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I read the "What if I want to change my character's journal?" section on the FAQ, but I was wondering what sort of protocol to follow if I'm planning on renaming the journal that I'm already using here.

When you rename the journal just drop us a note in the "New Characters" page :)

Regarding the Ability section on the apps, are listing a character's weapons required? (the character I want to app for has a solar-powered gun, for example)

It's not required usually (say for an extra set of clothes or a bag) but in this case, if it's an item that they would carry on them that is out of the ordinary we'd suggest at least giving it a mention :)

silly question but do you need someone's permission to toss up a meme over at yuuyuupandaland?

Not at all, go right ahead and put one up!

I'm thinking of apping a character who appears in both books and the movies that are based on those books. Do I have to use the actor who played him in the movies, or can I choose my own PB?

Generally people use the movie PB, but we've also had people select a new PB. There's no rule about it, so you are welcome to use whoever you want as a PB :)

Quick question: if you plan on changing your personal journal for whatever reason, where do you go to let the mods know it's changing?

Commenting to the contact list with the change is fine :) Just make sure to include your name so we know which info to change!

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paradisamods - 2011-09-14 00:45 (UTC) - Expand

~~you're probably sick of questions from me but--~~

I'm thinking of apping Data Sora's Heartless from Kingdom Hearts: Re: Coded. He has enough of a personality and whatnot to fill out the app but I'm not sure if I can bring him in because of the new-ness of the game (it's english release data was January 11, 2011, if I remember correctly).

Basically, can I app him now despite the game being new or should I wait awhile before I try?

We've had people bring in characters days after a game has been released. I think you're good :) Go for it!

4th Wall Rule Question.

So, there's a Sherlock in Para now. In his canon, Conan is a obsessive Holmes fan. He routinely quotes him, talks about him, and is known as a modern Holmes. I heard that there used to be some exceptions with very well known characters like Robin Hood and I have permission from the player to recognize him. Would it be okay for Conan to recognize Sherlock? He won't ever think that he is the actual fictional Holmes from the book canon, but would recognize him as someone sharing the name.

That would be fine. Sherlock Holmes is well over a hundred years old, which I'd say makes him pretty engrained in popular culture :) Robin Hood, King Arthur and Merlin, etc have been allowed in the past, so we can certainly allow Sherlock Holmes.

Hiya. Me again. Mwahaha. Just kidding.

I was curious! Via my previous attempt to join, I realised that I didn't have his voice 100% at the time. I was wondering after I conduct some canon checks and voice checks, etc., if I may still attempt to join Paradisa as the same character and if so, how long the period to apply for the same character is (if it's different for applying for a new character).

:3 Thanks for your time!

You may apply for the character as soon as you wish :) There's no time limit on when you can and can't apply unless specified previously (and as I recall in your case there was no such specification!). So once you finish your canon review and wish to apply, feel free to do so!

All right, just a small question, as it's kind of odd and I couldn't find an answer anywhere when I was looking. Specifically, what is the policy on characters who have a solid personality and history and everything, but in canon don't really have a set gender/appearance? Closest thing it has to a set appearance is the default armor in the default color used in the few promotional items with it on it. Doesn't even have a set appearance in cut scenes or anything, and there are no default settings when you actually make your character.(Other than what armor is unlocked.)

(Character in question is Noble 6 from Halo Reach, if more specific detail would help. It doesn't really matter, I'll play it whatever way to play the character, but I was curious on if I could use either the female gender permutation or alternate armor/coloration for this specific case. No matter what, I'll need to do a full set of icons from scratch anyway.)

Hmm -- as long as you go by the defined personality/history shown in canon, I don't think it really matters what you choose to go with, appearance-wise or gender-wise. Pick whatever you'd like.

this is probably a dumb question and maybe i missed it, but if i'm a new player that has somewhat recently apped a character in the game (and got in), how long do i have to wait to try my chance at apping a 2nd character?

Not a dumb question at all, as it's an issue that has only been recently addressed. Currently, we ask that you wait one month before applying as a second character!

Too lazy to log in under my own name...

But was wanting to know the actual difference between the main comm and the logs comm, so that I can work out what needs to be posted where.

The main comm is generally intended to be interactions WITH journals, and the logs comm is interaction WITHOUT journals.

Technically speaking, you can use either actionspam or prose format on either one, but years of people using them a particular way makes it uncommon for people to use prose on the main comm or actionspam on the logs comm.

Would a Visual Novel be counted as Animanga or a Video Game? I was thinking it would be counted as Animanga, but I just want to make sure.

Let's go with animanga, since it's definitely not a traditional video game format :)

Hello! I have two questions:

1) My contact information has changed. I recently got an AIM account. Where do I tell you guys this new information so you can put it on the contact list?

2) I'm considering apping the character Jon Snow from the tv series "Game of Thrones." He has a direwolf named Ghost that is his companion throughout the series. The family rescues direwolf pups in the beginning, one for each child of the Stark family. Jon is the illegitimate son of Lord Stark, so he takes the runt. The wolf is a symbol of the Stark family, and all of the wolves have close bonds with the children. I've seen other characters with animals important to them coming along for the ride. My question is, may Ghost come with Jon to Paradisa?

Thanks!

1. here :)

2. Go for it :)

What would be the protocol for changing a permanent loss?

Pop a mod an email or IM :) You'll need to know

a) what the current loss is
b) what you'd like to change it to
c) how it would change the character/what is the purpose of updating it
d) how you're gonna change it -- significant loss? getting knocked out? etc.

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superheroine - 2011-11-24 06:34 (UTC) - Expand

I'm tossing around the idea of apping this guy in the near future, and he's a paraplegic. The loss I'm planning on giving him would leave him wheelchair bound permanently, but the castle seems to be stairs, stairs, and more stairs with only one mention of an elevator. Would the castle accommodate him somehow? (Elevators? Chair lifts on the stairs? Things like that?)

Second, he does get a robotic prosthesis in canon, and I was thinking of that (and the ability to use similar prosthetics in the future) as a good candidate for his loss. However, he was sliced in half with a chainsaw to make room for the prosthesis, I was wondering if he could have his original lower half back, as in reattached or something. The other option would be to make the robotics nonfunctional deadweight, but that would be even more cruel.

The castle does have a lot of stairs, but there is an elevator that's 99.9% reliable (that .1% being when it likes to trap residents inside for quality bonding time). The elevator only reaches the seventh floor and doesn't extend into the towers, but if Tavros were to come to the castle, he would be accommodated with a room where he could access said elevator. It can also be assumed that wherever there are outside steps, there is a ramp nearby as well.

We have had a Tavros in the castle before, and his loss was also the use of prosthetic legs! As far as I know, the previous player chose to keep the metal legs as deadweight, but he still managed to get around fairly well. While he couldn't use legs, some other modes of transportation were made for him instead. In order to have his original legs back, his canon point would need to be earlier when he still had them.

Hope this helps!

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I thought I'd already posted this but...looks like intervention from my rather spastic internet decided doing as it's told is lame.

So, anyway my friend recently apped for Paradisa for Wheatley from Portal. She's lost access to the account however, tried recovering or changing her password, failed, left the account completely inaccessible.

So I'm asking on her behalf if it's possible for her to enter with a new account but with that same application, or if she'll have to go through the application process again? Like, re-post it and wait for mod approval.

Thanks.

After going through video game application records, I can't seem to find any record of a Wheatley app. Where did she submit it/get it approved?

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Due to unforeseen RL circumstances I really need to take a hiatus until January. I've made activity with at least one of my characters, but the other has three unfinished threads and as it is, he's going to get swept. I have a history of decent activity, though-- is there some kind of special allowance that can be made so I can do like three posts for each character in January or something? I really, really don't want to drop this game (especially considering re-apping with memories can only happen during a short span of time).

Don't worry about it; consider them all safe, and there's no need to do three posts for them. We generally ask for additional posts from people who haven't made check but been around to do it, rather than from people who need to take a hiatus :)

I hope everything clears up for you.

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So I know it says that the castle will provide anything wished for as long as it doesn't interfere with losses, but what's it's stance on creating people? Specifically some french models for a menage a... douze with Balthy here? They wouldn't be able to interact with anyone, and would pretty much just be for his personal entertainment.

Thanks!

The castle doesn't really care to create people when it can pull whomever it wants from any universe at all, so I'm gonna have to say no to this one. He is, however, free to find some fun and willing ladies among the townspeople.

If I'm reapping a character I played here previously, may she retain her memories of that time in the game?

For a limited time right now, previously played characters can come back with memories. This will be open until the 25th, and then be closed again for a few months :)

Note, however, that returning characters will get a second permanent loss.

Hi guys. I seem to have run into a very interesting issue...

Basically, Mistress's intro post got really long. For whatever reason, not all of the threads are now accessible, at least not for me. The only way around this that I've figured out is to disable S2 comment pages, then literally open each thread into its own tab, so that I have a direct link.

I know we're moving tomorrow (eep!!), but is there some way that a post about this can go up? There are at least four (but possibly up to seven or eight) ongoing threads on that post, and the S2 pages only give access to two of them. Alternately, will you just look at that post and be like "qurl u crazy lj work fine for me"? Because I have no idea what else to do. I've tried this in multiple S2 layouts, and last thread I'm ever given access to is the thread with

dontpatr0nizeme (the actual last thread is with

tomatoandbasil).

Thanks for any help you can give.

Ah, I'd heard of this, but we hadn't seen it yet. LJ, why so fucking complicated?

Would it help/reopen the threads if you had them start new chains? Alternately, make a second post as a continuation?

Otherwise, I'm not sure what to do about it, as I can't turn off S2 pages on Paradisa.

I will post about this, however -- I've got to go to class now but i'll be back later and I'll see to it.

Okay. So I looked at the Wiki about Losses and everything, and I have a few questions, particularly about the aspects of the character. If one were to choose a memory that drastically changed a person, and upon losing that memory(ies, if everything after it was lost as well) they would go back to their "old" self, would that be acceptable? Or would it be easier just to take them from when they were their old self, and choose a different loss.

Also making them lose such a memory wouldn't be classified under "torture" would it? It's not my intent, but I'm unsure and I'll decide upon something else if needbe.

(Character is Mithos Yggdrasil from Tales of Symphonia, if that helps).

If the loss would just reel them back in time, we do ask that you just take them from earlier and choose a different loss; there's no point in the castle taking ALL of their memories from them at a certain point if it could just take them from earlier and pick something else, right?

And no, it wouldn't be torture. Torture we tend to judge by how extreme it is; losses tend to be sad or painful, because it IS a part of the character being taken from them against their will, but it shouldn't be something that keeps them in constant, total agony, like "the ability to be anything but sad" or "their will to live" or something. Taking memories away is fine; having a character's memories REPLACEd so their loved one loathed their guts and wanted to kill them is torture.

Does that help? :)

Hi! I was trying to reserve a character (Guy of Gisborne from BBC Robin Hood - I've played him before,) but I noticed there is no comment link on the reserve page. Has it been turned off (no new players accepted,) or is LJ just being problematic again?

Also, when I had the character leave the last time, I had him essentially run away from the castle. He'd just lost the love of his life for the third time (when it happened in canon, he became suicidal and begged for his enemy to kill him,) and decided to go into the dead zone with one purpose: to find a way to his love or die in the attempt (to be honest, it was the only thing I could think of that would fit with his canon, given that the castle would not let him die, otherwise.) Is there any way, if I am able to bring him back, that he could wander back to the castle? Or would he need to start over fully with no memory? Either way is fine, of course, but I was just curious. :)

We've actually moved over to Dreamwidth since Jan 10th -- you can find our new community here.

I think it's plausible to bring him back after a jaunt into the Dead Zone, but we also now open up returning character applications on a quarterly basis; the next round is in early March :)

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