After Acceptance ✖ Getting Started
After Acceptance ✖ Getting Started
Upon acceptance of your application into Toshima, please do the following:
✖ Please thoroughly read over the Choose Your Career & Residence section, the NPC Profiles as seen in the community profile, and the FAQ, Rules, and Power Restrictions pages. It's an awful lot of reading, we know, but these novellas were written for you in the hope that practically any question you can imagine will probably have an answer provided for you. However, if you ever have trouble or are unsure of something, you may ALWAYS feel free to PM toshima_mods and a moderator will get back to you ASAP.
✖ Comment on the Taken Character and the Player Contact posts with the information required so that your character and your information can be added to the taken cast ASAP. If your character is a participant in Igura, a Mod will get back to you ASAP with the 5 random dog tags your character will be starting-out with.
✖ Please log in to your character's account and proceed to the Friend Add/Remove post so that you can build your friends list.
✖ Please make sure that your character has joined the OOC comm and the Log comm!
✖ Make a post to the OOC comm introducing yourself and your character! This is a good opportunity to meet and plot with fellow players, as well as being helpful to players so that they know who to add to their character's FList.
✖ Igura Participants [or, indeed, anyone who is interested in seeing what character has what tags] should refer to the Start-Up Tag Assignments post to see which character is in possession of what tags.
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Now, a common question upon start-up in a new community is 'how exactly will my character arrive?' Well, this is how it goes:
Your character will be going about their own business within the setting of their canon. They do not need to be sleeping, and can in fact be in the middle of high-stress or high-alert situations if the player so desires [the choice is entirely yours]. The common thread between characters, however, is that they will suddenly experience a touch of vertigo, as if they're starting to lose their sense of balance. They will not faint, or black-out, or nod off to sleep, but they will lose time and be unable to remember what happened between feeling that touch of vertigo and then finding themselves in the decimated landscape of the no-man's land surrounding Toshima. Everything they had on them and anything that they were holding will come with them - this includes weapons.
Incoming characters will, again, end-up in the no-man's land between Toshima and either the CFC or Nikkouden, though they can occasionally appear within the borders of either opposing country. Wherever they end-up, they WILL be recognized as i-jin and shuttled to Vischio Mansion for processing. There, your character will:
✖ Be briefed on the nature of their situation: that they are i-jin, that Vischio does not know how or why they've arrived here, and that Vischio is in complete control of their fate.
✖ Have the few laws of Toshima explained to them.
✖ Be given the choice of either the three employment options available to them, or immediate death.
In this way, by the time they start gameplay, your character should know some of the basics about their situation, and 'Where am I?' posts will not be necessary where they are in most other RP situations. Players can determine whether or not they would like to play-out a log featuring their character's interactions with NPCs so far as making their employment choice or attending their first day of work [the latter will be easier for incoming characters when there is a larger, more well-established cast], or if they would simply like to proceed as if their character has made their choice and already settled into their employment position. If you are at a loss for how to begin reaching-out to the rest of the characters in-game, feel free to have your character make a post in the i-jin's online network [OOCly, simply a post in their own journal] attempting to make alliances, accrue acquaintances, ask questions about adequate dining facilities, or simply bemoan their hateful fate with others. Otherwise, your character can always go to a public place like SAKAI or a city street in Downtown Toshima [OOCly, by starting an OPEN log in the Toshima LOGS Community], in hopes of starting some physical interaction with other characters.
Upon acceptance of your application into Toshima, please do the following:
✖ Please thoroughly read over the Choose Your Career & Residence section, the NPC Profiles as seen in the community profile, and the FAQ, Rules, and Power Restrictions pages. It's an awful lot of reading, we know, but these novellas were written for you in the hope that practically any question you can imagine will probably have an answer provided for you. However, if you ever have trouble or are unsure of something, you may ALWAYS feel free to PM toshima_mods and a moderator will get back to you ASAP.
✖ Comment on the Taken Character and the Player Contact posts with the information required so that your character and your information can be added to the taken cast ASAP. If your character is a participant in Igura, a Mod will get back to you ASAP with the 5 random dog tags your character will be starting-out with.
✖ Please log in to your character's account and proceed to the Friend Add/Remove post so that you can build your friends list.
✖ Please make sure that your character has joined the OOC comm and the Log comm!
✖ Make a post to the OOC comm introducing yourself and your character! This is a good opportunity to meet and plot with fellow players, as well as being helpful to players so that they know who to add to their character's FList.
✖ Igura Participants [or, indeed, anyone who is interested in seeing what character has what tags] should refer to the Start-Up Tag Assignments post to see which character is in possession of what tags.
✖
Now, a common question upon start-up in a new community is 'how exactly will my character arrive?' Well, this is how it goes:
Your character will be going about their own business within the setting of their canon. They do not need to be sleeping, and can in fact be in the middle of high-stress or high-alert situations if the player so desires [the choice is entirely yours]. The common thread between characters, however, is that they will suddenly experience a touch of vertigo, as if they're starting to lose their sense of balance. They will not faint, or black-out, or nod off to sleep, but they will lose time and be unable to remember what happened between feeling that touch of vertigo and then finding themselves in the decimated landscape of the no-man's land surrounding Toshima. Everything they had on them and anything that they were holding will come with them - this includes weapons.
Incoming characters will, again, end-up in the no-man's land between Toshima and either the CFC or Nikkouden, though they can occasionally appear within the borders of either opposing country. Wherever they end-up, they WILL be recognized as i-jin and shuttled to Vischio Mansion for processing. There, your character will:
✖ Be briefed on the nature of their situation: that they are i-jin, that Vischio does not know how or why they've arrived here, and that Vischio is in complete control of their fate.
✖ Have the few laws of Toshima explained to them.
✖ Be given the choice of either the three employment options available to them, or immediate death.
In this way, by the time they start gameplay, your character should know some of the basics about their situation, and 'Where am I?' posts will not be necessary where they are in most other RP situations. Players can determine whether or not they would like to play-out a log featuring their character's interactions with NPCs so far as making their employment choice or attending their first day of work [the latter will be easier for incoming characters when there is a larger, more well-established cast], or if they would simply like to proceed as if their character has made their choice and already settled into their employment position. If you are at a loss for how to begin reaching-out to the rest of the characters in-game, feel free to have your character make a post in the i-jin's online network [OOCly, simply a post in their own journal] attempting to make alliances, accrue acquaintances, ask questions about adequate dining facilities, or simply bemoan their hateful fate with others. Otherwise, your character can always go to a public place like SAKAI or a city street in Downtown Toshima [OOCly, by starting an OPEN log in the Toshima LOGS Community], in hopes of starting some physical interaction with other characters.