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[allmycomms]

Things we need!

1] game name! because dapperpunk doesn't fit it now... I don't think.

2] journals for
- modbizness (personal journal) - if each mod has one that's good too
- info comm (comm for fact sheets for characters)
- ooc comm (for ooc-ing)
- dr comm (for practicing, developing history with existing casts, testing out your version of the character)
- game comm (I kind of want logs and network/comm devices in the same comm. no splitting it up, because things get missed, etc. we can just tag things #text, #phone call, @journal, * action, * prose ... etc.)
- meme/spam comm (for polyvore)
- Mod Plurk Account

3] gods and honoring them

- how to honor/follow
- all about faking it
- all about not believing in any of it
- link: Sorting the Gods - sort the greeks into easier to maintain groups, so that it's not a billion gods, but still try to give each one their own personal perk, but the group have the same. So like all the war-based/fighting-ones are in a group, but you can pick a specific one and get a specific bonus.
- decide if we need to sort the egyptian ones or not and if there are bonuses for that or not

4] WORLD BUILDING STUFF
- maps (by odell)
- housing options (so that people can't just have "instant mansion because they want their whole cast living together")
- underground vs aboveground
- transportation methods
- monetary system
- employment options (player owned businesses, etc)
- landscape, animals, weather/climate

5] Mod-type stuffs

- app
- dropped character app
- dropped character app - sponsor request
- reserve
- taken
- drop/hiatus
- plot/event suggestions & requests
- player owned businesses
- npc owned businesses
- list of NPCs!
- general 10 commandments page (no godmodding, no being mean)
- rules on death link: Death Clarification, pregnancy, violence, magic - all the weird things
- faq
+ info on the premise
+ all that how does this work stuff
+ helpful tips on how to AU your character
+ helpful tips on how to keep your anime/troll/robot traits when adapting them to the world and what cases don't require a change.
- info on the AC (because I hate it when the AC info is like hidden into other posts)
+ AC will be a summation of character events. Tell us what your character has been doing for the past month and provide at least 2 links to prove that it's not all implied. Links must be either your own post, 5+ of your consecutive replies in a [bracket] post, or 2+ of your own consecutive replies in a prose post.

Comments

[huntersdaughter]

The history part would be a loose outline requirement. Nothing too solid, because honestly, the most fun I've had in a game was when I started up a scene and had someone tag me and in the duration of that single thread we figured out an entire history of their friendship and discussed their personalities and how they would've fit as kids etc.

We want them to expand their histories with the characters that come into the game and to build CR within the world vs coming into it with this locked and loaded history that they can ramble off. I mean, I personally can't recount every single detail of my life and I'm 33 and I've lived a pretty boring life.

Like this is my app for Jo into the Deadwood game: here

Emphasis on Personality and traits. Give a loose history and then I'd prefer to see linked samples to see how they interact with other writers and then one 3rd person scene from their AU life just to make sure they grasp the world and don't seem confused.

So, in your example of a Michael doesn't want him to have dated Fiona then the first consideration will be: Is a Fiona apping at the same time as them? Because if not, then they have every right to go ahead and change things so that Fiona isn't mentioned in the history by name or at all.

If a Fiona apps in and wants Michael in her history, then they'll need to work that out between themselves OR the mis-match in history is that cult messing with Fiona's memories, never with the existing character in the game.

We can always state in the rules or FAQ about how to AU your character that if there are important people in your character's life please try to remember these might get added into your cast at some point. Keep those parts of your history loose so that should you get that character you can iron out details together. I mean, I would hate to join a game with Fiona where a Michael had said she blew herself up. Like, that's Fiona's history.

I mean - a simple way to fix all of this would be to say you are apping characters from Pre-Canon and to use the AU of the world to gain the changes and shifts in personality that come out through canon when writing your history. So that if you want to write a Michael that has been through the Hell of being burned, then you have to take him from pre-canon and go from there through the world to figure out how it works and anyone that he meets and uses during his AU history has to be added in as you build out your history. Pre-canon would be Fiona inclusive.

IDK. omg it's late. LOL I am going to sleep and I will make this make sense tomorrow.