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| This article was imported from the Old Wiki and hasn't yet been rejiggered to our current standards.((Okay, fine. Standard. //Singular.//)) Please do not create new pages from redlinks - either link to existing pages, or put them in appropriate namespaces. | "Out of Character" ("OOC" for short) refers to all interactions between players when they are not pretending to be their [[characters:start|characters]]. It includes [[gameplay:concepts:Banter]]((What's a good namespace for player-to-player communication? gameplay:concepts?)), most [[gameplay:concepts:Distractions]], most of the [[meta:history:Enquirer]], and most [[meta:concepts:real life|off-Island]]((Create?)) communication. |
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| ====== Out of Character ====== | |
| "Out of Character" refers to all interactions between players when they are not pretending to be their [[dramatis personae|characters]]. It includes [[Banter]], most [[Distraction]]s, most of the [[Enquirer]], and most [[real life|off-Island]] communication. | |
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| ===== A Brief History of OoC ===== | |
| ==== The Beginning ==== | ==== The Beginning ==== |
| Back when the Island started in 2008, there was no Banter. It was back in this primordial soup of a game that the slang "to wall", meaning "to leave the Island for a brief period"((similar to "AFK" or "BRB")), was formed. It came from "breaking the 4th wall" by abruptly having to end or pause a scene without writing oneself out in some way. There may have been Distractions((Fun fact: at one point, CMJ declared in chat that Distractions were carried from one character to another by carrier pigeon)) at this time((citation needed)), and possibly The Place Behind the Fourth Wall. This place, also known as Location 4 (officially), Loc4, or L4, was just a regular room, but with text at the top indicating that the text in the room was OOC. Much like the [[Common Ground]], it was available from every [[Outpost]]. | Back when the Island started in 2008, there was no Banter. It was back in this primordial soup of a game that the slang "to wall", meaning "to leave the Island for a brief period"((similar to "AFK" or "BRB")), was formed. It came from "breaking the 4th wall" by abruptly having to end or pause a scene without writing oneself out in some way. There may have been Distractions((Fun fact: at one point, CMJ declared in chat that Distractions were carried from one character to another by carrier pigeon)) at this time((citation needed)), and possibly The Place Behind the Fourth Wall. This place, also known as Location 4 (officially), Loc4, or L4, was just a regular room, but with text at the top indicating that the text in the room was OOC. Much like the [[places:outpost:building:commonground|Common Ground]], it was available from every [[places:Outpost]]. |
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| ==== Natter ==== | ==== Natter ==== |
| ==== One True Banter==== | ==== One True Banter==== |
| In [[http://www.improbableisland.com/motd.php?month=2012-09|September 2012]], CMJ decided to merge all the Banters channel into one. | In [[http://www.improbableisland.com/motd.php?month=2012-09|September 2012]], CMJ decided to merge all the Banters channel into one. |
| In the process, Radio Banter was removed ((I think it was removed before this, but memory! --[[Snow Gray]]))((I used Radio Banter a lot, and it was definitely removed around the same time, possibly slightly afterwards. IIRC, Radio Banter-- at the end-- was still not hooked into One True Banter, so it was a separate little globally-available pool. But again, memory! Years ago! Who knows?! --[[page 3|FML]])). Radio Banter will return in Season 3. | In the process, Radio Banter was removed ((I think it was removed before this, but memory! --[[characters:player:Snow Gray]]))((I used Radio Banter a lot, and it was definitely removed around the same time, possibly slightly afterwards. IIRC, Radio Banter-- at the end-- was still not hooked into One True Banter, so it was a separate little globally-available pool. But again, memory! Years ago! Who knows?! --[[characters:player:page 3|FML]])). Radio Banter will return in Season 3. |
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| === 's Player === | === 's Player === |
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| ===== The Banter Question ===== | ===== The Banter Question ===== |
| The question remains, and is sometimes discussed: what exactly should Banter be like? How should it be organized? How should it be used? For answers to these questions and more, tune in next time to **//Improbable Island: OOC//**! | The question remains, and is sometimes discussed: what exactly should Banter be like? How should it be organized? How should it be used? For answers to these questions and more, tune in next time to **//Improbable Island: OOC//**!((Coming SOON whenever we rejigger this part to include the chat rework of 2023. - cd)) |