Post by Ginny Weasley on Mar 15, 2014 5:29:54 GMT -5
Welcome letter
Welcome One and All to Final Prophecy. Here at Final Prophecy we strive to make you a welcomed member to our community.
How does FP work? Well in short this is a RP site for Harry Potter fans, though we fully encourage out of character discussion and participation as well. We are unique in that instead of a single site premise, FP is constantly changing plot to keep things fresh and entertaining for our members. How this works is we separate our plots into ‘terms’. Each term will have its own central plot for example; marauders era, canon era, alternate universe, next generation, etc. This will come with its own connected set of canon characters available (and of course original characters very much welcomed) and will run for a specified amount of time usually around 6 months. After this a new term will begin with a new plot and likely a whole new character set to choose from.
Don’t like the idea of losing a character you’ve worked hard on? Don’t worry, firstly the estimation for the term length is just that, we never end a term until our members are ready and give people plenty of notice to wrap up their story lines. As for the characters themselves – original characters do not need to be reinvented for each term, if you have a character you like just bring them along to the next! A few tweaks to their history and most can easily adapt to the new timeline. Canons are sadly not as easy due to changing era’s etc, but you can still get around it by playing a family member or someone else similar and chances are that particular canon will crop up again soon even if not the immediate next term. Mostly we find however that our members enjoy the chance to try out playing different characters as this method stops all the popular canons from being constantly taken, if you have your heart set on playing Harry and he’s either already taken or not available this term, don’t worry, you still have the chance to play him again in future.
Because of this set up we have two sets of rules, the general rules of conduct which are found in the information center (please read and sign);
Link to General Site Rules
hpfinalprophecy.proboards.com/thread/5721/site-rules-read
And the term specific rules (see below) which give guidelines on behaviour and allowances for this particular term. These are adapted each time to reflect the current situation and characters available.
To become a member you first need to visit our Sorting Hat and have yourself assigned a House – please note this is for you the RPer, and has no bearing on your character. This will give you access to your House tower to interact with your Housemates and in the future you will have the chance to earn points and win the site cup. Will you be a cunning Slytherin, a clever Ravenclaw, a loyal Hufflepuff or a brave Gryffindor? Let the hat decide – and remember, it knows when you are lying!
Link to the Sorting Hat;
hpfinalprophecy.proboards.com/thread/5720/sorting-hat
Please allow for time for the sorting, it will be seen to as quickly as possible but real life commitments may cause the occasional delay.
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After you are sorted you are invited to sign up for a character in our Role Play section; please make sure to check out the current term premise and term specific rules before you sign up, all of which can be found here;
Term specific rules
hpfinalprophecy.proboards.com/thread/5747/term-rules-sign-before-signing
Term premise
Character list and canon sign up
hpfinalprophecy.proboards.com/thread/5724/year-february-2014-canon-sign
OC sign up
hpfinalprophecy.proboards.com/thread/5725/year-february-2014-character-sign
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We also offer some non-RP areas for our members to enjoy. Come and read members stories and poems in the Library, take part in games in Hagrid's Hut and chat with your peers in the common room. Please note in these areas you are posting as yourself and not as your character. Many of our members still enjoy posting in the third person in these areas (for instance ; Marah walks into the room and waves to the others’) however it is not compulsory.
Library Board
hpfinalprophecy.proboards.com/board/106/library
Hagrid's Hut
hpfinalprophecy.proboards.com/board/104/hagrids-hut
House of Awesome Common Room
hpfinalprophecy.proboards.com/board/47/house-awesome-common-room
If you have any questions please feel free to contact any of the staff members, we are always happy to chat! You can get us either through PM or posting in any of the questions threads or on the C-box at the bottom of the page.
Happy posting everyone!
