InsaneJournal

Tweak says, "no matter who you're ever with"

Ascendio Moderator (ascendio_mod) wrote,
@ 2010-07-15 20:32:00

Entry tags:

! apply, ! resources

ASCENDIO

RULES/FAQ

Conduct

Your mod is a big believer in tough love. We're all grownups so we need to pull up our big boy and girl panties and get along. You don't have to love everyone you game with but you do need to treat them with respect. I don't like people fighting and I don't like people that start drama and I don't like to hear people talking about each other and not playing nice. That being said, here's the basics.

No Drama. It makes the bear cranky.

IC ≠ OOC.

Play with everyone. Yes, we're serious. Let's pretend this is preschool again and everybody likes each other and wants to share the bouncy thing. Cliques are so 2007.

Respect each other both IC and OOC. Don't make me come over and kick heads.

Passive-Aggressive behaviour doesn't make your friends happy and I don't like it either.

Follow posting formats and place all logs and pictures behind a cut.

Place ratings and appropriate warnings on logs. Logs should not exceed an R rating.

Natural character progression is expected, however if your character severely deviates from what was represented when applying in their actions, you may be asked to revise them so they are more IC. If this continues you may be asked to drop the character.

Major plot should be run by the mod, including character death, marriage, pregnancy, and serious illness. If you are unsure, ask.

Sensitive plots such as rape, abuse, and incest do not have a place in this game. There are other places if that's what floats your boat. If you think your plot might be sensitive, ask.

Play with yourself in the privacy of your own home. Excessive self character interaction will be scrutinized. RPing means playing with other people's characters in addition to your own.

Every time you Godmod a kitten dies.

Activity

The most important thing for a successful game is active and enthuasiastic participation. Poor activity and interaction will be noted and taken into consideration for future characters as well as activity checks. The minimum activity for each character are two pieces of activity made up of any combination of the following. Lord Voldemort, Millicent Bagnold, and Albus Dumbledore will require three pieces of activity monthly.

A journal entry of 200 words (journal entries may be combined to reach 200 words)
A narrative of at least 500 words.
A log of at least three substantial tags
An IC/OOC log of at least six tags

Activity checks will be held on the fifteenth of every month and players that do not respond will be dropped without warning.

Holds/Character Limits

Holds last five days with one extension of two days. If you desire an extension you must ask for one. If an application is not turned in after your hold expires, the hold will be dropped and you will not be eligible to re-hold for three days to give others a chance. Y You may hold one character at a time. Once you have submitted an application you may hold a second character. After two weeks of active game play, you may hold another. No player may have more than four characters for now due to the nature of the game and the time frame involved. and the mod reserves the right to reject third and fourth character requests for players who have only the minimal activity or below.

Limits have been set on certain character types. Once these have reached a certain number, the type may be frozen until the other categories begin filling in. Please note that all characters must be over the age of seventeen to be played, which means they must have been born no later than 1952. There are several popular characters that are unavailable but as they would be of school age or younger they are considered unplayable.

Played By's

A word about PB's. PB's for this game should be era appropriate and be fitting an average person living in the 1960's or 1970's. They should also be age appropriate for the character. An era appropriate list of PB suggestions is available here. The mod reserves the right to reject any PB's deemed unsuitable.

An example of a period appropriate PB: Kelly MacDonald in Girl in the Cafe
An example of an inappropriate PB: Megan Fox in Anything.

Logs/Narratives

Logs may take the form of either third person logs or narratives posted in complete form or IC/OOC logs in which players may thread tags of any length in character or discuss what their characters did within the log OOCly. Logs may be written via Google Docs, Email, or IM but are expected to be behind a cut, centered, formatted into a completed document including a justified table for ease of reading and without special character annotations or unusual formatting. An example of a third person log may be found here and an example of an IC/OOC log here.

All third person entries should be posted in the main community and tagged with the participants as well as the month of completion. The following format should be used as a header for the log including all pertinent details, warnings, etc. To format the document into a table, with appropriate headers, add the following to the top of the document.

Who: Characters Involved
What: Brief Summary
Where: Place
When: Day of the Week, Date, and Approximate Time
Status: Logged,Narrative,IC,OOC / Complete, Placeheld, or Incomplete

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How do the Journals work?

The journals are what they are, essentially a magical book that receives content from its owner either written, spellotaped in, or in the case of blood, tears, beverages, or ink (and only blood, tears, beverages, and ink thank you) deposited. They have been around since the 1940's and were originally used to help school children communicate with each other. Since then they have evolved into more widespread use, and are a very popular diversion at the current time for people to keep up with friends, current events, or in general just vent their spleen. While the magic involving the journals is quite complex (and under patent until the year 2000) their general use is quite simple. The journals respond to simple magical commands and a wand is not needed to operate them. Theoretically Muggles could operate journals, but as that would be a violation of the statute of secrecy, all journals have Anti-Muggle wards on them so that when they open the book they will see merely an instruction manual for a bicycle. In Swedish.

Journal entries may be public or warded to individuals. Public entries are visible to everyone on the journal network, which means essentially anyone in possession of a magical journal. There are two journal networks available, one for children under the age of majority and one for adults, and which network a journal is connected to is stated clearly inside the front cover. In addition, age wards automatically included in the journals prevent children from reading or writing public entries in their parents journals however no such ward exists in the reverse. This means that children cannot write in or communicate in an adult journal no matter how adorable the idea might seem, and parents can monitor public entries in their children's journals if they wish. Warded entries, however, are unbreakable.

To post an entry or a reply to an entry to the network, the user simply writes the entry then taps the bottom of the page with their quill to post it. To ward an entry private or to certain individuals, the user writes the ward above the entry or comment prior to posting it. The ward must contain the recipients name, a specific group of people (Ex: All Healers at St Mungos or Employees of The Department of Mysteries) or sufficient detail that it is unmistakable who the ward is intended for. Nonspecific or general wards may possibly be read by anyone meeting the same description. For example, warding an entry "Friends" is nonspecific and the journal would therefore automatically ward it private as a default. Wards such as "To the Redhaired Girl I met yesterday" are more specific but could be read by any red haired girls that you met, even if you didn't speak with them. For ease of use we will assume last names are not necessary, however if there are multiple characters with the same name it might be best from a player standpoint. For that same reason, warding to someone by their last name only could result in multiple people with that last name being able to read the entry. For clarity, please see the following examples.

Correct Examples of Warding:

[Warded to Frank, Alice, Albus]

[Warded to Frank Longbottom, Alice Longbottom, Albus Dumbledore]

[Warded to the Department of Magical Law Enforcement]

Incorrect Examples of Warding:

[Warded to Friends] (subjective and could vary from day to day)

[Warded to People that don't like Frank] (the magic is incapable of discerning something so subjective)

[Warded to Longbottom] (conceivably could be read by anyone with the name Longbottom)

[Warded to the Ugliest Person I know] (subjective therefore nonspecific)

Due to the complicated nature of the magic involved, multiple wards per entry are beyond the magical capabilities of the journals. Journal entries must be either warded completely public, completely private, or warded to one specific person or group. Separate comments or entries are necessary for each ward a user desires to post. To direct a second ward or comment to another party you would need to post an entirely new entry.

Correct:

[Warded to Alice and Mary] Let's have a girl's night soon, shall we? Cornelius is driving me a bit mad.

Incorrect:

[Warded to Alice and Mary] Let's have a girl's night soon, shall we? Cornelius is driving me a bit mad.

[Warded to Cornelius] Hello darling! I cannot wait to see you tonight, I've missed you!