How do the character journals and the communities work in-game?
All of this is on a massive online social network just like LiveJournal, although for the sake of convenience, we’ll avoid giving the network a name. All in-character posts are made in the main community, all player-to-player/mod-to-player/player-to-mod communication goes down in the OOC community (or via e-mail or AIM), and all logs and threads are posted in the logs community. Other characters can see your character’s userpics/icons (not the keywords, just the icons), but they cannot see his or her username or userinfo. That stuff is strictly out of character. You can filter a post so that it only appears in certain languages by typing (for example) [Filter: English and Japanese], followed by the post content. You can use the same structure to make your character’s post visible only to certain other characters or to make it private so that only the character themselves can read it. Different parts of a post can have different filters, as well. It’s up to the player whether a characte
