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enablemeplz) wrote2023-08-12 06:52 pm
enablemeplz) wrote2023-08-12 06:52 pm
August 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. ➤ All mod responses regardless of whether they're rule breaks, correction requests (like someone posting in the wrong section), or thwapping someone for spamming copy-paste ads, have always been and will almost universally be public. If someone sends a PM and the conversation gets combative, this will also be made public and posted to the comments of the mod contact page. This is for the sake of transparency so people can judge the emp mod's communications for fairness themselves. There are times where the player's post may be screened (such as if they posted to the wrong section) but the mod's response will be left unscreened. ➤ Players may sometimes be allowed more than one strike for copy-paste ads since this is often just enthusiasm behind it, but game mods should know better. They'll get one warning for copy-paste ads, and if they spam anymore copy-paste ads after the warning, they'll be banned from the meme. MOD CONTACT: If there's trouble, tell me HERE, please! RESOURCES: DWRP Masterlist - A regularly updated basic list of public DWRP games. ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small} dedoralive - A more detailed listing of 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. |
FFVII at Folkmore
[fandom]: Final Fantasy VII
[game's current cast]: Zack, Cloud, Aerith, Reno (CRAU)
[who I play]: Reno (CRAU)
[wanted]: I'd love some more Shinra people! But I'd be excited for anyone!
[game info]: Folkmore is a friendly, relaxed game with check-in AC. Plot ranges from cottagecore slice of life to horror elements with a variety of events. The game is invite-only, but invites are relatively easy to obtain as everyone has seemed to find someone they know already here. Mods are also willing to give invites to people. Multiple versions of characters are allowed, AU/CRAU is allowed, OCs are allowed and there is no time restriction on application samples.
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Re: FFVII at Folkmore
Re: FFVII at Folkmore
We had a trial in the past that was very Ferngully meets Princess Mononoke vibe where this big toxic monster fueled by humanity's physical/emotional pollution was making its slow trek through part of the world and was turning the land into a poisonous swamp. Characters could participate in evacuation efforts, had to deal with the area of effect, there were new creatures added to the world that influenced how the characters could travel or be healed. The plants and other animals in the area were mutated to become hostile and would attack characters. Characters exposed to the toxins could have their role/powers temporarily changed and they'd have to learn how to use the new ones (i.e., someone who had been a Legend was exposed and changed into a Familiar and lost their wings then started shifting into animals without being able to control it). During the night, a complementary spirit would come through and begin healing the land but it would start again in the morning. People had to use whatever methods they could to clean up the place and be kind to the earth to assist the nature spirit to restore balance.
An event I really liked was one where everyone was transported to the desert region and they had to work together to make it out/to an oasis to survive. Finding a buddy and sharing resources would magically make things feel less hot or generate more water in their canteen. There was a mirage effect that created someone from a character's past -- possibly an enemy, possibly a loved one -- who would attack the character and others. The only way to stop them was the character they were linked to had to face them and overcome them since they were connected; the mirage was invincible to everyone else. Lots of Feels and character growth and revisiting trauma in that one.
Similarly, there was a TDM prompt where people found themselves in an abandoned cabin during a cold front in the more tundra-esque region and there was only 1 small blanket -- but opening up and talking to each other, getting to know each other, would make the blanket grow so it could warm both people.
Most of the events are usually aimed at characters discovering the "trick" to solving the problem, and there are better and worse ways to do things. To survive the desert, one might steal a selkie skin to protect themselves from the elements, but they'd be depriving another creature and the selkie of course wouldn't be able to return to the water. OR you could choose a more difficult path and rely on someone else, etc. So there's still opportunity for villains to be villains, or heroes to contemplate just how self-sacrificing they're REALLY willing to be when it hurts, or what limits someone might reconsider under different circumstances. Character death is very much a possibility to explore but never mandatory. There's a lot of player freedom for how far they want to go or not in any situation.
Re: FFVII at Folkmore
Oh, those sound really interesting! I would like those kinds of events.
Do characters need to have magical powers/transformations for gameplay to work, or are they able to fully play without any if they've never had any in canon and the player doesn't wish to give them any?
Re: FFVII at Folkmore
The character roles that someone gets upon arrival (Legend, Familiar, Myth) have abilities/traits attached, but how they manifest is entirely up to you. For example, Legends often have stereotypical angelic features including big wings, but you could just as easily have itty-bitty wings that are primarily decorative and otherwise useless lol. Familiars can shift into animals but you could limit what kind/s, and it's also very variable for how much beast-trait can be visible even as a human (i.e., do they have a tail now?)
So someone who was already a hero like, say, Captain America might be even Stronger and also have a halo; but Steve down the street could also have a mini halo but otherwise is still your average retail employee. Maybe he shelves stuff faster.
Re: FFVII at Folkmore
Re: FFVII at Folkmore
That would probably be a question best put to the mods.
That said, you can choose whatever role you want based on so many factors if you feel like they'd canonically be shunted into one. They could be a Legend or a Myth based on something like how they think about themselves, or how others perceive them; if their behavior is primarily for others or self-serving; there's a lot of ways to look at it. So if you really don't want them to shift, maybe their role doesn't have to be limited to Familiar. :)
Re: FFVII at Folkmore