Roleplay

Despite RP being completely optional, it makes up a lot of our group and our website features additional opportunities like virtual currencies, markets, and character profiles.

Roleplay Rules

Basic guidelines for our Ropleplay can be found on our Discord here: Open in Discord Desktop App / Browser

Roleplay Formatting

Our guidelines include information on basic formatting: Open in Discord Desktop App / Browser

Other than that, feel free to ask in #rp-discussion or follow practices used by others.

Roleplay Reporting

In the mission_report channel, players will report their RP sessions.

• +1 signifies the session quantity
• Next is the channel the session took place
• Followed by the session's title, you use ** before and after the title to bold it.
• Next is a link to the beginning session post
• Last are the players participating

Example:

+1 RP in #💎rp-raven-square for **::FORGING NEW BONDS::** on 3307-06-28
https://discord.com/channels/205356098293727233/660383759459155970/859149587868549160
(With Mystler and Marina)
||In which Catherine visits Marina and Gloria for tea and a special personal request.
After some difficult talk of trauma, Catherine asks Gloria to be her child’s guidemother and the three have a touching moment.
[Gloria Howell, Vice Warden Catherine Edmunds, Senator Marina Yao]||

Notes

Adding a session summary in spoiler tags is optional, as is including the date. The summary can include a list of IC characters in brackets.

Editing Comments

to be removed later

blurb text in italics is added by me (Dawn, pending input from Aurian, maybe Marina :3), non italics is from the opening post. Intention is for the blurb to be posted to some report channel (either the existing missions_report/citizens_report or preferably something new such as rp_session_report) with some link to the original RP, potentially following the same format as the mission report. e.g.

Reasoning: If people can engage in roleplay and report activities in citizens_report without being able to view or otherwise access missions_report then there should be a centralised reporting location to avoid duplication. Would also recommend for people interested in writing the summaries to provide an initial message and later edit in the summary to avoid potentially multiple people writing summaries at the same time.

Marina: One way to do this would be to either move RP reports to this channel too. Then, people could leave a specific reaction icon on a RP report to indicate they are writing the summary for it. Perhaps :rp_alert: to indicate they are going to work on it, which they then chance to :rp_accept: when they finish and post the report.

This is also not a substitute for the rp report, but rather an additional post. The RP report would list players (with deduplication for bots/npcs). The summary report however would list all characters whether they are player or NPC. Listing all characters would also allow for searching anything related to a specific character (player or not, particularly with the [bot] characters in can be hard to search for them).

Dates may help with timeline, and being able to sort summaries by date order if/when transferred to website. When reporting, CGT would be preferred for consistency, but it shouldn't make a huge difference if it is not.