IC section, NPC parents/residents, "Where y'from?"

[Vito Corleone]

• Usage of in-character section is a MUST.

The usage of our private forum's in-character section is required in order to create further roleplay scenes, such as simple discussions regarding something that happened in the previous day and get yourselves a cool subject to talk about instead of starting a random-ass conversation with a "A'yo what's up homie".

Being it to report a random-ass fight that happened in the middle of the street and the whole neighborhood would know; or being it about a bunch of simple shouts in some house nearby, or simply about a poor dog that was ran over in the middle of the street and almost caused a bigger accident with a couple that was standing on the corner.

• NPC parents/residents.

Ghetto Boyz are a small gang inside a neighborhood, not the other way around. Not every single brown dude in the neighborhood are gang members, remember that, both outsiders and insiders, for the fun of increasing the neighborhood feeling, are required to often roleplay the presence of NPC family members (unless your character has no family members in the neighborhood) or the presence of a resident.

A nice part of your character development in my honest opinion starts with NPC parents. Roleplaying one of your parents constantly annoying the fuck out of your char for whatever reason. (e.g. whenever you need to /quit just roleplay your char's mother/father/uncle/granddaughter coming out of his/her house and going after you with a belt in his/her hand or some shit) It is not only great for your development but also can expand roleplay horizons to the others who were nearby you when your thirteen-year-old character's mother shouted like a maniac for him to stay out of the streets. Nothing is more interesting than talking shit to your friend who just got his ass home with his head down when he gets back to the group in the next day, trust me, I used to like that shit as fuck when I was ten, one year ago. :cat:

Being the resident a fucker complaining through a window of his house on the bottom of the hill about the sound of the kids down on the sidewalk, or a sucker listening to some "paisa" music ( regional Mexican music) loudly, or a bunch of dudes passing by with bibles held under their armpits, be creative.

Being creative doesn't means you should roleplay a resident landing with a parachute on the roof of his house, nah. Being stereotypical, roleplaying your character's mother all the time bugging the fuck outta' him for being outside, or the aforementioned sucker all the time complaining about the sound of conversations down on the sidewalk through the window is also great, trust me. And a'ye, do not forget to describe the complaining motherfucker or whoever is the resident, state the known reasons for him to act like that (e.g. the sucker is an alcoholic fuck and is often drunk and complains about everything, or the sucker is actually a polite dude who works hard as fuck in a butcher shop or something like that, and he needs to rest), it's a small neighborhood, everybody knows a bit of each other's lifes, no?

• How to avoid the annoying "Where you from?!" questions.

I strongly recommend whoever is wanting to join the faction and is about to name-change to create a character thread first (unless you want to be the annoying (it's annoying in my opinion :yaoming:) dude who came from Mexico and will not be familiar to people around), stating that your character would be most likely familiar to those in the neighborhood and shows no uneasiness at all while walking around, and alongside that, create a thread for your NPC parents/relatives too.

While in-game do that basic "/ame would be familiar to those from the surroundings of Eastern 27th Street, and also attends Jefferson High." or some shit like that, because come on, who the fuck would rather roleplay being hostile whenever a new dude pops up from Guadalajara, to be called a paisa, because he's not from the neighborhood, than roleplaying being familiar to some dude and actually roleplay that you two go to school in the same bus every morning or some stuff like that?

[Vito Corleone]

Awareness of the first two topics must be raised.