Shattered Mirror Mux Wiki/News

This is where all of our News Files are stored with the exception of the one’s regarding Character Generation which has been given its own page. The layout here is different than what you’ll find on the game in that they’re broken down a little differently. If you have any problems, questions, concerns or suggestions, please don’t hesitate to contact a Staffer on the game itself.

Information to help you understand the world.
The World=This world had known great turmoil just as many others. It differed thanks to an unusually powerful surge of heroes who brought the world to a state of relative peace while the world governments collectively built a barrier device. With the advent of the barrier, the Earth (or more accurately the solar system) was defended from any interference from threats from beyond or even intrusion from other realities! Earth's heroes swept aside the major villains, locking them all away securely or rehabilitating them. Even common petty crime became severely limited under a force more effective than the police. It wasn't Utopia, but it was a fairly pleasant place until the loss of the barrier.


 * This information can be found under News Setting on the game.
 * -|Technology=Technologically, it mirrors the average comic world. There is every trapping you expect in a modern society along with a few places where advanced tech or even hyper tech exist. The barrier was the biggest achievement mankind had made, though the source of the knowledge to build it seemed a bit more advanced than would have been thought possible in that era. With the opening of other worlds into this one, new technologies have seeped in that had not been known prior.


 * This information can be found under News Setting on the game.
 * -|Teams=While the peaceful society might have seemed a place where teams of heroes weren't needed, that is untrue. It took manpower to maintain that peace even without supervillains regularly interfering. More importantly, it was twenty years before that first barrier was built, so some teams came into existence then that have remained into the present (such as Shield). Even with the barrier, a new villain would appear from time to time or a hero would go rogue and need dealt with, so there was a solid reason to keep the teams around. When the barrier dropped, several of them began having to deal with issues that hadn't come up in decades. New teams began to form as task-forces to help deal with the growing threats to society (such as the Justice League).


 * This information can be found under News Setting on the game.
 * -|Knowledge=If you are native to this setting, you obviously know all of this. The odds are that most players are not natives. Instead, they have transposed through the veil in realities in place of another being who existed here, an alternate self. What happens then is tricky and entirely up to the player. Some, find themselves fully remembering this world and having both abilities and odd new flashes of memory from some other reality. Others remember both realities clearly along with both personalities of who they were. Yet more remember that other world with flashes of insight into this reality. A few only remember the other reality and are completely foreign to this world. Last, there are some who remember nothing of either reality and while they retain their personality, they have no active memories of anything that happened before the shift.


 * This information can be found under News Setting on the game.
 * -|Theme=WW2 saw a loss of several major powers, but also a huge rise in the number of powerful heroes. They rose in such numbers that they managed to overtake the major villains and eliminate their influence on the world. With the villains gone, many of the heroes went about dealing with lesser crime so that while it isn't entirely gone from the world, it is subdued to a state of relative peace. Warlords were displaced and a unified alliance of governments came together to bring the world into a state of near-utopia.

This drew the attention of galactic races and interdimensional conquerors. Each was repelled and finally the best and brightest minds in the world all began working together to finally block out all unregulated travel between other dimensions/planets and this one. A barrier was formed around the planet using a massive machine that took decades to build. Ten years ago, the whole thing went unstable for no understood reason. It warbled for a week or two and then suddenly exploded.

The barrier went down and sent a shockwave through the earth and out into space (and dimensions), but no damaged seemed to be done. Almost immediately small acts of crime began to take place and work began to rebuild the machine, though no explanation ever arose as to what caused the instability. It wasn't long before supervillains, some thought long dead and gone, began to appear and wreak havoc. Oddly, heroes began to re-emerge as well, some claiming all sorts of madness as to how they came to be here. It was assumed that these rising numbers of villains were linked to the lack of barriers, rather than the shockwave. The terrible truth was not yet fully understood.


 * This information can be found under News Theme on the game.
 * -|Grid=We aren't strict about the destruction of portions of our game world. If two large powers go up against one another and part of the grid gets leveled, let us know and the description will change. After a bit of time (assuming it isn't further damaged) the area will be reconstructed once again. Don't hesitate to play rough and get into the epic battles so often seen in the various media related to these characters.


 * This information can be found under News Grid on the game.
 * -|Multiverse=When the shockwave went out from the explosion of the barrier device, it battered the fabric of timespace and opened up holes and thin spots into a vast number of universes and realities. At first many of these were like pinholes, but much like a sail battered in the wind, the openings have grown. Holes allow people to be ripped from their own realities into this one with no clear way of returning. Thin spots create an overlap where some alternate version of a person seems to switch places with an existing person. In this latter case, there are often degrees of residual memory. In some cases, it is like having lived two lives, for others one reality or the other takes the forefront with the secondary being odd sensations and half-remembered things. More than a few have ended up with complete amnesia from the experience.

Many of the government officials were dismissive of these events and the official line was that they are mental instability caused by trauma. In the case of villains making such claims, it was frequently said to be a false claim trying to drive the population to riot. Even so, efforts to rebuild the barrier device were been redoubled. Over time, people have come to accept that there is indeed something very wrong going on and that there really are people being shifted here from other worlds, though what to do about it is unknown. The governments have had to accept the facts, but are still highly focused on the rebuilding of the barrier as the solution. It may be as little as seven years before it is fully operational again.


 * This information can be found under News Multiverse on the game.

Information to help you choose a character.
The Basics=No character below the age of 16 can be apped. If a character you wish to play is below this age, you are free to app them older, so long as both mind and body have been aged to match. Once a character has been approved for play, they are free to grow beyond and outside of the canon in any way they wish. In strange cases, you may be asked to explain how they arrived at extreme changes from the canon and how it was backed up by RP, but you are always free to grow and change to match where the RP takes a character. As long as players are not violating the rights of others to decline scenes on an OOC level (ICA does still mean ICC), a character may act in accordance with their nature. This includes, but is not limited to destruction of portions of the grid as a result of major fighting.


 * This information can be found under News Characters on the game.
 * -|Naming Possibilities=There is the potential for multiple characters to have the same name (for example multiple people who have gone by Batman, Spiderman or Loki from several different comics) existing in the same world at the same time. Assuming you want to play a character whose name overlaps an existing character, you are allowed to use a variation of the name as your own. Below are some possible variations on how to get around this issue.

_Examples:_ - Terry Mcginnis - Loki - DH - Venom 2099


 * This information can be found under News Characters2 on the game.
 * -|Being a Descendant=You are free to have the child of canon characters that never existed in the original comics. There, we said it! Mind blown, right? With a few limitations in mind, your character can be the descendant of various heros and villains alike including from unconnected comics.

The first condition is that the character must be born in another reality.

Second, we expect you to be reasonable. Recessive genes and other factors mean that your character is not going to inherit every ability of those who came before you, nor are you going be allowed to say you are way better than both parents in most cases.

Third, if you wish to have a character whose lineage derives from multiple comic universes (IE: DC and Marvel parents), then they must originate from the Lost Dimension.

The Lost Dimension was a dimension where two powerful beings named Alpha and Omega held a battle. Destroying everything except one lonely star system, they then drew champions from all realities to wage a massive competition. The creator had to destroy and the destroyer had to create, all through proxy champions. Eventually, the battle was won by the destroyer. In a final act of contempt, the creator flung all the native descendants of the champions across the realities at the same time the champions were being returned. When events began to draw beings into this reality, some of those from the Lost Dimension were more easily drawn along and pulled into this reality.

NOTE: Lost Dimension was another game from the same creator as this game. It was interesting, but ultimately didn't work as a long term theme. If you are interested in a character like those described above, we will provide a link to the original wiki regarding setting in that location. http://lostdimension.wikidot.com/set


 * This information can be found under News Children on the game.
 * -|Marriage and Children=You are more than welcome to have your characters get married, have children or both so long as you remember that should one of the parents drop and be picked up by another, they get to choose whether to keep that in their history or not. It won’t change that it happened on the game, it simply means that the new version may not know about it or choose to recognize it. We also ask, that before going forward with it, you talk to staff to let them know what is going on.


 * This information can be found under News Life on the game.

Information to help you choose a character continued.
Former Players=Since existing or former players may or may not have exposed or have knowledge of secret identities, new players are allowed one limited alteration to the specific canon of a character that has already appeared in the game. If concerned about existing knowledge regarding their character, a new player may have a different secret identity as long as the back-story otherwise matches up. No character, even those identical to the previous player of the same exact canon of character, need ever uphold any of the former RP. It is assumed that new players of the same basic version were drawn from a highly similar, but not identical reality when they were brought to the this reality.

Also of note, should a player leave the game and later return, they are free to app the same character again if it is not taken. However, due to the nature of how characters are drawn into this world and the fact that they have no memory of events when returned to the exact time and point of their withdraw, they return with no memory of what they did when here before. For all intents and purposes, they are a new person drawn from a nearly identical world.


 * This information can be found under News Former Players on the game.
 * -|Altering Time=Due to the difficult nature of time travel on a game like this, time traveling powers simply do not work. Characters who would otherwise have the ability to move through time do not have access to this ability. Characters who can sense upcoming or past events are still capable within reason, but any movements along or adjustments of the timeline are not able to be put into effect.


 * This information can be found under News Time on the game.
 * -|FC vs. OC=Don't worry about it. No really, stop worrying over it because it doesn't matter. Every character was original at some point and on this game we don't play favorites just because your character exists in print. Every new player who comes is playing their own take on the canon anyway and if a pre-existing character is always given favoritism over a new one, then there is never any hope for the new characters and never any challenges for the existing ones. We are less worried about what you play and more worried about how well you play. There are no Featured Characters here.


 * This information can be found under News Featured on the game.
 * -|Restricted Types=There is no true restricted list. If you have any question about something that skirts on the banned list, check with staff first. Obscure character variations and exceptionally high stats will likely be given extra attention prior to approval. If you think your character may be a concept too close to ab already approved character, check with staff.

In situations where a comic and other media character were created and/or released at roughly the same time, these characters must gain staff approval prior to application. The most obvious example of this is Kick Ass, though some other technicalities exist such as He-Man.


 * This information can be found under News Restricted on the game.
 * -|Banned=Rather than banning particular characters, we have chosen to focus on particular types in order to keep the game balanced.


 * Anime/Manga (Including Manga adaptations of comic canons)
 * Webcomics
 * Chibi (ala Super Hero Squad)
 * Original TV/Movie/Book turned into comic adaptations (Exceptions made for characters who first appeared in a series/show fixed solely within a comic canon. Examples include Harley Quinn, Terry McGinnis and Firestar)
 * Humor comics (Howard the Duck)
 * Characters originating in parody comics (Yes Ninja Turtles count)
 * Children's comics
 * Gender/Race/Species swapped characters. (What-if one shots, vague background images from alterniverse comics, etc)
 * Characters who can alter the state of reality in any way beyond exceptionally minor ways. (Terms like 'can do anything' or 'alters reality' regardless of modifiers are likely to be included on this list. Alteration or limitation of these powers based in the theme and setting of this game may allow for such a chracter to be accepted.)
 * Cosmic characters/powers (Living Tribunal, Spectre, Galactus, Phoenix, Onslaught, Impossible man, Imperiex, etc)
 * Interdimensional characters/powers (Madam web, Beyonder, etc)
 * Extreme Cross overs/Amalgams (Ra's Alpocolypse, etc)
 * Gamebreakers (If they would not be a 24/7 style hero or villain beyond a set story arch, then they certainly won't work here including such things as Marvel Zombies or Darkseid)
 * Any character variation of existing characters not supported by canon and appropriate to the balance of this game. (Such as Wolverine in an Iron Man suit.)


 * This information can be found under News Banned on the game.

Information on our various policies.
Plot Sphere=When running a major plot or event, you may wish to contact the staff member who oversees that area of the game. Not every plot needs staff intervention or oversight, nor does every event/scene need our approval. A good gauge of whether staff should be informed or not is if the plot or event is likely to have an effect that touches a significant portion of the game or player base.

When deciding which staffer needs to be involved, review the +finger information for the staffer in question. Each will list what 'sphere' of the game they are primarily overseeing. Any staffer can offer assistance on any sphere, but each will have one primary focus based on where their own knowledge and interests lay. While there may be overlap in the nature of your plot and several of these spheres, pick the one that is most closely tied to the core elements of the plot line.


 * Mythic: Plots revolving around or connected with legendary beings. Deities, demons, faeries, satyrs, kapa and all manner of beings from myth. There is likely to be overlap with Esoteric due to many beings of myth having magical elements. Plots in this sphere are largely focused on the beings themselves. (Staff Head: Desire)
 * Epic: Cosmic invasions, huge team battles and global events that require great force to overcome are the focus of this sphere. Almost always these plots have a long arc and emotional conclusion. (Staff Head: Girl Scout)
 * Street: Detective stories or ordinary crime fighting fall under this sphere. Simple thugs, low level capers of supervillains or trying to get to the bottom of a criminal mystery fit here. Sometimes a lot of small Street plots result in a larger Epic plot. (Staff Head: Desire)
 * Horrific: Elements of dark and sinister forces or plots where the protagonists are facing a superior force that is very likely to severely impact their survival rate fall here. These plots are generally dark, brooding and involve forces that aren't seen until late in the plot or which have a seemingly unstoppable force toying with those involved.// (Staff Head: Desire)
 * Esoteric: This tends to be the territory of anything that can't be explained well or which is hard to define. Magic is the most obvious aspect of this sphere, being outside of the laws of accepted science. Strange tales that aren't normal, but aren't quite outside of the possible fall here as well. Very few things are readily defined in a plot centered here unless they are 'magic' in nature. (Staff Head: Delirium)
 * Espionage: All things political are firmly resting within this sphere. Terrorism, elections, spy networks and cyber hacking are within the dominion of Espionage. If the plot is heavily focused on elements like these, it is usually a clear case of needing to focus on Espionage staff. (Staff Head: Death)


 * This information can be found under News Plot Spheres and News Plot Spheres2 on the game.
 * -|Alts & Logging=A player is free to apply for as many alts as they can reasonably maintain activity on. Staff will track activity and ask that you give up a number of characters if it is felt that there is not enough activity. The expectations of activity are in no way lessened for OCs, so be aware of this. Alts of the same player are not allowed to transfer vital information or objects between their characters.

You are required to post at least three logs a month in order to show activity and that you can keep up with the number of alts that you have chosen to taken.

Staff asks that you focus on one application at a time. Each application is given 2 weeks to begin visible movement on the character and is expected to have the application ready for review by the end of 1 month. Again, there is no variation in this rule for anyone.

Every player is expected to be capable of achieving this level of application activity if they are going to manage to be active on the game itself. If after the noted times, the application is at the proper stage of movement, the application will be deleted and the character re-opened for application by other players.

We ask that you wait until one character is through CG, meaning the application has been submitted and you have been approved by Staff, before starting on another.


 * This information can be found under News Alt Policy on the game.
 * -|Acceptable Use Policy=Obviously this isn't the letter of the law. With that in mind, obey the spirit of the law. If it is something not specifically spelled out here in legalese, that doesn't mean it is okay for you to do something that would have a negative affect on the game or the players. Offensive activity on Lost Dimension should be reported to staff immediately.

Staff has the right to change, alter, or add any rules or policies at any time so long as players are informed.

__The game allows:__
 * Promotion of other games through the BB system.
 * Player and/or Staff driven scenes and story arcs.
 * Players to have a location they can go to be free of all interaction if they wish to be. (we have a quiet room for this)
 * Development of a player's character through roleplay on the official grid.
 * Respectful discussion on Out of Character BBs.
 * Fair interaction between players with the option for Staff intervention.
 * A reasonable expectation of Out of Character privacy. (In Character privacy is not assured.)
 * Third party intervention in any conflict. (IE: uninvolved staffer, etc)

__We will not support or tolerate the following:__
 * Extreme Out of Character vulgarity.
 * Flames or disrespectful postings
 * Harassment or destructive behavior
 * Hacking of any kind
 * Stealing or modifying any code that is not yours (A free code room is available for those who wish to share)
 * Coding anything that allows to spy or stalk other members of the game
 * Illegal activities, behavior, and transactions
 * Absolutely no personal information other than your own (and at your own risk) should be transmitted on the game. Staff will remove inappropriate posts, in the case of the boards, or will ask you to edit out such information.


 * This information can be found under News AUP & News AUP2 on the game.
 * -|Copyright=This game does not own any of the rights to, nor is it in any way affiliated with any comic book publisher. This game is solely a creation of fan fiction in interactive form. The theme and story of this setting are uniquely created to accommodate multiple comic characters freely. All copyrighted materials and characters are owned by their respective publishers/creators.

Characters in the game are considered to be a part of this setting from the moment of approval, though they are entirely within the control of the Player who created them. This means simply that on the rare occasion that a player leave the game whose character is currently vital to a major ongoing storyline or plot, the staff have the right to run the Character as a non-Player Character so that the plot can be seen to completion.

Any character created by a player used in this manner will thereafter be properly retired from play. The reason for this ruling is not to interfere in any way with a player's right to leave or control their own Original Character, but rather as a way to ensure that players who remain on the game after someone has retired their character are not left hanging in the middle of an unfinished story.

numbers. This is especially true if the player in question has shown that they are actively working to improve their behavior or violations. Before reporting a problem, please take the time to explain to the other party what the conflict is and ask them to discontinue. Contact staff if the matter continues thereafter or if it is something which staff should be aware of.
 * This information can be found under News Copyright on the game.
 * -|Ethics=Beyond the AUP, a few things need to be made clear. There are four basic actions that are taken when someone is in violation of the basic ethics of the game. Except as outlined below, every person will have at least one action of the list in order before the next action form is taken. A player may also receive more than one action from a category rather than moving forward in


 * 1) Player is brought in to discuss the situation with staff. Suspect flag may or may not be set depending on the situation to log activity.
 * 2) Removal from comsystem, boards and/or pagelocked to Staff only
 * 3) Removal of the player's Character(s) from play until further notice.
 * 4) Permanent ban from logging into the game.

In extreme cases where the health of the game or it's database may be at risk, standard protocol can be bypassed by the Goddess and an immediate removal of the problem (player, code, etc.) may occur. This intervention will hopefully never occur, but given the possibility of hacking or other matters, we need to be clear that there may be situations where it happens.

Staff of a higher rank have the right to override the decisions of staff lower on the chain of command. Staff will attempt to be fair in every action, accepting that not everyone's view of fair is the same and that all decisions and actions will be reviewed by the Goddess of LD. Third party intervention as outlined in the AUP can be used as a way to ensure that should a disagreement regarding fairness occur, there is a clearly outlined manner of handling it. A staffer may have their staff bit removed for conduct unbecoming of their position. and as such, any action is subject to the review of staffers higher on the chain of command. "Conduct unbecoming" will include, but is not limited to: improper handling of situations as outlined in the Player Ethics, violations of the AUP, and unauthorized release of IC Character information and actions which could result in damage to the overall health of the game.
 * This information can be found under News Ethics on the game.
 * -|Staff Ethics=AUP and Ethics outline the majority of what staff can and will move upon, as well as clarifying how staff will go about it. For all other staff actions and decisions, they will be held to the understanding that if the action or decision is one which they would not wish for everyone to know that they were the party solely responsible for, then they should not take said action.


 * This information can be found under News Staff Ethics on the game.