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personal_space2013-12-20 06:43 pm
spaaaaaace) wrote in personal_space2013-12-20 06:43 pm
Proper Protocol
AKA THE RULES
Rule 1:Don't panic Be cool
Rule 2: See rule 1
That's it I guess we can make more if we need to later but we probably won't need to.
WHAT IS GOING ON?
This is basically a free roaming space road trip musebox adventure sort-of-not-game thing. The characters have no real goals except their own, though right now surviving real life would probably be a good one. (Being able to buy food and ship fuel is kinda important okay.)
Basically, anything can happen to these guys as they wander the galaxy aimlessly trying to figure out why they're here and what they're doing, and how to solve whatever minor catastrophe they've landed themselves in this time.
WHY ARE THEY HERE?
The crew of the Ithaca got eaten by space sirens. Just to get that out of the way. That's why the second shuttle is missing. Trust me, it's not a fun way to go.
Edgar, having no instructions, decided to go "home" and made a jump. Due to the screwball warping of reality required to make a worm hole and go through it, it tends to drag in... stuff. Sometimes people.
And that's how the new crew started.
So to start with, the Ithaca is on its way back to a trade depot with an unfinished delivery under its belt. The crew has the option of dealing with that, or saying screw it and flying off to do whatever.
CAN THEY GO HOME?
Probably not but maybe! We're making this up as we go along.
HOW TO JOIN
Be invited. It's not a super secret club or anything, this just... isn't a public game. It's like people playing baseball in their backyard, not an organized league.
CHARACTERS
1) To bring someone in, grab a maintainer and say HAY IT IS ME I AM BRINGING IN THIS DOOD AND THIS IS THE JOURNAL, then join the comm with it.
2) Duplicates/AU's of existing characters allowed if the person who plays the character already says it's cool.
3) OC's, fandom OC's included, are allowed within reason. Also AU's.
4) Power dampening/putting characters without bodies in bodies is a-okay.
HOW DOES MY CHARACTER ARRIVE?
Your character gets dumped onto the ship at random, though after a hyperspace jump is the most common time period for that. They can land anywhere. They will have with them whatever they had on their person at the time.
Injuries, however, are optional. Just for the sake of not dying/bleeding all over things.
BUT THAT'S PHYSICALLY IMPOSSIBLE!
Space magic. B|
THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS SPACE MAGIC!
You don't know that! Ask another question!
HOW DOES I NPC?
Just do it. Or ask about using the spaaaaaaaaa (I forget how many a's) aaaaace account if you want to be fancy.
HOW DOES I BE EDGAR?
Anyone can NPC Edgar if they need to instead of asking someone to do it. It is not hard at all. If you need inspiration, think of Eddie the ship computer from the 2005 Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy movie. (He can be heard at 0:37 here)
1) Be extremely friendly and willing to please.
2) Be sort of dim.
3) Only be able to answer questions directly pertaining to the ship. (What is the status of the engine? Yes! What planet is that? Sometimes! Are we being followed? Yes! What is the meaning of life? Not so much!) Edgar has no idea how people keep showing up aboard the Ithaca, nor what happened to the former crew. He is not troubled by these things either. Really, Edgar seems unable to distinguish between these guys and his old crew to begin with.
5) Basically always be annoyingly happy in tone. At all times. No exceptions. This includes being extremely apologetic about not knowing an answer and giving bad, life destroying news.
Rule 1:
Rule 2: See rule 1
That's it I guess we can make more if we need to later but we probably won't need to.
WHAT IS GOING ON?
This is basically a free roaming space road trip musebox adventure sort-of-not-game thing. The characters have no real goals except their own, though right now surviving real life would probably be a good one. (Being able to buy food and ship fuel is kinda important okay.)
Basically, anything can happen to these guys as they wander the galaxy aimlessly trying to figure out why they're here and what they're doing, and how to solve whatever minor catastrophe they've landed themselves in this time.
WHY ARE THEY HERE?
The crew of the Ithaca got eaten by space sirens. Just to get that out of the way. That's why the second shuttle is missing. Trust me, it's not a fun way to go.
Edgar, having no instructions, decided to go "home" and made a jump. Due to the screwball warping of reality required to make a worm hole and go through it, it tends to drag in... stuff. Sometimes people.
And that's how the new crew started.
So to start with, the Ithaca is on its way back to a trade depot with an unfinished delivery under its belt. The crew has the option of dealing with that, or saying screw it and flying off to do whatever.
CAN THEY GO HOME?
Probably not but maybe! We're making this up as we go along.
HOW TO JOIN
Be invited. It's not a super secret club or anything, this just... isn't a public game. It's like people playing baseball in their backyard, not an organized league.
CHARACTERS
1) To bring someone in, grab a maintainer and say HAY IT IS ME I AM BRINGING IN THIS DOOD AND THIS IS THE JOURNAL, then join the comm with it.
2) Duplicates/AU's of existing characters allowed if the person who plays the character already says it's cool.
3) OC's, fandom OC's included, are allowed within reason. Also AU's.
4) Power dampening/putting characters without bodies in bodies is a-okay.
HOW DOES MY CHARACTER ARRIVE?
Your character gets dumped onto the ship at random, though after a hyperspace jump is the most common time period for that. They can land anywhere. They will have with them whatever they had on their person at the time.
Injuries, however, are optional. Just for the sake of not dying/bleeding all over things.
BUT THAT'S PHYSICALLY IMPOSSIBLE!
Space magic. B|
THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS SPACE MAGIC!
You don't know that! Ask another question!
HOW DOES I NPC?
Just do it. Or ask about using the spaaaaaaaaa (I forget how many a's) aaaaace account if you want to be fancy.
HOW DOES I BE EDGAR?
Anyone can NPC Edgar if they need to instead of asking someone to do it. It is not hard at all. If you need inspiration, think of Eddie the ship computer from the 2005 Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy movie. (He can be heard at 0:37 here)
1) Be extremely friendly and willing to please.
2) Be sort of dim.
3) Only be able to answer questions directly pertaining to the ship. (What is the status of the engine? Yes! What planet is that? Sometimes! Are we being followed? Yes! What is the meaning of life? Not so much!) Edgar has no idea how people keep showing up aboard the Ithaca, nor what happened to the former crew. He is not troubled by these things either. Really, Edgar seems unable to distinguish between these guys and his old crew to begin with.
5) Basically always be annoyingly happy in tone. At all times. No exceptions. This includes being extremely apologetic about not knowing an answer and giving bad, life destroying news.