New Player Advice

### Experience of Unreality Testing

1) On a day when month and date number match (1/1, 2/2, ... 12/12), join the Experience of Unreality Discord server. If you don't know where to find the Discord link, ask a System (Hand is your best bet, though Eye would probably give it to you as well).

2) Choose a Player Number and ask politely for it to be granted to you for the duration of the test.

3) Wait until the third and final day to declare your intent to test one of the following categories:

#### Body Testing

Body testing is the easiest kind of test. Hand will describe to you how you wake up in a Body that is not your own. Pretend to be the soul that Body normally belongs to--or don't--but try to gather as much information as you can in the limited time an Experience Test lasts.

#### Manifestation Testing

Not recommended for the new player. White Rooms are not intuitive, nor are Manifestations. However, the ability to do anything in the White Room that you can imagine is pretty entertaining.

#### Unreality Testing

Visit one of the 13 Unrealities in a nondescript Body. Unrealities range from "you can die here" to "you can't breathe here," so make sure to carefully read the current explanation of each of the Unrealities before taking the plunge.

#### Common Dangers

1) Abductors: If you're doing a Body test, *do not notice in the Discord chat that anything is weird or wrong.* While occasionally Hand misspeaks, it's normally an Abductor trying to drag you to Unreality. If you are Abducted, your test will end. While we want to get Abducted in the actual Experience, getting Abducted does not tend to garner any new and useful information; rather, it tends to give Hand license to relay some lovely body horror!

2) Natives: If you're in an Unreality, the creatures that live there more often than not are happy to kill you. Even if they look human, they probably aren't. Don't antagonize the Natives, but give them a wide berth lest they eat you.

3) Normal human problems: In Body testing, your Body can be arrested, involuntarily committed, murdered, injured, etc. Take all normal precautions. Make sure to secure means of transportation, means of communication, and means of payment.

4) Abnormal human problems: Unrealities do not make sense. The White Room is not a real place. The Reality Body testing happens in contains persons that do not mesh with your understanding of physics or human psychology. There's a weird statue in a warzone of a former government building in Arkansas that we can't stop making SCP-173 jokes about. If it's weirder than normal reality, tread carefully.

#### Proper Post-Test Etiquette

After a week-long test (or if yours ends early because you died or were Abducted), please:

1) make sure there is a backup copy of your test logs

2) create a brief summary or update the current summary of the thing you were testing

3) thank Hand (and maybe Eye) for the experience.

### Beginning the Experience of Unreality

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#### The Diagnostic

Everyone will need to take the Diagnostic before the Experience of Unreality begins. The Diagnostic is a simple series of 11 questions, the last perhaps being the most important. The last question's answers, collectively, will determine the effects of the Thin Dagger Artifact. The other 10 questions will determine your Parameters upon starting the Experience.

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