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(OOC) What's a Cyb, and can I eat it?
| That's right, I wanted to discuss this board, and more specifically I wanted to write a little how-to guide for anyone who is stumbling here from whatever place on the Internet and is wondering what the purpose of a cyberpunk life board is on an obscure site like Danger/u/. I mean, isn't there already /lain/ for Cyberpunk stuff??
Good question my incorporeal strawman.
The major difference between Cyb and Lain is simple, and really should be obvious if you just read a few posts.
| Even the dead ones mind you.
See, Lain is a discussion forum, standard fare really for a message board, while Cyb is different in one major way.
>Cyb is a roleplaying board
That's right, this board is devoted to the exploration and creation of a roleplay experience set within Glitch City, from the game Va-11 Hall-A, which if you're here, you've probably played. (If you haven't, you should, it's good).
On this board, people create characters who live within GC--
| --And create a shared universe through two distinct types of threads:
>Textboard Threads
And
>Setting Threads
(There's also Footage and Data threads, but those are mostly considered part of the larger textboard grouping, so we'll ignore them for now.)
I'll start by explaining what those two types of threads are.
| >Textboard Threads
These are the bread and butter of Cyb, Textboard Threads are all the threads you see that don't have anything in (brackets) before their name. The narrative goes that these are in-universe threads written by people living in Glitch City on the popular site /Cyb/ (or Danger/u/ more broadly.)
| These threads can be about anything, from a user needing help because they dropped their keys inside a toilet, to speculation about how Kira Miki is actually Tupac after he got stuffed inside a robot body in Serbia, ((but like for real though)). These threads are often written by anonymous members of the board, and are just a fun way to develop the city by doing some basic creative writing.
There is no real rules about how these threads are run or how to write them--
| So feel free to write about anything you feel like, and feel free to reply to them using anonymous messages, even if it's only a single line, just this act alone makes the city feel so much more alive
I would recommend anyone who is starting out and is currently reading this to try their hand at writing threads like these, even if they're simple affairs, some of the greatest content on the board was born from someone writing a silly or simple post and people building upon them.
| Next up are
>Setting Threads
If Textboard Threads are the bread and butter, setting threads are, for most anyway, the real meat of Cyb. Setting threads are always codified with a bracketed (Setting) tag.
Setting threads are basically location based, and invite players to take their characters out of the anonymous textboard to meet other characters in meat-space (IRL). As such setting threads require a character to portray.
| As a general rule, Cyb doesn't use character sheets or documentation, although the official Discord does have a section and template for you to use if you want to codify your character and make them more tangible, it's never a bad thing to keep at least an outline of who your character is, and what kind of person they are after-all.
After you've created a character, even if they're a single use peon, you can have them show up in a setting thread.
| You'll notice that setting threads use a different "format" (real big quotation marks here) than textboard threads.
In setting threads actions and descriptions are always written in >Red
So every time your character does something, you need to write it in red, using a ">"
| Example: >Thanks swung her arms around in a fit of reasonable adult rage, before falling to the ground like a sack of potato.
Dialogue meanwhile is always within quotation marks, in [White]
Example: "I can't believe you really drank that, are you a dumbass?"
Simple enough, right?
| To all of you who have been on this site for years and who are reading along, you may be saying "woah, look at king shithead of dick mountain here saying shit any toddler can figure out" and you'd be right, but huh...
>Thinks up a great argument and refutes you.
| That's basically it, really, at least from me. The Discord is always up, but I'm writing this because as someone who doesn't really join random discords, I can understand how daunting it can be to just... Get into something, especially when the activity isn't what it used to be.
But to all of you who are passing by this board and are reading this and think "hey that sounds neat" how about just writing a post? Maybe respond to one with a dumb line, or a saying out of the blue?
| That's how we all started, and I for one would be glad to have anyone who feels like it type up some stuff and just let lose their creativity. Even if it's just a post about Kira Miki being literally Tupac.
Because really, that's what Cyb is all about, having fun, there's no bad posts, just jump in and try your hand.
Or be ballsy and join a setting thread to put your character writing skills to the test!
I hope to see some of you around on the board.
-Hige
| (P.S: Sorry for the rambling, I just worked 12 hours and felt like putting this down, so you'll have to forgive my inability to be consistent lol...)
| He's Escaped Containment!
-John
p.s. glad to see you post again
| Hyig
| Appreciate it, Hige!
-Aethia
| Imma read this later, I've lurked on the discord and this looks like a nice primer. I see some of you guys put a lot of effort, have any of you considered collating your works and making a fan game?
| >>994274
I personally considered it at at point, but then got too swamped with work and other projects. (It was going to be a Visual Novel style game about a bar setting I ran for a long time lol)
These days, Rather than a fan game, I feel like maybe a long-form writing project like a proper timeline and wiki would be things for me to do at some point.
Glad to see this post made you want to try cyb btw!
-HIGE
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| Cool
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| Hello, reviving once more from a freezer inside a foreclosed Walmart, this is Hige speaking (writing, really but who's keeping score)
I'm sure some of you have heard of me if you've been here a while, or frequent the discord during my bouts of activity.
Anyway, I wanted to make the first OOC post on Cyb in forever to talk about a thing in particular, that I feel hasn't really ever been discussed ever since the site has slowed down.