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Also contains notes and rulings and stuff!\n\n[b]Index[/b]\n[url=https://inkbunny.net/s/3539887]1 - First Prompt (Cubs)[/url]\n[url=https://inkbunny.net/s/3539910]1 - First Prompt (Predators)[/url]\n[url=https://inkbunny.net/s/3542468]2 - Second Prompt/First Challenge[/url]\n[url=https://inkbunny.net/s/3544745]3 - Third Prompt (Elimination 0)[/url]\n[url=https://inkbunny.net/s/3549156]4 - Fourth Prompt/Second Challenge[/url]\n[url=https://inkbunny.net/s/3551044]5 - Fifth Prompt/End of Week 2[/url]\n[url=https://inkbunny.net/s/3555431]6 - Sixth Prompt/Third Challenge[/url]\n[url=https://inkbunny.net/s/3557071]7 - Seventh Prompt (Elimination 1)[/url]\n[url=https://inkbunny.net/s/3561135]8 - Eighth Prompt/Fourth Challenge[/url]\n[url=https://inkbunny.net/s/3562753]9 - Ninth Prompt (Elimination 2)[/url]\n[url=https://inkbunny.net/s/3572593]10 - Tenth Prompt/Fifth Challenge[/url]\n[url=https://inkbunny.net/s/3574133]11 - Eleventh Prompt (Elimination 3)[/url]\n[url=https://inkbunny.net/s/3578101]12 - Twelfth Prompt/Sixth Challenge[/url]\n[url=https://inkbunny.net/s/3579649]13 - Thirteenth Prompt (Elimination 4)[/url]\n[url=https://inkbunny.net/s/3589246]14.1 - Fourteenth Prompt/Seventh Challenge[/url]\n[url=https://inkbunny.net/s/3594927]14.2 - Fourteenth Prompt(Second Half)[/url]\n[url=https://inkbunny.net/s/3601682]15 - Fifteenth Prompt (Elimination 5)[/url]\n[url=https://inkbunny.net/s/3615572]16 - Sixteenth Prompt/Eighth Challenge[/url]\n[url=https://inkbunny.net/s/3627430]17 - Seventeenth Prompt (Elimination 6)[/url]\n[url=https://inkbunny.net/s/3639870]18 - Eighteenth Prompt/Ninth Challenge[/url]\n[url=https://inkbunny.net/s/3647746]19 - Nineteenth Prompt (Elimination 7)[/url]\n\n[url=https://inkbunny.net/s/3533964#commentid_8955385]Prey Character Sheets[/url]\n[url=https://inkbunny.net/s/3533991#commentid_8955413]Predator Character Sheets[/url]\n\n[u][b]Premise[/b][/u]\nLabyrinth of Twilight will be the next feature of the critically acclaimed full-dive MMORPG, [i]Chains of Serenity[/i]! As a part of the coming anniversary celebrations, a selection of promising young players have been surprised with the opportunity to try out the game's new, dynamic, level-agnostic dungeon crawling mode!\n\nOr that's what they're being told, at any rate.\n\nIn reality, they've been secretly stolen from the game world proper, and locked into this new 'feature' that's going to eliminate them one by one through a series of challenges for the discrete entertainment of wealthy individuals. The best part? The diabolical publisher's board of producers get to decide when lethal injury will actually be lethal. So permadeath? That's going to be at the pleasure of the baddies to whom eliminees will be handed over.\n\nAnd as for how and why your cub might have been playing a full-dive MMORPG? Well, that's up to you, but here are a few suggestions for both veteran players and total newbies alike:\n- Regular player, logged in as usual!\n- Newbie player, just got their hands on the game and the gear to play it!\n- Borrowing headset and access from a friend who insisted you'd enjoy this 'CoS' game they won't shut up about!\n- Lured into trying it out by a cutely dressed marketing rep' in a booth at the mall!\n- Considered cute enough to be grabbed off the street by a roving procurement gang, bundled into a van, and had a headset jammed over your head!\n\nMeanwhile Predators/Baddies [i]will[/i] have some idea what they are signing up for. As for why your character might be signing up to play a Predator? Here are some ideas for you, too:\n- Drew the publishers' attention due to numerous reports of toxic and dangerous behavior whilst playing the normal game\n- Scouted from an appropriate community, online or offline, underground or otherwise\n- Offered a place as a reward for contributions to the publishers' company\n\n\nSo, here are the details of how this is going to work!\n\n[u][b]Weekly Format:[/b][/u]\nSunday: This is when Eliminations will be announced, once they start happening. Once announced, the unfortunate eliminee and their assigned baddie will have until last thing Saturday to complete their scene and submit what they have for showing, incomplete or otherwise.\nThere will be a few things to respond to, after which everyone can freeplay until Friday while the elimination is played out separately. Everyone will also be able to begin sending their votes and other covert actions(if any) to me by PM.\n\n[b]Sunday > Tuesday:[/b]\nOnce Sunday's big post is out, everyone will be free to roleplay in the comments below it. Predator characters will have their own journal post to freeplay amongst themselves - hope they do! Commenting on the shown elimination, comparing notes, whatever! - unless otherwise specified.\nIn the meantime, I will determine the results of the week's challenge.\n\n[b]Wednesday:[/b]\nThis will be the last day I will aim to accept actions that might influence the outcome of the upcoming challenge. After that, I'll see what I can do but probably won't be able to accept any actions. It's also the day by which I will try to ask for everyone's input, if it's required.\n\n[b]Thursday:[/b]\nMore freeplay space!\n\n[b]Friday > Saturday:[/b]\nChallenge results will be posted for everyone to respond to, and will be the last day for votes and actions to influence the coming Elimination.\n\nI'm not as experienced at running something like this, but I'll do my best to keep to this schedule and will inform if anything goes out of kilter and I need to delay!\n\n[u][b]Mechanics:[/b][/u]\nEven if you're familiar with MystBunny's Nightmare Elementary, please [b]read this part[/b] as Labyrinth of Twilight will differ from that previous journal game in a number of ways!\n\nThe basic order of events will go Voting > Freeplay > Challenge > Elimination > Repeat.\n\n[b]Life Points:[/b]\nEach character is going to have a set number of Life Points. A character's starting Life Points will be equal to the total number of players, unless the turnout makes it looks like that will end up making things boring.\nEach challenge will erode one Life Point, although characters' performance in the challenges might influence this number for better or worse.\n\n[b]Elimination:[/b]\nEach week, whoever has the lowest LP will be eliminated from the game and handed off to their paired pred/baddie. HOWEVER…\n\n[b]Voting:[/b]\nParticipants will have to vote on two occasions each time! The first will, of course, influence who gets eliminated - [b]BUT[/b] - you won't be voting for who you want gone, you'll be voting for [b]who you want to save[/b]. Each vote will temporarily enhance the receiver's LP by +1 until the Elimination has been decided. Obviously no voting for yourself, and unspent votes will be assigned at random.\nThe second vote is a less important one, to choose the forthcoming challenge based on (very)limited clues..\n\n[b]Challenges:[/b]\nBecause of the journal format, it won't be possible for players to directly participate in the challenges. Instead, each week I will roll for how everyone performs in a given challenge based on their skill choices, and then present the results. Everyone will then be free to respond to the results as they wish in the comments below!\n\n[b]Boons/Maluses:[/b]\nBetween challenges, there may be opportunities to acquire beneficial items and effects… or negative ones. These may have rules around how they can be obtained, who they can be used on, etc.\n\n[b]Freeplay:[/b]\nThis one's probably self-evident, but just to be clear: please, by all means, feel free to roleplay between my own journal posts! I will do my best to give you clear context to do so each time. You can play either in the indicated space in the comments below journals, or you can do so in private (and post logs if you want!) so long as any consequences are within the rules of the game.\n\n[b]Audience/Non-Player Participation[/b]\n... is welcome! I'll add a placeholder where possible, under which people will be free to post in-character comments based on the idea this is being broadcast to various interested parties in various (presumably clandestine) ways. Maybe it's leaking into the under-net through one of the rich, paying primary viewers or something! But either way that means potentially writing your character watching the event, or maybe writing in fan-mail or the like. In something like the latter case I'll try to find opportunity to integrate it, where possible: telling the participants they have mail, for instance.\n\nJust understand that such messages will almost never be able to influence any of the various outcomes, and I [i]will[/i] be removing anything that proves disruptive.\n\n[b]Finale:[/b]\nThis is a little bit TBD based on how things have gone along the way. Ideally? An open vote for the best predator, who will get first dibs on the 'winning' participant, followed by all the other predators' getting a go within the winning predator's rules, and then the winning predator will decide how things end. If necessary, however, the plan may need to be adjusted to account for how things have gone with the game up to this point.\n\n\n[b]Skills:[/b]\nNow for the bit I really [i]am[/i] mostly cribbing from Myst!\n\nTo be successful in a roll during a challenge, you will need to roll 4 or higher. Rolling a 1 will be a particularly bad failure.\n\nBy default, from the list below, you may choose:\n\n- 1 skill to be your Specialty skill (rolls a d10)\n- 2 skills to be your Favored skills (rolls a d8)\n- 3 skills to be your Normal skills (rolls a d6)\n\n- the remaining will be Unskilled (rolls a d4)\n\nYou may also choose to give your character Weaknesses, keeping in mind that any challenge that requires checks on weakness skills will be near impossible to win. Highly recommend not making \"Following Instructions\" a weakness, as that comes into play at least once in most challenges. Having Weakness skills at all is not required.\n\nHere is what you can do by adding weaknesses:\n1 weakness --> +1 Normal skill\n\n2 weaknesses --> +1 Favored skill OR +2 Normal skills\n\n3 weaknesses --> +1 Specialty skill\n OR +1 Favored skill and +1 Normal skill\n \t OR +3 Normal skills\n\n\nFinally here are the skills to choose from:\n\n[b]Running[/b] --------------------- (How fast you can cover a given distance)\n[b]Swimming[/b] ------------------ (The strength and speed with which you can move through \n liquids)\n[b]Smelling[/b] --------------------- (Finding and identifying scents)\n[b]Puzzle Solving[/b] ------------- (Making things fit)\n[b]Strength[/b] --------------------- (Ability to lift, pull, etc)\n[b]Pain Tolerance[/b] ------------ (Not how little pain you feel, but how long\n \t you can keep your composure or remain standing\n \t while in pain)\n[b]Balance[/b] --------------------- (Staying upright when gravity has other ideas)\n[b]Energy[/b] ----------------------- (How long you can go before getting tired)\n[b]Aim[/b] --------------------------- (Making one thing strike another where you want it to)\n[b]Following Instructions[/b] - (Comes into play in almost every challenge)\n[b]Will[/b] --------------------------- (Nerve holding)\n\nCLOAKED SKILLS:\n[b]Stealth[/b] ----------------------- (Sabotaging another player)\n[b]Perception[/b] ----------------- (Catching someone trying to sabotage you)\n[b]Deduction[/b] ------------------ (Figuring out who sabotaged you)\nThese cloaked skills are [b]not[/b] to be included in your character application/sheet. Instead, PM me with your choices. Select one skill to be Favored, one to be Normal, and one to be Unskilled. Weaknesses do not apply to cloaked skills.\n\n\n[b]Roleplay Rules[/b]\nFirst of all, again, please be aware that this is going to be about [b]Bad Ends[/b]. In all likelihood terrible things are going to happen to characters and survival is not particularly likely either. Of course, whether the Bad End is genuinely permanent for your character, or just part of this continuity bubble, is entirely up to you.\n\nSecond, despite the full-dive VR game premise and the 5-15 age range, we are still shooting for cub-realistic consequences: So decrees the Board of Producers. So, just like Nightmare Elementary, no infinitely stretchy orifices, injuries outside the challenges won't be healing anything but normally, and there aren't going to be any abilities beyond the normal such as magic powers or orgasmic pleasure from vicious rape and torture.\n\nThat said, [i]some[/i] flexibility on these rules will obviously be necessary, but this is a nonconsensual-themed, mostly realistic horror-type affair. As such, while I welcome leaning into the virtual fantasy aesthetic, I'll weigh in if I feel things have gone from playing to and enhancing the setting, to leaning into silliness.\n\nFor the same reason, there won't be any macro or micro characters or associated themes. Obviously though, if you have a character that has any of those features, you're more than welcome to participate with a 'normalized' version for the purposes of this one game!\n\n[b]On Consent[/b]\nDuring sign-up, you will be able to declare up to three themes that absolutely must not happen to your character (excluding non-con and potentially death. If [i]those[/i] are themes you don't want anything to do with even by separate-continuity implication, it really is not a good idea signing up!)\n \nAdditionally, prey players may state what sort of fate they would ideally like their character to meet if they are eliminated, which will guide match-making and ideally the direction taken by the predator/s. \n \nThat said, predators will very likely be leading their scenes. While you obviously won't be forced to play out something you're not comfortable with and have the right to fade-to-black a scene or even your involvement where issues can't be resolved, please try to negotiate a scene you can both agree with playing out instead. I'll do my best to account for anyone who just wants to [i]go[/i], but not getting a proper ending to your storyline would just be sad all-round.\n\n\n[b]Sign-Ups [u]were[/u] available in the following two submissions for Prey and Predator characters:[/b]\n[url=https://inkbunny.net/s/3533964][u][b]Prey Sign-Ups[/b][/u]: https://inkbunny.net/s/3533964[/url]\n[url=https://inkbunny.net/s/3533991][u][b]Predator Sign-Ups[/b][/u]: https://inkbunny.net/s/3533991[/url]\n[b]Sign-ups are now [u]closed[/u][/b]\n\nIdeally, I will [b]not[/b] be allowing individual players to play both Prey and Predator characters. However, in the event we have a shortage, I may begin to make exceptions. As such, if you wish to submit a character for both roles you may do so, as long as you make it clear which is your preference.\n\nIf you have any questions, please feel free to ask using comments in [url=https://inkbunny.net/j/544574][b]this journal[/b]: https://inkbunny.net/j/544574[/url] - I have locked comments here to make this post easier to use as a reference.\n\n[center][b][u] [/u][/b][/center]\n[right][url=https://inkbunny.net/s/3539887]to the first prompt --->[/url][/right]", "description_bbcode_parsed": "Labyrinth of Twilight: Details

On F-list - https://www.f-list.net/c/twilight%20labyrinth
Possibly easier to read. Also contains notes and rulings and stuff!

Index
1 - First Prompt (Cubs)
1 - First Prompt (Predators)
2 - Second Prompt/First Challenge
3 - Third Prompt (Elimination 0)
4 - Fourth Prompt/Second Challenge
5 - Fifth Prompt/End of Week 2
6 - Sixth Prompt/Third Challenge
7 - Seventh Prompt (Elimination 1)
8 - Eighth Prompt/Fourth Challenge
9 - Ninth Prompt (Elimination 2)
10 - Tenth Prompt/Fifth Challenge
11 - Eleventh Prompt (Elimination 3)
12 - Twelfth Prompt/Sixth Challenge
13 - Thirteenth Prompt (Elimination 4)
14.1 - Fourteenth Prompt/Seventh Challenge
14.2 - Fourteenth Prompt(Second Half)
15 - Fifteenth Prompt (Elimination 5)
16 - Sixteenth Prompt/Eighth Challenge
17 - Seventeenth Prompt (Elimination 6)
18 - Eighteenth Prompt/Ninth Challenge
19 - Nineteenth Prompt (Elimination 7)

Prey Character Sheets
Predator Character Sheets

Premise
Labyrinth of Twilight will be the next feature of the critically acclaimed full-dive MMORPG, Chains of Serenity! As a part of the coming anniversary celebrations, a selection of promising young players have been surprised with the opportunity to try out the game's new, dynamic, level-agnostic dungeon crawling mode!

Or that's what they're being told, at any rate.

In reality, they've been secretly stolen from the game world proper, and locked into this new 'feature' that's going to eliminate them one by one through a series of challenges for the discrete entertainment of wealthy individuals. The best part? The diabolical publisher's board of producers get to decide when lethal injury will actually be lethal. So permadeath? That's going to be at the pleasure of the baddies to whom eliminees will be handed over.

And as for how and why your cub might have been playing a full-dive MMORPG?  Well, that's up to you, but here are a few suggestions for both veteran players and total newbies alike:
- Regular player, logged in as usual!
- Newbie player, just got their hands on the game and the gear to play it!
- Borrowing headset and access from a friend who insisted you'd enjoy this 'CoS' game they won't shut up about!
- Lured into trying it out by a cutely dressed marketing rep' in a booth at the mall!
- Considered cute enough to be grabbed off the street by a roving procurement gang, bundled into a van, and had a headset jammed over your head!

Meanwhile Predators/Baddies will have some idea what they are signing up for. As for why your character might be signing up to play a Predator? Here are some ideas for you, too:
- Drew the publishers' attention due to numerous reports of toxic and dangerous behavior whilst playing the normal game
- Scouted from an appropriate community, online or offline, underground or otherwise
- Offered a place as a reward for contributions to the publishers' company


So, here are the details of how this is going to work!

Weekly Format:
Sunday: This is when Eliminations will be announced, once they start happening. Once announced, the unfortunate eliminee and their assigned baddie will have until last thing Saturday to complete their scene and submit what they have for showing, incomplete or otherwise.
There will be a few things to respond to, after which everyone can freeplay until Friday while the elimination is played out separately. Everyone will also be able to begin sending their votes and other covert actions(if any) to me by PM.

Sunday > Tuesday:
Once Sunday's big post is out, everyone will be free to roleplay in the comments below it. Predator characters will have their own journal post to freeplay amongst themselves - hope they do! Commenting on the shown elimination, comparing notes, whatever! - unless otherwise specified.
In the meantime, I will determine the results of the week's challenge.

Wednesday:
This will be the last day I will aim to accept actions that might influence the outcome of the upcoming challenge. After that, I'll see what I can do but probably won't be able to accept any actions. It's also the day by which I will try to ask for everyone's input, if it's required.

Thursday:
More freeplay space!

Friday > Saturday:
Challenge results will be posted for everyone to respond to, and will be the last day for votes and actions to influence the coming Elimination.

I'm not as experienced at running something like this, but I'll do my best to keep to this schedule and will inform if anything goes out of kilter and I need to delay!

Mechanics:
Even if you're familiar with MystBunny's Nightmare Elementary, please read this part as Labyrinth of Twilight will differ from that previous journal game in a number of ways!

The basic order of events will go Voting > Freeplay > Challenge > Elimination > Repeat.

Life Points:
Each character is going to have a set number of Life Points. A character's starting Life Points will be equal to the total number of players, unless the turnout makes it looks like that will end up making things boring.
Each challenge will erode one Life Point, although characters' performance in the challenges might influence this number for better or worse.

Elimination:
Each week, whoever has the lowest LP will be eliminated from the game and handed off to their paired pred/baddie. HOWEVER…

Voting:
Participants will have to vote on two occasions each time! The first will, of course, influence who gets eliminated - BUT - you won't be voting for who you want gone, you'll be voting for who you want to save. Each vote will temporarily enhance the receiver's LP by +1 until the Elimination has been decided. Obviously no voting for yourself, and unspent votes will be assigned at random.
The second vote is a less important one, to choose the forthcoming challenge based on (very)limited clues..

Challenges:
Because of the journal format, it won't be possible for players to directly participate in the challenges. Instead, each week I will roll for how everyone performs in a given challenge based on their skill choices, and then present the results. Everyone will then be free to respond to the results as they wish in the comments below!

Boons/Maluses:
Between challenges, there may be opportunities to acquire beneficial items and effects… or negative ones. These may have rules around how they can be obtained, who they can be used on, etc.

Freeplay:
This one's probably self-evident, but just to be clear: please, by all means, feel free to roleplay between my own journal posts! I will do my best to give you clear context to do so each time. You can play either in the indicated space in the comments below journals, or you can do so in private (and post logs if you want!) so long as any consequences are within the rules of the game.

Audience/Non-Player Participation
... is welcome! I'll add a placeholder where possible, under which people will be free to post in-character comments based on the idea this is being broadcast to various interested parties in various (presumably clandestine) ways. Maybe it's leaking into the under-net through one of the rich, paying primary viewers or something! But either way that means potentially writing your character watching the event, or maybe writing in fan-mail or the like. In something like the latter case I'll try to find opportunity to integrate it, where possible: telling the participants they have mail, for instance.

Just understand that such messages will almost never be able to influence any of the various outcomes, and I will be removing anything that proves disruptive.

Finale:
This is a little bit TBD based on how things have gone along the way. Ideally? An open vote for the best predator, who will get first dibs on the 'winning' participant, followed by all the other predators' getting a go within the winning predator's rules, and then the winning predator will decide how things end. If necessary, however, the plan may need to be adjusted to account for how things have gone with the game up to this point.


Skills:
Now for the bit I really am mostly cribbing from Myst!

To be successful in a roll during a challenge, you will need to roll 4 or higher.  Rolling a 1 will be a particularly bad failure.

By default, from the list below, you may choose:

- 1 skill to be your Specialty skill (rolls a d10)
- 2 skills to be your Favored skills (rolls a d8)
- 3 skills to be your Normal skills (rolls a d6)

- the remaining will be Unskilled (rolls a d4)

You may also choose to give your character Weaknesses, keeping in mind that any challenge that requires checks on weakness skills will be near impossible to win. Highly recommend not making "Following Instructions" a weakness, as that comes into play at least once in most challenges. Having Weakness skills at all is not required.

Here is what you can do by adding weaknesses:
1 weakness   --> +1 Normal skill

2 weaknesses --> +1 Favored skill OR +2 Normal skills

3 weaknesses --> +1 Specialty skill
                       OR +1 Favored skill and +1 Normal skill
           \t            OR +3 Normal skills


Finally here are the skills to choose from:

Running --------------------- (How fast you can cover a given distance)
Swimming ------------------ (The strength and speed with which you can move through  
                                           liquids)
Smelling --------------------- (Finding and identifying scents)
Puzzle Solving ------------- (Making things fit)
Strength --------------------- (Ability to lift, pull, etc)
Pain Tolerance ------------ (Not how little pain you feel, but how long
               \t                           you can keep your composure or remain standing
               \t                           while in pain)
Balance --------------------- (Staying upright when gravity has other ideas)
Energy ----------------------- (How long you can go before getting tired)
Aim --------------------------- (Making one thing strike another where you want it to)
Following Instructions - (Comes into play in almost every challenge)
Will --------------------------- (Nerve holding)

CLOAKED SKILLS:
Stealth ----------------------- (Sabotaging another player)
Perception ----------------- (Catching someone trying to sabotage you)
Deduction ------------------ (Figuring out who sabotaged you)
These cloaked skills are not to be included in your character application/sheet. Instead, PM me with your choices. Select one skill to be Favored, one to be Normal, and one to be Unskilled. Weaknesses do not apply to cloaked skills.


Roleplay Rules
First of all, again, please be aware that this is going to be about Bad Ends. In all likelihood terrible things are going to happen to characters and survival is not particularly likely either. Of course, whether the Bad End is genuinely permanent for your character, or just part of this continuity bubble, is entirely up to you.

Second, despite the full-dive VR game premise and the 5-15 age range, we are still shooting for cub-realistic consequences: So decrees the Board of Producers. So, just like Nightmare Elementary, no infinitely stretchy orifices, injuries outside the challenges won't be healing anything but normally, and there aren't going to be any abilities beyond the normal such as magic powers or orgasmic pleasure from vicious rape and torture.

That said, some flexibility on these rules will obviously be necessary, but this is a nonconsensual-themed, mostly realistic horror-type affair. As such, while I welcome leaning into the virtual fantasy aesthetic, I'll weigh in if I feel things have gone from playing to and enhancing the setting, to leaning into silliness.

For the same reason, there won't be any macro or micro characters or associated themes. Obviously though, if you have a character that has any of those features, you're more than welcome to participate with a 'normalized' version for the purposes of this one game!

On Consent
During sign-up, you will be able to declare up to three themes that absolutely must not happen to your character (excluding non-con and potentially death. If those are themes you don't want anything to do with even by separate-continuity implication, it really is not a good idea signing up!)
 
Additionally, prey players may state what sort of fate they would ideally like their character to meet if they are eliminated, which will guide match-making and ideally the direction taken by the predator/s.
 
That said, predators will very likely be leading their scenes. While you obviously won't be forced to play out something you're not comfortable with and have the right to fade-to-black a scene or even your involvement where issues can't be resolved, please try to negotiate a scene you can both agree with playing out instead. I'll do my best to account for anyone who just wants to go, but not getting a proper ending to your storyline would just be sad all-round.


Sign-Ups were available in the following two submissions for Prey and Predator characters:
Prey Sign-Ups: https://inkbunny.net/s/3533964
Predator Sign-Ups: https://inkbunny.net/s/3533991
Sign-ups are now closed

Ideally, I will not be allowing individual players to play both Prey and Predator characters.  However, in the event we have a shortage, I may begin to make exceptions.  As such, if you wish to submit a character for both roles you may do so, as long as you make it clear which is your preference.

If you have any questions, please feel free to ask using comments in this journal: https://inkbunny.net/j/544574 - I have locked comments here to make this post easier to use as a reference.

                                                                                                                                                      

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