This is a sandbox style role play that is based in a Southern Californian named Ocean City.
This town is home to a prestigious high school and university that students from all over flock to. The school is home to the best teachers in the state and hosts an eclectic variety of students from all over the world. Students have the option to live on campus and in between classes on the weekend are able to roam the town. There is always some kind of event going on. In this role play you can role play high school students, teachers, college students, and the town residents! We encourage character development and being able to follow your character through different stages of life encourages that.
This town is on the water and offers many events for every season along with the schools offering their own events as well. There are many chances to foster positive relationships between characters but this is a slice of life so drama and enemies are bound to be made!
Also, don't think your secrets are safe because there are those who patrol the tides of gossip and report all the going ons in the town gossip blog. Here everyone’s dirty laundry is presented, it’s up to the characters to believe it and do whatever they want with it.
Our members are funny and brimming with sarcasm, we look forward to our new members so we can add to the student and staff populations while further growing our characters and challenging ourselves in our writing skills. Most of our conversations happen off site in our own chat room, which we have a link posted above in the toggled section, until then if you have any questions go ahead and post them in the CBOX, we will get back to you as soon as possible!
Have fun looking around, we hope to meet you soon!
April 20th
At this time Tidwater is, unfortunately, on an indefinite hiatus. All active members have regrouped and started a new rol play forum.
If you would like to join us, it is located here.
1) Respect your admin and the rest of your players
No pestering, stalking, or harassment of ANY KIND. We do not tolerate bullies and it could lead to an instant ban.
Characters that are assholes are fine, this is supposed to be real life; Any player or character of any race, sexuality, religion, or gender is welcome here.
2) Joining application
For those of you who are just browsing our forum before deciding to join, we do require an application to join. It is a simple application and can be found here.
3) Character Guidelines
We do in fact have face claims for our characters. You can find out whose face claims have been taken here.
We do not have a character application; we only ask that your characters are not "Anime" style, Cartoon style, or drawings, have a realistic story line, and are not Mary-Sues, but we do have a simple guide that helps with the character making process.
If you are still working on your character and have not completed it, but you started roleplaying said character, you will receive three warnings; if you do not comply you will be suspended for one week before being allowed to return. If you continue to disregard this rule, you will be banned.
**There are a few exceptions for those who are grandfathered into this forum**
4) No God-modding
This is a simple one; you only have control over your own character. DO NOT make actions for others unless given permission.
5) Mature Content
We are a mature site. You do not EVER have to partake in a story line that makes you feel uncomfortable.
Make sure all adult stories are labeled with either M or Mature so others know that they don't have to read it. Feel free to add extra warnings at the start of your posts to keep those who don't want to read mature content from reading on.
We reserve the right to stop you from going into explicit scenes that are morally wrong. While mentioning that your character was raped in their history is fine, playing such scenes out will not be welcomed here.
We ask that you make sure to respect other players triggers! Also no pornographic pictures of any kind! While we are not an 18+ forum, we do reserve the right to decline your application if we think you are too young. This will be decided as a group among the administrators.
6) Word count & literacy
We welcome RPers of all types. Though we ask that English be your primary language and people can understand you. We do not believe in word counts. Both one liners, semi-lit, and paragraph types are allowed to be played.
No Chatspeak allowed, unless you are using ( ) or OOC:/ or BIC:/
7) Marriage, pregnancy & birth
Marriage must be agreed upon by both players.
Pregnancy can only happen if both players involved agree to it.
Pregnancy must be played out for one IRL month before a child is born.
The minimum wait time for a child to age is 2 week = 1 year.
It is up to both players involved to choose if the child stays as a character, one of them will play it, or another person brought in.
8) Character Death
Characters can die here- either for story purposes or because you wish them to, we do have a retired characters section here. This is in case you don't want to roleplay your character anymore, but don't want to delete them either in case you ever decide to do so.
9) Don’t Take Things Personally
When it comes to our characters, yes we all grow attached to them at times, but please do not attack a certain persons character just because you are having trouble with another member.
Also remember, don't take what happens to heart, this is a roleplay: If a character doesn't like yours don't take it personally and try to cause drama because of it. This role play is about developing character relationships and in those terms not all of them are going to be positive.
If bullying between characters moves to bullying between members please alert the admin team so that the situation can be handled appropriately.
10) Activity
Please be active! A role play group with only a few members that get on and others that don't will fail to grow and those few who are roleplaying, their characters will not develop like we all want them to. We understand that life happens and you are not able to stop by every day, BUT if possible, please inform a administrator that you will be absent for a little bit: No explanation needed.
If you have been accepted, made a character, and posted responses, after three months of being in-active, you will be deleted. Unless you have informed an administrator of your absence.
If you have been accepted but have not created a character, you will have two months of being inactive before being deleted. Unless you have informed an administrator of your absence.
If you haven’t been accepted (Have not filled out the application) you will have one month of being in-active before being deleted. Unless you have informed an administrator of your absence.