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Creating Characters, or How Storylines Work
Topic Started: Jul 31 2014, 06:44 AM (1,281 Views)
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Storyline


In general, every thread posted in the Roleplaying Section is considered a "Storyline" or [SL] for short. Whether it's just meeting up with a new crew mate, fighting an enemy, or solving a puzzle, all SLs help your character progress.

A storyline has no minimum or maximum length. It may be one post or ten pages. In general, however, there are a few guidelines to keep in mind.

Interact - Single-player storylines are permitted, but they tend to have a feeling of "fan fiction" more than actual RP. At least two players should be involved in a given storyline; even if someone is just NPCing for you.
Description - Try your best to paint a picture with your words. Write what your character is doing and thinking, as well as the environment in which they're doing it, as clear to the reader as possible.
Depth - Every character should seem as if they were a live person. Pale stereotypes or two-dimensional characters can exist, but they should be in the background. Any character that's used in the actual events of the Storyline should have a real personality. For examples of the above, please refer to here.

Note: A staff member may invade a thread at any time with an NPC in order to provide a challenge to a character and replicate the danger of the seas in the OP universe. Being invaded does not mean your character will be threatened or have to fight. These invasions are less likely to happen outside the Grandline or New World.

Playing as NPCs

Members have the right to roleplay NPCs, either at large or in minuscule Storylines. You may request any member to assist you by running NPCs, friend or foe, in your Storyline. Essentially, they are there to make the roleplay a more interactive, rewarding, and positive experience.

NPCing nets you certain things besides just the joy of RPing with the masses, and having the time of your life. NPCing also brings you a special treat for partaking in these golden luxuries we call RPing. By helping a fellow RPer out and participating in their storylines, you will be able to receive an amount of DP and Beli, once your thread is graded, that may be given to any character you own.


Story Arcs and Sagas

A series of Storylines that all share a common set of events or have a single goal in common between multiple crews can be combined into a "Story Arc". Story Arcs often have more significance to the world than a single Storyline. The determination of whether or not a group of Storylines can be considered a single Story Arc is up to the members involved.

A Saga, however, is a special event, wherein many individual Storylines or Story Arcs may all have similar objectives or objectives which are a means to an end. A Saga is created by the Admin, and any participation in it is usually determined by the Admin or Global Moderators.


Grading

When a Storyline is complete, the member/s involved can post a link to the storyline here: Grading Done Here!. Grading will typically yield DP and Beli.

Please remain patient as you await review for your storyline. Admins and moderators will do their best to get to your topic within 24 hours.


Participation

In total, a member has the right to participate in 10 different Storylines whether by using one of his/her characters or roleplaying with an NPC. If necessary, Staff members have the right to go over the Storyline limit if members want them to use an NPC in their own Storyline.

With that said, a member can only participate in a certain amount of Storylines depending on the number of PCs that they possess:

  • If you have only one character, you will be allowed to participate in 8 different SLs.
  • If you have two characters, it will be 6 SLs.
  • If you have three characters, 5 SLs.
  • And then, if you have four characters, you will only be allowed to make up to 4 SLs.
Should you make a character while passing by the limit, you will be allowed to finish that SL and get the rewards that were attributed to it, but you will not be able to make any more SLs over the limit after that.

Multiple Characters in One SL

Though it is usually advisable to only roleplay with one single character you have created per SL, there is no rule that limits how many characters a single roleplayer can use in an SL. After all, it would make, in some occasions, absolutely no sense for one character to not be able to meet another character just because they are both owned by the same person.

However, should such a thing happen, the rewards that will be given to you while grading will not be given to both of your characters. Like NPCs, they will instead be allocated to your account. What this means is that you will have to split the rewards between your characters. They will also not be doubled for this specific happening.

Note that this does not necessarily mean that you have to split the rewards between your characters equally. It is possible for you to give the entirety of the rewards to one character while the other gets absolutely nothing. How you will distribute the rewards is completely up to you.


Death

Do you happen to find yourself suddenly in a situation where your character can be killed off while fighting another character? Most surely, being so close from death can certainly make someone fear for their character's life. To pour so many hours of work into this character only to see it disappear in one single swoop is probably one of the hardest decisions a RPer can make.

We are not a site that primarily focuses on PvP and, as such, we do not possess any sort of Event on our site that could be considered to be "Death-Enabled". As such, to prevent personal conflict between our members, we have rules that directly concern the death of characters and what would potentially explain them.

Here are the conditions that can be chosen in order to explain a character's death:

  • The character's death was consented by the character's owner.

  • The character's owner forced him or her into a corner that he or she cannot flee or defend itself from.

  • The character's owner made his or her character make a really stupid decision which flagrant results would have easily been avoided should logic have been applied.


If none of the conditions above have been met to explain the death of a character in a PvP battle, the staff will automatically judge the fight as an unfair one and instantly cancel the fight, rendering it non-canon, which will revive the dead character in question regardless of the killer's opinion.

Edited by Mr. Prince, Dec 19 2017, 03:14 AM.


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