perfectday | Welcome to Perfect Day

GETTING STARTED

Perfect Day is a slow-paced, no-app AU Musebox Game inspired by the works of Beatrix Potter (the author and artist behind Peter Rabbit) where you can all play cute animals in little clothes having tea parties and killing each other. Feel free to either create OCs or AU your existing OCs and favorite canon muses right into the setting.

As is the nature of musebox games, there may be multiples of a character scurrying around! It wouldn't be too odd to find two rabbits named Blackberry after all. You may play as many characters as you like.

THE LAWS OF THE LAND

1. Don't be a shit. This is a Beatrix Potter game for crying out loud.

2. Nature is cruel. Please be respectful when RPing out fights and warn for violence in your subject headers.

3. Nature is naughty. Rabbits will be rabbits I suppose. Please mark content appropriately.

4. Read through the rest of THIS PAGE before sending in questions.

5. All styles of play (prose, brackets etc...) are welcome!

6. Play as many characters as you like!

POSTING

When posting a new entry to Perfect Day, please use this form:

Character(s):

Open: Yes or No

Location and Time of Day:

Content Warnings: (You don't have to put this if there is nothing to be wary of.)

You may put your entry behind a cut or leave it out in the open for all to see. Feel free to use images in your opener/top levels. We love to see beautiful things here at Perfect Day.

YOUR CHARACTER

Please try keep your character's appearance close to what can actually be found in nature. Sadly that means no purple polka-dotted foxes with wings. Also keep your characters to animals that are currently extant and real. No unicorns or dinosaurs.

If you would like to play an exotic animal like a parrot or a zebra, be creative in explaining how they came to live in Brakbre and think about all the obstacles they will face.

The creatures of Brakbre can be found trotting about on their hind hooves or scampering along on all fours. Some wear clothes and some do not. Some especially do not like to wear clothes.

As for your characters' abilities and canon powers, please keep the setting in mind. Many animals are superstitious and will swear down to their last whisker that they've seen ghosts in the woods or have fallen prey to terrible curses. Some say believing is what makes the magic happen. Others say there is no such thing as luck, what with so many creatures owning not one but four lucky rabbit's feet and still winding up in a shepherd's pie.

The non-fluffy answer is that yes there are supernatural forces in Brakbre, but please keep it mysterious! Your bunny may have a scrambled, prophetic dream or brew a love potion, but she may not Magic Missile the farmer's dog. That's just silly.

THE SETTING

WELCOME TO BRAKBRE

Brakbre is a quiet, remote place with lots of rolling hills dotted with farms, flowering meadows, thick forests cut through with streams, lots of rain and little traffic. It resembles a mixture of the English countryside and the rural American south. It could be anywhere, really, so long as there aren't a lot of towering buildings. There is a little town with plenty of houses to hide in and a busy market. There may even be a witch's hut hidden somewhere in the woods!

And speaking of the woods, there seems to be an odd mixture of little houses and dug-out burrows for the animals to live in. Perhaps it all comes down to skill and personal taste. Don't be afraid to invent neighboring towns for your animals to hail from, the names of hollows, streams, ponds and rock outcroppings, etc... It's a big wilderness and there is room for all of those things!

TIME AND TECH

It doesn't actually matter what year it is. You're playing animals in a charming countryside for a reason--the aesthetic. While your warrens might have Christmas lights running through them for illumination or your mouse hole might even be outfitted with a perfectly sized little kitchen, please don't give them tiny laptops and army tanks.

DEALING WITH HUMANS

This is where things can get a little fuzzy. In some of Beatrix Potter's stories, man and animal converse openly and sometimes even do business, however humans don't seem to take anything the animals say very seriously. In others, they are simply farm animals. The humans just don't...seem to register the cute little clothes. I say it's up to you how your character deals with the human NPCs of the world.

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Perfect Day is a slow-paced, no-app AU Musebox Game inspired by the works of Beatrix Potter (the author and artist behind Peter Rabbit) where you can all play cute animals in little clothes having tea parties and killing each other. Feel free to either create OCs or AU your existing OCs and favorite canon muses right into the setting. As is the nature of musebox games, there may be multiples of a character scurrying around! It wouldn't be too odd to find two rabbits named Blackberry after all.

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