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<center>''"The bonds you have with others will strengthen and reveal the true power you hold."''</center><br> | <center>''"The bonds you have with others will strengthen and reveal the true power you hold."''</center><br> | ||
| − | + | Humans are social creatures by nature, and crave connection with others at least on some level. The bonds we form by forging relationships with other people affect our actions and thoughts for good or ill. The connections formed between other people, be they good or bad, are of vast importance on PersonaMUSH. These connections are represented by the Social Link system. | |
| − | + | ==The Meaning of Arcana== | |
| − | + | Each character resonates with a particular Arcana, reflecting what particular archetype they fit at this point in their lives. For more information on Arcana, please see NEWS TAROT. A character automatically starts with ten points in their own Arcana, to reflect their innate connection with their own Arcana. Should they later change their own Arcana, they will lose ten points from their old Arcana and gain ten in their new Arcana. | |
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| + | ==The Mechanics and Benefits== | ||
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| + | A measure of a person's connection with others, Social Links are the way in which a character develops and grows. In time, a strong enough bond will manifest within the Velvet Room a new Persona... or allow a Shadow-Possessed character to draw from the collective unconsciousness of humanity a new form that they may wear. In OOC terms, this means that every ten points in an Arcana provides a character with a new Persona or Shadowform, with up to ten per Arcana. Every one hundred total links also grants a character access to a new Persona or Shadowform, up to a max of ten such at a thousand social links. | ||
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| + | To give someone a Social Link, type '+sl character's full name'. For example, to give Takeharu Kirijo a social link, you would type +sl Takeharu Kirijo. You have 4 link points that you can expend each week, and you can't link or be linked by a single character more than once in that time. Links refresh around 3 AM EST Sunday morning. A link exchange is mutual: by expending a point, your links go up a point in the Arcana of the person you linked, and their links go up a point in your Arcana. | ||
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| + | ==Social Link Etiquette== | ||
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| + | While a character is generally free to dispose of their Social Links as they see fit, one important rule does exist due to the mutual nature of social links and the power that they grant characters. The character must have scened with the character that they intend to link. It is completely fine, for example, for a character who has scened with someone the week before but lacked the link points at the time to link them after their points have refreshed. | ||
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| + | A character who has been judged to have abused the Social Link system, that is, linking people without a prior scene with the character, will suffer a temporary loss for a month of the reciprocal nature of their link points. They will be able to link other people, but they will not themselves be able to gain from doing so. Further violations may make this loss permanent. | ||
[[Category: Newsfiles]] | [[Category: Newsfiles]] | ||
[[Category: IC]] | [[Category: IC]] | ||
Revision as of 01:41, 25 June 2012
Humans are social creatures by nature, and crave connection with others at least on some level. The bonds we form by forging relationships with other people affect our actions and thoughts for good or ill. The connections formed between other people, be they good or bad, are of vast importance on PersonaMUSH. These connections are represented by the Social Link system.
The Meaning of Arcana
Each character resonates with a particular Arcana, reflecting what particular archetype they fit at this point in their lives. For more information on Arcana, please see NEWS TAROT. A character automatically starts with ten points in their own Arcana, to reflect their innate connection with their own Arcana. Should they later change their own Arcana, they will lose ten points from their old Arcana and gain ten in their new Arcana.
The Mechanics and Benefits
A measure of a person's connection with others, Social Links are the way in which a character develops and grows. In time, a strong enough bond will manifest within the Velvet Room a new Persona... or allow a Shadow-Possessed character to draw from the collective unconsciousness of humanity a new form that they may wear. In OOC terms, this means that every ten points in an Arcana provides a character with a new Persona or Shadowform, with up to ten per Arcana. Every one hundred total links also grants a character access to a new Persona or Shadowform, up to a max of ten such at a thousand social links.
To give someone a Social Link, type '+sl character's full name'. For example, to give Takeharu Kirijo a social link, you would type +sl Takeharu Kirijo. You have 4 link points that you can expend each week, and you can't link or be linked by a single character more than once in that time. Links refresh around 3 AM EST Sunday morning. A link exchange is mutual: by expending a point, your links go up a point in the Arcana of the person you linked, and their links go up a point in your Arcana.
Social Link Etiquette
While a character is generally free to dispose of their Social Links as they see fit, one important rule does exist due to the mutual nature of social links and the power that they grant characters. The character must have scened with the character that they intend to link. It is completely fine, for example, for a character who has scened with someone the week before but lacked the link points at the time to link them after their points have refreshed.
A character who has been judged to have abused the Social Link system, that is, linking people without a prior scene with the character, will suffer a temporary loss for a month of the reciprocal nature of their link points. They will be able to link other people, but they will not themselves be able to gain from doing so. Further violations may make this loss permanent.
