Civilian Journals
Once you win a civilian character and have them stamped, you must set up a journal containing their accepted quest in this subforum. Journals are not optional and are required for play! Civilians do not need art to be played; even if you won a character with art, as soon as they are stamped you may play their civilian side. However, if you do have any official civilian art of the character, it must be posted in your journal. You should host the image on your own domain; artist links may not be permanent!
Formatting Your Journal:
- Your journal title should have the faction and then the name(s). In the case of civilians, the title should read: [CIVILIAN] Jane Doe
Civilian journals may be formatted to your liking, but must include the same civilian information you had stamped in their quest. You do not need to link to your original quest; your journal just needs to include the same information that staff stamped for you when bringing the character into play. However, if you have posted for revisions of the character, your journal should be updated to include the revisions and not the information the revisions are replacing.
Name, hobbies, virtues, flaws, and magic cannot be changed without first posting for a revision. Your birthday should not change without plot approval (such as in the case of retcons).
Things like school/occupation, favorite or least favorite food, appearance (such as hair color and body type), or age (to account for birthdays passing) can be edited without a revision provided they are within reason. For example, a child character going to elementary should not skip middle school and go straight to high school without approval. The shop runs in real-time, so your characters should only be aging up, graduating, etc on a real-time schedule!
It is strongly encouraged to include your character’s birth year to make it easy to track their age!
You must include any official art of your character in your journal. You do not need to embed the image, but you must at least have a link out to it. Please try to link to the largest image possible.
You should log a character’s approved (and acquired) enhancements as well as their abilities. This will help keep track of a character’s full capabilities.
You should include a log of any Permanent Items the character has acquired, as well as any Personalized Items.
Feel free to customize your journal with some fun flare! Fanart and other graphics are excellent choices to personalize your character's journal. The shop provides some graphics upon request, including character certs and emblems!
Available Journal Flare
- Emblems: Achievement icons to chronicle what your character has done, who they have met, and what events they have survived. You can request or make your own emblems to share with others!
Cert Request: The shops official cert thread! Once you have art of your character, you can post to have them placed on a shop official cert to be displayed as you like.
If you win a powered slot to grow your civilian into any powered faction, after the character is stamped and the art is completed you will need to contact a staff member to move this journal to the powered section! We ask that players try to update their civilian journal so we can move it to the Powered Character Journal Subforum rather than just create a new journal to make things easier to keep track of!
