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cityofsin_ooc2019-09-19 03:23 pm
sinfulmods) wrote in cityofsin_ooc2019-09-19 03:23 pm
mod post } FOURTH WALL EVENT DETAILS
As promised in the last mod post, here's your rundown on the fourth wall deets — with a preface that there will be a lot of bold and underlined text in here, so, apologies in advance:
DATES: OCTOBER 1st — 31st
A whole month, yes!
(This means your fourth wall characters are in play for a month, then gone and over with the close of the event.)
Since membership to the City of Sin communities is moderated — and in the case of the network and logs comm (not the OOC comm), commenting is locked to members only — we will be playing with the 4th wall in a special community! One is already set up (4thwall_cos) and that community will be open for the sole purpose of the fourth wall event. New posts and membership to that comm will be open as of September 30th [since as of currently, membership to 4thwall_cos is moderated], and disallowed once the event is over on October 31st, but backtagging will remain open and welcome for as long as people want to keep started threads going.
(Any fourth wall comments by characters already in game are eligible to be used for AC. This is done on a CHARACTER basis, not PLAYER — meaning: current players can play characters they don't already have in game on this test drive, but they can't use those threads for AC.)
Everything in that community WILL BE GAME CANON; current players and characters, please keep this in mind. As such, you don't have to have your character interact here and can opt out that way, but you may not have them ICly pretend like this event didn't happen at all, because that wouldn't make any sense and would give us two different game canons. And this isn't Avengers: Endgame, for the love of god; I promise that's the only potshot at Markus and McFeely in this entry. I highly advise current players to at least subscribe to the comm even if they don't tag out in the event, so they can still easily keep up with some game canon.
That also means, for anyone not currently in game but joining us for this event, you are a welcomed guest in our community for this event, and as such, please be respectful and aware of the game's rules and settings in turn. Our current players are also always asked to adhere to these rules of conduct as well; no game-breaking stuff, respect OOC boundaries, et cetera. Our game's information is located HERE.
That said, the only two rules I'm allowing be bent for event purposes are:
01 | People messing around with AU versions of their in-game characters if they wish. Anyone else is still welcome to play AU versions too, but hey if you wanna play an AU of your canon character in the fourth wall too and not claim it for AC purposes (see above point regarding what kinds of fourth wall threads are AC eligible), go wild. As long as any AU is not under 18 and/or a pregnant character; neither of those are kosher in AU characters or not, even for the fourth wall. That would just be too much to manage in current game canon and setting.
02 | Duplicates of canon characters in game will be technically allowed in the fourth wall. In our standard rules we don't allow duplicates in game (unless the other is AU), but for fourth wall purposes ONLY, this will be lifted. These duplicate characters would not be able to be apped anyway after the event is over, so I think this just opens up the door for other ways to have temporary fourth-wall fun. Current players who want to tag into the event may obviously opt out of duplicate responses if they would like. While I'm not going to demand screencapped proof that people get permission from the current in-game player of a canon character to play a canon duplicate of theirs in the fourth wall, it is general polite human policy to ask first in any circumstance where you want to consider someone else's preferences and/or feelings. Don't be this:
Ask any questions in the MOD QUESTIONS thread below.
A whole month, yes!
(This means your fourth wall characters are in play for a month, then gone and over with the close of the event.)
Since membership to the City of Sin communities is moderated — and in the case of the network and logs comm (not the OOC comm), commenting is locked to members only — we will be playing with the 4th wall in a special community! One is already set up (
4thwall_cos) and that community will be open for the sole purpose of the fourth wall event. New posts and membership to that comm will be open as of September 30th [since as of currently, membership to 4thwall_cos is moderated], and disallowed once the event is over on October 31st, but backtagging will remain open and welcome for as long as people want to keep started threads going.(Any fourth wall comments by characters already in game are eligible to be used for AC. This is done on a CHARACTER basis, not PLAYER — meaning: current players can play characters they don't already have in game on this test drive, but they can't use those threads for AC.)
Everything in that community WILL BE GAME CANON; current players and characters, please keep this in mind. As such, you don't have to have your character interact here and can opt out that way, but you may not have them ICly pretend like this event didn't happen at all, because that wouldn't make any sense and would give us two different game canons. And this isn't Avengers: Endgame, for the love of god; I promise that's the only potshot at Markus and McFeely in this entry. I highly advise current players to at least subscribe to the comm even if they don't tag out in the event, so they can still easily keep up with some game canon.
That also means, for anyone not currently in game but joining us for this event, you are a welcomed guest in our community for this event, and as such, please be respectful and aware of the game's rules and settings in turn. Our current players are also always asked to adhere to these rules of conduct as well; no game-breaking stuff, respect OOC boundaries, et cetera. Our game's information is located HERE.
01 | People messing around with AU versions of their in-game characters if they wish. Anyone else is still welcome to play AU versions too, but hey if you wanna play an AU of your canon character in the fourth wall too and not claim it for AC purposes (see above point regarding what kinds of fourth wall threads are AC eligible), go wild. As long as any AU is not under 18 and/or a pregnant character; neither of those are kosher in AU characters or not, even for the fourth wall. That would just be too much to manage in current game canon and setting.
02 | Duplicates of canon characters in game will be technically allowed in the fourth wall. In our standard rules we don't allow duplicates in game (unless the other is AU), but for fourth wall purposes ONLY, this will be lifted. These duplicate characters would not be able to be apped anyway after the event is over, so I think this just opens up the door for other ways to have temporary fourth-wall fun. Current players who want to tag into the event may obviously opt out of duplicate responses if they would like. While I'm not going to demand screencapped proof that people get permission from the current in-game player of a canon character to play a canon duplicate of theirs in the fourth wall, it is general polite human policy to ask first in any circumstance where you want to consider someone else's preferences and/or feelings. Don't be this:
It just felt like a vaguely appropriate gif to close it out with, okay, I don't know.
Ask any questions in the MOD QUESTIONS thread below.
I'm old too
Also, unsurprisingly, I had a dream specifically about your Sam this weekend. If you want to traumatize the shit out of the boy, I could toss Artemis Seth at him. She's not only prophetic (you know you wanna hear about season nine Sam...), but will happily lie to protect her sister.