General Questions

Generally speaking, unless there's unforeseen circumstances, we get back to applicants within 24 hours. If we have not got back to you and it's been a few days, it's possible we haven't received it, and will need it resent, or we'll need someone to comment on the character page to ask us to go check our spam folder. Sometimes things get tossed there for unknown reasons.

Note: Everyone will get responded to. No one will be ignored!

We do not have a set time scale for this. What we ask is for you to establish your current character within the game before applying for another, or if you currently have multiple characters in the game, that you show that you are consistently active with all of these before bringing another in. We have left the time scale flexible on this because we recognise that players are all very different - some players may establish their character(s) within a very short period of time, other may take longer.

That means you need to be 18 to play. This is because graphic violence and other mature situations are allowed in game. They are required to be put behind a cut, but they are permitted.

Something to keep in mind, however, is while we do in fact allow sex scenes in game and find absolutely nothing wrong with them, if that is all you are doing you may be asked to leave the game. There are other roleplays out there that are specifically for smut only, but this isn't one of them.

No – you have to be 18 to play. Sorry, there’s no getting around this rule. This is not a reflection on you – we have nothing against you and we’re not making any judgment on your ability to write or roleplay. This is about legality and the bottom line is that this game deals with adult situations, played out by adult players. And if an adult player is playing adult situations with a person below the age of consent? That is a crime. We will not expose any of our players to the risk of finding themselves on a sex offenders register somewhere.

We are an original character game. Please don't attempt to join with a fandom character of any description, no matter how minor they were in said fandom. If we find out a character has been taken in that's fandom specific, that character will be removed. Also, just to save everyone's sanity--try not to go for a character that isn't exact canon, but is just like canon. If we can see similarities and there are too many, you will be asked to edit or may be flat out rejected. Be original!

All characters in the game must have at least three weaknesses. This is to ensure that characters are well balanced and, at the end of the day, flaws and weaknesses can really make a character interesting. Nobody's perfect.

We recognise that it can be hard to come up with three weaknesses that fit your character concept and which are interesting and original to play. Which is why we have come up with this handy reference guide to help you out! Your character weaknesses do not have to come from this list, it is simply there as an aid and if you wish to come up with your own, feel free!

That's alright, we do all styles here, so you can do whichever you're more comfortable with. Some of our players play via a messenger such as AIM, but also, many of our players are happy to do scenes by email, GoogleDocs, or private message, to be posted when you finish. It should be noted, however that you are expected to interact with others. If you aren't comfortable on AIM, gtalk or our chat, then you need to be active in the OOC community or email, so that you can still connect with other players.

Everyone at times has problems with other players. No one's perfect! If speaking to them does not work or you are too uncomfortable to talk to them about things, please contact a mod. Do not let things go and let problems go unattended. Chances are if someone is doing something with you, they are doing it with other players as well. We as mods are very wary against abusive types of players--we do not want it in our game period. However, we can't guard against it if we do not know it is happening.

Obvious errors, from grammar, spelling, and format; or a blatant disregard of the rules in any way. For example, if you're underage. We will not make exceptions. If you have sections of your application that are not filled out with the requirements we have, you're going to get rejected. We try to state clearly our requirements in the application, and expect them to be followed.

The probationary period was brought in because we recognise that not everybody apps well. Having a probationary period means that we can have some discretion when we receive a borderline application which we would otherwise feel we had to reject. It gives players a chance to really show what they can do. Conversely, we also know that someone's application is not and can never be a reflection of how they will mesh within a game.

The out of character community is locked so only members of it can see it. This is the same for the contact list. It is to guard against random people IMing players, stalking, etc. Once approved, you will be able to see all of these things when you're logged in. You will also have access to the chat once you have an approved account.

Yes you can, contact us at eidoloncity@gmail.com

Also, if you have game-related questions (for example, you want something from the information clarified), you can submit you question here. The benefit of this is that when we answer your question there, it gets added to the FAQs - generally, if you're not clear on something, other people are confused as well, so you'll be helping the entire community out - as well as saving us having to answer the same question over and over!

Each post should be headed as follows:-
Who: [Characters involved in the scene]
Where: [Location(s) of scene]
When: [Time of day]

Don't forget, NC-17 scenes MUST have a rating warning added. NSFW works best, and please don't put in the description what it is that's in the scene that needs the rating--those words will get picked up by filters as well!

Also keep in mind that open scenes must be marked as open. If they do not say they are open, consider them closed and unable to be tagged on.

- Nobody likes their open scene going ignored. So if there's already several open scenes that haven't been taken that game-day? See if it's possible to take one of those instead of putting up a new one of your own – unless there's something you need to do at a specific time or location, of course. :)

There are two tags that will need to be put onto posts. First of all, there's the characters. What this is, is a listing of the characters in the scene. The character names should be put in only in lower case, and only using their commonly used first name. For example, if a character's name is David, but they go by Dave, you would put 'dave' in the character tag list. For characters scenes with more than one character, it will be listed in two ways. Both characters names will be listed separately, as well as listed as a pairing. This pairing needs to be listed alphabetically.

We recognise that people have lives (amazing, isn't it?) and can't always get scenes done exactly when they need to be done. To aid this, we've slowed time down for the game. Each new game day is heralded by a mod post in the comm detailing the date, the weather and any events happening that day, so you know where you are.

Check the list of taken PBs before applying. All pbs must be within 5 years of age of your character's apparent age. We will not accept a pb for a 16 year old character who's in their thirties. Or even late twenties. Now, what is acceptable is using age-appropriate pictures of a pb. Some people have been around for just that long, and there are images available when they were an appropriate age. If you use those? You're all good. But we will try and keep an eye on things, so please don't start with pictures of them at the right age, then replace them with older ones.

No. And no. Did we mention no? There's a lot of no going on here. If you're looking for a teenager pb, or close to: here you go! There's over a hundred posts there, males and females alike. Same for other types of PBs - there's thousands of different people at Hollow Art, and a great search function to help you find what you're looking for! If you need further help any other pb: Try Here.