MediaWiki:History

Every character in Achaea is given the capability to write a publicly-viewable background and to keep his or her personal history up to date by writing regular 'chapters.' This background and the chapters must be written in-role, as they are there to be used as roleplay devices.

In order to promote consistent roleplay, you must remember that once you've written your background, _it cannot be altered_. You can, however, provide updates to your background by way of the aforementioned chapters. Ideally, reading a character's background and then reading the various historical chapters that the character has written will give one a sense of where the character is coming from, where he's been, and where he's going.

Once again we must emphasize that this system is to be used _only_ for writing in-role history of your character. It's not to be used for any other purpose, and those using it for any other purpose will find they cannot use the system anymore.

Syntax summary: (full explanations in the next section)

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COMPOSE BACKGROUND (** READ THE INSTRUCTIONS BELOW FIRST ** ) COMPOSE HISTORY COMPOSE HISTORY TITLE <chapter #> <title>

VIEW BACKGROUND <player> VIEW HISTORY SUMMARY <player> VIEW HISTORY <chapter #> <player>

SET HISTORY PUBLIC/ALLIES/PRIVATE

Syntaxes:

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COMPOSE BACKGROUND

  - Takes you into the Achaean editor to compose your background.

  - You may only write a background ONCE, ever. We recommend writing it
    off-line in a word processor, spell-checking it, reading it over a few
    times to make sure it's just how you want it, and then pasting it into
    the Achaean editor.

  - There's no need to write excessively long backgrounds. What you want to
    do is give your character some flavour and give yourself a framework to
    roleplay in. What you do not want to do is write histories that nobody
    will respect, because they are ridiculous. Don't write that you come from
    some far off land, as you don't. Don't write that you are the spawn of
    some demon, because you aren't. Keep it consistent with Achaean history
    and consistent within itself.

  - YOU MAY ONLY WRITE A BACKGROUND ONCE AND ONCE SAVED, YOU CAN _NEVER_
    ALTER IT! SO BE CAREFUL!

COMPOSE HISTORY

  - Takes you into the editor to compose a new chapter.

  - Like with backgrounds, you may not edit these once saved.

  - Chapters are to be used only for the telling and explaining of personal
    history. They are not to be used to write whatever you feel like writing.

COMPOSE HISTORY TITLE <chapter #> <title>

  - Assigns a title to a chapter.
  - The title may be multiple words long. The title may be changed as many
    times as you like.

VIEW BACKGROUND <character>

  - Views a character's background.
  - Omit the character field to view your own background more easily.

VIEW HISTORY SUMMARY <character>

  - Displays a summary of the chapters a character has written.
  - Omit the character field to view your own summary more easily.

VIEW HISTORY <chapter> <character>

  - Displays the specified chapter of the specified character.
  - Omit the character field to view your own chapters more easily.

SET HISTORY PUBLIC/ALLIES/PRIVATE

  - Sets your background and chapters viewable by everyone, only your allies
    or no one. The only exceptions are that the most powerful Gods, Creators,
    (such as Sarapis, Clementius, or Maya) who can always read them.