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Characters in Dream Haven are built on a tier system. The basic rule is that, until such time as a deviant is invested, their characters will be limited to help prevent characters from breaking the system. Of course, it is still the responsibility of the administrators (founder, co-founders, and contributors) to police character submissions and story entries to make sure they are appropriate, help build the environment, and don’t break the world. Every member of the group has a tier position based on the number of submissions that the member has made to Dream Haven and/or West End. There are several rules regarding what counts as a submission and what does not, as detailed below: 1) Story submissions count as one submission. Stories need not be long, but they must move a plot along or provide information that can be used in other stories. The Lingerie Brawl, for example, contained an internal story about heroes dressing up and modeling to raise money for the Clark-Zenn Foundation. While entrants into the brawl did not have to include stories or vignettes, if stories and vignettes were included and submitted to AngelFalls-WestEnd, then they can be used as a single submission. Stories do not have to be literature-comics or movies, for example, would also count as a submission, as would a spoken-word performance. 2) Collaborative efforts will count as a single submission for each collaborator. This means that if you write a story, include two characters that belong to other members, and hire an artist, then that submission will be worth a single submission for four separate people. An example of this would be Shooting Stars, Chapter Three. Most of the sections of Chapter three count as a submission for myself, for Lady-Quantum, for moxiee, and for SebastiansSire. On the other hand, while LoneStranger and Knight3000 could each claim a submission from the pictures I gifted them, but I could not claim one because I was uninvolved in the story process in any way. 3) Reasonably complete setting resources count as one submission. This includes any fully detailed landmark, building, company, social grouping, etc. Character Biographies are not included-for one thing, character bios would set me up with another 37 entries, minimum, and that just seems inherently unfair. A good example of a non-literary setting resource would be TrekkieGal’s map of the West End. The number of submissions required for each tier are listed below: ----0-29 Tier 3 ----30-39 Tier 4 ----40-49 Tier 5 ----50-59 Tier 6 ----60-69 Tier 7 ----70-79 Tier 8 ----80-89 Tier 9 ----90-99 Tier 10 ----100+ Full investiture Each tier allows a character to develop a single power; accordingly, all characters made by new members will be limited to a maximum of three effects per character. Finally, once a member reaches full investiture, he or she is no longer limited in terms of the characters the member can make. There is, of course, still the assumption that reason will be employed, and the administrators still have the right to reject a character that seems unreasonably likely to unbalance the setting to the point of making it no longer fun for others. A list of base effects follows: Basic Travel (Running, Flying, Swimming, personal teleportation) Ranged Attack/Blasts Resistances Enhanced Physical Characteristics (Example: Strength, Dexterity, Constitution, Appearance) Enhanced Mental Characteristics (Example: Intelligence, Charisma, Wisdom) Mental/Biological Control Telekinesis/Matter Control Transmutation Stuns Entangles Wealth Comprehensive Life Support Healing/Regeneration Enhanced/Additional Senses (depending on nature, may count as more than one) Precognitive Abilities Matter Creation Energy Creation Extra-Human Skills (Example: Batman, Taskmaster) Melee Attack/Blasts Other Weirdness *****Killing Attack Add-on (must be added to an existing *****power.)***** ------------Traditional Weapons will be required to have the Killing ------------Attack Add-on. This includes any sort of gun (provided ------------it can be used to kill), or bladed weapon. ------------Blunt weapons should be discussed with an Admin to ------------see if the Killing Attack Add-on is ------------required. Power Limitations: Don’t Be that Guy!!!!! It's all good if you want your powers, and do the cool stuff like lifting heavy objects, or even having a bad guy blow something up (mind you if you don't own it, get permission first), but what we do ask is that you put it back after you do. Write about it, this IS a storytelling page after all. Do your due diligence, and show what happens AFTER the battle as well as during the knock down drag out battle to end all battles. Addendum: Sometimes wrecking things will be permanent- if that's the case, make double sure that you have the permissions of anyone who is likely to be affected. It's never fun if some of your stuff were to be destroyed and someone went "oops" and flew off...why would you do it to another person, right? Be mindful of the fact that some people may have stories in progress that have not been published, yet- sweeping changes may have more wide-reaching consequences than you've anticipated. |
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The Dream Haven Chat is now active at: discordapp.com/invite/MzNWrRN We also have a suggestion box: docs.google.com/document/d/1Hs… and a link to submit news stories to the West End Weekend: docs.google.com/document/d/1sf… |
The Lingerie Brawl art jam is over.
Really it's been over for a couple of days, but that's besides the point.
So here's the list of entries for this year's brawl:
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That's it, that's all I could find.
Nobody did anything, and if people did do it they didn't use the hashtag they were supposed to use.
Da hell people? There were people saying this had to be done, and then they didn't do anything for it! It was a bit more than a month that everyone had to do something for this, guess there isn't any interest since it wasn't a contest.
Guess the Lingerie Brawl dies with a whimper then...
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