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November EMP Meme
FOR GAME ADS: ➤ Put an ad up with the characters / crew / pairings / fetish you want for your game under the correct game header. This meme is primarily going to be focused on DWRP games but IJ and LJ games are allowed. ➤ PLEASE NOTE A RULE CHANGE HERE. ABSOLUTELY NO obnoxious coding (no font size > size 4 or 3 "big" tags, no oversized banners (they must be 250px in height or less), no blinking text, no obnoxious table html that doesn't collapse easily, no sparklies, no large pictures). Use all the colors you like, but please remember 3 "big" tags is the limit and that's only for headers or title text rather than for all the text in an ad. FOR GAME QUESTIONS: ➤ RPers interested in a game can create a header for the game and ask questions about that game that aren't easy to find on faqs, such as the actual pace vs. what's listed/what kind of plots are run/if the game leans more towards plotty or slice of life/if a game leans more towards network or logs, etc. Both anon questions and anon answers are welcome in this section just like in the rest of the meme. ➤ This thread is not for speaking about wank or drama in a game. There are anoncomms that exist for that. This thread is specifically for general questions about a game that rpers want to get perspective on from players already in the game. Answers can be slightly negative (such as saying app response is slow or that the plots are repetitive or similar things) but this should at least be worded politely. Unnecessary vitriol, any mention of personal drama or wank, or mod teams/individual mods/players being singled out, will be either frozen or screened (based on what seems right based on the content). FOR CHARACTER ADS: ➤ Put up an ad about the characters you are offering. For PSL ads, there is a separate subthread but for character ads for games, post directly to the meme post. Others will comment to you with the games/casts they want you to join. ➤ There is a "Find a Castmate" section, where you can talk about a cast you play in at a game, and try to lure people to join it. Not all games post to the meme or have a "wanted" section, so players that want to tempt people to their cast on their own can use this section for it. Please format this the same as the PSL section, where you post your character's canons in your subject. For the actual text of the ad you must use the "Find a Castmate" form provided at the bottom of this post so that these ads don't get huge. When listing who's currently in a cast, please do this in sentence form (with commas) rather than in list form. ➤ There is a "Find Crosscanon" section, where you can talk about a character you play and and desired crosscanon for that character. Please make sure this is not too generalized a search, because just wanting general crosscanon can be accomplished with the other sections of the meme. This is for specific characters or character types you're looking for. In the subject, please list the "Looking for [canon you're looking for]" rather than your character's canon. If looking for a character type, list the character type in as few words as possible. Do not make the subject huge or I'll screen your comment. For the actual text of the ad you must use the "Find Crosscanon" form provided at the bottom of this post so that these ads don't get huge. This section is only for game crosscanon as in the psl section people can list their preferences. ➤ Examples of crosscanon you can search for: You play The Flash from DC Comics and your dream CR is fellow speedster Quicksilver from Marvel. Or you might play a witch and want cr with other witches in general. Or maybe you play a good character messed up by evil parents and want to play against a villain character you know has evil parents, because you know it'd lead to some interesting negative CR. ➤ ABSOLUTELY NO obnoxious coding, with the same rules as the Game Ads Section above. ➤ If you're recommending a game to someone, try to match your suggestion to their needs. It's okay if part of your game rec is copy-pasted (such as what the game's about), but at least some part of the rec must be personalized to their ad. Try not to recommend the same game to every single ad, either. Ad spam that isn't individualized in some way will also be frozen or screened. Keep in mind this needs to be more specific than "this game has easy AC like you're asking for but meets none of your other requirements." Make sure you're advertising games that might click with that specific character, where a few elements fit what they're looking for. You should be thinking about the story reasons of how the character might click with the game. IN GENERAL: ➤ Don't be a dick. This isn't one of the anoncomms, so any snide comments or unnecessary commentary on the RP plans of others will be frozen or screened. MOD CONTACT: If there's trouble, tell me HERE, please! RESOURCES: DWRP Masterlist - A regularly updated basic list of public DWRP games. ![]() GAME/AD LINKS: General Game/Dressing Room Ads Link - New Games - Small Games - Medium/Large Games - Museboxes/Memes/Dressing Rooms/Misc. - Game Questions - Game Start Discussions/Questions PSL Offerings Find a Castmate Find Crosscanon Latest Page Textbox for Character Ads (Optional): Textbox for "Find a Castmate" Ads (Required): For "Find Crosscanon" Ads (Required): ➤ Important note: IP logging has turned on due to multiple instances past and present of problem players trying to return to the dwrp community via emp after being banned other places, so I'll be IP logging from now on, and will compare notes with the rpa and wg mods (as well as game mods) where appropriate if it seems like someone that has been mass banned. I will not pay attention to IPs otherwise. I don't care what people like playing or who's who. So please feel comfortable to keep doing your thing, anon or otherwise. The knowledge will only be used for really egregious problem cases. |
GAME/DRESSING ROOM ADS
NEW GAMES
BRANDED - a prospective smut game.
Branded is a panfandom sex game that takes place in a growing city on another world. It centers around "brand tattoos" that every character receives upon entry. Each tattoo has ten tally marks. As one day passes in game one mark disappears from the brand with disastrous consequences if a brand reaches zero tally marks. The brand can be reset to ten again only by participating in sexual acts.
Our interest check is live on plurk.
AUSTICE
Applications are open on a rolling basis, and the game does not have a player cap for the month of November, after which it will be capped at 30 players. There is no forced humanization, size/age limit, or power nerfing (aside from a feeling that powers are somewhat dampened during the daytime, a phenomenon to be investigated in-game), and if your character is dying at their canonpoint, they're dying in their game intro, there's no healing wounds for your first impression. While the initial group of characters arrived by train, arrival for new characters will be customized and noted upon acceptance. The death mechanic of this game involves the immediate but slow revival of characters who are fatally wounded/at the point of death; characters otherwise cannot die.
AC is due at the end of each month, and has been adjusted to: one open post/toplevel + one to two threads from a different post with at least 10 comments from you OR two to three threads with a combined total of 15 comments from you. These threads may be started in the current or previous month, but only the current month will count towards the comment count. Extra threads can be put towards bonuses after the month's AC is met.
The TDM is still active and serves as the game's TDM, game prologue, and intro log. TDM threads can be game canon if the player chooses; if they do, the character will retain their TDM memories up until the first mini-event during which cyclops shadow dogs attacked the town and dragged TDMers away. Their memories will then resume as described in the application acceptance comment. Major plot beats are summarized in the game lore page, and is information openly available to characters.
Other handy links:
Now and Then | Character-Driven Fantasy Game
SMALL GAMES
APOCALYPSE HOW: A cosmic horror mystery game
Skittering legs and unseen strands.
They catch and bind and hold in the dark.
Or maybe it's something more abstract...
Wastelands devoid of human life, empty, endless, lonely.
The press of a city, uncaring of lives that begin and end within it.
An errant spark that will bring all you have loved to ash.
Each of these fears, these private terrors that grow in the mind, have power over us. They shape our choices, our lives, our societies, our worlds. Fear can force us to grow, bloom, improve ourselves to overcome it. Or it can consume us and everything we hold dear.
You can't kill fear. You can't destroy it... but that doesn't mean you can't fight it.
If they fail, the world will be consumed and everyone in it may spend the rest of their existence in a personalized hellscape, tormented by otherworldly forces that create, feed upon, and embody fear. If they succeed, there might be a chance of figuring out why outsiders, PC and NPC alike, have been brought to this world and how to return them to their own.
Applications | Taken | Reserves
Navigation | Current TDM
annexed⠸ a sci-fantasy revolution game⠸ reserves and apps open!
All you know is that one moment you were in a world you were used to, comfortable in. It might have been a regular day or the most important day of your life. You wake up in what seems like the blink of an eye, nauseous and dizzy but otherwise unscathed, barefoot and dressed only in a set of plain grey clothing, trapped in an empty room. You start to lose track of time, the only sound the distant ticking of what sounds like a massive clock.
Just when things seem hopeless, when you feel like you're about to go mad, there's the sound of a commotion outside your door, and when the door opens, there's someone there ready to whisk you away. There's an opportunity to fight back.
Set on the Broken world, Annexed is a sci-fantasy panfandom game. Characters are kidnapped by the Sylphid, a race of magical creatures who reproduce by hollowing out the bodies of sentient creatures and inhabiting them, but immediately freed by an underground rebellion group called the Witches who seek to restore the world to what it was before the Sylphid annexed it. Characters joining the Witches are promised either a new home on their restored world, or access to the magitech that brought them to this world so they can return to their own. They are also tied to the energy of one of the planets - Heba or Tian - which will grant them the opportunity to develop different powers, and tasked with finding a Tether with someone tied to the energy of the opposite planet in order to maintain their energy balance lest they die slowly while losing their minds.
TEST DRIVE MEME
MEDIUM/LARGE GAMES
(frozen comment) COME SAIL AWAY - the adhd game
Welcome aboard. You aren’t the first. You could be the last.
CURRENT TDM
Applications Open
rules | apps | reserves | navigation
profile by tricklet
(frozen comment) Re: COME SAIL AWAY - the adhd game
So I've gotten a complaint about labeling this an "adhd game" that pointed out it's in slightly poor taste to label it with a disorder. I doubt you intend for it to be offensive (and know there's always the possibility someone on your mod team possibly even has it, for all I know) but I still need to judgement call it under the general politeness rules. I usually try not to police actual ad content, but I can see why some people might be bothered by it.
I would like for you to repost with it removed.
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(frozen comment) COME SAIL AWAY - the unfunny game tbh
Welcome aboard. You aren’t the first. You could be the last.
CURRENT TDM
Applications Open
rules | apps | reserves | navigation
profile by tricklet
(frozen comment) Re: COME SAIL AWAY - the unfunny game tbh
(Anonymous) 2022-11-13 06:52 pm (UTC)(link)(frozen comment) Re: COME SAIL AWAY - the unfunny game tbh
(frozen comment) Re: COME SAIL AWAY - the unfunny game tbh
(Anonymous) - 2022-11-13 19:17 (UTC) - Expand(frozen comment) Re: COME SAIL AWAY - the unfunny game tbh
Someone linked me to the wg thread where the copy paste of you insulting me was dropped. Pastebin style stuff has always been considered actionable for me. On the wg thread, people have run commentary confirming what you said (even in defense of you), so I have to base things on that, unless you have screencaps that prove otherwise. A lot of this will be in response to what you were cited as saying there.
Listen, I'm a volunteer. I've kept up with this for years for the dwrp community. I really don't ask for much back, but not being insulted in places that are public to at least a game-sized populations where it might filter to me isn't really a big ask. Especially when you had the option to PM me so I could explain my reasoning and what weighted the decision.
I don't have to prescribe to the idea of being a customer service robot. I get to choose how I react to things that are uncomfortable or upsetting to me, just like people get to choose whether they're okay with my reactions.
Unfortunately, this was brought to me because of the venue you chose and now I have to choose to react to how I feel about it. Had you done this in a place that never would've escaped to the public, or shouldn't have escaped to the public (like a private mod channel or private plurk clique) I would've disregarded this as you venting in a private place. But it seems like there are multiple confirmations it was in your main game discord.
Posting it somewhere your whole game can see is a patently dick move and the pettiness, lack of impulse control, and lack of foresight involved in not realizing how this could leak out makes me not want to have you in the same sphere as average players. Because it's ultimately my choice who gets to be allowed in a space where other members of the dwrp community as a whole get to mingle, and I can be conservative about protecting their comfort levels and about what people are allowed into that space.
Henceforth the mods of Come Sail Away are banned from posting game ads on EMP. When reading the wg thread I was linked people were apparently concerned this would limit your exposure and kill the game but you should've thought about that before blasting a hobby volunteer in a game's public space. Also, you still have places like RPA and people replurking game info and your tdms so you're not cut out of ads altogether.
Individual Come Sail Away players will not be banned from the "Find and Castmate" and "Find Crosscanon" sections. They don't deserve the repercussions from the situation you've caused, and I doubt they were all universally okay with your response, so I'm going to still allow them that, especially since "Find a Castmate" does allow for people to essentially put game blurbs.
FYI: a) I acted on your ad because I got an actual anon complaint from someone. b) I'm in the middle of being assessed for ADHD and my psychiatrist thinks I probably have it, and whatever's going on with my brain has felt debilitating my whole life, so I didn't think it was funny, and c) Since people with ADHD sometimes accidentally congregate, I also asked a few people with confirmed diagnoses that I know their honest feelings on the ad to try to have a measured response. I'm an anon mod, not Batman. My ID isn't secret to absolutely everyone so I have a bunch of solidly reasonable friends I sometimes can ask for outside opinions on stuff. Like a lot of RPers, they happen to have a grab bag of different types of neuroatypicality.
Overall consensus was it that it shouldn't be treated as intentionally hostile but that it was a bit tacky and tasteless to do that kind of edgy "I'm so bipolar!" "I'm so ADHD!" "I'm so OCD!" lol randumb humor that was originally circa 2002. Especially given some people find ADHD debilitating enough to not think it's funny.
It is totally cool for people to self-describe and joke around in their own spaces. If your players were laughing about the tendency for people with ADHD accidentally travel in packs, more power to everyone. But it crossed a line when it was put in the ad in a public forum for everyone else to come across and have their feelings affected by it, especially for those entirely distant from a game's inside jokes.
Since no group is a monolith, the fact it can be tacky and tasteless to some people with ADHD overrides people with ADHD in your game being chill with it, because at the end of the day your ad isn't hurt by not including it, but people's feelings can be bothered or hurt if it is included.
That's it. That's the calculus there. Trending towards caution towards people's feelings out of courtesy to the ones that might be bothered.
Also, wrt to not tapping you privately, almost every single mod and player I've ever cited for a rule break I've done with a public comment. In cases where they PMed me and private convo went south and didn't stay polite I also posted the screen caps to a thread in the mod contact page so others can see the situation for what it is and see whether I handled it well or not. People have always been able to make their judgements and decide whether they're okay with my responses or not.
It's about accountability, specifically my own. Nobody gets special treatment and has that taken privately when any users of the meme deserve that kind of transparency from me. The only times I sometimes have taken someone aside in PM is in situations where someone seems wholly new to modding and seems to be struggling with format or understanding how emp works, to give them advice. 99% of the time they PM me first.
I'll be locking this. Any further contact you extend will just be deleted unless you expressly have caps proving the convo went differently. I fully expect this to explode but I have to go grocery shop so I'll just have to deal with it when I'm back.
NOCTIUM ✦ A sex-friendly sci-fi/fantasy game with magic, retrofuturism, & monster transformations
Once every millennium, a new god is born, pulling in outworlders to be “bonded” to their power and influence. The planet has cycled through many gods this way for millions of years, but only Four Cardinal Gems remain. The premature birth of the newest Cardinal Gem, however, has turned the world of Noctium on its head.
✦ PREMISE ✦ APP ✦ TDM ✦ TAKEN ✦ FAQ ✦ NAV ✦
noctiumods
As the god of transformation, it is unknown why Malachite is unable to provide boons to the Gembonded. Slumbering in another plane of reality, the Four Cardinal Gems offer their power instead. But even these gifts have their own terms and conditions...
In order to stabilize the erratic powers of the newest deity, the Gembonded must work together to produce Manna. As more mysteries of Noctium unfold, so too do the looming dangers that could threaten all life on the planet and, quite possibly, beyond.
NOCTIUM is a sex-friendly sci-fi/fantasy panfandom roleplay set on the floating islands of an otherwise desolate planet inhabited by the gems. Characters arrive bound to one of the four Cardinal Gems, Amethyst, Sapphire, Emerald, and Ruby — each offering unique abilities and monster transformations.
The game′s themes vary from lighthearted to dark, including some body horror with the transformation elements. The open-world setting allows characters the freedom to make a life for themselves, hone their skills, learn magic, and seek out the planet′s deepest secrets and history.
APPLICATIONS ARE CURRENTLY OPEN
TDM IS POSTED BI-MONTHLY ON THE 26TH, 8PM EST
MUSEBOXES/MEMES/DRESSING ROOMS/MISC
For memes, please don't link memecomms or crosslink memes that are posted to dedicated memecomms (ex.
[A Faraway Place] - A Pokemon Dressing Room
Welcome to the World of Pokemon!
You seem to have drifted into a mysterious Faraway Place.
Would you like to start your new adventure? ⏷
No applications required, and we're backtag-friendly! If you're looking for a place to voicetest or set up scenarios in a Pokemon setting for your Pokemon characters, this is the place!
NAVIGATION ☆ RULES ☆ FAQ ☆ SETTING
Main Comm:
OOC Comm:
GAME QUESTIONS
You can also use this space to ask general game questions like "What games accept CRAUS?" or "What games have a fast pace and aren't SOL?"
Re: GAME QUESTIONS
(Anonymous) 2022-11-13 04:39 am (UTC)(link)GAME START DISCUSSIONS/QUESTIONS
Ask questions regarding starting a new game here. Please put the topic of your post (i.e. "looking for comods," or "interest check for a steampunk sci fi game") in the subject of your comment.
interest check / looking for mods / et all
One:
Setting is a god computer, in the middle of the space-time continuum. When the world ends, consciousness is kept in a waiting room of sorts until a new world / realm can be made. Since this hinges on a multi-level like full on apocalypse end of all life reverse big-bang situation all characters from all respective realms are brought into the god-machine to wait for the universe to stabilize and rebuild itself. lots of gains, customizations, etc --
there's more to it, but that's the basic concept. i have a google doc full of stuff on this one.
Two:
A world made sick by a dimensional rift pulls in others (from adjacent dimensions) that are made sick because of the fabrics of reality being torn. Syfy-Fantasy based with two respective areas dark & light, a power system, gain system, and mirror system. I have some light concept stuff on this in a gdoc as well.
there is a third one cooking but it's a bit raw still haha my problem is that i'm not really a mod. i'm a list-manager and app-team person at best and I'd love to run these ideas around with someone more experienced. pm this journal if you wanna help or have any suggestions. appreciate you all. hope the fall has treated everyone well.
Interest Check / Looking for mods
The first one is a game which focuses on fourth walling/the dread of knowing you are just a character in a story/you are at complete mercy to the gods. A Dear Mun/Muse mixed with game?
The second one is a game with the setting of general premise of Handead Anthem (Link to unoffical Handead Anthem Wiki but also has some info here) but panfandom. A focus on saving the world/competing with groups, maybe? With a focus on idol/music. A bigger focus on worldwide group/people.
I'm available for talking on this journal's PM,
Timing question
(Anonymous) 2022-11-14 03:15 am (UTC)(link)A. Interest check in December, TDM early January?
B. Interest check early January, TDM mid-January?
C. Interest check mid-January, TDM early February?
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