Role Play + Journals
Journals
Each Trainee gets one journal for their coin. These journals will be placed in a guild, and the link, along with an invitation sent to the trainee. Journals are vital to the forming of your Ki, without a journal it will be hard for me to judge how your final form should look. The journals also are where the quests will take place. For each stage you will get a series of prompts (Not all at once) you can choose which ones you respond to and when. You do not need to post these prompts, and may act as if they occured naturally, however, for each stage there is a number of prompts I wish you to respond to before I feel you are ready for that stage's quest. Unless you can prove to me other wise (which if you think hard enough won?t be hard to) these stand the general number of prompts VS the responses I seek.
Coin - 4 given 2 respond
Talisman - 6 given - 3 respond
Spirit - 10 given - 4 respond (Only because one will be mandatory)
Guardian - none given - kindly respond at least once a month if you wish to remain considered part of the main RP ^_^
Each requirement for the next stage is up for dispute, just talk to me, if you need somthing softer, I will find a way for you to do so. The main point of these is so that I can draw your guardian closest to your KI. Quests are non negotiable.
Quest - 3 total, to advance your Ki to a guardian stage you must pass each quest. which will evolve your guardian.
You can always do more then required, but if you do less than required you will A) not advance and B) after 2 months your Ki will start reverting form. This holds for all but the final form, where after one month, without good reason or leave, your Ki may start to revert. Depends on how many Prompts you started with.
If you responded to all 20 prompts, you are completely immune and may do as you desire
14-19 - You get half the number rounded chances. IE if you responded to 14 prompts you get 7 chances to slack off without warning. 13 you get 7 as well (6.5 rounds up)
10-13 - you get three chances.
9 - mandatory unless there is a reason or deal involved. (Or you have informed myself or the staff of any absence.
You can walk away scott free if you really want from the entire RP experiance of the temple when you hit guardian, you just need to post so and Poof! no more RP for you. [yes this means that you do not have to RP, but you can come back occasionally if you want to as well.] Those at Gaurdian level do not have quests and or prompts to deal with as well. However if you plan to leave at this stage please post so in the "AWL" sticky.
Journals do not have to be private, you can invite friends into them, and occasionally a prompt may ask for interaction, this is the reason why. But I ask that all major RP remain in the Main Thread (here) to promote activity.
Role Play
Follow TOS - if you have not read this yet, there is a link at the bottom of the gaia page marked "Terms of Service"
Follow the rules specified in the DO - DO NOT part of the Breedables FAQ sticky. (found in the Breedables forum)
Role play is meant so that you can freely interact among the other owners/trainees. You can hold adventures and do whatever you like without the structure of the journals.
I encourage Role Play. I esspecially encourage it in the main thread, but it isn't mandatory ^_^