Template:BlackBox

From Unofficial Handbook of the Virtue Universe

Blackweb Recruit
Unknown
Origin:	Confidential
Archetype:	Confidential
Threat Level:	Confidential
Identity
Real Name:	Confidential
Nationality:	Confidential
Occupation:	Confidential
Place of Birth:	Confidential
Base of Operations:	Confidential
Marital Status:	Confidential
Known Relatives:	Confidential
Physical Data
Species:	Presumed Human
Age:	Confidential
Height / Weight :	Confidential / Confidential
Eye / Hair Color:	Confidential / Confidential
Known Powers
Confidential
Known Abilities
Confidential
Equipment
Confidential
Updated: 6/8/2011 - Player:

The BlackBox template is a version of the MercBox template, modified for use by the Blackweb Villain Group. Like it's original, it's a evolution of Eisregen HeroBox and VillainBox, modified to taste. It's only designed to work for Blackweb members, yet carries over some added functionality from its predecessor. Enjoy, Websters and Webettes. @Most Definitely Skary 12:36, 16 July 2008 (MST)

The BlackBox is a template designed to give a overview of a character in a readilly accessible format, with a lot of placeholders for the most basic of data on a character. As it's a potent and sometimes unintuitive tool, some documentation is in order. Eisregen did a good job out of explaining how this works here, so I'll just focus on the specifics.

Contents 1 BlackBox 101 1.1 List of Parameters 1.2 A note on categories 2 BlackBox Advanced

BlackBox 101

The basic incarnation of the BlackBox is as follows. Copy/paste and fill out to taste.

{{BlackBox
| image = 
| alt = 
| caption =
| rank =
| name =
| archetype =
| origin =
| level =
| realname =
| aliases = 
| nationality =
| occupation =
| birthplace =
| hometown =
| marital =
| relatives =
| species =
| age =
| gender =
| height =
| weight =
| eyes =
| hair =
| powers =
| abilities =
| equipment =
| footnotes =
| player = 
|}}

I hope Eisregen will forgive me for stealing most of the following descriptions. Additions unique to this box will be in cursive.

List of Parameters

First comes the image section.

• image - Character image. Should not be wider than 300 pixels. If it's too wide (or too small) it will be automatically shrunken (or expanded) to the appropriate size (but clicking on the image will display the actual image rather than the adjusted version). If you have no image, don't include this parameter and it will default to a placeholder image instead. Do not make this a link.
• alt - Alt text. What displays when you hover over the image. Defaults to "Victory for Arachnos!", our VG motto.
• caption - Text that goes right beneath the image, if you think the image requires further commentary. If not, don't include this parameter and there will be no blank space between picture and name.

Second is the Blackweb identity section, a relic of MercBox, but still with some functionality.

• rank - Character's rank within Blackweb. Defaults to Recruit.

Third, the ingame section.

• name - Your character's ingame name. This will appear in big bold letters.
• archetype - Your character's AT (Blaster, Brute, Controller etc.). Defaults to 'Confidential' if not further specified.
• origin - Your character's Origin (Magic, Mutant, Natural, Science, Technology). Defaults to 'Confidential' if not further specified.
• level - Your character's Threat Level. Defaults to 'Confidential' if not further specified.

Fourth is the civilian identity section. It has been reordered, repositioned, and had aliases removed improved.

• realname - Your character's identiy. Defaults to 'Confidential' if not further specified.
• aliases - Any other names (civilian or villainous) your character may be using. Defaults to being left blank, in which case it dissapears.
• nationality - The country or interstellar empire your character claims citizenship of. Defaults to 'Confidential' if not further specified.
• occupation - What your character does for a living. Good place to put your division/rank in the larger Arachnos organisation. Defaults to 'Confidential' if not further specified.
• birthplace - Where your character was born. Defaults to 'Confidential' if not further specified.
• hometown - Your character's current residence and stomping ground. Most likely the Rogue/Etoile Isles. Defaults to 'Confidential' if not further specified.
• marital - Whether your character is single, engaged, married, widowed or whatever other forms of voluntary slavery there are between two people. Defaults to 'Confidential' if not further specified.
• relatives - What kind of (relevant) relatives your character has or had. Most likely you'll want to limit this to any important characters that appear in stories or RP (such as Ascendant's uncle and manager). Defaults to 'Confidential' if not further specified.

Fifth comes the physical section.

• species - Your character's species. This is mostly important for aliens, sentient fungi and the like. Defaults to 'Human' if not further specified.
• age - Your character's age in human (solar) years. Defaults to 'Confidential' if not further specified.
• gender - Your character's gender - male, female, or genderless. This doesn't go on the sheet, but is categorised. Defaults to blank.
• height - Your character's height in feet and inches (I prefer the metric system myself, but since COH/COV defaults to imperial and for the sake of uniformity, feet and inches are preferable). Defaults to 'Confidential' if not further specified.
• weight - Your character's weight in pounds (see height). Defaults to 'Confidential' if not further specified.
• eyes - Your character's eye color. Defaults to 'Confidential' if not further specified.
• hair - Your character's hair color. Defaults to 'Confidential' if not further specified.

Last are the cream of the crop, the so-called assets section

• powers - A place for a short listing of the powers your character possesses, eg. 'Weather Control'. Defaults to 'Confidential' if not further specified.
• abilities - A place for short notes on your character's non-superhuman abilities, eg. 'Black Belt Karateka'. Defaults to 'Confidential' if not further specified.
• equipment - A place to mention any notable equipment your character carries around, eg. 'Nemesis Staff carried at all times'. Defaults to 'Confidential' if not further specified.
• footnotes - Room for any notes you want available at a glance that aren't covered by the above categories. Unlike HeroBox, it will collapse if left empty

And just to sign...

• player - However you'd like to identify yourself. Ideally, you'll want to make this a link to your user topic (User:Yourname, eg. User:Eisregen).

A note on categories

The BlackBox automates categorising by submitting any using it to categories by Character, gender, origin, archetype, side and Blackweb. There's no need to apply those categories separately. What it means is that you should be careful what you put in those fields, especially origin and archetype. If for some reason you want a AT-less character, I reccomend putting in Soldier.

BlackBox Advanced

A relic of MercBox, left in for those special cases. Blackbox has some additional options.

• side - defaulting to Villain, it can be changed to Hero for those members who have Hero alts for some reason. Some details will change to match.
• group - perhaps you are in a super/villaingroup other than Blackweb? This is the parameter to show and categorise it.
• bg - and...
• font - are used to change the background of the field with the character's name only. Used for customization purposes. Defaults are #575757 and white. Careful what you put in there.

And...

The BlackBox is capable of supporting multiple ingame incarnations of a character. Getting them to show up is as easy as setting the name# field to anything but blank, for example name2 = Sinatra will enable the second. At the moment, the implemented maximum is three. Each entry is categorised automatically. For example, the second one has the following fields:

• side2
• name2
• origin2
• archetype2
• level2
• group2
• bg2
• font2

This wraps it up for the template. Enjoy. In Strength SalvationVictory for Arachnos!