Realities
★ Realities
Whatever crazy place you come from, call that your reality. A character's reality is their entire universe. This is the place they return to from the Plane. Each character comes here with their own reality, alone in it. Each world is separate. As relationships change and develop and grow, worlds come together.
★ The World
Though realities are real, functioning universes, they are still shaped and formed by the minds of the characters. These realities are fully populated by characters of that world not applied for by any player: Non-Player Characters, or NPCs. NPCs are handled by the players of that reality and can be shared in mergers. These NPCs are real people, though no one has yet made it clear if they're the people your characters know and love from their own universe or if they're creations of the Machine, just as no one has clarified if the realities are natural universes or ones generated by the Machine. And then there is the philosophical question of whether that even matters. We'll leave that particular quandary to the characters.
★ World-Hopping
If a characters grabs another on the Plane and tries to drag that character back to their reality with them, it will work. The character in question will appear out of nowhere in the first character's reality, which could be awkward if a lot of NPCs are about. The Plane's translator will help them get by. If they go back to the Plane, things will be as before, and they'll return to their own world when they try to leave the Plane. They'll need the first character to yank them back through again.
★ Random Encounters
People from different realities can also visit each other in their home realities via semi-random encounters. The Machine occasionally moves people from one reality to another and back again. These sudden trips can last for seconds or, theoretically, forever, though it is very rare for something like that to happen.
★ Differing Canon Points
If characters are of the same series and deviance, they will be inserted into the correct reality by the Machine immediately on their arrival. This is technically a complete merger, which means that it may cause problems for characters of the same canon and deviance who are not from the same canon point. In this case, players are asked to discuss what they would like to do with their castmates. They can have a merger that mixes bits of each point in time, drag one character forward or backward in time to meet up with the other character(s) without experiencing what their canonically would have, or remain separate in their realities. What changes you may make to a reality to make up for time differences can be explained when you apply for the merger. If you like, you can take your time before having a full merger of canonmates in order to sort things out with the other players.
OOC Info
★Summary
★Communities
★Rules
★Suggestions
★Contact
★Advertisement
The Machine
★The Astral Plane
★Deviances
★Realities
★Reality Changes
★Experiments
★Death
Connections
★Network
★Postal System
★Hosts
★Permissions
★Hiatus & Drop
Applying
★Taken
★Arrival
★Applications
★Reserves
★Wanted
Whatever crazy place you come from, call that your reality. A character's reality is their entire universe. This is the place they return to from the Plane. Each character comes here with their own reality, alone in it. Each world is separate. As relationships change and develop and grow, worlds come together.
★ The World
Though realities are real, functioning universes, they are still shaped and formed by the minds of the characters. These realities are fully populated by characters of that world not applied for by any player: Non-Player Characters, or NPCs. NPCs are handled by the players of that reality and can be shared in mergers. These NPCs are real people, though no one has yet made it clear if they're the people your characters know and love from their own universe or if they're creations of the Machine, just as no one has clarified if the realities are natural universes or ones generated by the Machine. And then there is the philosophical question of whether that even matters. We'll leave that particular quandary to the characters.
★ World-Hopping
If a characters grabs another on the Plane and tries to drag that character back to their reality with them, it will work. The character in question will appear out of nowhere in the first character's reality, which could be awkward if a lot of NPCs are about. The Plane's translator will help them get by. If they go back to the Plane, things will be as before, and they'll return to their own world when they try to leave the Plane. They'll need the first character to yank them back through again.
★ Random Encounters
People from different realities can also visit each other in their home realities via semi-random encounters. The Machine occasionally moves people from one reality to another and back again. These sudden trips can last for seconds or, theoretically, forever, though it is very rare for something like that to happen.
★ Differing Canon Points
If characters are of the same series and deviance, they will be inserted into the correct reality by the Machine immediately on their arrival. This is technically a complete merger, which means that it may cause problems for characters of the same canon and deviance who are not from the same canon point. In this case, players are asked to discuss what they would like to do with their castmates. They can have a merger that mixes bits of each point in time, drag one character forward or backward in time to meet up with the other character(s) without experiencing what their canonically would have, or remain separate in their realities. What changes you may make to a reality to make up for time differences can be explained when you apply for the merger. If you like, you can take your time before having a full merger of canonmates in order to sort things out with the other players.
OOC Info
★Summary
★Communities
★Rules
★Suggestions
★Contact
★Advertisement
The Machine
★The Astral Plane
★Deviances
★Realities
★Reality Changes
★Experiments
★Death
Connections
★Network
★Postal System
★Hosts
★Permissions
★Hiatus & Drop
Applying
★Taken
★Arrival
★Applications
★Reserves
★Wanted