Post by qualapec on Aug 23, 2011 2:09:25 GMT -5
1. For now, you can have a maximum of 2 canon characters, after that, it depends on how many people we have on the board. Each player is also encouraged to take on a non-Nation supernatural OC (vampire, werewolf, fae, wizard, etc.). It is not required. If you wish to play a supernatural creature that is not listed, talk to an admin to get it approved for play. It’s not that we want to pick and choose what gets in and what doesn’t! We just want a solid representation of the creature for the Monster Manual so that people both know what it is and how it will be played in this RP. In the Dark of the Night is a living, developing Urban Fantasy landscape. We are actively worldbuilding, but that also means that we need to have a coherent archive of facts of the world.
2. Consistency in an RP is important. Remember to post frequently with canon characters. It’s understandable that some characters will get more activity than others --- some characters will be secondary characters, but if you go for one month without a character receiving any activity, you will go under administrative review, a two week period in which you must post with your character or they go up for adoption.
3. Characters must be accepted by an admin or moderator before you are allowed to play.
4. Please do not become the Mary Sue or the Gary Stu. Not everything is perfect and not everything will wind up in your character’s favor --- and that’s fine, part of the goal of this game is that bad stuff happens when there is bad juju afoot. I know Mary Sue and Gary Stu are highly contested terms, and, personally, I determine it based not on the things that happen to the character, but how they react to it. Flat characterization combined with every trope that is awesome ever is the concoction from which the Mary Sue is made. This doesn’t mean your characters can’t be strong, independent, or drive their own stories, but remember to keep characterization in mind. If an admin informs you that your character is demonstrating these tendencies, please take it in stride.
5. Our vampires do not sparkle.
6. If you want your character to have a past with another character, you have to work it out with the player. Due to the nature of this RP however, that only applies to OCs. Nation characters are in the canon timeline, and therefore have relationships/interactions expressed in canon and/or history. If you want an OC to have history with a Nation character or another player’s OC, it must be agreed on between the two of you.
7. If you want your character to die, ask someone to kill them off for you. Do not kill off anybody else’s characters without their permission. It doesn’t count and you look like a god-modder. When killing non-human characters, keep in mind the details in the Compendium and Monster Manual. For example, Nation characters in this RP cannot die under normal circumstances and you will have to concoct a believable way (ex. A regular knife won’t do the trick, but an enchanted one might). On a side note, if you want to resurrect your character (it’s Urban Fantasy, it can happen) you’ll have to arrange for someone else to do it as well.
8. If you want to have your characters marry, it must be agreed upon by both players. If they have children, it must be okay’d by the admin.
9. Please do not play your own relatives or employees. We want to encourage active gameplay and participation from everyone, part of that is having a very mixed bag when it comes to character relations and players.
10. Again, you only have control over your character, not anyone else’s. However, arrangements for storylines and events can be worked out with the player beforehand. In this sense, the RP remains spontaneous and collaborative. If you want to boss all the characters around, that’s what fanfic is for (I say so lovingly).
11. This is the hard part --- the World. This is a Hetalia Urban Fantasy RP. It takes place in New York City in 2011. The technology and layout of the city is the same as it is in the world we’re living in right now. A minor knowledge of the city would be helpful when establishing locations and setting mood. However, it would be infeasible to incorporate every detail of the Real NYC into the RP forum. Main locations will be hangouts for the creatures. It will be assumed that during different times of the year, all Nation characters have homes or apartments in NYC that they use during world meetings, gatherings, or for social visits. Magic and monsters is the fun part, and a lot of that is still up in the open. There are a wide variety of interpretations for creatures that are so heavily used as vampires and werewolves, and we will try to rationalize those into one resource to describe the characters and culture as they exist. Magic is the free-for-all; in this world, it is wild, it is primal. There are no real set ‘powers’. Every magic-user should be a little bit different, since every magic-user will tap into that magic in a unique way. Again, this RP is designed for active world building.
VERY IMPORTANT: As things come up, they will be catalogued in the Compendium and Monster Manual for future reference. If you do something or establish a detail that you feel is important for other players to know, post and it will be included in the Compendium or Monster Manual.
Okay. That was a lot of reading, and usually there is some sort of code or message hidden in the rules for you to somehow post with your character application to indicate that you read them. Since this was a lot of reading and I am one of those people that sucks with details, I’ve decided to make this as easy and painless as possible. The code is: find a picture of a platypus and post it at the end of your character app to show that you’ve read the rules. Because we will talk about a fair number of fantastical monsters, and none of them are half as weird as that egg-laying, billed waddling mammal with a rudder tail.
2. Consistency in an RP is important. Remember to post frequently with canon characters. It’s understandable that some characters will get more activity than others --- some characters will be secondary characters, but if you go for one month without a character receiving any activity, you will go under administrative review, a two week period in which you must post with your character or they go up for adoption.
3. Characters must be accepted by an admin or moderator before you are allowed to play.
4. Please do not become the Mary Sue or the Gary Stu. Not everything is perfect and not everything will wind up in your character’s favor --- and that’s fine, part of the goal of this game is that bad stuff happens when there is bad juju afoot. I know Mary Sue and Gary Stu are highly contested terms, and, personally, I determine it based not on the things that happen to the character, but how they react to it. Flat characterization combined with every trope that is awesome ever is the concoction from which the Mary Sue is made. This doesn’t mean your characters can’t be strong, independent, or drive their own stories, but remember to keep characterization in mind. If an admin informs you that your character is demonstrating these tendencies, please take it in stride.
5. Our vampires do not sparkle.
6. If you want your character to have a past with another character, you have to work it out with the player. Due to the nature of this RP however, that only applies to OCs. Nation characters are in the canon timeline, and therefore have relationships/interactions expressed in canon and/or history. If you want an OC to have history with a Nation character or another player’s OC, it must be agreed on between the two of you.
7. If you want your character to die, ask someone to kill them off for you. Do not kill off anybody else’s characters without their permission. It doesn’t count and you look like a god-modder. When killing non-human characters, keep in mind the details in the Compendium and Monster Manual. For example, Nation characters in this RP cannot die under normal circumstances and you will have to concoct a believable way (ex. A regular knife won’t do the trick, but an enchanted one might). On a side note, if you want to resurrect your character (it’s Urban Fantasy, it can happen) you’ll have to arrange for someone else to do it as well.
8. If you want to have your characters marry, it must be agreed upon by both players. If they have children, it must be okay’d by the admin.
9. Please do not play your own relatives or employees. We want to encourage active gameplay and participation from everyone, part of that is having a very mixed bag when it comes to character relations and players.
10. Again, you only have control over your character, not anyone else’s. However, arrangements for storylines and events can be worked out with the player beforehand. In this sense, the RP remains spontaneous and collaborative. If you want to boss all the characters around, that’s what fanfic is for (I say so lovingly).
11. This is the hard part --- the World. This is a Hetalia Urban Fantasy RP. It takes place in New York City in 2011. The technology and layout of the city is the same as it is in the world we’re living in right now. A minor knowledge of the city would be helpful when establishing locations and setting mood. However, it would be infeasible to incorporate every detail of the Real NYC into the RP forum. Main locations will be hangouts for the creatures. It will be assumed that during different times of the year, all Nation characters have homes or apartments in NYC that they use during world meetings, gatherings, or for social visits. Magic and monsters is the fun part, and a lot of that is still up in the open. There are a wide variety of interpretations for creatures that are so heavily used as vampires and werewolves, and we will try to rationalize those into one resource to describe the characters and culture as they exist. Magic is the free-for-all; in this world, it is wild, it is primal. There are no real set ‘powers’. Every magic-user should be a little bit different, since every magic-user will tap into that magic in a unique way. Again, this RP is designed for active world building.
VERY IMPORTANT: As things come up, they will be catalogued in the Compendium and Monster Manual for future reference. If you do something or establish a detail that you feel is important for other players to know, post and it will be included in the Compendium or Monster Manual.
Okay. That was a lot of reading, and usually there is some sort of code or message hidden in the rules for you to somehow post with your character application to indicate that you read them. Since this was a lot of reading and I am one of those people that sucks with details, I’ve decided to make this as easy and painless as possible. The code is: find a picture of a platypus and post it at the end of your character app to show that you’ve read the rules. Because we will talk about a fair number of fantastical monsters, and none of them are half as weird as that egg-laying, billed waddling mammal with a rudder tail.