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World Of Leah - Story and Lore Guide (Outdated)
🕑 Added 2021-02-07 19:44:39 +0000 UTCForeword: Over the years, a lot has changed. The story is now being told mainly through the albums and less through social media anymore. So lots of info in this guide is out to date but still applicable to older content. (2020-2022) For that sake, I'm leaving this guide up.
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While you probably know about this worlds naughty side, here you'll learn more about it's tamer side - as I created the World Of Leah not only to post naughty albums but to actually bring the illusion of an alternative reality to life in which my characters live and breathe in!
The Location & Map
The main story of the World Of Leah plays in the fictional town of Heirwood Falls in California. Choosing California as the main location was a decision I made based on multiple factors - mainly being that it's a very popular place in current pop culture and that seasons don't have too much of an impact on the landscape which makes it easier to use the same environment assets or HDRI's of locations which will most likely only be made for one season. It's also mostly sunny and I like sunny.
Heirwood Falls is a mid-sized college town on the Californian coast that has a lot of variety to offer. It features a lot of recreational areas like a bowling alley, a gym, an ice cream parlor, multiple Cafés, a night club and many more areas which the characters can visit. This also includes other points of interests, rural places, parks and services like a barber shop or a dental clinic. Enough places to make this story as real and diversified as possible!
While only fictional, Heirwood Falls is based off a real town on the Californian coast and internally I use a google maps overlay to put down places of interest as this really helps to boost my creativity when planning out future story events. While not available for the public just yet, I made a screenshot so you know how it looks like: https://i.imgur.com/yibR2Vi.png
This is a zoomed in version of the town, but there are many more POI's (Points of interest) in the surrounding areas. I might make the map explorable for the public eventually but right now it's too early of a work in progress as the map keeps changing and expanding.
The Characters
The characters are certainly what I'm most proud of. All of them have deep personality traits and life goals. This ranges from background info about their parents, where and how they grew up to what their goals are, who they are friends with, what they major in college, and so much more details. These background info's are only disclosed bit by bit to always keep some sort of intrigue about the characters live. These details are either explained by their social media posts, dialogues they have in story albums or by asking them directly.
So there is not only one story which is moving forward, but each character has their own storyline that they go through. Eventually the characters will age, graduate and move on in life as that opens up new story opportunities in the future. New characters will also be introduced occasionally - but I'll make sure that each new character has an actual purpose and does not just exist to look pretty.
Social Media Presence
The key feature that creates the illusion of the characters coming to live is their social media presence. They all have their own Twitter accounts and each of them can be interacted with. You can shoot them messages or comment under their posts and you may get a response!
Granted, not every message or comment will be answered as the characters might not be interested in chatting all the time, just like in real life all of them have (simulated) lives and are not always available or up for talks, but there will always be occasions in which they do, which offers a lot of roleplay potential. However, be aware that these characters will never act out of roleplay. If you're trying to talk outside the meta to them, they won't understand and ignore. That also goes for things that you know, but technically couldn't know if you'd be living in their world.
When characters have personal chats with each other, they post them on Twitter directly (Example) - these messages are however meant to be private and are only posted on Twitter so you guys can read them - but the characters don't know about anyone reading these chats so keep any info you gathered from these chats to yourself, should you engage in any roleplay.
Also be mindful of what you talk to them about. Some of the girls will be more open to talk about sexual things than others, some of them will be more likely to respond than others, some will be nicer than others - and so on. These behaviors will fully depend on their personalities and how you talk to them.
Interacting with them or just following them, observing what they post and how they interact with each other on social media will give you a good idea on who they are and what they are like.
I intentionally avoid plain character descriptions to introduce you to them because you have to get to know them as a person yourself - the same way you'd do your research on a real person on Twitter who you'd want to get to know better.
The Timeline
Another important topic is the timeline of this alternative reality. When exactly did an album that came out happened in the timeline? Do the time-stamps in social media posts represent the actual time they talked?
The timeline is always linked to the real world in a semi-accurate way. Meaning all albums, social media posts or anything else you see, has happened in the story the same day it was officially posted. (The Follower/Supporter release of an album is always to go by and will be posted the day it happened in the World Of Leah)
Social media posts are also posted the same day they happened in story - but the timing will be off. Given the Californian timezone is 9 hours behind my real timezone, I unfortunately can't accurately post the social media posts the exact same time they happened in the story. I have tried but it's far too inconvenient as I'm asleep most times they'd post something. Instead these social media posts are quite loose in the time of day - only the day is the same. While not 100% accurate, the time-stamps in the messages are more to be trusted!
The Community and an announcement!
On our Discord server for Patrons, you'll find a couple of chat channels dedicated to lore-talk and discussions.
However - I'm also happy to announce that a new publicly available Discord server just launched - made by the community, for the community - which will focus on community driven discussion, speculation and general talk about the story and lore behind the World Of Leah and will also create an opportunity for people to roleplay their own characters inside this world.
While I own this server for legal reasons, two very avid members of our community had the idea for this server and are in full charge! Meaning I'll not actively participate in any moderation (only in emergencies) or discussions - however, will occasionally be available for lore-related questions if some need answering.
Join the Lore-Server via this link and say hello: https://discord.gg/xRuuMQ7cMP
If you simply want to follow the story on social media, you can find and follow all characters on Twitter via this list: https://twitter.com/i/lists/1317903475716620290 (You can click on "Members" to view their individual accounts)
If you're a Patron, you also get all pictures posted in social media in a 4k version here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/link-to-all-pics-41526184 (older archive pics might not be all in 4k)
I hope this guide was helpful and if you find something else you'd like to know more about, let me know in the comments so I can keep this post up-to-date!
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