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Application Limits & Character Caps
Any caps?
- Two apps per player per round.
- Apps open every two months for two weeks.
- A hard cast cap of 12 characters per franchise. (IE: Pokemon, Transformers, Marvel, The Untamed/MDZS, Fate/, Final Fantasy, etc)
- A limit of five characters per player
- A limit of two characters per franchise per player.

At this point in time, there are no plans to raise any of the caps.

Appable Characters?
Allowed:
- Canon AU (case by case basis)
- Fan-made AUs (all kinds are accepted)
- Original Characters
- Canon OCs
- CRAUs with at a min. of 6 months of in-game CRAU.

Disallowed:
- Fresh-from canon characters
- Real people (past or present).
- Setting native characters. (For now)

Case-by-case basis:
- Characters younger than ten. This is to ensure player comfort. IE: Stewie from Family Guy would probably be accepted, but Tommy from Rugrats would likely not be accepted.
- Canon OCs related a canon character. They MUST be linked to an in-game AU and all of that AU must vouch for them, or they will be rejected.
- CRAUs with less than 6 months will be considered on a case by case basis.

Doubles?
Yes! Doubles are allowed as long as both memories and personalities are noticeably different. That said, the fae will be giving Doubles nicknames and characters are welcome to beg them to change these.

If we end up with 12 Tony Starks as the MCU cast, then we have 12 Tony Starks as the MCU cast and we get to see how many ways Tony can be spelled.

Non-human characters? Will they be humanised?
Non-human characters need not be humanised on arrival, though the player may choose to play with the mechanic if they want. 

The optional mechanic is that non-humans are humanised for the first 24 hrs only while the fae work to fix this mistake. Once it wears off, they are returned to their original self and size without issue. They will get clothes while human, but what kind is up to the player, so be as silly or as serious as you desire.

This mechanic might also trigger on revival or canon update if the player wants.

It may also be permanent if the player wants. Basically, outside the duration, this mechanic is as flexible as the player wants it to be.  

Can I canon/power update my character?
For canon updates, a character must be in-game for two IC months, with a minimum update time of one IC day.

Power updates are not allowed at this point in time. Sorry about that.


Mechanics
Who is Navi-No?
The AI of the ship. It's a very helpful, if literal AI that is probably not Chat-gpt/The Windows Paperclip given life. (Played by a real human ofc)

Though, helpful or not, it will not allow you to gain control of the bridge. You are Not Authorised Personnel, and it is Authorised to defend the bridge with way too many weapons and it will kill you.

What about Test Drive Memes?
One will go up every so often, but these are not considered canon to the game. It is however recommended you use them to get samples for the game.

What if I don't want my character to be recognised by a CRAU or 4th walled?
The fae can do a lot of things, and making A be a formless doll to B's perception (until CR is had) is one of them, along with enforcing a 4th wall type of effect. Just make sure to use the player's opt-out post to make it known this is what you want.

Death?
All characters are spat back out of the Portal 1 to 2 IC days after death. The same with pets and pokemon.

It's probably best not to ask where the bodies go - or why you have an oversized rainbow onesie on OVER your clothes.

Are pets/pokemon/summons etc allowed?
If you want to bring them in, by all means! The same goes for if your character has a baby (under 2 years old) they are responsible for.

Just note them on the app!

Pokemon Trainers can bring up to six Pokémon, provided they would not be appable characters in their own right.

Why humans/dolls???
Hyperfixations. Are you really going to tell a fae they are wrong :O?

What about mechas/vehicles of any other kind?
Sorry, but you cannot currently bring your Gundam or car or battleship with you. The fae bringing you here are pretty sure you don’t need that, right? Right?

Will you have regains?
It's possible this could happen in the future.

I want to leave the Noanga!
Sure, no one is stopping you from going off and living as a space farmer. However, characters are tethered to the Noanga and must remain in proximity to it, or they will become atoms or slime or goo, slowly disintegrating until they either die or are brought back to the ship.

Will powers and magic be nerfed?
Yes, there will be nerfing on a case-by-case basis to prevent game-breaking abilities from breaking the game. That said, players are trusted to self-nerf their characters appropriately and will be asked how they intend to do this on the app.

As an example, someone with the ability to open portals to other dimensions will find while they can open portals, they now lead to somewhere in the galaxy.

Another example would be that of a lv 100 Pokémon; it would be scaled down to about that of a level 20.

What about powers connected to a character's homeworld/previous game?
I'm open to working with players to find solutions. Maybe the fae are powering them, or maybe one of the Ancient Elder Great Old Ones is powering it or maybe they just work because the character expects it.

Do characters arrive with their inventory?
Characters arrive with whatever they were carrying, but not large items like cars or mechs or battleships.

Just be reasonable about it, please.

Language?
Somehow you all understand each other. It's not perfect, but it seems to work. For now, at least.

With effort, characters can speak their native language/s to others.

Spoilers?
Keep it at a reasonable wait time before you app or include them in your AU. Not everyone wants to know X killed A. That said, the onus is on players to respect each other and avoid spoilers if they do not want them.

I do, however, reserve the right to implement a waiting period for new canons at any time.

Pace & Structure
What's the IC to OOC ratio like? Game calendar?
2:1! That is two OOC days = one IC day.

The aim is for a relaxed game, but I reserve the right to shift this to a 3:1 if it is felt the game has grown beyond what can reasonably be handled in terms of pacing.

ICly, days on Noanga are on a roughly 25 hr long cycle. It's up to characters to decide on weeks and months, as there is no analog to any Earth-based calendar. That said, characters will find there is always a 10-day weather report, strangely accurate despite being on a spaceship.

You did want that month of rain, or the heatwave, or random snow in what should be summer, yes?

Will there be mod-run plot?
There is a background mod-plot and when it comes up, it will be announced a month in advance to give everyone time to sign up or prep for it. That said, Mod-run plots will involve the use of some D&D-lite elements, like dice, to add an element of chance to things.

In the meantime, player-led plots are highly encouraged to help build up the game's lore.

IE: You want there to be an alien salt mine planet that needs its salt 'liberated'? Do it! Do it!

What are the Activity Check Requirements?
AC is 20 comments over a two-month period.

AC will go up on the last week of each two-month period, and there are several methods accepted.

1. One post + ten of your comments in a separate thread.
2. Threads from three to five different characters, totalling to 20 comments from you.
3. Two open posts.

Posts can be any combination of Logs and Network, and must have at least ten replies from you on each.

IC inbox threads are NOT accepted as proof of activity.

Is there a network?
Yep! Though it's a bit.... hodge-podge.

The properties of the Bangle are as follows:
- Video; 0.35 megapixels. Not the best and certainly not up to 2025 standards.
- Text; does not include spell check. Extremely basic, like you would find on phones from the 90’s. HTML can and will fail!
- Audio; a bit grainy, but serviceable for the most part.
- Games: Solitaire and Snake are the only games on it.
- A list of All Characters currently in-game. First names only!
- Distress Beacon: What it says on the tin. Contact the mod if you press this!

You can hack, mark things as private(ish), but it's rudimentary and attempts to make it better will (currently) be met with failure.

Also you might end up turned into a pot plant. Or come down with a case of coughing up flowers. Or something like that.

Can my tech interface with the Bangle?
No, sorry, not unless you wish to brick your tech. Even the most sophisticated of tech from your worlds isn't designed to interface with whatever the ship uses to communicate.

As for charging it, you can probably find something of an analogue, though there is the risk of frying the tech until a techy person builds something better.

Any attempts to create a better network will see Navi-No 'helpfully' dismantle them while sounding like the Paperclip from Windows. code bases by tricklet

Comments

[failgoyle]

Hi, I have a couple quick questions about powers! Jules here is an OC using the Changeling: The Lost TTRPG setting, and so he's already been kidnapped by the fae (and escaped!). The experience both physically changed him and gave him some fae-based magical abilities of his own. Chief among these is the Mask, which is sort of a magical aura that hides his now-true form under the guise of his human form. Any fae creature can automatically see through the Mask (as can some magic-users), and non-fae creatures can only see through it if they fill some arcane criteria or are in the Hedge, which is where the fae realm meets the human world. How would the Mask work here? I.E. would the fae-owned ship function as "fae space" in which case everyone could see through his Mask, or would it skew more towards a more normal "Mask on, only other Changelings and magic users can see through it" way?

[navi_no]

That is a very good question!

The ship is fae-space, technically speaking, but these fae have kinda just left everyone to their own devices, so the Mask will function as you desire while he is on the ship. Want the first way in the morning but the second way after lunch? Sure!

Maybe the fae is supporting it re the power working, or it works because Jules expects it to. Or maybe he's now the unknowing blorbo of a god.

[tough_love]

Given the meddling of the fae and magic being involved allowing non-human characters to come in with an adjusted form, would there also be the option for more minor changes to occur, like the healing of older injuries? For either human or non-human characters.

Things like scars, any missing parts, etc., since they at least aren't life-threatening injuries that would harm the character if not treated. Only if the player wants it to happen, of course!

But if it's possible it'd be a good jumping-off point to consider. Especially since in Looma's case it'd really, really annoy her to lose her first real battle scars (and would likely never let anyone hear the end of it).

[navi_no]

I don't see why healing can't happen, especially given the whole adjusted form happens on accident.

Alas, the fae can't put and healed scars or injuries back once they are healed. So Looma is free to recreate getting them if she likes!

Network and Names List question

[iamnotgod]

If a character doesn't have a name (based on Webmind's thread with AU Bucky Barnes on the TDM), what will the Bangle-Net use for their first name?

Given the nature of the Fae, if Bucky thinks something isn't his name, would it still be processed/shown in the Bangle interface as if it were? Or are all posts essentially anonymous, and the list is just kind of There?

[navi_no]

It's a safe bet to say the Fae know his name and that it would show up on the Bangle list. They're kinda helpful like that :)

Whether Bucky knows that's his name is up to the player in question.

[youremyavocado]

Okay, I need to ask about a canon OC from an AU. I have a OC tabletop character who is from a mostly-Marvel game set roughly as 'what if the Age of Heroes started now, instead of in the 1960s', but also had some crossover characters from other comics/cartoons the GM liked. (Examples include the Ninja Turtles, GI Joe, and some DC characters.)

Is she appable? She's not related to anyone, but her partner's ward is the daughter of Heimdall and a deity from another pantheon.

The other question I have is probably answered 'no'. A character I play in a friend's tabletop RPG set in Fire Emblem: Three Houses was an orphan raised by her grandmother, and discovered in game that she was the daughter of Margrave Gautier and his first wife. In the canon, it was established the Gautier's pregnant first wife died due to a border raid. In our game, she'd been left to die, and witnesses were unable to save her but saved the baby via C-section, and didn't know enough to establish the baby's parentage.

My instinct is that even if 'what if the child survived, but the Gautiers didn't know about it' is an AU, that the character themself is effectively a canon OC, so not appable as 'a canon OC related to several canon characters'. But I thought I'd check.

[navi_no]

1 - She should be appable, yes, as I assume her general existence means the rest of her Canon is AU'd, more so given what you have said.

2 - again, should be appable as that would be considered an AU to the main canon, more so if the related characters are not aware of her, or later become aware of her, thus changing canon, which is what I would assume happens in a TTRPG.

Approval Details Question

[iamnotgod]

I'm curious as to what these details mean:

Jewel - Heliodor Green
A secret, ethereal spark. A promise lives within you now.

The jewel is what's on the bangle (I am assuming), but what does the phrase mean?

[navi_no]

ICly and OOCly this is something that has yet to be revealed to characters/players. Think of it as part of the mystery of the game itself that will be revealed when the time is right :)

COLOR CODING

[thepurpleone]

Maybe I'm blind and missed it but...are the color assignment jewels a physical IC thing? If so, where are they located?

Also, what would happen if any magical attempts are made on it because some people just want to be color-coordinated.

[navi_no]

They are a physical thing on the bangles.

Depends - trying to change the physical traits of the jewel itself will fail. Placing a glamour on it should be okay though, as long as Donnie replaces it every OOC month.

Painting it is also an option.

Day/Night Cycle

[burstingstars]

Given the ships hours are stated with morning/day/night, does that mean lightning is adjusted accordingly? Or do we get the full fun torture of static lights? lol

Re: Day/Night Cycle

[navi_no]

It is adjusted accordingly! How well that actually mimics a sky is up to you, though :)

[thepurpleone]

Soooo how bad a sensory overload would Donnie get if he tried to use his general forest warden abilities? Or rather, what kind of feedback might he get from the forest? Would he have to go very deep to get the 'history'? -this is for within the ship's forest thingy, of course.

[navi_no]

As a general rule, the feedback he'll get is varied depending on where he is. Out close to the edges, things typically aren't as dangerous, but there is the feeling of being watched by predators.

That said, he won't have to go in far to get a very general history of the place.

- It was once part well maintained park and part hobby farm for all kinda of non-fae plants and fauna! Alien llama guarded the farm animals, including pigs.
- At the centre of the park was a fancy golden fountain.
- There are real sunlight-simulating panels up in the ceiling and the oldest trees remember crew picnicking among alien orchids, or helping to tend the fruit terraces and medicinal herb gardens maintained by the Garden Crew.
- One day people just stopped coming, and over time, the Jungle grew into what it is: something dangerous and untamed.
- There might be a Void Fruit somewhere in the deepest parts of the Jungle, or something that feels like one at least...

[silverhealer]

Are the arrival sweaters magical or mundane? (or to be more precise, if someone could sense the presence of magic, would those ping as such?)

[navi_no]

The jumpers are 100% mundane in every way possible.

[thepurpleone]

How much of the tech stuff is repairable? Would something like the food replicators be fixable?

[navi_no]

All of it is repairable with the right parts, be they scavenged, bought, or made. The downside is there is a lot of tech in various states of disrepair, and what is broken is not always obvious. Or of a size Donnie can recreate.

Depending on the day they are fixed, the Food Replicators randomness with the food won't stop, but they will at least give what is asked, or attempt to. Ice cream nutri-cubes anyone?

Food Processor Question!

[iamnotgod]

Based on this thread, would Webmind be able to make any headway in understanding the wonkyness of the food processors? /edits this after seeing Donnie's progress, whoops/

Would his approach as a digital being have a different impact from what Donnie is doing, or will he hit the same metaphorical walls?

Re: Food Processor Question!

[navi_no]

He will have the exact same results as Donnie and will discover it is: A - a mess (think held together with patches made of 'prayers and duct tap and a paperclip') and B - he does not have Admin privileges to apply coding patches.

He may make a copy of the code for his own personal use, but he cannot apply patches or updates or fixes of any kind. Attempts to override/by-pass this will bring Navi-No down on him.

Attempts to untangle the code will take at least an IC week, but probably closer two an IC month.

[oceanbear]

I have a fun Pokemon question (hopefully? hopefully)

In very few Pokemon games, there are Pokemon considered 'Alpha Pokemon'. Unlike Mega Pokemon, or high-end examples such as Paradox Pokemon or UBs, these Pokemon are for the most part still examples of their type species.

They're just proportionally larger. (To that end, small Pokemon like say, Dedenne, are still shorter than the player character's waist.) ...Well, they also have three perfect IVs but that's not really something I would consider a factor when normal Pokemon can have that going on. (Heck with very little work, any pokemon can have SIX perfect IVs. KIDS THESE DAYS!)

At any rate, the question is - would Alpha Pokemon be allowed on the Noanga?

[navi_no]

They would be allowed, but, while they would still be larger, they'd be brought down to a typical pokemon level in terms of strength, then nerfed like any other pokemon is!

Tech question!

[von_ryan]

I play a canon divergent AU of Donatello from Rise of the TMNT.

(There's a basic run down of his AU on this journal, I WILL be expanding it in the future.)

My actual question is about his tech. Over his fifteen years of surviving and scouring the universe for his lost brothers, he's studied and integrated a lot of ultra-advanced alien tech into the already high-tech a Donnie is capable of making. He has what's called the 'Dragon Armour', a full tech suit that allows him to orbital-drop to a planet if necessary and is as chock full of weapons and tech as you can imagine a Donatello would put into basically an all over Battle Shell.

It also contains it's own AI system. It's known as 'Draconus' and is probably much like Navi-No but simpler (and not remotely fae powered lol). It keeps his ship running, does navigation and data collection, and is a friend he talks to that sort of thing. Drac isn't capable of anything powerful, it's more of a convenience AI? Think if you took SIRI, SHELLDON and JARVIS and mixed them together. Keeps track of a lot of things, can cause some small, very basic 'hacking' mischief if told to but not capable of doing on it's own, really.

Would Othello be allowed to still have both of these? I know his ship and his planetside bike can't come with him but the armour is about on the level of an Iron Man suit (with the added flair of a Rise Donnie). Drac would be contained to within the armour/arm gauntlet as well.

Also Othello's canon diverged at a point before his Ninpo was awakened, so his crazy high-tech mystical mumbo-jumbo doesn't exist for him. He doesn't even know what it is.

Re: Tech question!

[navi_no]

I don't see why he couldn't come with both things!

Though, there is every chance he will get a small dragon plush on arrival. Just because :)

Inside Windows

[kosmonautilus]

Asking bc that came up between Day and Aen'kae - are there possibly any rooms that have window(s) facing the indoor features, like the jungle? (Or a hallway with a nice fountain, anything like that)

Re: Inside Windows

[navi_no]

It is possible there are a few around, yes!

[starcrossedscoundrel]

How do we feel about malleable protags? (I think he might also count as an AU but idk if my AU is AU enough. I’ll try either way though!)

[navi_no]

As long as they are an AU of the original canon, they should be fine.

[solitarysoul]

So if I take an OC from one canon and have them world hop to another canon and then app them here would that be allowed? its not cr from a previous game or anything its just a silly idea i can't get out of my head

also if an oc from one fandom thrown into pokemon world and then to nonaga, would a rotom phone be considered equipment or a team member

[navi_no]

Apologies for the delay! Internet and PC Issues on my end.

That sounds like it would be allowed!

Hmm. Provided the rotom within the phone will never battle, I would rule it as a device that can be brought along outside the six pokemon limit. However, if you would use the rotom within the phone to battle, it would count towards the six pokemon limit.

[faceguy]

two questions!

1. How accessible is the Noanga, especially for wheelchairs? I see that there are lifts between the floor at least.

2. In my AU, Leo is very close to Donnie's AI, Shelldon, who also helps run a lot of tech for Leo. Technically Shelldon has a personality and sentience, so he might count as an appable character, but I thought I'd ask if it would be possible to bring Shelldon in as a companion for Leo?

[navi_no]

1 - The Noanga is extremely wheelchair friendly, given not all the species that once called it home had humanoid legs. Or could use stairs/ladders etc.

2 - Shelldon is very much a borderline case here and his coming would depend on how much of Leo's tech he runs.

[thepurpleone]

Okay some questions:

1) Does the network/bangle whatever have a directory or does it just show names of people when they post to it?

2) If yes, does it have their full name? Or whatever they're known by?

3) Can Donnie interface with the bangle with his Gauntlet/what would be the result if he attempted such?

[navi_no]

Apologies for the delay! Internet and PC Issues on my end.

1 - It has a directory!

2 - full names - in the case of any doubles, people get to see how creative the fae can be when spelling names. It's fun!

3 - he can attempt it, but the coding will give him a headache and he'll likely end up with all the Error Codes more often than not. Navi-No will only take issue if Donnie tries to fork a network that isn't the BangleNet.

[silverhealer]

Hi! How does the bangle display the network information, exactly? Is it a little projected screen? 3D holograms? Both of these? Something else?

[navi_no]

It's a bit of both, leaning towards whatever the character would be comfortable with.

[uzerotwo]

So if my character is tech and tries to interface with the bangle can i just say it caused a force restart and/or killer headache?

[navi_no]

100%, yes. The coding is a mess; think held together with patches made of 'prayers and duct tap and a paperclip' and anything else that would drive a techy character of any kinda to end up with a massive headache.