Hiya everyone!
We've got another group of varied announcements for this week, this time around presenting 4. On the docket, we have the Basic Rules Guide, Lore Guides, Races & Sub-Races, and Requisition Orders; so quite a few things to actually go over. Overall, progress is being made at a pretty expectant rate. Some personal things have happened in between now and the last update, but nothing dire. It was only a matter where other priorities came before the site this past week. Regardless, some work has still been put on both the site and the Discord server. For the Discord specifically, all necessary channels for the time being are up and active! I'll reiterate the sentiments from the last announcement, feel free to stop in to say hi if you want to. With the general things now said, let's get into the goodies, shall we?
<~ Basic Rules ~>
The Basic Rules of the Site have finally been posted! Be sure to familiarize yourself with them [Only mods are allowed to see this link]; an important note in regards to the editt made in case you saw what it was beforehand. A rule recently got added for when you are signing up, be sure to create your username as the character name you will be using! If you do still sign up but miss that part, just let a member of staff know and they will change it for you asap. This also applies for if and when your character were to die, simply ask a member of staff to change it to your next character's name for you. Another important ruling, depending on the rule broken and the context of the situation it's given in, it may require an elevated punishment from the infraction rules set aside on the Discord. Most specifically, the No NSFW in any context, and the breaking forumotion rules depending on how grievous it would be in the eyes of forumotion. Seeing as this site is a domain of a larger forum with an extremely large community in the grand scheme of things, each and every website using forumotion must be abiding by their rules at all times.
Nevertheless, remember to have fun when RPing!
<~ | Lore Guides & Races/Sub-Races Guide | ~>
Likewise to the Basic Rules being posted, the World Codex Category and the General History forum has been posted [Only mods are allowed to see this link], alongside the Races & Subraces Guide that can be found [Only mods are allowed to see this link]! Each will be periodically updated even after they are posted in full, so be sure to keep an eye on both.
For Lore specifically, it will update quite regularly depending on the speed of progression for the masses. Think of it working like a bit like how Elden Ring primarily presents their lore; through the history descriptions of major items once found and through quest progression. So, if y'all as a player base do both of those things relatively quickly, prepare for the varying different Lore Guides to be updated depending on the Lore Bites. This is to still be keeping all of the major events that would fit on the timeline of the site, in one centralized location at the end of the day. Just remember, don't metagame. Even though you, the player may know these things, doesn't automatically mean your character does. Certain things can slightly work around this, such as meeting or exceeding certain DCs while your character has a Knowledge Skill, but those will all be streamlined and detailed within their appropriate Skills.
On the other hand, Races & Sub-Races will possibly be updated at a slower pace with the edits being more mechanic oriented. Meaning, the individual things such as the races' general histories, varying physical descriptions, and other IC tidbits most likely won't be touched, however, Sub-Races may be added from time to time depending on whether or not Sub-Races are being made. For the time being, Sub-Race creation is currently open. Once the Race & Sub-Race Guide has been fully published, you can expect to see a Template and a Creation Guide on that in the future. Also, in regards to this, there is prior knowledge to the terms Races & Sub-Races in situations like these can be kind of divisive; so if anyone does think it's to divisive, let me know asap, and that will be changed without a question!
<~ | ~> Requisition Orders <~ | ~>
As for the last announcement, Requisition Orders is something which has so far only been posted on the discord itself. While Requisition Orders will solely be updated with the new ones as they come and go on the Discord, Requisition Orders are, and work as follows:
"This channel will be frequently updated with all the various orders that any member of staff puts out. Any non-staff member of the site can then pick up these orders by messaging a member of staff, but a person may only pick up 3 requisition orders at one time.
Note, you don't have to do the entirety of a requisition order to get credit for your work; you can pick or choose as much of the order as you'd like to do. It will always still count as one full requisition order though.
You then create whatever the requisition order is for after talking about it with a member of staff. Once you fill out the creation's appropriate application, place it in it's respective sub-forum on the site; then place it in it's respective channel on the Discord to put it up for approval."
There are currently 2 active Requisition Orders up on the Discord, in the appropriate channel; so head on over there if you wanted to check those out!
Thanks again for tuning in to another weekly announcements yall! As always, can't wait to see what RPs yall are able to create and live out through here.
-Nj/The Watcher Beyond the Veil