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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. | |||