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Hello and welcome to the new and improved Data Expunged.
I, Lola Nova, will be your guide for today’s little expedition. Now keep your visitor’s pass visible and facing outwards. Oh, and stay with the group or else you will be mistaken as a trespasser and you will be shot on sight.
For all new to roleplaying in general, I will drop you off here (http://www.wikihow.com/Roleplayhttp://www.wikihow.com/Roleplay) for the basics.
Now, while tubby over there gets his shoes tied, I’ll recap a quick history of this roleplay form. In the beginning, Ms.ShadowLovely (who controls the character Angel) started a youtube account to read SCP files, and once she had enough fans interested, she started this RP group. The last version of Data Expunged was…looked down upon by the original SCP Foundation Wiki because a few of the people who joined quickly became Mary Sues and ruined it for the rest of us. Back then, we were all new to everything, and when I say everything, I mean writing, roleplaying in general, the Foundation universe and it’s “Non Canon” Canon, heck, only half the people there have actually read the Foundation Tales. After approximately a year roleplaying on different sites, practicing my writing and reading skills, talking with some amazing writers, and getting to know and becoming friends with the mods of this site, we’ve realized where we’ve messed up and what we needed to change.
The biggest issue the main site had with Data Expunged, was the tone. Like I said earlier, we were way too silly. The mods, the ones with the blue names, have come to the conclusion that we need to wipe the site’s old canon breaking, Mary Sue filled past to make room for the new, canon rule abiding, realistic roleplay. Well, as realistic as a secret organization keeping the world safe from creatures that live for no other purpose than to kill and/or destroy, items that can allow people break the rules of space and time, and numerous other things that can cause the inevitable, fire and blood filled destruction of the Earth can be. I don’t see why you’d want to, but if you /really/ want to
read the old stuff, we saved a few and put it under the Non-Canon page.
Check out these Foundation Tales to get the tone we are going for:
http://www.SCP-wiki.net/black-white-black-white-black-white-black-white-black-white
Though, if you want to start something with a more comedic tone, there is comic relief that come in the ways of things like this:
http://www.SCP-wiki.net/SCP-1171
“ The Foundation has a very specific tone. Remember, the Foundation is serious business. It exists to prevent all manner of hideous things from happening. The employees of the Foundation are highly intelligent and are to be taken seriously. It’s the same thing that you have to remember if you were writing an SCP report - tone is everything. If your character is an incredibly distinguished scientist, their tone and manner of speech will reflect that. That’s not to say that they don’t have their downtime, but when they’re reacting or responding to something, tone is everything.”
How to join:
Make an account.
Read the “Things you have to know before you make a character”
Make a character file.
Wait for MOD approval.
When you are approved, you will get a room under “living area” and are cleared to RP. (If you have been approved, but don’t see a room, message one of the mods and we’ll get on it. Don’t worry, we don’t bite… ok there was that one time, but-)
The Home Page
You see those little tabs that tell you how things are organized? Use ‘em. Say your character is talking with another one and they both leave to go to a lab. You, the writer, will wait until the other person to post a link. The first one to leave is the one responsible for making and linking to the other thread.
Don’t know where to start? Try one of the break rooms or labs. Remember to read through what’s going on and make sure your presence doesn’t interrupt anything.
Want to start a thread? Do it! You will pretty much have to set the stage. Aim to make at least 3 of the 5 W’s: Who, What, Where, When, and Why.
“Where” and “When” are a must.
If you have any questions, concerns, comments, or just want to say “Hi,” message the moderators. Like, all of us. At the same time. And that about wraps up the New User Guide. Thank you for your cooperation, coffee and doughnuts should be right on the other side of the door, not too far from the water fountain, unless someone I specifically told not to eat them did.
~Yours truly, Dr. Lola Nova
I, Lola Nova, will be your guide for today’s little expedition. Now keep your visitor’s pass visible and facing outwards. Oh, and stay with the group or else you will be mistaken as a trespasser and you will be shot on sight.
For all new to roleplaying in general, I will drop you off here (http://www.wikihow.com/Roleplayhttp://www.wikihow.com/Roleplay) for the basics.
Now, while tubby over there gets his shoes tied, I’ll recap a quick history of this roleplay form. In the beginning, Ms.ShadowLovely (who controls the character Angel) started a youtube account to read SCP files, and once she had enough fans interested, she started this RP group. The last version of Data Expunged was…looked down upon by the original SCP Foundation Wiki because a few of the people who joined quickly became Mary Sues and ruined it for the rest of us. Back then, we were all new to everything, and when I say everything, I mean writing, roleplaying in general, the Foundation universe and it’s “Non Canon” Canon, heck, only half the people there have actually read the Foundation Tales. After approximately a year roleplaying on different sites, practicing my writing and reading skills, talking with some amazing writers, and getting to know and becoming friends with the mods of this site, we’ve realized where we’ve messed up and what we needed to change.
The biggest issue the main site had with Data Expunged, was the tone. Like I said earlier, we were way too silly. The mods, the ones with the blue names, have come to the conclusion that we need to wipe the site’s old canon breaking, Mary Sue filled past to make room for the new, canon rule abiding, realistic roleplay. Well, as realistic as a secret organization keeping the world safe from creatures that live for no other purpose than to kill and/or destroy, items that can allow people break the rules of space and time, and numerous other things that can cause the inevitable, fire and blood filled destruction of the Earth can be. I don’t see why you’d want to, but if you /really/ want to
read the old stuff, we saved a few and put it under the Non-Canon page.
Check out these Foundation Tales to get the tone we are going for:
http://www.SCP-wiki.net/black-white-black-white-black-white-black-white-black-white
Though, if you want to start something with a more comedic tone, there is comic relief that come in the ways of things like this:
http://www.SCP-wiki.net/SCP-1171
“ The Foundation has a very specific tone. Remember, the Foundation is serious business. It exists to prevent all manner of hideous things from happening. The employees of the Foundation are highly intelligent and are to be taken seriously. It’s the same thing that you have to remember if you were writing an SCP report - tone is everything. If your character is an incredibly distinguished scientist, their tone and manner of speech will reflect that. That’s not to say that they don’t have their downtime, but when they’re reacting or responding to something, tone is everything.”
How to join:
Make an account.
Read the “Things you have to know before you make a character”
Make a character file.
Wait for MOD approval.
When you are approved, you will get a room under “living area” and are cleared to RP. (If you have been approved, but don’t see a room, message one of the mods and we’ll get on it. Don’t worry, we don’t bite… ok there was that one time, but-)
The Home Page
You see those little tabs that tell you how things are organized? Use ‘em. Say your character is talking with another one and they both leave to go to a lab. You, the writer, will wait until the other person to post a link. The first one to leave is the one responsible for making and linking to the other thread.
Don’t know where to start? Try one of the break rooms or labs. Remember to read through what’s going on and make sure your presence doesn’t interrupt anything.
Want to start a thread? Do it! You will pretty much have to set the stage. Aim to make at least 3 of the 5 W’s: Who, What, Where, When, and Why.
“Where” and “When” are a must.
If you have any questions, concerns, comments, or just want to say “Hi,” message the moderators. Like, all of us. At the same time. And that about wraps up the New User Guide. Thank you for your cooperation, coffee and doughnuts should be right on the other side of the door, not too far from the water fountain, unless someone I specifically told not to eat them did.
~Yours truly, Dr. Lola Nova
Last edited by Lola Nova on Sat 19 Sep 2015, 15:49; edited 2 times in total
