get to know us
GREATSMOKY is a laid back PB slice-of-life community that is set in the cities of Pigeon Forge and Gatlinburg, Tennessee and it's surrounding towns. We encourage creative storylines, quality writing and lots of interaction. Our role as mods is to provide a fun, creative and relaxing place to express your characters. It is our goal to provide a game you enjoy and feel comfortable in. We welcome feedback and suggestions. We encourage a wide variety of faces and characterizations. If you have any questions, comments, suggestions, etc, please feel free to comment the dropbox and we'll get back to you as soon as we can!

interested in joining us?
Joining is simple! You'll need a journal, of course. We request that the journal name not contain any excessive amount of extra letters, numbers, and no underscores; we require the journal name to be IC. We require you to have an IC post, an OOC contact post, and, of course, a post about your character's information. With the biography of your character, you have a choice. You may provide only the basics, but if you choose to do so, then we ask for two examples (one narrative, one scene/thread). If this is the route you choose, please submit the examples to the dropbox. If you choose not to submit examples, we do ask that your character's history be 5-7 bullet points or two paragraphs long. They can be as detailed as you want.

To join, please hold your PB here and fill out our application here. We request that all characters and PB's be at least 18 years of age. Please be sure your characters are within the five year range of the PB's actual age. We do ask that the face you use be one that is easy to search on Google, providing some information and images of the person. We encourage all types and ask for a diversity of race, religion, sexuality, etc.

We do not accept faux celebrities. This is not a faux community.

Currently, we do not have a character per player limit. All we ask is that you are able to be active with all characters that you have in game. This can be changed at any time at mod discretion. If we do notice that you are lacking in interaction with a character, you will be nudged. If it continues that character will be up for removal/override.

activity requirements
Once accepted, you will be required to make an introductory post here. You will have 48 hours to make your introductory post. Failure to do so (and reply to the comments) will result in your character's removal.

Activity must be turned into the activity tracker by 10 PM EST on the last day of the month. Activity reminders will be posted in the ooc community starting mid-month. If you are on hiatus or were accepted on or after the 15th of the month, you will be exempt from activity checks. Removals will be done during the first adds of the month.

In addition to keeping your friends list updated, you are required to submit one form of activity. Your initial character introduction will not count towards activity, unless you were added on or after the 15th of the month. In this case, comments must be replied to. For your activity submission, you can choose either an interactive post with comments replied to or a private/narrative post.

Hiatuses are different with every player. We like to discuss what's going on with you (not details, of course) and go from there. We do ask that if the hiatus is a month or longer, you find some time to touch base with us just to let us know if you are still intending to come back. If you are removed due to activity, we will allow you to reapply. If you are removed a second time, you will be unable to reapply at that point.

Sensitive subjects and topics: It is extremely important to properly tag your posts. Please think of others when you are posting sensitive subjects. So many things can trigger someone. If you think your post could make somebody uncomfortable or upset in some way, then make sure you tag it appropriately, or contact the mods and maybe we can give some advice on how to continue with that topic.

all the extra stuff
GREATSMOKY has a zero tolerance policy when it comes to IC / OOC crossing and harassment. If it comes to light that you are involved with either, your character(s) will be removed immediately and you will not be allowed, or welcome, back.

To protect yourself from possible harassment, we recommend that you turn off anonymous comments so they cannot be made on your posts. To do this, you will need to go to comment settings and enable commenting from registered users only.

PLEASE be sure to tag any NSFW posts as such and post under a cut. Many writers are at home with kids running around and some read the friends page at work. Please keep this in mind when posting inappropriate matter.

We are a community that is not recognizing COVID-19. In GREATSMOKY, we choose to ignore the pandemic and keep things normal.

Any and all rules are subject to change at mod discretion. If changes are made to the rules, the mod team will update the players with a post in the ooc community.