Barton High School - Important Information

Welcome to Persona: Aria in B-Minor. This post will serve as a repository of information on how to participate in this RP.

The first thing to know is that this RP won't be told in a single thread. For ease of access and to keep things moving along, we'll have a few.

The Story thread will be where the main events take place - important days, plot-related events, and exploration of the Courts will take place here. This is probably the one outside readers will want to follow along with, and it's where we'll probably spend a lot of our early days with the RP.

The Actions thread won't be a home for prose - it'll be where you choose what you want to do with your Free Time. During School Hours, I'll post brief summaries of that day's classes. During other periods, simply post what you'd like to do with your time. If the action you're taking is taking us to a new area or introducing a new character, we'll probably jump to the Story thread. Or if you're pursuing a Social Link, we'll jump to that thread to RP it out. This is also the thread in which you'll post your Lesson Plans.

You'll each have a dedicated Social Links thread where you can roleplay your interactions with the various friends and enemies you'll make along the way. The game won't pause for long and wait for these interactions to play out - the idea is to allow them to happen asynchronously, where needed, to keep things moving quick.

Finally, there will be a Free Writing thread open for... anything, really. Drabbles, little interactions, descriptions of classes or club meetings that aren't story events - this is your place to drop whatever you feel like writing about your character. There's no pressure to keep things chronological here either - feel free to flash back as long as you make that clear.

Each weekday is divided into three sections - School Hours, After School, and Evening. During School Hours you'll do your teaching, obviously. During After School you can pursue school-based Social Links, tutor students, or participate in the Clubs you're advising. And during the Evening you can explore the town, pursue other Social Links, or simply enjoy a quiet evening at home.

Weekends are divided into only two sections - Daytime, and Evening. Weekends are when the school is closed, but it's when the realm of unreality is very much open - you'll be able to access the Courts on weekends. You'll have to come to an agreement as a team before heading in - no solo jaunts!

It should go without saying that in-RP days and weeks will not correspond to real-life ones. We've all got lives to live, so this thing will move at the pace it needs to - I don't really want to have to put up posting deadlines unless it becomes absolutely necessary.

Your day job. Maybe it's your passion, maybe it's a paycheck, maybe it's something in-between. Whatever the case may be, here's how to do it well.

Managing Your Students:

Planning Your Week:

Homework, Quizzes, and Tests:

Tutoring:

Clubs:

Teacher Stats:

Social Links are the real roleplaying meat of this RP - the relationships you form with those around you, which strengthen your spirit and connection with your other self.

Each player has fourteen Social Links. Most of them are unique to them, though there may be some overlap, and some - like Victoria and Robert - will be available to all. The Ace, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six, Seven, Eight, Nine, Ten, and Page of your Suit will all be non-player characters, while your Knight, Queen, and King Social Links will be the ones you form with your fellow Champions.

Advancing your Social Links is crucial to your effectiveness in the Courts! The strength of Personas you catch in the wild, as well as the ones you can fuse in the Velvet Room, will be directly proportional to your level in their corresponding Social Link. On top of that, completing Social Links will give you useful skills and allow you to fuse Ultimate Personas. Pretty cool, Joker!