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Characters and scenes should be self-contained in terms of action. If you want to have an interaction with a character or characters from another story, you have to collaborate before posting. The is no omniscient narrator in this town, no god. You can write things involving characters or spaces that other people have made directly by collaborating with them. This is a rule---if you make a situation in which there is interaction, you should pm the writer who made the characters you're interacting with. Think of it like this: you wouldn't just show up. You call ahead.
It'd be good if a cross-references system developed--so if in a post I were to mention, say, The Acme Penile Implant Corporation (i don't know why i thought of that), another post later could take you into an office of the APIC or walk you around the production facility. To cross reference, please start with the number of the post that you're picking up on. What we'd like to do is link them together so you could go down any number of pathways through the same town. The idea is that this town already in a sense exists, so you can talk about it as if it does. If this works, we can populate it with places, spaces and stories that hang together through the cross-referencing.
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