One day, you woke up dead.
Or, at least, you're pretty sure you're dead. You clearly remember how you died, whether you were shot or burned or got your soul stolen or just died of natural causes. But you're breathing, and you've got a pulse.
Also? You have no idea where you are. You're lying down, half-buried in damp, white sand. The sky above is overcast with clouds, making it a depressing grey color. You're next to the sea, you notice as you wake up. A beautiful greenish-blue sea. Strangely enough, it glitters even though there's no sun to shine on it, and the waves are so small that no foam is formed on the shore. Just water.
Behind you there is a plain. Behind that, a forest. Mountains behind that. It looks like there's some sort of city on the mountain, but it looks like something from a dream more than it does reality. The sun shines down through the clouds onto the strangely shaped towers and spires of a castle in the center and makes it sparkle just like the sea.
You look around a bit more. There are other people around you. Some of them are dressed differently. Some of them look like they're from the distant past, some of them look like something from the distant future. Some of them don't even look human. All of them are slowly starting to stir. Some of them wake up as you do, and some get up and walk around dazedly. Many take longer to start moving. But there are dozens of them. Maybe around thirty, maybe forty people, if you had to estimate.
But everyone who wakes up has but one question on their minds:
First off, the beginning of this RP is heavily influenced by this one movie I saw once. I never finished the movie because my dad wanted to watch something else, but whatever.
So anyway. There you are. On a beach. Dead. Or are you alive?
Some beginning storyline goals are to find out if you're dead, just where you are, what you're doing there, who all these people are, ect. General stuff that any sane person would want to know if they suddenly woke up dead.
I'm hoping that this'll be fairly character-driven. I can toss out little plot bits every once in a while, but if you want something to happen plot-wise (like some sort of unnatural phenomenon? Unexplained monster invasion? A murder of the king?) then go for it, I say. We'll see where this thing leads, eh?
As for characters and setting, it can be virtually anything you want. You see, the land you're on is based on a more natural, earthy sort of thing, but people that come here are from all sorts of time periods and genres. So you never know when you could run into a shop full of anime goods, or an alien, or a jousting tournament. The characters can be virtually anything you want. You want cat ears? Go for it. You want to be a bounty-hunter from the Wild West? Be my guest. Want to be an absolutely normal person from current day? I insist.
Just a note: If you died of old age, when you wake up on the island, you don't have to be old if you don't want to be. You can be restored to your beautiful teenage self or something~!
PM me if you have any questions, concerns, inquires, complaints, ect.
[01] Don't God-mod or power-play. It's rude and no one likes it. D:
[02] Please make characters original-ish. You can re-use old characters you've made if you like them. However, I don't want to see five different dark ninjas with angsty pasts and crazy-ass evil demon powers because I'm tired of them. One is okay. But seriously. You can't all be ninjas.
[03] Play semi-realistically. If you're a human, and you're thrown through a brick wall, it will hurt, and you won't get up five seconds later. If you're some sort of demon with stone for skin, then maybe it wouldn't hurt, but really. Just try to think of what would realistically happen and play with it (This note also goes for if you've been stabbed in the stomach or something. You could keep fighting for a while, but are likely to pass out from blood loss).
[04] If you have nothing nice to say, say nothing at all. The whole "be nice" rule may sound like something from a kindergarten class, but you'd be surprised how stupid some people can be. Also, remember to keep OOC and IC separate. Just because their character is a jerkwad doesn't mean it's an attack on you personally, mmmkay?
[05] The two-paragraph rule. BELIEVE IT.
[06] This is a literate RP. I say this, and still I get people who can't form coherent sentences. I'm sorry people, but if you can't type like I'm typing now, please don't join! It gives us all a headache and makes us just want to ignore you so we don't have to read it. D: It's horrible, but it's true! You don't have to write like Shakespeare, and I'm not gonna kill you because of a few mistakes, but please. Literate.
[07] Put "tango with a mango" at the top of your template when you apply. Please and thank you!
[08] Involve all players. Don't leave poor little player C out in the corner while you go off to save the day. I know its fun to be the hero, and this isn't usually the problem, but share the spotlight between all of you every once in a while, alright? After all, you're stuck here together, right?
[09] Follow all the normal rules of the forum that I'm sure you all know by heart by now. Actually, I've never read them myself, but I'm certain they all follow common sense, and I haven't been yelled at for breaking the rules yet. So I guess it's all good.
[10] Your GM (Game Master; that's me!) is supreme. You must give me a plate of chocolate-chip cookies before you finish reading this sentence, or your brain will explode. ...oh. Wait, wrong thread. Sorry.
Name: Self-explanatory, I should hope.
Gender: In this game, "other" is an option if you so choose.
Age: Depending on your race, this could be anywhere from say, 7 to 7000 years old.
Race: Human? Alien? Cat-girl? Demon? Robot? Elf? Whatever?
Time Period: Past? Present? Future? Unspecified? Try to be kinda specific if you know. For example: "From the time of the Wild West" or "In the future, where everyone lives in space."
Home World: This is for people from the future or people from alternate universes and the like that might want to describe a bit of where they're from so we humans will know what's up. You don't have to fill this one out if you don't want to.
Appearance: You know what this is. I'd prefer if you didn't post a mega-huge picture that stretches out the page. Go into Paint and resize it if you must, please. Or just type out a description. That's loved too.
Weapons: Here's the deal: You can have a total of three weapons and powers. This means you can either have three powers and no weapons, three weapons and no powers, two weapons and one power, or vice-versa. If you have a weapon that gives you a magical power (like a sword that can shoot lightning?) that counts as two slots. Also, a weapon that can change into another weapon also counts as two slots. This is to try and tone down the power-playing a bit. If you don't want all three slots, you don't have to fill them. It's just that three's the max.
Powers: See above. And a note--please don't make your powers super-powerful. I know it sounds stupid, but either make them fairly average-strength powers, weak powers, or strong powers that you will only use if you're like... Say, about to die or something. You know what I mean? Other than that, go wild with what your characters can do.
Items: These are items that appear with your character that were important to them in life. This can be something like a journal, a communicator, a necklace... Whatever. Three items max, and they can't have special powers. Because if they have special powers then they, *gasp!* take another slot up for your three powers/weapons! No loophole for you! >D
Personality: What're they like? How do they do around people? Elders? The opposite gender? Anything you can think of that describes how your character acts and thinks and feels is wonderful.
Strength: What're they good at? This could be a profession, or just something about them that they can do particularly well. Like luck with ladies, or their knowledge of poisonous plants, or how they're calm under pressure. Creativity abounds!
Weakness: And Mother Nature throws a curve ball. Are they colorblind? Do they constantly trip over their own shoes? Are they so self-conscious that their self-esteem is lower than dirt? Have fun with this one, and remember to play it out sometimes in the RP.
Death: Put simply, how did they die? If you want to put this in their bio instead, you may.
Bio: Their history. None of this "no one knows" business; I need to know that you know what your character has been through and how it makes them up, if you get my meaning. You don't need to write a novel, but write enough to give me a good general picture. You may always write more.
Other: Anything else you'd like to add about your character? A theme song? Their favorite food? An odd habit of theirs? You don't have to answer this, but I always think its fun to see what people come up with.
[tavishmithos] Galbatorix Zeal // Male // Draconas (Dragon-Human)
[Infinis Ultimato] Purg A. Tory // Male // Human-Machine
[GuardianOfHearts] Aara Sayre // Female // Human-Witch
[TheClamWhisperer] Nox Imbolc // Female // Human
[Kari'Heart] Kari Promise Moon // Female // Cat-Girl
[stickxkeyblade] Alexa Morgance // Female // Human
[Frozen Inferno] Terran Stromrider // Male // Telin (Humaniod)
[Evrae_Valkyrion] Haruka Mewria // Female // Zelen (Dragon-Human)
[BlackmageAp] Jon Kilyu (Exp. 17M) // Male // Blootine (Wolf-Cheeta-Rat-Human)
[Trunks] Alexander Scolfield // Male // Human
This list is quite prone to updates.
Or, at least, you're pretty sure you're dead. You clearly remember how you died, whether you were shot or burned or got your soul stolen or just died of natural causes. But you're breathing, and you've got a pulse.
Also? You have no idea where you are. You're lying down, half-buried in damp, white sand. The sky above is overcast with clouds, making it a depressing grey color. You're next to the sea, you notice as you wake up. A beautiful greenish-blue sea. Strangely enough, it glitters even though there's no sun to shine on it, and the waves are so small that no foam is formed on the shore. Just water.
Behind you there is a plain. Behind that, a forest. Mountains behind that. It looks like there's some sort of city on the mountain, but it looks like something from a dream more than it does reality. The sun shines down through the clouds onto the strangely shaped towers and spires of a castle in the center and makes it sparkle just like the sea.
You look around a bit more. There are other people around you. Some of them are dressed differently. Some of them look like they're from the distant past, some of them look like something from the distant future. Some of them don't even look human. All of them are slowly starting to stir. Some of them wake up as you do, and some get up and walk around dazedly. Many take longer to start moving. But there are dozens of them. Maybe around thirty, maybe forty people, if you had to estimate.
But everyone who wakes up has but one question on their minds:
"Is this... Death?"
• OVERVIEW•
[we're stuck where with a what-now?]
[we're stuck where with a what-now?]
First off, the beginning of this RP is heavily influenced by this one movie I saw once. I never finished the movie because my dad wanted to watch something else, but whatever.
So anyway. There you are. On a beach. Dead. Or are you alive?
Some beginning storyline goals are to find out if you're dead, just where you are, what you're doing there, who all these people are, ect. General stuff that any sane person would want to know if they suddenly woke up dead.
I'm hoping that this'll be fairly character-driven. I can toss out little plot bits every once in a while, but if you want something to happen plot-wise (like some sort of unnatural phenomenon? Unexplained monster invasion? A murder of the king?) then go for it, I say. We'll see where this thing leads, eh?
As for characters and setting, it can be virtually anything you want. You see, the land you're on is based on a more natural, earthy sort of thing, but people that come here are from all sorts of time periods and genres. So you never know when you could run into a shop full of anime goods, or an alien, or a jousting tournament. The characters can be virtually anything you want. You want cat ears? Go for it. You want to be a bounty-hunter from the Wild West? Be my guest. Want to be an absolutely normal person from current day? I insist.
Just a note: If you died of old age, when you wake up on the island, you don't have to be old if you don't want to be. You can be restored to your beautiful teenage self or something~!
PM me if you have any questions, concerns, inquires, complaints, ect.
♥ RULES ♥
[you can't handle the truth!]
[you can't handle the truth!]
[01] Don't God-mod or power-play. It's rude and no one likes it. D:
[02] Please make characters original-ish. You can re-use old characters you've made if you like them. However, I don't want to see five different dark ninjas with angsty pasts and crazy-ass evil demon powers because I'm tired of them. One is okay. But seriously. You can't all be ninjas.
[03] Play semi-realistically. If you're a human, and you're thrown through a brick wall, it will hurt, and you won't get up five seconds later. If you're some sort of demon with stone for skin, then maybe it wouldn't hurt, but really. Just try to think of what would realistically happen and play with it (This note also goes for if you've been stabbed in the stomach or something. You could keep fighting for a while, but are likely to pass out from blood loss).
[04] If you have nothing nice to say, say nothing at all. The whole "be nice" rule may sound like something from a kindergarten class, but you'd be surprised how stupid some people can be. Also, remember to keep OOC and IC separate. Just because their character is a jerkwad doesn't mean it's an attack on you personally, mmmkay?
[05] The two-paragraph rule. BELIEVE IT.
[06] This is a literate RP. I say this, and still I get people who can't form coherent sentences. I'm sorry people, but if you can't type like I'm typing now, please don't join! It gives us all a headache and makes us just want to ignore you so we don't have to read it. D: It's horrible, but it's true! You don't have to write like Shakespeare, and I'm not gonna kill you because of a few mistakes, but please. Literate.
[07] Put "tango with a mango" at the top of your template when you apply. Please and thank you!
[08] Involve all players. Don't leave poor little player C out in the corner while you go off to save the day. I know its fun to be the hero, and this isn't usually the problem, but share the spotlight between all of you every once in a while, alright? After all, you're stuck here together, right?
[09] Follow all the normal rules of the forum that I'm sure you all know by heart by now. Actually, I've never read them myself, but I'm certain they all follow common sense, and I haven't been yelled at for breaking the rules yet. So I guess it's all good.
[10] Your GM (Game Master; that's me!) is supreme. You must give me a plate of chocolate-chip cookies before you finish reading this sentence, or your brain will explode. ...oh. Wait, wrong thread. Sorry.
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[the stuff in green is just me explaining. Feel free to delete it.]
[the stuff in green is just me explaining. Feel free to delete it.]
Name: Self-explanatory, I should hope.
Gender: In this game, "other" is an option if you so choose.
Age: Depending on your race, this could be anywhere from say, 7 to 7000 years old.
Race: Human? Alien? Cat-girl? Demon? Robot? Elf? Whatever?
Time Period: Past? Present? Future? Unspecified? Try to be kinda specific if you know. For example: "From the time of the Wild West" or "In the future, where everyone lives in space."
Home World: This is for people from the future or people from alternate universes and the like that might want to describe a bit of where they're from so we humans will know what's up. You don't have to fill this one out if you don't want to.
Appearance: You know what this is. I'd prefer if you didn't post a mega-huge picture that stretches out the page. Go into Paint and resize it if you must, please. Or just type out a description. That's loved too.
Weapons: Here's the deal: You can have a total of three weapons and powers. This means you can either have three powers and no weapons, three weapons and no powers, two weapons and one power, or vice-versa. If you have a weapon that gives you a magical power (like a sword that can shoot lightning?) that counts as two slots. Also, a weapon that can change into another weapon also counts as two slots. This is to try and tone down the power-playing a bit. If you don't want all three slots, you don't have to fill them. It's just that three's the max.
Powers: See above. And a note--please don't make your powers super-powerful. I know it sounds stupid, but either make them fairly average-strength powers, weak powers, or strong powers that you will only use if you're like... Say, about to die or something. You know what I mean? Other than that, go wild with what your characters can do.
Items: These are items that appear with your character that were important to them in life. This can be something like a journal, a communicator, a necklace... Whatever. Three items max, and they can't have special powers. Because if they have special powers then they, *gasp!* take another slot up for your three powers/weapons! No loophole for you! >D
Personality: What're they like? How do they do around people? Elders? The opposite gender? Anything you can think of that describes how your character acts and thinks and feels is wonderful.
Strength: What're they good at? This could be a profession, or just something about them that they can do particularly well. Like luck with ladies, or their knowledge of poisonous plants, or how they're calm under pressure. Creativity abounds!
Weakness: And Mother Nature throws a curve ball. Are they colorblind? Do they constantly trip over their own shoes? Are they so self-conscious that their self-esteem is lower than dirt? Have fun with this one, and remember to play it out sometimes in the RP.
Death: Put simply, how did they die? If you want to put this in their bio instead, you may.
Bio: Their history. None of this "no one knows" business; I need to know that you know what your character has been through and how it makes them up, if you get my meaning. You don't need to write a novel, but write enough to give me a good general picture. You may always write more.
Other: Anything else you'd like to add about your character? A theme song? Their favorite food? An odd habit of theirs? You don't have to answer this, but I always think its fun to see what people come up with.
♠ PLAYERS ♠
[if you're gonna be gangsta, be gangsta.]
[if you're gonna be gangsta, be gangsta.]
[tavishmithos] Galbatorix Zeal // Male // Draconas (Dragon-Human)
[Infinis Ultimato] Purg A. Tory // Male // Human-Machine
[GuardianOfHearts] Aara Sayre // Female // Human-Witch
[TheClamWhisperer] Nox Imbolc // Female // Human
[Kari'Heart] Kari Promise Moon // Female // Cat-Girl
[stickxkeyblade] Alexa Morgance // Female // Human
[Frozen Inferno] Terran Stromrider // Male // Telin (Humaniod)
[Evrae_Valkyrion] Haruka Mewria // Female // Zelen (Dragon-Human)
[BlackmageAp] Jon Kilyu (Exp. 17M) // Male // Blootine (Wolf-Cheeta-Rat-Human)
[Trunks] Alexander Scolfield // Male // Human
This list is quite prone to updates.
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