Peripeteia is an open-ended adult university relationship sandbox. Its content should produce recurring social life rather than a sequence of romance routes. Every addition needs at least one ordinary use, one source of pressure, and one way it can change a relationship.
The central design commitments are:
- No route endings. Milestones alter state and open new situations; they do not retire a character.
- Slow bonds. Routine approval never becomes durable Bond. Only remembered events move the −100 to +100 scale.
- Plural attraction. Romantic, sexual, sensual, aesthetic, platonic, emotional, intellectual, and soul/fate attraction remain separate.
- Independent adults. Every romantic or sexual participant is at least twenty-one and has commitments, boundaries, tastes, and goals beyond the player.
- Open casting without automatic availability. Eventual romanceable non-player characters are adapted as pansexual/panromantic so player gender never locks a route. Desire, sexual interest, tempo, agreements, and compatibility remain individual.
- Consequences without moral scorekeeping. Seduction, deception, rivalry, blackmail, and betrayal may exist. They change trust, fear, leverage, reputation, and future choices; they do not secretly award romance points.
- Continuity as a feature. Important changes are written to state files so later scenes can honor them.
The university form is deliberately broad. It supports lectures and assignments, but also research institutes, clinics, expeditions, workshops, performances, worship, employment, activism, housing, shops, parks, and nightlife. Avoid reproducing a boarding-school atmosphere: students are adults, staff relationships involve real power considerations, and campus life connects to a larger city and seven realms.
Greek tragic vocabulary gives the institution a shared symbolic language—peripeteia for reversal, anagnorisis for recognition, hamartia for the consequential flaw, catharsis for release, chorus for public witness, and moirai for fate. Use these terms as cultural texture rather than turning every story into a doomed tragedy. Mayuki founded the Collegium to create places where fate could be studied, contested, and rewritten through encounter.