It’s been awhile since I’ve done one of these.. More of a monthly roundup than weekly.

WAGDIE?

For the uninformed and mostly curious..

WAGDIE is interactive story-telling, across multiple mediums, both on chain and off, with a community of active creators and builders. It originally started in June 2022 as a free mint, cc0 project with no website and mint directly from The Contract.

In the beginning, the story was told through twitter posts, audio drops, and twitter spaces with voice actors and rich lore. Participation from the community was limited to attendance, interactions with twitter posts, & WAGDIE characters being sent to the “burn address” aka dead wallet by both the team and community. Which originally captured the NFT Community’s full-attention when WAGDIE hosted a sacrificial burning of MAYC#20438.

But WAGDIE is more than burning NFTs..

WAGDIE has its’ own website, complete with character profile sheets akin to DND Character Sheets and hints of future Token Searing and Location Staking mechanics. Travelers with a WAGDIE in their wallet can connect to the website and update their character sheets and stats.

The community of active builders and creators has contributed to the participation experience through community made websites. One of which is Wagdie.net where users can burn through the dapp, track burn leaderboard, recover soul tokens for slain characters, and even purchase items for Questing/Tournament events through an interactive shop!

There’s also a community treasury, initially established with ~$170K USD, under a decentralized-governance, known as the Conclave. Complete with 6 Conclave Representatives voted in every 6 weeks (currently on its’ 2nd Term) through public discourse & snapshot voting. 8 Proposals have been passed thus far, empowering community builders with further tools & resources to continue building out dope shit.

Eliminating Friction

The biggest obstacle for WAGDIE (and any project trying to deliver an ongoing Saga with interactive participation) is the overwhelming feeling of not being able to keep up, missing out, and overall feeling it’s too late to fully be part of the experience.

Since the initial formation of the community, @kingoffling & others have been doing their best to keep Travelers informed with a Wiki. Initially a very deep-dive into everything lore, has now evolved into offering an Intro to WAGDIE, A Story Summary, Key Info (located above), and neat categories that seek to organize the richly dense information.

Of course this alone, is not enough, not everyone enjoys reading…

Now funded by a Conclave Proposal, championed by community efforts of King & Gina, there is a Podcast that offers a condensed and easy to listen to episodic versions of story events in WAGDIE: Recap Podast.

Thanks to active community voices in the Conclave and a thread on improving layers of engagement, efforts have been made to include community member contributions at the end of Spaces events as well as a Wagdie Weekly Community Spaces - big shoutout to @almostjosiah for leading the charge on the Pilot Episode.

If one was only able to attend a single 1 hour space a week, I’d recommend tuning in Tuesday to Wagdie Weekly at 8PM EST live or listening to the recording anytime after. This community podcast seeks to keep community members up to date on current events, lore, community initiatives, as well as Conclave updates, and community highlights while engaging with the community in a format where others can freely join.

In addition to an intro & outro song for the first pilot, there was a infamous WAGDIE commercial and an appearance by Julian Tryhard (35 minutes into the twitter space).

Community members have not only been involved in building the community and contributing to engagement, but also in contributing to the main lore:

• Hosting their own interactive theater through Twitter Spaces: Darkblade Guild

• Sharing Riddles: Decrepits / Coven of Detriti , 𝕳𝔦𝔭𝔭𝔞𝔯𝔠𝔥𝔲𝔰 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔉𝔦𝔤𝔪𝔢𝔫𝔱 , 𝔒𝔯𝔡𝔞𝔢𝔲𝔰 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔖𝔠𝔯𝔬𝔩𝔩𝔨𝔢𝔢𝔭𝔢𝔯

• Dropping their own WAGDIE videos: @almostjosiah , Julian , & infamously 0xM3rl1n:

  https://twitter.com/0xM3RL1N/status/1557264485693509632?s=20&t=cwC6uO-SmCseRWrl1FU16Q

  There has also been A LOT of incredible art contributed by community members and I can’t wait to see what the Artist Panel with its’ Shared Contract creates.

  https://twitter.com/itsDanfi/status/1555670637682855936?s=20&t=RXqwzAK-fJzm-8COn2SAEg

  In Summary:

  WAGDIE is A LOT to take in, and we understand the feeling of being overwhelmed. There’s much I didn’t cover and even deeper discussions to dive into. Even those of us who are most active are unable to keep up with everything and that is completely fine..

  If I had to give the quick and dirty elevator pitch I’d recommend the WAGDIE intro or hopping into discord.gg/wagdie and starting with #How-It-Works

Final Recap:

We currently have (5) Map Pieces and still have areas we haven’t fully explored on the revealed map as well as areas we have recently explored, unrevealed on the map. Another tool that is being updated to hopefully make things easier, Wagdie.World which should eventually include an interactive slider with timeline of events for the visual.

• We have 1 out of 3 Tokens of Concord required for the Story Quest: Power Luta’s Silver Compass (which requires Molten Heart, Serpent’s Scale, & Stone of Zo).
• We have unlocked 22 out of the 30 required types of Tokens of Concord in order to enable Searing of Concord Tokens
  • (yet to fully grasp what that means, but we speculate dynamic changes as we have already seen meta-data changes to the NFT).
• Tokens of Concord are united under the banners of Guilds/Concords (The Furies, The Grand Jester, Coven of Detriti etc). They also enable users with voting power in the Conclave with Snapshots at decide.fateofwagdie.com & again will eventually have the opportunity to be tied to the Characters with Searing.

The devs are undoxxed, but many times throughout they have earned the trust of this community. From Refunding Panic Sellers during a brief delisting (early on, when they were priced over an ETH), Charitable Contributions, & giving a substantial amount of the revenue to the Community for building.

The story-telling tools are constantly evolving, from community members contributing on-chain dice rolling mechanics and tools, to the devs experimenting in new ways to deliver the story: From audio drops, live spaces, animated videos, even music and songs.

The interactive experience has evolved too: From twitter voting, to snapshot token-gated voting, to burning characters to users evolving their characters through meta-data changes by delivering awesome lore. As well as being rewarded for participation with Tokens of Concord.

Final Summary, fr fr

If you don’t have time to keep up with WAGDIE, or uninterested in playing DND/larping that is completely fine. But it doesn’t hurt to check in occasionally to see what is being built and the ways in which this team and community continue to explore the boundaries of web3.

Besides, there is only one constant..

𝔚𝔢 𝔞𝔯𝔢 𝔄𝔩𝔩 𝔊𝔬𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔱𝔬 𝔇𝔦𝔢

As a disclaimer I am a participant and holder, but I am NOT being paid to write these articles. I wrote this one out of guilt for missing the Pilot of WAGDIE weekly, and because it’s been awhile..