I intend to run this game much like I would a tabletop campaign, but I will not be constricting you with heavy rules and dice rolls. Instead, I wish to create a story together with my players through collaborative writing. I will, essentially, be your GM. I will control the NPCs and most of the other baddies you fight, as well as scenery and world details. You, however, get to play the main characters!

However, despite the freedom I wish to give you in this, I will be imposing a few basic rules.

1. No God Moding. I feel like this is a given. I will not approve characters with unbeatable/unstoppable status, and you will not portray your characters in such a manner. By this, I mean, your character will take damage and not all of his/her attacks will hit/do damage. It's a give and take, but I'm sure the people on this website know this, so I will not be elaborating on this one any more.

2. No Power Gaming. This is about the story, and role playing to win and get what you want is not going to produce a good story. This isn't about being selfish; this is about working together with others to make an amazing story that we can all remember years from now.

3. No Puppet Mastering. This is my job. I will NOT take control of your characters, directly, though I may for the sake of pacing decide that, say, you all meet up at this 'n that on Tuesday to work on your secret base, rather than wait for all of your posts saying that you go do so. This is purely for the sake of furthering the story, and I will never make your character do anything that you would not like them to do. If you ever have a problem with something I've done like this, tell me. We'll talk about it.

4. Character Death is an Option. While I will not ever strictly force you to kill off your character, do consider it. Death is not the best tool to use to further a story, but it can be employed that way. Perhaps your character staying behind to die fighting the zombie horde will inspire another character or characters to move in a different, more dynamic direction? Maybe your character's death in a firefight makes the scene that much more serious for everyone else? Death is an interesting and powerful Catalyst in a story, so I encourage you to consider it if it seems like it might happen.

5. Your Ideas are Important. If you think that taking the story in a certain direction would be awesome, tell me! Idea for a plot twist? Let me know! Think a certain event fits well in the background? I'm all ears. I have a good outline for the story, but if your idea sounds better, I might just throw mine out and replace it with yours!

6. Posts should be written in the present tense. Pardon me if I end up getting my tenses all screwy from time to time. It's a problem I often have while writing, so I won't freak out if you do it, too.

7. All character background should be pre-White Event.

8. For the purposes of the story, it will be generally assumed that one of two things occurred involving your character:

8a. Your character was outside when the meteor exploded and caught in the blast of light that came with that explosion. This either awakens dormant powers in your character, or creates mutations that give him or her new ones.

8b. Your character either found a chunk of the meteorite or came into contact with it some how. Maybe it flew through your character's bedroom window and embedded itself in his or her chest? Perhaps he or she found a piece in a crater in the woods? This is more of an origins thing than a way of determining powers. Your character may still mutate because of contact with the meteorite, or it may awaking his or her dormant powers. This is totally up to you. If you would like to make a character dependent on the meteorite chunk as a power source, I'm all for it.

Those aside, I will need a few things from you when you make your character. In your abilities/etc area, I'll need your character's powers in four stages. For the role play to be progressive, I'll need something for your character to progress to. Most player characters will be starting out at their first stage of development, which occurs just after the White Event. Some characters may start at stage two, depending on the character. A character that did not mutate, but instead had his/her dormant powers awakened, for example, might know more about what they can do and where their powers come from, depending. These characters may start at stage two, but this is strictly up to me, the GM.

As well as stages, I'm going to need a schedule, or a good idea of when you can meet to play. Like I said, I'd like to have us meet one or two nights a week, all at the same time, to post. I find this easier than having to wait on posts from certain individuals, and hopefully we can cover a good amount of ground each session and come to a stopping point, enabling us to do some light role play in between sessions in the typical post-and-wait fashion. There may also be weeks where we can't all meet at once, so then I might have us take a more slow-paced approach.

That's pretty much it for rules. If you stopping showing up/posting, I'll probably just remove your character from the story in some fashion. Not posting for extended lengths of time means submitting control of your character to me.

Also, there is a bit more info on character generation in the introduction bit. Sorry to scatter it, I guess I'm just a bit scatter-brained.

Also, please feel free to kind of have at it with the tech. Average technology on Senoa is about 30 years beyond earth's own. Phones and tablets are the norm and very thin, laptops are also very lightweight and the main form of personal computer. Most if not all cars and trucks are all-electric. Inter-planetary travel still has not occurred. Most rifles and large firearms are designed so there is a tank of chemical propellant and a tube of slugs loaded into them somewhere. Many pistols still use the cartridge and clip technology. Laser weapons exist but are not prevalent, and weapons in general have not had to advance very far, since war on Senoa is, in large part, a thing of the past.