New Player's Guide

First of all, welcome to From Dusk Till Jawn! This game is an Internet-based role-playing game using the rules and setting from Onyx Path Publishing's Chronicles of Darkness books, set in a fictional version of Philadelphia. We support the Chronicles of Darkness 2.0. The game is using INSERT CHAT INFORMATION HERE. The purpose of this guide is to provide a high-level overview for new players. From the following sections of this guide, readers may then proceed to other pages which provide greater detail.

Getting Connected

This section provides basic information pertaining to the game server such as how to connect, what clients work, basic info on MU*s in general. From here a reader may continue on to learn more about the operating environment of the server.

Game Systems

The Game System section deals with the mechanics/rules utilized by From Dusk Till Jawn. Further information regarding the various player spheres (Changeling, Second Sight and Mortal at the moment), unique rules created by players and staff, and other stuff that deals with the characters you'll play within the game.

Game Setting

The Game Setting section deals with Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where the game is set. Further information regarding the city itself, how it appears and the people who live here, the customs and society, and other stuff that describes the place you will inhabit.

Basic FAQs

As the section's title implies, this area attempts to answer some basic questions regarding the game. Links can be found that take the reader to more specific FAQs such as those related to various spheres and rules.

Getting Connected

INSERT CHAT CONNECTION INFORMATION HERE.

Our game is a text-based, multi-user game on the internet which allows players to connect to the same environment and interact with other players. Typically, this interaction is roleplaying. The staff and admins of FDTJ began in the MUSH or "Multi-User Shared Hallucination" community of telnet-based games, but we have made the decision to move to a web-based chat to be more accessible to a wider selection of players.

The possibilities of a chat-based game are endless and only limited by what the imagination of the players and staff can create within the theme and setting of the game.

Game Systems

We can't know when humans first started telling stories, or why. But it's a safe bet that the first tale tellers used their craft to explain the mysteries going on around them. Indeed, some of the most ancient stories that are still told today grapple with the biggest mysteries of all — life, death, creation, redemption and the ongoing struggle of good versus evil. The Chronicles Of Darkness is a Storytelling game, because it's an opportunity for you to participate in the deeply human endeavor of telling stories.

The stories told in this game are set in the World of Darkness. It's a place very much like our world, sharing the same history, culture and geography. Superficially, most people in this fictional world live the same lives we do. They eat the same food, wear the same clothes, and waste time watching the same stupid TV shows. And yet, in the World of Darkness, shadows are deeper, nights are darker, fog is thicker. If, in our world, a neighborhood has a rundown house that gives people the creeps, in the World of Darkness, that house emits strange sighs on certain nights of the year, and seems to have a human face when seen from the corner of one's eye. Or so some neighbors say. In our world, there are urban legends. In the World of Darkness, there are urban legends whispered into the ears of autistic children by invisible spiders.

• Chronicles of Darkness, God Machine Update
• Changeling: the Lost

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Game Setting

Where: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

When: Present Day

The Main Page has a series of links just below the header which will lead you to information about the setting.

Basic FAQs

What is the language/behavior rating of the server?

This game will explore themes that are not suitable for children and young people. By signing in to this game you are confirming that you are at least 18 years of age. The staff of the game are not responsible for verifying this fact and reserve the right to remove characters from those of any age who seem unable to cope with the mature setting. Because this is a mature environment we expect staff and players to behave in a polite and cooperative manner with each other at all times. All characters must be, act, and appear to be 18+ years of age at all times.

Are you open?

Not yet! We will be soon. We will support Changelings, Mortal, and Mortal+ characters at opening. Other books may be supported when we have the staff to support them. Interested in helping us out? Contact a staffer!

Are there House Rules?

Yes, and all are collected on the Rules page, gathered by sphere.

What's the Character Creation process?

The game server follows the Character Creation process from the CofD Core book, taking you to the point just prior to adding a supernatural template. The actual process within the game roughly goes as follows:

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Our thanks to Haunted Memories, from whose excellent documentation we have borrowed a framework for some of ours.