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Archipelago: Magma V Aqua
What is Archipelago?
Archipelago is described as a "multiworld multi-game randomizer". Multiple players can choose their own games to play (or they can all choose to play the same game separately!), and items from each player's chosen game are randomized and scattered into other players' games. The goal is to send each other items and complete the win condition for each game.For example, let's say Player A is playing Pokémon Emerald and Player B is playing Super Mario 64. Player A might pick up an item while playing Pokémon Emerald that unlocks a Power Star for Player B, which allows them to continue onto a part of the game that requires a specific number of Power Stars to access. Likewise, Player B might unlock HM Surf by completing a specific level in Super Mario 64, thus giving Player A access to more areas in Hoenn.
What is the Magma V Aqua twist?
Players will be split into their teams and each team will have their own Archipelago Multiworld, which is basically an interconnected set of games as described previously. Both teams will compete to complete all of the games in the team's Multiworld the fastest over the course of the Get-Together event.
How does your team gain points?
GT Points can be earned by assisting your team in collecting as many items in your game as possible. Some items unlock game progression, and other items are just collected to earn GT points.First Multiworld Completion - 50 Points
The first team to complete all of their chosen games will be awarded 50 points. All unclaimed items in completed games are automatically distributed, so players don't have to worry about finding every single item they can, since they'll be sent out to their respective games once the game meets its completion condition. HOWEVER, any GT Items released by game completion will NOT count towards their respective goals.Other than just completing your team Multiworld, there are special items that can be collected to earn points for your team. These GT Items have no bearing on in-game progression and do not actually unlock any items, but are purely for point-collection.
Randomly Distributed Points - 50 for each team (100 Total)
Players may find items that directly earn points for their team. Each team has a total of 50 points randomly distributed throughout all of their games.Key Chests - Pool of 100 Points distributed
Players within a team must collect a specific number of GT Keys to open a GT Chest. With each chest that gets opened, the number of keys required to open another chest increases. The first chest will require only 3 keys found, while the second chest requires 5 keys to unlock, and so on. Opening all GT Chests will give a team 100 points.Magma V Aqua Daily Battle Winner - 50 Points
You may also find GT Items that unlock Armor and Weapons for your team. Each team has the same number of Armor and Weapons to find, but they are all randomly distributed throughout all games in the team's Multiworld. Each weapon can deal damage to the opposing team at the end of the day, while armor will block that incoming damage.Example scenario:
Team Magma might find armor that blocks 20 damage. Team Aqua has a weapon that does 30 damage. Once the day ends, Team Magma will take a total of 10 damage, which lowers their team's health.
What games can be played?
Archipelago supports a massive amount of games, but for Pokémon fans, the following games are available as of writing:Pokémon Red
Pokémon Crystal (in beta)
Pokémon Emerald
Pokémon Fire Red/Leaf Green (in beta)
I encourage everyone to look at the following resources to find a game that you would like to run for this event.
https://archipelago.gg/games - Fully supported games that have been tested extensively
https://multiworld.news/apworlds.html - List of every game, including in-development beta games. Play at your own risk, as certain games may be less stable than others.
