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| − | + | PostfurryMUCK is a text-based environment built to encourage roleplay, identity exploration, and worldbuilding. Join us in the Puzzlebox, a vast posthuman structure filled with environments that are cozy, rowdy, mind-bending, or sometimes all of the above, all at once! | |
| − | The | + | In the Puzzlebox, you can find: |
| + | * The scattered shards of a posthuman megastructure where different factions wage conflict through art and narrative | ||
| + | * A theme-park solar system where each planet is a different kink playground | ||
| + | * A sprawling city where it’s always night and dream-logic holds sway | ||
| + | …and many other things, including whatever you want to build yourself! | ||
| − | + | In the Puzzlebox, you can be: | |
| − | + | * A content inhabitant of your own personal utopia, interested in sharing it with others | |
| + | * A hopeful immigrant seeking a new place to live that fits your deepest-held desires | ||
| + | * An inquisitive explorer seeking to find something long-lost in the Fractured Warps | ||
| + | …or an existing character from another world, sucked in by the power of the Neon Aurora | ||
| − | + | In the transhuman reality of the Puzzlebox, the rules of text RP are laws of physics. You can create anything if you can imagine it well enough, nothing can happen to you without your consent, and bodily form is limited only by your creativity. We’re committed to creating a space together where postfurries and others can interact, explore, and build wonders together. [http://postfurry.net/muck Come join us!] | |
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In the mid 2000's, many of the early PuzzleboxMUCK inhabitants were looking for a new place to go without the increasingly convoluted continuity and expectations of that RP-heavy environment. They wanted to create a new place from scratch that was inherently geared toward free-wheeling low-continuity roleplay and open sexuality. The original MUCK landscape consisted of one room, the Oneirolith Impact Crater, which included an abstract fanciful description that encouraged more development. Initially, access to the server was by invitation only, with the admins only creating accounts for people they knew and were confident would maintain the fragile social vibe, rather than become sprawling and unmaintainable, the fate that they believed befell PuzzleboxMUCK. | In the mid 2000's, many of the early PuzzleboxMUCK inhabitants were looking for a new place to go without the increasingly convoluted continuity and expectations of that RP-heavy environment. They wanted to create a new place from scratch that was inherently geared toward free-wheeling low-continuity roleplay and open sexuality. The original MUCK landscape consisted of one room, the Oneirolith Impact Crater, which included an abstract fanciful description that encouraged more development. Initially, access to the server was by invitation only, with the admins only creating accounts for people they knew and were confident would maintain the fragile social vibe, rather than become sprawling and unmaintainable, the fate that they believed befell PuzzleboxMUCK. | ||
Revision as of 23:04, 17 August 2024
PostfurryMUCK is a text-based environment built to encourage roleplay, identity exploration, and worldbuilding. Join us in the Puzzlebox, a vast posthuman structure filled with environments that are cozy, rowdy, mind-bending, or sometimes all of the above, all at once!
In the Puzzlebox, you can find:
- The scattered shards of a posthuman megastructure where different factions wage conflict through art and narrative
- A theme-park solar system where each planet is a different kink playground
- A sprawling city where it’s always night and dream-logic holds sway
…and many other things, including whatever you want to build yourself!
In the Puzzlebox, you can be:
- A content inhabitant of your own personal utopia, interested in sharing it with others
- A hopeful immigrant seeking a new place to live that fits your deepest-held desires
- An inquisitive explorer seeking to find something long-lost in the Fractured Warps
…or an existing character from another world, sucked in by the power of the Neon Aurora
In the transhuman reality of the Puzzlebox, the rules of text RP are laws of physics. You can create anything if you can imagine it well enough, nothing can happen to you without your consent, and bodily form is limited only by your creativity. We’re committed to creating a space together where postfurries and others can interact, explore, and build wonders together. Come join us!
Orthocosmic history
In the mid 2000's, many of the early PuzzleboxMUCK inhabitants were looking for a new place to go without the increasingly convoluted continuity and expectations of that RP-heavy environment. They wanted to create a new place from scratch that was inherently geared toward free-wheeling low-continuity roleplay and open sexuality. The original MUCK landscape consisted of one room, the Oneirolith Impact Crater, which included an abstract fanciful description that encouraged more development. Initially, access to the server was by invitation only, with the admins only creating accounts for people they knew and were confident would maintain the fragile social vibe, rather than become sprawling and unmaintainable, the fate that they believed befell PuzzleboxMUCK.
Quite a bit more ad-hoc building ensued over the next couple months, but eventually the admins decided they'd like to establish a more specific structure that encouraged the sorts of interaction that the MUCK was originally built for. They built the 12Fold Resorts, a hyperrealistic representation of a mythic version of the Sol system, recontextualized as a theme park, and renamed the place 12Fold MUCK after them. They also raised the profile of the MUCK among the postfurry community, increasing the population and activity on the server.
The 12Fold structure worked well for a while, but some building continued that didn't fit closely with the theme. The Oneriopolis area was created in the late 2000s as an alternative context to support locations that did not quite fit in as part of the interplanetary theme park. Over the next few years, more Oneiropolis districts and features were added, and the MUCK topology and location listings were adjusted slightly to feature different areas on more of an equal footing.
Finally, in late 2013 the MUCK got its biggest reconfiguration since the initial introduction of the 12Fold worlds. All building was maintained, but a new central area was created that went back to the MUCK's highly abstract beginnings, with clear links off to the 12Fold Resort, the Oneiropolis, and more. The MUCK itself was renamed to Postfurry MUCK, to reflect the broader community-based theme, and the website was launched that included a character request system.
