[center][h1][color=#000000]𝒟[/color][color=#100000]đ’Ș[/color][color=#200000]đ’Ș[/color][color=#300000]𝑀[/color][color=#410000]𝒼[/color][color=#510000]𝒜[/color][color=#610000]𝒮[/color][color=#720000]𝐾[/color][color=#820000]𝑅[/color][color=#920000]𝒼[/color][/h1][/center][hr][hr] [b][color=#CFB53B][[[Hey. Have you ever felt forgotten? Have you ever felt your memory decay? Maybe you’ve seen it in others. While drifting through life, little pieces of you that exist in others deteriorate, like they’re chipped away.]]] [[[Have you ever felt a connection snap? Like, some fake red string gets scissored, snipped, and that’s it. What once was is gone, and you can choose to move on. But often, I find that we get lost. We chase the shredded, shedded string and grasp at its frayed edges. Just like that you’re off course. In a misguided attempt to save a single inkling of something you once thought would carry on, and you’ve tumbled off the path. Maybe in your frantic wandering more strings snap.]]] [[[Some of us are down to our last.]]] [[[Our connections to this world are maintained by only fragments of fabrics. You’d think most people would want to hold on, but at the edge you feel this switch in perspective creep up and infect you. Maybe it’s the Big Man Downstairs plucking your last strings, asking for a dance down below. All it takes is one misstep and just like that, you can forego all the ill-fate of the everyday. Take a trip to some sort of sick and twisted basement. He’s down there waiting, but that’s his trick. In the blink of an eye, no goodbyes, what came before recedes into the inky black and what’s next is all that’s left. Don’t glance back. You can’t. Sign the contract.]]] [[[But what’s even worse is being stuck on the edge.]]][/color][/b] [color=#CFB53B][b][[[Welcome to the Land of the Dead
]]][/b][/color][hr][hr][hr] Welcome to Doomsayers! This will be a surrealist urban fantasy roleplay in which you will each take on one character with many roles: an inpatient in a strange and mysterious asylum experiment, a peregrine outsider in a surreal parallel world, a counsel to devil, demon, and the dead. Will you live up to your reputation, Doomsayer, and bring about an end in the land of all endings, or have you another goal buried in the mental fog? Maybe remnants of your attachments to that strange place—that life you lived—remain. [color=#CFB53B][h3]Our Roles:::[/h3][/color] Each player will maintain one character who has been willingly or unwillingly taken into High John’s House of Saints Asylum, where a society with close ties to the American Government conducts a variety of studies on patients who have little recollection of quite where they are, how they got there, and what they’re doing there. Through the mental fog, you will discover you can’t ignore your tie to another strange world: the Land of the Dead, where storybook creatures reside and no common law from your world applies. Will you find out what your connection to this world means? Will you be devoured by the disorder or reclaim it as your birthright? [color=#CFB53B][h3]Our Goal:::[/h3][/color] Doomsayers will be a very involved project that demands a lot of each writer taking part. As such, I will be looking for people who are interested not only in developing an interactive complex story that integrates both a variety of player motivations and world lore, but also players who are looking to use the project as an outlet to seriously draft, practice, and improve their writing. Because of this, I hope you will bear with me through the expansive content of the lore so that we can work together to develop an interesting, multi-layered narrative. The character creation process for Doomsayers will be rather intensive to ensure that we have a powerful and motivated cast that can dedicate themselves to this collaborative performance. [color=#CFB53B][h3]Our Rules:::[/h3][/color] [hider=Rules][indent][color=#CFB53B]â–ș[/color]Follow all of the Guild’s rules and don’t metagame or powergame. Working cooperatively with other writers’ characters can be challenging, but as you learn to give and take without overly modifying another player’s experience, you’ll find unexpected new opportunities arise. That being said, I expect all players to respect the actions of other characters and realistically interact with the world. [color=#CFB53B]â–ș[/color]Doomsayers will be an advanced RP, as I want to adhere to certain quality standards. While quality is greater than quantity, I’d like each writer to substantially contribute in each of their posts. Focuses here will be to aim for around 3-5 developed paragraphs, regular dialogue interaction, and balance of action and reaction. If you are ever struggling to create a post or come up with an idea, I am willing to help work through ideas and I imagine our other writers will be as well. [color=#CFB53B]â–ș[/color]Be friendly and respectful to the rest of the group. If any sort of problem comes up, hash things out respectfully. Unnecessary OOC arguments will bring no positive benefit to the players. Don’t be afraid to bring up issues that may arise so that we can talk through things and solve any problems. I’d prefer us all to be on a friendly page. [color=#CFB53B]â–ș[/color]This story necessitates heavy participation, discussion, and active pursuit of personal character development alongside main story plotlines. What I’ve found can be the most important aspect of collaborative roleplaying is how deeply players choose to interact with the story, other characters, and themselves. Please do your best to regularly include and interact with the players you are in scenes with, and please try to actively pursue storylines as they emerge and interest you. [color=#CFB53B]â–ș[/color]While I would like everyone to be posting on a semi-regular basis, I understand that issues may arise and we all get busy. I tend to run a game that can get slow at times. My main intention is to keep Doomsayers going regardless of what roadblocks we all hit. If you need to take a temporary leave of absence and can’t post, please let the group know. That being said, if you are unable to post for an extended period of time, I will likely control your character as an NPC until your return so we can continue the story moving along. [color=#CFB53B]â–ș[/color]This story will have 18+ themes. Themes of mental illness, alienation, and the forsaken may be heavy at times. Violence and descriptive combat can play a large role in portions of the roleplay. Please keep that in mind. While you don’t have to go into graphic detail, expect rattling violence from ruthless aggressors. Due to the above, I expect all players to be adults and approach these topics with tact and respect. [color=#CFB53B]â–ș[/color] Nothing is ever the perfect immortal. Not even in the Land of the Dead. Expect your actions to have consequences. While you will have a lot of freedom of choice in Doomsayers, options will open and close both for individuals and for the group as decisions are made. Please understand that the actions the players take will not be forgotten by the world around them. [color=#CFB53B]â–ș[/color]This roleplay will run a Discord server for communication, though I hope you all will actively use the thread to keep Doomsayers relevant and alive. If you would like to be added to the Discord, add me at Opposition#4407.[/indent][/hider] [color=#CFB53B][h3]What To Expect:::[/h3][/color] [indent][color=#CFB53B]â–ș[/color]Doomsayers will have a heavy focus on the [i]practice[/i] of writing as the players create the story. As such, I’m looking for players that want to use the RP as an outlet to improve their writing. I encourage workshopping ideas together, providing feedback, and cognating on our own writing throughout your process. As an employed writing advisor, I’ll also be offering unique critique sessions to each player as well should they want greater feedback.[/indent] [indent][color=#CFB53B]â–ș[/color]When writing scenes, you should be prepared to interweave the perspectives of your Doomsayer and their counterpart. Certain scenes will take place in reality while others entirely in the Land of the Dead. It is important to note that these two perspectives are separate and won’t have the same experiences, memories, and personalities. [/indent] [indent][color=#CFB53B]â–ș[/color]Doomsayers will have a focus on conceptualization and surrealist imagery rather than any hard magic system or skill system. Rather than writing a character to fulfill a niche role, or building a strategically useful and powerful character, I encourage you to explore your own creativity in a new direction. You will get out as much as you give in to Doomsayers. [/indent] [indent][color=#CFB53B]â–ș[/color]All players should be ready to establish your characters in both worlds with open goals that can be strived for as well as interfered with by the plots and NPCs you encounter. Regular interaction and intertwining of your personal subplots with those of other player characters is also necessary to move the group forward.[/indent] [indent][color=#CFB53B]â–ș[/color]I have not established a hard limit on the number of characters as that will depend upon how much interest the RP gets and how many people can put together sheets, but I will be deciding and capping the cast around the principles established here. Those who push creative boundaries and are looking to experiment with their writing will be given precedence. I am currently looking for at least 4-5 players minimum, but could go much higher depending on the application pool. With that said, please understand that I am looking to take a rather serious group of roleplayers and I can't always take everyone along for the ride. If you are not accepted upon first drafting a sheet, there will be more opportunities throughout the life of Doomsayers for new players to join in with additional opportunities and unique possibilities available.[/indent][hr]