>>23243rules
location: somewhere in equestria near ponyville, canterlot, and fluttershy's cottage
time period: sometime around season 4 or 5 but not too strict. twilight sparkle may or may not be a princess. season 9 is not allowed at all since i haven't watched it and i heard it's very bad, anyway. think mostly of seasons 1, 2, parts of 3, 4, and the good episodes from 5
style: primarily style of seasons 1 & 2, although season 4 is also ok (i.e.: pinkie apple pie). characters must act like they would in the show given a similar situation
characters: characters must be from the show & your main character must be a pony, but you can temporarily occasionally play side characters from the show or oc's as long as they are not a mary sue and their colors don't hurt everypony's eyes
scenario: cannot be something that would not happen in the/be something that probably wouldn't happen behind the scenes in the show
see first post in thread. yes, that is the entire scenario for nowimages: cannot be images from other tv shows/anime. cannot be memes. ponies or scenes from the show, artwork, and images to establish setting are fine. helpful sites: derpibooru.org
formatting: scene descriptions should be in bracket + parenthesis format ([( )]), dialogue should be in quotation marks (" "), actions should be in asterisks (* *) or italicized, and out-of-character chat should be in brackets ([ ])
the structure of a reply should be an (optional) scene description, then an action and/or dialogue, followed by (optional) bracketed out-of-character chat. example:
Minty
[(The sun is rising from the East, while there is a forest to the north. The forest is filled with plentiful myriad plants and trees. There are some prominently situated berry bushes nearby)]
*gently trots over to the edge of the forest*
I notice the berries. Slyly looking around to see if anypony is looking, I playfully nom them.
[I don't see anypony around]
in this example, the player added to the building of the world, performed an action, explained what they did, and finally in out-of-character chat explained what their character was actually perceiving to avoid confusion about if they noticed anypony nearby when they looked around
permissions:
no rules on how to take turns building the world but it should be complementary with each other and in accordance with the previous rules. while players can choose setting, they can't do anything to advance the scenario outside of their own character(s) dialogue, actions, and interactions with the setting.
examples:
good reply:
Pinkie Pie
--picture of pinkie pie from the show when she asked "watcha doin'?" in Pinkie Apple Pie--
[(The bush is rather dense, concealing what may be inside it. The curvature of a metal object may also be vaguely poking out from inside another adjacent bush)]
*pops out of the bush*
"Watcha doin'?"
[I didn't notice you eating the berries]
in this example, the player built on the scene in a constructive way, including adding a mysterious object that other characters may or may not notice. they also clarified in out-of-character chat that they didn't see Minty eating the berries, which Minty may or may not suspect is the case
bad reply:
Pinkie Pie
--picture of peter griffin--
[(The bush is actually not a bush at all but a robot)]
*pops out of robot-suit*
"Get the buck off my lawn!"
[The berries were also actually a special type of poison joke berry that look like regular berries]
in this example, the player drastically changed the scene, as Minty would have almost certainly noticed the bush was a robot before walking up to it. There are also no robots in MLP:FiM in the timeframe mentioned in the previous rules. Next, Pinkie Pie said something that she would have almost certainly never have said in the show (refer to scenario). finally, the player would not have had the authority to make the berries poisoned because the berries were created by the previous player and that would advance the scenario in a way that only op would be allowed to do. (and even though the berries had a reason to look like regular berries, the player still can't change their implicit attributes without consent from the player who first added the berries to the scene.)
permissions: only op can change facets of other players' scenario creations in order to help move the plot along. op can also delete/modify (retcon) scenarios, dialogue, etc. in order to make them consistent with the rules and overarching story. to say something to op that a player doesn't want other ponies to know, use the
text here tag. other players shouldn't look under spoiler tags. if a player wants to advance the scenario in this way without op, they can just ask for the players' who created the sceanrio's (in the above example -- the berries) permission. this type of scenario change cannot be overridden by op unless it is a violation of the previous rules about time period, style, characters, scenario, or images.
if a player thinks a response isn't consistent with the rules, they can request a review. sometimes responses will be changed even if a review is not requested depending on how badly they appear to violate the rules
tl;dr: everypony equal. everypony loved.
