JoS/Rules

BASICS

There are no rules as to what kind of content you can write, and there's no mods you're absolutely required to have. You can focus on any part of the game you want, or choose to ignore some specific parts, not write about certain quest chain you completed if it doesn't fit your journal. It's all up to you. However, indicating what kind of content readers can expect through tags is important.

First, add a link to your "journal" in the appropriate section down below. If your story is set in Skyrim, add it under "Journals from Skyrim". If it's set anywhere else, add it under "Journals from Other Regions". First tag should indicate what category your story falls into using the same categories this site uses to divide different types of stories with few minor caveats. Below are some examples:

• If the main character is attracted to young girls, or is a young girl herself, Loli tag would make sense.
• Stories involving homosexual relations between young boys, or between adults and young boys should have a Shota tag.
• For friends of Furry, stories that have a focus on beast races of Tamriel, like Khajit on Khajit love and content involving Werebeasts, a Furry tag makes sense.
• For stories with the main focus being on infantophilia and toddlers, Nepi tag makes sense.
• For everything else (like adult on adult, stories involving kinks like tentacles, bondage and bestiality, and stories that mix a lot of elements) you can use the Meta tag.

Add additional tags to tell readers what they should expect in your specific journal. Don't forget to add your name either so it can be attributed to you. Site rules regarding tags and formatting obviously apply.

Here are some extra tags unique to this collection of stories to help reader understand what they're getting themselves into:

• Purist - Content is strictly limited to the gameplay and author's own adventures. References to the real world or videogame features such as menus, console and fast travel are prohibited.
• Lorefriendly - The author is also allowed to add content to fill in some gaps through adlib and his or her own imagination to make the journal feel more unique. In other words, journal doesn't have to be a perfect reflection of one's playthrough. Otherwise, same restrictions apply as above.
• Fanfiction - Same as above, except that custom lands and races which may not be so lore friendly are permitted.
• Unrestricted - No restrictions to written content. Your only limit is your own imagination.
• Mods - Story takes place in a heavily modded game which not only adds characters, quests and new locations, but also modifies existing content. Since mods of sexual nature are pretty much expected, you don't have to count sex mods to this.
• Spoilers - The story contains spoilers from various quests and events around the game.
• Vampirism / Lycanthrophy - Writer of the journal is not your conventional mortal.
• More, maybe? Open to feedback.

I know the title of the story says "Skyrim", but content from other regions and other games from "the Elder Scrolls" universe is permitted. For content from other regions adding an additional tag to indicate which region it's based on is required.

FORMATTING YOUR JOURNAL

First page of your story should be a character page so you know what kind of person has supposedly written the journal. Character page is free format, but should include information about characters appearance, race and things which you probably wouldn't expect to find about the person on his or her journal. Images are also welcome; you can use in-game screenshots too if you want to. Things like backstory are also welcome there.

Never forget to categorize the pages you add. Simple code below.

[[Category:Journals of Skyrim]]

The character page should have the links to the actual story, preferably at the top of the page to keep things consistent and content easier to find. You can either only add the link to the first page of the story, or all pages, whichever you prefer. The primary reason for why it's done this way is so we can take advantage of Mediawiki's subpage system for easier navigation.

To get things to work as intended, link to the character page should be as follows:

[[JoS/Placeholder-kun|Placeholder-kun]]

Meanwhile, links to the actual journal pages should look something like this:

[[JoS/Placeholder-kun/Page 1|Page 1]]

[[JoS/Placeholder-kun/Page 2|Page 2]]

If you're going to split your journal to multiple pages, it's highly recommended that you add more than just one "journal entry" to each page, especially if the entries you write about your adventures are short. Having pages with just few paragraphs or sentences in them is boring.

EDITING PERMISSIONS

As a rule, ask first.

Every journal is a reflection of one's own playthroughs, experiences or imagination, and as such making major changes or continuations to existing stories may be difficult. However, it us up to every individual author to decide which parts of their story are open to be edited by anyone.

OTHER STUFF

I'm always open to feedback and suggestions regarding tags, formatting, rules and such.

Anyone who's interested in helping with any other stuff, like pictures, ccs, templates and such is free to do so as well. I'm not good with those things.

If you're looking to learn about lore or make the story as lorefriendly as possible, a website called "The Imperial Library" is your best friend. You can read all kinds of stuff there, including in-game books and look up different books by topic.

This may be an overreach, but links to modding guides and such to help people are fine by me. I'm not going to add any for now.