4.20 PERSONAL HISTORIES
Every character in Lusternia is given the capability to write a publically-viewable background and to keep his or her personal history up to date by writing regular 'chapters.' This background and the chapters must be written in-role, as they are there to be used as roleplay devices. In order to promote consistent roleplay, adhere to the instructions on composing your background. Once you've written your background, you can provide updates to your background by way of the aforementioned chapters. Ideally, reading a character's background and then reading the various historical chapters that the character has written will give one a sense of where the character is coming from, where he's been, and where he's going. Once again we must emphasize that this system is to be used _only_ for writing in-role history of your character. It's not to be used for any other purpose, and those using it for any other purpose will find they cannot use the system anymore. Syntax summary: (full explanations in the next section) -------------- COMPOSE BACKGROUND (** READ THE INSTRUCTIONS BELOW FIRST ** ) COMPOSE HISTORY COMPOSE HISTORY TITLE <chapter #> <title> VIEW BACKGROUND <player> VIEW HISTORY SUMMARY <player> VIEW HISTORY <chapter #> <player> SET HISTORY PUBLIC/ALLIES/PRIVATE Syntaxes: --------- COMPOSE BACKGROUND - Takes you into the Lusternian editor to compose your background. The command may be used to alter it after it has been written. - There's no need to write excessively long backgrounds. What you want to do is give your character some flavour and give yourself a framework to roleplay in. What you do not want to do is write histories that nobody will respect, because they are ridiculous. Don't write that you come from some far off land, as you don't. Don't write that you are the spawn of some demon, because you aren't. Keep it consistent with Lusternian history and consistent within itself. COMPOSE HISTORY - Takes you into the editor to compose a new chapter. - Unlike backgrounds, you may not edit these once saved. - Chapters are to be used only for the telling and explaining of personal history. They are not to be used to write whatever you feel like writing. COMPOSE HISTORY TITLE <chapter #> <title> - Assigns a title to a chapter. - The title may be multiple words long. The title may be changed as many times as you like. VIEW BACKGROUND <character> - Views a character's background. - Omit the character field to view your own background more easily. VIEW HISTORY SUMMARY <character> - Displays a summary of the chapters a character has written. - Omit the character field to view your own summary more easily. VIEW HISTORY <chapter> <character> - Displays the specified chapter of the specified character. - Omit the character field to view your own chapters more easily. SET HISTORY PUBLIC/ALLIES/PRIVATE - Sets your background and chapters viewable by everyone, only your allies or no one. The only exceptions are that the most powerful Gods, such as Estarra, can always read them.
