When your character's story is over, or you're ready to play someone else.

Shelving, Retiring, and Graveyarding

Deadline's Story First focus means that we see each character's life as a story and not just a bundle of pixels and code. The end, or pause, of a journey is also part of their story. The number of characters per players are limited so that there is a fair focus on each individual story.

Each public character bio will have a tag to reflect their current status, except for active. It is assumed that all characters are active unless tagged otherwise.

Character Status Definitions

🎭 Active

This is a current active character who can log into the game and RP as normal.

🗃️ Shelved

Shelving a character means that you can play it later. This is like putting a book on the shelf to come back later. They will be considered away and detached from the current story on Deadline until you unshelf them to play again.

⛱️ Retired

Retiring a character is a way to end their story but not their life. Once a character is retired, they can never be played again. They can still exist out in the world, but not be played in Deadline.

💀 Dead

Graveyarding a character is when your character dies. Players can choose to graveyard their own characters if they want, but there may be limitations to prevent constant cycling through characters.

Limitations

There are several limitations to know for character statuses.

• Players can only have one active character and one shelved character.
• All characters, be they active, shelved, retired, or dead, must follow NLR (New Life Rules).
• Once a character is shelved, they cannot be unshelved until two weeks of real time has passed.
• If an active character dies (or is retired) within the two week restriction for unshelving, then one character will need to be graveyarded or retired to make room.
• You cannot unshelve to engage in or join conflict against other characters.

The processes for Shelving, Retiring and Graveyarding will be updated in future.