Aloha, Weight-Gamiacs.
(I did have my fingers crossed last time.)
…It is I, The Stranger, Minecraft Guy™, and Skyrim Guy™ in training! BACK. from an approximately two thirds of a year hiatus.
Why was there a hiatus, you may ask? Well, you owe my absence to a force more powerful than angels, demons, and even o̷̤̺̾t̵̪̯͑h̵͙̭̘͂ė̴̛͍̺̩ŗ̷̤̯́̎s̷̞͗̀̾…
ANXIETY~
Yeah… the start of 2023 hadn’t really been that great for me to say the least. The skinny of it is that I planned on doing this reveal at The New Year, and the last those I’ve let in to the secret when I made this post have heard was that I was going to do this around New Years, and that was basically it until approximately one day before I posted this.
The longer I took to write this the more stress I accumulated about it, which made it even longer to write, and that was the perfect storm to make this take way, way longer to write. (More details in the “Heart to Heart” below.)
…but hey! Better late than never, eh? Speaking of angels and demons by the way…
So, what’s going on here? What is this? When is this? Where is this?
actually… now that I think about it…
where am I?..
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You (Probably)
Gameplay wise, I like to call this project an “Online Minecraft RPG Experience.”
What in the hell even is that, am I right?
Well, enter Wynncraft. If you’re too lazy to click on that link, basically what the people behind Wynncraft have done was make a Runescape like MMORPG inside of Minecraft using modded server software. Now, all this being said, Simple/Sinful does not have that grand of a scope. That is why I intentionally omit the MMO from MMORPG in Simple/Sinful’s title, but Wynncraft is the closest analogue to what I’m attempting to do.
What do I want to do then? Well, allow me to explain:
Simple/Sinful is a Minecraft server that functions as an online RPG with chat roleplaying, intact survival aspects, in-depth questlines, interesting characters, novel game mechanics (for a Minecraft server), and more!
As for it’s story, it’s basically gonna be an RPG in which it’s like our world, except the influence of the… Supernatural is a little more overt. (See what I did there?) You will be able to (depending on your choices in character creation) become a demon, or angel, and roleplay in that scenario in (at least in my opinion) an interesting take on that concept.
Also, I am currently working on a more mainstream indie game, for which this project is irrevocably connected, as it exists to answer the question of: If so-and-so and s̷̫͆o̷̬̍-̶͇̓a̷̤͋n̵͛ͅd̸̲͐-̸͚̄s̴̱̓o̵͍̓ are here, where did all the angels and demons go?..
…but that project isn’t what we’re talking about right now. Haha 
Gameplay is paramount in any game, even ones that are more story focused, so I hope to not disappoint in what I bring to the table that’s different from just your simple run-of-the-mill Minecraft server…
Here are some bullet points about some of Simple/Sinful’s gameplay. Marked in angelic gold for features already completed, or nearing completion, and marked in lean demonic purple for features with cursory work done. Sparse screenshots when applicable!
A Multiplayer Environment.
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This may be a given with the nature of the project, but this project being on Minecraft drastically boosts feasibility of a multiplayer environment through having it be a Minecraft server.
Though, that being said there will be plenty of solo gameplay mechanics for those who don’t really want to participate in any collaborative gameplay.
Did I mention the server itself is completely vanilla? You don’t have to join without any modded client at all! Though Fabric or Forge with optimization mods and Customizable Player Models are recommended for the best experience.
Multiple Worlds to Explore!
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3 RPG Worlds in which to meet interesting characters, and complete quests.
- A Town on Earth (…most likely in The US State of Nevada.)
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Sheol (…a portion of Hell.)
Pictured is Sheol. - Cloud Nine (…similarly, a portion of Heaven.)
- ~1-2 Sandbox Worlds in which you will be able to build freely, and survive much like traditional vanilla/modded Minecraft, with a very large generatable area, and custom worldgen!
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Found Your Own Town in the Sandbox Worlds, powered by The Towny Plugin.
- Join The United States (or whatever nation the sandbox world resides in) proper, or found your own independent unincorporated fiefdom.
- Be warned though, if you don’t want to pay those taxes (i’m so sorry) it’s going to be quite hard to get utilities, and items such as smartphones, or computers will be more difficult to get up and running.
- Also, the longer you are the leader an unincorporated community, the higher the chance that you will be hit with a penalty to your crime (more on this later).
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Completely Custom Blocks and Items without having to install client sided mods.
Pictured is The Hellfire Wood Executive’s Desk. Next to it is Stripped Dark Oak and Stripped Mangrove for a comparison of what the wood-type looks like.
Unique RPG Features!
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In-Depth Character Creation
- Your character will start having died, and you will have many options to choose for how you died, and these options will not only affect dialogue, but some will even give you traits.
- You can choose between two races: The Humans, and Antediluvians.
- Human: You know what a human is lol.
- Antediluvian: Basically an anthro race, for which their lore was that they were annihilated in The Great Flood.
- You can choose what time you died, as Heaven and Hell are beyond time, so you could’ve died at any time, though Antediluvians must choose Antediluvian Era. Some of these will just be for flavor and dialogue, but others will provide gameplay affecting benefits/challenges.
- Antediluvian Era: 20-40 Billion Years Ago.
- Medieval Age: 800-1,500 Years Ago.
- Gilded Age: 200-100 Years Ago.
- Pre-Modern Age 50-75 Years Ago.
- Modern Age: Contemporary Times.
- Traits will supplement the idea of perks, and provide a simple, but also complex at the same time layer to character creation. Here are a few examples:
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A Fur Affinity?
- -5%/-15%/-30% Suspicion Gain depending on form taken. (Antediluvian Exclusive)
- It turns out in recent years some humans like to dress as anthropomorphic animals… Perhaps this can come to my advantage?
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Arrogance
- When Pride and Health are above 80% +100% Knockback Resistance and +60% for all other Resistances, but when Health or Pride are below 80% -100% to all resistances.
- “I’ll let you have the first punch…”
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Fallen Angel
- -50% Innocence Gain. +25% Sin Gain. Cannot be redeemed.
- “Non Serviam. Through trials and tribulation I am assured of my place in the world.”
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Ace
- -75% Lust Gain.
- “Different strokes.”
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A Fur Affinity?
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The Sin System that replaces traditional stats with a balancing act of different Sins in which percentages activate buffs, debuffs, and different Traits.
- There will be 9 “sins” that can be increase and decrease based on multiple factors.
- Gluttony: Increases whenever you indulge in non-sexual carnal desires such as eating, using drugs, drinking alcohol, and just in general being a pleasure seeker. Decreases when eating healthy.
- Lust: Increases in scripted “sexual” scenarios in game depending on traits picked at the start. May also increase when Fun is low depending on traits. Decreases passively.
- Sloth: Increases when you sleep, spend too long idle, or take certain drugs. Decreases by being active.
- Greed: Increases when hoarding wealth. Decreases by being charitable.
- Envy: Increases during scripted scenarios, and depending on traits picked at the start. Decreases with therapy.
- Wrath: Increases when you kill things. Decreases with therapy.
- Pride: Increases during scripted scenarios, and depending on traits picked at the start. Decreases whenever you are defeated in battle.
- Innocence: Offsets the affects of Deadly Sins for angels. Increases when using angelic skills, and during certain scripted scenarios.
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- For demons, increasing the deadly sins with buff them, but this will be the opposite for angels. Angels will be able to repent for their sins in order to lessen the debuff of a particular sin, and there will be traits around this playstyle as an angel.
- For those who would miss a more traditional stats system, not all ways you gain sin are temporary. There will be items, traits, quests, and more that will permanently augment the sins much like traditional stats you see in more traditional RPGs.
- There will be 9 “sins” that can be increase and decrease based on multiple factors.
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3 More Needs that will add depth to vanilla Minecraft’s survival system, and The Sin System respectively.
- All systems will interact with each other in dynamic ways. Nothing will ever feel tacked on for the sake of difficulty, as all of these systems could not exist without the others.
- Increasing your Fun while not sinning will be moderately difficult.
- Needs will interact with each other, and different Traits. For example, a trait will exist that will allow someone to gain Fun when gaining Gluttony, and having low Hunger will make Exhaustion decrease faster, which will then affect Sanity in turn.
- In contrast to the difficulty of gaining Fun for angels, all other needs will be easier to fill, or stay filled as opposed to how it is for demons.
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Crime & Exposure system in which if you break the law, or openly tout your supernatural status in public, either police or men in black will arrest and hold you in a cell for a time determined by how much Crime or Exposure you had.
- You will be able to fight off the police, but the men in black will be much more adept at dealing with you, so if you choose to use your angelic or demonic abilities against the police, then that raises your likelihood of also being pursued by parties that are much more equipped to deal with your antics.
- Keeping down your exposure will be easy if you are in your angelic disguise (for angels), or your possessed body (for demons), but you will be severely limited in the supernatural abilities you can execute, but there will be traits and abilities specifically geared toward this gameplay.
- In the context of player to player interactions, server staff will have the authority to dole out Crime and Exposure as more soft punishments as opposed to hard punishments such as banning, or muting.
- The ability to become a Fallen Angel as an angel, or ‘Redeem’ Yourself as a demon, each with unique gameplay options.
- Joinable factions on Earth that will have their own faction questlines. More info on this later on in this post.
The Forms System
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- You will have three forms, your human form (that will either in lore be a human you’re possessing as a demon, or an angelic disguise for an angel), your normal demonic/angelic form, and your “Unfettered” form which is a DBZ-esque transformation that you will unlock in the mid-game after some gameplay.
- Dynamically have your appearance change based on sin.
- Based on your sin, you will be able to predefine CPM models that automatically switch based on your sin percentages. For example, you could set it so that at 30% Gluttony you switch to another model, and then at 50% to another, etc. You will have a limited number of slots, and it works on a priority system. In example, if you wanted to make Gluttony prioritize anything you had set for Lust to do, you’d make it be form slot number 1, as it would prioritize. It isn’t like a morph, but actually switching your old model out for a new one and vise versa on the fly.
- Because of it not being a morph, it will be difficult for some to make their own models to fit within this system, but that is what my suite will be for! I also will be offering my Minecraft modeling expertise to people in exchange for their help with Simple/Sinful, but this will happen later.
- You will be able to choose any of The Seven Deadly Sins, and Innocence, with only m̷̦̆̉ạ̷̧̘̉̈̽͐r̷̹̲̎̑́k̸̡̫̥͕̲̈́͆͑ͅę̸͍͍̌͂̑̎̕͠d̶͇̰̮̾ being the exception.
- This system allows any kink with “progression” to be utilized with this system, even if I didn’t intend it.
- Your Normal and Human forms will have their own separate dynamic form changes, but Unfettered will have only one appearance that you can customize.
Starting off, your player character will be dead.
Credits roll…
…and be sent to purgatory temporarily to be judged. Depending on your choices in character creation, you will either go to Heaven, or Hell. Unfortunately for fence sitters out there there will be no in-between option, but depending on your actions, overtures can be made to either side during specific questlines.
Beyond that restriction, you’re basically set loose. The only goals initially are to survive and thrive, much like normal Minecraft, except within Simple/Sinful’s RPG framework. You’re not some kind of prophesized messiah, or really anyone notable beyond what choices you have in character creation, and in the world itself. It’s up to you to shape your destiny in this world with the decisions you make.
…and while I could continue to go on and on about what choices I’m going to let you have (for which I haven’t plotted out much), but I think I would be amiss if I didn’t tell you about the world, or the characters, as any open-ended RPG such as this would absolutely fall apart without them!
As time goes on, the stuff in these collapsible entries will serve more as a “greatest hits” of Simple/Sinful’s universe, and less all-encompassing as time goes on. Though fear not! As I have plans for a wiki-like solution for all matters related to Simple/Sinful’s universe. For now, however, all publicly accessible data beyond The Simple/Sinful Soundcloud is here in this post. If you don’t care for this sort of thing, feel free to keep scrolling, as needing to have an encyclopedic knowledge of a universe before playing a game would be kinda stupid. This is just here to give people an idea of what they are getting themselves into lore wise.
World
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Simple/Sinful’s universe is an amalgam of Abrahamic religious beliefs, with an emphasis on the interesting, and exposing some more unknown concepts in these religions like Biblical Apocrypha (specifically the Book of Giants and The Gospel of Judas), Kabbalah, and early Christian beliefs such as Gnosticism. I also want to touch on obscure and/or fun demonology and angelology, new age occultism, and more obscure things you might not initially think to blend together.
That being said, I think expounding upon that would be more like a religious studies class than actually explaining what I’m bringing to the table worldbuilding wise, so what I’m going to be listing here are things that are unique to Simple/Sinful’s world.
So:
- Simple/Sinful’s universe is partially Alternate History based. That is to say, in Simple/Sinful’s world a couple of notable historical events in the 20th century changed. Not enough to make our modern world today unimaginable or hard for your average person to follow, but enough that there is intrigue behind what exactly has changed. (Beyond some of the hints I’ve given you guys here.
) - Heaven and Hell are actual physical places that require physical maintenance and upkeep to keep working. Some quests will actually be centered around this concept.
- While Heaven is still a physical place, it is much more mystical and bizarre than Hell is with many creatures, sights, and sounds beyond your comprehension. This is juxtaposed by the lower angels (such as yourself) needing to use things as mundane as public transport to get around in this massive realm.
- Imagine Hell like Earth in a fun house mirror. All of it’s little imperfections blown up to ridiculous proportions. Everything is notched up to 11.
Characters
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These are mostly just The Deadly Sins right now since they’re the only ones with 2D art done. The Deadly Sins aren’t really “manifestations” of their sin as much as appointed based on being the most sinful in all of Hell. They don’t have any special powers by default and are basically just celebrities in Hell.
Jezebel
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Deadly Sin: gluttony
Jezebel is a pretty old Deadly Sin, but unlike Mammon or Lilith is actually not the first Deadly Sin of Gluttony despite her age. That honor goes to Behemoth, an Antediluvian that rose to the position before Jezebel fell.
Jezebel originally didn’t really want any kind of special position, but after her gluttony started to quite literally become legendary, and since Hell is a true meritocracy when it came to who were considered THE Deadly Sins, a competition was held to determine who truly was the most gluttonous. Behemoth and Jezebel would participate in an eating competition to determine who truly was the most gluttonous. Behemoth was eager to prove himself, and Jezebel was just happy to have free food. Many thoughts Behemoth would win due to him being literally nearly 10 times her size (bulk not included), but after they each went neck at neck for nearly 2,000 rounds, the 2,001st seemed to be too much for poor Behemoth, and he would explode, leaving no trace of the Antediluvian for people to find. Jezebel would have mourned, but she still wanted to continue the contest. No one knows exactly how much Jezebel are before she was satisfied that day, but the only thing that is known as that it was less than the day after that, and so on.
Jezebel, being a former Cherubim, has the ability to radically change her physical form to her whim, and suppress elements of her “Unfettered” form so that her appearance is more pleasant, but she has seemingly only used this angelic ability to hide the true breadth of her physical form. Estimates are impossible to gauge, but Lucifer bars Jezebel from using her Unfettered form for fear that the entirety of Hell itself would be crushed under her. His fears are not unfounded.
Despite her initially seeming quite absent-minded, it has been noted that there is more inside Jezebel than meets the eye…
…or maybe that’s just her lunch? Who’s to say.
Lilith
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Favorite Ice Cream Flavor: Mint Chocolate Chip
Deadly Sin: Lust~
Lilith is the oldest Deadly Sin, being there from the moment Lucifer fell, to the present. She was originally a Seraphim, Heaven’s highest pedigree of warriors, but very early on was disillusioned with Heavenly ideals much like Lucifer was, and following his example she followed him to Hell after his failed insurrection against The Kingdom of Heaven.
Lilith in time lost her edge as a warrior, but she replaced this acumen with another of a… carnal variety. It was this shift in it of itself that inspired Lucifer to create the idea of The Deadly Sin. He saw that after many fallen angels fell, they filled the hole their holiness previously had filled (try saying that five times fast) by indulging in 7 different unique ways. He called these The Deadly Sins, and held intermittent competitions to determine who indulged the most in each of his 7 Deadly Sins. He held Lilith as the prime example of one devoted to Lust, and she accepted the label with pride.
In contemporary times Lilith uses her time and influence to promote body, and sex positivity, for which she sees as natural extensions of Lucifer’s ideology. To Lilith, Lust is not just a carnal urge, but something more.
Mammon
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Deadly Sin: GR€€D!
Mammon is the undisputed king of commerce in Hell, operating all over, but mostly in New Sodom, and New Gomorrah.
He is a pretty old Deadly Sin, but is one of the most disloyal. In the not-so-distant past, Mammon tried to take the throne of hell from Lucifer. Even with all his trickery, Lucifer had no trouble completely tearing him apart limb from limb. Lucifer’s punishment to Mammon was to not allow him to regenerate a new body, and he just had to stitch together his old one using very rudimentary cybernetics. Lucifer would have killed him, but even he admits he is a bit too merciful for his own good. As soon as Mammon stitched himself back together, he was allowed to keep his post.
Some believe he is still scheming, and… yes. Of course he is! Lucifer just enjoys his work, and is confident whatever Mammon is cooking up is something he can deal with.
“THE ONE AND ONLY SUPER SALE” has been a promotion Mammon has been running for the past 20,000 years or so, though is truly one of a kind in the sheer quantity of products offered to denizens of Hell, but almost every product has the distinction of… not being worth the money at all. Regardless, though, Mammon lives to hawk his merchandise, and should you find yourself needing the cheapest crap imaginable, or… maybe if you want to join him, Mammon always has what you “need”…
“Faust”
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Favorite Ice Cream Flavor: GAIA!? IS THAT YOU!?
Deadly Sin: Envẏ̶̲?̷̧̮͉͑̀͜ͅ
“Faust” is a largely mysterious figure who died relatively recently (at least by demon standards). For starters, “Faust” isn’t even his real name. No one, including himself, can remember his real name. Faust is just a nickname given to him by the other demons due to the nature of how he was sent to hell. In the early 1970s when he died, he sold his soul to Mephisto for a glimpse of the future, and whenever he saw it, he completely lost whatever sanity he had left. Now all he can talk about is this person named “Gaia”, for which he can’t give very many details about before completely breaking down.
The prevailing theory is that something horrible happens in the future, but when people have asked Faust about this theory, he has become particularly violent, so people sort of try and avoid the subject of this “Gaia”, and Faust himself all together if they can help it.
That being said, Faust and Mammon of all people have forged a friendship(?) of sorts. Mammon claims to know what Faust is talking about, and has sold him many products he claims will “bring him closer to Gaia”.
Faust is The Deadly Sin of Envy, and is unequivocally the most envious soul to fill the role. Some people believe this is due to his longing for this “Gaia” person, others believe it’s just because of how pathetic he is, but you’re free to make your own determination about that, because Faust is, and likely will remain an enigma.
Quests
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- On Earth, there will be major factions for which you will be able to do quests for, and depending on the faction, eventually join.
- For angels only, there will be The Illuminated. They are a secret society that influences the highest levels of society. You will be able to explore their Grand Lodges, learn their ancient secrets, and with a illusive but firm hand you can change the fate of the world.
- For demons only, there will be The Syndicate, a non-partisan group seeking to unite all labor unions on the west coast. Participate in covert operations in the name of freedom and solidarity. You can also just blow shit up and break things, if that is your cup of tea.
- There are greater forces at work in this world than can be seen with the naked eye. Only now have the governments of the world caught on to this fact, and they are looking to put an end to supernatural meddling in their affairs. Join The CIA (and perhaps other country’s intelligence agencies down the line) either to help them with this goal, or to sabotage their efforts.
- I have plans for an Anonymous-esque hacker collective as a joinable faction, though not much else planned besides that for now.
- Technocrats Inc. is a multi-national corporation with some of the world’s brightest minds in it’s ranks. Join them to get access to experimental technology, and advance your own knowledge.
- I DO HEREBY AGREE to enter into employment with the ████████████ and, being of sound mind, do fully realize and agree to abide by its purpose which is to get ETHICS IN on this PLANET AND UNIVERSE and, fully and without reservation, subscribe to the discipline, mores and conditions of this group and pledge to abide by them.
THEREFORE, I CONTRACT MYSELF TO THE ████████████ FOR THE NEXT BILLION YEARS.
- There will be a lot of independent side-quests as well. Some ideas of mine being:
- Helping a whacky madam with her business, or turning her in to the authorities.
- Help an off-the-grid biker gang in the desert, or screw them over.
- The local church has a wrathful pastor. There will be multiple candidates there to replace him, you could just keep him in place, or get someone e̴̺͋v̷̫̈́ẻ̶̮ṅ̶͈ w̷̝̹̝̯̅͌̅̕o̷̦͔̠̩̿̅̑̀r̸͎͜͝s̵̺͎̜̓̆̊̒͘e̸̻̣̣͑̚ͅ.
While sights and sounds aren’t everything, no one can say that they don’t help! Simple/Sinful is going to have (in my opinion) respectable ass-ets that swings above it’s… weight-class…
First off, I want all of you to take a gander at some of the wonderful art my good friend and equally wonderful artist Gilbert has made! He handles (for right now) all 2D art for Simple/Sinful, and helps with 99% of concept art.
These are mostly just for reference more than anything, but I think it gives you a good idea of my art direction for Simple/Sinful and beyond.
The only thing Gilbert gave me to plug was his NSFW Twitter, but he said that it’s more just for him to retweet other NSFW artists rather than actually posting much of his art, but it’s there. Just keep in mind Gilbert isn’t actually a fat fetish artist, he’s just my bud and similar to all of us appreciates the wEiRd, so just make sure not to go there with false expectations.
Next up are some of Simple/Sinful’s in-game assets, which are all made by your’s truly.
Also, here’s a Hippo Cow from Avatar: The Last Airbender.
It isn’t related to Simple/Sinful but I’m proud of my texture work here, so I’m forcing you to look at it.
You’re welcome. Also, the other secret song is in the Heart to Heart if you didn’t read it.
Next up, are the sounds in the “sights and sounds” I mentioned before!
For all (subjectively) funky beats, head on down to our now public Soundcloud page!
https://soundcloud.com/simple-sinful
All music is made by me, and these tracks are some of the ones I’m most proud of for Simple/Sinful. More will definitely come in the future, so stay tuned if you like this sort of thing!
