Voting:Level 5's and Up/New Athens Age Rule

Hello everyone!

This vote is concerning New Athens. I won’t reveal too much about New Athens itself as a blog will be coming soon that details everything but, as a general principle, it is a replacement for The Nearby Town and CHB’s equivalent of New Rome. Largely, it is a place for older demigods to go beyond Camp.

A few questions that have always remained on the wiki - or at least frequent ones that’ve been here since I joined in late 2012 - is the age of campers and how long they stay at Camp especially with the introduction of younger Campers and, in much less of a degree, counsellor spots and how some characters can have the same title for years. This vote intends to provide an answer for both of these questions.

Please do remember, when voting, that challenging is still an option; if immortals or non-aging demigods are exempt from relenting their titles, they can still be challenged as with any title.

All of the below options have been devised by Brocky, Miggy and myself.

Option One: Demigod Campers above the age of 23 must leave Camp and any prospective Campers aged 23 or over must go to New Athens automatically. In doing so, the Camper relents all their positions and titles. A user can choose if they go to New Athens or not but, in order to consider them an active character, this is where they must go. Immortal demigods and demigods whose aging has been stopped are exempt from this aged 23 rule; they are allowed to keep their titles and are not forced to go to New Athens. This is the only option that entitles immortal demigods and demigods with stopped aging staying at Camp beyond the physical/biological age of 23. If Immortal demigods choose to go to New Athens, however, they must relent all their titles. If you wish to have an existing demigod with titles become immortal - thus exempting them from having to relent their titles - you ‘’must’’ speak with one of the bureaucrats and gain approval. Please do remember that immortals can still be challenged for their titles and positions; being exempt from having to give them up does NOT make them exempt from being challenged.

Option Two: Demigod Campers above the age of 23 must leave Camp and any prospective Campers aged 23 or over must go to New Athens automatically. Immortals are also included in this with the following mindset: if they were 16 when they became immortal, they have until they are 23 biologically to live in Camp. This means any immortal demigods made immortal prior to 1996 will not be allowed entry into Camp and thus will not be able to hold any titles. Demigods who have their aging shut off will also be subjected to this biological age rule. All of these characters, upon 23, must relent their positions and titles and go to New Athens. As with the option above, the user has the choice to send them there but, to keep them as an active character, New Athens is the destination.

Option Three: Demigod Campers above the age of 23 must leave Camp and any prospective Campers aged 23 or over must go to New Athens automatically. Immortals are also included in this but unlike Option Two, when they were made immortal is not as relevant. In this option, the current physical age of the immortal character will be what’s taken into consideration, and the years will be counted in an OOC manner. For example, if an immortal character who’s been stuck at age 19 arrives in Camp in 2019, they have until the year 2023 OOC before they had to leave Camp and move on to New Athens (and let go of their titles if they had any). Likewise, characters with their aging disabled will be regarded as if their age has continued; if someone’s aging was disabled when they were 17 in 2013, they must leave Camp in 2019 when they would’ve turned 23. All titles must be relented. As with the other options, the user has the choice to send them there but, to keep them as an active character, New Athens is the destination.

Option Four: No changes to the current system; Campers can stay in Camp to whatever age they desire and will not have to relent their titles should they move to New Athens.