Setting Up Your Dorm Room!
Welcome to the Amityville Academy dormitories! Please note that this area is for enrolled students only; if you have a quest student, please post a quest thread in the Halloween Subspace subforum!
If you are an enrolled student, feel free to settle in and make yourself at home! Each dorm has plenty of unoccupied rooms, doors, niches, spaces, paintings, or wherever you prefer to reside. Take a look around before setting up your own dorm room thread - if you feel lost on how to create your dorm room thread, check out other people's dorm rooms to get a feel for things! You can also pick up some free graphics for use in your dorm if you'd like!
If you have a Lost Clan/Horseman character: Your journal does go in this subforum too! However, your character is NOT ICly living in the Amityville dorms. Check out the Sanctuary of the Lost Clan to find out where your Horseman lives! Please title your dorm room as [Lost Clans].
Dormitory Rules & Information:
- First, and most importantly: never post in someone else's dorm room without permission! Those who break this rule repeatedly will be greylisted.
- Dormitories are divided up by factions: all demons are in one dorm building, all ghosts in another, and so on. Read the next post for more information on your character's specific dorm building! Unless otherwise assigned by a GM, your character's dorm room must be in the building for for their faction. Indicate your character's faction by titling your thread as [FACTION]. So a werewolf's dorm might be [Monster] Howl's Dorm. (Or Howl's Den, or whatever. So long as [Monster] and your student's name are in there.)
- Keeping the specific dormitory setting in mind, you can design and describe the inside of your dorm room however you like, within reason. These are dorm rooms, not glorious palaces! Keep things single-room to small apartment size, and appropriate to your student's needs, not their wants. Nobody on the faculty cares if your demon student wants a three-story dorm room and a bath made of pudding. Deal with it.
- Your dorm room may have special features if your student's nature requires it. For example, a student with an aquatic natural form (like a mermaid, kelpie, kappa etc.) may have a pool or pond built right in to their dorm room! But if your student just wants a pool in their room because they think it'd be fun? That's not going to happen. Sorry!
- Each character must have their own dorm room thread OOCly. ICly, all dorm rooms are single rooms, unless you have prior GM permission to do otherwise. Overnight sleepovers, other student guests, etc. are okay, but students are expected to live in their own rooms, not other people's.
- Your student can, and should, keep their minipets in their dorm room!
IC Minipet Guidelines:
- ICly, your student is allowed to have a maximum of three minipets. Choose ones that you think would serve your character best, and stick with them! The rest go into the closet, which is essentially a hammerspace for minipets. You are able to swap out the pets as necessary, however at any given time, only three may be in play.
- Fun fact: The janitors closet located at the end of every student hall and your own personal student closet (if applicable in your room) is actually a minipet portal. Inside it leads to an infinite storage room of darkness (it is said a student got lost there and reappeared back in the next century). When you are swapping minipets in game, you simply go to the closest closet and call one out. If you acquire any new ones, you may do the same as well!
- Remember that mini pets only grow between 1-3 feet tall, and their personalities are entirely up to you! They tend to have only moderate pet-like intelligence though.
- Any minipet you have (meaning any mini pet that is linked to your mini site name) may be an IC pet for one of your character. The only exception being Special Edition (SE) minipets. It is up to the SE's owner to put restrictions on their minis, so be sure to ask the SE's owner for permission first. If they say no, or seem hesitant about it, then your student can not own that minipet ICly.
Logging Your Roleplays: Your dorm room's primary purpose is to log your roleplay participation! All RPs should be logged in your student's dorm room, in whatever manner you wish, for future reference when doing growths. This includes classes, one-on-one RPs, special events, etc. - anything your student participates in that counts towards their growth points.
Growth Requirements: Check them out here for students, and here for Horsemen!
