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Jun. 25th, 2013 07:30 pmHey everybody! I didn't realize but apparently ATP is going up this weekend. So here's your post for character requests! I will be posting an ad in the small games section, and I'll put happily in your requests. You should also feel free to wander around ATP and rec this game. I'm sure we'd all love to have some new characters.
The geography of Faery is very fluid. You might walk from a friend's cottage in a forest and half a mile later find yourself in a desert.
Characters with particularly strong imaginations, or groups of characters who all agree that a certain area looks and behaves a certain way, can make a certain location solid. This is why the town of Burby remains consistent in location and appearance.
Accommodation
When you character arrives in Burby, they have the option of staying at The Rabbit Hole Hotel until they find a place to live. New arrivals to Faery stay one week free! After that, finding a means to pay is up to you.
Burby is home to a number of attractive apartment buildings, as well as quaint Victorian cottages. Accommodation should be worked out between players if needed, but there is no formal list of who lives where. Be reasonable, and only give your character the type of home they could afford.
Businesses
The Rabbit Hole Hotel
This large building may be one of the first places a new arrival to Burby will see, and for good reason. It acts as a refuge for all the new arrivals to the town, as well as an oasis of calm and whimsy in a sometimes chaotic town. Stay a while and you may even meet its founder, one of Burby's longest residents...
Entrance/Patio/Lobby/Night time
Mr. Chickering's Book Shoppe
The quaint little bookshop may not look like much from the outside, but step inside and you will be amazed. Every wall and surface is crammed with books. Dark and inviting, the book store is full of nooks and crannies to curl up in and escape for a while. Some even say Chickering's holds every book ever written...
Outside/Main study/Second story
The Library Pub
Your local watering hole. Stop by for a pint and a bite to eat, and make sure to join in on open mike night!
Entrance/Patio/Bar
tl;dr Comment here with any locations that your character(s) have locked in place.
Characters with particularly strong imaginations, or groups of characters who all agree that a certain area looks and behaves a certain way, can make a certain location solid. This is why the town of Burby remains consistent in location and appearance.
Accommodation
When you character arrives in Burby, they have the option of staying at The Rabbit Hole Hotel until they find a place to live. New arrivals to Faery stay one week free! After that, finding a means to pay is up to you.
Burby is home to a number of attractive apartment buildings, as well as quaint Victorian cottages. Accommodation should be worked out between players if needed, but there is no formal list of who lives where. Be reasonable, and only give your character the type of home they could afford.
Businesses
The Rabbit Hole Hotel
This large building may be one of the first places a new arrival to Burby will see, and for good reason. It acts as a refuge for all the new arrivals to the town, as well as an oasis of calm and whimsy in a sometimes chaotic town. Stay a while and you may even meet its founder, one of Burby's longest residents...
Entrance/Patio/Lobby/Night time
Mr. Chickering's Book Shoppe
The quaint little bookshop may not look like much from the outside, but step inside and you will be amazed. Every wall and surface is crammed with books. Dark and inviting, the book store is full of nooks and crannies to curl up in and escape for a while. Some even say Chickering's holds every book ever written...
Outside/Main study/Second story
The Library Pub
Your local watering hole. Stop by for a pint and a bite to eat, and make sure to join in on open mike night!
Entrance/Patio/Bar
tl;dr Comment here with any locations that your character(s) have locked in place.
Pocket Canon Adventures!
Jan. 15th, 2012 05:10 pmPocket canon adventures involve walking out of Burby and into a canon universe. Which universe is up to you.
While time in Burby corresponds to time in Real Life (1 day in Burby = 1 day in the real world), time in the Pocket Canon Worlds does not. Your character can spend a month in a Pocket Canon World and return to Burby to find that only a week has past.
If you're going to put up a pocket canon post, please format the opening of your post as follows:
While time in Burby corresponds to time in Real Life (1 day in Burby = 1 day in the real world), time in the Pocket Canon Worlds does not. Your character can spend a month in a Pocket Canon World and return to Burby to find that only a week has past.
If you're going to put up a pocket canon post, please format the opening of your post as follows:
What is this game?
We're your typical stranded-on-a-deserted-island game, but the only malicious, mysterious force holding them here is you. In other words, your characters are trapped here by simple bad luck. They can try to leave at any time, but there's no guarantee they'll get home.
Wait, what does that mean?
If your character leaves, they might stumble into a Pocket Canon World. This is a part of Faery that resembles another canon (or maybe even their own!) but which is not the actual canon world. Because it is a part of Faery, they will keep all of their memories of Burby.
Characters make it back to their Actual Canon Worlds when you drop them. Most conveniently, they will return to the point they originally left, and if they remember what happened to them in Faery, it will be only like a dream.
Are these Pocket Canon World events mod-run or player-run?
They are largely player-run, although occasionally there may be game-wide Pocket Canon events.
Are you journal-based or community-based?
We are community-based, with everything being posted to![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
stepsideways. Your characters have the option to find/buy/barter for a computer and access Burby's notoriously unreliable internet service, but this isn't necessary. You can post action threads/logs or voice/text/video entries from the internet.
Why do it like that?
Not all characters come from worlds that have technology. This makes posting and interacting easier for players who aren't comfortable handwaving the learning curve or having all their journal posts be some kind of accident.
What kind of interactions count towards activity?
Just about everything! If it is an interaction between two or more in-game characters, it may be used towards activity check, be it on the main comm or in personal journals. Characters maintaining 'voicemail/action' posts to aid interaction between characters is encouraged, and will count towards your activity.
What about entry tags?
Please add a tag for your character (canon - character name) to every entry you comment in or make in the community. (The better to then go back and stalk everything a character has ever done!)
Can I have my character keep memories from another game?
This will be taken on a case-by-case basis. If you wish to app a character with cast in the game, this first must be approved by the other cast members. If the cast does not agree with having a character with previous game history, we will ask you to re-submit your application with this history removed. In the case of OCs or characters without casts, simply go ahead and add the previous game history into the character history section of your app. Please be advised that we will expect your character personality to explain any changes in your character do to previous game history that may be read as OOC behaviour.
Can I have an original character?
Yup! We love OCs!
What about a genderswapped AU version of _____?
AU versions will be accepted on a case-by-case basis, similar to previous game history. It must be discussed and approved with any members of existing cast, and the character must be a fully fleshed out individual with complete history and character personality separate from the canon version of their character.
Where's the Friend Add list?
A Friend Add list is not maintained; it's too much trouble for mods and players to keep up. You can read journal entries throughstepsideways' member list.
What if I hate the community's layout?
You can view the community in your own layout, actually! Go to Organize > Manage Account > Display, and scroll down to the option that says "Journal View Stye." Select "My Own Style." Reading the community's friends list will be just like reading your own, except you don't have to worry about maintenance. Unless you want to, in which case you are also welcome to friend people manually.
Any other questions? Comment here!
We're your typical stranded-on-a-deserted-island game, but the only malicious, mysterious force holding them here is you. In other words, your characters are trapped here by simple bad luck. They can try to leave at any time, but there's no guarantee they'll get home.
Wait, what does that mean?
If your character leaves, they might stumble into a Pocket Canon World. This is a part of Faery that resembles another canon (or maybe even their own!) but which is not the actual canon world. Because it is a part of Faery, they will keep all of their memories of Burby.
Characters make it back to their Actual Canon Worlds when you drop them. Most conveniently, they will return to the point they originally left, and if they remember what happened to them in Faery, it will be only like a dream.
Are these Pocket Canon World events mod-run or player-run?
They are largely player-run, although occasionally there may be game-wide Pocket Canon events.
Are you journal-based or community-based?
We are community-based, with everything being posted to
stepsideways. Your characters have the option to find/buy/barter for a computer and access Burby's notoriously unreliable internet service, but this isn't necessary. You can post action threads/logs or voice/text/video entries from the internet. Why do it like that?
Not all characters come from worlds that have technology. This makes posting and interacting easier for players who aren't comfortable handwaving the learning curve or having all their journal posts be some kind of accident.
What kind of interactions count towards activity?
Just about everything! If it is an interaction between two or more in-game characters, it may be used towards activity check, be it on the main comm or in personal journals. Characters maintaining 'voicemail/action' posts to aid interaction between characters is encouraged, and will count towards your activity.
What about entry tags?
Please add a tag for your character (canon - character name) to every entry you comment in or make in the community. (The better to then go back and stalk everything a character has ever done!)
Can I have my character keep memories from another game?
This will be taken on a case-by-case basis. If you wish to app a character with cast in the game, this first must be approved by the other cast members. If the cast does not agree with having a character with previous game history, we will ask you to re-submit your application with this history removed. In the case of OCs or characters without casts, simply go ahead and add the previous game history into the character history section of your app. Please be advised that we will expect your character personality to explain any changes in your character do to previous game history that may be read as OOC behaviour.
Can I have an original character?
Yup! We love OCs!
What about a genderswapped AU version of _____?
AU versions will be accepted on a case-by-case basis, similar to previous game history. It must be discussed and approved with any members of existing cast, and the character must be a fully fleshed out individual with complete history and character personality separate from the canon version of their character.
Where's the Friend Add list?
A Friend Add list is not maintained; it's too much trouble for mods and players to keep up. You can read journal entries through
stepsideways' member list.What if I hate the community's layout?
You can view the community in your own layout, actually! Go to Organize > Manage Account > Display, and scroll down to the option that says "Journal View Stye." Select "My Own Style." Reading the community's friends list will be just like reading your own, except you don't have to worry about maintenance. Unless you want to, in which case you are also welcome to friend people manually.
Any other questions? Comment here!
Rules and Logistics
Jan. 12th, 2012 02:30 pmActivity
For a character to be considered active, they must have have tagged into at least 3 posts in a month, and made at least two comments to each thread.
World-building
The geography of Faery is very fluid. Burby itself is locked into its particular form, but the surrounding area is capricious and unreliable. You might walk from a friend's cottage in the forest and half a mile later find yourself in the desert.
Certain areas can be locked in place by powerful characters or groups of characters. These locations are listed here.
For a character to be considered active, they must have have tagged into at least 3 posts in a month, and made at least two comments to each thread.
Threads/logs that take place in a Pocket Canon World must include at least one other playable character.
World-building
The geography of Faery is very fluid. Burby itself is locked into its particular form, but the surrounding area is capricious and unreliable. You might walk from a friend's cottage in the forest and half a mile later find yourself in the desert.
Certain areas can be locked in place by powerful characters or groups of characters. These locations are listed here.
Burby
The town of Burby has a population of approximately 500 people. This includes playable and non-playable characters. Some are fae folk, some are monsters, and many are humans who stumbled in and have yet to find the way out.
Currency
All forms of currency are accepted in Burby…depending on the fae folk’s mood. Some shops are good about accepting money, but others demand a different price – the color of your hair, your favorite smell, or simply a favor owed. Be careful what bargains you make, and do try to do most of your shopping at establishments run more human folk.
The town of Burby has a population of approximately 500 people. This includes playable and non-playable characters. Some are fae folk, some are monsters, and many are humans who stumbled in and have yet to find the way out.
Currency
All forms of currency are accepted in Burby…depending on the fae folk’s mood. Some shops are good about accepting money, but others demand a different price – the color of your hair, your favorite smell, or simply a favor owed. Be careful what bargains you make, and do try to do most of your shopping at establishments run more human folk.
Applications
Jan. 12th, 2012 02:29 pm~TO APPLY~
Applications are open the first full weekend of every month, starting from 11:59 PM EST on that Thursday and running through 11:59 PM EST that Sunday.Apps are open all the time!- Before applying, please review the Taken list, rules and the FAQ.
- To apply, fill out the form below and post it in a comment.
- If you're interested in playing a Pocket Canon Character, please go here.
