-----Gods Among Us-----
-----City of the Gods-----
-----OOC-----
-----The Sandbox-----
What does a Sandbox mean?
I will be OP, Dyelli will be Co-OPs.
Nothing can happen outside of Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, The Bronx, and Staten Island. You can get calls from out of state, but all actions and effects must happen inside the city proper.
You can have as many characters as you want from any organization you like (So long as they aren't part of another thread).
You will not be allowed to organize any event that COULD potentially destroy more that 1/5th of the city without MY permission. You cannot actually destroy that much of the city without MY permission and other being given sufficient chance to stop the plot.
No world/universe/multiverse ending events. Rob a bank, kidnap a rich guy, do something mundane for once.
No one will control the world, city, state, or federal government except me and Co-OPs who have my permissions. People are aware that the government has ways to deal with things. Don't think of them as an army of goons. They will kill even top tier characters who act in ways that require them to.
No one will control the citizen's general response except me and my Co-OPs with my permissions.
No one will mess with the foundational elements of space and time without me or my Co-OPs with my permissions. If you don't know whats a foundational element ask.
Unless you ask NYC is EXACTLY like it is in the real world. Building for building. If you want a skyscraper or a secret underground lab you need to ask for it.
What does a sandbox imply?
People will work together. You could go off an have your own stories without anyone else. But that is boring, please try to incorporate others as much as possible.
People will keep me and the Co-OPs in the loop. Send me an occasional text with your plans and what is going on.
People will stop turning organizations into their own personal armies. This goes for me too. The Knight will have three members and hopefully a few of you will make up some members for them as well. Three is a good numbers, try not to have more than that many people run by you on a team like that. If it can't be helped, fine but at least try.
-----The Rules-----
- OP's word is Law. The Co-Op's word is heavily favored.
- Our OP is Primordial Luxa,
- For the sake of fairness, only OP’s and Co-OP’s will RP the Governments of the world/general population etc.
- If you do something as stupid as this, OP’s and Co-OP’s reserve the right to tell you your character is dead.
- PG-13/Sex/Violence
We may have minors ergo our IC and OOC are PG-13. Keep it that way. GAU is not the place to act out your violent or sexual fantasies. Violence and sex are allowed, of course, but we employ a "fade to black" or peripheral violence rule rather than expose minors to graphic content or obscene material. You can obtain further guidance here. Explicit rape is taboo. NPCs are not there to be spindled, mutilated and torn apart unless of course; it's combat.
- Role Play Etiquette
- Godmodding and metagaming are not allowed. Do not kill other players character without their permission and remember that it is up to a character's owner to determine to what degree and attack affect them. However, the reverse is true and if you don't list appropriate damage to a character when they should suffer some sort injury that is also Godmodding.
- We don't use multi-colored or oddly formatted fonts for dialog. We also don't use asterisks to denote action. You must use proper punctuation and grammar; we aren't here to teach basic English.
- If you have a problem with a player, take it to TG. If that does not work, bring it to the OP or a CoOP's attention. Do not turn the OOC thread into chaos.
- Bogging down other players through lack of posts or low-quality posts without offering satisfactory OOC explanation (esp. if posting of high quality in other RPs) will earn a warning; further problems will lead to player removal from the roster.
- If your character(s) are a vital part of the current event(s) and you don't post IC within a sufficient timeframe, OP’s and Co-OP’s will take over the running of your characters until you return. If it looks like you aren't planning to (and I will make every effort to contact you), OP’s and Co-OP’s may kill them off in a manner they find amusing.
- Character Creation
- Generally, just don't make your character too overpowered. To keep this RP fun for everyone, please try to pitch your characters at the Batman/Spiderman/Daredevil/Green Arrow level of power. Do not pitch them at the Superman/Dr. Manhattan level of power.
- DO NOT simply post links to Superpower Wiki pages, these are not detailed and usually always overpower and over complicated. DESCRIBE your characters power and give examples of how strong, weak or variable a power is.
- When describing a power keep in mind three important factors; Range, Mass, and Speed. Range: How far can you breathe fire? What range does an object have to be in for you to control? How far can you run before you get tired? Mass: How much can your super strength life? How much copper can you turn into gold at once? How much metal can your magnetism move at once? Speed: How quickly can you fly? How long does it take to charge your eye beams? How quickly can you fly? How long does it take you to turn into a werewolf?
- If you do have a character who is ludicrously overpowered and you feel they are necessary for the plot for some reason, please let OP’s and Co-OP’s know why you want them in and what you intend to do with them.
- The following powers are NOT allowed without very good reason or a significant weakness. Mind Control, Power Replication, or Immortality.
- You can have as many characters as you want, but please start with one or two and take the time to develop them and add your back catalog gradually. Also, do not use this to create a legion of sidekicks for your hero. If you want to build a super-team, try to work with other players.
- This is an RP for original characters, it is absolutely fine to draw inspiration from something else, but if you are drawing so much inspiration that you might as well be playing the character that inspires you then what’s the point.
- Keep the RP religion-sensitive. If you want to RP the existence of any god or member of a religion, be respectful.
- Scale and Story
- One of the biggest problems faced by modern superhero stories is the issue of escalation. The earth can only be in jeopardy so many times before it becomes boring. After you save the earth fifteen times from Thanosied before it becomes a boring to see people stop a bank robbery. Because of this, we will strive to make earth-shattering events few and far between so they keep their impact. Villains should rob banks, take hostages and do other traditional villain things. So if you want to have a villain kill more than 12 people in a single instant as part of there scheme you will need permission.
- The vast majority of people in this setting get their powers from being a Meta-human. A person with a Meta-gene that has been stimulated by stress, science, or magic and has altered that person's physiology. There is only one meta-human per 100,000 people. For every meta-human, there are two people with an untapped Meta-gene that could modify them into a weak meta-human. Your powers can be from anything imaginable but the classification for humans that have powers is meta-human.
- A major part of RPing is give and take. When you write a post you are not just writing for yourself, you are incorporating other people's characters, themes, and ideas. If you write as though only your characters matter and other people characters aren't important then you aren't really RPing.
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