SOTF: International - Rules

[Brackie]

SOTF: International is an AU in which students from all around the world are abducted from their homelands by an unknown group, outfitted with an explosive collar, given a randomly assigned weapon, and forced to become whittled down until only one remains.

SOTF: International takes place in a world incredibly similar to our own, and as such it will be an SOTF in similar style to the games on Main, following all established rules barring a handful of differences:

• The abduction will take place on the 4th of March, 2021. Characters will be abducted from several countries across the world; countries who are member states of the Commonwealth of Nations with a maximum of two characters representing each country, and must have no previous connections to each other.
• These characters live in a universe where there is no Battle Royale, The Hunger Games, etc or past iterations of SOTF - this will be the first known iteration of SOTF to exist in this universe.
• Handlers will be allowed to handle one character per roster - once you’ve submitted your character, that’s the only character you will be allowed to handle in SOTF: International. If you would like to submit a second character, your first must be dropped from your roster before the game begins, either by abandoning/forfeiting the character for use, or adopting your character off to another handler without a full roster.
• Characters submitted must be in their final year/grade of secondary schooling (or secondary schooling local equivalent), between the ages of 17 and 19; this can vary by country, so make sure to do your research when submitting characters.
• As there is only one character per roster, each handler will only receive one hero card instead of both one hero card and one swap card.
• There will also, due to the premise of children from around the world who do not know each other, be no pregame or sandbox.
• The winner at the conclusion of the game will get the honour of writing this game’s epilogue, including a scene with the in-character “host”, as well as encompassing no further than one year into the future - there will be some oversight from myself and my second (Ohm), but it will be otherwise up to you to craft as you please.

As a late addendum to the above, we will be (for now) writing characters in a universe where COVID-19 does not exist as of yet - while maintaining realism and a parallel to real life is the most desirable outcome, the past year has been rough on nearly everyone, and as of the time of this rule's writing COVID is still a prevelant danger in many countries, especially ones that many handlers live in, so it would be preferable to put the whole thing aside for now and write around it rather than forcing every handler to incorporate it into their profiles while the situation is still constantly ongoing. If an International V2 happens and COVID is mostly in the past, we will revisit this rule, but for now - COVID-19 doesn't exist in International.