Conversation #4: Character Relations & Transfers
Feel free to talk about the rule below and what you think about it and if anything needs to change. If you feel anything should be elaborated upon or simplified you are welcome to let us know. Ultimately, please keep it civil!
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Character relations & Transfers
All knowledge and possessions of each character must stay to that character and never be transferred or shared between characters.
- Your characters are not meant to know one another and share information amongst the characters in a way that would benefit them.
- For example, claiming your other character is a sibling or a cousin greatly goes against this and should never be used as an excuse for a transfer of knowledge. If your characters happen to be related, consider them estranged from one another or not know that one another is living in the city.
The same thing goes for material goods. You should not transfer cars, money, or homes to other characters-- nor should they be able to share properties or businesses.
- This is exploiting our systems and just not within the ways of roleplay.
Take pride in having your characters individually rise up and make their own names for themselves without relying on the other.
*NOTE: Assisting people with violating this rule by being or providing a means of transferring between characters is also a violation of this rule.
The whole "brother mother sister cousin" RP is very tricky and really slippery slope. Sometimes good RPers can incorporate it into their story and do something interesting, but most of the time it's used as a meta tool.
-Person makes a new character and approaches the same gang or social group their OG character is in or heavily RPs with and goes "Oh hey its me ___X you know my cousin ___x lets go be friends and do all the illegal things that my cousin ___x cant do"
-"My cousin heard that ABC is in gang XYZ. Yeah they stay over on 1337 Gang St."
It's usually something along those lines and often a not so subtle attempt to get around violating meta rules. For this I think it just shouldn't be allowed, maybe grandfather in people whos characters already share the same last name but don't use it for any in-game events other than a backstory like soup explained with her characters.