Index of Information

**Game calendar:
There is a 1:1 day ratio in the main communities. 1 ooc day to 1 ic day. (there is no day count in the Adventures community, details provided during events)

Activity Requirements:
Characters will be asked to submit AC (activity check: proof of activity) once per month to stay in the game. Events are expected to be medium to fast paced, due to the adventure themes. Day to day activity may be much slower and open to backtagging. Monthly AC requirement: Two threads per your active character(s). Or one open post per your active character(s).

Adventuring:
All people in this world are encouraged by culture and peers to seek out challenges and rewards, either monetary or less material satisfaction. This often includes the risk taking explorations that are called ‘adventures’. Typically these will be organized events run by moderators or other players, and will be hosted in the Adventure community. Adventuring is a legitimate form of employment in this world setting.

Averde:
The name of the world as known by it’s inhabitants.

Character Limitations:
Characters are allowed to enter the setting with all powers and abilities approved by the mods, so long as they are listed on the character application and do not break the playability of the game.

Dangers of the world:
Averde is a world full of life. Both natively and through pan-dimensional immigration. This includes, but is not limited to humanoid species and alien species. Monsters, fantastical creatures, and strange oddities have all been known to find their way to various corners of the world. It’s a grab bag of culture and that comes with a steep learning curve for those that cannot adapt. While there are local law enforcements, those that wander off on their own sometimes never come back.

Dice Rolls:
Using a randomizing element, designated events will include dice rolls by players to determine the success or failure of a character’s attempts. Check out How to Roll for details.

Hostile Behavior:
Being overtly violent and hostile to other characters will result in imprisonment or significant injury. Ingress volunteers are not just the happy-go-lucky good hearted people that they appear to be. They’re also trained to be the first local defense against harmful outworlders. This means that they carry weaponry and they will neutralize your PC ass if they consider you a threat. If necessary, they always have back up in the form of local law enforcement.

Character Death:
Even with the randomization of dice rolls and the potential for failure, character death is always a player’s choice. Keep in mind that there are no instant respawns in this setting. There will be methods of revival to those with substantial resources, however these methods are rare and expensive.

Ingress:
An organization comprised of volunteers that help recent arrivals who’ve entered this world through the doorways. They assist by providing basic food and housing as well as general information. (Some volunteers are more helpful than others) The resources of the local branch of Ingress are often dependent on how frequently they get ‘outworlders’ and the donations of local inhabitants.

Language Barriers:
The doorways leave one lingering side effect. They allow the character to understand ‘Common’. The standard language of Averde. There are many other languages however, and depending on how long an outworlder stays, it might be in their best interest to try and learn a few.

Law enforcement:
The settings laws and law enforcement will be specific to the current game setting and subject to change for metaplot and character plot influence. However, violent behavior, murder, theft, and other criminal behavior is subject to IC consequences. (oocly: permissions are required for any such plots between players)

Log Format and Tags:
Please use the tagging system provided to your character in the log community and the network community, as well as the player tags in the ooc community. It will make AC much easier! Posting in ingress_logs is required to include:

[for example]
Who: !npc Wyatt
Where: Trowbridge Grocery
When: Day 12
Warnings: none, updates as needed

The sticky post at the top of the Logs community has a copiable template you can use.

Playable Characters:
Ingress is looking for all kinds of characters to explore and influence the world! Canon characters, AU’s, Originals. All are welcomed to apply. **At this time characters native to the world setting are not available to app or play.

Network:
Currently, those who arrive in Ingress are NOT provided with any device that can remotely communicate with one another.

Resources upon Arrival:
Whatever was carried in when your character walked through their door. Opportunities for employment can be found within the setting. The Ingress organization will often seek to help new inhabitants, but ultimately the character’s well being is dependent on their own efforts.

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I have other questions that haven't been answered here!

Please use this post to ask any game related questions, comments will be kept for the benefit of all players.

Welcome to Ingress! This post if for those of you who are playing Journal RP for the first time. We've all been there. It's really different (and very similar) to other types of roleplaying, so here's a step-by-step guide of what to do:

First, create a character journal.

Whether or not you already have a personal account on DW, create a separate account for your character. You'll be using it to post (i.e. roleplay) in all the Ingress communities.

You don't actually have to post anything in your journal, though many players choose to display past applications as that character, or even post short responses to a writing prompt. Here are a few examples you can look at: your_logic_is_impeccable and steadycourse .

Second, get some sweet user pics.

Dreamwidth is kind enough to give free users 15 slots for user pictures, all of which you will probably use to accompany your posts. User pics sometimes add that nice visual expression to the post you've been writing, or even give other players a laugh. Take a look around Hollow Art to see if any icons call to you. Or, if you have a specific actor in mind you'd like to use, check out Find Icons.

Third, understand how the Ingress works.

Of course, make sure to read the rules and everything that's linked to on our profile page. However, if you've never done Journal RP before, you might be wondering, what's the difference between ingress_network ingress_logs and ingress_ooc ?

ingress_network is typically where characters can call, text, magically write, or otherwise communicate to each other from a distance. Posts are done in the first-person. However, this community is currently closed because no characters have yet obtained the necessary device to contact others remotely in this world.

ingress_logs will be where most of the roleplaying happens, and is for all face-to-face interaction between characters. You roleplay in third-person, describe your actions, and interact. If you've done online roleplaying before, this is probably the format you're most used to.

ingress_ooc is the Out of Character community, where you'll be able to talk to other players as you. When you first join Ingress, feel free to make a post here and introduce yourself!

You may also notice that ingress_playtest also exists. Playtest is a community we made to test out the dice rolling before the proper game started. We didn't want to delete any of the great things that happened here, so we're keeping the community around. Feel free to not follow or read this community.

Fourth, understand how to post.

When you're posting in the LOGS community, we created a log template that you can use for every time you post. Make sure each of your posts contains these four fields at the top, and then go on your merry way roleplaying what's happening in the scene itself:

• Who: Who are the characters you know are going to be in this thread? Also mark it as [open] to anyone to join, or [closed] to only those characters you've listed.
• Where: List the location of the event.
• When: What day and general time of day is this happening? Keeping track allows players to get a sense of what chronological order events are happening in. After all, you can't be in two places at once.
• Warnings: Any language, violence. Anything that could be a trigger warning for anyone.

Then, make sure to tag all the players who will be in the thread, including yourself. More likely than not, a tag already exists for every character, so make sure to use the right tag. If one has yet to be made, feel free to create it yourself. Tags are usually the exact name of the character being played.

Finally, resolve character conflicts with the player.

Unlike most online roleplaying games, Ingress actually has a battle system, with dice! Please check out that link to learn how the system affects your character.

What we want to highlight here, is that we never want any player to feel like something is being done to their character without permission. If you're playing the Hulk, and you want to smash Loki, that makes total sense. But you can only have the Hulk smash Loki, if the Loki player is okay with it. If not, then the two of you can figure out why it didn't happen. Maybe Loki was projecting himself as a holograph again and got away. Maybe Loki was too terrified of the Hulk from the first time he got smashed and just JET as soon as he saw the green giant. It's all up to you.

If for some reason, players cannot come to a consensus to how a conflict should resolve, do not hesitate to contact the Moderators. However, we expect that most of the time, players can always work it out.

And that's it! There's always more to learn, but these are the basics to help get you started!

What happens when my characters walk through the door?

On the first of each month, the mods will post a special arrival event for all newly accepted characters. Please tag into this event as your first official post in Ingress! The arrival log may change month to month, so what characters will encounter right away will vary.

In meantime, feel free to get acquainted with our current overall setting, Trowbridge.

Ingress uses the "d6 to Hit" system, created by the mods in order to add some randomization to how things happen at Ingress.

d6 to Hit: results
Roll a d6, the number you get means...

1- Significant Failure
2,3 - Failure
4,5 - Success
6 - Great Success

{link to an online dice roller}

These failures and successes are relative to what you think your character can accomplish. The Hulk getting a Great Success and Frodo getting a Great Success are going to mean very different things.

You will be using this tool to resolve conflicts in three main ways:

1. Game Battles in Adventures (Required)

Whenever your character is involved with a battle on an adventure that is mod-run, you will need to roll dice to determine whether or not your character has successfully executed an action.

ex: Did the Sherlock successfully intuit who the killer is?
ex: Did Spock successfully nerve pinch the bartender?
ex: Did Natasha Romanoff successfully charm her way past the guard?

If two PCs are decide to fight each other, both players must first agree to everything that will happen to their characters. If permission is given, then characters will both roll, and whoever has the higher number wins. If both characters roll the same number, whoever is defending wins.

ex: Spock wants to nerve pinch Jim
First, the Jim-mun gives the Spock-mun permission for this to happen. Then:
If Spock rolls a 5 to nerve pinch, and Jim rolls a 4 to defend, Spock wins.
If Spock rolls a 5 to nerve pinch, and Jim rolls a 5 to defend, Jim gets away.

2. Character Challenges (Optional)
When your character isn't participating in a mod-run battle, feel free to use this system to figure out whether or not your character is successful at any given task. This is totally optional on your part.

Questions? Please ask below!

RESERVES ARE CLOSED

Reserve Policy

At this time we have a character limit of two characters per player. You may reserve one character at a time. We do not accept challenge reserves or challenge applications. You cannot reserve the same character for two consecutive months, however if the character is still unclaimed you can re-reserve them the month after that.

Reserves open on the 1st of the month and expire on the 25th of the same month.

Applications and any revisions must be in for consideration by midnight on the 25th.

Accepted characters must wait until their entrance post on the 1st of the following month to begin play but they can add the logs/network/adventure/ooc comms once they’re accepted and are encouraged to post an OOC intro.

Current Reserves

All reserves made this round will be held until July 25th.

none

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Copy and paste the form below and we'll hold your character for the app round. After each round, reserves will be screened.

<b>Player Name:</b> <b>Player Age:</b> <b>Contact Info:</b> plurk/aim/email <b>Character Name:</b> <b>Canon/Original/AU: </b> <b>Date of Reserve:</b>

Official

Email: ingressmoderators@gmail.com
DW: ingress
Plurk: ingressmods


Spoo

Plurk: greenonme

Spencer

Plurk: flyawayblackbird


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