YO Gotham
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yo_gotham is where gathering posts will be made by the mods or player submission. Posts are moderated to avoid flooding the community with gathering posts.
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What can I post in this community?
Detailed instructions about posting to this community can be found in the yo_players community for all current players.
Posted in this community
All narrative (third-person, prose-style) action:
1. Plot-related gathering posts - by mods, or plotrunners; example: The Grayson Gala
2. Regular play gathering posts - by mods, or by players as moderated submissions; mod-posted example: Gotham City Zoo & Park; player-posted example: The Narrows at Night. 3. Semi-public gathering posts - ie, gathering posts for small groups.
4. Private threads - ie, one-on-one threads.
5. Email or IM logs (commonly just "logs") - ie, any sort of narrative-based thread done in email or IM.
Adult content posted to this community must be friends-locked with the appropriate NSFW tag. Please include warnings for any potentially triggering content.
Not posted in this community
1. First person, journal style posts. These should be posted in the individual character's journal
2. In Game media or communications including but not limited to letters, phone calls, radio communications, new reports. Communications like this should be posted in yo_comms
How do I post/thread in this community?
Logs
As follows:
1. they go behind an lj-cut
2. dated to the day the action took place
3. accompanied by an outside the cut summary with any necessary warnings for triggering and content
4. the date should be changed in the posting options to match the date of occurrence, but do not use LJ's "date out of order" function.
Threads
As follows:
1. arrange thread in email
2. post using the same format as you would drop a log, but put the content of the entry post behind the cut
3. when a thread is completed, please go back and add "Completed" to the end of the summary
4. if you want to, you can drop a note to either the players list or the yo_players comm to let people know an older thread is now complete to help facilitate reading.
Gathering posts
1. Non-character-centric; while characters may appear in the text of the gathering post, the post is not about them or for the purpose of tagging them.
2. Focused on a public incident or location that permits multiple response without continuity problems - example, a building can collapse, but one person cannot be murdered; a better gathering post focuses on something like a swap-meet, or a neighborhood.
3. Open to all players in the game, except by virtue of character-based limitations; ie, you could have a daytime gathering post, even though some pups are allergic to sunlight.
Threading in gathering posts
Definitions
- Gathering post - A post made to the yo_gotham community that invites participation by all members of the game.
- LJ Tag - The tag you put in the 'tags' field of the lj post to show that your character participated in the gathering.
- Tag/Pose/Response - An IC comment to either the gathering post or to someone else's tag/post/response. People use these terms interchangeably.
- Top-Level Tag - A top-level tag is your pups entry pose in a gathering that others can respond to.
- Tagging In - Putting your pup in a gathering post, either by top-level tag or tagging someone else's top-level.
- Thread - A string of tags/responses.
- Subject Line - The subject line of the comment/response field.
- OOC Note - A small note at the bottom of a comment/response/tag that explains or limits a pose. Used sparingly. Always put in small font and brackets, such as [ooc: locked to Sam and Dean]
- Lock - Limiting the possibility of response to a tag/pose/response to specific people.
The Glossary contains other useful information as well as expansions on some of these terms.
How-to
1. Gathering posts will include the location and time of day/duration. Please read the gathering posts carefully.
2. Before tagging in, read the top-level tags already posted. Decide if you want to tag them (keeping in mind continuity). Not everyone who tags in to a gathering post needs to make a top-level tag. You can simply tag other top-levels if you want.
3. Threads in progress may be interrupted by prior arrangement. Otherwise, tag directly off of a top level tag.
4. If you want to invite random play, make a top-level tag. Top-level tags should be IC, and think journalism: who, what, when, where, why, and how. So, if the gathering post is set "at the museum", your top-level tag might be "Dean drank too many beers before coming to the museum because he had absolutely no desire to be there. By noon, he had to piss so bad he was looking for a potted plant. When the tour guide lady finally shut it, he ran for the nearest bathroom, not caring who was in his way." These can be as long and involved as you want, provided that the action could occur within the parameters of the gathering post.
5. If you have specific threads you need to accomplish, you may still make a top-level tag. Use a subject line and OOC note to lock the thread to the relevant people. For example, the gathering post is 'Crime Alley and Environs'. You've arranged with four other players for your pup to get mugged and rescued. Your pose would have the details of your mugging by NPC, a subject line that says "Locked: Mugging, 10pm, two streets over from Crime Alley" and the ooc note says "Locked to the Bats."
6. Subject lines are your friends. Use them to specify times and locations if the gathering post covers a long period of time or a broad space (ie, the cataclysm post which will cover all of Gotham).
7. On rare occasions, you may need to run multiple locked threads in the same gathering post. You may make additional top-level tags to accomplish this.
8. Track your character's progress through a gathering post by linking them in and out of threads. Ie, if your pup is talking to Dick and goes from there to Vachon, put a link at the end of the thread with Dick to show where your pup went next. It's not essential, but it's very helpful.
This seems more confusing than it is. When you've done it once or twice, you'll get the hang of it. If you're confused, the see the example of The Narrows at Night. It shows how top-leveling, subject lines, and linking in and out work.
