Unity Vix (World Guide, Biogel Game) (Patreon)

Unity Vix

Unity Vix is a free, VixNet members-only MMORPG with the potential for real world consequences. While most players explore the gelipocalyptic world in peril-free fashion, anyone who plays while in contact with a VixNet connected mass of biogel, or while wearing a biogel suit, is at very real risk of experiencing the game’s glistening black perils first hand.

Unity Vix is set in a distant, isolated colony where the colonists must struggle to survive and build their homesteads into something passably resembling the sort of home they’d otherwise be enjoying if they weren’t stuck out in the boonies with no way home. Those who accept the perils presented by real world biogel have certain advantages while they do so, largely involving the lack of personal resource consumption associated with things like food, water, and the need to deal with body wastes. They also have the ability to earn or acquire all sorts of biogel systems and accessories While homesteads are protected zones where rival players aren’t able to cause each other any trouble, the wilds are hazardous places where players are free to mess with one another. While they can’t attack one another, they can use various nefarious means to lure, trap, or otherwise cause a rival to encounter one of the many perils which fill the world, and make it a particularly hazardous place for real world ‘biojellers’.

Numerous monsters and aliens can be found in the Unity Vix wilds, and many can trigger the real world transformation of a biojeller. Be it a body-mod, a total transformation, or even a biogel liquefaction, there is nothing a biojeller can do to prevent it once the triggering event takes place. Aliens such as rowa and von’kir, and monsters such as the jagfly will generally trigger body-mods into forms similar to, but not quite completely their real-world counterparts. Aveyka caravans are likely to have items or traps which cause full transformation into a gummy or object. Creatures which ‘eat’ the biojeller will cause liquefaction into a gooey.

Body mod effects translate directly into the game. Some have little more than a cosmetic effect, while others might well restrict or enhance abilities depending on the circumstances. Some die-hard biojellers have even been known to deliberately seek out certain body-mods in game just for their stat bonuses.

Homesteads abandoned by fully transformed or liquefied biojellers can be looted for various biogel tech which can be salvaged for valuable items and crafting components. A biojeller who loots another biojeller’s homestead can make use of the acquired items as they are rather than salvaging them, if they so choose.

The eventual goal of Unity Vix is to either build one’s homestead into a resource gathering powerhouse and advance through the local hierarchy, or to accumulate enough wealth to escape back to the heart of civilization.

For biojellies, the eventual goal is to fill the whole world with other biojellies. Biojellies can use their in-game wealth to send voichers to other players, redeemable for a biogel suit starter kit, and a VixNet CamBox. If the initially targeted player turns it down, or doesn’t act on it in three days, it will be sent to another random player who happens to be nearby. If that player refuses, it will go on to another, and so-on, until someone eventually accepts.

Only VixNet members can play Unity Vix, but the real world consequences which might occur to biojellers are not always limited to their own bodies. Anyone else who might be touching the same mass of biogel, or touching a suited biojeller, will suffer the same effect along with the intended target. This can turn into a game in and of itself, and on occasion a declaration of particular affection via willingness to risk it all to share in whatever fate their Unity Vix biojeller might encounter as they play.