Premise

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Gameplay

Game Environment

Physical Environment | Ms Mourne's Store | The Cell Block | Medical Care | The AES | Game Time vs Real Time

( Gameplay: Game Environment )

Game Style and Etiquette

Characters And Character Development | Game Balance | Cameos | Pup Trading | Style | Violence, Death and Adult Content

( Gameplay: Game Style and Etiquette )

Rules

( Rules )

Application

Applying to Section Three happens in two stages, stage one being the equivalent of a reserve at other comms. To complete stage one, please copy and paste the form provided in the text box below into a comment to this post and fill it out.

<b>Player journal</b>: <b>Email address</b>: <b>Character name</b>: <b>Character source</b>: <b>Character journal</b>: <b>Recent writing sample</b>: <a href="YOUR LINK HERE" target="_blank">Click here</a>. <b>Emotional imbalance</b>:

( Application, Stage 1. )

Once the mods have received the first part of your application, we'll take a look and decide whether or not your ideas and your style agree with what we're aiming for in Section Three. If we think you a likely candidate, we'll contact you to talk to you about your ideas for and expectations of the game. If we end up getting along, we'll email you the stage two application form to fill out. You'll have two weeks to fill it out and send it back to us.

At that point, it would be unlikely for us to refuse your application; however, the mods of Section Three reserve the right to decline your second-stage application.

To give you an idea what to expect, you can find the the stage two application guide under the cut. However, please don't fill out this form until the mods email it to you personally.

( Application, Stage 2. )

Cameo Application

Would you like to play at Section Three but don't really have the time/energy for a long-term commitment? Would you like to give the comm a test run before you join permanently? If so, the cameo option is for you.

To apply as a cameo player, you need to fill out the cameo application form below. In it, you're providing us with information about you, your writing, your character, and your idea for your character's cameo. Most likely this will involve one of the permanent cast members, since there is little reason for other characters being pulled into the village if it's not to help one of the main cast members find their emotional balance. However, if you have an idea for a character to appear in the comm without knowing any of the permanent cast members, you're more than welcome to apply and share your idea.

Make sure to check out the rules and the game play post—all of the things mentioned and listed there will apply to you and your character as well. That said, since you'll be playing a cameo, things like the character or body duplicates rules might not apply as strictly, while the activity check won't apply at all. If in doubt, please contact the mods at section3mods[at]gmail[dot]com.

<b>Player journal</b>: <b>Email address and AIM</b>: <b>Character name</b>: <b>Character source</b>: <b>Character journal</b>: <b>Cameo idea</b>: <b>Recent writing sample</b>: <a href="YOUR LINK HERE" target="_blank">Click here</a>. <b>Writing experience</b>: <b>Reason for applying</b>:

( Cameo Application. )

Once the mods have received your application, we will review it and contact you shortly. Whether or not your application will be accepted depends on the quality of your writing and your ideas, as well as the current in-game situation. We'd like to avoid getting repetitive, so if your plot suggestion is very similar to one that the game just ran through, you may have to either postpone or come up with a new plot.

If you've played a cameo at Section Three before, or if you're already a permanent player at the comm and would like to bring in another one of your muses for a cameo, you don't need to fill out anything. Just ping the mods on AIM, and we'll figure something out.

Hiatus and Drop

If you need to go on hiatus, or if you want to drop your character, you can, of course, do so at any time. Since game time is four times slower than real time, any hiatus up to a week should be possible to just handwave in the game--your character will simply be assumed to be around for two days, doing their usual thing. If you have any pressing plotlines going on, please talk to the other mun(s) involved about how you would like them to proceed with those in your absence, and be sure to let the comm know about anything your character should be assumed to be doing via the OOC comm.

If you have to be on hiatus for longer than a week, or if your character is too involved in a plot for them to be able to simply lie low for a couple of in-game days, you can send your character to attend a self-help seminar. This consists of them being stuck in the lecture hall where they had their introductory lecture and being forced to watch video material relating to the issue they are supposed to be working on. Meaning for the Master, it would be anti-violence videos. For the Doctor, it would be pro-violence videos. Etc. They will be provided with food and a place to sleep and wash up, but other than that, they will be watching self-help films.

You cannot take a hiatus for longer than two months. For your character's sake, mostly, since two months real time equal two weeks game time, and no-one can stand more than two weeks of self-help films.

If you're dropping, you can either let your character just disappear--this will result in everyone else being transported to the lecture hall to listen to a convoluted, nonsensical explanation as to how the universe shifted to make your character's emotional balance insignificant to the cosmic balance, which is why your character was let go--or you can play a plot to kill your character. No, death isn't possible in Section Three--except it is when you're dropping. Your character would get hurt, or sick, and would die rather than magically be kept alive. Which would give everyone else in the game a nasty jolt, but hey, that's the fun of role play.

Either way, to let us know your character will be disappearing for a while, or maybe even for good, please fill out the form below and copy and paste it into a comment to this post.

<b>Name and player journal</b>: <b>Character name and journal</b>: <b>Time frame for hiatus/character drop</b>:

( Hiatus and Drop )

Character Requests

Character request post! Usually you would request characters for a cameo appearance, unless the comm is running on less than ten characters at the moment and would be accepting new permanent cast members.

A request for a specific permanent cast member can be picked up by players who aren't comm members yet and interested in playing at Section Three, or by a player who is currently playing only one character at the comm and would like to add a second one. Cameo requests can be picked up by anyone. If you've never played at Section Three before, you will have to fill out a cameo application. If you're a permanent player, or if you've played a cameo at the comm before, all you need to do is let the mods know that you'd like to fulfill a specific request.

To request a character, please copy and paste this form into a comment and fill it out:

<b>Name and player journal</b>: <b>Character name and journal</b>: <b>Character source</b>: <b>Character request [cameo]</b>: <b>Character request [permanent]</b>: <b>Reason for request</b>:

( Requesting a Character. )

To indicate that you want to fill a cameo request, please fill out this form and copy and paste it into a reply to the original request comment. Don't do so if you've never played at Section Three before--go to the cameo application post instead and fill out a cameo application. If you do so, please mention in the "Reason for applying" section that you're applying in answer to a cameo request.

Do not use this form to reply to requests for permanent cast members. Go to the application post instead and fill out an application form (stage one if you're not a permanent player, stage two if you are).

<b>Name and player journal</b>: <b>Email and AIM</b>: <b>Character(s) played at the comm</b>: <b>Character journal</b>:

( Filling a Request. )

Cast Members

( Cast. )

FAQ

GENERAL FAQ

• I'd love to play at your comm, but complicated set-up is complicated. I don't even know where to start. Halp?
• Do you allow underage players?
• I want to play at your comm, but I don't have a character journal on Dreamwidth.
• Why is the comm called Section Three?

( General FAQ. )

GAME PLAY FAQ

• What kind of characters are accepted at your comm?
• What about AU versions and character- and body duplicates?
• What's your game premise?
• Why do you allow only one kind of tag style?
• Why do you have a cast member restriction?
• What's up with the cameos? I don't really get the concept.
• What's Section Three's policy on character death?
• What's your policy regarding adult content?
• My character has special, supernatural abilities. Is this a problem?
• Pup trading. What's that about?
• The show my character is from just aired a new season. Can I canon-bump?

( Game Play FAQ. )

TECHNICAL FAQ

• Constantly having to switch accounts is a pain in the ass. Is there a way around this?
• I don't have an AIM account. How do I get one?
• How do I access the AIM chatroom?
• How do I format chatlogs to post them?

( Technical FAQ. )