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Finn

Location: Alexie’s
Time: Dusk
Interacting with: @Tae Rose Leblanc, @Rodiak Kyran Wright

Finn offered his wristband to Rose so she could scan it. At first the young wolf just thought it was just to identify those who haven’t had reached the legal drinking age yet but there was some more about that wristband. Now that the pink haired bartender scanned it, Finn noticed that everyone in the bar had one. Finn wasn’t sure what to think about the wristband. Maybe It was some technological innovation to speed up the paying process but he had never seen it before in the big apple.

Finn gave Rose a friendly smile and thanked her for bringer his drink and the menu card. “Sure, I’ll let Kyran know what I want to eat. Have a good night” With just one glance at the menu card Finn noticed that there where only meat dishes on it. Something that was odd. Didn’t every joint have at least one vegetarian dish? And why was there a lack of side dishes? The wolf looked around to see if any other patron’s where having anything to eat but those who here did not have large piles of meat on their plate. If Finn didn’t know better he would say this menu card was catered to werewolves. But that would be impossible.

That pink haired bartender just looked normal. There was no way in hell that she could have noticed that Finn was something more then just a regular human. If she would have been a wolf like him, he would have smelled her and she didn’t smell of wet dog so that was out of the question. She wasn’t a vampire either, their odor is like death herself. Maybe she was a witch? But then she should smell like all the herbs and spices they use to brew potions, right? Not that Finn would know how a witch smelled, he never met a witch. Most of them died during the war in new York 7 years ago. The more the wolf thought about the subject, the more uncomfortable he started to feel in this strange bar. Things looked and smelled just too normal in here.

It was the growling of his stomach that shifted his attention back to the menu card. Getting a good bite simply had a higher priority at this point and all those meat dishes looked delicious on paper. It was hard to choose between grilled steaks, mountains of sausages and other dishes. Finn decided to go with the lady’s advice and waved at the man who was introduced as Kyran. “Hi, you’re Kyran right? I would like to order the pot roast. I heard it was good.” He paused a bit and realized that if this card was exclusively for werewolves, everyone in the room would probably know what he was as soon as his order was delivered. But that would be problems for tomorrow. First diner and then sleep.

The sleep part would be rather problematic. With his cellphone dead and no contact with his brother the young wolf didn't had many options for spending the night. He had no clue if there would be any cheap hotel in town and let alone where to find it. Finn looked once more to Kyran and asked “I need a place to crash for the night, is there anything in this town you can recommend?”

I'm out of town to celebrate christmas. I'll be posting ic again once i return.
Finn

Location: Alexie’s
Time: Dusk
Interacting with: @Tae Rose Leblanc, @Kkushmar Kade Wilson

From behind the wheel Finn watched how the sun was slowly setting in the distance. The young werewolf had been driving for at least 14 hours. Or was it more, Finn couldn’t really remember. It didn’t really matter because his destination should be less then an hour away now. All that mattered to him was that he would get as quickly to Ember Grove as possible. Finn pushed on the gas some more driving down the mostly empty highway. Hoping that he would not run into some country side cop eager for some writing out speeding ticket action.

Most people would consider it crazy and irresponsible to drive all the way from New York City to some little town in South Carolina in pretty much one go but for Finn it was about live and death. The live and possible death of his elder brother Mike to be more precise. Finn’s brother meant everything to him and not being able to contact him worried Finn to the point that he had given up on his pack, his training schedule and his parents wishes. Mike had always been looking out for the younger brother and now it was his turn.

Finn’s tired eyes scanned the road ahead for the next sign. His cellphone had given up a long time ago and the young man had to navigate himself. Luckily the exit to Ember Grove was there and Finn founded himself driving down Clover Street. He desperately tried to remember which way it was to the university’s campus but his brain was already shutting down from the long drive. At the first intersection Finn steered his car left but soon noticed the sea and realized he must have taken a wrong turn. ”Damnit! Where is that stupid campus.” Said Finn angerly as he punched the ceiling of his car out of frustration.

The young wolf wanted to continue his search but was stopped by the growling of his stomach. He quickly parked his car on the one remaining free stop near some bar and put on his hoodie. He walked down towards the entrance and noticed the name Alexie’s’. ”I guess this is where those college kids hang around. I hope they serve meat” Murmured Finn as he opened the door and walked inside. He paused a bit at the door and scanned around just to see if his brother was here. But the wolf recognized no faces. Everyone was a stranger.
Finn walked towards the bar while he take off his jacket. Revealing his T-shirt with his gym’s logo (Wolfe Gym. N.Y.C) on it. Tired from the long drive he positioned himself next to some black haired man who was clearly a little bit drunk and look liked he wanted to pay his tab. Finn gave this man a friendly smile before waving to the pink haired lady behind the bar ”Hi, can I order food here? Pretty much anything will do. I’m starving. And a coke please ” Said Finn with a friendly yet tired face.


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Eyy another character from new York. My hunter is from New York as well :P

His pic looks like he'd be pretty skinny haha


If your hunter from New York then he might be aware of Finn's existance. If he's into martial arts that is. Then he might have seen him fight once or twice but I'll leave that up to you ^^
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Hey sooooo... weird question. Would you mind if I make Mike or are you thinking of creating him yourself? Im probably gonna make my Hunter an NPC since I don't think I like that style of RP when I think it through and that opens up a spot in my roster.


Never really thought about that option :D
The idea in my head was that he has dissapeared in Ember Grove and his younger brother came looking for him. i've not entirely set my mind on what has happened to him. proberbly abducted by a group of hunters or something along those lines. But if you have an idea feel free to work it out and then we can have a look at it and see what kind of stories we can come up with :)
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I don’t know how many wolves we can get to join it and it is a bit similar to the pack that’s there with the whole finding lost wolves thing but I can see how it could be different since it’s a gang and he’s more self centered. If you can elaborate and make it maybe more radical or differentiate it I’d be willing possibly, but it would be more preferable to join Vagus Lupi. Can you give some more details ?


I get your point. I'm struggling a bit with making it both diffientiate enough while keeping it attractive for other players. Vagus Lupi is pretty broadly defined as far as its goals go and based on the character sheets I have my doubts that other wolf players might be interested in something more radical (think of a hyper aggressive organisation or werewolf supremacists). I feel that the gang type struggles with diffirentiation to much. In essence it with be similair with the addition of selling drugs and harrasing the local shop owners out of their earnings. So I just going to listen to your advice and make a character that is capable of joing Vagus Lupi.



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I don’t know how many wolves we can get to join it and it is a bit similar to the pack that’s there with the whole finding lost wolves thing but I can see how it could be different since it’s a gang and he’s more self centered. If you can elaborate and make it maybe more radical or differentiate it I’d be willing possibly, but it would be more preferable to join Vagus Lupi. Can you give some more details ?


I'll be working it out and then I'll post it here :)
Hi, i read that you where still looking for players, specific to play vampires. However vampires aren't really my thing. I am interested in playing werewolf. I have an idea for some characters revolving around a youth gang started by an alpha wolf who "empowers" losers and binds them to his pack in order to gain more power. If you like that idea and thinks that its a fine addition to the roleplay that would be cool. If you really only want to add more vampires that's cool too. But since I don't really have any inspiration for vampires it would not be something for me :)

I've been roleplaying on a different website for a while, and one thing that I've noticed there is that everyone seems to do these pre-made characters/roles for the RPs.

Sometimes it'll just be a name or a title/archetype plus a few bulletpoints, but other times it gets as detailed as this (not my character description)-

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The way it works on that site, most people either have a "reservation" system (first-come, first-serve) or you have to "audition" for a character, so you basically get a character based on how much GM likes your sheet (if there are multiple people "auditioning" for the same character). If you don't get the character you want, tough luck. They'll usually let you pick another character that hasn't been taken and run with it, but I find that most times I don't want to do that

I just wanted some of y'alls thoughts on that+pre-made character archetypes in general? I will admit that I don't mind being assigned a name/FC that much, and I think the pre-mades are a good system to ensure sort of """diversity""" among the characters (so that way there aren't like 20000 edgy emos in on RP), but after several bad experiences with the audition system I am really adverse to that. I don't mind the system that we have on RPG either (where you just make up a character on your own). I know people here/on other forum RP sites who will do vague/loose archetypes, which I don't mind either. But I think it's really fucking stupid to put in tons of work/effort for a character that you might not get to play, and a first-come first-serve system isn't completely fair either. I've been trying to think of a happy medium (ie very vague archetypes/roles), but I'm not really sure if there is one. I still think just player-created OCs are the best way to go, but again sometimes the archetypes/roles/pre-mades can be useful.

Thoughts????


I actually see that you point out two seperate topics. The first one are "pre-made characters/archtypes/roles" and the other one is how GMs handle the application process.

Personally I don't see any reason to participate in a roleplay where I have to play with a pre-made character (Name, background, personality, skills already determined). I like to bring my own creativity to the game and when everything is being made for me without my involvement the roleplay is simply not interesting for me. But that is just the case for totally pre-made characters. There can be a good reason to have some pre defined roles and guidelines for the characters to follow. Lets say you're hosting a military style roleplay about a special forces unit. Within that unit there are certain specializations such as a sniper, demolitions expert, medic, communications expert and maybe some more. Such specializations will form the backbone of the pre-made roles. You don't want to have your team made up of 20 snipers.

The next part might involve some guidelines for the characters personality of the said roleplay. If the GM wants to have a certain degree of realism to his roleplay then the participants need to understand that their characters are highly trained professionals and not John Rambo or some other action hero. Nor can they start out as totally broken emo's with an extreme amount of psychological issues. Such people won't be on active duty. Such guidelines and specific roles can still be very appealing to me :)

Now lets go to the next issue. The application process to roleplays. I think the primary reason why the fast majority of roleplays die within a few months is the total lack of any form of application process. GMs tend to focus entirely on their awesome story/plot ideas and world concepts but totally forget to think about what kind of players they want in their game. They almost always forget to ask themselfs that simple question and generally roll with whomever expresses their interests. The most likely outcome of the lack of application process is that a group of people with totally different expectations about the roleplay start a journey. In that journey many will find out that player A posts to frequently to keep up with, player B posts way too little and drags the roleplay, player C likes to write these 10 paragraph over 9000 words posts which player D responds to with a one-liner. Player E is totally into same-sex romance and he's constantly persueing player F's character much to his annoyance because he's totally not into that and just wants the plot to move forward. In the end for many players the roleplay does not live up to their expectations and they will lose interest and drop out. Eventually the roleplay dies and the GM will start a new one and will repeat the above process over and over again until he is lucky and by accident stumbles upon a group of players that are more or less on the same level. Or he will lose his confidence and just persue a carreer of writing mediocre fanfiction :)

Personally I think it is vital for the success of a roleplay to get together a group of people with similair expectations about it. Not just only on post frequency and length but also on direction, roles, content and participation in the overall creative process. Communication with those who express interest in the RP is vital. Not just on how his character should be but also about what he expects from an RP, what his interests are. Does he like to have a touch of romance in between murdering goblin hordes? I think it is crucial for GMs to get to know the players. Know what aspects of roleplaying they enjoy, what levels of posting frequency they are comfortable with and in general what kind of roleplaying experience they are looking for. Then find those players who are most in line with your ideas as GM and with eachother. That way players are more likely to enjoy themselfs in the roleplay because it lives up to what they expected of it.
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