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community in the following:
Yuri: And then the OOC community group for out of
character things, not play, just for messing around.
SY: What do you mean by messing around?
Yuri: Just stuff I can’t describe it…whatever we feel like
posting there…
SY: Anything at all?
Yuri: It’s the same as…not the same as nraged; nraged is
only about the game, and ours doesn’t have to be gamerelated.
It just has to be generally related, like if someone
sees a funny piece of art, or a Prisoner of Azkaban trailer,
but also if two people have funny OOC chats they’ll post
that.
It is interesting to me that Yuri mentions nraged as a reference point:
Nraged is the OOC community used by the organizers as well as the fans of
one of the oldest and very popular Harry Potter RPGs, Nocturne Alley.
Nocturne Alley is a very admired LiveJournal community RPG that has
managed to gather a dedicated audience and helped revolutionize the ways in
which RPGs are played and chronicled on LiveJournal. It is played roughly in
the same format in which Yuri’s RPG is held, but it was one of the first to use
this format, and is far stricter in its use of OOC behaviors and expressions.
Though Yuri follows Nocturne Alley and enjoys reading it, she mentioned to
me that the characters are mostly played out of character, although we also
discussed that J. K. Rowling did not exactly give her characters much depth
before the 5 th volume of Harry Potter came out. Nocturne Alley was already a
well established game before the 5 th book, and after its publication the RPG
has gone AU – or Alternate Universe – as too much had occurred in the game,
and it would be near-impossible to adjust the game timeline to fit the events of
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