What is Out of Character?
Out of Character or OOC refers to things that take place to you as the player or that are said speaking as you the player. When speaking or typing in a place where most of the conversation is In Character, things that are Out of Character are usually set apart by some sort of notation. This varies from person to person. For example (( this could denote the text inside is OOC. )) or [ so can this.
