Town Square Rules and Guidelines

[Kylin]

Welcome to the Town Square section! This area is meant for stories, journals, and interactive forum RP between characters.

 

Should your thread be open to responses (IC or OOC), please indicate as such with an [Open] tag in the title and/or by making a quick OOC comment in the first post. Otherwise, everyone should assume that the post is closed to responses.

 

For interactive scenes, authors may post the setting, rules, and other relevant info for the thread in their first post if they wish to.

 

When the thread has concluded in an interactive scene (after the author exits the scene), authors are asked to lock it. You will find this feature beneath the last post of the page under a drop down menu titled "quick-mod tools." Please give those involved time to properly exit the scene before locking it on them. Those who wish to continue the scene should do so in a new thread.

 

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Rules and Guidelines:

 

1. This section is strictly for FF14 related content. Do not post Twilight fan fiction here!

 

2. No god mode or metagaming. See the RPC's official definitions in the Assembly Room sticky for more details. All posted content is OOC knowledge unless specified otherwise by the author (unless it's a newsworthy event, such as an explosion in a city).

 

3. All interactive scenes take place in present day unless indicated otherwise by the author.

 

4. Be courteous: If you jump into an interactive thread to interact with someone, please be respectful enough to check the thread often rather than waiting days or longer to do so. It's a huge blow to the flow of interaction if someone suddenly disappears from the scene for a long period of time, leaving the author and everyone else involved high and dry.

 

5. Please refrain from posting OOC/IC responses to a person's story unless given permission beforehand. If you have any OOC comments about it, please send them to the author via PM.

 

6. We are rated between Teen and Mature for content. That means no detailed sex scenes or anything of that nature. If your RP group allows that, that's fine. But you'll still have to keep those types of stories posted on their boards or edit it appropriately before posting it here. Anything violating this will be removed by a moderator or administrator and a notice of its removal will be sent to the author via PM. "Fade-to-Black" should be used when necessary.

[Kylin]

Guys, please lock your open/request threads when they're done. It's too confusing to those who may want to jump into a thread and not know if it's done or not. All authors have the ability to lock threads when they are complete. When in your thread, simply scroll to the bottom of the page and you'll see a lock option on a drop down menu. Of course, be sure to give participants time to exit the scene before locking it on them though.

 

I went ahead and locked all open/request threads that haven't seen a reply in about a month. If you wish to revive it, please contact a mod to have it unlocked again.

[Sizina]

Like a story background of our character? I've been actually wondering where I'd go to make my back story huehue ==

[Sword_of_the_MacLeods]

There doesn't seem to be an Assembly Room sticky anymore, so concerning rule 2: I'm assuming God Mode is something like... taking on Shinryu singlehandedly? And Metagaming is fourth wall breaking stuff?

[Squeeks1337]

Sword_of_the_MacLeods: While I'm sure that something like you are describing would probably count as being a bit god-like but god-modding tends to be more about taking actions for other characters. For instance, 'Jiinu slaps K'lyhia in the face, causing her to grab her cheek in pain.' It would be more appropriate for me to say that Jiinu attempts to slap K'lyhia or if Jiinu's ability to slap her is not in question at least allow K'lyhia to post her own reaction.

 

Metagaming could include breaking the fourth wall but basically means applying player knowledge to cause a character to behave as if they knew the information. If you know something that your character has not had the opportunity to learn yet but you cause them to take an action as if they already knew it (or taking an action that your character would not normally take based on you wishing them to avoid something that you know about) then you are meta-gaming.

 

Hope this helps. There are likely other interpretations of these two rules as well but these are how I've come to understand them over the years.