:boogie: I'm new to Menewsha, and kind of new to forum RPing? (I've taken part in games on and off for about a year) but as with all things I'd love to be better at it. And the only way to do that is to practice. ; )

As for now I am looking to be a part of 1 or 2 private RP games.

My RP Style:

• I'm very flexible when it comes to the length of a RP posts:
  I can write long posts with many paragraphs or, if we're both online at the same time, I can chop it down into shorter, single paragraph posts to move the game along and allow us both to post in that time.
• I'm rather busy IRL, so I might require a few hiati (plural for hiatus):
  University is a very busy place, and as much as I love RPing, I would also love to get into graduate school!
• I don't mind (if not prefer) blood, guts and gore, but...:
  There are no such things as nipples in my world. If you RP with me, you keep your clothes on... unless, of course, the mood is not taken in 'that way'. I'd rather be RPing and not making a terrible prOn script.
• God Mode/Bunny and DIE.
  I've moderated RPs on various chat programs since 2002. I have no patience for that nonsense, and I'll have no problem with killing off my character and ending the game if it gets to that point. ...that said, RPing in forums is a change for me because you are given to ability to narrate a tad for the other person's character (Things which can be discussed OOC). I'm not accustom to this variation and will try to avoid it as much as I can. This is what I want to improve on.
• I will force you to be inventive, grr!
  Like I said before, I've RPed online for over seven years (more like 9, now.) So I won't be so pleased to meet up with a 'mysterious hooded figure' in a tavern. Take pride in your creative mind or donate it to science, people! I'm not an RP snob, but sheesh. How many shadowy corners do these taverns have to have?
• Silent Characters:
  I don't want to have to chase your character for two weeks to squeeze out two full sentences of dialogue, and though they're lovely people IRL- I HATE RP mutes. There's nothing more annoying than always having to fish for that 'right' interaction to spur the other player into actually RPing. I reserve the right to escape RPs where I'm forced to do this... just because it's ridiculously lame and exhausting as a player. Anyone else who has been in this situation will agree
• I'm an altiholic:
  I have the tendency to make many alternate character (not to be confused with accounts). I love games which are fully populated with rich characters instead of having a small handful (I can be flexible with this as well, if it is desired).

If you're still interested in RPing with me after all of that, you're more than welcome to leave a post!

What I'm interested in RPing: (This list is by no means exhaustive)

• Humans in Space
• High Fantasy (multiple races)
• Vampires!
• Most anything, suggest something you'd like to RP in your post, and we'll share thoughts from there! ; D

*** I do not watch much/any anime, so the chance that I've seen/ followed anything you suggest is low. (A list of those which I am familiar with includes Inu Yasha and uh...?)

So much promise is here that it is dazzling, my dear!

I would be more than interested in RPing with you. I have not been RPing nearly as long, perhaps 2 or 3 years, but I am confident in my abilities and creativeness.

...My characters are all original. >.>

Ooh! Love the thread. I'm willing to role play with you! Vampires have been my latest craving. Or high fantasy. You can choose. I'm open to any cravings or plot ideas you might have so tell me if you've got something that's struck your mood. ^^

I would be willing to RP with you. It sounds like we have compatible styles. I too, am used to other sites where I can do some narration or go back and edit things. I am also fond of well developed NPCs to give the world a "larger" feel. I generally go with the flow of an RP- this means my posts can vary in length from 1-2 paragraphs to well over a page. I try very hard to keep the flow though and not get overly wordy or overly terse.

I have been roleplaying for well over 15 years though I'm not sure I would consider myself a veteran or not. (Yes, yes I'm old...a whole lot older than most of the people around here.) I'm not much for labeling styles.

I would love to do a Humans in Space sort of thing. I'm not quite sure what sort of genre though. I love the Firefly type feel for space, but I also enjoy a good ol' generic sci-fi space opera feel. I am a bit of a stickler for at least attempting decent physics/science though. If I shoot you with a "photon ray" I expect you to giggle as I point my flashlight at you. Perhaps a post-apocalyptic type thing with humans barely clinging to life in space would be nifty. I am fairly easy going if you have something in mind already.

Feel free to PM me if you like. I will also watch this thread.

I would love to do a Vampire RP with you here is my Vampire Bio:

Name: Ember
Race:Vampire with Werewolf.
Personality: Ember likes to be alone in places that are dark and spooky. She'd rather sit in a dark room and read then go outside and hang out. She enjoys painting, but when people see her paintings of death, murder, and some other rather Strange things that tend to be creeped out.
Background: Embers mother was a royal, one of the original Vampires. Her mother fell in love with a werewolf by the name if Helsing. They had her, but the birth of a hybrid killed her mother, and her father later killed him self over grief.

Thank you everyone for your interest! I forgot to mention that I have a very hard time saying 'no' so I might have to agree to more than just two games! xD

Vamien: What sort of game would you be interested in building/playing?
The Cheshire Cat: Vampires or High Fantasy, Hm? I use to mod a Vampire game on IRC which was based on the vampire rules of both Amelia Atwater-Rhodes and Anne Rice which worked out fairly well but made vampires quite OP against other races. I would be more than comfortable mixing both genres together if that sounds good to you? We can discuss mechanics later.
Moxie: Very compatible styles, and interests! I adore Firefly, but I've never played a game themed off of it! (You spoke the magical word by mentioning that show!) Like I suggested with Cheshire we could mix the concepts together so firefly/post-apocalyptic? Since we'll be sharing I want to make sure the mix will interest you as well. Wee!
XxEmber_MIstxX: Oof... I've never really liked werewolves, and mixing that concept with vampires to me is confusing. Perhaps you can win me over with another character/plot idea? ; D

I will write up some concepts tomorrow and post them. I would also be interested to see what you would come up with. I have actually run a Firefly game before, but I would like to come up with something a little more original. I'll mull over it tonight and write up some stuff tomorrow.

Most likely High Fantasy, as none of my characters are human, but are specific races that I made up myself. I would have to collaborate with you as far as a plot goes, however.

My characters are all relatively simple and some of them are very powerful, but they all have their own painfully simple and easy to detonate weaknesses...so I do not think it would be considered godmodding.

Moxie: That sounds awesome.
I've only played one 'in space' game before, so the terms are mostly new to me (for instance I don't really know what the term "Space Opera"... means?). I have a good many friends who are Physics majors and Astronomy instructors, so as for real physics I at least won't be hopeless! I'll post my concepts tomorrow as well.

Vamien: Hmm, very curious! I suppose I would have to know more about these races. Do you have biographies of the online anywhere?
I'd also rather to stick to less powerful characters. While it's fun to be big and strong at times, we don't want to look ridiculous. ; P

I also don't believe in killing off characters. It's something I consider quite rude if you haven't discussed it with the other player. ..Thus is shy away from most OP constructs.

I see you are interested potentially in both high fantasy and in vampires. I've got a bit of a strange idea I'd like to try, if you would be up for it? >_> It involves a Wraith from Stargate Atlantis canon crash-landing on a fantasy-setting planet; so I would be playing a fandom OC, but completely removed from his canon setting. So I guess, if you're up for it but don't know anything about SG-A, I can elaborate more on the Wraith (they're basically like sci-fi space vampires).

Or, if you're not interested that's cool, too. And perhaps I could offer a more traditional high fantasy-flavored character instead?

Linkity Link: Space Opera on Wiki

Things like Battlestar Gallactica, Flash Gordon, and Lost in Space would fall into these categories. As well as a lot of HG Wells and even George Orwell. They tend to be cheesy, a bit over the top and fairly improbable. Giant robot and epic space wars fall into this category.

But of course, I completely understand where you are coming from ;3 As for bios, I don't think I have any recent ones up anywhere, but if you'd like I can sum up the main characters I use for you.

Asahi Kumoru: Oh no, Stargate!! D:
It seems that without me saying anything everyone can tell I'm a huge Sci-Fi nerd... which is beautiful, in my opinion. I never really watched the Atlantis episodes! But I believe my sister has a few of them on DVD... or I can find them online. I can remember people talking about the Wraith, but I don't think I actually saw an episode with them. It's an interesting concept... If we do play that I'd probably request taking over more of the receiving planet side until I better understand the mechanics.

It sounds pretty cool. Sci-Fi vampires! Genre meshing is too much fun.

Moxie: Bahaha! Okay, I get it. I just wanted to make sure I wasn't about to be asked to compose my posts in meter!
How many ideas are we going to swap? 3-5 each? It'll give us plenty of choices, but sometimes that's a problem on it's own!

Vamien: Sure!
If things get fairly complicated I might start using my blog to make/keep species bios instead of just characters. ; P

Ahh, sounds wonderful! And also, perhaps good idea. >> I tend to use the Stickies application or the TextEdit on my Mac, ahehe.

*has nerd-dar?* 8D

Sure, that'd be fine. And I'd be up for taking on some more of the other fantasy characters, too, if maybe not right away. And yay for sci-fi nerdiness XD (( Have you been watching the new Stargate, Stargate Universe? =O *curious now* )) I've been working my way through both SG-1 and Atlantis, but have not quite finished either yet. I sorta wanted to play around with established canon info about the Wraith and then just play with it from there. Want me to give more Wraith details about what's already known about them (I don't think there's anything too show-breakingly spoilerific, 'cause they're established as the Big Bads in Atlantis from the get-go), or surprise you?

Also, do you have any preferences for what sort of fantasy setting we go with? City vs. small town vs. countryside? Warm or cold climate? Forests, or mountains, or plains, or deserts, or something else? I think I'm pretty much cool with whatever. And having a mixup of usual high fantasy races would help keep things interesting.

Ember Maire Abrelle has lived as a human for centeries, But she was found by Greg the leader of a coven in Toronto Canada. She has moved in, but is finding it hard to fit in with the blood thirsty Vampires. Living for years on only animal blood, Abri has learned to control her blood lust. But she fears that if she tastes Human blood she might become a Nosfurato, One of the lost...........On her arrivel she insintly buts heads with the Level ones. Vampires who where born Vampires, Although she her self is a full blood, they still think of her as lower class since she wont drink human blood.

I came up with one background so far, but a couple of ideas inside that background. I am working on another background as well and I'll have some ideas for that as well. But here are some to chew on for a little bit.

EDIT: Added a second world/background.
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Genre: Sci-Fi, Space Travel/Exploration
Basic Background: The ones known as the First Explorers first came to Abell's Galaxy on countless ships. Legend says they were escaping from something- a terrible blight and catastrophe. Their ships traveled using sub-sphere travel- a technology lost now to the people of Abell's galaxy. Each of their ships was huge- supporting thousands of people. They lived on their ships for generations before discovering the Freyr galaxy, the first with habitable planets. Some of the ships landed, settling on the planets and others continued their travels finding other Galaxies to settle in. The ships were used for scrap to help the people settle and colonize the planets the technology recycled.

This happened long ago and even the legends are vague now.

Now, Abell's galaxy is populated by trillions, if not quadrillions of people spread across four known Systems within the galaxy. They are loosely governed by the Explorer Cooperation whose tenants the galaxy has been following for at least 500 years. For the most part, there has been no war between the peoples of the systems. The Systems are connected by Hop Sites- complex quantum tunnels that ships can pass through to get from one system to the next. Each major Hop Site is carefully controlled by the EC to ensure that no one systems controls them all. Every now and again, the Explorer Cooperation sends out vessels to find new Galaxies for resources. Most of the time, the ships return without finding anything as most of the vessels in use are not long range ships.

Recently, the EC has built a new vessel called the LREV-92 (Long Range Explorer Vessel series 92). It can be manned by a small crew (between 4-10 people) and has the newest technology- a self contained Hopper Drive. This means it can create its own tunnels. It is still in testing and considered very dangerous technology. It is also equipped with a long range Slip Drive- also still in testing. The crew of the LREV-92 are the best and brightest in the EC and their mission is to not only test the ship, but also to travel to PGE-234- a star that scientists say should have at least 6 planets, 2 of which may support human life without bio-spheres.

The crew set out 1 year ago to reach PGE-234. Thus far it has been an uneventful trip and the crew has spent their time studying, training and getting to know one another. They are due to arrive at the edge of PGE-234 in another 4 months. Thus proving that the Slip Drive is a success; traveling just slower than the legendary sub-sphere drives. They have renamed their ship from LREV-92, opting instead to call her 'Providence'.

Some Basic Plot Ideas:
1. The crew has received a distress call in a language they don't quite understand but is familiar- one of the crew has been translating it from the old database of language and identified the language as that of the First Explorers. It is unclear where the beacon is coming from, but it gets stronger as they approach the PGE-234 system.
2. The crew gets to PGE-234 and discovers evidence of an intelligent civilization on one of the planets in their explorations. They are unsure if it the remnant of a First Explorer colony or something else entirely.
3. The crew runs into a strange ionic/gravimetric/whatever disturbance that forces their Hopper Drive to turn on catapulting them to a different system than their destination. They have to fix their ship and decide to explore the unknown system instead as communications with the EC goes down. Meanwhile, they find rogue ships of humans outside the EC in the system that are savage and ruthless and try to steal their ship.

Setting: Abell's Galaxy. There are four major (inhabited) Solar Systems in Abell's galaxy: Freyr System, Urda System, Skuld System and Ullr System. Freyr System is where most of the inhabited planets are located, long since colonized by the First Explorers. But the other systems all have some a couple of populated planets as well. Some are naturally inhabitable and others have man-made biospheres. None of these systems seem to have been ever populated by intelligent or civilized life.

Crew: Captain, Operations Officer (in charge of supplies, food, entertainment and general smooth operation of the ship), Tactical/Navigation Officer (in charge of safety, weapons and general strategy), Engineers (x2), Scientists (2-5 in various fields, astronomy, biology, anthropology etc) ((This could possibly run with more than two players?))
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Genre: Sci-Fi, Space Opera
Basic Background: It is several thousand years in the future and the Denizens of Earth have peopled the Milky Way Solar System with Colonies and Space Stations. The system is currently ruled by TGU (Terran Galactic Union) which acts as the military and political center of the System. They run all the Space Stations and the Colonies and patrol the annexed territory of the human race.

The TGU trains all military, scientific and political aspirants in their schools. All children receive a mandatory 5 years of schooling within the system for basic knowledge and skills. These schools are run by trained TGU Teachers and there is at least one in every colony and Space Station (where children between the ages of 6 - 11 live). From there children have the choice to attend private technical schools, academic schools, religious training, medical schools, or a TGU Advanced Educational/Training Facility tailored to the desire/aptitude of the student. Only those who join a TGU EATF are allowed in Military, Scientific or Political Careers.

The TGU Ruling Council has three branches: the Sodality, the Legislature and the Judiciary. The Sodality is made up of 10 people. These people are the ruling party of the TGU. They control the military and run the TGU. The Legislature makes the laws and appoints Governors to the colonies. Each member of the Sodality appoints 12 members to the Legislature. The Judiciary makes sure the laws are followed and exacts punishment to those who break the laws. There are 11 members of the upper Judiciary and each of them has 21 lower Judiciary working for them. The Lower Judiciary reports to the upper and go out on assignments around the TGU territory.

Earth is sparsely populated. Only the central TGU figures (sodality, legislature and judiciary) and the very wealthy live there. The top TGU Training Facilities are located on Earth.

Setting: Various colonies/space stations around our solar systems. There are several colonies on the moon, Mars and the planets of Jupiter. The Inner System Space Stations are numbered ISS 1-45 (with no Station 13 or 29- both exploded in accidents and have not been rebuilt out of respect for the dead). Outer System Space Stations are numbered OSS 1-67 (though there is no OSS 13, 29, 44 or 45- 13 and 29 were both skipped out of respect and thoughts that they were unlucky and 44 and 45 both experienced a system failure due to a flaw in their design) Most colonies and space stations are run by a Governor placed there by the TGU Legislature. They also have at least one Consul working there which are appointed by the Upper Judiciary.

The technology is advanced, but it still takes about a month to travel from the innermost part of the system to the outermost. Food is grown hydroponically in most colonies and on space stations. Weaponry tends to be of a ballistic style (no lasers). Communication technology is quite advanced, as is medicine/genetics, robotics (though there is no AI), and metallurgy/engineering.

Basic Plot Ideas:
1. TGU Operatives are sent to 'put down' a religious rebellion in one of the colonies. The Leaders of the rebellion have killed the teachers at the TGU Primary school and refused to send their children in for education. The rebellion turns out to be more widespread than a single colony and the agents must root out the leaders of the rebellion before they bring down the entire TGU. This is your basic Rebellion versus Large Government Plot (with neither one necessarily in the right or the wrong).

2. Military and scientific crew are living on the half completed OSS 68 just past Proserpina (the 14th planet/dwarf planet in the System). They are the furthest out in the system save for various military vessels patrolling the "black zone" (the space between Sol and its closest cousin). As crew works on completing the space station, they get a distress call from one of the patrolling ships before it is apparently destroyed by an unknown vessel. These people become the first to meet the invading alien race and must try to stop them before they get too far into the system. (Giant war like scenario with the crew of OSS 68 leading the defense of the system.)

3. Several people have been chosen to train in one of the Top Training facilities of the TGU located on earth. They are the best of the best of those who went to various TGU EATFs. The Facility is to train them for a top secret program that is piloting an experimental craft that is capable of travel to another galaxy. The people are given experimental (and slightly illegal) 'enhancements' that increase their lifespan, agility and intelligence but compromises their physical strength and self-preservation instinct. This would be the candidates going through training and then sent off to discover whatever it is they discover.

Ahhhh! Sorry, sorry sorry! I'll post another one tomorrow (or later today, as I suppose it is nearly 2 in the morning! ^_^;; ) But I had a seriously stressful day today. (I'll tell you about it later when I'm not sounding like a total flake!!)

I'm only responding to Moxie right now because after all of that work and typing those HUGE AND BEAUTIFUL game ideas I really really really owe it to her!!

Genre: Sci-Fi, Space Opera
Background: All hell had broken out on SU G-31 "Cassiopeia" as she made her approach to the sleepy, vibrant planet below her. Its team had been sent to observe and track the progress of budding civilizations on protected planets, placed their by the graces of the Interstellar Union. Their research on this trip, however, was to be cut short by the actions of a manic zealot from the underground organization "Rokhan". Rokhan had long been considered a small thorn in the side of the Interstellar Union, though in the last few weeks the organization's actions have become increasingly violent. As Cassiopeia's controls whirl, and the engines fail to accept new commands, the scientists and passengers on her were clueless that a message was now appearing on transmissions in the nearest MPS station announcing their imminent deaths. They were to be the victims of their most atrocious act of the Rokhan to date.

The old legends on Oban said that when the firebird left the sky and came to land to rest, she would bring her children who would seek out the children of her sister, the mountains, and either- according to which story you heard- destroy them, or bring them to a great prosperity. Just minutes ago, the small world watched 'her' falling at a terrible speed into the middle of a hostile desert basin few had ever stepped into, and those highest on the bordering ridge spied the ghastly fire the fire bird's children breathed as they were born. Stories were building quickly, and arguments were breaking out: Were they blessed now that she had rested, or were they to be doomed?

Plot Ideas:
1.) A few crew has survived the crash landing on Oban, and considering their environment, head for the native villages on the ridges that encircle the great desert basin. They bring with them strange new items, and the people of Oban are both terrified and pleased to see them.
2.) The Firebird's prophecy means doom to some, and a reawakening of great thought to others in the ridge village. Right away a scouting team was sent to find the children of the Firebird and that team comes across a horrible scene. None (or very few) of the passengers of Cassiopeia have survived.
3.) None of the passengers from Cassiopeia survived, and the team sent to investigate are found by the IE's Response Craft. Not wanting the Obans to tell their families what they saw, the IE officials on the Response Craft take them to their new life on the MPS station "Ascent 9-1"
Setting: Either on the planet "Oban" (called CIV-894 by the IE), or the nearest Massively Populated Space Station "Ascent 9-1". Both are within the same star system of Regilis.

Hopefully my first attempt at making a story backbone is up to snuff... though I think I might prefer one of yours.

No worries! If you don't have time, that is cool. You posted up front that you were busy.

I think my first idea lends itself better to more than a one on one. Not really sure yet. We'll have to haggle and plan ideas. Or if we come up with one that just strikes our fancy.

Oh, I should have more time, but people are trying to socialize me. : P

Out of all of those you suggested I like the second prompt and third scenario the most (2, 2 was also very interesting to me). How does that sound?

I think my mind is already building some snot-nose male cadet. Just a warning! xD

The second background, third scenario could be pretty good. It would likely be the easiest to do as a one-on-one or we could have a couple of people. One of us would have to sort of drive the story line with NPC's (Instructors, Doctors, etc). I don't mind doing that as well as playing a recruit.

Let me write up a bit more to flush out that story (and maybe come up with some NPC's and reasons why they are doing what they're doing). Would you prefer a 1-on-1 or a small group for that?

I'm fine with either (We might have to flip a coin, haha!). If we go with having more than just a one-on-one RP, I might suggest that we limit just how many people who are invited in addition to two or three more than ourselves just so the game doesn't get too garbled.

Also, not having RPed in Menewsha before, I don't know if there are any systems already in place to denote where a post is taking place. I'd like to cut back on silly mistakes for my own part when it comes to responding to things my characters couldn't otherwise respond to. It's a silly mistake that drives me nuts!

I'd like to set one up if there isn't already a system in place.

For the whole "Where/When" system, I usually trust people to read the post to see where a person is. I mean, usually it should be part of the description/entry post. If a person leaves the room, that should be described as well.

I trust you not to magically teleport places. If you want to, you can always make a bold line at the top of a post or paragraph to signify where you are/when you are.

I agree, if we do a small group, I was thinking of making it a private game with only about 3-4 people max in the game. If we go that way, I can GM the story through a series of NPC's and non-intrusive scene descriptions. (As well as play my character.)

With the training scenario, I think a "unit" of four people is pretty solid. I figure a unit would have a "leader" and three subordinates in various roles. With the whole space thing, one would likely be a top grade pilot, another would be an engineer and the last would be a medic/science type person. All would also be military and thus train physically. Since it is the super secret hidden school, they would be among the best and brightest of their age as well.

My idea would be that they are training to pilot/crew an experimental long range ship of some sort. Eventually, they would get missions and such. (Sort of like Ender's Game, but not at all like Ender's game...*chuckle*)

If GMing wouldn't be too much of a bother for you, the four person game sounds like it would be a boon to your plot. I wouldn't mind also taking up the role of a few ancillary characters if it'll help out. : )

So we have a game! Now we need players, hm?

High fantasy. o3o Wanna RP?