♢ POTENTIAL APP DISCUSSION

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POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS

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While the worldbuilding post is an excellent place to try and figure out City history CR, this page is more to help you to decide who you should apply for in the first place. Give us a good idea of what kind of character you're thinking of and let others comment in on how they might see it working! Think of it as a thought experiment for yourself and other players. As a reminder, this is completely optional. You are totally free to reserve or apply someone without commenting to this post first. ♢ Reception to your idea will have no effect on how the mods process your app. This is only a tool to help you decide who to put the effort into. ♢ Don't spam or flame any potential character comments. While just going "OMG YES!!" can be encouraging, it doesn't really give anyone a whole lot to work with, and neither does shooting someone down. Be constructive. ♢ Give your honest opinion. If you think a character really wouldn't fit in the setting, express your concerns. Maybe the potential applicant didn't think of it from a certain point of view. Paired with the above, please don't just go "I don't think this will work". Provide some reasoning! ♢ Don't take anything personal. Anyone who comments back to you on this post is only trying to help — even if it isn't outright encouragement. <b>Your name</b>: <b>Character name</b>: <b>Fandom</b>: <b>City life</b>: What do you think would suit them? <b>Powers</b>: How can you see converting their abilities to the setting? (Will a powerless character gain something?) <b>Do you think they'll be active?</b> <b>Do you think they'll participate in plot?</b> <b>Why this character interests you here</b>: <b>Potential concerns</b>:

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The idea of the "City life" is basically what characters will be told they had done with their lives up to the point of the Disaster. It's the alternate history that they won't remember when they "wake up" (enter the game), but the NPCs will expect them to follow. Generally speaking, City-related things should still fall within the realm of possibility for your own character but should not be a wholesale rewrite of canon.

We already have one character who can see ghosts and spirits in the game, so having another with a type of mediumship like that would definitely be something we could get behind.

It kind of seems like you're misunderstanding how memories are played with in the game. Upon waking up in the Cave (entering the game), characters only remember their canonical lives and cannot drum up any memories related to what all of the NPCs insist is true. Memory rehabilitation occurs either when a character breaks a law, or the player would like to haul them in for a routine rehab — it's sort of in the place of "curses" or the like in other RP games. These memories only temporarily overwrite any canonical memories before turning into a second set. Does that make sense?

As far as being a lone canon warrior, I wouldn't worry too much. We have very few canons with more than one character in the game, and they seem to be doing fine with reaching out and receiving CR in return.

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I completely did misunderstand that. Oh, me. So let's make sure I get this right before I make any more assumptions: So we get to write a completely Alternate Universe history that the characters are told that they live/d, but they didn't actually and live we get to make all that stuff up at our leisure kinda as long as it fits in with this setting?

Also, is there a section on how adding powers works within the setting for characters who don't have any, or in this case, expanding on what they have?

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Part of the mystery is that it's unclear whether they did or did not actually live the lives that make up the City history section. So basically just put in what you feel would fit — we encourage a certain amount of vagueness so you can include other characters in the City history later, since City relations are not bound by canon. Sort of like pseudo-canonmates, once they're told or learn of the relation.

There's a brief mention about the powers thing in the Worldbuilding post. It boils down to the fact that even in their City history, characters did not have their powers. They do not wake up with them immediately, but instead regain them once they've moved up and back out into the Overworld on their way to the City. If you're giving them a power that was more of an overexaggerated trait in canon, we'd require a pitch to explain why you would want to bring it up to a supernatural level.

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Is there any sort of post that we could set up pseudo-castmates ahead of time? Or is that something that's typically taken care of on an intro post around here?

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You can post to the worldbuilding post itself if you'd like to poke around for some! But, yeah, it seems that the majority of it goes on after applying.