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beverly hills, 90210
basically westbeverly is taken from "beverly hills, 90210," the show about a group of teenagers living in the upscale, star-studded community of beverly hills, california who attend the fictitious west beverly hills high school, and if graduating, maybe california university. all characters will attend or just graduated from west beverly. characters in attendance at wb will be sophomores, juniors, or seniors, but as a twist, your character can also be a recent graduate, spending the summer in beverly hills or waiting to attend the also fictitious california university. your character's age can be from 16 to 19. if you want some information on beverly hills and the neighborhoods, check out beverly hills, ca.

our intro
since your character is required to make an intro, then it's only fair that we introduce ourselves first. this community has moderators who have modded great, longlasting, and friendly games before. we came up with this place based on how fun previous communities like it have been (like all the oc games on greatestjournal.com (may it r.i.p.)). what we want to do with this place is basically provide all the details to you first in the form of premades and information. sure, it's risky, and maybe it's not a popular idea right now, but i think that if you just give it a shot, you could be really inspired to have a great summer game that eventually can become a long lasting community. that's why this game was made, just to inspire something within another writer and let them take the ball and roll with it. our plans for this community are just to make sure that it's active and fun at all times. we want to have actual group scenes, aim buddies, themed weeks, awards, gossip columns, facebook directories, and just put back the carefree side to rp that isn't serious but is entertaining and reliable to cure boredom when nothing else will. so welcome to westbeverly, and i hope you're as excited and ready to play as we are. however, to do all this, we need activity on your part. it's the most important thing in keeping a place alive. so give this your best effort and don't rely on others to make a game fun. it's up to you to turn around rp communities.

some rules
we're doing name journals and screennames, so we're going with traditional. please do not have any other words, letters, or _'s that do not relate to your character's name in the username. it is confusing, and we're definitely saving you some grief as to how that kind of thing appears to others. it's not that we're elitist but sparklyanna and __williamxxx just don't look right for this type of game. you'll also need a friends only/spam post before joining.

so now you're almost ready to apply. you need to make a storyline post in californians before you can comment the app post. since we're not requiring bios/facts, the storyline post is required. this is just so we know that that you're being active with the character and finding the storylines set in your premade. you'll need the link to the storyline post for the application. you can still pimp in rps but we don't want to flood our ads and it's easier to go to one place to find what you're looking for.

activity is all based on what you put into this game. obviously you know what's like to be in an active game and what it's like to be in a game where no one cares. so you make the decision to update your journal when you want to, how you want to. however, you must must must make an intro within 3 days of being accepted, and then you must make your first journal entry within 7 days. after that, you've got one update every two weeks, but keep in mind, your pb or premade can be overridden if you become inactive. we will check inactivity every sunday. you shouldn't have to force things out of yourself but you should be keeping up with the game as well.

events, gossip column, fun activities. we're planning a lot of this stuff. the main thing is events. we want to do a lot of them, and just have something new and different than isn't the typical "dance, beauty pageant, popularity contest" thing but just real actual events that will be interesting to write. for that reason, an event calendar will be posted every monday with new things to do that week and then scene placeholders will be made in partyhouse, so get ready for that. suggestions are always welcome for events, please pm this journal. the gossip column will be posted at the end of the week, and will talk about what's going on with the most active characters in an intelligent, sophisticated way that will still be perezcious and scandalous. pictures of your character may be used but nothing that is too outlandish. if you don't agree to your character being in the gossip column, that's completely fine. just let us know on your application. fun activities for writers are going to be themed contests, best/funniest/most romantic scenes, character awards (which will happen after the first month), and other suggestions are welcome with that too. we just have a lot of great ideas for this place.

all of the subcomms were designed around hangouts that west beverly kids frequent. peachpit is the random community. the peach pit is located across from school and was also featured on the television show as the place that everyone hung around the most. cantina is the concert/music venue/bar/club located in beverly hills and offers the best in local bands. this will be the lyrics community. baitshack is located out on the beach. you can buy food, rent cabanas or jet skis and pick up fishing equipment. since it's out on the beach, it will be the ooc community.

okay the last and final thing before i let you get into setting up your character: please don't join and die off. we're all guilty of it, and we all know why. something else pops up, you never liked the character to begin with, the sl backed down, etc, etc. please don't quit. this game can be so amazing if we all just really branch out of our comfort zone and don't blame everything on being aim shy. i truly remember when everyone used to talk to everyone. ooc drama shouldn't run how you roleplay a character with someone else, because rping is just like any other game. you have to play to win, and i think the best way to deal with ooc issues is to forgive and forget, and don't let things change how you would write a character: i.e. not being afraid to im someone new or make storylines with new writers. so i'm just asking to be considerate of others and to put your best effort into being active. i think if we all do that, then we can have a really amazing game! also separate your ooc personality from the ic character. we can all get back to rping this way.