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06 May 2010 @ 11:48 am
05 May 2010 @ 07:32 am
[INSTRUCTIONS: If you're part of the game please click on the series that your character is from, complete the fill-out located within the series' post & then comment into the series' post with the completed fill-out. If you are NOT a part of the game & wish to see which characters are already taken, please click on the series the character you are thinking of picking up is from.]
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11 December 2007 @ 02:04 pm
A good way to receive feedback on your characters, as well as to get in to contact with fellow players in a pinch, is through the use of a crit post. You can put one for all your characters in one location, and then link to it, in a post in your journal or in your profiles, or you can have one for each individual character at in their journals.
If you are not comfortable with the possibility of receiving concrit in this way, you are not required to make one by our current rules, though it is encouraged as a means of communication between our players. Likewise, whether you allow anon commentary or not is up to you.
However, we the moderators cannot police crit posts. Since most are done anonymously, we don't know their identities. If you receive signed abuse, we can address it, but otherwise, it is beyond our control, so we advise in those cases to ignore comments that are not crit, but are simply abuse. You are, though, free to come to us if you have proof of harassment by another player, and we will do all we can to address it.
10 December 2007 @ 07:23 pm
DO ADVERTISE FOR;
⇒ characters seeking interactions
⇒ wanting certain information come to light
⇒ looking for helpers for activities/actions
⇒ needing some help with a plot
DO NOT ADVERTISE FOR;
⇒ things that need to go on
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poly_tldr, like needing volunteers for plots like murders, blowing up buildings- anything you need mod permission for, you still need permission for.WE HEAR YOUR PRAYERS. ... or something like that.
Ever had something you really wanted to do with a character, but didn't have the means? Ever wanted to contact a certain type of character, but was too shy to click "send" on the messenger? Ever wanted your character to get out and interact, but are unsure who would be willing to help you out?
All in all, this is a place where you can place a classified ad of sorts. Pimp My Plot, the Plot Classified, whatever you'd like to think of it as, either way, this is a page where you can browse for interactions. Whether you already have an idea you need some help carrying out, or are browsing trying to be that person who can help some else-
Hopefully there will be something for just about anyone? How exactly shall we go across this, you ask? Here's two example.
Character: John Doe ::
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usernameGoal: John Doe figuring out that he's the son of the famous Sally and James Doe.
Seeking: Psychics, fortune tellers, prophets, anyone who would be able to find out or already know information like that.
Contact: johndoesplayer [AIM], johndoe@email.com
So now you have some options. If you play a character like that, you can reply to this comment, (or, email or messanger), with interest. "Hey, John Doe's player? I play The Psychic Character, maybe they can interact sometime, and we can lead up to that somehow?" If you have another idea how they can do this, perhaps, "Hey, there's a curse coming up where other people can see your past, maybe my character can see it, and tell him about it later?", suggest it!
After all, the goal here is to assist people in character interactions and developments!
If you're all ready- go ahead and fill out the template and give it a while, o Polyite!
09 December 2007 @ 04:02 pm
We would like to ask you to please enforce the following courtesy : in each one of your characters' profiles, include the following...
While it's definitely not obligatory to have it in this format (we're only providing this template for those who feel less than inspired when it comes to these things), try to get this information in your profile.
As regards the recently added 4th walling line, please clarify there whether you will allow 4th walling with your character (explained here) and to what degree, if any.
It's very important that both other players and we should have easy and reliable contact information for you. Communication is loooooooove, yes?
28 November 2007 @ 11:43 am
12 June 2007 @ 11:13 am
All you never wanted to know about finding what and where in POLYchromatic, drink on the house. Keep stirring.
08 May 2007 @ 05:37 pm
...for all your stoning conveniences.
This information is being put up so you can have the chance to address the moderator who caters to the exact issue you're interested in. While App Duty and Customer Service are shared, the Fluff Puff Muffin Berry Unit stands in the following task formula:
- ✭ BON
[deity]: mouse
[time]: PST
[e-mail]: oh.snap.replies [@] gmail.com
[messenger]: thatcerealkiller [AIM]
✭ CARU
[deity]: laszlo
[time]: EST
[e-mail]: cateyed.crow [@] gmail.com
[messenger]: cateyedcrow [AIM]
✭ MARY
[deity]: bertol
[time]: EST
[e-mail]: tiger_lily35 [@] hotmail.com
[messenger]: girlsgetugly [AIM]
[Y!IM]: sluttylittleyoda
✭ MOLLY
[deity]: lina
[time]: PST
[e-mail]: pirateslife4meee [@] hotmail.com
[messenger]: LadyOfTheBlade11 [AIM]
✭ RIZU
[deity]: sabine
[time]: EST
[e-mail]: deidei.kun [@] gmail.com
[messenger]: steelandpride [AIM]
We will try to put up notices of when particular mods are hiatused // partly active here. Also, if for whatever reason you don't feel comfortable posting in the PROBLEMS or Q & A thread and would like to contact a specific moderator, you are more than welcome to do so.
06 May 2007 @ 11:50 pm
05 May 2007 @ 09:08 pm
City!Death
(n.) a state in which a citizen no longer has a heartbeat or normal body temperature but maintains regular brain activity
Who is considered City!Dead?
A character who comes to the game after dying in their own canon is City!Dead. A character who dies in the game (with the exception of curse days) is City!Dead.
How does City!Death work?
Once a character dies, their body remains lifeless for 24 hours. After that 24 hour period, the character is allowed to "come back to life" as City!Dead.
Bodies can be moved within that 24 hour period, but a body can reanimate only after 24 hours. If a body has been completely vaporized, the body will simply come into existence at any location the player chooses, preferably a location important to the character or a location related to where they died.
If a body has been mutilated or dismembered, a player is free to decide what wounds the character keeps as City!Dead and what wounds can be healed or surgically corrected. For example, if a character has their hand severed before death, the player can choose to have the character remain handless or have the hand surgically reattached. It doesn't matter how soon after death the hand is reattached but to keep things realistic a good guide is no more than 72 hours after death. Characters with the ability to regenerate can regenerate the hand at will, anytime they choose.
Scars are optional and left up to player discretion.
What can City!Dead do?
♦ they can eat and breathe out of natural habit, but food and air aren't completely essential to their survival anymore
♦ they can heal physical damage after City!Death within their own canon boundaries [for regular mortals a papercut will heal without issue, but a severed leg will require surgery]
♦ they can keep any powers they had prior to dying
♦ they can donate blood and organs to other City!Dead characters
♦ they cannot donate blood and organs to live characters
♦ they cannot age once they've become City!Dead
♦ they cannot go back to their homeworld once they are City!Dead [this is a game mechanic and has no bearing on players who wish to drop characters]
♦ they can trade to get their life back, trades made by other characters for a dead one are also accepted
What is the City!Dead curse exemption?
On some curse days death will be inevitable. The Titanic Curse or SAW Trap Curse are prime examples. On such curse days, characters who die because of the curse will not become City!Dead. They are allowed to return to normal once the curse is over. Characters coming back to life can do so in the same way a City!Dead body reanimates (at the location in which they died or in a location important to them). These characters would come back to life fully healed as well regardless of the severity of the curse.
Some curses that cause changes in a character's behavior, like turning a sweet character into a murderous one, will also lead to death. This does not fall under the curse exemption and any character who dies at the hand of the murderous character (or the murderous character itself) will be considered City!Dead. The players involved must follow the City!Dead guidelines.
Many Citywide Events will also have exemptions. We will do our best to clearly label which curses and events have exemptions and which don't.
Can a character die through a character drop?
Yes. However, a character who dies then is dropped by a player cannot leave any trace of a body. If the method of death doesn't completely destroy the body then the body itself will simply fade into non-existence within 24 hours.
If characters can't truly die, then why does the City have a graveyard?
While the option for City!Death remains, not all "citizens" come back to life. NPCs are killed regularly and it's believed that they do not come back to life. A character who dies in conjunction with a character drop does not come back to life after 24 hours. This leads to a case of ambiguity that characters can react to ICly. Although we as players understand how death works in the City, our characters do not. This helps to maintain a sense of realism during play without sacrificing gameplay flexibility.
(n.) a state in which a citizen no longer has a heartbeat or normal body temperature but maintains regular brain activity
Who is considered City!Dead?
A character who comes to the game after dying in their own canon is City!Dead. A character who dies in the game (with the exception of curse days) is City!Dead.
How does City!Death work?
Once a character dies, their body remains lifeless for 24 hours. After that 24 hour period, the character is allowed to "come back to life" as City!Dead.
Bodies can be moved within that 24 hour period, but a body can reanimate only after 24 hours. If a body has been completely vaporized, the body will simply come into existence at any location the player chooses, preferably a location important to the character or a location related to where they died.
If a body has been mutilated or dismembered, a player is free to decide what wounds the character keeps as City!Dead and what wounds can be healed or surgically corrected. For example, if a character has their hand severed before death, the player can choose to have the character remain handless or have the hand surgically reattached. It doesn't matter how soon after death the hand is reattached but to keep things realistic a good guide is no more than 72 hours after death. Characters with the ability to regenerate can regenerate the hand at will, anytime they choose.
Scars are optional and left up to player discretion.
What can City!Dead do?
♦ they can eat and breathe out of natural habit, but food and air aren't completely essential to their survival anymore
♦ they can heal physical damage after City!Death within their own canon boundaries [for regular mortals a papercut will heal without issue, but a severed leg will require surgery]
♦ they can keep any powers they had prior to dying
♦ they can donate blood and organs to other City!Dead characters
♦ they cannot donate blood and organs to live characters
♦ they cannot age once they've become City!Dead
♦ they cannot go back to their homeworld once they are City!Dead [this is a game mechanic and has no bearing on players who wish to drop characters]
♦ they can trade to get their life back, trades made by other characters for a dead one are also accepted
What is the City!Dead curse exemption?
On some curse days death will be inevitable. The Titanic Curse or SAW Trap Curse are prime examples. On such curse days, characters who die because of the curse will not become City!Dead. They are allowed to return to normal once the curse is over. Characters coming back to life can do so in the same way a City!Dead body reanimates (at the location in which they died or in a location important to them). These characters would come back to life fully healed as well regardless of the severity of the curse.
Some curses that cause changes in a character's behavior, like turning a sweet character into a murderous one, will also lead to death. This does not fall under the curse exemption and any character who dies at the hand of the murderous character (or the murderous character itself) will be considered City!Dead. The players involved must follow the City!Dead guidelines.
Many Citywide Events will also have exemptions. We will do our best to clearly label which curses and events have exemptions and which don't.
Can a character die through a character drop?
Yes. However, a character who dies then is dropped by a player cannot leave any trace of a body. If the method of death doesn't completely destroy the body then the body itself will simply fade into non-existence within 24 hours.
If characters can't truly die, then why does the City have a graveyard?
While the option for City!Death remains, not all "citizens" come back to life. NPCs are killed regularly and it's believed that they do not come back to life. A character who dies in conjunction with a character drop does not come back to life after 24 hours. This leads to a case of ambiguity that characters can react to ICly. Although we as players understand how death works in the City, our characters do not. This helps to maintain a sense of realism during play without sacrificing gameplay flexibility.
03 May 2007 @ 04:14 pm
REGULAR PLAYERS
Here’s how the system works:
If you feel that, even taking into account the character development entertained since entering the City, a particular character is played in such an especially inappropriate way, you are invited to submit a complaint by replying with the following:
We highly encourage the use of personal characterization/crit posts and communication with the possibly OOC player before turning to our official complaint process. Contact information is available for all players in the Taken List and on the official roster.
We do not require that a complainant be a part of the same canon crew as the character being complained about. This is a pan-fandom game and extreme OOCness has the potential to affect any and/or all characters in play, not just the characters from the canon in question. We also recognize that players may be very familiar with the source canon, but simply may not be playing characters from that canon. Unlike Bleach, for instance, some canons have limited play opportunities.
After three official complaints have been submitted, we will compile them and send the player of the allegedly OOC character an email with the following information: number of complaints, the nature of complaints, and any suggestions the complainants may have offered.
Per the majority will of the community, the identities of complainants will be kept anonymous at all times, however, if the person receiving the complaint letter wishes to do so, they may respond to the complaints - civilly - and we, the moderators, will convey the response to the complainants.
Once such an e-mail has been issued, we leave improvement to player discretion, and only further consider new complaints after two weeks.
We function on a three-strikes basis for characterization matters. If we end up having to email someone three times about the same character, signaling that absolutely no modification has been made and general RPing with the character is highly inconvenient, we will be forced to directly address the player on the issue and perhaps suspend their control of the problematic character.
The third complaint letter sent will include a request to arrange a time to have an IM conversation with two mods of the player's choice. This will be to discuss the nature of the complaints issued, the player's concerns on the matter, and whether or not the mods will consider suspension or removal of the problematic character.
Feel free to address anything from OOCness and inconsistency, to bothersome plot issues. For complaints against characters played by one of the moderators of this game, go here.
All comments are screened to protect your privacy. No anonymous comments accepted.
FOR COMPLAINTS AGAINST MODERATORS VISIT THIS THREAD.
03 May 2007 @ 04:13 pm
MODERATORS
Same system as here.
If you feel that, even taking into account the character development entertained since entering the City, a particular character is played in such an especially inappropriate way, you are invited to submit a complaint by replying with the following:
Since it is expected of moderators to set an example of general responsibility, expect or demand efficiency in our dealing with these complaints.
Furthermore, to avoid doubt of our public acknowledgment of these complaints, comments will not be screened – we ask, however, that they be anonymous.
Please use this thread to address complaints against us in our quality as players, not moderators.
03 May 2007 @ 04:12 pm
Here's how this will hopefully play out: if a character is meeting POST requirements [presently, a minimum of two posts / month] but repeatedly failing to deliver tags, and absenting long enough to prevent any sort of plots, you can leave a note here. We expect and would appreciate it if this function were not abused: please try to talk things out with the player in question, and do keep in mind that hiatusing is also inevitable throughout gameplay.
We will undertake investigations based on these notes, and discuss matters with players whose tagging / comment / plotting inactivity is a definite impediment for crew / game development. We will however also be looking out for potential grudges and will definitely ask if you've tried dealing with the issue on your own.
Comments are not crew (all players can comment on all players); comments screened; anonymous comments not accepted.
Go HERE for information on Activity Expectations.
01 May 2007 @ 08:59 pm
Activity Expectations
You are asked to post a minimum of two times a month, or else your character ends up on the inactivity post. If you'll be absent for a while, please declare your hiatus HERE; hiatuses automatically cover a month, but we accept neither hiatuses that are longer than a month, nor two /more hiatuses in succession.
Important: if you cover your activity quota in the last two successive days of the month? We'll unfortunately still have to put your character on the inactivity list.
The Inactivity list will be posted in the main polychromatic comm every month at the beginning of the month.
If your character is on the inactivity list, but you would like to keep them, please leave a comment stating in that month's inactivity post that you'd like to reclaim them and post three times with them for the subsequent month.
You have seven days to reclaim a character, so please think things through. If you know that the player of someone on the list is hiatus, please leave the posting mod a note on the thread. They will be sure to put a red mark by the username of every reclaimed char, and to delete the characters that don't belong there.
Go HERE for Inactivity Issues.
You are asked to post a minimum of two times a month, or else your character ends up on the inactivity post. If you'll be absent for a while, please declare your hiatus HERE; hiatuses automatically cover a month, but we accept neither hiatuses that are longer than a month, nor two /more hiatuses in succession.
Important: if you cover your activity quota in the last two successive days of the month? We'll unfortunately still have to put your character on the inactivity list.
The Inactivity list will be posted in the main polychromatic comm every month at the beginning of the month.
If your character is on the inactivity list, but you would like to keep them, please leave a comment stating in that month's inactivity post that you'd like to reclaim them and post three times with them for the subsequent month.
You have seven days to reclaim a character, so please think things through. If you know that the player of someone on the list is hiatus, please leave the posting mod a note on the thread. They will be sure to put a red mark by the username of every reclaimed char, and to delete the characters that don't belong there.
Go HERE for Inactivity Issues.
16 April 2007 @ 03:59 pm
...leave your message after the World Ends. Or the beep.
Please reply with a link to the post where you're demanding a City deity's attentions. Feel free to make whatever OOC addendums, but understand that trades themselves are subject to compromise.
04 May 2006 @ 11:01 am
Please comment here when you go on hiatus; give us the expected duration and characters affected.
03 May 2006 @ 09:32 pm
If you're ADDING, go right ahead.
If you're DROPPING, please scroll below!
A less spiritually taxing, if perhaps inelegant way of viewing everyone affiliated with POLYchromatic and in the City is to kindly view
polychromatic's flist. Otherwise?Please comment here with friend add characterjournal when you have a new character join. When you have a character leave, please comment here letting us know so we can remove them from the Add list and add'em to the month's Remove List.
It is recommended that you purge your Friend's List once a month or every other month, then copy paste the Add list once again to the Admin Console.
Also, if new players would please note that due to measures taken by livejournal to prevent serial adders, you will be unable to add all the journals at once. We are sadly aware of this, but we cannot do anything more than suggest you either wait the three days to fill your flist, or use the community flist for the time being. It is also suggested that you add each of the following boxes one day at a time, so as not to miss any character journals necessary to your flist. ♥
| FRIEND ADD | A - E |
FRIEND ADD | F - L |
FRIEND ADD | M - R |
|---|---|---|
| FRIEND ADD | S - Z |
FRIEND REMOVE :: NOVEMBER |
FRIEND ADD :: NOVEMBER |
DROPPING
DROP TEMPLATE
Thank you for helping us!
03 May 2006 @ 06:37 pm
Your character may choose a residence from any of the established places of residence simply by signing up. It is expected that all characters who are old enough and able to work will pay rent, but we do not require it to be a huge part of your gameplay. Consider rent to be an RP opportunity if you want, or simply come up with a plausible assumption to work with.
Instructions: If you are part of the game please click on the building you wish your character to inhabit, complete the fill-out asking for the character's name, series, as well as apt number, and then comment directly into the building post.
Please note that while mod permission is not needed before claiming a non-Building apartment, if you are considering a residence such as the Opera House or Cathedral, we ask you to either contact one of the residents directly through IM or email or to put a post in poly_tldr directed to all of the residents. This will ensure that there is no IC difficulty with your character taking up residence there.
If your character is living in a place that isn't one of the 12 Buildings or isn't an already established location (such as the Opera House or Cathedral), you are NOT required to post their place of residency to Destinations unless you really want to.
► Building 1
► Building 2
► Building 3
► Building 4
► Building 5
► Building 6
► Building 7
► Building 8
► Building 9
► Building 10
► Building 11
► Building 12
► THE BEACH
► THE UNDERGROUND
► THE WILD
► XANADU
► OTHER
02 May 2006 @ 09:19 pm
02 May 2006 @ 09:15 pm
01 May 2006 @ 09:34 pm
If you have a problem and you can't reach one of the mods, please comment here. Feel free to comment if you have a problem with an action that a mod has taken. Mods may be in a game to keep the players in line and make sure they follow the rules, but players should feel comfortable about pointing out if a mod has made a mistake. We keep you in line and you keep us in line, right?
The comments WILL be screened & will be deleted once the problem is dealt with. Anonymous comments are allowed, but we'll need to unscreen them for you to see our reply.