Your Backstage Pass Personification Life is open to new players
Accepting New Players IC Part I - The Beginning. IC Part Deux - New Building, Same Nonsense. IC Part III - Island Living for the Holidays. ICPart IV - Returned to Building, Oh My Gods! IC Part V - Five Golden Threads! (aka Oh My God... They're Breeding!) IC Part VI - The Day the Drones Destroyed the World IC Part VII - Return to Civilization IC Part VII.5 – The Soup Thickens. IC Part VIII - Hello and Goodbye. Original OOC thread - Locked. OOC thread Part II - Locked. OOC Thread Part III - Locked. OOC Thread Part IV - Locked. OOC Thread Part V - Locked. GUIDELINES:
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Suggestion on time flow Time passage: one real day = one day in IC. This wouldn’t apply to characters in slower moving stories. It’s just a gauge. Let’s see how it works. Players can then choose to slow down their scenes to prolong a night. The IC OP is Cerillium. The IC Co-OP are Bone Fort, Swith Witherward, Tiltjuice. The OOC OP is Swith Witherward. The OOC Co-OP are Bone Fort, Cerillium, Tiltjuice. Their word is law. They function as RP moderators for this thread. If you have a problem with a player that can't be solved via TG, take it to them. They serve as mediators. They have the authority to ask any player to leave for just cause. Current Game Mentors: Giovenith. (PL Game Mentor description here) Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced. New or inexperienced players are welcomed to join as long as they keep an open mind and desire to improve their skills. Common sense things for beginners: We don't use multi-colored or oddly formatted fonts for dialog. We also don't use asterisks to denote action. PL is a place where new players can learn the basics of RP. The majority of our members are people looking to advance their skills or to learn more about RP in general. We offer RP workshops on our OSF. Veteran players are always welcome as well. We provide players with a safe haven. We have minors ergo our IC and OOC are kept PG-13. We are a diverse group comprised of agnostics, atheists, Buddhists, Christians and other faiths. People of all sexual orientations and gender associations are at home here. We have members from all political affiliations and ideologies. We have mixed ethnicity as well as minorities. We respect each other and we respect each person's right to hold their beliefs. We are family here. We have our own Region (The Apartment Block) and an off-site forum that's dedicated to role-playing. You must be a member of our Region to partake in the off-site forum. Our Region does accept *ACTIVE* puppet nations for that purpose. HERE'S HOW TO JOIN Want to know how to join? Simple. Read the rules. Look at the data on this page and the first page of the IC. Submit an application here. This is a mixed genre RP which allows you to play things that are near and dear to your heart. Other players may currently have characters that are part of your favorite genre... bear that in mind when you apply. Their established canon takes priority. If you sign up and are approved but don't post, your character is dropped from the roster.
Cyborgs (40K themed) Cyborgs (Drones, somewhat like Borg) Fae (Unseelie) Judeo-Christian Pantheon MLP:FIM Star Wars Time Cops (including Chronos and Fate) Vampires Velociraptors Vikings (Norse) Warhammer 40K Gods/Demons run by current players or OPs: Beelzebub, Pride, Envy,Wrath, Loki, the five Chaos gods, Anubis, Satan, Elohim (Christian God). IMPORTANT We're going to a point system for all future apps. We've had a lot of applications recently that are power-heavy. Because we're mixed genre, including regular mortals, I (Swith) felt it was best to go to a system. Character Unique Skills Unique skills are what set the character apart from the mundane. Is he a master swordsman? Is she an excellent pilot? Does he speak multiple languages? Is she excellent at diplomacy or negotiations? Unique skills such as languages, piloting, master swordsman do not cost points if they are something a normal person would have if they applied themselves to learn. That's why they're LEARNED SKILLS. Powers and Superpowers These are nifty things that set someone apart from a normal mortal character. Increased endurance, time manipulation, ESP, forming fireballs, resistance to toxins, etc are all special abilities that normal mortal characters don't have. This includes "mana manipulation" for spell castors. Obviously, a characters species can be confusing. A pony character doesn't need to spend points to fly (wings are natural) but will need to spend points if a unicorn (mana manipulation). A dragon doesn't need to spend points to have a tough hide because he has... drumroll... scales. You get the picture? If in doubt, send Swith Witherward a TG. Power Scale In an effort to even things out, characters with powers/magic are allotted 12 (twelve) points to spread through whatever powers they desire. A listing can be found here. You can not have more than 8 in any one power. You don't have to use all your points. You don't have to have a character with any powers at all, if you so wish. Why is it important to balance points? Super Power: Enhanced Strength New Players: Fill out the short application by clicking "select all" and pasting into a new post. Cer will be along shortly to approve it. OP has final say on applications. Some characters hail from their own nation; your character does not have to be the embodiment (personification) of your nation. We need to know: species, a bit of background, what sort of abilities or powers, and reason for moving into the Building. Do not sign up to play a god or god-like being without first talking with Swith Witherward. Current Players: You still have to wait for approval if you want to bring a second character in at a later time. Please fill out the form for them so the character can be added to your IC tab. Send a TG to Swith or Cer with the OOC link. Returning Players: This RP is much different that PL Classic. It's evolved. There's an OP and game structure. APPLICATION This info is used for your character tab on the IC page. Give us URLs to pictures. We don't want the actual picture posted here. Your "Nation nickname" is what you (the player) want your tab to read. It needs to reflect your nation name. This is what readers click on when they want to know more about your characters. Do not put your own nickname here. (Example... my nation nickname is Swith and not Fractal Hacker.) Do NOT change or add anything to the formatting in the application, please. It pisses me off because then I have to take out all your fancy coding when I work my own coding magic. Spoilers aren't necessary. We reserve the right to deny any application.
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