thebrokencycle

The Broken Cycle

Mass Effect Role Play

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The Broken Cycle - A Mass Effect Role Playing Comm

Website:

http://thebrokencycle.livejournal.com/

Membership:

Moderated

Posting Access:

All Members

Description:

Mass Effect Role Playing Community

Introduction

Welcome to

thebrokencycle!

The Broken Cycle is a Mass Effect role playing community set 30 years after the destruction of the Reapers.

Plot Premise

After the destruction of the Reapers the galactic community is struggling to rebuild. The Citadel and many of the Mass Relays have been repaired, but there are still countless damaged relays. In many sectors, what had once been governed by council law and influence is now ruled by organized crime and piracy. A small number of survivors still suffer the effects of indoctrination from before the Reapers were eliminated, and some even believe the Reapers can be resurrected.

So far, the reaper corpses scattered throughout the galaxy do not appear to be able to cause new cases of indoctrination. Still, anti-experimentation laws as a result of the war are in effect. There is a movement which believes these laws should be abolished and the galaxy should try to re-arm the reaper corpses and use them as re-purposed war machines, however push back against this line of thought is strong. A new council has been elected and strives to maintain order and fund rebuilding efforts across the galaxy.

(The Broken Cycle will probably not be able to adhere to all the canonicity of the Mass Effect Universe, so the main point of the community will be to create our own storyline with original characters and have fun.)

Moderators

Carrie

fighting_dreamr
JD

jd3000

Application Process

So, you're interested in the game? Great! Characters in The Broken Cycle are both original characters and canon characters. At this point, canon characters are limited to one per player, and they cannot be your first character. You don't have to be a Mass Effect guru to join!

We're looking for all types of different characters- be it biotic user or not, soldier, engineer, tech expert, Blue Suns, Bloodpack, Eclipse, criminal, law abiding citizen, etc. Find your place!

Step 1. Contact the mods via private message (go to their profile and click on “Send this user a message”) and express your desire to join.

Step 2. Create a journal for your character using the following format: characterfirstname_characterlastname. If your character name is too long, use either firstinitial_lastname OR firstname_lastinitial. If it's still too long and/or taken, please contact the mods by a Private Message.

Step 3. Fill out the application below.

YOUR NAME:
LINK TO YOUR LIVEJOURNAL: (So we can invite you to the out of character community)
CHARACTER'S NAME: 
LINK TO CHARACTER'S LIVEJOURNAL:
AGE: 
SPECIES: 
HOME WORLD: 
OCCUPATION: 
SEX:

BIOTIC ABILITY: (Yes/No, if yes, strengths/weaknesses. Remember that some species are natrually stronger in their biotic abilities than others)
FACTION: (Your character's affiliation, if any; i.e., gang member, C-SEC, citizen, Alliance military, etc.)

PERSONAL WEAKNESSES:
PERSONAL STRENGTHS:

TACTICAL WEAKNESSES:
TACTICAL strengths:

REPUTATION: (Your character's reputation among those that know him/her; this should also include how well-known they are among their faction, or people of the same occupation.)

PERSONALITY: (The more detailed, the better. This should be at least 150 words long.)

BACKGROUND: (The more detailed, the better. This should be at least 150 words long and include any information pertinent to your character's history, including his/her lineage, and how they came to be in their present situation.)

PERSONAL INVENTORY: (This is a detailed list of everything your character has in their immediate possession at the start of the game. Soldiers, jedi, and renegade jedi are likely to have little in their possession, as soldiers are given the basic necessities by their superiors, and jedi believe that the force will provide what they need.)

SAMPLE POST: (This is a first-person journal entry, as written by your character.)

^{JUST COPY, PASTE, AND FILL IT IN.}

After you have filled out your application, send an e-mail with the completed application and a description of what the character looks like to The Mods.

Step 4. Add a character profile and disclaimer to your character journal's userinfo. Please include all of the information you detailed in your application in their userinfo. (Ex. http://zacher-dorvin.livejournal.com/profile)

Step 5. Log in as your character and request to join

thebrokencycle.

After you've done that, wait for mod approval. If you have followed the instructions and meet our requirements, you will be approved. If something is wrong with your application, a mod will reply to you letting you know what needs to be changed and why.

Once you are approved, you may begin posting immediately. Please be sure to read recent posts in

thebrokencycle in order to get a good idea of what is going on and how the game is being run.

Community members also chat on AIM concerning the story and also to get to know each other better. Please download AIM once accepted so we can chat often and keep the story going.

Rules

1. No God-Moding. Do not write the actions or reactions of a character that is not yours, unless you've received prior permission from the author. You may react or begin an action toward another character, but allow the other character to then behave as they see fit. Write like you'd act in real life.

Example of an illegal God-Moding post:

zacher_dorvin: Irritated, Zacher threw the punch, knocking Nessa clear across the Cantina! She totally broke all of her bones and was totally knocked out and Zacher totally rules!

Example of an acceptable post:

zacher_dorvin: Irritated, Zacher threw the punch at Nessa.

nessa_silvarin: Nessa moved swiftly to the right, watching Zacher’s fist fly past her face.

Only Nessa’s character in the above examples can decide whether or not to take the hit. Keep in mind that if your character never takes hits it can get very annoying. No one likes to play with a character who has no weaknesses.

2. Settle personal disputes outside of the community. The moderators are just that: moderators. Please try and settle any interpersonal problems between the players involved before coming to the mods about it.

3. Have fun. Don't take things too seriously, don't get irritated. Approach everything with calmness and civility. It’s important to keep perspective in mind and remember that this is just a Star Wars role playing community on the internet which was created just for fun; it should not be the source of any strife or drama.

4. Spellcheck! Please keep an eye out on grammar and spelling.

5. Please keep all roleplaying in full narrative form, as if you were writing a story – no *actions*, please, since it breaks the reality of the game. In the same vein, please no 'netspeak' or smilies outside the OOC community.

6. Adhere to the thread structure of posts. The way

thebrokencycle is played is in journal threads. A character will start out a thread by making a post to the community. Characters reacting to that post (for example, character within the same party as the character who made the post) react by replying in a comment to the fore mentioned post.

Communities

thebrokencycle
Main community. Threads are in narrative (3rd person) form.

brokencycleooc
Out of Character and Character Development community. Here we do in-character memes, post fics, discuss Mass Effect related stuff, etc.

Disclaimer: Mass Effect and its related characters/universe is property of Bioware. This community does not infringe on any legal rights of said parties. No profits are made from the community, it is for personal entertainment purposes only.

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