Player: Gemma (she/her) About: Livith is a young woman who would be familiar to those who have been in Block 2845 for a while; while something of a bitter and hostile character, particularly to the authorities, she looks out for new arrivals and won't stand for any kind of bullying. text/html 2024-10-28T17:31:23+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://threshold.oxfordrpg.com/lumiere_de_la_tour?rev=1730136683&do=diff Lumière Amélie Rose Aimée De La Tour She/her Player: Aleisha L. (she/he) About: Once a nun in 19th century France, Lumière has maintained her piety (despite the obvious differences between this afterlife and the one she was told of), and many officials commend her on her commitment to her own self-betterment and that of her peers. Many are perplexed that she has not yet ascended in spite of this. Those who have seen her shed her habit (exposing the thin red death mark encircling her throat) i… text/html 2025-02-18T16:44:19+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://threshold.oxfordrpg.com/metaphysical_ethical_and_existential_concerns_in_the_threshold?rev=1739897059&do=diff 'Metaphysical, Ethical and Existential Concerns in the Threshold' by Damien Borne First Concern: Ascension Jean-Paul Sartre was a 20th-century philosopher known for his key role in the philosophy of existentialism. His contributions can be summarised with two ideas: firstly, that humans are text/html 2024-10-11T21:05:24+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://threshold.oxfordrpg.com/overview_of_the_threshold?rev=1728680724&do=diff Setting Overview The Threshold This is the Threshold between Earth and the next place, a better place. This is a place designed to be temporary, for people to pass through without roots, and this lends a certain liminal energy to the Threshold. The sky may be full of stars, but constellations are near impossible to follow, and there is no moon. Nor is there a sun, the entire plane is cast in a perpetual twilight, a darkness kept at bay by the neons and LEDs of the city (aside from the hours of… text/html 2024-11-12T13:41:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://threshold.oxfordrpg.com/player_characters?rev=1731418909&do=diff Player Characters Acacia Labang Adonis Iscariot Bird Bishop Antonius Celeste O’Mórdha Damien Borne Emmota Euphemia Everard Felix Mortimer Harry Arnold John le Tillyer Jude Juliette Daubeny Livith Lumière Amélie Rose Aimée De La Tour Shelly Green Siphy Telesto Adrasteia Terri Sanibel The Nightingale Titus Wolfson Topham Awdry Truth's Light Casts Darkest Shadows Ulysses Bennett Uriel Cicero text/html 2025-03-10T22:28:16+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://threshold.oxfordrpg.com/privacy_policy?rev=1741645696&do=diff Privacy Policy This is the Threshold Privacy Policy, and is designed to inform you as to how the GM team looks after your personal information before, during and after the game takes place. This includes information of any kind provided through any medium. text/html 2025-03-13T13:04:43+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://threshold.oxfordrpg.com/punishments?rev=1741871083&do=diff Punishments Jude Alcott Jude Alcott doesn’t know how long he spends in that concrete block. It’s hard to count the weeks, months (years, he dreads to think), when they are all exactly the same. He wakes and he thinks, he thinks about everything he did. He receives few visitors, the most frequent being Acacia. text/html 2024-10-11T21:07:42+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://threshold.oxfordrpg.com/quadrant_1?rev=1728680862&do=diff Library Quarter The Library Where would we be without knowledge? The inscription above the library entrance reads “Know Thyself”, a reminder of the importance of knowledge, of working to understand oneself, of striving to be better today than we were yesterday. Isn’t a library a type of threshold in of itself? All this knowledge at your fingertips, if only you’d take initiative and access it. If you want to ascend, you’ll be spending a lot of your time here, poring through volumes of regrets, … text/html 2024-10-11T20:50:37+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://threshold.oxfordrpg.com/quadrant_2?rev=1728679837&do=diff Tower Quarter The Tower At the heart of Block 2845, there lies a skyscraper which rises above all the rest: the Tower. The Tower is the home of government activity within the block and provides a space for Psychopomp officials to live and work. On the top floor of this sleek high-rise, the offices of the two Invigilators can be found text/html 2024-10-11T21:08:09+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://threshold.oxfordrpg.com/quadrant_3?rev=1728680889&do=diff Farm Quarter Warehouse District Standing out against the skyscrapers and apartment buildings of Block 2845, there is a warehouse. The building is constructed of scrap metal, copper wire, and spare parts. As the extensions continued, the warehouse began to look more like a rusty oil rig than any type of warehouse the inhabitants of the block may have worked in. The need for rapid expansion meant the extensions were not coherent. The warehouse was originally two storage buildings standing side… text/html 2024-10-11T21:08:00+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://threshold.oxfordrpg.com/quadrant_4?rev=1728680880&do=diff Dome Quarter Community Hall The community hall is a large, neutral space that is transformed by the people within it. The hall is the venue of choice for events and celebrations in the block, as well as for regular meetings of the more popular societies. Every person living in Block 2845 knows this place well, as it is the location of Psychopomp's biweekly checkups on citizens' progress towards ascension. text/html 2024-10-11T18:06:02+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://threshold.oxfordrpg.com/quirks?rev=1728669962&do=diff Quirks Quirks help manifest your character's identity mechanically. They shape your gameplay experience by providing the concrete abilities and permissions your character will have as a result of their experiences, both in life and afterwards. Additionally, there are Playstyle Quirks, which provide a more direct OC approach to shaping the game for you as a player by letting the GMs know what themes and content you want in your experience of the game. text/html 2024-10-11T18:04:07+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://threshold.oxfordrpg.com/religion?rev=1728669847&do=diff Religion Out of respect for real-world religions, the Earth of Threshold will instead feature fictional religions, which are not intended to be viewed as parallels for any particular real-world religions. This page describes the three main world religions of the Earth of text/html 2024-10-11T18:06:18+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://threshold.oxfordrpg.com/sample_characters?rev=1728669978&do=diff Sample Characters Sample Character 1 - Amnesiac What Memory Quirk are you taking? Amnesiac What is your character’s name? Piper Kennedy What are your character’s pronouns? She/they Public bio: A young artist in her early 20s, Piper is most often found in The Nest. Through the means of painting, Piper is trying to piece together who she once was, and through finding out her past mistakes find a way to better herself and ascend to whatever comes after. Piper seems to be constantly covered… text/html 2024-10-11T18:07:06+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://threshold.oxfordrpg.com/sample_turnsheet?rev=1728670026&do=diff Sample Turnsheet Below, you can find a sample Turnsheet which is intended as an example of how one might go about writing a Turnsheet. More details about Turnsheets can be found here. Major Action This is the main task your character will focus on in the two weeks between sessions. text/html 2024-11-12T13:41:28+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://threshold.oxfordrpg.com/shadow?rev=1731418888&do=diff Truth's Light Casts Darkest Shadows Any Player: Conor W (any) About: If you were to describe Shadow in one word, it would be “Helpful”. They seem to have been around a long time, and have been a Guide for just as long. Given their seemingly serene character and apparent selfless devotion to Block 2845 one might wonder: why are they still here? text/html 2024-10-28T17:33:40+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://threshold.oxfordrpg.com/shelly_green?rev=1730136820&do=diff Shelly Green She/her Player: Yona B. (she/her) About: Shelly was, she insists, a spy. A proper spy, with gadgets and gizmos and espionage and eavesdropping. Don’t listen to the rumours that she's some nobody, making up an exciting life: she was a spy! The sunny disposition, the ditzy personality, all those very un-spy-like behaviours: that’s why she was so *good* at it. Now that her secret agent days are over, you can usually find her somewhere in the Market Place, or hanging out at the occas… text/html 2025-03-13T13:18:28+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://threshold.oxfordrpg.com/sidebar?rev=1741871908&do=diff ---------- The Starting Point Introduction Style and Tone When and Where Glossary Conduct and Themes Policy Playground Eternities ---------- Characters & News GMs and NPCs Player Characters Biweekly Bulletin ---------- Setting Overview of the Threshold Governance Vice and Virtue The World you Left Behind Religion Library Quarter Tower Quarter Farm Quarter Dome Quarter ---------- Gameplay Intro to the Wiki System Character Creation Quirks Sample Characters Uptime… text/html 2024-10-28T17:47:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://threshold.oxfordrpg.com/siphy?rev=1730137641&do=diff Siphy Xe/any Player: Ben C (he/they) About: The flash of a cape and a smile, and the hat disappears right in front of the enraptured crowd’s eyes, receiving a generous round of applause (and a couple coughs from the nearer onlookers, the faint scent of smoke on the air). text/html 2024-10-19T14:35:55+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://threshold.oxfordrpg.com/start?rev=1729348555&do=diff " “You are dead. Maybe you’ve been dead for days, or months, or years, but what's for certain is that you’re dead. And now you're here. At the Threshold.”" Welcome Welcome to Threshold, the ORPGSoc Society Game for Michaelmas and Hilary terms, 2024/2025. This game takes place in a fictional afterlife - players will play as characters who have passed away on Earth with unfinished business and now inhabit a densely populated city block in a purgatorial threshold between this world and the next. … text/html 2024-10-11T18:01:35+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://threshold.oxfordrpg.com/style_and_tone?rev=1728669695&do=diff Style and Tone " “Think of it this way, if you're six feet under, then the only way is up. You don't need to dig yourself a deeper hole.”" Threshold is set in a reality where every system is geared toward supporting your ascension. How does it feel to face your failures and regrets? How does it feel to be watched as you do so? How does it feel to live in a place designed to be temporary? text/html 2024-10-28T17:47:34+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://threshold.oxfordrpg.com/telesto_adrasteia?rev=1730137654&do=diff Telesto Adrasteia He/him Player: Daniel A (he/him) About: Originally a brilliant young scientist, Telesto Adrasteia passed away a few hundred years after society had started to overtake pre-collapse technology. In life, Telesto worked on experiments which sought to probe deep metaphysical truths about the universe. It was an unfortunate accident during one of these experiments which caused his death. Telesto’s eyes now shine, a result of molten metal burning through them in his final moments.… text/html 2024-10-28T17:47:45+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://threshold.oxfordrpg.com/terri_sanibel?rev=1730137665&do=diff Terri Sanibel She/her Player: Lauren P (she/her) About: Terri Sanibel, 30 years old, is pretty, wide-eyed, sweet and passive, and does not like to be alone. In life, she owned a store selling beauty products, crystals and New Age apparatus, and seems more interested in silly, trivial things than ascension. But she turns strangely disturbing whenever asked about her death mark. This is a piercing wound in her back with a dripping black handprint around it. When asked, she insists the wound com… text/html 2025-03-13T13:19:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://threshold.oxfordrpg.com/the_aftermath_in_block_2845?rev=1741871951&do=diff The Aftermath of Block 2845 No Block is truly the same after the walls come crashing down, but as the locus of the revolution, Block 2845 suffers some of the most drastic changes of anywhere in the Threshold. Many leave the block for good, searching for something – someone – they could never find here. Others stay and watch as the Block begins to metamorphose before them. text/html 2024-10-28T17:47:59+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://threshold.oxfordrpg.com/the_nightingale?rev=1730137679&do=diff The Nightingale He/any Player: Heather C (she/any) About: “Me? My name? That doesn't matter. You can call me whatever you want. Doesn't bother me. Names are superficial, simply a human construct that society has made a compulsory part of life. And guess what? We're dead. So human constructs don't matter. text/html 2025-03-13T13:18:59+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://threshold.oxfordrpg.com/the_post_revolution_world?rev=1741871939&do=diff The Post-Revolution World The Threshold is shaped by the people within it. Their hopes, their dreams, their memories. The people call for change, and it responds. Buildings transform, twisting and moulding into structures as dynamic as those who inhabit them. Towers fall, replaced with something better – every Block forging their own monument to the past, or to the future. Why have a community hall when you can have a community garden? text/html 2025-03-13T12:39:00+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://threshold.oxfordrpg.com/the_revolution?rev=1741869540&do=diff The Revolution All at once, every human that has ever died, learnt the truth. All at once, we bubbled with rage and horror and resolution. The resistance arose, the streets flooded with angry voices. The riot began. In turn, guards arrived, blank figures in dark clothes, eyes, humanity, hidden behind visors. Tear gas and batons. Screams and persistence. Retreat, organisation and rising again. Action upon action. Revolution takes time, but it is urgent, unfaltering, desperate. A fight for eterni… text/html 2024-10-11T18:03:47+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://threshold.oxfordrpg.com/the_world_you_left_behind?rev=1728669827&do=diff The World You Left Behind Before the Threshold, you all came from somewhere. I know, for some of you, it may be hard to recall your own past, but that’s okay. You’re reminded of the world you left behind every day here in the Threshold, so whether you’ve been here for fifty years or only a couple minutes, I’m sure you have some memory of the world you came from. But if not, let me refresh it for you! text/html 2024-10-28T17:48:15+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://threshold.oxfordrpg.com/titus_wolfson?rev=1730137695&do=diff Titus Wolfson He/him Player: Konstantine B.S. (he/her) About: Titus Wolfson is a brand-new arrival in the Threshold. A somewhat gruff-looking man in his fifties, his look screams 70’s academic – as does his manner. Nonetheless, his stoicism easily melts away when you get him started on the right topic. Beware of talking to him too long: he will inevitably start playing devil's advocate just to poke at your worldview a bit too hard text/html 2024-10-28T17:48:29+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://threshold.oxfordrpg.com/topham_awdry?rev=1730137709&do=diff Topham Awdry He/him Player: Séamus G (he/him) About: Sir Topham knows he was important, and his hat makes that clear. But he doesn't remember how or why. Email: <topham_awdry@threshold.oxfordrpg.com> text/html 2024-11-02T12:44:45+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://threshold.oxfordrpg.com/ulysses_bennett?rev=1730551485&do=diff Ulysses Bennett He/they Player: Ella W (she/they) About: Ulysses is a young man in his late 20s with protective goggles perpetually perched on his head. He is always happy to tell you about his work (whether you want him to or not). He spends his time in a small shop in the Market Place. The walls are lined with bottles of various liquids most of which should not be consumed, although any pleasantly intoxicating effects which may arise from drinking the others are entirely unintentional. The … text/html 2024-10-11T18:06:34+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://threshold.oxfordrpg.com/uptimes_and_sessions?rev=1728669994&do=diff Uptime and Sessions Sessions of Threshold will be held at St John's College during the first two terms, Michaelmas and Hillary. We will start at 19.00, with a short brief before time-in. Sessions will occur on Tuesday evenings every other week, starting from third week of Michaelmas 2024 (29th of October). For more information see the page text/html 2024-10-28T17:35:13+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://threshold.oxfordrpg.com/uriel_cicero?rev=1730136913&do=diff Uriel Cicero He/him Player: Riaz A. (he/him) About: Dressed in a toga and sandals, A well-groomed yet stone faced middle aged man with a long jagged scar across his left temple to his cheek. Uriel often spends his time thinking and pontificating (much to the annoyance of his fellow citizens in block 2845) regarding the philosophical pointless on the threshold and how it does not exist in reality. He will often be seen at the library debating any fool who would choose to hear his ideas and if … text/html 2024-10-11T18:03:32+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://threshold.oxfordrpg.com/vice_and_virtue?rev=1728669812&do=diff Vice and Virtue "“There are no distractions here, granted you don’t go looking for one.”" There is no money in the Threshold; no need for the mundane routines of mortality. The bad habits you picked up in the land of the living: whether they were to survive, to get by, to fit in… there’s no need to continue them in Block 2845. You aren’t constrained by the context of your former life. text/html 2025-02-22T14:09:47+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://threshold.oxfordrpg.com/when_and_where?rev=1740233387&do=diff When and Where Threshold will be held over 7 sessions during Michaelmas (2024) and Hilary (2025) terms, taking place on alternate Tuesday evenings from 19:00 to 22:00 (7pm to 10pm). Additionally, there will be an Character Creation session on Tuesday of Week 1, which can be attended in person or via Discord, and a Debrief session at the end of Hilary term.