Post by Admin on Oct 5, 2012 2:39:15 GMT -5
.......Personal SL Spice : Everyone has had a time when their story or their characters get a little boring, we have all had it happen at one point or another, so we understand when our members wish to add a little spice and variety to their play to give their characters a little depth. However, just because you're bored, does not mean that you need to :
.......A. Have your character get knocked up after dating someone for a month.
.......B. Have your character get in some sort of horrible, life altering accident. IE, falling down two flights of stairs where they break every bone in their
..............legs yet somehow don't break their necks, get into a horrible car accident, etc.
.......C. Have your character get pregnant and have a brutal miscarriage;
.......D. Have your character get raped; [This would require Moderator/Owner approval as well as the agreement of the other mun]
.......E. Have your character attempt to commit suicide; and or any other equally as drastic line of play.
.......Rape, pregnancy, suicide, and miscarriage is NOT the answer you should first leap towards first. Please remember that any and all actions you decide to take with your character will be permanent. We will not allow you to kill your character on a whim and then run back to us a few days later to undo it. There is no magic button to undo death, sadly. If you are having trouble thinking of things, PLEASE contact the staff for ideas! This is what the Game of Chance is for. Spice!
.......Pregnancies : This is a tricky subject in SLs. Most stories choose not to allow pregnancies, however, here in GHU/SW we do allow them, within reason. Once more, don't impregnate your character just for the sake of doing so or because you are bored. Remember, that if your characters boyfriend up and leaves her, she'll get to be a single mommy unless she gets a new boyfriend who doesn't mind being baby daddy. Remember, babies are permanent things your character will have to live with and take care of for the next 18 years. If your character has a child and is out partying 24-7, that is your choice, however, if they are critisized for it - we warned you. Think hard about this. [[Please see the extended rules page for our rules and guidelines concerning pregnancies]]
.......Flaws : Your character should have them, while this is RP and our SL is a touch un-realistic, we hold by real life rules. Your character isn't going to be perfect in every single way, they'll have physical and character flaws. But then again it shouldn't be too extreme. Don't make them a druged out, psychotic, slut with more kids than the Duggers with their 19 and counting.
.......Wealth : All things need to be in moderation. Keep in mind, once more, this is a small town in Massachusetts, the odds of your characters with a net worth of $30m coming to an institution this size and this unknown is small. We understand the want for your character to have lots of money, but please keep in mind we won't allow you to have all of your characters be extremely wealthy and drive $2m cars. The odds of John Doe needing a bugatti here is slim. While we are more than happy and more than pleased to allow people to have wealthy characters, the staff reserves the right to limit this when we feel there are enough wealthy people in the SL. We will NO LONGER accept characters with net worths in the billions, while we will accept wealthy characters, characters worth hundreds of millions will probably be asked to be put on hold.
.......Fame : Yes, everyone wants it, but the odds of your character being English royalty and being sent here? Slim. Same goes for the spawn of Superstars. And or, superstas themselves. We understand you want to be special, but we would more than love to help you figure out how without it being entirey unrealistic. While the point of Role-play is to enjoy something you aren't/don't have in every day life it's also our job to make sure it's not outside the realm of posibility! IF you want your character to be well known you must contact the staff with this. We want to know the plot so everyone else can be aware of the fact. Please keep in mind that these spots are limited.
.......Foreign Soil : This is a small local college in the middle of a small town in Massachusets. The this lessens odds of your character bussing into this random school for no particular reason from England/Russia/Australia. We're sure there will be some students, say that they're on sort of a 'exchange program' of sorts but to say they traveled all the way from England to give up super prestegious schools there to go to a small time school in Salem is unrealistic. The odds of a school with 150 characters and 50 of them are from non North American locations is slim. The staff here at GHU/SW reserves the right to turn down foreign students if the quota is already maxed out.
Family//NPCS : The use of Non-playing characters [NPCs] is allowed, with owner approval. We encourage our members to play NPCs at bars, diners, wherever in SW//GHU, however, all NPCs who are either permanent or semi-permanent fixtures in your characters day to day lives and if they, through your characers FB, or their own [but are not a full time played character] interact with other characters, they will require approval from the GHU//SW Staff prior to being played or used. This of course excludes if your characters BFF or family who is visiting for a few days and they come into play rarely. However, any NPC characters staying around for major plots that will involve the SL as a whole or a good portion of it will need to be approved of ahead of time so that the staff is aware.
..............Note: As this is a joint storyline, some characters in the town can be/will be allowed NPCs that come with them. Say John Smith moves in and while he is a single father and has no wife, he does have children. We do not allow any playable characters under 18, however we do allow muns to occupy FC[face claims] for their minor NPC characters. Please contact the staff with these [within reason].
..............Also, while we understand that it is hard for characters to come into storylines without contacts, especially new muns, please do not invent children/siblings previously unknown to your character and never mentioned before just to give someone an in. Old school chums is great, but inventing three bastard children or siblings your character never met before now, will not be allowed.
.......A. Have your character get knocked up after dating someone for a month.
.......B. Have your character get in some sort of horrible, life altering accident. IE, falling down two flights of stairs where they break every bone in their
..............legs yet somehow don't break their necks, get into a horrible car accident, etc.
.......C. Have your character get pregnant and have a brutal miscarriage;
.......D. Have your character get raped; [This would require Moderator/Owner approval as well as the agreement of the other mun]
.......E. Have your character attempt to commit suicide; and or any other equally as drastic line of play.
.......Rape, pregnancy, suicide, and miscarriage is NOT the answer you should first leap towards first. Please remember that any and all actions you decide to take with your character will be permanent. We will not allow you to kill your character on a whim and then run back to us a few days later to undo it. There is no magic button to undo death, sadly. If you are having trouble thinking of things, PLEASE contact the staff for ideas! This is what the Game of Chance is for. Spice!
.......Pregnancies : This is a tricky subject in SLs. Most stories choose not to allow pregnancies, however, here in GHU/SW we do allow them, within reason. Once more, don't impregnate your character just for the sake of doing so or because you are bored. Remember, that if your characters boyfriend up and leaves her, she'll get to be a single mommy unless she gets a new boyfriend who doesn't mind being baby daddy. Remember, babies are permanent things your character will have to live with and take care of for the next 18 years. If your character has a child and is out partying 24-7, that is your choice, however, if they are critisized for it - we warned you. Think hard about this. [[Please see the extended rules page for our rules and guidelines concerning pregnancies]]
.......Flaws : Your character should have them, while this is RP and our SL is a touch un-realistic, we hold by real life rules. Your character isn't going to be perfect in every single way, they'll have physical and character flaws. But then again it shouldn't be too extreme. Don't make them a druged out, psychotic, slut with more kids than the Duggers with their 19 and counting.
.......Wealth : All things need to be in moderation. Keep in mind, once more, this is a small town in Massachusetts, the odds of your characters with a net worth of $30m coming to an institution this size and this unknown is small. We understand the want for your character to have lots of money, but please keep in mind we won't allow you to have all of your characters be extremely wealthy and drive $2m cars. The odds of John Doe needing a bugatti here is slim. While we are more than happy and more than pleased to allow people to have wealthy characters, the staff reserves the right to limit this when we feel there are enough wealthy people in the SL. We will NO LONGER accept characters with net worths in the billions, while we will accept wealthy characters, characters worth hundreds of millions will probably be asked to be put on hold.
.......Fame : Yes, everyone wants it, but the odds of your character being English royalty and being sent here? Slim. Same goes for the spawn of Superstars. And or, superstas themselves. We understand you want to be special, but we would more than love to help you figure out how without it being entirey unrealistic. While the point of Role-play is to enjoy something you aren't/don't have in every day life it's also our job to make sure it's not outside the realm of posibility! IF you want your character to be well known you must contact the staff with this. We want to know the plot so everyone else can be aware of the fact. Please keep in mind that these spots are limited.
.......Foreign Soil : This is a small local college in the middle of a small town in Massachusets. The this lessens odds of your character bussing into this random school for no particular reason from England/Russia/Australia. We're sure there will be some students, say that they're on sort of a 'exchange program' of sorts but to say they traveled all the way from England to give up super prestegious schools there to go to a small time school in Salem is unrealistic. The odds of a school with 150 characters and 50 of them are from non North American locations is slim. The staff here at GHU/SW reserves the right to turn down foreign students if the quota is already maxed out.
Family//NPCS : The use of Non-playing characters [NPCs] is allowed, with owner approval. We encourage our members to play NPCs at bars, diners, wherever in SW//GHU, however, all NPCs who are either permanent or semi-permanent fixtures in your characters day to day lives and if they, through your characers FB, or their own [but are not a full time played character] interact with other characters, they will require approval from the GHU//SW Staff prior to being played or used. This of course excludes if your characters BFF or family who is visiting for a few days and they come into play rarely. However, any NPC characters staying around for major plots that will involve the SL as a whole or a good portion of it will need to be approved of ahead of time so that the staff is aware.
..............Note: As this is a joint storyline, some characters in the town can be/will be allowed NPCs that come with them. Say John Smith moves in and while he is a single father and has no wife, he does have children. We do not allow any playable characters under 18, however we do allow muns to occupy FC[face claims] for their minor NPC characters. Please contact the staff with these [within reason].
..............Also, while we understand that it is hard for characters to come into storylines without contacts, especially new muns, please do not invent children/siblings previously unknown to your character and never mentioned before just to give someone an in. Old school chums is great, but inventing three bastard children or siblings your character never met before now, will not be allowed.