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Chapter 1: What's Different About Skyward Odyssey and General RP Guide


Skyward Odyssey is a story-driven forum roleplaying experience and community. If you're new to Forum Roleplaying, please read starting from "General Introduction to Forum RP". If you are an RP veteran, we have to inform you that our club is somewhat different from certain other clubs in MAL. It is important that you read about these differences. You may skip to the "What's different about Skyward Odyssey" section of this chapter.

Introduction to Forum RP and General RPing guide


What's different about Skyward Odyssey?



Special style for Skyward odyssey
There are special reccomendations on Rping in this club:

  • When entering or leaving an area, indicate it by bolding, underlining, or coloring the sentence.
  • When navigating an interaction that might require consent of the other RPer, be sure to communicate with them first
  • Be sure to write at least 3 sentences every post, except when it doesn't make sense.
  • Avoid repetitive, long, overly detailed posts. Be efficient yet interesting. Avoid restating what someone else has already posted.

HarukaNov 10, 2018 11:34 PM
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Chapter 2: Characters and Roles


This chapter will explain how characters and roles work.

First of all, characters in Skyward Odyssey are all from the species of homo sapiens magus. In other words, everyone is a human, except they can harness magic. This means unfortunately, there can't be any other sentient species except in special circumstances. Don't worry though, as you can basically make these humans just as interesting.

Skills and power levels

Roles

Every character in Skyward Odyssey has a field role and a standby role. These roles define how your character will be treated and what they will be expected to do in the S.S. Skystrider. Pick your roles wisely, you can't change them willy nilly.

List of Field Roles


List of Standby Roles


After you've chosen your roles, you can choose your specialization below it in the form. This can be anything justifiable, so feel free to be creative (e.g. One on one skycraft dogfight specialist, water rescue specialist, etc.)
Of course, you could always also fill it in with Other:__________, but you must provide good description and justifications for that role.
HarukaNov 9, 2018 9:06 AM
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Chapter 3: Stories, Lore and NPCs


This chapter will explain about how story works in this RP as well as the role of NPCs.

Missions, Storylines and Sagas


NPCs


Lore

Lore in this RP is mostly done by core storytelling, with the results from these stories impacting the world at large. However, further wider lore is available to be written in specific lore threads. This lore can be used for further stories, but it is sometimes mandatory for certain aspects of making a character, as well as giving you SkyPoints.
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Chapter 4: SkyPoints and OOC Stuff


This section will explain how SkyPoints work and about OOC stuff in general.

SkyPoints are used to grant users permission to do certain things in this club. The more SkyPoints you have, the more things you can do. SkyPoints can be acquired in various ways, for instance:


  • Actively RPing for one month (1 SP)
  • Voting in the Character of the Month competition (1 SP)
  • Winning 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place in the Character of the Month competition (2 SP, 1 SP, 1 SP)
  • Voting for the Lore of the Month competition (1 SP)
  • Winning 1st, 2nd, or 3rd place in the Lore of the Month competition (2 SP, 1 SP, 1 SP)
  • Writing a piece of lore and having it approved (1 SP, max 4 SP/month(rest carries over to next month))
  • Doing something exceptional, such as solving conflicts or helping solve a difficult problem or something (Variable)


Here's a list of what you can get by having many SkyPoints:


  • Lord (10+): Can make 4 characters, can create Sagas, can create Major NPCs.
  • Knight (7-9): Can make 3 characters, no deletion penalty, can propose and create missions and storylines.
  • Knave (4-6): Can make 3 characters. Minimum SkyPoints level for admins and officer applicants
  • Citizen (0-3): Can make 2 characters, have character deletion penalty.
  • Shamed (-1 to -5) Will only be able to make 1 character in the club, admins will be demoted to officers automatically, officers will be demoted to members automatically.
  • Fugitive (-1 to -10): Will only be able to make 1 character in the club and will be treated as if they were warned 1 extra time.
  • Banished (-11 or less): Will be banned from the club.


You may notice that there are negative numbers. This is because Skypoints can be taken away from you. This can be because of various things, but is usually because you broke a rule that doesn't warrant an outright warning or ban. If you have less than -10 SkyPoints, you are banned from the club, so be careful. For other OOC things, you can request character deletion or character storage/standby among various other things in the request thread, and give suggestions in the suggestion thread. Please do this in a civil manner.
HarukaNov 16, 2018 7:14 PM
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Chapter 5: Administration and Rules


The administration in this club has many duties, including the following:

  • Maintaining the peace and civility in the club
  • Helping enforcing MAL and Club rules
  • Reviewing and Approving characters, lore, and requests
  • Creating Sagas and stories
  • Maintaining and creating threads and graphics for the club
  • RPing NPCs
  • etc.


To join the administration, please apply in the administration thread. Sometimes admins are recruited.

There are a few rules to uphold in this club, including:


  • Standard MAL rules apply
  • No bullying, and no improper conduct
  • No godmoding, powerplaying, or metagaming
  • Be respectful to everyone regardless of their level of writing
  • Respect admin decisions
  • Please write intelligently, acknowledge other RPer's characters, don't just write one liners when you could have done more, and don't meaninglessly prolong your posts by repeating too much information.
  • Severe repercussions, such as death, impairment, and other things will need consent from the involved RPer.
  • Admins are not allowed to use NPCs for personal RPing


Punishments for violating these rules include warnings, SkyPoints deductions, or straight bans depending on severity. If you have been warned 2 times, you will be handed a ban. How long this ban will be depends on the verdict of the admins. You may or may not be returned to the club. For admins and officers, demotion is also an option for punishment.
HarukaNov 16, 2018 7:29 PM
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