Changeling

What you need to remember is, Entzweite Erinnerungen was here before you were, and it'll be here after. Nobody knows how old the Freehold is; we don't call it Broken Memories for fun. Nobody remembers before the '50s at all, and half the new people haven't even heard of the Night of the Lost yet. What we don't remember can hurt us, and it will, just like if you're stupid enough to let it the Danube will drag you down.

The Courts are broken. Spring and Summer try to put their houses back in order, and slip back to infighting every time they seem to be on the verge of success; Autumn and Winter hold the reins, and drive people to live scattered and separated and afraid, either to hold off another hammerblow like the Night or just to keep hold of power themselves. Hobgoblins and Hedge-things intrude into the center of the city. The Gentry steal people right out of the Goblin Market. They might have help from inside the freehold. Or we might be so fractured that they don't need the help anymore. We don't know. We don't know anything. And that's what can hurt us most of all.

• Team Lead Mab
• Assistant Lead Visceral (Temporary), Position Available
• Admin Sedna
• Storyteller Circe, Kaninchen

• House Rules: Adaptations and changes made to better accommodate the Changeling game in a MUSH environment.
• Books: A specific breakdown of what is and is not approved within each of the Changeling: the Lost books.
• Goblin Fruits: A list of sundry fruits and oddments that may be found in the Hedge.
• Commands: The MUSH coders have given us a number of very helpful commands on the game, allowing Changelings to take advantage of their powers.
• FAQ: Answers to other frequently asked questions.

The Devil's Due

The handing of the Crown from Spring to Summer proved eventful, not only because [Konrad] challenged the reigning king [Jeder] for leadership of the court, but because soon thereafter the whole event was beset by enormous shadow bears bent on eating the attendees. In the end, the bears were defeated handily by the changelings, but during the course of the impromptu battle the mad dowager Queen of Spring, Niamh, was apparently kidnapped. Gossip about the freehold says that this is in some way connected to the infamous Night of Iron Knives, which also happened on the eve of Summer turning to Spring. Some say the parties involved left a note. A number of Summers went through the door that the bears came out of into the hedge. [Jeder], [Amaranth], [Jackson] and [Gunther] all rushed off to check on Niamh. Quite a few people had been seen visiting the invalid queen during the weeks and months beforehand too. Like [Josef], who’s charity received a mysterious unmarked letter asking him to grant her last dying wish, even though there was no indication she was ill beyond the obvious. Did they sense some hint of danger, or did they have other reasons for seeking out the now missing Niamh?

Questions to: Kaninchen

The Black Pieces

What began as a few isolated skirmishes with a strange assortment of chess-themed hobgoblins and changelings in the hedge soon turned into a full-fledged battle. After harrying a group of these creatures during Autumn’s Hunt of Leaves, it soon became apparent that there was not merely one army, but sixteen of the: one for each side’s chess piece on a board. After being forewarned by a group of hobgoblins who a roving army had attempted to press into service, Vienna’s lost laid a counter-ambush for them just outside Rabeneck. The battle was a complete route on the side of the changelings, with two of the sixteen armies either destroyed or disbursed. Of the prisoners taken, the Kings and Queens of the Pawn and Knight armies have chosen to remain in Vienna, claiming to remember little to nothing of before they were taken. One bishop was executed beneath Rabeneck’s great ash tree, his spilled blood breathing new life into it. But since the battle of Rabeneck, the rest of the Army has proved elusive. Word has come that the same armies have all but sacked Prague and the outpost of the Margravate of the Brim, but not a trace has been seen of them lately in Vienna’s hedge. Could it be that they’ve given up, or are they merely biding their time?

Questions to: Kaninchen

All Aboard!

A new train line seems to have arrived at the Station to Nowhere. Considering where it’s likely to have arrived from, the general feeling is that this cannot be a good thing.

Questions to: Clover Warning: Participation in this plot could pose significant danger your character

And More!

As if that weren’t enough, other things seem to be afoot in Vienna. Isabella noted a strange presence in her bakery late one night that retreated to a dark closet and left it smelling of marsh and bog. The ‘Make a Wish’ charity that Josef received a letter asking him to answer a dying woman’s request, and led him to the mad former Queen of Spring, Nimah. Strange little footprints in the snow outside Amaranth’s window led her to a door but not to answers. Are these things merely isolated incidents, or is there some connection here that has yet to come to light?

Questions to: Kaninchen

• An Encyclopedia of Sphere NPCs

Presently, the Changeling sphere is CLOSED for new applications. See +bbread 1 in game for details.

The following topics may provide additional information for someone looking to join the Changeling sphere:

• Application: A guide to creating your Changeling for Vienna, including sphere requirements, background hints, concept guidelines, and currently offered XP incentives.
• Concepts: A list of underrepresented concepts which qualify for additional Concept XP in chargen.

None of the freehold’s former powers remain intact: Nimah, the mad Queen of Spring replaced more than a year ago, while Summer’s old monarchs are either dead, in the case of the secret Loyalist Der Erhabene, or having wandered off into the hedge as happened with Tolltaker Cazador. Fittingly, Winter and Autumn fell as one, as Het Witte Meisje, Winter’s seemingly unassailable string-puller having been slain by an unknown foe on the same day that the Autumn crown went to someone other than the famed and reclusive Black Scarecrow. On the face of things, it would seem like a new beginning, but recent events make it seem as if old enemies have returned to plague Entweite Erinnerugen.

• History: The history of the Freehold in the city
• Entzweite Erinnerungen: The Freehold of Vienna
• Courts: The situation of the individual courts in Vienna
• Hedge: The nature of Vienna's hedge
• Motleys: The City's Motleys, past and present
• Neighbors: The Freeholds of neighboring cities and their ties to Vienna
• Sphere RP Hooks: RP Hooks between the various characters in Vienna.