While Underlight's main goal revolves around roleplaying of each individual players with each other, there are a series of positions within the game that offers extra roleplaying outlets as well as responsibilities of the players achieving such positions.

Example Positions:

• Teachers and Master Teachers.
• Officers of Game introduced Houses.
• Leaders of various player introduced groups.

The characters that have achieved such positions either via the aid of a GM (eg. ordainment), support of other players, or character characteristics, are dawned with specific responsibilities which place them outside of character for the mutual improvement of the game. For those characters become the best channel for the GameMasters to bring in and coordinate roleplaying content within the community.

• Communication with the Staff.
  

  The GameMasters expect at least a monthly OOC report from the leaders of the community (via roleplaying@ixios.net), that mention the summary of deeds and decisions made during the period between reports, whether they're secret to the rest of the public or not. The plans for the future, inner soul motivations and influential conclusions of the player's character. Such reports are considered strictly OOC, and no existing GM driven characters will be able to alter their behavior based on these reports without notification to the player. Such reports need not include the events content only, they should include anything that is relative to any deeds the player's character has performed, or plans to do.
  
  Examples:
  
  

  • The player reports that he has plans to change the house's policy in some dramatic way, he describes the reasons he plans to do this, the guesswork of success, the backing he has, and so on. This gives the GM staff time to create a character who will be able to support the change, overcoming technical difficulties and so on.
    
    
  • The player reports that his house is stable and good, but is slowly growing stale because the house's main ideology is impossible to fulfill through practical means. The GM staff will be able to address the House's Seneschals to produce a gears for the house to fulfill. The player reports that there are disgruntled individuals within the house and he plans to demote them. Alas, the GM staff does not intend to intervene in organization's individual management.
  
  
• Providing Content to the people that depend on your position.
  
  Whether you're a teacher, leader of a group or a house, or any other key position, there are others who depend on you for enriching their gameplay. And it is your responsibility to provide them just that. A leader position does not revolve around management and improvement of the group only, but also to focus the group into providing them things to achieve that they would not have considered otherwise. In a way, by accepting a position of responsibility, the player will be responsible to motivate the people the character is responsible for. Note, that this content need not be beneficial alone, riling a house to war may cause all sorts of events for your target, but if that's what's needed to make the gameplay for the dream.

While the responsibilities mentioned in this guide are demanding, they are not at all mandatory. Meaning you are capable of achieving leadership positions and ignoring this guide and the whole roleplaying GM staff with it. In fact we mostly understand it, for it requires you to perform many things Out of Character, which is certainly a jarring chore in a roleplaying game. At the same time, it is our strong opinion that the responsibility of the manner described in this guide is required to properly run a multifaceted roleplaying environment where competing and achievement are a major part of the gameplay. So we have decided to offer a greater portion of our support to those who do fulfill the suggestions here.

While some positions of responsibility are hard coded and clear (eg. teachers, rulers, etc), they are not the only ones. In a way, everyone qualifies, we are simply more demanding of certain key positions then others. Any player is welcome to fulfill these responsibilities, and we will welcome it, as well as coordinate the content to suit your the character's storytelling.