Your Device: The myPhone

The myPhone™

All students and faculty at Netherworld Academy are assigned a free myPhone™. The myPhone™ is a very versatile and durable device. There have been attacks which obliterated their targets which left little more than a scratch on them, so fear not, you will break long before your myPhone™ does!

The myPhone™ allows you to access and edit your status screen (though changing someone's title requires a visit to the Dark Assembly), journal and comments at any time. It can also be used to contact any other myPhone™ attached to the network at any distance! The basic version includes audio and a low quality camera (it can't be used for effective surveillance at any notable distance, you have to pay to get access to heist preparatory tech like that!) which can be used for basic visual communication.

It has basic color settings which lets you customize how it looks to a degree, but any further customization (such as special menu options, the menu layout, etc.) requires an upgrade which can be purchased from the app store or unlocked through a visit to the Dark Assembly.

The myPhone™. It's myPhone™, not yourPhone.

The myPhone™ MkII

The myPhone™ MkII comes with everything the regular myPhone™ does, but the customization upgrade is included. It also includes a high tech camera which can be used for various things, even at incredible distances. The screen is also slightly more responsive than the MkI!

The myPad™

Larger and bulkier than the myPhone™, the myPad™ is the next evolution in mySystem technologies. Able to hold more data than a myPhone™ and with a bigger screen, you can now post and watch videos in style.

It is otherwise identical to a myPhone™ in every way, including having to purchase or unlock the customization upgrade separately, sorry.

There is no myPad™ MkII, but the mySystem prinnies are hard at work! So we expect it at some point or another.

The App Store

The myPhone™ app store is a digital subsidiary of The Rosen Queen Shop which is a partner of mySystem Breaks, the company which provides the myPhone™ and all related technologies. Apps can do any number of things and are added to the app store at certain intervals.

All mySystem™ technologies run on the universal mySO (my System Overlord) engine, allowing all apps purchased to be cross compatible. Because they expect everyone to download their products illegally anyway, there isn't any security on their legitimately produced products. Instead they automatically install a bug patch on any mySO product which connects to the network causing all the apps installed on it to become buggy to the point of almost unusability. The upgrade patch to "bug fix" it costs more than the original app and is included with the original purchase... most of the time.

Available Apps
Advanced Customization Upgrade App
Dark Assembly Viewer
Image Editing App
Netherworld DPS (displays your average Damage per Second since you entered the netherworld; you thought this was a Dimentional Positioning System or something?)
Status Screen Viewer
Talk to Text Journal Posting App
Text to Talk Audio Posting App
Video Editing App (myPhone™ MkII camera is recommended)

mySystem insists that someday there will be an app for everything.

FAQ

So this is a jamjar, right? Let's get the low-down. Why is my character stuck here?

It is a jamjar! After an analysis of Netherworld Academy's diversity, the administration found that there was a distinct lack of one demographic: non-demons. They snapped at the opportunity to improve their school's image in the Netherworld by kidnapping non-demons (via the multiverse crossing dimensional gate) and saddling them with debt so they can't leave.

Why don't I just sneak out through the dimensional gate?

It takes a really long time to learn how to operate it. Look at that thing! It's all just a bunch of flashing unlabeled buttons! The guys whose job it is can send you where ever they're allowed to send you in the blink of an eye, sure, but those allowed places don't include anywhere outside this netherworld.

Well what if I do figure out how to use it?

Then you'd still need to know the coordinates for your own universe.

What if I'm from Stargate? Could I go home then?

Sorry, Daniel Jackson, but this is an entirely different system. You'll still be here for years.

So since this is a jamjar, my character shows up basically penniless as usual, right?

Actually, that is not true. The Prinnies were forced into taking liberties with your money and possessions (by bank robberies if necessary) and brought all your stuff to the Netherworld for you.

So can my super rich character just pay off the debt?

Nope. Super rich characters just get saddled with even more debt. But it's okay, they don't have to pay it off for a long time. Longer than their entire lifespan possibly. The contract was written for a demon, and they live thousands of years.

Speaking of money and debts and all that, how is money being kept track of?

Short answer? It's not. If your character was rich in their setting, they're rich here. Just don't go overboard with it. The Rosen Queen Shop and The Prinny Request Hideout may reference values in the nether world currency of Hel, HL for short, but it's really just for flavor. If you want a conversion, assume 100 HL is about 1 US dollar.

What about jobs to futility try to pay of the debt?

Your character can pretty much find whatever awesome, silly or demeaning job you'd like. Rule of funny applies.

Well, then what happens if a character drops?

There are a number of possibilities, perhaps they found a loophole in their contract and actually managed to escape? Or maybe they actually somehow legitimately paid off their debt. More likely they got lost in the Chaos on BS Mountain or they might have simply perished somewhere and no one bothered to revive them. In any case, regardless of what actually happened, as far as everyone on campus is most likely concerned they mysteriously disappeared.

Okay, but what if I or someone else wants to re-app them?

Considering that even death is impermanent here, that's perfectly fine! A character who went home is swindled into debt again (some people never learn). A character who got lost finds their way back and may or may not remember what transpired since they left. A character who died wakes up in the nurses office, perhaps brought there by other PCs or perhaps for more nefarious reasons.

There may be special circumstances where things need to be worked out with other players or the mods, but for the most part these are few and far between so be confidant that no one leaves the netherworld without any risk of return and re-app to your heart's content!

Okay, so what's with these demons?

Demons are evil bullies, but for the most part they're not all that bad! Being evil is cool in the Netherworld, and a lot of demons are just silly nuisances. They're a cartoony evil, like Wile E. Coyote building a death trap, or breaking up with your significant other via e-mail, then calling them to say 'Check your e-mail k thx bye.' Consider this: Ding Dong Ditch is a professional sport in the Netherworld.

They aren't all harmless; some will try to swindle you, rob you, beat your lights out... the Netherworld is a dangerous place, but if you lie low you should be alright most of the time.

How can these demons beat my character up? S/he's Goku/Superman/Dark Phoenix/The King of All Cosmos.

And if they are very powerful they will be more powerful than most demons in the Netherworld, but this is a setting where some people could destroy planets in their sleep. Somewhere in the Netherworld there is someone more powerful. More on this subject in this thread.

My character is super weak! Can they power level?

To certain degrees they could get more powerful. Plenty of humans in the Netherworld are plenty powerful, but please be reasonable. If you think you're getting a bit too far out there it never hurts to check in the with mods. But your character doesn't have to be powerful to be in the Netherworld; this isn't a game about fighting. We're still more interested in CR.

So is this or isn't this a school RP? And what kind of school is it? High school? College?

You could say it's a parody of school games, rather than a school game. As for what kind of school it is, Netherworld Academy is more of an escalator school, going from primary school to college. But regardless of age, terrible budget cuts have meant all students are in the same classes, when they are in class at all.

Is this a crack game, then? Can I play a serious character here?

The Netherworld may be wacky, but the Disgaea games blended hilarity well with serious and genuine genre subversion, introspection and character development, so we would be happy to have serious and zany characters alike. Besides, every stooge needs a straight man.

What about dead characters? How are they coming back alive to play in the RP?

Ohh, the school nurse is shockingly good at curing death. Don't worry about it. Or, if your character was at all a sinner (or simply mistaken to be, the bureaucracy is often too lazy to care about the details), they could come to the Netherworld as a prinny: an exploding slave penguin. You could shop some prinny icons together, or they could be lucky and have reincarnated in the Netherworld on a day that we were running short on prinny bodies to stuff their souls into, which really has no effect except flavor.

Hey, isn't this game a lot like some other game there used to be

Yep! Netheworld Academy is a spiritual successor LJ's Netherworld RPG. We've lifted a lot of ideas and things from the game, and it's all meant as the highest form of flattery. We don't have any of the same mod staff, but we've spoken to the old founders and gotten their blessing.

Can I ask you some more questions?

Sure thing, just leave a comment here or get in touch with one of the mods. Our contact info is on the main profile page.

P.S. Hey, what about Original Characters?

The future is now! We accept any character from whatever sick, depraved canon you can dream up-that is, as long as it complies with our rating and remains PG in the app. Oh, and we do hold OCs to slightly higher standards than other apps. A really good feel on who you are apping is a generally appropriate thing for the mods to have in this situation.