Player Contact Post

ARE YOU A NEW PLAYER?

We know that potential new players don't have access to the player list, so we've created a dropbox so that new folks can comment here with characters they would like to play from fandoms currently in the game. Some of the franchises have massive character lists and this is just easier all around than having to go around and comment on everyone's post.

Comment to the NEW PLAYER comment section with the character you'd like to hold, MAKE SURE YOU PUT FANDOM IN THE SUBJECT LINE and if you have any specific ideas you are interested in. Our players (and the mod) will reach out to you. Current players will have 48 hours to respond. After that, a mod will let you know you are free to hold.

<b>Player Name:</b> <b>Potential Character:</b> Name of Character <b>Fandom:</b> So the players know if they need to reply. <b>Anything else:</b> Looking to play a specific canon version? Let us know here. Are you looking to play an AU version of a character? Give us some detail here. Otherwise, you can just N/A this.

REMEMBER: PLEASE WAIT FOR THE MOD TO CONFIRM ALL RELEVANT PLAYERS HAVE WEIGHED IN AND GIVE YOU THE OKAY TO HOLD.

ARE YOU A CURRENT PLAYER?

Sometimes it's difficult to track down all the players that might have lines with a potential character. Sometimes it's difficult to reach out. We're adding this section so that current players can drop a note here to request a character in a fandom present in game. Please note that you can still email, DM, and Drop Box players if you'd prefer. This is just to add another way to contact people.

Comment to the CURRENT PLAYER comment section with the character you'd like to hold, MAKE SURE YOU PUT FANDOM IN THE SUBJECT LINE and if you have any specific ideas you are interested in. Our players (and the mod) will reach out to you. Players will have 48 hours to respond. After that, a mod will let you know you are free to hold.

<b>Player Name:</b> <b>Potential Character:</b> Name of Character <b>Fandom:</b> So the players know if they need to reply. <b>Anything else:</b> Looking to play a specific canon version? Let us know here. Are you looking to play an AU version of a character? Give us some detail here. Otherwise, you can just N/A this.

REMEMBER: PLEASE WAIT FOR THE MOD TO CONFIRM ALL RELEVANT PLAYERS HAVE WEIGHED IN AND GIVE YOU THE OKAY TO HOLD.

UNPLAYABLE CHARACTERS

🎈 Due to player requests, the following characters will not be considered:

• STRANGER THINGS: Chrissy Cunningham
  
• STRANGER THINGS: Billy Hargrove
  
• MARVEL TV/FILMS: Kahhori
  
• HAZBIN HOTEL: Alastor

Why are these characters on the unplayable list? There's a variety of reasons. Chrissy has been in game multiples times, and it's taking a toll on the Stranger Things cast to have to tell her what happens to her each time. For Billy, the players do not want to deal with his racism and misogyny. Kahhori's world is vastly different than ours due to the fact that she stopped colonialization, and Alastor is an extreme case of anti-social personality disorder than usually ends up in murder.

WHAT ABOUT JOBS?

We have the jobs spreadsheet updated, but it's often difficult to message everyone who works there or goes there for permissions. Here is a space to ask about using those AC points for a job at a place in game, whether it's MIST, Derleth, the High School, or a random place around town, you can ask for it here.

Reply to the section devoted to jobs. In the subject line, put the name of the business. For example: DERLETH COLLEGE or MIST.

NOW WHAT?

🎈 Please TRACK THIS POST so that you can get email updates when they come in.

🎈 Since all players are/should be tracking this post, let's try to avoid spamming everyone's inbox:

• Only reply if you have a character in that fandom OR you know the player and want to personally vouch for them (but clearly label if you don't have a character in that fandom, please).
  
  
• We love enthusiasm! We want you to get excited about new players and make them feel welcome. Instead of doing a bunch of back and forth comments, leave a method of contact (discord, email, dropbox) so you guys can hype each other up somewhere not on this post.

🎈 Remember players, you have 48 hours to reply. (If you do not wish to reply on the post, please email the mods at spoilsofwar at gmail dot com.)

Credits, Inspiration, and Resources

CREDITS

LAYOUTS AND CODING 🎈 TESS;
Do you even RP if you don't use a tessisamess layout? This game layout would not be possible without their patreon, which we personally recommend for additional codes. Tess is rad people and is kind about helping folks with coding questions, too.

GAME WRITING 🎈 MARTY;
Many thanks to Marty for writing up 99% of the setting and lore page, the premise and other bits and bobs. "Hey Marty, can you do a write up for a lighthouse?" Bam. Done. Did you know they're a published author and ITW and CWA nominated? Buy their books! Marty is also one of our resident Stephen King experts, which you may have noticed is a pretty big inspiration here.

RESOURCE LINKS & THREAD CODES 🎈 MAXI & LENA;
The mods of saveatlantis had a really excellent resource page, so many of the character development links and threading codes have been taken from them with permission.

INSPIRATION

STEPHEN KING 🎈 BOOKS, MOVIES, AND TV;
There's so much to choose from. We don't expect folks to be an expert on King, but in addition to streaming whatever movie or tv shows are available on the different streamers, we'll also add links below that you may find useful for reference.

• STEPHEN KING STREAMING 🎈 Posted in January '23, hopefully they keep this list up to date? Doesn't include TV shows like Under the Dome (paramount), Castle Rock (Hulu), or Haven (not streaming ;__;).
  
• THE LANGUAGE OF MID-WORLD 🎈 A glossary of low speech and high speech in case you want to pepper it into your RP and sound like a King expert.
  
• STEPHEN KING UNIVERSE FLOW CHART 🎈 What it says on the tin. You don't need to know all of these and it's a little hard to read, but it's impressive to look at.
  
• TIMELINE OF IT 🎈 A timeline of the events that happened in the book version of Stephen King's It.

MIKE FLANNIGAN 🎈 MOVIES AND TV;
Frequent Stephen King collaborator, not only did he do the excellent Doctor Sleep and Gerald's Game, but pretty much everything he's worked on for Netflix is excellent including, Haunting of Hilly House, Haunting of Bly Mannor, Midnight Mass, The Midnight Club, etc. We're especially looking forward to Fall of the House of Usher and his upcoming adaptation of Stephen King's The Dark Tower.

DUNWICH RADIO 🎈 LINK;
Dawn put together a spotify playlist of popular songs for some spoopy vibes.

MUSIC FOR WRITING HORROR 🎈 LINK;
Instrumental music for when you want to get in the spoopy mood.

RESOURCES

WRITING CHARACTER RESOURCES

• 8 TIPS FOR CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT 🎈 Very short but insightful article that I think works really well for introducing new characters to a game, especially if folks aren't familiar with the fandom you're bringing in.
  
• ULTIMATE GUIDE TO CHARACTER CREATION 🎈 A collection of all kinds of links and resources for writing characters, covering a number of different topics.
  
• EMOTION WHEEL 🎈 Because there are deeper or more descriptive emotions than "happy" or "mad" or "sad".
  
• WRITING SPECIFIC CHARACTERS 🎈 Another collection of links with writing advice for different character archetypes including villains, werewolves, sociopaths, actors, etc.
  
• NEW ENGLAND WORDS & PHRASES 🎈 A collection of localized colloquialisms you might want to incorporate or use with NPCs.
  
• SPEECH ACCENT ARCHIVE 🎈 A really cool audio collection of different voice accents for reference.
  
• WRITING A BRITISH CHARACTER 🎈 A good overview since a lot of RPers tend to be American and a lot of popular RP characters tend to be from the UK.

RP SPECIFIC RESOURCES

• RPRESOURCES 🎈 Community with a little bit of everything.
  
• WEREWOLFBOYFRAN 🎈 Jenny makes super cool codes for RP stuff.
  
• BECKY'S RP ESSAYS 🎈 What self-important jerk wrote these? Lol.

FUN, USEFUL & RANDOM

• WORD COUNTER 🎈 Make sure your app or log meets the word count.
  
• TEXT DRUNIFER 🎈 Just in case your characters decide to text tipsy.
  
• ZOMBIE IPSUM 🎈 A lorem ipsum generator with some spoop.

THREAD CODES

THREAD CODE 1: EXAMPLE <lj-raw><div style="max-width:600px;margin:0 auto;display:flex;align-items:center;font-family:calibri,sans-serif;text-transform:uppercase;letter-spacing:3px;font-size:10px;line-height:1;"> <!--IMAGE--> <div style="height:110px;width:90px;background:#ddd url(icon1)center;background-size:cover;margin:0 0 20px 10px;border:7px solid #fff;border-bottom:25px solid #fff;box-shadow:0 0 0 1px rgba(0,0,0,0.1),-2px 2px 3px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.1);box-sizing:border-box;position:relative;"></div> <!--IMAGE--> <div style="height:110px;width:90px;background:#ddd url(icon2)center;background-size:cover;margin:15px 0 0 -15px;border:7px solid #fff;border-bottom:25px solid #fff;box-shadow:0 0 0 1px rgba(0,0,0,0.1),-3px 3px 3px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.1);box-sizing:border-box;transform:rotate(8deg);"></div> <!--THREAD INFO--> <div style="margin:0 0 0 20px;width:calc(100% - (90px * 2) - 20px);"> <div style="font-size:20px;color:#000;"> Name & Name </div> When | Where | Rating<br><br> Summary <!--CUT TEXT--> <a href="ENTRY_URL#top" style="text-decoration:none;">END</a>. <!--WARNNGS--> <div style="margin:10px 0 0 0;display:flex;align-items:center;"> <span style="margin:0 4px 0 0;font-size:15px;">⚠</span> <a name="top"></a>Thing, Thing. </div> </div> </div></lj-raw> <span style="display:none;"><lj-cut></span><center><div style="width:650px; text-align:justify;"> (Polaroid Code by Tess) THREAD CODE 3: EXAMPLE <center><lj-raw><div style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 30px; color:#990000;text-align: center;border-bottom: 1px solid #cc0000; width:250px; line-height: 16pt; margin-bottom: 2px"><a href="LINK" style="color:#990000;font-style: italic;">Character</a> • <a href="LINK" style="color:#555; font-style: italic;">Character</a></div> <div style="font-family: arial; font-size:11pt; line-height: 12pt; color: #666">Date/Time • Location <br>⚠ Content Warnings <br>RATING - N/SFW <br>STATUS (Complete/Ongoing)</div><br> <span style="font-style: italic"><lj-cut Text="ABOUT"></span> <table width="550px;"><tr><td style="font-family: arial; font-size:11pt; line-height: 12pt; color: #333; padding: 10px; text-align: justify;">START IN HERE </td></tr></table> (Text Header H/t Save Atlantis) THREAD CODE 5: EXAMPLE <lj-raw><div style="max-width:550px;margin:0 auto;border:1px solid rgba(0,0,0,0.1);font-family:Open Sans,trebuchet ms,arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:1;background:#fff;color:#333;"> <!--HEADER--> <div style="height:170px;display:flex;justify-content:space-between;font-size:20px;text-transform:uppercase;font-weight:bold;letter-spacing:3px;color:#fff;text-shadow:1px 1px 2px rgba(0,0,0,0.4);"> <div style="background:#ddd url(GIFURL)center;background-size:cover;width:calc((100% / 2) - 1px);height:100%;display:flex;justify-content:center;align-items:flex-end;padding:0 0 10px 0;box-sizing:border-box;"> NAMEONE </div> <div style="background:#ddd url(GIFURL)center;background-size:cover;width:calc((100% / 2) - 1px);height:100%;display:flex;justify-content:center;align-items:flex-end;padding:0 0 10px 0;box-sizing:border-box;"> NAMETWO </div> </div> <!--INFO--> <div style="padding:20px;text-align:center;"> <b style="font-size:10px;color:#cc0000;">WHO</b> Thing • <b style="font-size:10px;color:#cc0000;">WHERE</b> Thing • <b style="font-size:10px;color:#cc0000;">WHEN</b> Thing<br> <q style="display:block;padding:15px 0;"> Quote or summary of the log here. </q> <b style="font-size:10px;color:#cc0000;">WARNINGS</b> Thing, thing </div> <!--CUT LINK--> <a href="LOG_URL#log" style="color:#fff!important;background:#990000;padding:20px;border-top:1px solid rgba(0,0,0,0.1);border-bottom:1px solid rgba(0,0,0,0.1);text-align:center;text-decoration:none;display:block;font-size:10px;text-transform:uppercase;font-weight:bold;letter-spacing:3px;text-shadow:1px 1px 1px rgba(0,0,0,0.2);"> CUT TAG TEXT HERE. </a> <!--HIDDEN CUT--> <span style="display:none;"><lj-cut></span> <!--LOG--> <a name="log"></a><div style="background:#fff;color:#222;padding:30px 30px 10px 30px;text-align:justify;line-height:1.8;font-size:14px;"> Tag text goes here.<br><br> <!--DIVIDER - DELETE IF UNNEEDED--> <hr style="margin:0 30px;border:none;height:1px;background:rgba(0,0,0,0.2);"><br> Tag text goes here.<br><br> </div> </div><a href="http://tessisamess.insanejournal.com/127745.html" style="display:block;max-width:800px;margin:5px auto 0 auto;font-size:8px;font-weight:bold;letter-spacing:2px;color:#bbb;text-decoration:none;text-align:right;">CODING</a></lj-raw></lj-cut> (Original code by Tess) THREAD CODE 7: EXAMPLE <lj-raw><div style="max-width:700px;margin:0 auto;"> <!--IMAGES--> <center style="display:flex;align-items:center;justify-content:center;"> <img src="CHARICON1" style="height:100px;padding:5px;border:1px solid #ddd;"> <img src="https://i.ibb.co/84vHKJ7/lobster.png" style="height:150px;padding:15px;"> <img src="CHARICON2" style="height:100px;padding:5px;border:1px solid #ddd;"> </center> <!--SCENE INFO--> <div style="margin:10px 0 0 0;text-transform:uppercase;letter-spacing:3px;font-size:9px;line-height:1.2;text-align:center;"> <h4 style="font-size:20px;margin:0;"> NAME & NAME </h4> WHEN | RATING<br><br> <!--CUT TEXT--> <center><a href="ENTRYURL" style="letter-spacing:3px;font-weight:bold;text-transform:uppercase;text-decoration:none;">CUT TEXT GOES HERE!!!</a></center><span style="display:none;"><lj-cut></span> </div> <div style="background:#fff;color:#222;padding:30px 30px 10px 30px;text-align:justify;line-height:1.8;font-size:14px;"></lj-raw> LOG </div><div style="text-align:right;width:400px;margin:70px auto 0 auto;"><a href="https://tessisamess.insanejournal.com/146752.html" style="letter-spacing:1px;text-transform:uppercase;text-decoration:none;font-size:8px;color:#bbb;">CODING</a></div></lj-raw> (Cool code by Tess and tweaked) TEXT MESSAGES: CODE See the link above for the text messaging codes! (Cool code by Tess)

THREAD CODE 2: EXAMPLE <lj-raw><Center><table width="410px;"><tr><td style="font-family:arial; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 14pt;"><div style="float:left;"><img src="ICONONE" style="width:50px; border: 2px solid #990000"><br><img src="ICONTWO" style="width:50px; border: 2px solid #cc0000"></div> <div style="float:left; background:#f8f8f8; padding: 5px; height: 100px; width: 335px;"><div style="font-family:; font-size: 30px; color:#770000;text-align:;border-bottom: 1px solid #fff; width:300px;; line-height: 16pt; margin-bottom: 2px">Date</div> <div style="border-bottom: 1px solid #fff"><b>characters.</b> <a href="CHARACTERLINK" style="color:#990000; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Character Name</a> & <a href="CHARACTERLINK" style="color:#990000; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Character Name</a></div> <div style="border-bottom: 1px solid #fff"><b>time.</b> HERE | <b>location.</b> HERE </div> <div style="border-bottom: 1px solid #fff"><b>rating.</b> HERE | <b>status.</b> HERE</div> <div style="border-bottom: 1px solid #fff"><i><center>optional line</center></i></div> </div></td></tr></table> </lj-raw> <span style="font-style: italic"><lj-cut Text="WITTY_CUT_LINE_HERE."></span> <table width="750px;"><tr><td style="font-family: arial; font-size:9pt; line-height: 12pt; color: #333; background: #f8f8f8; padding: 10px; text-align: justify;">WRITE_HERE </td></tr></table> (Small Icons H/t Save Atlantis) THREAD CODE 4: EXAMPLE <center><lj-raw><table width="400px;"><tr><td style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px; color:#333; text-transform: uppercase;"> <div style=" text-align: center; font-size: 16px; line-height: 12px; background:#fff; background:#000; color:#fff; transform:skewY(1deg)">DATE</div> <div style="text-align: center; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16px; padding: 5px; transform:skewY(1deg); background:#fff; margin-top: 5px;"> <img src="ICON" style="height: 75px; width: 75px; margin: 5px; border: 1px solid #f0f0f0; padding: 5px;"> <img src="ICON" style="height: 75px; width: 75px;margin: 5px; border: 1px solid #f0f0f0; padding: 5px;"> </div> <div style="text-align: center; padding: 10px; background:#fafafa; margin-top: 0px; transform: skewX(4deg); transform:skewY(2deg)"> <div style=" transform: skewX(-4deg); transform:skewY(-2deg)">CHARACTER ✦ CHARACTER <BR>ABOUT <BR>RATING | ⚠ Content Warnings <BR>STATUS (Complete/Ongoing)</DIV></div> </td></tr></table></lj-raw><BR><BR><lj-cut text="HERE"><table width="550px" style="padding: 10px;"><tr><td style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px; color:#333; border: 1px solid #fafafa; padding: 10px; background:#fff;text-align:justify;">HERE </td></tr></table> (Cool Blocks H/t Save Atlantis) THREAD CODE 6: EXAMPLE <lj-raw><center><a href="POSTLINK#thready" style="text-decoration:none;"><div style="width:450px; font-family:arial; font-size: 13px; color:#000; text-align: justify; display:flex; flex-wrap: wrap;"><div style="border-bottom: 2px solid rgba(0,0,0,0.1); padding-bottom: 0px; text-align: center; width: 100%"> <font style="font-size:20px;color:#550000; text-transform: uppercase;">DATE/TIME HERE</font><br> </div> <div style="width: 100px; height: 100px; background:url(ICON) center; background-size: cover; border: 2px solid #fff; box-shadow: 1px 1px 1px 1px #ddd; margin: 2px;"></div> <div style="width: 226px; height: 100px; background:url(GIF) center; background-size: cover; ; border: 2px solid #fff; box-shadow: 1px 1px 1px 1px #ddd; margin: 2px;"></div> <div style="width: 100px; height: 100px; background:url(ICON) center; background-size: cover; border: 2px solid #fff; box-shadow: 1px 1px 1px 1px #ddd; margin: 2px;"></div> <div style="border-bottom: 2px solid rgba(0,0,0,0.1); padding-bottom: 10px; text-align: center; width: 100%"> <font style="font-size:20px;color:#990000; text-transform: uppercase;">CHARACTERS INVOLVED</font><br> <font style="letter-spacing:3px;color:#cc0000; font-style:italic; font-family: georgia">"a quote or something goes here"</font><br></div> <div style="width:100%; text-align: center; padding-top:5px; margin-bottom:10px;"><span style="color:#444; text-transform: uppercase; letter-spacing: 2px; font-size: 10px; line-height: 1.7">LOCATION | RATING | ⚠ CONTENT WARNING?</span></div></div></a><span style="display:none;"><lj-cut></span></lj-raw><a name="thready"></a><div style="margin-top:10px;line-height:1.5;text-align:justify; background:#fefefe; border: 1px dashed #CCC;padding:10px; font-family:helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:#666666;letter-spacing:1px; width: 500px; text-align: justify;"> LOG TEXT GOES HERE </div></center></lj-cut> THREAD BUNDLE: CODES See the link above for the collection of codes! (Thread bundle by Tess)