Basic ~The Weird Lands~ Information

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The Weird Lands is an interesting and unique Role-Playing Game. It is special because it is unspecific – meaning, as opposed to an equine RPG, or a Warrior Cats RPG or a Harry Potter RPG, The Weird Lands allows you to play anything you like!

You can make a human being, or a vampire, or a mermaid, or a werewolf... you can make a wolf, a tiger, a horse, a cat, an eagle, an owl, a shark, a jellyfish, a goldfish, a ladybird or a mosquito... you can make a Hippogriff or a dragon or a sea serpent... anything that’s in the literary world (and beyond)! The icing on the cake is that they don’t RP in separate communities; they all co-exist and interact with each other in the same set of places, which make up The Weird Lands. Plus, they can all understand each other – there’s one universal language.

This means that certain very interesting scenarios can happen. What if Peter Pan met Tom Sawyer? Or the dragons from Dragon Rider (Cornelia Funke), Eragon (Christopher Paolini), and Harry Potter (JK Rowling) all met each other? How about Captain Hook and Long John Silver? And (I found this hilarious) Wilbur from Charlotte’s Web (EB White) and Napoleon from Animal Farm (George Orwell)? Or Shere Khan (Jungle Books) and Richard Parker (The Life of Pi)?

More interesting stuff comes when you RP a lion and a mosquito, or an earthworm and a dragon, or a person with a Hippogriff. They all understand each other, remember?

You can also form your own little group of characters. There are no pre-made groups, so the groups that form will be active ones; you can have your cat start a Clan, or you can form a vampire coven or a wizarding school or a dragon kingdom, or just a rowdy gang of teenagers! If a particular group is very active, I might give you a sub-board to make your Headquarters. =D

This page is gonna grow as questions are asked and information is added. ^^ Be sure to look at the post under this one. Enjoy!

Cheers!Tigertail
aka Lynxfire

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What you can and cannot do in TWL

~You CAN Role-play anything in the world you can come up with! Well, within reason, but the stuff that's 'within reason' here is a very much wider spectrum. xD You CANNOT, however, Role-play a character that's already in a published storybook. That's plagiarism. Fanfiction is allowed, however. Make someone from the Harry Potter world, but don't make Harry Potter himself, get it?

~You CAN Role-Play any one of your own characters with any one of somebody else's characters. However, you MUST agree on what will happen (you can't kill someone else's mouse with your fire-breathing lion if the other RPer has not agreed, never mind if it makes sense or not). If you can't agree or make a compromise, just pretend the whole thing never happened.

~You CAN make your character wish to not communicate with a certain other character, or make them know a second language. However, you CANNOT say that your character is unable to talk to another character. Universal language, people, remember. Even fishes can talk to birds. Kapish?

~You CAN Role-Play your character in two threads at once; but you CANNOT actually say that they are in two places at once. RP as though one thing happened after the other. Not simultaneously. Unless you have permission, like you made a character with a time-turner or abilities like Molly Moon's.

~You CAN form your own little cult or group or team or whatever. You CANNOT demand a sub-board for them until after they are properly active. You CAN have a sub-board anywhere in the game (the Misfit Lands are just for places which don't fit anywhere, even loosely, in the territories already described). You CAN have multiple sub-boards for a group, but this has to be a pretty darn super active group. xD

More to be added as stuff develops!