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ON APPS

Character applications should consist of (duh) char's name, char's bio, vital stats (height, weight, eye/hair color) and a detailed physical description. Personality descriptions shouldn't be necessary, but if'n you want, fine by all of us. I like to reveal throughout the story instead of laying it all out before I begin, but...yeahs.

ON STYLE

Like the rules said, we're open to all styles and levels, but halfway-decent grammar and non-eye gougingly awful spelling are hardly desired traits for your writing. To adapt on what John said, posts should be at least somewhat descriptive, if only to give everybody else a clear idea of where your character is. Speaking of that...

ON BEING IN TWO, THREE, OR FOUR PLACES AT THE SAME TIME

I've seen this happen a lot on LOS. I mean a LOT. It's actually pretty funny at times, but oh-so-confusing.

ON GOD-MODDING

In RPing, when you control a character not your own, it's called God-Modding, or usually just modding. It's often used to progress plot at flat points in the story. We LOS folk were (and are) pretty loose about playing other people's characters, as long as we didn't make enormous decisions for them. For example:

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Mal glanced back at his crew. He was still hurting, still weak, but this was still his gorram ship. He faced the image of 13 squarely, "Well, Thirteen, can't say rightly as I'm all keen on lettin' you onboard, unless you can give me a mighty compellin' reason why I would do that."

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Now, this was posted by Ertia. See how she didn't write a single line of 13's dialogue? If she had, that might have turned the situation into one that ended in an inconvenience for me.

END OF LESSON

Sorry to get all teachery on y'all, but that's what we need.

Anybody got anything to add?





Q: Fish or Hogarth?
A: Marillion.
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Originally posted by 13:
Anybody got anything to add?

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Originally posted by 13:
As the E used to say: "Anyone can join!" Nice to see you, BC07! ;) And all those other people I have the pleasure of meeting for the first time...

Now, here's the rule list we had going before:

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No killing of other author’s characters or of canon characters. In that vein, try to keep canon characters acting like themselves.

Please try to post with consideration for fellow authors and with some consistency to current story lines.

Sub-plots are great and we welcome them, but please try to make them fit into the current stories as much as possible.

Oh, and please keep things as close to PG as possible. If you have a more adult scene you'd like posted, send it to Ertia and She'll put it up on her site.

NOTES: When I contacted Ertia about resurrecting this awhile back, I got a no-go response, sadly. The goddess has too much on her back, what with BDV and the dreaded real life...so that pertains to the "adult scene" thing being reposted somewhere else. But, if'n you're really into that, the most convenient way to do it is with the quick-and-easy "spoiler". For example:

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SEX!!!

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See?

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ON APPS

Character applications should consist of (duh) char's name, char's bio, vital stats (height, weight, eye/hair color) and a detailed physical description. Personality descriptions shouldn't be necessary, but if'n you want, fine by all of us. I like to reveal throughout the story instead of laying it all out before I begin, but...yeahs.

ON STYLE

Like the rules said, we're open to all styles and levels, but halfway-decent grammar and non-eye gougingly awful spelling are hardly desired traits for your writing. To adapt on what John said, posts should be at least somewhat descriptive, if only to give everybody else a clear idea of where your character is. Speaking of that...

ON BEING IN TWO, THREE, OR FOUR PLACES AT THE SAME TIME

I've seen this happen a lot on LOS. I mean a LOT. It's actually pretty funny at times, but oh-so-confusing.

ON GOD-MODDING

In RPing, when you control a character not your own, it's called God-Modding, or usually just modding. It's often used to progress plot at flat points in the story. We LOS folk were (and are) pretty loose about playing other people's characters, as long as we didn't make enormous decisions for them. For example:

Quote:

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Mal glanced back at his crew. He was still hurting, still weak, but this was still his gorram ship. He faced the image of 13 squarely, "Well, Thirteen, can't say rightly as I'm all keen on lettin' you onboard, unless you can give me a mighty compellin' reason why I would do that."

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Now, this was posted by Ertia. See how she didn't write a single line of 13's dialogue? If she had, that might have turned the situation into one that ended in an inconvenience for me.

END OF LESSON

Sorry to get all teachery on y'all, but that's what we need.

Anybody got anything to add?





Q: Fish or Hogarth?
A: Marillion.
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Ni Hao!! *waves at (chicken-man) 13* Can't wait to start RP'ing... where oh where are we posting this stuff? By the way... I like the examples as well

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Originally posted by 13:
Well, the one person I'm still unsure about returning is Oath. Has he said anything to you at the BDV, Pain?

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Originally posted by Mobbex:
Shuh muh? Application?

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