Mortal+/Application Guidelines

These are the approval procedures for the Mortal / Mortal+ sphere on From Dusk Till Jawn.

Background Review

It is permissible for a background to be as short as a handful of bullet points as long as the following items are covered:

1. Basic Details:
   1. Where the character was born and grew up.
      1. What was their youth like?
      2. What was their family like?
   2. Where the character spent their adulthood.
      1. What went into their education?
      2. What has their career been like?
2. Status Details:
   1. How did your character acquire their status?
      1. Did they develop any rivals on the way up?
      2. How does your character try to use their influence?
   2. What are your character's ambitions with their status?
      1. Where do you want your character to end up?
      2. What are they willing to do to get there?
3. Supernatural Details:
   1. How did they discover their powers? How old were they at the time?
   2. How has having these powers changed their life? Do they view this as a blessing or a curse?
   3. What do they intend to do with their powers, now that they know about them?
   4. If you have selected a partial template such as The Plain or the Lost Boys, what is your character's relationship with their local group? How do they relate with the national organization, if there is one?

Sheet Review

1. Status in Civil Society is capped at one status area at 3, one status area at 2, and as many 1s as you like.
   1. No justification is required for Status up to 3 at character creation beyond the questions listed above.
2. Check the math on the sheet.
   1. Mortals receive 10 merits at character creation, not 7.
   2. 2.0 has flat costs.
   3. Check Willpower, Defense, Speed, and other such derived stats.
3. Review mundane equipment
   1. All custom mundane items must follow the custom item guide.
4. Aspirations
   1. Have one long term aspiration: Something it would take many scenes to accomplish.
   2. Have two short term aspirations: Things you can achieve in a single scene of RP.

Finishing Steps

1. A basic wiki is mandatory for approval.
2. Must have:
   1. Name (whatever name or names other characters will call them)
   2. Categories set for Mortal, Mortal+, any Status categories to which your character belongs, and any Half-Templates to which your character belongs, so the page populates in all the right places
   3. Please make sure you haven't copied the template from the NPC page -- that's only used for NPCs.
   4. Any easily-seen/understood/noticeable merits/effects (Striking Looks, Status, Giant, etc.)
   5. Brief description of your character's appearance, or pictures representing the same.
   6. 3 RP Hooks. They don't have to be much, but they should be SOMETHING for other players to say 'ahha, we can RP together because you sometimes hang out at Bob's Bar/you're from New York and I was once there'
3. If your PC has a Safe Place or Hollow, complete the Safe Place sheet located here.
4. Once the sheet is ready, make a copy of the sheet to the FDTJ Google account
5. Make sure you've received the 'approved' role on the Discord once staff have given you the all clear