Post by Angel on Jul 31, 2009 12:53:11 GMT -8
The "Past" forums on Exodus include everything leading up to the events of Earthfall. They may be used to develop your characters backstory. There is, of course, a catch: no character will have recieved their powers (even at the Manifestation level) before Earthfall.
But that isn't all.
Player characters who meet each other up to a year before Earthfall will not remember other player characters. Even then, only if people have significantly bonded or influenced each other, will they remember each other. They will remember the events, but will be unable to associate the memory with the other character, if they happen to meet at some point in the present. Player characters who have known each other for longer will still remember everything with each other normally.
For some reason or another, the events of Earthfall have largely wiped the slate clean for the player characters, and due to the open realm of roleplay in the past, they may be more intrinsically connected than any of them realize.
Playing in the Past
Back to the Future
Playing in the "Present" will work like just about every other roleplay site. Timelines will generally be flexible, and you don't need to go out of your way to signify when an event is taking place.
But that isn't all.
Player characters who meet each other up to a year before Earthfall will not remember other player characters. Even then, only if people have significantly bonded or influenced each other, will they remember each other. They will remember the events, but will be unable to associate the memory with the other character, if they happen to meet at some point in the present. Player characters who have known each other for longer will still remember everything with each other normally.
For some reason or another, the events of Earthfall have largely wiped the slate clean for the player characters, and due to the open realm of roleplay in the past, they may be more intrinsically connected than any of them realize.
Playing in the Past
- You should make it clear WHEN you are playing. This is less of an issue for Present threads, as they generally follow a more or less linear progression. However, the past is a free playground. Therefore, in the first post of any new thread, PLEASE designate where on the timeline you thread falls. An easy way to do this is to mark how long before Earthfall the event happened. For example:
Two Weeks before Earthfall
(Main content of the post.) - Just to make the point again: I will be a hardass about the "remembering events but being unable to link the events to other player characters" shtick. If you can accept that a mystical or scientific event gave every player a special power, you can accept this. If you want to have a strong link with someone in the past, you need to make it decently far back in the past.
Back to the Future
Playing in the "Present" will work like just about every other roleplay site. Timelines will generally be flexible, and you don't need to go out of your way to signify when an event is taking place.