This is the process of your character leaving the city (and game) and metaphorically walking off into the sunset. Sunsetting a character is only available to characters who have existed in the game world for five years or more. If you wish to play a different character for a time, see 'help vacation' instead.
Note: Sunsetting is an overarching storyline (with help from the GMs) to resolve the majority of your roleplay and conflict within the game. It does not have a set time limit and cannot be rushed.
If you wish just to have your character "leave the city" and perm without being left behind in a suicide booth or badlands, then you can submit a service-request and let us know you wish to have your character leave the city without doing a full sunset plot and it is usually something we can facilitate.
PROCESS
The process of sunsetting your character can be complicated. First, you should alert the admin that you are interested in sunsetting your character by putting in an @service-request (OTHER option) and describing the reasoning why. If you are coming up on 5 years and want to get the ball rolling, you can submit your service request a few months early so the GMs and you can work on your exit strategy together.
The GMs will reach out to you to discuss your options. Not everyone is an immediate candidate for sunsetting. If you are actively involved in roleplay, have a position of power, or are involved in numerous plots, you will have to finalize that roleplay, step away from your power base, and resolve any outstanding debts before you will be allowed to sunset.
The reasoning behind this should be clear to any player who has been playing Sindome for requisite 5 years. We don't want your character leaving the game to have an adverse effect on the role play of others. If you owe someone 100k and you sunset your character, they have no recourse on that debt. If you are high up in a faction, and you just leave, that puts the other players in that faction in a tough situation, not to mention the burden it lays at the feet of the GMs.
The GMs will happily suggest ways in which to start resolving your role play, and will start removing you from plots and positions of power, as your character makes it ICly known that they are considering leaving the city for good.
Sunsetting is an overarching storyline (with help from the GMs) to resolve the majority of your roleplay and conflict within the game. It does not have a set time limit and cannot be rushed.
COOLDOWN
Upon requesting a sunset, there is a minimum cooldown (waived only in extreme circumstances) of 30 days.
DISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH
You CANNOT decide to sunset your character and just give away all your shit. If you do this, the staff are going to be upset. And you will be punished.
If you want to distribute some of your gear, power, and other wealth-- this is encouraged, simply giving it away without roleplay is NOT ALLOWED.
You must come up with meaningful plots to distribute your wealth. Because remember, your character is sunsetting, which is retirement, not death. Why would they give away everything they own instead of keeping their assets?
Giving away all of your stuff causes an imbalance in the game. People should work for what they get, not have it handed to them by characters who decide to ride off into the sunset.'
Some examples of acceptable plots to distribute wealth:
- Hiring a highly paid bodyguard to protect you for a month - Hiring a highly paid driver to move you about during the final weeks of your character - Having a public contest with the winner getting your vehicle/some money/whatever - Paying someone to be the head of a Foundation you form, which has X goal, and the money is used after you are gone to accomplish that goal - A final fuck you, where you equip someone well to pull the trigger on someone else after you are gone - Other examples can be provided by GMs upon request, based on your specific situation
NO BACKSIES
You can change your mind about a sunset before you have left the game and entered character generation. However, there is no undoing of roleplay that happened up to that point. Your assets, wealth, and power, are probably gone forever. If you enter character generation, you cannot change your mind later. There is no returning this character to the Sindome Universe. They have left, you finish their story in your head.
SEE ALSO: help vacation @rules *Last Updated: 04/14/24 by Mench*
