Post by pepsi on Aug 16, 2022 18:29:09 GMT
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On Buried Light, every character begins their life as a Character App. This is just a Thread that you post in the Approvals section; the thread needs to contain your application for the character.
At the end of this post there are a few standard templates for you to fill in, in order to complete the application swiftly without leaving any crucial information behind. You can, of course, customise them or make your own, but they must report the same information as any of the standard templates.
You can find both basic and fancy character app templates here.
All templates include the following:
After the App has been filled, you are ready to go. Just post the fully compiled application in the Approvals Section and a member of the Staff will examine the application in the span of a few days. Please listen to the staff members if corrections need to be made!
Before we let your character creation muscles go on a full workout, there's a few things we need to iron out. If this is the first time you're creating a character on Buried Light, it's very important that you read up on these points just so your application will be approved swiftly.
These rules are here to make sure your character is fair to all the players you'll meet along the way. If you're an experienced roleplayer, with all likelihood you've already encountered something like this before.
[attr="class","rules_title"]Applying for a Character
[attr="class","rules_focus"] You're about to take the last step towards officially entering the role-playing community of Buried Light! Please read this section carefully.
On Buried Light, every character begins their life as a Character App. This is just a Thread that you post in the Approvals section; the thread needs to contain your application for the character.
At the end of this post there are a few standard templates for you to fill in, in order to complete the application swiftly without leaving any crucial information behind. You can, of course, customise them or make your own, but they must report the same information as any of the standard templates.
You can find both basic and fancy character app templates here.
All templates include the following:
- Name: the name you chose for the character. If your character is known by names other than their own, for example a pseudonym, an epithet or a web username, you can specify it.
- Age: the character's age, in years. Refer to the races list to understand the normal age range for a character of the race you've chosen.
- Gender: the gender the character identifies as. You can specify their pronouns here as well.
- Race: the character's race. To see a complete list of playable races, click here.
- Rank: your character's Rank. Every new character starts out at D Rank. If you're not familiar with the idea of Character Ranks, please take a look here.
- Faction: the Faction the character is affiliated with. If you're not familiar with Factions and their role in the setting, please take a look at the Faction Files. Disclaimer: while many of the factions are tied to specific countries, the setting is flexible enough to allow your character to come from anywhere, with any background, and still be able to get into the ranks of any Faction. In other words, there are no country-locked Factions. The only real discriminating factor is the character's Race; you can read about each Faction's racial distribution in the Faction Files. If the character does not belong to any Faction, leave this as "Independent".
- Squad: If the character belongs to some Squad within their faction, you can specify it here as well. Please also insert a link to the Squad's thread. You can find more information about Squads here.
- Role: the role that the character fills within their Faction or Squad.
- Appearance, personality and backstory: these three entries will most likely make up the bulk of your Character App at the very beginning; it's where your character's unique identity will be fleshed out. You can be as detailed or as tight as you want, just be sure to give a good general idea of what the character is like. You can add pictures of your character anywhere in the App, but try to include some verbal description of their appearance and usual style of clothing too.
- Red Orbs: the amount of Red Orbs the character has accumulated in total. For a beginning character this amount is always 1000. From this entry on, if you are not familiar with any of the terms being thrown around, please check out the basic character features thread.
- Blue Orbs: the amount of Blue Orbs the character has accumulated in total.
- Traits: in this section you may list all the Traits of your character. At the start of the game, you will always have 2; one of them may be fixed by the Race you have chosen.
- Equipment: in this section you may list all the Crafted Arms and Devil Arms that your character owns.
- Combat Foci: in this section you may list all the Combat Foci of your character, including those that stem from Devil Arms.
- Techniques: in this section you may list all the Techniques your character can perform.
After the App has been filled, you are ready to go. Just post the fully compiled application in the Approvals Section and a member of the Staff will examine the application in the span of a few days. Please listen to the staff members if corrections need to be made!
[attr="class","rules_focus"]When you officially receive the Staff's stamp of approval, you can immediately begin roleplaying on Buried Light.
We welcome you, Devil Hunter!
We welcome you, Devil Hunter!
[attr="class","rules_subtitle"]Some Concluding Words
Before we let your character creation muscles go on a full workout, there's a few things we need to iron out. If this is the first time you're creating a character on Buried Light, it's very important that you read up on these points just so your application will be approved swiftly.
These rules are here to make sure your character is fair to all the players you'll meet along the way. If you're an experienced roleplayer, with all likelihood you've already encountered something like this before.
- Characters may not have a backstory connected to canon DMC characters or events, especially from the video game series, in any way.
- Characters can have a backstory connected to Faction NPCs, on a case by case basis depending on the NPC in question. The Staff has the final word about whether or not the connection is acceptable.
For characters connected to other characters, make sure you get the consent of any other player that would be involved. - Abilities that force other players to do certain things or otherwise act in specified ways that limit their freedom - for example power seals, binds, traps, mind control, poisons, future sight - will be generally approved, but any misuse will cause immediate removal of the ability and refund of Red Orbs. The use of such abilities must happen with the consent of all involved players.
- Abilities that let a character obtain information that should only be available to a player, such as another character's backstory or Foci, can be viable depending on circumstance but will almost certainly receive some kind of limit. The use of such abilities must happen with the consent of all involved players.
- Abilities that straight up clone other characters' skills are generally not viable and will be severely limited.
- Abilities that (when used in combination or alone) essentially make a character untouchable, undetectable or invulnerable will not be approved.
- Abilities can't be essentially unavoidable or undetectable at any point in time, irrespective of circumstances, not even if a complicated combo makes them so.
