The Beginner's Guide
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This has been suggested many times and many times we wonder how one would help. What would we write that would help ease you into Dirty Life? We have no main characters--the important people are the ones your character meets.
The only reason we're doing this is because we're constantly told that prospective players are intimidated by the size of the game's wiki and the five years of history. To remedy this, we have culled many of the factoids, both OOC and IC, and listed them here.
This does not include every ICly significant person, such as famous CEOs, writers, or officials. This is going to be kept as simple as it is possible to make a game this vast fit into a nutshell.
- Ye Oldest Characters
- Avery Driscoll
- Jack Dickon
- Jake Griffith
- Annabelle Dickon
- These four, specifically the three boys, comprised the entire cast of Dirty Life when it was created in August 2004. The three boys are involved in a singular relationship. Bound by marriage (all legality aside). They are known as The Boys, informally. Annabelle is Jack's younger sister, though she is now legally adopted by Avery's mother and step-father, making her Annabelle Camden. This is OOC knowledge, though their relationship is, IC, mentioned in tabloids, as Avery is a part of the Fitzwilliam family.
- Bigshots
- Capio
- In-Character Reason for Importance: While not rich and powerful in the same sense as the two families below, this is our second invented line of British aristocracy in the game. Their family encompasses the peerage of the Duke of Northumberland.
- Fitzwilliam
- In-Character Reason for Importance: Technically the richest family in Britain. They own The Fitzwilliam Diamond Company, which is world-renowned (they bought out De Beers during the Depression) and are blue-blooded (their peerage currently encompasses the Duke of Wiltshire, and in the past also contained several other titles). These two factors mean you can find them in the news, both for good and bad reasons. While charitable on a massive scale (prominent in HIV/AIDS research and performing arts), they still own a diamond company.
- Rémi
- In-Character Reason for Importance: Somewhere on the list of richest families in France, but more by sheer force of numbers, as they are a huge and wide-spread family that also extends to America. They have a strong presence in hotels, restaurants, pharmaceuticals, French filmmaking, and home goods. Nothing is quite so glamorous as owning a diamond company, but they make up for that with the breadth of their meddling.
- Out Of Character Reason for Importance: Some of the most active and oldest characters in the game come from these families, and there is a metric fuckton(ne) of them. They are all three responsible for the sheer number of angels in the game. Yes, all three families are angelic. Coincidence? Well, yes, considering at least one of them was rich beforehand. Gold stars if you guess which it is.
- People of Note
- See List of recognizable characters. The oldest characters in the game might be an interesting bit of trivia, but there are characters in the game who are actually significant IC. This list compiles them.
- People and Places and Things
- 93 Gloucester Road
- Belgravia Station
- Blackburn
- The Burlesk House
- Calescotia
- Eclipse Bar
- The Fitzwilliam Diamond Company
- Kensington Police Station
- The Rusty Goat
- The Tory Island Angels
- The Wooing Maiden Inn and Pub
- These are places or people that involve quite a lot of other places and people. Large plots may center on them. Many characters generally conglomerate around them. They're worth knowing, even if irrelevant to you. They're all going to be mentioned more than enough times to be confusing.
- Plots of Note
- See the Plot category.
