@ Headphones: Of course I remember you! And that's why I was so glad to see El_Tigre applying for Twisted when it went up! We do currently have one patient who has DID (She's so new I haven't even added her to the OOC yet, bad GM!) but I'm totally okay with multiple characters having the same mental illness. As long as you can have a CS for me within the next 13 days, and can post no more than once every two weeks thereafter, we'll be all gravy!

@ Bunnita: Hi there! I'm glad to see your enthusiasm, but I want to caution you about something: Twisted is not for the faint of heart. Your character [i]will[/i] be tortured, beaten, drugged, possibly whipped, crucified, etc. (All those things happened to my characters in the last run of this RP.) If dark themes and graphic violence are not things you enjoy, you probably will not have fun at Osmond's. Our current OOC is still in a bit of a honeymoon period, I've not yet sent the patients to 'therapy'. If you'd like to get a better idea of what Twisted is all about, the Wayback Machine still has our dear old thread's first few pages archived, and you can check it out [url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131022203020/http://roleplayerguild.com/showthread.php?49130-Twisted]right here.[/url] If you're still interested, by all means make a sheet for me!

@ Kiddo: Yes, we do have a lot of Schizophrenics. I couldn't say why, except that maybe it's one of the few mental illnesses that [i]everybody[/i] has heard of. I think that our two most common mental illnesses, in fact, are Schizophrenia and DID/Multiple Personality Disorder, with PTSD a close third. One of my PC patients, Cadie, has a really neat combination of Impulse Control Disorder and Conversion Disorder. When I write characters for Twisted, I usually choose their mental illness first and foremost, then build the rest of them around that. I use [url=http://psychcentral.com/disorders/]this list[/url] to find a suitable sickness. Also, the girl with Body Dismorphia is one who has left the game, and I just haven't changed the OOC post yet. (Again, bad GM!) As I told Headphones, I'm not so worried about the patients all having different mental illnesses as long as the illness is believable for the character's history.

As far as closing the Recruiting Thread... well, I am only looking for two new players, but I'll take all the sheets I can get. I don't want any of you to take this personally, it's something I say based on my past experiences, but not everyone who expresses interest will wind up turning in a finished character sheet. Best submission process just means that I will make my choice of new players based strictly on the awesomeness of their CS and not on a first-come, first-served basis. (I'm looking for originality of species, strength of concept and concept execution, plus overall playability and entertainment value of the character.) So all of you -and anyone else passing through who's interested- are welcome to submit a CS.

(And I should probably add the CS Skeleton to the first post. I'm just had a really off day yesterday, didn't I? LoL!)