Welcome to the Emerald City Chronicles Timeline
What it's for:
It is meant to be an Out Of Game resource useful for players to figure out where their character's were at certain periods in history and whom they knew (or at least knew of) at the time. So you post where your character was at a certain period in history, look at where other characters were during that same time, and if they cross paths, you can talk to the player to see if you might have some history together. We think it makes role-playing age-old vampires easier and leads to rich, more 'real' backrounds.
And guess what? Posting your character's timeline here just might get you involved in storyteller-driven stories as well, which could be very cool.
Finally, this is a shared resource that we all are in charge of updating - in other words, if you don't help create this resource - it won't exist. It's up to you!
What you need before you start:
Well for starters, you need an idea of when your character was Embraced, and where. Then you need to know where they travelled throughout various periods in history. You don't have to put your character's timeline here, but if you do, you stand a better chance of fleshing out your character history and getting drawn up in plotty mcgoodness.
Popular choices are things like Chicago in the roaring 20's, Paris in the 1700's London in the 1900's and so forth. If you don't know much about those times, or what happened in certain parts of the world throughout history, I suggest you read some Tips for Researching Timelines. The nice thing about a Wiki is, if you want to add your own tips and links you can too.
So you'll want to be thinking about what your character was up to from decade to decade, year to year, or even century to century (If you've made an old crusty of an Elder Kindred, this could take a while, :P).
How to add your character's timeline:
A Wiki is a type of webpage everyone can update and contribute to, a lot like our message boards. And just like our message boards if you want to add links, italics or bold text, one of the ways you can do that is by highlighting some text and clicking a function from a toolbar full of options. If you know the tags that create italics or whatever you can always just add that bit into the text you type and when you submit it, there you go. This Wiki is pretty similar to that. Think of it like each page is a seperate post, and we can all edit everybody else's posts, if that helps.
Check out What is a Wiki Site? to learn a bit more, and then How to edit pages?. If you think it's really hard, it's not. If you've ever edited one of your own posts on the message boards, this will be a snap.
Once you think you've got it, but you're worried about messing something up on the page or something, you can always try making a test page in The Sandbox. It's a good idea to mess around in there and try creating a page or two. You'll most likely get the hang of it pretty quickly.
If you have any questions beyond that, read my Easy Wiki Tutorial on how to use this wikidot page. If you really get stuck, email me, your friendly neigborhood webmonkey at moc.selcinorhcyticdlareme|yeknombew#moc.selcinorhcyticdlareme|yeknombew
Please try to be patient, as this is new to all of us - and keep in mind, once you get the hang of it, you can add a blurb about how to do stuff on the Tutorial page too!
