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THESE RULES:

This thread will be updated in correspondence with the game as it plays out.

This is provided to keep confusion and questions out of the actual game play while it is going on.

If you don't want to read this, then don't bother playing the game because you will have no idea how it works.

Romance as long as it is PG is fine, encouraged actually, swearing, guild and gaia rules on that.

I didn't really leave you room to Godmode so yeah.

Now that that is out of the way...

STORYLINE:
This takes place years after the actual game.

A while back, it was discovered that the GFs being used by the Gardens, often caused strange brain functioning and memory loss to the users. Now the sole purpose of the Gardens still existing and enrolling students is for the experimentation of those brain functionings, because new GFs have been brought to the attention of the world. These GF cater more to the personalities of the actual user and are said to actually help that user GAIN memories back.

As characters, you will be enrolled in Balamb and you have absolutely no recollection of anything past your studying and training here. The Gardens still offer extensive training in combat so that you may become SeeD mercenaries. You will each have a GF, but you know absolutely nothing about it. It is permanently equipped, and it is a complete mystery what it looks like and even what its name is. You are to continue through your training and become SeeDs so that you may travel to other places of the world, and hopefully recollect the memories of your childhood.

WHAT YOU ARE TRYING TO ACHIEVE:
You as a character are trying to collect your forgotten memories. This is how it works. During the game, based on actions you take and how you describe them, you will be 'gifted.' This 'gift' could be a new ability, a realization of a name or a goal to reach toward, or even an answer to a question. The gift is from your GF. There will be also points where you as a character will rest, (this will definitely happen after any large mission) and that said character will be 'gifted' with a memory from their past, and some sort of clue as to the nature of their GF. Thus actually creating your past.

These memories will be resurfaced because of something you saw or experienced during game play.

MY ROLE IN THIS:

I am playing the Headmaster (so that you will be assigned missions)
I am playing Instructors and Captains
I am playing the Setting (so that things are colorfully described to you)
I am playing your GF (so I can provide you with actions and 'gifts')

GAMEPLAY:
Everything that you as a character does is decided by ACTIONs. There are two kinds of ACTIONS in this game. FIELD ACTIONs and BATTLE ACTIONs. Posts will be labeled as such when appropriate.

Let's start with FIELD ACTION

Doing things in this role play will be a lot like an actual video game with the difference of you having freedom to describe and explain yourself. I as the designated storyteller will have your character approached by something and in that same post, I would provide your character with a series of actions to choose from. Then your post following would show you taking said action, and then you are free to explain how your character carried out that action and what was said, how things looked, etc.

Using my character Clover as an example character, I will show how a FIELD ACTION will look in the following posts.

PURPLE lettering will be me describing the posts as they are happening, and the automatic black lettering will be exactly what a post should look like.

EXAMPLES:

(and this would be a character post)
~CLOVER~
FIELD
LOCATION: Balamb Garden Cafeteria

TAKE ACTION:
*Scan the room for friends (you would take your action)

(Then describe it in detail to give yourself character.)

::Clover's eyes scan over the chattering faces, looking for anyone she might know, and by know, that would mean recognize from the festival crew. She didn't have many friends now, but she would as soon as she sang and she knew that. Her nose crinkled in frustration and slight disgust for the overbearing smell of pizza::