IC Chat

== What is IC Chat?== IC Chat, or In Character Chat, is a way of roleplaying that doesn't involve writing big lengthy posts in order to get the story rolling. Many different sites use IC Chat as either a method of text messaging or online chat between characters, or they use it as a shortcut substitute for a thread. IC Chat can be done in many different ways, using either a Chat Box, messaging service or maybe even just threading one liners.

IHWU Chatting
On IHWU we use AIM to chat, it's one of the most popular parts of IHWU. Each character who wants to get involved has their own screen name. Linking them together is easy, and then our characters all chat to each other whenever you'd like about whatever you'd like. Just remember that it does affect the plot!

For anything that you would prefer not to affect the general plot there's something we'll flip to called AU which is also pretty popular. Alternate Universe Roleplaying is basically what it sounds like, Alternate Universe. Nothing that happens actually matters.

On the site, you can see previous important conversations and a list of screenames here.

How?
So how exactly do you chat? It's easy once you get the hang of it. Depending on where you chat, there could be different rules but on IHWU we try and follow the same set of guidelines.

Online Conversation
If your characters are talking to each other online, either from phones or computers your chat is most likely going to look something like this:

Person A: Hey what's up?

Person B: Not much, you?

Person A: Same here, how weird is it that we're in an example chat?

''Person B: I know, it's awkward... :S''

Face to Face
For any time that your characters meet up during a conversation, we put the actions in either - or *, your conversation would look something like this:

Person A: -knocks on the door- 

''Person B: -answers the door and grins- Oh hey! What's up?''

''Person A: We're still in that example chat thing aren't we? -smirks to himself and heads inside kicking his shoes off-''

''Person B: Heh yeah... I think so, nothing important really seems to be happening is it? -shuts the door-''

OOC Talking
Anytime that we want to talk to each other OOC or Out Of Character during one of our IC Chats, we either grab each other on a different, OOC Aim, or, put whatever we'd like to say in brackets. People have used [, { or (, single or double it doesn't really matter as long as the text is seperate from that of your IC.