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Rules & FAQ

Rules

⬡ You must be over 18 to join.

This game has the potential to deal with subjects of an adult nature, as well as body horror, gore, and psychological horror, and as such, we cannot allow minors.

⬡ Absolutely no harassment of any kind will be tolerated.

Do not contribute to a toxic game environment anywhere. Harassment in any form will not be tolerated, and is grounds for immediate expulsion from the game.

⬡ All explicit or potentially triggering content must be put under a cut and warned for.

⬡ IC does not equal OOC.

Negative CR is expected and should be welcomed and does not mean the other player hates you, personally. Communication is key, here.

⬡ No godmodding or infomodding.

In the same vein - no headcanon-pushing. If something is not explicitly canon, then you cannot force other players to treat it as such.

No fourth-wall breaking without permission.

Communicate, communicate, communicate!!

⬡ Keep your playing a pleasant experience for everyone.

⬢ Be as IC as reasonably possible.
⬢ No powergaming - no character is completely infallible.
⬢ Communicate!
⬢ Use warnings appropriately.

⬡ Please use the following header for open posts:

About the Game

⬡ What kind of game is this?

Liburutegia is a fairytale based game with some horror and mature themes. Its events may contain a blend of comical, serious and horror elements. Character actions have the potential to affect the overarching plot of the game, and will have a direct influence on the outcome of all events.

For the full premise, see here, or here, for a more mobile-friendly version.

Potential horror elements may contain both body horror and psychological horror, but all events have the ability to be opted out of by simply staying in the library. Keep in mind; however, that opting out of an event requires opting out of it in its entirety, as events take place in completely disparate settings from the rest of the game.

⬡ What's this about events being in new settings?

Every month, characters will be transported into a new storybook, to recover the plot that has gone missing. Characters will be assigned roles in the cast of the story, and may change physically and/or psychologically to fit their given role. Roles will be decided by the mods, and all characters in each role will have something in common.

Test drives will function the same as main events, but on a smaller scale - either from being derived from a shorter tale, or one with a more limited cast. As such, existing characters are encouraged to post top levels on test drives, if any prompts interest them.

⬡ So how do opt-outs work?

If you dislike your character's role, or some aspect of the event, then your character will stay in the library for that month. That doesn't mean there's nothing to do; however! CR can be built between characters who are left behind, and the library can be explored. Books are all able to be read, and occasionally, there will be workshops in a common space to teach new skills. It is a place of peace and learning, after all.

Your character; however, does not choose when they stay behind in the library. That mechanic is just as mysterious as how everyone was brought here in the first place.

⬡ How did my character end up here in the first place?

The Library saw something in them that it needed. Maybe it was something in their personality that made it feel like they would suit a role particularly well. Maybe there is something about them that the others present are lacking. Maybe it just liked a particular turn of phrase they used just moments before being transported here. Whatever the case, they've been pulled from their world with no fanfare, no odd dreams, no contracts. Just you, the magic held in old, dusty books and oft-told stories, in the sum of all knowledge in all universes, and an auspicious moment in time.

⬡ What happens when they arrive?

New arrivals will find themselves somewhere in the library. They might be in rows of shelves, looking at old, dusty tomes. They could be laid out on one of the deceptively comfortable leather couches. They might find themselves seated at a study desk, or at a table in the cafe. They might even be just walking in the front doors.

They might also notice some immediate changes.

If they were dirty in any way - from dirt, or grime, from mud, muck, or even blood, they'll be clean. Their skin and hair will feel as though they've freshly bathed, and their clothes will be freshly laundered. Any armor they may be wearing will also be clean and polished. We wouldn't want to damage the books, after all.

They'll arrive with any belongings they had on their person - clothing they were wearing, and anything they were holding in their hands.

Weapons; however, will be confiscated. They won't be gone entirely, though! They'll simply be locked away in a glass case in either the Mountain or Ocean Galleries, that seems to always have enough room to accommodate any new additions to the collection. Oddly enough, this case cannot be broken into by any means. Weapons will disappear when their owner is sent back home, worry not. They're simply on loan.

Characters will also be gifted a small duffel bag. Inside this bag will be a change of clothes, suited to their typical taste and style (aka: another outfit from their canon), a pair of jeans, socks, and sneakers that will fit them, two of these three options of library tee shirts [1 2 3], also sized to fit, and a tote, containing a small tablet device and a key to a personally identified locker where they can keep their duffel bag and other belongings. These lockers will appear from the outside as normal lockers, but will be able to hold seemingly any items placed into them.

A small note in the tote will encourage characters to keep it, their tablet, and their locker key with them while they peruse the library, though items may also be retrieved at the lost and found behind the information desk. Mysteriously, the lost and found box will appear empty, unless whoever is looking into it has lost something.

The lost and found may be utilized to pass items on to other characters, if a character is being dropped and a player wants to leave something to another. Tablets and weapons are the only things that cannot be passed on in this way.

⬡ Can my character bring a pet/pokemon/animal companion with them?

Unfortunately, no. No non-player-character-animals in the library. If a character has need of a service animal, they will be treated as an extension of the character in question, and will be allowed.

⬡ Are powers nerfed?

Yes and no.

⬢ In The Library: Powers are not nerfed at all, but characters will not be able to do any damage to the building itself, any equipment belonging to the library, or the books themselves. They will also not be able to use their powers to remove food or drinks from the cafe. They can; however, use their powers in any other way they see fit. Toast a bagel with your fire powers! Teleport to the sixth floor instead of taking the stairs or the elevator! Commit acts of grievous bodily harm to your fellow patrons! Follow your dreams... so long as your dreams do not damage the library.

⬢ In Stories: Characters may find themselves with their full power set, or they may be nerfed. They may be partially nerfed, or they may find themselves with a whole new set of powers that they suddenly and mysteriously know how to use with as much skill as their role would allow.

⬡ What is the IC/OOC day ratio?

As the library itself is a liminal space, time does not seem to flow normally here. Clocks will always show 4pm, and floors with windows will always show a scene outside of a temperate, autumn afternoon. Mountainside windows will show a beautiful mountain vista, and Oceanside windows will show a beach and the sea, both just far enough in the distance to be idyllic, but not so close as to be concerning.

Characters' own timekeeping devices - watches, cell phones, internal wiring, etc. - will continue to function as normal, and so time will "pass" however a character would know it to pass, if they care to keep track of the days. In such cases, there will be a 1:1 ratio.

⬡ What is my character's incentive for playing along?

There isn't one!

More accurately, though, certain roles in stories will give characters compulsions to act in certain ways to see the original story out to it's true end. The Evil Queen will have a strong desire to kill Snow White - via Huntsman or Poison. Cinderella will want, desperately, to go to the ball, and her stepsisters will do anything to keep her away - or to steal her prince.

Characters may only resist their roles to a point, if they can resist at all, but some roles give much more freedom than others.

After a story is completed, and a book is closed, everyone will remember what happened in said story - what they did, or what was done to them, and how they felt. The horror comes from having been unable to stop it.

Characters

⬡ What sort of characters are accepted?

Currently, only characters originating from a published canon are allowed. Canon OCs - such as a FFXIV Warrior of Light - may be accepted on a case by case basis, but only one per each canon role. (One WoL, One Inquisitor, etc.)

Characters may be any age or species, so long as they are sentient.

OCs, CRAUs, and AU characters will not be accepted at this time. Canon AUs may be acceptable, if the AU takes place within the canon itself, and the character has enough material to be applied for.

Tabletop OCs count as Original Characters, and are therefore not able to be apped in at this time.

⬡ Are doubles allowed?

No. In the case of doubles/multiples, such as with comics-derived sources and their many shows, movies, and universes, only one copy of each character can be applied. If someone has successfully apped in Bruce Wayne from the Nolanverse movies, no other Bruce Wayne can be applied, as he is already taken.

This rule applies to similar franchises as well, such as Fate/, MDZS/The Untamed, etc.

If the canons themselves are markedly different, then characters with overlapping names will be allowed. For example; Hades from the Supergiant Games' Game Hades and Disney's Hercules's Hades, or Shinsengumi characters from overwhelmingly different canons.

When in doubt, just ask and we'll be glad to clarify if your character is different enough to be apped!

⬡ How long does a new canon have to be out before it can be apped?

A new canon, or a new installment of an existing canon, must be released for two weeks before it can be applied for or canon updated to.

If the two week point occurs on a day when applications would be open, the character is free to be reserved and applied for like normal.

⬡ What happens if my character is very large or very small?

As the library is a primarily indoor space, but a nebulous space, very large characters will be sized down to the point where they can comfortably stand up straight in whatever space they are inhabiting. They may have to duck to step through doors, but will not find themselves cramped on the other side of them.

Very small characters will remain very small. Luckily, stepladders are easy to find.

Very large or very small characters may find themselves resized to "human size" to suit a role; however, in certain events.

⬡ What about if my character is a ghost?

All good libraries need a few library ghosts, so spectral guests are more than welcome.

⬡ What if my character is a robot or has special dietary needs?

On every floor, all characters will find at least one charging station. There will be cords and ports for any device - from your mechanical body to your brought-from-home cell phone.

Characters like vampires or zombies with dietary restrictions will find everything they need in the cafe, just like characters with more mundane dietary needs.

⬡ What if my character is injured or dead at the canon point they are coming in from?

In such cases, you have a few choices available to you.

Injured characters may be healed entirely, or they may find their wounds cleaned and neatly disinfected and bandaged, similar to how characters are cleaned on arrival. Their wounds will heal over time, at a pace that is appropriate for the level of injury and their species, and they may or may not be left with a scar.

The recently deceased will find themselves alive once again, and any injuries that led to their demise will be lessened in severity to something survivable, and then players will have the same options as above.

⬡ How many characters can I play at once? How many characters from the same canon can I play at once?

You can play as many characters at once as you can reasonably handle. However; if it is brought to our attention that you are barely scraping by with the bare minimum, we may ask you to scale back until you are in a better place to handle the load.

You can also play as many characters from the same canon as you'd like. However; we urge you to consider your potential character options carefully and take into consideration all cr - both canon and potential - when making your decision of who to app. If a character you are applying has a significant amount of in-canon cr with another character you already have in-game, we reserve the right to reject the application on those grounds, even if everything else about the application would warrant an acceptance.

⬡ Are there game or cast caps?

Not at this time. This may be subject to change in the future.

⬡ Can I canon update?

Yes! To do so, please fill out the form on the hiatus/drop/canon update page.

Apps/Activity

⬡ What are the activity requirements?

Each month, you must submit ten comments from you, from the current month, over any number of threads.

The activity post is always open, and players are encouraged to submit their activity at any point in the month that they have it. Threads do not have to be started in the current month to count, but comments have to be from the current month.

Activity can be made anywhere - log, network, and inbox threads all count.

⬡ How do Hiatuses and strikes work?

A hiatus lasting over half of the month only needs to check in with a link to their hiatus notification. A hiatus lasting less than half of the month only needs to make half ac - 5 comments, over any number of threads, and a link to the hiatus notification. Hiatuses cannot be used two months in a row, and cannot be used after taking a strike. If you take a hiatus, but are able to make and submit full AC, then your hiatus will be null and you may take one the following month. Hiatuses cannot be declared retroactively.

Strikes occur when you cannot make ac in a month, but still check in anyway. To clear the strike, you must make double the amount of activity the next month - 20 comments, over any number of threads - or be swept from the game.

Anyone who fails to check in without taking a hiatus or a strike will be swept.

⬡ What happens if I am swept?

You will be free to reapply in the next app round, if you'd like, but cannot place a reserve for the same character you were swept with beforehand.

⬡ When are Applications?

Applications will be open for the last week of every month, and acceptances will be issued on a rolling basis throughout the app cycle as mods review the apps. New characters will officially appear in the game on the first of the following month.

⬡ When are Reserves?

Reserves will open three days before applications.

⬡ How many characters can I Reserve? How many characters can I apply for at once?

While you may apply for as many characters per round as you believe you can reasonably handle, you may only reserve one character per round.

If mods believe you've applied for an excessive amount of characters in one round, we reserve the right to reject some, most, or all of them outright.

⬡ Do you allow proxy Reserves?

Yes! The proxy reserve must be in a comment on its own, separate from any reserve the proxy reserver may be making for themselves, and the person the proxy is for must respond to the proxy reserve within 24 hours.

Before that 24 hours is up, others may place a reserve for the same character, but those reserves will not be processed, and will be considered null if the proxy is responded to within the allotted time.

⬡ Do you accept challenge applications?

Yes, we do! In the event one character has been reserved, any challenging application will need to be submitted before the reserve has been accepted into the game. Unprocessed applications, outstanding revisions, and outright rejections mean the character is still fair game. Reserves themselves are insurance that your application will be reviewed before a final decision on a given character is made, not a guarantee that you will actually get that character.

Since we review applications on a first-come, first-serve basis, a reserve guarantees you the "first-come" slot, even if a challenger submits their app first.

If a reserve fails to submit an app before the close of the app period, the challenge will be processed as though there was never a reserve at the end of the app round.

Setting

⬡ Are there language barriers?

No! When brought in, The Library shares a little bit of it's knowledge with all characters, to the point of sharing a universal language with everyone present. Should characters make a concerted effort to speak or write in their native tongue, or another language they know; however, the words or text will come out in that language.

Luckily, as this is a library with the sum of all knowledge contained in its pages, characters will also be able to find dictionaries to use to translate, and textbooks to use to learn new languages, should they choose to.

⬡ Can characters leave the library?

Yes, and there is a lovely park surrounding the building, with walking paths and benches, and meticulously cared for foliage.

⬡ No, I mean, leave-leave? Can they go home whenever they want?

Yes and no. Should a character find the work of fiction they originated from in the stacks, and should they locate within that work of fiction the canon point they've been drawn from, the book itself can act as a portal back to the moment in time they were pulled from.

Understandably, this would take quite a lot of effort, as characters will have to discover their series, recognize themselves in the text, and read far enough to find where they've been brought in from to even find the portal home in the first place, all with nothing indicating that this is even an option for them.

So is it possible? Yes, absolutely. Probable? No.

⬡ What if I want to use this mechanic, but my character is from a video game/movie/TV show and not a written work?

There will always be some kind of written work for characters to find, if players want to make use of this mechanic. They could find a novelization of their canon, or the script of their movie or show, or a comic or manga it has been adapted into.

⬡ What if I want to have my character find their source material, but not use this mechanic?

If a character is the type to find their own source material, and would use this mechanic to go home, and you do not wish to use this to drop, then they will find that the page needed to send them home (their canon point) will be torn out of the book, and therefore unusable.

If they look up the book in the library catalogue, they will find information that there is only one copy of their source material on the premises, that it is, unfortunately, damaged, and that another copy will be coming soon from another branch.

This second copy will never arrive until/unless you, the player, decide you do wish to make use of this mechanic for a drop or a canon update. It will not be announced that the new copy has arrived, so it would have to be something your character would discover on their own, or keep track of. If this is used for a canon update, and you wish to restrict your character from going home with this method after their return again, they will find the old copy of the book replaced with the one from "another branch" but it will also be damaged - this time on the new canon point's page.

⬡ Can characters find other characters' source materials?

Sure, but as always, communication here is key. Don't fourth-wall people without their consent.

⬡ Where do characters live?

The Library is not equipped with apartments or bedrooms, so characters will not have their own private living quarters. However; there are large, comfortable, leather chairs and couches on every floor that characters can sleep on, and most of Ocean Floor 3 is a large open common room mostly populated with even larger and softer leather couches. The bathrooms on the ground floor have communal showers and sample-size hygiene products for keeping clean, and the cafe also on the first floor will provide any food anyone could possibly want, if they just order it at the counter, even though the menu only shows typical cafe fare.

⬡ What if my character dies in the library?

Simply put: they will respawn somewhere else, after a period of time equivalent to three days ooc. They can respawn anywhere in the library, but there are certain places that seem to be more likely after death, such as: lying on the ground next to a shelf of religious texts pertaining to death and rebirth, falling out of an unused locker, on top of a weapons display case, inside the cafe's industrial freezer, or in a tree outside.

Stories

⬡ What are the Stories?

The Stories are how events and test drives work in Liburutegia.

The general concept is a work of fiction that is in the general public consciousness - fairy tales, popular short stories, fables, etc. - has been told and retold and adapted enough times that the Library's archives have become a bit hazy on the details. Characters will be pulled into the stories and take the roles of characters from those stories to set things right.

⬡ How will my character know what to do?

That's where the changes come in. When in a role, characters will have a strong motivation to act out that role, by achieving certain objectives. No matter how strong their willpower is ordinarily, they will still be compelled to act in accordance to their role, and will not be cognizant of the fact that they are unable to resist. It will simply feel "right" to act appropriately, and "wrong" to step out of line.

⬡ What other changes can occur?

Psychological changes will be the most prominent, always - characters may become quicker to anger, more arrogant, more innocent, reckless, overcautious, or any number of other traits that are appropriate and will be detailed in the start of every event.

Physical changes; however, are also possible. They may appear younger than they actually are, to suit a child's role, or older - to suit an adult's role, in the case of teen or child characters, or to suit an elderly role. They may also take on animal traits, in the case of animal roles, or change species entirely - whether to become human in the first place, or to become something completely different. They may also become much larger or smaller.

Everything will depend on the role, and all changes will be outlined in event writeups.

⬡ How do stories end?

Stories end when enough significant events related to the plot of the story have occurred, and characters will be brought back to the library within the same month as they disappeared. The longer the story, the longer they will spend inside it.

There will be an optional section on the activity check to report anything significant that your character did in a story - whether expected or unexpected, according to their role - that can change the final course of events.

⬡ What happens if my character dies inside a story?

If your character dies inside a story, they will be immediately spat back out into the library, in a study room on the same floor the story itself is filed on, with all their memories of the event they'd experienced up to that point intact.

Death is a very real possibility - some roles will have the objective of killing others, and some roles may have the objective to put themselves in a situation where they can or will die.

⬡ What happens in stories with a small setting?

Understandably, having having ten, twenty, or many more characters being sent into a story where the setting is very limited - like a small house, or even a single room - and where many characters' roles can and will overlap, has the potential to get out of hand very quickly. However, due to the shifting, nebulous nature of the larger setting of the library as a whole; it won't be an issue. There can be a small handful of copies of a single role in one place, but it is much more likely that there won't be much overlap at all.

You may thread with as many iterations of any role as you please - including overlapping ones - but the whole game won't find itself shoved unceremoniously into a single room.

This may be handwaved away in any number of ways. Maybe you've all been transported into different copies of the same book. Maybe the Library knows it won't get a good outcome to the story if there isn't space for events to take place. Whatever the case, small settings will be a nonissue, and large, sprawling settings are much more likely to have duplicate-roles running into one another.

Network

⬡ Is there a network?

Yes, and it can be accessed through the tablets provided on arrival, through any smartphone-like devices brought from home, and through the computers in any of the computer clusters marked on the map.

⬡ What can be posted to the network?

The network itself is set up like a rudimentary message board, and can have text, photos, and videos posted to it from within the library. Private messages between characters can also be sent, as well as anonymous messages, but if off anon, characters' full names will always be attached.

The network on the computers and on the provided tablets will also have access to a library catalogue, a map of the library, and banner notifications of events occurring in the library itself.

⬡ Does the network work in stories?

No, but some stories set in a more contemporary or sci-fi setting may have their own self-contained networks.

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Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Hello!

I'm here to ask if someone like Malleus Draconia, who hasn't had his main story appear in his canon, and is pretty much a side character, can be apped? He has his personality show from side stories and events, but unlike 60% of the cast, he hasn't gotten a main chapter, and probably won't get it for another two months.

Hello, and thanks for your interest!

The mods are actually canon-familiar with Twisted Wonderland, so our decision on your question will reflect that! We're also planning on applying this to mobile games with similar plot structures, though do ask that players exercise their own discretion, just in case it's one we're not familiar with!

In the case of Twisted Wonderland, though; any of the main boys will be appable once their default SSR has been released and translated, since those usually go along with the release of their main story chapters. The actual side characters will be treated a little differently - the staff will always be appable, and side characters introduced in main chapters will be appable so long as the main chapter they were introduced in is complete and so long as they have an official design and name. (So, right now Cheka and Che'nya are appable, but Farena, Jade and Floyd's parents, and Neige are not, for example.)

Of course, this is in addition to our usual policy for waiting two weeks for new content as well, but in this case, the two weeks will begin as soon as there's a translation for the story/card.

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