Introduction
Overview
Dissidia: Final Fantasy takes it's name and theme basis from the 2009 action/fighting/RPG hybrid game for the Playstation Portable. Using the base world and actions of the game as a long-forgotten, legendary history, the MUSH builds it's own world and theme, drawing inspiration from many Final Fantasy games, but not setting any specific part of them in the MUSH. You won't have had to have played a previous Final Fantasy game, or even the PSP Dissidia game, but they'll help in getting in-jokes and easter eggs.
Mood
The mood we strive to create on Dissidia: Final Fantasy MUSH is one of a fantasy world, full of adventure, with undiscovered treasure and action just beyond the horizon. This adventure is set against the backdrop of the never-ending war between the minions of Chaos, the God of Discord, who seek to destabilize Dissidia and the warriors of Cosmos, the Goddess of Harmony, who seek to thwart Chaos' legions at every turn. Play as a heroic Paladin or a Thief — er, 'Treasure Hunter,' seeking out his fortune, or a monstrous Goblin, Yellow Jelly or Great Malboro, seeking to devastate the Tribes and return the world to Chaos' control.
Theme
The world of Dissidia has existed for untold millennia, the battleground of the endless war between Chaos, God of Discord and Cosmos, Goddess of Harmony. A never-ending cycle brought them into conflict again, and again. Until the last God War; something, then, broke the cycle, or so the legends say. The eleven Warriors of Destruction, and their dark master, were defeated by the eleven Warriors of Order. And in the aftermath of this, the world of Dissidia grew, from a battleground into a full-fledged world of it's own, drawing its essence from the Crystals that each Warrior sought in the God War. Now, Dissidia thrives on it's own, without the Gods' direct interference, but their hands are still felt throughout the world: Fiends and people with ill intent prey upon the world, seeking to disrupt the Balance from the last God War as the Chaos Legion. The Legion seeks to uncover the Crystal of Harmonic Dissonance; however, the forces of discord are held back by those of good intent, the Order of Harmony, while the world continues to grow and exist all around them. For if Chaos were to take possession of the Crystal, it would devastate the Balance and finish Chaos' original goal: the destruction of Dissidia and all of it's sibling worlds.
For the traditional disclaimer and copyright information, see 'news disclaimer.' For the complete timeline, see 'news history.'
Disclaimer
Dissidia: Final Fantasy MUSH is a small, non-profit organization run by a group of fans of the Final Fantasy series of video games. The MUSH was created as a venue for roleplaying out situations within the Final Fantasy genre.
All Final Fantasy-related copyrights are Square-Enix. All characters, themes, and related topics appearing in this game fall under that copyright. Dissidia: Final Fantasy MUSH does not present any challenge to those copyrights, and claims the right to use these works under the doctrine of Fair Use (a copy of which can be found at: http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl102.html). All artwork is copyrighted their creator, such as Nomura Tetsuya, Amano Yoshitaka and others.
Any code not written by the staff will be given full credit to the creator, but does become the MUSH's property for use when donated.
For best viewing, it is recommended you go into your MUSH client settings and enable the italics, bold and underlining for your font. In MUSHclient,
these things should be under the Game/Appearance tab.
For information on the role-playing game system that Dissidia: Final Fantasy MUSH uses for conflict resolution, please see News System, below.
Staff
Staff on Dissidia: Final Fantasy MUSH is very small, and everyone wears a lot of hats. This is in an effort to promote communication amongst the admin, and make things run more cohesively, effectively and ultimately, more smoothly. You can see the staffers online by typing +admin while connected to the MUSH. Staff will have their position, idle and connect time, and bit visible.
Cosmos is the director and head coder, and has handled most of the MUSH development process. Cosmos tends to be connected in the evenings, after 5 or 6pm Eastern time, except on Wednesdays and every-other-Saturday.
System
The system used for conflict resolution (combat, magic, and other) is based on the Super Console tabletop RPG system, published by Valent Games, and it's expansion, Monster Mash. Use of this is permitted by the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commericial, located here:
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/
Super Console, and it's expansion Monster Mash, can be found at the links below, placed there by the publisher, Colin Fredericks of Valent Games. Sharing of these links is also listed under the CC Attribution Non-Commerical license, as above. The links are as follows:
- Super Console: http://www.scribd.com/doc/15893432/Super-Console
- Monster Mash: http://www.scribd.com/doc/15893807/Monster-Mash
While the books are freely available, there are some changes being made by the staff of Dissidia: Final Fantasy MUSH (IE: creation of equipment, adding some missing Classes, such as Paladin) and removal of some Classes we find unneccessary (such as Adventurer). Additionally, Monster Mash is being used in it's standard setup, but with Final Fantasy-specific monster families (and their upgrades) rather than those listed specifically in Monster Mash.
