Standard Operating Procedure
❧ We strongly encourage that you draw your own characters. However, writers are free to request, commission or ask friends to draw their characters for them. It's not about the medium you use but the stories you tell. Be creative! That's what we're looking for. Some of the other artists already on-board are even willing to draw for you.
❧ When taking 'Doors'/'Missions', people are free to be submit in any format including sequential art (comics), literary (prose), illustration and animation. Any format under the sun is welcome.
❧ As we want to promote originality and creativity, we are not allowing Played-By's, Face-Claims, the Sims, IMVU, Image Manipulation or base art. However, 3D is allowed provided it's yours.
Activity
❧ We aren't strict about activity. Real life will always come first. But if you're going to make a character and then never interact with anyone, then why bother? If you're going to be leaving for a long while, please have the courtesy to say so. Even better if you excuse your character as well so that you don't put your story-lines on hold. [But be active and the higher your chances are of making friends! -shot-]
Scribbld, DA and Skype?
❧ First things first, what is Scribbld and why are we using it?
Scribbld is a lesser known LiveJournal clone with features that rival its other brethren InsaneJournal and the now-dead Inksome. The LiveJournal format is an alternate experience to the conventional forum play-per-post as it allows interruptions of conversations by another character (threadhopping/threadjacking) as well as multiple conversations going on in one post. Something a separate forum wouldn't do well at. Another factor is the existence of icons (Scribbld provides 50). Thus, you can show a character's expression without having to describe it every single post.
Also, because the person has full control of his/her character's account, private threads are more encouraged, the RP experience becomes more personal and the user has now a space on the web to do as he pleases with his/her character.
❧ So what is the DeviantArt account for?
Submitting art, doing quests and missions provided - among other things.
❧ Why don't we just RP on DA?
DeviantArt isn't the best place to roleplay. Updates stack and more often then not you end up cluttering your gallery with memes which leaves you with a weird mish-mash of updates in your personal inbox. To avoid that, most people make plz-accounts for their characters and RP there. While that solves a lot of issues of the clutter, there's still the fact that there are simple things you want to do that DA doesn't let you unless you have a premium account (journal skins and posting images pretty much come to mind instantly). Also, according to one of the mods, there's an unflattering thread-squishing that happens so that makes RP-logging a terrible gimmick.
❧ Why don't we get a forum?
Threadjacking and the lack thereof. Also forum RPs usually end up with a post-order. So if someone has to log off, the RP-halts. Scribbld's format lets you kind of avoid that by allowing people to add new conversations any time to your posts.
❧ Skype?
We like skype, we spam skype. Skype also logs threads quite well and the chat rooms are stable. Skype is there for the people who prefer RP over messengers as opposed to having threads. Our only request is you send us a log. Logs make us happy~ [SKYPE=FRIENDSHIP<3]
Posting
❧ Whatever style floats your boat. Feel free to experiment with anything from literature to script. To a weird mishmash of both. Anything goes as long as people can understand you.
Confused?
LIT: She takes a bite out of an apple.
SCRIPT: Girl: *bites apple*
Also, while we may not be nit-picky about word-count, we strongly encourage: quality over quantity .
❧ Out of Character (OOC) chat: please keep OOC chat within parentheses (( )) or brackets [[ ]] when talking OOCly in an RP. Otherwise, you are welcome to create and participate in a separate chatroom for OOC talk. The latter is more encouraged since it leads to much cleaner and organized RP logs.
❧ Please keep logs of 1x1 Chats and Private Threads. Also, if RP-ing on Scribbld, please remember to TAG YOUR POSTS and before posting state if the RP is PRIVATE or OPEN.
❧ Please use THIRD-PERSON.
Godmodding, Power Playing
❧ Please don't. This is basically forcing another character into a situation that isn't consented by the other player. Role playing is a collaborative endeavor so COLLABORATE. If in the event a character starts doing this, don't be afraid to talk it out with the RPer or, if things get out of hand, approach a mod.
Metagaming
❧ What you know =/= What your character knows. Please try to keep each separate when RPing.
Character Count
❧ Three maximum with more granted depending on activity. Staff are not counted in the character count, however do consult us before making staff members. [Or your characters will start disappearing like male characters in Jennifer's Body. MWAHAHAHAHAHA]
It's a Game!
❧ We are here to have fun. Keep IC stuff between characters and OOC stuff between players. If players have issues with one other, settle it like grown ups - talk to each other and deal with it. If it still fails, contact any member of the Moderating Team.
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