Overview
Appearance Description
- Should not begin with a capital letter and can NOT end with a period.
- Also the appearance should be kept short (maximum of 50 characters).
- Don't make a sentence out of it.
- Don't write about any actions or reactions the item is having.
Dropped Description
- It must be a complete sentence, with a period on the end.
- No exclamation points, no question marks, no multiple periods.
- The main noun in the sentence must be the same as the pattern name.
- Things like "A cloak is hanging from a peg here." are not acceptable. If it were dropped on the highway there is no peg to hang from.
- Dropped description should be kept to about one line.
Examined Description
- Must begin with a capital letter and must end with a period. Use full sentences. Multiple sentences are fine.
- Be descriptive.
- Examined description should be a few sentences long describing what the item looks like.
FirstEaten & ThirdEaten Descriptions
- Maximum of 240 characters.
- Do not force actions upon the eater unless they really make sense.
- Include some version of the 'appearance' description in the thirdeaten message.
Smell & Taste Descriptions
Design Guidelines
General
- Descriptions should not impose an opinion on the reader.
- Nothing that a craftsman could not reasonably create.
- Clockwork is inappropriate for the Achaean setting and may not be used.
- Use appropriate materials. You can't make a shirt out of living skin or pure gold.
- Metal that may not be used is mithril, orichalcum, and bloodsteel.
Cooking Specific
- The following anachronistic foods and terms are not allowed: pizza, tacos, hot dogs, pancakes, waffles, fondue, jellybeans, gummianything (bear, worm, etc).
- No ingredients may still be alive.
- Food may not have a face.
- No spilling or dripping, not everyone will eat messy.
Jewellery Specific
- Available base materials are, in order of value: Bone, Steel, Silver, Gold, Platinum.
- Nothing that is alive or was previously alive (excluding bone) maybe used in jewellery.
Tailoring Specific
- Achaea does not have "modern" materials and clothing features like velcro, denim, polyester (or any synthetic fabric), zippers, sweatshirts, and so on.
Language
Spelling
- Use UK, not US spellings. (Except when using measurements, in which case use Imperial.)
Punctuation
- Organisation names should be capitalised.
Grammar
- The possessive form of common nouns ending in 's' should retain the possessive 's', example: dress's.