Game information
Premise:
On the streets of Central, a strange thing is happening. A rift has opened up in space-time, drawing in people from other universes, sometimes even creating duplicates of people who already exist. Nobody can figure out what's happening, but unless it's fixed, the entire world will implode.
Fortunately, that won't happen for thousands of years, so what this means for you is -- you guessed it! -- yet another one of those dressing room communities where everything's made up and the points don't matter apps aren't necessary, every character is welcome, and you may just run into a gang of five Edward Elrics obsessively comparing each other's heights.
Setting:
This is Central City, but not quite as you remember it from any version of FMA canon. You'll be able to find buildings here that exist in the anime or manga -- Military HQ is there, as are the libraries, shops, and homes that people live in. There's also an inn called the Scientific Anomaly Inn, run by a strange man named Gilbert, where the rooms and food are free. But do you really want to stay in a place with a name like that...?
If you dig down underground, you'll eventually come to Dante's underground city, and if you keep digging from there, you'll find Father's lair.
In the center of the city, you can find this sign. It's magic, so it's legible to anyone no matter their language or level of literacy, as long as at the sign is fully within their line of sight.
The trains are running, but they just go in a circle around the city. And Central overlaps itself, so that if you try to leave from the east you'll come back in from the west, and the same for north and south. Radio wave testing has shown that there's nothing "outside" the city, assuming there is an outside; as for what happens if you go up high enough... well, no one's tried that so far!
FAQ:
- What's causing everyone to come to Fake Central?
- Wouldn't you like to know.
- Who's Gilbert, and what's the deal with the food he makes?
- Gilbert is the NPC who runs the Scientific Anomaly Inn, which allows anyone to stay for free. There's also free food provided, whether or not you're a resident! However, sometimes it does... weird things. There are occasionally events where weird things will happen to whoever ate at the inn, ranging from personality swaps to the growth of cat ears and tails. If you want to participate in an event but your character is too savvy to eat Gilbert's food, you're free to say someone else brought them something to eat and somehow failed to mention where it came from!
The meat he serves is provided by Barry the Chopper, but this is not common knowledge.
- Gilbert is the NPC who runs the Scientific Anomaly Inn, which allows anyone to stay for free. There's also free food provided, whether or not you're a resident! However, sometimes it does... weird things. There are occasionally events where weird things will happen to whoever ate at the inn, ranging from personality swaps to the growth of cat ears and tails. If you want to participate in an event but your character is too savvy to eat Gilbert's food, you're free to say someone else brought them something to eat and somehow failed to mention where it came from!
- So what kinds of characters are allowed here?
- Anyone who's appeared in any of the various Fullmetal Alchemist canons -- manga, first anime, second anime, movie, OVAs, novels, or video games -- is allowed, except for Adolf Hitler. No matter how small the character's role was, if you want to play them, you can! Alternate universe versions of characters are also allowed. You can play a female Ed, or a German version of Roy Mustang, or an Amestrian Dietlinde Eckhart, or a Winry from modern-day Los Angeles, or an Ed who was stuck in the armor instead of Al, or a Riza who's from the Pokemon universe... Let your imaginations run wild!
The only original characters currently allowed are anthropomorphic personifications of the nations of Amestris, Xing, Xerxes, Ishval, and Drachma. Think Hetalia. Creta and Aerugo may be allowed in the future if they ever get more canon information.
- Anyone who's appeared in any of the various Fullmetal Alchemist canons -- manga, first anime, second anime, movie, OVAs, novels, or video games -- is allowed, except for Adolf Hitler. No matter how small the character's role was, if you want to play them, you can! Alternate universe versions of characters are also allowed. You can play a female Ed, or a German version of Roy Mustang, or an Amestrian Dietlinde Eckhart, or a Winry from modern-day Los Angeles, or an Ed who was stuck in the armor instead of Al, or a Riza who's from the Pokemon universe... Let your imaginations run wild!
- We can play AU characters? So can I put Edward into the Firefly universe and put him into Simon's role?
- Characters who are AU'd into other canons are fine, even if they've taken the "role" of a character from that canon -- we've had an Ed who was president of the Baby-sitters Club, a Russel who had a Geass and was the leader of an underground Ishballan rebellion group, and other characters like that.
What's not okay is playing a character from another canon with an FMA character as their PB. You can play Ed as being from the Firefly universe, where Al was experimented on by an evil Alliance organization, but if you give Ed Simon Tam's entire personality and there's nothing left of Ed but his face? You're doing it wrong. (Please note that this seems to contradict the OOCness answer below, but it's a different situation; playing a character OOC is one thing, but sneaking a non-FMA character into the game by giving them icons of an FMA character is different.)
This rule is bendable if your idea is suitably funny, though.
- Characters who are AU'd into other canons are fine, even if they've taken the "role" of a character from that canon -- we've had an Ed who was president of the Baby-sitters Club, a Russel who had a Geass and was the leader of an underground Ishballan rebellion group, and other characters like that.
- So-and-so is being OOC! Can you ban them?
- Nope. Since this is a dressing room, you'll find wildly different versions and interpretations of characters. One person's IC is another person's OOC. Just ignore someone if you don't like how they're playing. You're free to offer up constructive criticism, but if they don't want to listen, that's their right.
If someone has said to you that they don't like how you're playing and they offer you concrit, once again, you're free not to listen, but please don't get angry at them. You may want to take what they've said into question, but even if you don't want to, try not to get too upset. Just ignore it if you don't like it.
- Nope. Since this is a dressing room, you'll find wildly different versions and interpretations of characters. One person's IC is another person's OOC. Just ignore someone if you don't like how they're playing. You're free to offer up constructive criticism, but if they don't want to listen, that's their right.
- How does character death work here?
- In most situations, it doesn't. If your character dies, they die. If you kill your character and then change your mind, you can always retcon it later and say that actually were just hurt really badly, or have them show up again fresh from home with no memories of the dressing room. This is because we really don't want to deal with characters dying and reviving every day, and also because this is a dressing room set in the FMA universe, where death really is permanent.
There are some exceptions to this -- Homunculi can die multiple times before they're really "dead", and some characters may be AU versions where death works specially for them. Those will be handled on a case-by-case basis.
- In most situations, it doesn't. If your character dies, they die. If you kill your character and then change your mind, you can always retcon it later and say that actually were just hurt really badly, or have them show up again fresh from home with no memories of the dressing room. This is because we really don't want to deal with characters dying and reviving every day, and also because this is a dressing room set in the FMA universe, where death really is permanent.
- Are sexytimes allowed?
- Yep! But member-lock any entries where sexy things happen, and mark the entry for adult content (it's in a drop-down box underneath the entry posting field when you post or edit an entry). Also, warn for the content in an OOC note on the post.
- What's the posting style like?
- Most people use the "commentspam" style of posting, where any unformatted words are simply text, and actions and thoughts go inside of *asterisks* or [brackets]. Prose format is also allowed, and if you use it, please tag the entry with (prose) (including the parentheses). And it goes without saying, but try to match the format of your comments to that of the post you're responding to.
Tag your entries with the following format: character name: username Make sure to include the space between the colon and the username, for uniformity. And please tag entries your character has commented in, as well as entries they've posted. If your character's name has multiple spellings, use whichever spelling has already been used; if your character's name has multiple spellings and none have yet been used, then go ahead and use the one you prefer.
If your character is an AU version whose name is different (a female Alphonse named Alice, a Riza who married Roy so now her last name is Mustang, or for a non-AU example, a pre-marriage Izumi whose last name is still Harnet), use the canon name anyway.
The previous system used character name (canon) and character name (AU), which turned out to be too much of a hassle to keep track of. Some older entries still use those tags, but they're slowly being fixed. Do not use those tags anymore!
Since the community only gets 1200 tags, it's possible that it may eventually hit the tag limit. In order to keep that from happening, when fixing the tags in previous entries, we did not give tags to journals that have been deleted or to journals that have since been re-used for non-FMA characters. If we ever do go up against the limit, we may remove tags for characters that haven't been used very much or in a very long time. But that's a long way off!
Links:
- Contact post -- If something is wrong and you need to get in touch with a mod, please comment there. All comments are screened.
- fmadressingroom -- The in-character community.
- fmadressingooc -- The out-of-character community, for players to get together and talk!
- fma_rp_direct -- an FMA-centric RP ad community.