Fantasy ~Magicborne: Rules and Chapters~

[SkyGinge]

~Magicborne~
Main RP Thread ~ Magic System ~ Map and Further Lore ~ Out of Character ~ Character Application ~ Rules and Chapters

~Rules and Systems~​

WARNING: FAILURE TO COMPLY WITH THESE RULES MAY RESULT IN YOUR IMPRISONMENT WITHIN THE DUNGEON LOCATED TO YOUR RIGHT!

• Firstly, the obvious: all site rules apply, no bunnying (controlling other people's characters), or godmodding/godmoding/powerplaying/whatever, etc.
• The RP will be GMed by myself ( SkyGinge ), and co-GMed by the lovely Semblance . Please ask us questions if you have any concerns/queries!
• As per standard RPing conduct, write in third-person, past tense. The odd typo is fine, but we expect legible grammar.
• This RP is considered a detailed RP on the basis of expected post-quality and detail. However, I won't be implementing a strictly regimented post-length requirement as there are times when it encourages quantity over quality. For example, if you're describing an exciting new combat sequence, I might expect around five paragraph's worth of content as you've a lot of stuff you can be writing and keeping us engaged with! But if all your post needs to do is reply to another character's question of 'are you alright', you don't need three pages worth of interior monologue about how the word alright triggers memories of your long-lost goldfish just to fill the quota. Don't go the other way either though, as people don't have time to read through novel-long posts - use common sense!
• The stat system is in place to attempt to balance characters in a bit to stop powerplay, whilst also providing a sense of progression; you'll notice there are no defence-related stats however, because the stat system does not exist as a replacement to regular, creative freely-expressive combat fun-times for all. Therefore, it is up to you to play out your character's combat, including controlling any relevent enemy NPCs apart from key ones, which will be controlled by myself and Semblance . We hope this will allow people to be creative and have fun with battle scenes. What this does mean, however, is that you need to handle combat scenes with common-sense, in reference to your stats and the enemy stats. Given the high-stakes nature of many of the RP's combat scenes, it is unlikely you will emerged unscathed from many battles.
• The general tone of this RP is intended to be fairly dark, not in the sense that everybody is an emo, or from depraved sectors of society, but in the overall message, story and outlook is pretty bleak. So we're expecting fairly realistic, down-to-earth explorations of characters interactions with each-other and events as opposed to a royal romp through fantasy funtown.
• We all have a real life outside of RPing, and so if you have to disappear for a week for reasons that's perfectly understandable! However, please have the common decency to keep us informed by giving us notice beforehand so that the RP doesn't stagnate waiting for you. Similarly, if you have to drop out, please inform us - just poofing is incredibly rude and inconvenient.
• Keep all OOC to the OOC thread, and please utilise that section for asking questions, discussing world stuff and posting memes (glorious memes!)
• To begin with, we expect a post from you once every four-five days. We believe this to be achievable to keep the RP going at a steady pace and from losing momentum. After a few weeks, we'll settle down into a more relaxed once-a-week pace.

We want RPing to be fun as it should, and so would rather not have to warn and remind people of these rules because then it begins to feel like a chore. So please don't sign up if you think you won't be able to manage these!

The Chapter System​

One of our big aims for this RP is that concluding the story is achievable. Our intention is that the RP will last until October and will be wrapping up around that time, and so the story has been plotted out around this goal. The narrative will be split into five chapters, each set in a specific location and with a set of objectives provided to move the chapter towards completion. The idea is that players will all have an idea of what they're supposed to be doing in order to keep track towards the goal. However, whilst the majority of chapters have been pre-planned, this doesn't mean there isn't room for your ideas and character-specific sub-plots, which will be able to be explored in Chapter Two especially! After the completion of each chapter, there'll be a short intermission in which we will view (and briefly get to play as) the captured twins as they deal with their imprisonment, whilst at the same time we apply a stat bonus to our characters.

The current chapter and objectives will always be posted both here and on the first page of the OOC thread for reference!

CHAPTER ONE: Night TerrorsMain Objective: Play-out the dramatic circumstances of the twins' capture! Minor Objectives: Introduce characters; ???; ??? It has been a warm summer's day in the backwater village of Bordissa. For some, Bordissa has been their lifelong home - for others, they have only recently arrived, or will arrive as the RP starts. It is six o'clock, and for most the day's work is done, and the towns youngsters begin to gradually congregate around the town square, or perhaps in the local tavern, The Lost Badger, or perhaps somewhere else of your choosing! The plan is we spend a few posts introducing the characters, playing around with both twins briefly and showing a bit of normal life. Then we'll send our character back to their homes, with the possibility of either writing out what happens over dinner, or simply timeskipping and sending them straight to bed. From here, the fateful events that kickstart our tale shall begin to unravel...