Introduction To Destiny Star

[Demondaze 0]

Welcome to Destiny Star, an Interactive Story-Telling Game! This fantasy-themed game has an emphasis on story-telling and role-playing. The basic way that a game like this is played is everyone creates a character and writes stories from their character's perspective. This game is usually called "Play by E-mail", "interactive fiction", or simply, "role-playing".

 

Everyone, writes stories about their characters that are posted in specified topics. Over time, as the stories develop, characters meet each other and relationships are formed. Battles are fought, lands are won and lost, and empires grow or fall as the story is told from the perspective of everyone involved.

 

We're looking for players!

 

If you like writing stories, intricate political situations, intense battles, and the mysteries of ancient magic, then keep reading - you might find something you like.

 

Destiny Star is an epic tale told through a series of short stories. Every player participates by writing stories known as "posts" and, basically, "posting" them to a "topic." Members (hopefully) read the stories and then write their own stories to respond to the events occuring in the game.

 

The role-playing aspect occurs when your character interacts with other characters, or gets involved in events that sweep the land. You can then react as your character would to things that are going on in the world by writing a story about the event. Through this, you can develop your characters, the world, and the relationship between the two. By coordinating with other players, you can become involved in an engaging and addicting story.

 

The stories don't have to be long, either - they can be quite short. Although, if you really want, you can write them to be longer, too. I'm certainly not going to stop you!

 

The Story Moderator (which is me, though moderator in name only), looks over all of the events and makes sure that everyone's having fun and that things are moving smoothly. I'll make sure that the events make sense in the game and that everyone's interacting with everyone else, and try to coordinate your stories so they match up.

 

If you are interested in joining the world of Destiny Star, then read on. If not, thank you anyway.

[Demondaze 0]

Joining

 

 

The Applications Process

 

The general procedure is that you take the Persona Sheet (P-sheet), fill it out, and then PM it to me. The sheet helps me learn about you and your character, and is your ticket into the game! But make sure you read this whole post first.

 

The applications sheet is used to help you think about your character. If you have some time to think about the character you want to play and how their story goes, you will have a much easier time writing posts.

 

If you have any questions, or an idea you're not sure about, PM me! I'd be more than happy to help you out. As a matter of fact, if you talk to me about your ideas, it's more likely I'll allow them. For instance, if you want your character to be a freakish circus stongman, PM me and we'll work out the details. Lifting elephants is an unlikely prospect, but who knows? We can talk about it and see what happens.

 

 

Role-playing a Faction or Government

 

If you would like to experience a different spin on things, you might want to consider role-playing a government.

 

Basically, instead of zeroing in on a single character, you can choose to role-play important figures in a government. If you take this route, I would prefer that your primary focus be on policy making, such as deploying armies, reacting to foreign affairs, and ordering government workers around. This syle, unlike the "single character" route, is more about "gaming" than storywriting, although they really do go hand in hand.

 

The idea behind this is that because the factions are pretty interconnected in this game, it would be much more interesting if they had human beings behind them who act as the officials who have the country's best interests in mind. So, if you're a player of a military, you will have to react to the orders of your country unless you want to start a major subplot by committing treason. It would be totally awesome to get players to perform the roles of government for the four major countries (). There would be rules overseeing this operation, of course - for example, you might be limited to posting once every few weeks as a government to avoid advancing the game at a rate that player-characters can't keep up.

 

If you don't want to play an entire government, you might be content with a smaller faction, like an army of 20,000 men or some similar thing. You would probably tell a story like this from the point of view of a commander watching over his army, or a ship captain.

 

I'm pretty flexible in what can be done if you have a good idea, so be sure to PM me about it if you want to discuss ideas. Like I said, I'm much more receptive to them if we've had a chance to talk.

 

 

Non-player Characters

 

I generally don't mind if you create non-player characters. However, if you do, you should take a moment and post them in the Characters Section. This is especially important to do if you role-play a faction instead of a character. The NPC description doesn't have to be long at all - just enough for readers to get a reminder of who appears in your stories.

 

General Application Requirements

 

1.) All applications must be filled out using a version of the Character Sheet.

 

You must use the Character Sheet that can be seen at the bottom of this page. Either copy and paste the document into the PM window, or save the file onto your local hard drive and edit it directly using a text editor. Keep the applicaton form intact, and write your information after the fields without modifying the sheet itself. Please do not use Microsoft Word or other word processing programs. (The formatting doesn't stick, as I'm sure you know)

 

2.) Do not give your character extreme powers that can not be justified.

 

Remember that these characters are not superhuman. Do not give your character special magical abilities not expressed in the game, the ability to morph into other forms, (actually, I might throw some lee-way around here), or the ability to throw three-hundred pound rocks across fifty yards. If there are any exceptions, you must justify the fact with supporting evidence in the game and provide detailed information in your application.

 

Please don't create Swords of Smiting Vorpaly Wounded Wombats or other kinds of artifacts or concepts that may be considered as "twinky". Powergaming (where you force your character's powers/story decisions on others) and twinking (which is using super powers of some sort) are highly frowned upon. (Although, should you really think you're going to run across Vorpaly Wounded Wombats...)

 

3.) There should be no "secret sections" in your initial application.

 

Everything about the character, from their magic abilities to their hobbies, should be noted in the application. The exception to this are fields such as "Father", "Mother", "Birthdate", etc., which may or may not be presented for characters that are known to be enigmatic, or, god forbid, forgetful.

 

Your P-sheet, as is, will not be posted up. Your first post in the special topic that is all yours should be your character sheet, edited to your approval. That's not to say you can completely redo your character between approval and posting, but that this is your opportunity to omit information you don't want other players to know.

 

4.) All applications must be detailed.

 

The "Personality" section of your character is particularily important. There must be at least two paragraphs for your personality section. At least one paragraph should describe how your character interacts with others in common social settings, which might (but don't have to) include:

 

How your character acts in a small private conversation

 

How your character acts at a large party

 

How your character acts in a leadership role

 

How your character acts when he or she is alone

 

You should also have at least three paragraphs for your history section. Your history section should describe key events in their life that make up who they are today. You will sometimes have to make this information up to fill in some holes, but doing this shows creativity.

 

The quality of these two sections essentially decide if you will be accepted, so spend time making these sections presentable.

If you follow all of these guidelines, you should be able to write a 4K plain-text file (though this isn't a strict minimum; and really hard to gauge in a PM anyway). The larger the sheet, the better it tends to be, because it shows that you have put serious thought into how you would like to present your character. Unless, like me, you ramble.

 

5.) All applications must adhere to good English use, including grammar and spelling.

 

The game's primary language is English, and you should be comfortable with writing English prose.

 

And anybody who says Lol, suxor or noob in a story post is automatically out of the game, no exceptions. It's just bad form.

[Demondaze 0]

Destiny Star: P-Sheet

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Player Information

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Name (or alias): [Who are you?]

Username : [On this site]

E-mail Address: [For personal reference; unless you'd rather not give it]

 

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Character Information

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=== Please fill in all of the fields. ===

=== Do not leave any fields blank, or ===

=== mark them as "unknown". ===

 

-Name:

-Age:

-Gender:

 

-Occupation: [better known as "What do you do to eat?"]

 

-Physical Description:

 

-Personality:

 

-Background and History:

 

-Birthdate: [Hint: the game year (IC. 370) minus age]

-Birthplace: [if it's not a major city, make it up]

 

-Known Family: [Mama, papa, brothers and sisters? Granpa? A smelly old dog?]

-Other Relationships: [Do you even have friends? Well, enemies are close enough]

 

-Weapons: [One per person, no pushing or shoving. Note: dual-weild counts as one, as do weapons with ammo (knives, arrows)]

-Equipment: [Armor, sheilds, boots, poofy-sleeved shirts; what you wear, what you carry.]

 

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-Other notes: [i don't know. Tatoos, maybe? Character quirks? Webbed toes? Whatever you want to put here]

 

 

 

 

 

For reference on what kind of character you can be, and on the world in general, check The World of Destiny Star topic. (Link coming soon)

[Noob Saibot 38]

See Kirashi, this is Necroposting....your such a nerd!

[Joey 9]

See Kirashi, this is Necroposting....your such a nerd!

Whaaa?....

[Dark Den 4]

Yea i dont seem to see a necro post unless a mod or some one deleted it :sweatdrop:

[Kiriashi 117]

See Kirashi, this is Necroposting....your such a nerd!

 

That's a bit of an immature way of making a point, wouldn't you say?

 

You've gone and confused the other members too.