Little Bill

DUNGEONS AND DOUCHEBAGS: A Homestuck/MSPA Inspired Comedy RP

If anyone's lurking about in the general interest section, we're still accepting. So far, we've got a bard, ranger, mage, and rogue, so in other words, a 100% Support Team. A fighter/knight/barbarian/paladin or something like that would be appreciated.

𝕯𝖚𝖓𝖌𝖊𝖔𝖓𝖘 𝖆𝖓𝖉 𝕯𝖔𝖚𝖈𝖍𝖊𝖇𝖆𝖌𝖘

<Snipped quote by DeadBeatWalking>

Hhahahaa, the fucking voice of your elvish name, killed. Me man. Hahahaha.

I got an idea for a lore place for my AWFUL FISH PEOPLE magic school he came from and his fishy town. If you want to me to talk about those, let me know and I'll PM them you to you tomorrow.

I'm cool with doing some backgrounds.

@ScreenAcne

Totally! I'm all ears for any lore ideas from you guys as well.

𝕯𝖚𝖓𝖌𝖊𝖔𝖓𝖘 𝖆𝖓𝖉 𝕯𝖔𝖚𝖈𝖍𝖊𝖇𝖆𝖌𝖘

I'm gonna bump this and force this board to reread that dumb fucking title until someone joins.

EDIT: Here's the OOC

𝕯𝖚𝖓𝖌𝖊𝖔𝖓𝖘 𝖆𝖓𝖉 𝕯𝖔𝖚𝖈𝖍𝖊𝖇𝖆𝖌𝖘

@DeadBeatWalking

Shit, I was trying to make a spirte mode. Ok, I get you now, brother. That all works for me. I'm gonna go to bed soon, but is there motherfucking, anything you might need a hand with tomorrow in terms of drawing after I have played dead for a few hours?

Likes, mooks or another character?

@ScreenAcne

If you've got any ideas for backgrounds and settings, that's what I need the most help with. What I have in mind is detail around the first OOC post's image, that of the interest check, or ORCQUEST, saved with png so they don't have artifacts and can be reused a lot when people edit them. Happy sleepin', mothersmucker!

𝕯𝖚𝖓𝖌𝖊𝖔𝖓𝖘 𝖆𝖓𝖉 𝕯𝖔𝖚𝖈𝖍𝖊𝖇𝖆𝖌𝖘

Because this was meant to be a sprite. You suggest to modify my blatantly over the top, ugly fish ears. I demand you duel me sir!

@ScreenAcne

ALLOW ME TO CLARIFY MINE WORDS, DEAR SIR. I MEAN TO OVERLAY YOUR FISH EARS UNTO THE SPRITE, AS WELL AS CHANGE THE SPRITE'S COLORING. SUCH A THING WOULD ALLOW FOR UNIFORMITY IN THE SPRITES, AS WELL AS ALTER YOUR CHARACTER'S APPEARANCE TO YOUR WISHES, SATISFYING US BOTH.

And yes, that's pretty much hero mode, sans background -- Bigger, more realistic, and used for the "action shots" and more serious moments of the story. I guess the equivalent used for the majority (Our heroes being cut and pasted into different environments as they travel and things happen) would be "Sprite mode", which is usually the same head, torso, and noodle limbs with discrepancies for things like posing and expressions.

EDIT: CLOWNQUEST, for example, is completely in Sprite Mode because I got bored before it got serious

𝕯𝖚𝖓𝖌𝖊𝖔𝖓𝖘 𝖆𝖓𝖉 𝕯𝖔𝖚𝖈𝖍𝖊𝖇𝖆𝖌𝖘

𝕯𝖚𝖓𝖌𝖊𝖔𝖓𝖘 𝖆𝖓𝖉 𝕯𝖔𝖚𝖈𝖍𝖊𝖇𝖆𝖌𝖘

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You are an inhabitant of EDEN, a land of SWORDS and SORCERY. You have found yourself in a TAVERN with a few WILDLY DIFFERENT and FLAMBOYANTLY QUEER looking characters, forced to sit together in the LAST REMAINING BOOTH to take shelter from a storm. Throughout the night, you have grown CLOSE and now are all planning to go on an ADVENTURE tomorrow morning. How CONVENIENT FOR THE PLOT. The ragtag band of accepted misfits assembled is as follows:

SVENLOTH the ELVEN BARD, GAGIBLOX the AWFUL FISH-PERSON MAGE, KRUM the HALF-ORC RANGER, HISH the LIZARDMAN ROGUE, and HOPEFULLY some kind of SWORD-WIELDER with a STRENGTH STAT worth a damn. I'm looking at you, lurkers. Don't think I don't SEE YOU. I ALWAYS see you.

OOC Info

Outline

• Eden is a world within an 8-Bit Universe. Just go with it. The world and its history and inhabitants don't run on cartoon logic, though their world is more fantastical and humorous than ours. That isn't to say that we'll constantly be battling cockgoblins and making every post as funny as possible or something dumb like that, just that it's a fairly stereotypical -- mostly in a self-aware manner -- fantasy setting where the funniest thing that can happen usually does. Capisce?

• Right off the bat, bear in mind the world of Eden has different laws of reality than ours. Even though the setting is a video game, characters don't break the fourth wall by making self-aware comments about being in video games, because this is simply the world as they have known it all their lives -- Hearts are simply a thing one loses when they get hurt and regain when they eat and sleep, leveling up is the natural effect of gaining experience points, and pixels are the building blocks of all matter. They don't question it unless it's funny and inconsequential.

• All posts begin with your character's name and their action, and are written from the second person. Here's an example with my character.
Svenloth: Belt out a facemelter
See? Easy enough.

• Characters should be somewhat stereotypical to their roles, but this does not mean they should be outright caricatures. They should have something that sets them apart from the rest of their kin, for better or worse. Their shared brands as outcasts will be the main reason that they're willing to trust one another so easily and go on a quest after meeting in a tavern fucking once. That being said, don't go overboard with them being outcasts and give me a cast of half-elf loners, or make intentional mary-sues or scary-sues.

• The point of this is to be funny, but at some point, I'd also like to care about your characters. Think Hodor. You laugh at him shouting his name down a well, but you also empathize with him during the more serious moments. This RP will obviously not have so many serious moments, but I think that like Homestuck, we'll gradually have more as the plot furthens, thickens, and becomes more serious as the big bad looms nearer.

• When in doubt, this is the golden rule: Eden and its inhabitants are comprised only of tropes.

Rules

1. Every post will have one centered image at the top. You can make it however you want, so long as it's pixely and looks like it was done in MSpaint with generic pasted-in images here and there. That being said, try not to make them intentionally shitty.

2. Try to be as funny as possible when the opportunity arises. If you can see a clear way to make something funny in the universe's absurd pseudo text-based adventure style, go for it. Otherwise, advancing the plot will do just fine.

3. Standard rules apply, you've heard them a thousand times. Don't be shitty. It's just jokes my guy.

4. Don't do drugs, stay in school, and brush your teeth.

5. Don't apply if you think you'll drop out in a month. Don't do dat.

Character Sheet

[center][img]To be drawn in MSpaint. Keep it simple so it's not a pain in the ass for others to redraw. Also, give it a white background and use white as sparingly as possible, since this image will be used for your character all the time and thus selected on MSpaint's limited transparent-background setting.[/img][/center]

Name: Fantasy names. Elves have flowy names, Orcs have tough, orcish names, Dwarves have compound surnames of their clans, etc. Also, claim a color. Whether or not this will be your text color is undecided.

Race: The options are Human, Elf, Dwarf, Halfling, Orc, Golem, Half-Breed, or Awful Fish-Person.

Class: Try to stick with D&D's model, or at least rename their concepts.

Bio: A relatively short summarization of your character. History is unimportant. In the Text-Based RPG style of the story that I've borrowed from MSPA, certain words are capitalized. I'd love to tell you that only nouns are capitalized, but sometimes whatever's funny to emphasize is capitalized. Try not to go overboard though.

𝕯𝖚𝖓𝖌𝖊𝖔𝖓𝖘 𝖆𝖓𝖉 𝕯𝖔𝖚𝖈𝖍𝖊𝖇𝖆𝖌𝖘

NAME
SVENLOTH

RACE
Elf

CLASS
Bard

BIO
Lowkin such as HUMANS, ORCS, and FARM ANIMALS know you as SVENLOTH, though to your fellow Elven brothers, you are;

ЅVЄИLФГНІЄИLЄLЦЅЌДЯЅЄИЅФИЅЄLІЧФЅЦLЦЅДМДЌДМДЌДЩІЩФЅЄЯЄLІЦЅЅФЯЄИБДLГНЄЅМФИЅЦЯЄИЅФЅДИБІFЄЯЅЄЦЯФИҀЧГЄЯЅДЅ ЖІІІ.

That's because unlike all these FILTHY LOWKIN, you don't just speak Common, you can speak FЦҀЌІИБ ЄLVІЅН. You are a BEAUTIFUL MOUNTAIN-ELF, which explains your RIDICULOUS NORDIC ACCENT, though you have spent your past HUNDRED YEARS of adolescence as a wandering BARD. In this endeavor, you have done quite well for yourself. Romantically speaking, not monetarily. Monetarily speaking, you are SHIT-BROKE due to your inability to save your coins for more than a week. You enjoy the FINE THINGS in life, aside from your MUSIC, such as DRINKING, PROSTITUTES, and DRUGS. These likes coincide with the MANY BASTARD CHILDREN after your head from seemingly EVERY RACE. Except for the AWFUL FISH-PEOPLE of course, who are HORRIBLE IN EVERY FACET OF THEIR BEING. How you hate them so. Not so much as the FILTHY, STINKING SAVAGE DWARVES.

You sometimes ponder on the INCREDIBLE LONELINESS you feel, wandering from place to place and outliving any and all relationships, but then you remember that you're not a WOMAN and have a drink or two. Aside from your RAMPANT SUBSTANCE ABUSE ISSUE you are also known for your BEAUTY and your appreciation of MEN AND WOMEN ALIKE, which most primitive humans look down upon. If you were a character in some sort of CHILDREN'S GAME you would have a 20 in Charisma and pretty much NOTHING ELSE.

Except for your LUTE. You'd probably have that too.

ADDITIONAL PICTURES

Heromode! Svenloth has three rings, white undershirt underneath his red leather vest, dark grey tights and black knee-high riding boots. His lute is kinda triangular.

RUNNING JOKES

Svenloth speaks pretty bad common. If he doesn't know the specific word, such as "Pony", he will probably go for something like "Compressed Horse". Svenloth is also ambiguously scandinavian/germanic, and speaks with the common mistake of the nordics people speakings English with the S's and using 'the' a lots.

For all his skills in music and lovemaking, Svenloth is essentially useless in all other aspects, be it fighting, strategizing, working, or simple day-to-day tasks like cooking or remembering to buy the right thing at the market. He can grasp some stuff when it's applied to lute playing, like math.

Svenloth has a klansmen-esque hatred for dwarves, dwarven things, and probably regular people with dwarfism.

𝕯𝖚𝖓𝖌𝖊𝖔𝖓𝖘 𝖆𝖓𝖉 𝕯𝖔𝖚𝖈𝖍𝖊𝖇𝖆𝖌𝖘

For our story's equivalent of Hero Mode that style works perfectly, though I'd prefer to use sprites most of the time. If you want, I can totally modify yours to fit this color scheme and ears (Though it'd be off-white, whiteness tends to freak out MSpaint's transparent-background selection, which I use about as often as ctrl+z when I draw.)

Also, Svenloth's CS is up, you guys are free to post yours in the character section with any modifications you see necessary.

𝕯𝖚𝖓𝖌𝖊𝖔𝖓𝖘 𝖆𝖓𝖉 𝕯𝖔𝖚𝖈𝖍𝖊𝖇𝖆𝖌𝖘

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How's this?

@Sentel

Better than any of my attempts! Hish gets 10 exp.