If your thread isn't enrolled within a week, just post quote lizbot!
NOTE: You should ONLY post in this thread if you've been told to post by a member of TiH staff! (IE: You have earned a character through a win, custom, etc!)
ARE YOU GETTING A TiH CHARACTER?*
*meaning a member of TiH staff has directed you to post here, because you either won a pre-made TiH character or your quest character is going to be made official? If not, see the above note please.
Congratulations! Please post your soon-to-be-official character in this thread, so that a TiH admin can look over your character and accept them to Amityville, Deus Ex Machina, or the Lost Clan Reserve. If you haven't already created a quest/character profile thread in this forum, you must do so before posting here! Also, make sure your character is completely ready to be reviewed by TiH staff before you post.
When you post, please use the following form. Please also choose the appropriate header for your quest:
Student Characters use this:
[size=16][b][color=orange]Amityville Enrollment Ready![/color][/b][/size]
Hunter Characters use this:
[size=16][b][color=#00CCEE]Hunter Reporting for Duty![/color][/b][/size]
Horsemen Characters use this:
[size=16][b][color=red]Horseman Papers Completed![/color][/b][/size]
*CHARACTER TYPE HEADER HERE LOOK UP*
[b]Character Name:[/b]
[b]Faction:[/b] Amityville/Deus Ex/Horsemen
[b]Link to Quest Thread:[/b]
[b]Obtained By:[/b] (Please link to the thread you acquired your character in, such as a raffle/auction/contest etc. If you were contacted by admin, please say who contacted you! If instead someone from staff gave you a credit, please state which staff member and that they're using a credit, ie "Marushii gave me a staff credit!")
[b]IS EVERYTHING FILLED OUT IN YOUR QUEST THREAD?[/B]
[b]DOES YOUR CHARACTER HAVE A FEAR ATTACK?[/B] Please note that this INCLUDES a Fear mechanic, you MUST have one assigned to your character! Please see the Fear mechanics guide for more information:
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[b]Character Name:[/b]
[b]Faction:[/b] Amityville/Deus Ex/Horsemen
[b]Link to Quest Thread:[/b]
[b]Obtained By:[/b] (Please link to the thread you acquired your character in, such as a raffle/auction/contest etc. If you were contacted by admin, please say who contacted you! If instead someone from staff gave you a credit, please state which staff member and that they're using a credit, ie "Marushii gave me a staff credit!")
[b]IS EVERYTHING FILLED OUT IN YOUR QUEST THREAD?[/B]
[b]DOES YOUR CHARACTER HAVE A FEAR ATTACK?[/B] Please note that this INCLUDES a Fear mechanic, you MUST have one assigned to your character! Please see the Fear mechanics guide for more information:
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Failure to use this form can cause delay in your character's approval!
Once you've posted that form here, change the thread title of your character's quest thread to say READY! so we know you're all ready to go! Here's an example:
[Q] Howl the Werewolf - is a quest thread.
[ENROLLMENT] Howl the Werewolf (READY!) - is a thread ready for GM approval!
HOW LONG DOES THIS APPROVAL TAKE?
It depends on how many people are in the approval queue, and on how busy the staff are at that time - preferably, only a few days, though it may be longer than that. We ask that you be patient and wait for approval - do not begin RPing your character (this includes making a dorm room thread, joining classes, etc.) until you have approval!
Character enrollment cooldown will begin when you post for your character's enrollment. If your quest thread is incomplete, your quest thread will be rejected and your cooldown will begin again once you post for enrollment. See COOLDOWN below for more information!
Approval is a pretty painless process!
We will be checking up on a few things to help you make your character suitable for the TiH world:
1) Does your character fit into the shop? (I.E. they are scary, not a sparkling piece of desu kawaii unicorn pinkness.)
2) Is your character in the right age group?
3) What is your character's motivation?
4) Does your character avoid most cliches and stereotypes - are they interesting and not overly bland?
5.) Do your character's powers (both natural and FEAR ability/charged weapon attack for Hunters) make sense?
If your character has some kinks that need to be worked out, the TiH staff member will work with you to improve your character and polish them up until they're ready to go! Once you have this approval, you can create your character's dorm room and begin RPing.
WHERE IS THE QUEST FORM THAT I NEED TO FILL OUT FOR THEIR THREAD?
Here are the forms for both Amityville Academy students, Hunters, and Horsemen! If you need help filling them out, check this thread.
WHAT'S THIS THING ABOUT A TWO-MONTH COOLDOWN?
Once you obtain a character, you must wait TWO IRL MONTHS before you can win or obtain another character. The time the cool-down starts is when you create your character's enrollment thread and post them for enrollment in this thread.
Please keep in mind that if your enrollment thread is incomplete (ie missing a Fear attack, a personality, eye color, etc), the staff of TiH hold every right to reject your enrollment. When your enrollment is rejected, you will need to make the requested changes and repost for enrollment. Your cooldown is not reset.
Please note that characters from auctions, bribes, and IRL commissions are EXCLUDED from this cool down. In addition, the maximum number of characters one person can have at any time is eight, however upon hitting the final stage you free up a slot.
For example, let's say I RP Bob, Sue, and Dennis. Bob is a Y2 student, Sue is a first stage horsemen, and Dennis is a Y3 hunter. While I RP three characters, I can get FOUR more because Dennis is at his final stage.
In regards to newbies when we mean one character or less, we mean one character in the history of the shop. If you have five characters and four of them are at their maximum stage, you do not qualify as a newbie.
If you have any questions or concerns, please post them here to our QnA thread.
I HAVE A SPECIAL HORSEMAN / HUNTER WEAPON WHAT DO I DO?
As a reminder, Horsemen with Hunter weapons and Hunters with Horsemen weapons CANNOT be quested. They are given out in meta and GMed events ONLY.
If you have won either of the above already:
HORSEMEN WITH HUNTER WEAPONS:
Occasionally, Hunters are captured and brought back to the Tower. To sustain them, they are placed in a cell with infinite runes, and the Hunter and weapon are placed in a permanent Trance/coma.
As long as that Hunter is in a coma, the Horseman can use their weapon. Their weapon responds to them as if believing the horseman is their Hunter when it senses Fear nearby. The Horseman cannot communicate with the weapon, and using it for a prolonged amount of time will actually cause them harm and began to damage their core and cause InSanItY.
Because of this, Hunter weapons are "summoned" only when needed, otherwise left in a half-hibernative totem state (think, small object like keychain, earring, necklace, ring). They can be "summoned" by feeding Fear into the weapon, just like a regular Hunter weapon. After three charges, like a Hunter weapon, you can use the weapon's charged attack, equivalent to a Y1 charged attack.
This is an EXTRA ATTACK on top of the usual Fear attacks a horseman gets. When a Horseman is promoted, the weapon still stays the same.
HUNTER WITH HORSEMAN WEAPONS:
A very, very rare form of conversion, one that happened purely from Horsemen entering permanent comas from the Cage that were unable to leave, minds permanently believing they are still in the Cage.
Because of this, they can much easier convert to weapons nearly identical to student conversions, though their minds are subdued, trapped, unable to discern if they ever left the Cage or what has happened to them. Questions and communication to them is vague at best, and bonding takes time, like teaching a child everything all over again.
Horsemen weapons, like their Student counterparts, do not remember what happened prior to conversion. All they remember is somehow, they need to help Hunters (because of the Cage making them think they were Hunters prior).
Horsemen weapons grow at the same rate as their student counterparts. They are sturdy, and while not the best conversationalists because of a horseman's naturally serious nature, are also self-sustained, meaning they will help when needed or necessary.
Some horsemen weapons are said to have different natural/hidden abilities from their student counterpart as their growth continues, but there is not enough documented information. Perhaps if one were to be found in the future...
