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New Player Guide
Welcome to Save Our Earth!
What is SOE?
SOE is a dreamwidth roleplay. It is plot-driven and player-choice dependent. Its genre falls between mem-loss and AU: All characters start out as complete AU-versions of their characters when they enter the game, yet as time proceeds they receive more and more parts of their OU-versions: Memories, physical features, personality traits, abilities, items and whatever else applies. This happens because characters are reincarnated into our modern world after the timelines of their canons have ended.
Example: The world in which Sailor Moon is located has ended, for whatever reason and at whatever point of time; nothing remains. Chronologically after this takes place, a different world travels the universe: Ours. This world might be similar, but it is not the same. Bunny is, at the time at which she enters the game, a 34-years-old cook at an Italian restaurant, child of a Japanese mother and an English father. This life, she was born as the fourth child of seven, left school early to help her parents with their farm and never got married. But then she receives a number and suddenly has abilities that she never had, but also becomes a lot more clumsy...
When a character enters the game, they receive a number. This number enables them to connect to the network and also marks the start of them receiving regains, which in STE are called "echoes". SOE is thus a game that has a network; it does however not have a separate comm for network posts and logs. Instead, almost all playing takes place at the main community![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
saveourearth (the only other gameplay that counts towards AC would be in IC contact posts).
On a more technical note: SOE's AC requires ten comments in a minimum of three different threads with three different characters; while the comments must be from the AC-month, threads can be up to 60 days old. SOE has permadeath, unless the character themselves is immortal/has a way of dodging death. There are no strict powercaps except on time-travelling, but everyone starts out without any powers at all.
What is the setting of SOE?
The setting of SOE is our modern world. When the first people received their numbers, the only difference between SOE's world and our world was the existence of an additional, perfectly normal town on the southeastern coast of England. As of December 2019, the timeline has diverged from real life: Nicola Sturgeon is now PM, Article 50 was repealed, and Corona isn't a thing.
SOE functions on a ratio of one ooc day = one ic day, keeping with the irl calendar. The game's principal time is GMT.
What limitations are there for the creation of my character?
At this time echoes can only be received in and are only active inside of the echo boundaries, which include Mossgate and the a miles of land and sea surrounding it. It is also impossible to access the network, or indeed remember that it exists, outside of the echo boundaries. Thus the character must currently be spending a significant amount of time inside the Mossgate Echo Boundary.
Characters can however have been born and grown up anywhere, and commute into or out of the echo boundary at the time at which they are apped.
The rule of the thumb is that Mossgate, being a fairly large and internationally minded town, and Tarwich, being a bland suburban development village, are the most flexible and open. Folkton is the stereotypical countryside village: Intensely locally minded with a few big families whose presence in the village stretches back centuries. Few outsiders (British or foreign) stay for long, and those who do stay usually marry into one of those families. Moss Manor is a younger and less closed-off, but still very similar and international characters will find it harder to fit in.
Generally, you can have your character be anything: Any economical and family situation, occupation, criminal record, age, gender, race, etc. We do however ask for reason (your character can be rich, but not the richest person in the world) and tact where sensitive subjects are touched upon.
Characters can start out as anything: Human, animal, even a plant would technically be possible, as long as their first echo is a plot echo and grants them sentience (and, if necessary, the ability to following this have visceral experiences). You can also app multiple characters into one slot - Yugi Muto and Yami Yugi, the twins from Black Lagoon - all characters that are closely related enough that playing them as an unit makes more sense than playing them alone.
Okay, great, now I want to apply. What do I need to know to write my application and start out?
↬ Make sure they aren't taken and that their name wasn't used before. Then reserve your desired character!
↬ Check the game out! The Navigation page is a good place to find everything you need to know and help you build your AU.
↬ Build an AU for your character. The plotting/CR meme has a new character part where you can poke around for Pre-CR (CR that is built into the background of the character, like "they went to school together" "he's his brother") and get ideas, if you want that. There is a test drive, too.
↬ Pick a first echo. It can be either due to a recurrence or a plot echo. Currently, the only available plot echo are the white northern lights above Mossgate and its surroundings on the 15th of June.
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What is SOE?
SOE is a dreamwidth roleplay. It is plot-driven and player-choice dependent. Its genre falls between mem-loss and AU: All characters start out as complete AU-versions of their characters when they enter the game, yet as time proceeds they receive more and more parts of their OU-versions: Memories, physical features, personality traits, abilities, items and whatever else applies. This happens because characters are reincarnated into our modern world after the timelines of their canons have ended.
Example: The world in which Sailor Moon is located has ended, for whatever reason and at whatever point of time; nothing remains. Chronologically after this takes place, a different world travels the universe: Ours. This world might be similar, but it is not the same. Bunny is, at the time at which she enters the game, a 34-years-old cook at an Italian restaurant, child of a Japanese mother and an English father. This life, she was born as the fourth child of seven, left school early to help her parents with their farm and never got married. But then she receives a number and suddenly has abilities that she never had, but also becomes a lot more clumsy...
When a character enters the game, they receive a number. This number enables them to connect to the network and also marks the start of them receiving regains, which in STE are called "echoes". SOE is thus a game that has a network; it does however not have a separate comm for network posts and logs. Instead, almost all playing takes place at the main community
saveourearth (the only other gameplay that counts towards AC would be in IC contact posts).On a more technical note: SOE's AC requires ten comments in a minimum of three different threads with three different characters; while the comments must be from the AC-month, threads can be up to 60 days old. SOE has permadeath, unless the character themselves is immortal/has a way of dodging death. There are no strict powercaps except on time-travelling, but everyone starts out without any powers at all.
What is the setting of SOE?
The setting of SOE is our modern world. When the first people received their numbers, the only difference between SOE's world and our world was the existence of an additional, perfectly normal town on the southeastern coast of England. As of December 2019, the timeline has diverged from real life: Nicola Sturgeon is now PM, Article 50 was repealed, and Corona isn't a thing.
SOE functions on a ratio of one ooc day = one ic day, keeping with the irl calendar. The game's principal time is GMT.
What limitations are there for the creation of my character?
At this time echoes can only be received in and are only active inside of the echo boundaries, which include Mossgate and the a miles of land and sea surrounding it. It is also impossible to access the network, or indeed remember that it exists, outside of the echo boundaries. Thus the character must currently be spending a significant amount of time inside the Mossgate Echo Boundary.
Characters can however have been born and grown up anywhere, and commute into or out of the echo boundary at the time at which they are apped.
The rule of the thumb is that Mossgate, being a fairly large and internationally minded town, and Tarwich, being a bland suburban development village, are the most flexible and open. Folkton is the stereotypical countryside village: Intensely locally minded with a few big families whose presence in the village stretches back centuries. Few outsiders (British or foreign) stay for long, and those who do stay usually marry into one of those families. Moss Manor is a younger and less closed-off, but still very similar and international characters will find it harder to fit in.
Generally, you can have your character be anything: Any economical and family situation, occupation, criminal record, age, gender, race, etc. We do however ask for reason (your character can be rich, but not the richest person in the world) and tact where sensitive subjects are touched upon.
Characters can start out as anything: Human, animal, even a plant would technically be possible, as long as their first echo is a plot echo and grants them sentience (and, if necessary, the ability to following this have visceral experiences). You can also app multiple characters into one slot - Yugi Muto and Yami Yugi, the twins from Black Lagoon - all characters that are closely related enough that playing them as an unit makes more sense than playing them alone.
Okay, great, now I want to apply. What do I need to know to write my application and start out?
↬ Make sure they aren't taken and that their name wasn't used before. Then reserve your desired character!
↬ Check the game out! The Navigation page is a good place to find everything you need to know and help you build your AU.
↬ Build an AU for your character. The plotting/CR meme has a new character part where you can poke around for Pre-CR (CR that is built into the background of the character, like "they went to school together" "he's his brother") and get ideas, if you want that. There is a test drive, too.
↬ Pick a first echo. It can be either due to a recurrence or a plot echo. Currently, the only available plot echo are the white northern lights above Mossgate and its surroundings on the 15th of June.