faq & rules.

THE RULES
☠ Be kind. Respect each other's boundaries when RPing, especially when it comes to 18+ material.
☠ Be active. Activity checks are a requirement, and players must reply to it whenever they can. Should a player not be able to reply in a timely manner, a player may take a strike, which comes with penalties. See the FAQ for further details.
☠ Don't godmod. No one enjoys the company of a power-gamer. Please don't do this.
☠ Don't play with yourself. Playercest. We mean playercest, not the other thing.
☠ Be communicative. If there are problems arising between you and another player, please communicate with them respectfully about this. See the first rule.
☠ Talk to the mods. Given sufficient evidence, the mods reserve the right to remove and/or ban any players that have a history of bad rp behavior.
☠ Warn for content. Given the setting and premise of the game, mature content can't be entirely avoided. Make sure to warn for triggering material in your posts, to ensure that everyone has a good time.

THE FAQ
☠ ABOUT THE GAME.
☠ What is Warner Isle all about?
Warner Isle is an 18+ game set in a prison on an island surrounded by nothing but water as far as the eye can see. The game itself operates loosely on sci-fi and horror tropes to pin the setting down, but generally speaking, the characters that end up in Warner Isle stay on Warner Isle — whether or not they want to.
☠ So is the game sci-fi or horror?
Ideally, neither! The primary setting of the game is that it's on a prison, and characters get to explore exactly what that means for themselves. However, to dress up the setting and to give IC explanations for how characters can't just fly or swim away (in some cases literally) from the prison, certain elements from the sci-fi and horror genre have been adopted.
The sci-fi aspects are most prominent in the PERSONAL EFFECTS page, while the horror aspects will reveal themselves over time through entirely opt-in events.
☠ So what does my character do in this game, exactly?
The basic premise of Warner Isle is that your character has been selected to serve their time in the penitentiary, to atone for their past mistakes in life. How they got to the prison is a mystery; this may or may not be resolved ICly during the course of the game. Characters are given the option to serve out their time naturally, or to speed it up via "atonements", which will shave hours, days, or even years off their sentence.
☠ What are these atonements?
Atonements in the game's context are actions done by your character to earn additional good behavior from the penitentiary. Atonements can range from small deeds like making lanterns for the sick, or big deeds such as saving someone's life - or taking it, as one might have to do.
☠ Wait, what?
This is where the horror part of the tropes come in! On Warner Isle, good behavior isn't always good behavior.
☠ How would my character be brought into the game?
They were knocked out in their canon universe, and upon waking up they will find that they're on the ship SANTA MARIA, on the way to Warner Isle. Their personal effects will have been removed from them, leaving them only with their clothes. They will also be collared and cuffed, and any powers or special abilities they possess will no longer be active. After that, they will be brought to the warden, where they'll get stripped and embedded with a tracking chip.
More details on the technology aspect of their arrival can be found at the PERSONAL EFFECTS page.
☠ My character doesn't have a lot to atone for, but I would like to bring them to Warner Isle. Is there a workaround for that?
Yes! If there's a canon moment where your character has felt intense guilt (or just some form of guilt), they can be taken from that canon point and brought to the isle. The warden will simply inform them that they are now ready to atone for their mistakes under the warden's watchful eye.
☠ Is the warden an NPC?
Yes, if only in the sense that they'll routinely appear on the game logs to announce the atonements available for the characters to participate in. They can be reached through a character inbox HERE for whatever reason (IC complaints are definitely welcome), but please limit threads to once a month per character if possible. Threads with the NPC do not count for AC.
☠ Is interacting with the warden necessary to gain plot?
Not at all! Shooting the mods a PM or commenting to the OOC event plotting posts should be enough.
☠ Is there a network?
Not at the moment, no! All interactions are in person or through phonecalls (which are ICly monitored).
☠ APPLICATIONS & ACTIVITY.
☠ What characters can be brought to Warner Isle?
Canon characters, canon AU characters, and original characters. Fictionalized versions of real people can be apped as long as they are distinctly removed from the historical identity of the person (e.g. zombie hunter Jane Austen). CRAUs and fandom AUs aren't currently allowed.
☠ Would my character be humanized/given a different body?
They will be given a humanoid body if they're not already humanoid, but otherwise, characters get to keep the bodies they came with. This applies for android and alien characters as well.
☠ How many characters can I play in the game?
Each player has a limit of two characters. They may app two characters per round as well. Should a player want to apply for a third character, proof of activity from the previous two months will be required.
☠ How soon from the release of canon material can I app a character?
For characters from newly released canon, please refrain from applying for the first 30 days after the date of release. This applies across the board, and for canon updates as well.
☠ My character's already dead in their canon. Can I still app?
Yes! Characters may be brought in to Warner Isle from the moment of their death. Enjoy the unconventional afterlife!
☠ Is there a character age limit?
Due to the mature rating of the game, characters need to be at least 18 years old to be apped. Exceptions to this are on a case-by-case basis, so please contact us through comments on the FAQ or through PM.
Generally speaking, if a character presents as a non-human adult in terms of physical and emotional maturity, and is treated as an adult in the canon (e.g. android and artificial human/non-human characters), they would have a higher chance of being an exception. Outside of those circumstances, characters who are are shy of 18 years old at the desired canon point would still not be appable.
If in doubt about where a character falls under, please contact us directly.
☠ Are powers capped? What about weapons?
Yes, all powers are capped. Weapons are confiscated upon arrival and characters are likely not to get them back for a while. Characters who rely on magic or powers to survive may be given exceptions, but this is also on a case-by-case basis. Please contact us at any time!
☠ What's the game's activity check like?
— 10 in-person tags (spread over no more than 2 threads)
— 20 phone call tags (spread over no more than 2 threads)
— 5 in-person tags (1 thread) and 10 phone call tags (1 thread)
☠ I haven't met the activity requirements and AC's due, what do I do?
Players can take a strike once every three months without penalty. Players who choose to take more than strike in three months will be asked to drop a character. They won't be allowed to app the same character in the following app round as well.
☠ I'm on hiatus and can't post to the AC. Do I have a penalty?
Not at all! However, if we notice there's a pattern to a player's hiatuses versus their cleared activity, we may contact the player and ask them to consider dropping a character.
☠ Are there AC bonuses that we can claim for extra AC?
Yes! Item bonuses will be available through AC points, and there will be a list of items every activity check that players can claim for their characters. Each additional comment is equivalent to 1 AC point, and can be accumulated.
AC point summaries and item bonus claims must be submitted along with regular AC during the monthly AC period. Players on hiatus or taking a strike cannot claim AC bonuses, as they are not submitting regular AC.
☠ Will there be a warning list for AC?
No, there will not be. Activity check goes up every 1st of the month and runs until the 7th, (UTC). This will be regularly scheduled.
☠ OTHER INFORMATION.
☠ What are the game communities?
The game communities are warnerisle (game logs),
cellblock (OOC community), and
gangway (test drive community). Warner Isle doesn't have a network community as of this moment.
☠ Is there a mandatory HMD (How's My Driving)?
While there's no game-wide HMD, players are required to have HMDs on their character journals. We leave it up to the player how to format their comment settings.
☠ The prison looks too nice. Why is that?
ICly, Warner Isle Penitentiary aims to make each inmate's stay as comfortable as possible, leaving the torment up for their atonements. OOCly, we felt it prudent to avoid actual prison photos out of respect.
☠ I have a question that wasn't answered here.
Feel free to ask them in the comments below, and thank you for reading this far!
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Cameron here (Terminator), is quite strong, does not feel pain, cannot tire out / can run for...ever, probably, and she is able to mimick voices and sounds. Her vision also consists of a scanning system that is able to detail height, weight, and threat levels, among other things.
These are all due to her programming, and not any type of power, necessarily. I'm wondering what the difference would be for an android like this, in terms of limiting abilities? Would her futuristic, complex system simply be rewired?
Thanks in advance!
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Generally speaking, if a character presents as non-human and adult, and is treated as an adult in the canon (e.g. android and artificial human/non-human characters), they would have a higher chance of being an exception to the rule.
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Are characters allowed to keep them (with power/durability nerfs if necessary), would they receive prison-issued replacements that definitely don't have a mini-drill built in, or would they be forced to do without? Thanks!
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Would a character whose physical appearance/age differs from their real age? To be more specific: I'm thinking of a vampire who has been around over 200 years but has an appearance of 14 year old boy. The character is mentally more mature than normal teenager and capable of handling dark and gruesome events (well, he is a vampire) but also has tendency to act like childlike..? So uh, I suppose it could be said that he's in weird limbo of being both adult and child? Idk, if this makes sense.
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Nat here had a little radiation accident back in the day, which stripped her skin of pigmentation, making her super sensitive to natural light. This isn't a power so much as it is a condition. It's probably a stupid question, but I'm just wondering if this disease of hers would be kept upon arrival?
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Would the demon still be present, or would it be quieted/exorcised before she shows up at the prison? Or would it just be powered down the same way any other powers would be?
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edit: I lied I actually have another slightly more complicated question.
In D&D canon, elves have a couple racial traits, they can see in the dark, trance instead of sleep, and are resistant to being charmed w/ magic. Is this something that would be taken away like someone's powers or is it low impact enough that it could be kept?
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As for the skills listed specifically, the former two would be allowed but the latter third would be nerfed. It would depend on the skill and how much impact they would have individually.
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Also! Would such things as characters establishing black market operations be a doable thing in this setting?
Is there a commissary? If so, what sort of things can be purchased there? Would characters be working in the prison and earning prison wage to buy things? Or would it possibly be more along the lines of a bonus AC kind of deal?
Thanks, guys!
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As for black markets and commissaries, both exist in the game, and we'll leave it up to players on how they wish to establish the former and how they'd like to manage the latter ICly. OOCly, specific items can be registered for IC availability through AC bonuses or requests. We'll delve into the details once the game is up and running.
Thank you!
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secondly, will characters be told what the charges against them are?
thank you!
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Given that most OCs will also require some kind of world history along with personal history, how would the mods prefer this to be handled? I don't want to overwhelm the mods with info, but I also want to make sure to include the important stuff.
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also, i saw in a previous question that a species able to see in the dark can keep that ability, so will logan be allowed to keep his heightened senses? he sees/hears/smells/tastes/feels a lot better/more intensely than normal humans, but can't see in the dark or anything fancy like that.
thank you!
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Characters who have certain dietary needs - say, vampires! Will they be provided blood or will they need to seek out donors?
Thanks!