Edit: this board is (technically) closed for now. You can still PM me if you think we're destined to be together and I may make space. =P
- Welp, my one rp partner has dropped out, so it's time to find some new ones. This will be a straightforward search for 'advanced' level rp-ers, meaning: fluent, flowing writing that describes something sharply in little space. Posts should be substantial but should reach its length naturally - not through reiteration and sentence-padding. I typically like a lot of things to happen in one post so I get a really dense, fleshy post to read in the morning, but you can describe one action or event in beautifully vivid detail and I think I'd be just as happy. (Attention-to-detail should be distributed appropriately according to subject but since this is RP, we're allowed to self-indulge a little).
- I do write for fun more than anything, but like anything I do, I'd like to improve at it, so I ask you to take your writing somewhat seriously like I do. That I'll be imposing my high expectations on you will be a given if we're to be partners. This includes expectations of posting time: I prefer few plots with regular posts to a myriad of plots with a stacked posting regime, so I will be expecting posts at least every half-week (daily is best, if possible). I won't mind if real life gets in the way of posts, but please notify me about it. I kind of don't want to be made to feel like an 'optional' commitment to take care of, and I'm sure you don't want to be, either.
- That said, if a plot starts to drag, please summon up the courage to tell me you think it's horrible! I would much prefer you told me and we make changes/start over (you can change characters if you want!!) than you get bogged down in a plot you don't like.
Summary of what I need/would like from you:- I do not gender- or age-discriminate as long as you can rp to advanced level (this applies both in-character and out).
- No matter whose plot idea is used in the beginning, I would like you to take at least some of the creative burden in the long run, coming up with plot turns and NPC's, etc.
- I don't like romance very much. A little snippet of romance is okay when it comes naturally, but I really won't appreciate it if you force it into the story/try to pitch me a romance novel. I don't appreciate tags like 'mxf', 'fxf' etc.
- Doubling-up is absolutely fine.
- I won't fill the roles of specific characters in your plot ideas. I like having my freedom when it comes to character choice, and I won't typically want to create a character on the spot just for you.
- Romance aside, I'm not puritanical about anything else to my knowledge. Gore, violent language and irreverence towards 'dark' subjects - you can even be gratuitous with it and I wouldn't care.
- I like to chat OOC on the side. I don't mind hearing about your day if you're so inclined.
- I like being surprised, and I won't expect you to reveal your planned plot turns to me in advance (they don't even have to be planned - spontaneity is a virtue in my opinion). That said, I'll expect to be left leeway for my character's reaction. That's pretty basic stuff that probably doesn't need reiterating.
- Lastly and important - please approach with at least a fleeting idea of what you want to do. Indecision is a real time-waster, so just pick something, because I would have picked something for you anyway, and I don't want to spend time asking if that choice was 'alright with you'. An ideas-stack and plotlist is placed below for inspiration.
Please PM me when you're done. =) And thanks very much.
Ideas-stack (i.e. plot-elements I love and will most likely include):
Gender-subversion: physically-strong female characters and effeminate male characters; serious plots overlaid with humour; unlikely friendships; psychokinesis, ESP and paranormal investigation; alchemy, cartomancy and the occult; dream-diving; magical realism; fantasy quests in 'low-fantasy' environments (ye olde dung-squelching peasant times); extensive travelling; exotically foreign kingdoms at the far corners of the world.
Plotlist:
1. Roadtrip
Literally what it says on the tin. A pair of strangers go on a roadtrip to escape the pressures of modern life... Including those caused by the law-enforcement that is currently hot on their tails for felony charges. Maybe the protagonists should really have thought twice about using their paranormal abilities for personal gain. It's too late to avoid all the petty theft, corrupt police, and awkward hostage situations that follow. But in a stolen car that is continuously racking up road damage, will the protagonists be able to redeem themselves before their journey's end, or will they simply crash and burn?
2. Shangri-la
Another journeying plot, this time set in a world of medieval fantasy with both eastern and western stylings. In the midst of a war that is rending the world apart by the seams, our characters catch whispered words of a sacred place at the edge of the world - Shangri-la, or in other words, complete sanctuary. Drawn towards its promises of safety, they make their impossible pilgrim through a land which has wasted with war, fighting their own daily battle of survival with soldiers and starving townspeople alike. Meanwhile, a dark force rises in the east. It seems the magicians of the court, using their dirty blood-magic, have finally wrought a weapon strong enough to end the war - with devastating effects.
3. AIAS (Parodic magical realism, originally meant for multiple players, but will work for just two).
Poor Lys has wearied of his existence. He yearns for the great egress that awaits him at the end of life. He longs for nothing better than to become as cold and unfeeling as the concrete that sits under his feet and that bears over him in huge, grey swathes in this city.
Lys would really like to kill himself except he has one problem more glaring than his myriad of other problems: he can't die.
Basically I play Lys, and you play the person in a suicide pact with him, who vowed to die together and now hangs in a kind of earthly purgatory with this guy who can't die. We talk about life and death and go on darkly comic adventures of self-inflicted violence.