Newbie Guide

[shadowqueen]

Newbie Guide

In Character After falling asleep at home, characters will wake up within a vertically oriented stone sarcophagus in an enormous, vaulted stone room, three or four stories high with stairways and walkways lining the walls. Originally the sarcophagus is sealed and pitch black inside, except for small cracks where light peaks through dimly... By rocking side to side for long enough they can break free, the sarcophagus crumbling to pieces. They will feel drained, tired and headachey as soon as they wake up, with no memory of their arrival and any powers or abilities unusable for several hours. There are literally hundreds of other sarcophagi, some broken and crumbling with visible skeletons in them, stacked in tiers along the walls. Others are waking up around them in the same situation. The only door that opens leads to the interior of a tower with huge windows letting light in at the very top, hundreds of feet up. Just barely visible is a black metal birdcage hanging from the apex of the ceiling, but there's no way to access it. The entire atmosphere of the castle is one of overwhelming neglect, gray stone, and an absolute lack of any sign of life. Light is yellowed and filters through open windows without glass or screen, and rooms without windows are lit with torches and sconces. After walking across the tower floor-- the stairs starting thirty feet up the wall, the bottom of them crumbled away-- the next room is the living area, and the spring. Only the door to their assigned dorm room and no other dorm room will open to them, and on their bed inside is their smartphone. Out of Character → First, join the comms, of which there are two: the in character and the out of character communities. The IC comm has moderated membership, and if it seems like we've forgotten about you, feel free to give us a poke somewhere. → Make an OOC contact post in your character's journal, or elsewhere-- having one that you use for all of your characters is perfectly fine. It should include your preferred methods of contact, and list whatever you're comfortable with. → Make an IC contact in your character's journal. These do obviously need to be one per character, and will be accessed ICly through the smartphones that they arrive with. For more information on how they work, make sure you've read the FAQ. →Comment to the Taken Page and post your information so you can be added to the list. → Comment to the Player Contact with your character. You're welcome to link to your application as either the comment on the apps page, or as a post from a journal. → Comment to the Roommate Assignments post. → There is a mod plurk that you are welcome to follow if you use that service, but it will only be used for announcement purposes and never involve anything not also mentioned in the OOC comm. We also suggest following it and not friending it because otherwise we can access your private plurks. As well, we tend not to check it very often, so we won't accept your friend request for some time. → We have an AIM chat room specifically for Castle. You can join 'Castled' or ask another player or mod to invite you to the chat. If you don't see anyone in the chat and have questions, you can always contact one of the mods. → Post your OOC and IC intros! If you're ever looking for direction on what to have your character do ICly while playing here, try rereading the setting page for inspiration. Resources →Guide to RPing on DW →Dreamwidth for Livejournal users →List of DW tutorials →Journal Watcher, including multi icon uploader, archiver, and deleter. →Blue skin for Dreamwidth →HTML table coding on DW →Installing LJ layouts on DW →Extension that saves your typed forms automatically for Firefox and Chrome →Auto-label notifications in Gmail. The DW notification journal is dw_null@dreamwidth.org →dreamcodes for profiles, CR charts, and muse lists.

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