I have been writing as a hobby for longer than you have been alive. I have been a regular member and roleplayer of no less than fourteen different online forums during that time (including the old RPG), fivesix eight of which no longer exist.
I was previously a regular on the Homestuck forums, but I became so sick of thread turnover there that I asked around and eventually found the Guild. Since joining, I have exclusively only participated in Advanced RPs. Before Mahz gave NRPs their own subforum, I used to be an NRP regular in the Advanced Subforum. I am a Guildfall survivor, and know/regularly write with a few others.
If you ask anybody who has written with me in previous RPs, they should tell you that I have a generally open schedule, I post regularly and in a timely fashion, and I never drop an RP once I join unless the thread dies. Some of them may tell you that I have extensive expertise within the realms of Biology, Psychology, and Physics, which I will make no effort to validate since there is no way I can provide hard proof of aforementioned alleged expertise to anybody over the internet (though I am happy to try and answer any questions you send my way).
My favorite fandom is the Myst franchise, which seemingly nobody other than me has ever heard of.
I was a Contest Moderator for the Writing Contests Subforum for just a little bit over two years. I wrote the Moderation Policy for that subforum and I ran a contest called the Twelve Labours; you can still go there and see all of them and the entries people wrote for them in the Contests Section and the Victory Archives.
I have been quadruple secret banned from the guild discord. That is not a joke.
The actual delineations between the Advanced and Casual Subforums are largely artificial because the distinction in the official posted standards is extremely faint and vague. According to the actual forum qualifications, Casual and Advanced subforum members are practically indistinguishable from one another. I have seen Casual subforum regulars who belong in Advanced and write exclusively at an Advanced level, and I have seen Advanced subforum regulars who are so awful they might only be fairly characterized as members of the mythical 'Free' subforum (it is something of a forum Urban Legend in case you were not aware).
In my opinion - and this is just that, so take it however you like - the shift between Casual and Advanced is not one or merit or talent, but of commitment and dedication to a given project. How much time and effort you are willing to spend writing, improving upon your writing, discussing a roleplay with other posters, collaborating, etcetera. That is the distinction I think should exist between the subforums - Casual should be for people for whom roleplay is just another hobby, and not even a primary one at that. Advanced should be for a writer for whom the process is more of a dedicated art and ongoing process.
Do not ask yourself whether you are good enough to write at an Advanced level, because the question is irrelevant due to how the subforums are set up. Ask yourself instead: How important is roleplaying to you personally? How much time and effort are you prepared to invest in it?
If the answer is "A lot," then go for it. Even if you are not wholly confident in your abilities, and even if you are in fact complete trash, simple dedication and practice over time will get you where you need to go - and the Advanced forum is probably the best place to get that experience.
Hey. Here is a very basic review I made up in my spare time - this really only covers the first OOC post and the information provided sections, since your intent seems to be to attract a small group of other posters to join you. I assumed your IC posts were all written by yourself, and so I am going to be focusing mostly on aspects of your roleplay as pertaining to individuals who might potentially want to join it. Since your in-character posts are more in-line as character introductions than as lore-establishing posts, I will not really be talking about them.
I will address your Prologue first since you have it set up as the OOC introduction. In most cases, this will be the first thing other posters see - so you want to make sure it shines and leaves a good impression on them. To that extent it should be fairly showy, attention-getting, and reasonably easy on the eyes. For your convenience, I have marked every error in the prologue and written one possible refined version that achieves the same overall effect.
Original: The year is 1463, (without a proper conjunction you should use a semicolon here rather than a comma) war has ravaged all of Doman, (unnecessary comma) since 1291. Ever since the last true emperor had been (improper tense) assassinated, no one has known true peace. The continent of Doman has somewhat conglomerated (wrong word choice, a synonym for fractured would have been better) into smaller kingdoms and ducal sized (Duchies can vary greatly in size, just omit 'sized') lands. Since there is no great empire to enforce peace, other kings have been trying to make their own empire (this sentence only makes grammatical sense if the addressee is a King since Empire is not a proper synonym). None have succeeded since Emperor Vasan was alive in 1291 (improper tense, improper transition, improper context. Emperor Vasan should have been mentioned in conjunction with the empire). At the moment, (unnecessary comma) there are no great wars, with Doman being somewhat docile for the time being (superfluous qualification). Sadly all it would take to spark a war is a small incident. Who will start a new war (awkward)? Or perhaps a long lasting peace time (improper segue, improper tense, superfluous adjective)? Who knows, all it would take is a single ambitious man (awkward and repetitive of prior statement) to start turning the gears for a new era (implying the era already exists, of is more appropriate). We shall see what happens in the near future as we follow along the journey of our brave warriors and adventurers.
Revision: The year is 1463, and since the assassination of Emperor Vasan in 1291, the land of Doman has known only war. The entire continent has fragmented into small kingdoms and duchies, all vying for dominance in the absence of a greater authority that might keep the peace. The powers stand at an uneasy détente despite the chaos, but all it would take is a single spark to plunge the whole of the land into war unseen since before the time of the great empire. The dawn of a new era looms; whether that dawn shall reveal the blood-scarred plains of war or the rolling, golden plains of peace remains to be seen - and as events are set in motion to usher in that dawn, we shall begin to follow the journey of the brave warriors and adventurers who will become the central figures of the history that will be...
Focusing on your character sheet, there is an unusual - shall we say curious - focus on upfront provision of information best left to more detailed biographies or else for development in-character. Although there is no accepted standard for character sheet templates, it is a given that they should enable one to envision a character in short order, followed by a consideration of what kind of person they actually are.
Your character template asks about race, height, and weight, which is a good start - but then it strangely asks for moral alignment, sexual orientation, and marital status out of the blue. These particular aspects of the template are poorly chosen and ill-placed. They do nothing to further inform the reader what the character actually looks like, and assuming no picture is provided one imagines we are left to depict them as typical racial stereotypes. Putting the particular aspect-related questions such as sexual orientation and alignment ahead of personality, in addition to sending the wrong message (possibly, unless this is a surprise ERP), is superfluous since if it was serious enough to be noteworthy it would likely be mentioned under personality. That is not to say these are bad questions - but if asked, they belong in a different section, and probably should not be keynote aspects of the entire character sheet.
Then there is the problem with what the template implies - it asks for a class designation and provides examples, including two spellcasters - implying a magic system that is not elaborated upon. Then, despite this supposedly being a class-based adventure RPG with tabletop aspects, there is no template section for describing equipment.
As to your collaborative tools - Deciding to use etherpad was a good idea. That said, here is something a touch easier on the eyes and more streamlined.
Conclusion: Far be it for me to criticize a largely private roleplay with only reserved spots available that, for all I know, already has a developed system in place - but it would seem to me that what you have here is the facade of a roleplay, implying substance where there is none. If the entire point of the roleplay is for collaborative worldbuilding, great. If you had something more distinct in mind, you are not doing the best job you could in conveying all the information your posters should known in order to be participating. You need a foundry to build on before you can have a house, and right now you have yet to present enough information to enable other people to help you build it.
tl;dr: There seems to be a lack of overall substance to the roleplay, more details on the setting in general across all aspects is required.
~"I have made a profound discovery. The heart of man is just for decoration."~
【Personal Info】
【Name: Amatus Kokoro 【Nicknames: Kido Hollow, Spellmask 【Age: 524 【Gender: Male 【Race: Human → Plus → Shinigami → Hollow 【Form: Greater Gillian
【Appearance Info: Amatus stands roughly three stories tall in height, their monstrous size owing to their state as a Gillian. Despite this, their form is highly defined, indicative of their proximity to the threshold of evolution into an Adjuchas. They have a long, prehensile, serpentine tail that drags behind them along with two cloven, ungulate legs, and a largely featureless and squat torso with four relatively small, frail arms extending from the shoulders and abdomen. The head features a prominent ridge of bone that sweeps from the collar up and around to encompass the upper end of the neck. Their Mask features four thin swept-back horns, thick, lowered ridge-crests that adorn the eyes, a prominent skeletal nose, and a recessed mouth with externally mounted teeth.
【Biography: Amatus remembers almost none of their life as a living Human, save that they were a priest of some form. They died in their autumn years during the brief cusp when physical ability is briefly matched by wisdom, and so enjoyed a brief period of prosperity upon their arrival in soul society due to their friendly and sociable nature, relatively high intellect, and their ability to take advantage of what opportunities were afforded him. For a time he lived a comfortable existence in the Eleventh Western District of Rukongai, living with a group of well-to-do associates and working as an accountant for a gambling den.
As would be lamented by Amatus for the next few hundred years, his life took a turn for the worse the day he gained an appetite. He learned that only individuals with the potential for spiritual growth, who could potentially become Shinigami, felt hunger and needed to eat. His many friends warned him that there was no happiness to be found amongst the Shinigami, that he would be stuck doing nothing but selfless and tedious work for a thousand years without nothing thankful to come out of it. However, Amatus was not one to let opprotunities go to waste - so he immediately set out to enter the Shin'ō Academy.
The entrance exam proved to be of immense difficulty to Amatus. Amongst his group of applicants he had the highest score possible on the written examination, and the lowest score possible in the physical portion. He only passed when one of the proctors gave him an extra point on the premise that it would have been a shame to see such an intellect go to waste - but he was placed in the lowest class of new students, being the only member thereof, and to this day one of his greatest shames is standing alone in his section during the acceptance ceremony, with hundreds of onlookers staring incredulously.
The academy was unkind to Amatus during his education there. He continued to perform poorly in every subject save for Kido, up until he was taught how to use his reiatsu in order to amplify his strength and speed - which, even strengthed, were merely sub-par. He made rivals with another student by the name of Arina Kawagana, a noble in the first class of students, who frequently taunted and mocked him for his inability to do anything properly. His frequent verbal bouts with her instilled within him a dreadful hate of the Nobility of Soul Society that persists until this day.
When he eventually graduated, he was one of the few students who was simply flat-out denied permission to even attempt to apply to either the Onmitsukidō or the Gotei 13. Determined to nonetheless reach prominence in Seireitei, he applied and was readily accepted to the Kido Corps due to his stellar ability with Kido, an ability with which he had already been ranked as having Mastery over - another shame of his, given that the only reason he could not attain the rank of Grandmaster was due to his lack of the reiatsu needed to cast the higher spells.
Upon entering the Kido Corps, Amatus thought for a time that his troubles were over and that all would quickly given way to his skill and talent - until he made the horrified discovery that not only was every single graduate that was accepted alongside him Noble, but that most of the Kido Corps hierarchy was as well. Amatus was immediately crushed within the insular hierarchy of the Corps, completely unable to jockey for position with any of his peers due to a complete lack of Noble status. He found himself having to work five times as hard to earn even half the credit, and nearly ever effort he made to advance in the ranks found him being punished for acting above his station. His hatred for the Nobility only grew more and more profound, reaching its zenith as he learned that his old rival Arina had attained captaincy in short order by recommendation, without her even having achieved Bankai.
Entering a state of despondency, Amatus' work was affected and he found himself relegated to Senkaimon duty. Maintaining the passageway between Soul Society and the World of the Living, Amatus found an unlikely friendship in Daigo Serizawa, who frequently used the Senkaimon to spend time in the World of the Living. In a scheme between the two, Amatus was able to create a small Reishi Henkan-Ki for Daigo in order to smuggle items from the Living World back into Seireitei, in exchange for Daigo bring back a few occasional items for Amatus - mostly consisting of self-help books and get-rich-quick pamphlets.
Amatus' second life in Soul Society eventually came to an abrupt end when he was called in for maintenance to fix a problem with the Senkaimon, as it was being reported that the opening in the World of the Living was not opening and instead showing a completely featureless, black void. Amatus stepped into the Dangai in order to investigate, and was immediately sucked through its entire length and into the void - as it turned out to be the open maw of a Menos Grande, standing directly in front of the open Senkaimon in the World of the Living and inhaling deeply once it sensed a victim in the Dangai. Amatus was killed instantly and his soul dumped into the vast ocean that was the Menos Grande's aggregate being.
Mere hours later, with no small amount of surprise and shock, Amatus regained consciousness as an Emergent Gillian. Despite the extreme statistical unlikelihood, his mind had somehow overcome the thousands of others composing the Menos Grande, and he had asserted willful control over it - forcing it to evolve into a Gillian in the process.
Amatus found that the new way of things agreed with him tremendously, despite the shortcomings of the Hollow form - bestowed with relatively tremendous strength and speed wholly beyond what he had possessed before, and with even more reiryoku than he could have dreamed of, he was also surprised to learn that he retained the use of his Kido despite having lost his heart. This gave him an immense advantage amongst his fellow Hollows, and using Bakudō he was often able to consume dozens at once with little to no actual effort on his part. Soon, the pressing hunger that threatened to swallow his mind receded, while his form gradually grew smaller and more distinct.
Venturing out from the Forest of Menos and into the Wastes of Hueco Mundo, Amatus joined with a band of other Gillian and shortly learned both of his own unique Hollow Ability as well as of Las Noches. Using his ability to form conduits with his new allies, he took command over them and led the way to Las Noches, using his command over his fellows along with his Kido to overcome any other bands they came across. When they arrived at Las Noches itself, Amatus was able to grant himself audience with the Custodian by dominating the mind of the Adjuchas barring entry to the palace. Managing to pique the interest of the Custodian with promises of insight into the Shinigami ways and of forbidden knowledge of Hollows and the Nature of the Soul, Amatus was given a place in the Court of Low Souls and given the task of establishing a laboratory.
Now there he dwells, plotting on how to enhance his power and status further amongst his kind as his thoughts turn to the Shinigami, amongst whom he had such difficult in his second life...
【Personality: Amatus is ultimately a largely reasonable and intelligent individual who is fairly friendly and accommodating, only growing upset when his personal aspirations and efforts are derided or otherwise obstructed. He is easygoing, cheerful, generous, slow to anger, forgiving of mistakes, reasonably patient, and can see the best in most people. However, he can become sullen and eventually infuriated if he is belittled or insulted, especially if his intellect or his capabilities are mocked. He also has a passionate hatred for Nobility, and becomes irrational when thinking about them or dealing with them. While he is slow to anger, once he forms a grudge he nurses it, teaches it to speak and walk, puts it through school, gets it a job, attends its wedding, attends its convalescences, its funeral, and then has its corpse stuffed and mounted on the parlor wall. Once angered, he will never let it go or forget it, and will descend with disproportionate fury and anger - at least, to the extent he is capable. He maintains a great many grudges he was unable to act upon in Soul Society that he only now has the power to act upon...
【Notable Traits】
【Likes/Dislikes】
✔ Charity ✔ Humility ✔ Discovery ✔ Vengeance Against Those Who Wronged Him
✘ Nobles ✘ Busywork ✘ Nepotism ✘ Luck
【Defining Traits】
Positive
▲ Easygoing ▲ Generous ▲ Forgiving ▲ Intelligent
Neutral
☯ Slow to Anger ☯ Chatty ☯ Informal ☯ Opportunistic
Negative
▼ Holds a Grudge Like Woah ▼ Irrational Hatred of Nobles ▼ Dismissive of Work Routine ▼ Easily Injured Pride
【Relationships】
NAME: Arina Kawagana
Amatus and Arina met during the education in the Academy, and were immediately at odds. Amatus struggled at everything but Kido while Arina coasted through mainly on her social status, good looks and not much else, and constantly tormented Amatus to no end over his shortcomings. After they both graduated and matured a little their rivalry mellowed, but Amatus has always held a grudge over how everything she has attained has been effortless for her, without her ever having had to work for it.
NAME: Daigo Serizawa
Amatus and Daigo became partners in crime of a sort when Amatus enabled Daigo to smuggle items from the world of the living back into Seireitei via a small, handmade Reishi Henkan-Ki. They became easy if somewhat distant friends due to their frequent meetups through Daigo's use of the Senkaimon.
【Capabilities】
【General Aptitude】
Fighting Style:
Amatus is not particular fast and is very physically weak - they can barely even defend themselves at melee range, which is just fine because even if they could they do not have the strength to make any kind of defense they might make effective. Once caught up to, he is little more than a punching bag. Thankfully for Amatus, he is a very durable punching bag - what he lacks in strength he more than makes up for in hardiness. His Mask is even stronger than his body, eliminating it as a weak point, and his inherent Hollow powers are strong enough that his high speed regeneration is both obscenely fast and effective. So anybody can come along and beat him up for hours or even days without killing him.
...Or at least they could, if Amatus did not have large Reiatsu, excellent Hollow powers, plus the unique advantage of retained Kido as a Hollow. His severely caustic Reiatsu makes him very difficult to approach, a task made all the more difficult by his frequent use of both Hadō and Bakudō, supplemented with Ceros and the very occasional surprise attack where Amatus uses his reiatsu to amplify his physical strength to more considerable heights. Amatus' overall strategy in battle is to form a center of power around himself that most foes cannot enter easily, or at least not without great risk to themselves - and then to begin shredding them from afar with high-powered spells and abilities. Even if Amatus is caught offguard, the immense difficulty in actually killing him usually gives him time to fire off a reflex-Cero and buy himself some more distance.
Reiryoku: 3 Reiatsu: 4 Integrity: 4
Amatus came into a great surplus of Reiryoku and Reiatsu upon being eaten and turning into a Hollow, and even hundreds of years later he is still adjusting to his relatively rapid rate of growth. While he never had a great degree of reiryoku or reiatsu as a Shinigami, he knew all the proper methods and techniques for manipulating and shaping it, which served him well as a Hollow with an explosive degree of growth potential.
Mask: 4 Hunger: 3 Rigidity: 4 Instinct 4
Amatus' abrupt transformation into a Hollow was not particularly severe in and of itself, but was perhaps more pronounced in the sense that the change was not an unwelcome one. Amatus' was greatly convenienced by his second death, acquiring power far beyond what his frail, Human body had been able to provide, and although the eternal, insatiable hunger was agonizing, hundreds of years of thankless toil had prepared him well for acclimatizing to the agony. The final nail in the coffin was the essential despondency and impotent rage Amatus had brewed up over the centuries due to the inadequacies of his Human life - all these factors combined resulted in a being practically made to be Hollow, and so the initial severity of his transformation was intense, and the following growth in power swift. As a result, Amatus' mask is as durable as his body, and his reiatsu is both extremely caustic and hard to repulse.
Form: 0 Offense: 0 Defense: 0 Strength: 0
While Amatus gained three stories in height from his transformation, the increase in strength was merely relative. While he is strong compared to a Human, most spiritual beings could overpower him with ease. While he has four arms, they are all underdeveloped and frail, being more suited to finesse and weaving delicate kido than for wild haymakers or crosses. However, one should be wary about straying within arms' length for too long, as Amatus has been known to amplify their strength from nonexistent to dangerous using their reiatsu in order to go for a melee surprise attack that can take his opponents off-guard.
Power: 4 Hollow Power: 4 Perception: 2
Prior to his second death, even though he had been consigned to Senkaimon duty and was practically a living joke in the hierarchy, Amatus was in fact a Kido Grandmaster who far outclassed his peers, and was in truth one of the leading experts in his field - or would have been had he received any due recognition. His ability carried over quite well as a Hollow, as he had a encyclopedic knowledge of all known Hollow abilities and powers, giving him insight into their use beyond what other Hollows possessed. Combined with his excellent reiatsu manipulation and drive, he was able to manifest all of his Hollow powers at a superb level in short order - even as a lowly Gillian, Amatus can fire Ceros that can overwhelm most Adjuchas.
Speed: 1 Agility: 1 Biorythm: 0
As much as Amatus' form is poorly suited for melee brawls, it also lacks the strength to grant him particularly outstanding speed. The best that can be said of him is that he is light on his feet. Furthermore, although Amatus has astounding high speed regeneration capabilities, even modest melee attacks can stagger or else send him flying, leaving him serious disoriented, unbalanced, and distracted by pain for a while - though one should be wary of blind-fired Ceros if they harry him overmuch.
【Specialization】
Double-Dual Casting:
Taking advantage of his forms' four arms, Amatus can supercharge two different Kido spells or Ceros at once by using two hands to charge up each one - or, alternatively, to megacharge a single Kido or Cero using all four arms. The resulting increase in power is immense, but naturally requires an accompanying large investment of reiatsu to fuel.
Surprise!
Amatus feigns exaggerated staggers and flinches during his foe's attack, and then in the middle of their next combo briefly supercharges his physical strength using an abrupt surge of reiatsu to his limbs while also using several pre-prepared Bakudō cast prior to the fight, stunning his opponent before using his four limbs to pin their arms to their sides and lifting them into the air before blowing them away with an overcharged Cero. Due to having two arms with specific point-leverage on each of his victim's limbs, Amatus reduces the total strength needed to immobilize them by preventing them from being unable to leverage all of the strength in their limbs, hopefully leaving them struggling helplessly in the air if they somehow overcome the paralyzing kido. The duration of both the strength amplification and the various Bakudō is extremely brief, lasting only a few seconds - which is more time than Amatus truly needs.
【Hollow Ability】
~"That conduit he formed did more than power me up - it felt like I knew everything he did while it was up."~
Ability: Amatus can forcefully distort his own reiatsu and that of other Hollows, forming conduits between them and forming a symbiotic link. While connected, every joined Hollow gains a significant boost to their reiatsu that scales according to how many other Hollows are joined and how powerful each one is. On top of that, a pseudo-telepathic link is established between them all, allowing for seamless and instantaneous coordination.
When used on entities who are not Hollows - Shinigami for example - the inherent difference in nature between the respective fields of reiatsu renders the symbiotic connection impossible unless the Shinigami willingly suppresses their own reiatsu. However, Amatus can still successfully distort a Shinigami's reiatsu in order to force a connection, preventing them from using any abilities dependent upon manipulation of their emitted reiatsu such as pressure waves, though not invested abilities such as Kido and certain Zanpakuto moves. The forced connection is usually also beneficial for Amatus in that it allows him to more efficiently and at a longer range consume the reiatsu of his opponents.
Ability Techniques
Escuadrón Cero: Every Hollow linked via the conduit contributes power through the conduit that gathers at a focal point in the sky overhead, culminating in a massive Cero which discharges as a sustained stream that tracks after opponents for a while before vanishing.
Incruento Cadencia: Amatus temporarily suppresses the reiatsu-boost provided by the conduit to instead turn the effects to amplifying the Biorythm of every linked Hollow.
Alva Taladrar: Amatus modifies the conduit from his end into a focused, piercing spear formed to shear through an opponent's reiatsu rather than clashing with it. Upon direct contact with an opponent's physical body, Amatus gains brief motor control over it, as well as access to all surface thoughts they have at the time. The duration of control and access to their thoughts is very limited, as the conduit is inevitably severed immediately by their resurging reiatsu cutting off the conduit - it typically grants Amatus enough time to make them start to take a single step or to start to make a single gesture. The only circumstance in which this ability would afford Amatus extended control would be if the opponent barely had any reiatsu whatsoever left. Even an opponent with very weak reiatsu could still reliably cut off this ability, since the clash of opposing reiatsus alone is sufficient to disrupt it rather than being determined by any kind of difference in spiritual pressure.
~"I have made a profound discovery. The heart of man is just for decoration."~
【Personal Info】
【Name: Amatus Kokoro 【Nicknames: Kido Hollow, Spellmask 【Age: 524 【Gender: Male 【Race: Human → Plus → Shinigami → Hollow 【Form: Greater Gillian
【Appearance Info: Amatus stands roughly three stories tall in height, their monstrous size owing to their state as a Gillian. Despite this, their form is highly defined, indicative of their proximity to the threshold of evolution into an Adjuchas. They have a long, prehensile, serpentine tail that drags behind them along with two cloven, ungulate legs, and a largely featureless and squat torso with four relatively small, frail arms extending from the shoulders and abdomen. The head features a prominent ridge of bone that sweeps from the collar up and around to encompass the upper end of the neck. Their Mask features four thin swept-back horns, thick, lowered ridge-crests that adorn the eyes, a prominent skeletal nose, and a recessed mouth with externally mounted teeth.
【Biography: Amatus remembers almost none of their life as a living Human, save that they were a priest of some form. They died in their autumn years during the brief cusp when physical ability is briefly matched by wisdom, and so enjoyed a brief period of prosperity upon their arrival in soul society due to their friendly and sociable nature, relatively high intellect, and their ability to take advantage of what opportunities were afforded him. For a time he lived a comfortable existence in the Eleventh Western District of Rukongai, living with a group of well-to-do associates and working as an accountant for a gambling den.
As would be lamented by Amatus for the next few hundred years, his life took a turn for the worse the day he gained an appetite. He learned that only individuals with the potential for spiritual growth, who could potentially become Shinigami, felt hunger and needed to eat. His many friends warned him that there was no happiness to be found amongst the Shinigami, that he would be stuck doing nothing but selfless and tedious work for a thousand years without nothing thankful to come out of it. However, Amatus was not one to let opprotunities go to waste - so he immediately set out to enter the Shin'ō Academy.
The entrance exam proved to be of immense difficulty to Amatus. Amongst his group of applicants he had the highest score possible on the written examination, and the lowest score possible in the physical portion. He only passed when one of the proctors gave him an extra point on the premise that it would have been a shame to see such an intellect go to waste - but he was placed in the lowest class of new students, being the only member thereof, and to this day one of his greatest shames is standing alone in his section during the acceptance ceremony, with hundreds of onlookers staring incredulously.
The academy was unkind to Amatus during his education there. He continued to perform poorly in every subject save for Kido, up until he was taught how to use his reiatsu in order to amplify his strength and speed - which, even strengthed, were merely sub-par. He made rivals with another student by the name of Arina Kawagana, a noble in the first class of students, who frequently taunted and mocked him for his inability to do anything properly. His frequent verbal bouts with her instilled within him a dreadful hate of the Nobility of Soul Society that persists until this day.
When he eventually graduated, he was one of the few students who was simply flat-out denied permission to even attempt to apply to either the Onmitsukidō or the Gotei 13. Determined to nonetheless reach prominence in Seireitei, he applied and was readily accepted to the Kido Corps due to his stellar ability with Kido, an ability with which he had already been ranked as having Mastery over - another shame of his, given that the only reason he could not attain the rank of Grandmaster was due to his lack of the reiatsu needed to cast the higher spells.
Upon entering the Kido Corps, Amatus thought for a time that his troubles were over and that all would quickly given way to his skill and talent - until he made the horrified discovery that not only was every single graduate that was accepted alongside him Noble, but that most of the Kido Corps hierarchy was as well. Amatus was immediately crushed within the insular hierarchy of the Corps, completely unable to jockey for position with any of his peers due to a complete lack of Noble status. He found himself having to work five times as hard to earn even half the credit, and nearly ever effort he made to advance in the ranks found him being punished for acting above his station. His hatred for the Nobility only grew more and more profound, reaching its zenith as he learned that his old rival Arina had attained captaincy in short order by recommendation, without her even having achieved Bankai.
Entering a state of despondency, Amatus' work was affected and he found himself relegated to Senkaimon duty. Maintaining the passageway between Soul Society and the World of the Living, Amatus found an unlikely friendship in Daigo Serizawa, who frequently used the Senkaimon to spend time in the World of the Living. In a scheme between the two, Amatus was able to create a small Reishi Henkan-Ki for Daigo in order to smuggle items from the Living World back into Seireitei, in exchange for Daigo bring back a few occasional items for Amatus - mostly consisting of self-help books and get-rich-quick pamphlets.
Amatus' second life in Soul Society eventually came to an abrupt end when he was called in for maintenance to fix a problem with the Senkaimon, as it was being reported that the opening in the World of the Living was not opening and instead showing a completely featureless, black void. Amatus stepped into the Dangai in order to investigate, and was immediately sucked through its entire length and into the void - as it turned out to be the open maw of a Menos Grande, standing directly in front of the open Senkaimon in the World of the Living and inhaling deeply once it sensed a victim in the Dangai. Amatus was killed instantly and his soul dumped into the vast ocean that was the Menos Grande's aggregate being.
Mere hours later, with no small amount of surprise and shock, Amatus regained consciousness as an Emergent Gillian. Despite the extreme statistical unlikelihood, his mind had somehow overcome the thousands of others composing the Menos Grande, and he had asserted willful control over it - forcing it to evolve into a Gillian in the process.
Amatus found that the new way of things agreed with him tremendously, despite the shortcomings of the Hollow form - bestowed with relatively tremendous strength and speed wholly beyond what he had possessed before, and with even more reiryoku than he could have dreamed of, he was also surprised to learn that he retained the use of his Kido despite having lost his heart. This gave him an immense advantage amongst his fellow Hollows, and using Bakudō he was often able to consume dozens at once with little to no actual effort on his part. Soon, the pressing hunger that threatened to swallow his mind receded, while his form gradually grew smaller and more distinct.
Venturing out from the Forest of Menos and into the Wastes of Hueco Mundo, Amatus joined with a band of other Gillian and shortly learned both of his own unique Hollow Ability as well as of Las Noches. Using his ability to form conduits with his new allies, he took command over them and led the way to Las Noches, using his command over his fellows along with his Kido to overcome any other bands they came across. When they arrived at Las Noches itself, Amatus was able to grant himself audience with the Custodian by dominating the mind of the Adjuchas barring entry to the palace. Managing to pique the interest of the Custodian with promises of insight into the Shinigami ways and of forbidden knowledge of Hollows and the Nature of the Soul, Amatus was given a place in the Court of Low Souls and given the task of establishing a laboratory.
Now there he dwells, plotting on how to enhance his power and status further amongst his kind as his thoughts turn to the Shinigami, amongst whom he had such difficult in his second life...
【Personality: Amatus is ultimately a largely reasonable and intelligent individual who is fairly friendly and accommodating, only growing upset when his personal aspirations and efforts are derided or otherwise obstructed. He is easygoing, cheerful, generous, slow to anger, forgiving of mistakes, reasonably patient, and can see the best in most people. However, he can become sullen and eventually infuriated if he is belittled or insulted, especially if his intellect or his capabilities are mocked. He also has a passionate hatred for Nobility, and becomes irrational when thinking about them or dealing with them. While he is slow to anger, once he forms a grudge he nurses it, teaches it to speak and walk, puts it through school, gets it a job, attends its wedding, attends its convalescences, its funeral, and then has its corpse stuffed and mounted on the parlor wall. Once angered, he will never let it go or forget it, and will descend with disproportionate fury and anger - at least, to the extent he is capable. He maintains a great many grudges he was unable to act upon in Soul Society that he only now has the power to act upon...
【Notable Traits】
【Likes/Dislikes】
✔ Charity ✔ Humility ✔ Discovery ✔ Vengeance Against Those Who Wronged Him
✘ Nobles ✘ Busywork ✘ Nepotism ✘ Luck
【Defining Traits】
Positive
▲ Easygoing ▲ Generous ▲ Forgiving ▲ Intelligent
Neutral
☯ Slow to Anger ☯ Chatty ☯ Informal ☯ Opportunistic
Negative
▼ Holds a Grudge Like Woah ▼ Irrational Hatred of Nobles ▼ Dismissive of Work Routine ▼ Easily Injured Pride
【Relationships】
NAME: Arina Kawagana
Amatus and Arina met during the education in the Academy, and were immediately at odds. Amatus struggled at everything but Kido while Arina coasted through mainly on her social status, good looks and not much else, and constantly tormented Amatus to no end over his shortcomings. After they both graduated and matured a little their rivalry mellowed, but Amatus has always held a grudge over how everything she has attained has been effortless for her, without her ever having had to work for it.
NAME: Daigo Serizawa
Amatus and Daigo became partners in crime of a sort when Amatus enabled Daigo to smuggle items from the world of the living back into Seireitei via a small, handmade Reishi Henkan-Ki. They became easy if somewhat distant friends due to their frequent meetups through Daigo's use of the Senkaimon.
【Capabilities】
【General Aptitude】
Fighting Style:
Amatus is not particular fast and is very physically weak - they can barely even defend themselves at melee range, which is just fine because even if they could they do not have the strength to make any kind of defense they might make effective. Once caught up to, he is little more than a punching bag. Thankfully for Amatus, he is a very durable punching bag - what he lacks in strength he more than makes up for in hardiness. His Mask is even stronger than his body, eliminating it as a weak point, and his inherent Hollow powers are strong enough that his high speed regeneration is both obscenely fast and effective. So anybody can come along and beat him up for hours or even days without killing him.
...Or at least they could, if Amatus did not have large Reiatsu, excellent Hollow powers, plus the unique advantage of retained Kido as a Hollow. His severely caustic Reiatsu makes him very difficult to approach, a task made all the more difficult by his frequent use of both Hadō and Bakudō, supplemented with Ceros and the very occasional surprise attack where Amatus uses his reiatsu to amplify his physical strength to more considerable heights. Amatus' overall strategy in battle is to form a center of power around himself that most foes cannot enter easily, or at least not without great risk to themselves - and then to begin shredding them from afar with high-powered spells and abilities. Even if Amatus is caught offguard, the immense difficulty in actually killing him usually gives him time to fire off a reflex-Cero and buy himself some more distance.
Reiryoku: 3 Reiatsu: 4 Integrity: 4
Amatus came into a great surplus of Reiryoku and Reiatsu upon being eaten and turning into a Hollow, and even hundreds of years later he is still adjusting to his relatively rapid rate of growth. While he never had a great degree of reiryoku or reiatsu as a Shinigami, he knew all the proper methods and techniques for manipulating and shaping it, which served him well as a Hollow with an explosive degree of growth potential.
Mask: 4 Hunger: 3 Rigidity: 4 Instinct 4
Amatus' abrupt transformation into a Hollow was not particularly severe in and of itself, but was perhaps more pronounced in the sense that the change was not an unwelcome one. Amatus' was greatly convenienced by his second death, acquiring power far beyond what his frail, Human body had been able to provide, and although the eternal, insatiable hunger was agonizing, hundreds of years of thankless toil had prepared him well for acclimatizing to the agony. The final nail in the coffin was the essential despondency and impotent rage Amatus had brewed up over the centuries due to the inadequacies of his Human life - all these factors combined resulted in a being practically made to be Hollow, and so the initial severity of his transformation was intense, and the following growth in power swift. As a result, Amatus' mask is as durable as his body, and his reiatsu is both extremely caustic and hard to repulse.
Form: 0 Offense: 0 Defense: 0 Strength: 0
While Amatus gained three stories in height from his transformation, the increase in strength was merely relative. While he is strong compared to a Human, most spiritual beings could overpower him with ease. While he has four arms, they are all underdeveloped and frail, being more suited to finesse and weaving delicate kido than for wild haymakers or crosses. However, one should be wary about straying within arms' length for too long, as Amatus has been known to amplify their strength from nonexistent to dangerous using their reiatsu in order to go for a melee surprise attack that can take his opponents off-guard.
Power: 4 Hollow Power: 4 Perception: 2
Prior to his second death, even though he had been consigned to Senkaimon duty and was practically a living joke in the hierarchy, Amatus was in fact a Kido Grandmaster who far outclassed his peers, and was in truth one of the leading experts in his field - or would have been had he received any due recognition. His ability carried over quite well as a Hollow, as he had a encyclopedic knowledge of all known Hollow abilities and powers, giving him insight into their use beyond what other Hollows possessed. Combined with his excellent reiatsu manipulation and drive, he was able to manifest all of his Hollow powers at a superb level in short order - even as a lowly Gillian, Amatus can fire Ceros that can overwhelm most Adjuchas.
Speed: 1 Agility: 1 Biorythm: 0
As much as Amatus' form is poorly suited for melee brawls, it also lacks the strength to grant him particularly outstanding speed. The best that can be said of him is that he is light on his feet. Furthermore, although Amatus has astounding high speed regeneration capabilities, even modest melee attacks can stagger or else send him flying, leaving him serious disoriented, unbalanced, and distracted by pain for a while - though one should be wary of blind-fired Ceros if they harry him overmuch.
【Specialization】
Double-Dual Casting: Prerequisites
Taking advantage of his forms' four arms, Amatus can supercharge two different Kido spells or Ceros at once by using two hands to charge up each one - or, alternatively, to megacharge a single Kido or Cero using all four arms. The resulting increase in power is immense, but naturally requires an accompanying large investment of reiatsu to fuel.
Surprise! Prerequisites
Amatus feigns exaggerated staggers and flinches during his foe's attack, and then in the middle of their next combo briefly supercharges his physical strength using an abrupt surge of reiatsu to his limbs while also using several pre-prepared Bakudō cast prior to the fight, stunning his opponent before using his four limbs to pin their arms to their sides and lifting them into the air before blowing them away with an overcharged Cero. Due to having two arms with specific point-leverage on each of his victim's limbs, Amatus reduces the total strength needed to immobilize them by preventing them from being unable to leverage all of the strength in their limbs, hopefully leaving them struggling helplessly in the air if they somehow overcome the paralyzing kido. The duration of both the strength amplification and the various Bakudō is extremely brief, lasting only a few seconds - which is more time than Amatus truly needs.
【Hollow Ability】
~"That conduit he formed did more than power me up - it felt like I knew everything he did while it was up."~
Ability: Amatus can forcefully distort his own reiatsu and that of other Hollows, forming conduits between them and forming a symbiotic link. While connected, every joined Hollow gains a significant boost to their reiatsu that scales according to how many other Hollows are joined and how powerful each one is. On top of that, a pseudo-telepathic link is established between them all, allowing for seamless and instantaneous coordination.
When used on entities who are not Hollows - Shinigami for example - the inherent difference in nature between the respective fields of reiatsu renders the symbiotic connection impossible unless the Shinigami willingly suppresses their own reiatsu. However, Amatus can still successfully distort a Shinigami's reiatsu in order to force a connection, preventing them from using any abilities dependent upon manipulation of their emitted reiatsu such as pressure waves, though not invested abilities such as Kido and certain Zanpakuto moves. The forced connection is usually also beneficial for Amatus in that it allows him to more efficiently and at a longer range consume the reiatsu of his opponents.
Ability Techniques
Escuadrón Cero: Every Hollow linked via the conduit contributes power through the conduit that gathers at a focal point in the sky overhead, culminating in a massive Cero which discharges as a sustained stream that tracks after opponents for a while before vanishing.
Incruento Cadencia: Amatus temporarily suppresses the reiatsu-boost provided by the conduit to instead turn the effects to amplifying the Biorythm of every linked Hollow.
Alva Taladrar: Amatus modifies the conduit from his end into a focused, piercing spear formed to shear through an opponent's reiatsu rather than clashing with it. Upon direct contact with an opponent's physical body, Amatus gains brief motor control over it, as well as access to all surface thoughts they have at the time. The duration of control and access to their thoughts is very limited, as the conduit is inevitably severed immediately by their resurging reiatsu cutting off the conduit - it typically grants Amatus enough time to make them start to take a single step or to start to make a single gesture. The only circumstance in which this ability would afford Amatus extended control would be if the opponent barely had any reiatsu whatsoever left. Even an opponent with very weak reiatsu could still reliably cut off this ability, since the clash of opposing reiatsus alone is sufficient to disrupt it rather than being determined by any kind of difference in spiritual pressure.
Death is no different than any other facet of storytelling. It can be done poorly or well, with great gravity or levity, to ill or grand effect.
There is an inevitable Human tendency to romanticize or otherwise aggrandize the death of particular individuals. This inevitably invites inspiration to aggrandize lesser entities to victory (Martyrdom), to illustrate the particular tragedy of a struggle, to construct a poetic moral, or simply to bring a final close to an individual arc.
On the other hand, there can be the more logical depiction of death meaning absolutely nothing beyond mere practical concerns, with people dropping dead at random like flies regardless of who they are and their importance. This can invite the inception of a higher cause, or create a web of rippling effects that converge at a central point, or might even in fact be truly random.
The thing to keep in mind is that death is a character condition. Its occurrence, at least in metafictional terms, is no different from any other kind of development that might occur or be imposed. Even in a nonfiction setting, the condition of death imposed upon a character is not necessarily their final end (the obvious if played out example being Hamlet).
The question I like to ask myself when contemplating the death of characters, for that last reason, is not what might come of or else be achieved by a death. It is all the same, after a fashion. I would like to think the character being contemplated is nuanced enough, and the contextual reality of the roleplay developed enough, that any particular death might be equal - at the right time, place, and fashion. I like to think that if given freedom, the reality of a roleplay will create its own meaning and atmosphere without writers having to impose their own thoughts forcefully.
The question I ask is whether they would die or would kill. To permit the spirit of the roleplay, as a narrator who does not impose upon the wills of the characters or the order of the world - a being who merely conveys occurrence to a third party - the only question I should be asking is whether I am interpreting events correctly. Thus, the only real question to ask is whether or not a particular individual dying or else killing another makes sense and does not contradict the contextual reality of the roleplay.
As an extension of that, a death is always precisely as grisly, as awful, as silent, as traumatic as it needs to be at the moment it occurs. The same is true of other actions such as torture, rape, etcetera. Concern yourself not with the singular action. If it troubles you, turn instead to the world that created the problem - and then get better at worldbuilding to accommodate your distaste.
Optimally that would be how it is done, except not many writers are of a like mind with me. So occasionally go and talk to the other roleplayers instead to see what it is they are trying to do, and attempt to reconcile your perceptions.
When working on my own, I simply write everything here in the forum while making notepad backups when necessary. I use various syncpads for more collaborative work, and for the purposes of discussion chatzy has proven most convenient. There is also Discord, but most roleplayers utilization of extensions from the main RPG discord limits my own use of it.
On the specific note of collaborative tools, I would like to specifically talk about the use of syncpads, google docs, and actual full-blown wikis for specific roleplays. In my experience, storing all of the information together in one easy-to-edit document or even a series of them combined with realtime chat has the counter-intuitive effect of creating stagnation in the roleplay proper. The problem is not quite that people get too bogged down in too many small details, but that the greater access and freedom to discuss those smaller details tends to lead to plot developments that then drag and eventually die if so much as one party loses interest or has to go inactive for a while. Such documents invite a greeter degree of collaboration from people than might otherwise be advisable given varying degrees of commitment and interest between individuals. For that very reason, I approve more of keeping sheets right here in the forum in a more static format, forcing roleplayers to actually write in the thread in order to convey detail and development rather than just writing about it endlessly in some never-to-be-seen syncpad. I myself am guilty of this - my favorites bar is cluttered with syncpad links from dozens of old roleplays, describing various plots and details of stories which ultimately never saw the light of day.
There are only a few roleplays that ever get big and detailed enough to really benefit from a wiki, and to an extent it can result in the exact same kind of problem as investing too much detail into a syncpad codex. At the same time the, its slightly more rigid and static format means that people still need to go out of their way to talk about everything and various shenanigans elsewhere, which can hopefully lead to more active collaborations (though one should be wary of posters being lured in to endless editing campaigns). Wikis seem to be most useful for organizing large amount of disparate information in a setting with a lot of stuff to sift through - Large Space NRPs where you might want to find out what factions have what things, but do not necessarily want to have to sit down and read through each individual nation sheet all over again.
To me, a character is not really a discrete entity that development and progression occur to as a special event or instance.
Many roleplayers will, over time, develop a cast of 'Regulars' that they prefer to use, and who can be easily or at least readily adapted to any number of contextual realities for the purposes of a given roleplay. The process I use is similar in that I have a cast of of template characters, but they are small in number and are more similar than different. What enables me to turn each template into what others might perceive as a distinct and unique character is just a matter of circumstance - literally. What I do is highly formulaic and ordered, but occurs across time and creates vast depth.
At this particular moment I have around six or so templates that I have used regularly throughout my roleplaying history, but those six basic templates have been used to create somewhere within the realm of 120 distinct, unique characters that under normal circumstances would not be recognized as the same - the important thing to note here being that most of those unique entities are, in fact, the exact same being simply exposed to different contexts and experiences. The exact process I use is a touch arcane and also private, but I will remark that it is involved enough that each character would have different genetics while still effectively being 'the same person' at least in a purely physical sense. They were derived from the same clay, in a manner of speaking. This also factors into account the in-context inception of their being; the method I use necessarily breaks the contextual reality of any given roleplay (if only for a single moment in the past) - or more simply put, no matter the setting, even in nonfiction, my characters essentially erupt from nothingness. Call it metafictional metastasis.
td;lr, the world shapes the character. As the world grows and as more detail becomes apparent, so to more defined does the character become - retroactively and in a fashion not-inconsistent with prior information or behavior. The only time when a character's development becomes problematic is when other roleplayers act in a fashion, IC, that breaks the contextual reality of the roleplay.
Progression and development are therefore preexisting elements that occur autonomously. No individual character is a static being.
The fact of the matter is that most roleplayers who use this site work. I include those attending school, college, university, etcetera in that estimation. Working while also roleplaying is not a special, unique qualifier - despite how people might treat it otherwise.
The simple answer is to make the time for it that you want to make for it. It can be tempting to approach it on a 'do what I can with whatever time I happen to have' stand, but that tends to make for inconsistent posting. If you treat roleplaying as a hobby, do it during your free time. If you are a touch more serious about the whole affair, plan ahead and make time for it in your schedule.
Either way, only devote as much time to it as it is important to you. Take a step back and evaluate how much it means to you. Do not try to write according to your expectations - write according to how rewarding and enriching the experience is to you. If that makes any sense.
I will only comment here briefly. I have my own issues with the ongoing development of the forum - it extremely difficult for the contest mods and their staffs to administer forum contests independently due to a lack of responsiveness - but seeing as most people do not participate in the forum contests this is effectively a non-priority issue.
I will also say that as a guild veteran myself who was around in Oldguild since 2007, I think one of the biggest problems with the site is that it is not cliquey enough.
I am about to ramp my elitism dial up to 12, so discretion is advised when reading the following.
In essence, ever since I first starting roleplaying I was a regular in the Advanced Subforum, and since NewGuild came along that has remain unchanged. One of the largest community-oriented problems I have seen plague roleplays is the presence of posters who, quite simply, do not write at an advanced level. For nearly every single Advanced roleplay I have participated in, I can recall at least one poster who one might normally expect to see in the mythical Free Subforum (which, as we all know, is just an urban legend and does not actually exist), and then the vast majority of posters would be writing at a casual level. The problem is not just one of relative quality of writing, but also of overall commitment and OOC interaction. I am speaking of individuals who post once and are never seen again, posters who go on blatant power-trips and then insult everyone who disapproves, writers whose attempts to engage in the story consists of five sentences with each one dedicated to a single mundane action.
I have been of the mind for some time that the heart of the problem lies within how each forum describes itself.
Advanced RP focuses on longer posts, often with in-depth plots, character development and extensive settings/lore. Must make a dedicated effort to minimize typographical errors and to use good grammar. Generally two paragraphs, but usually longer. See individual GM for RP specific standards
Roleplay here if you enjoy writing at least a paragraph or two, character development, and some depth. Grammar and spelling are encouraged. Generally one paragraph (a few sentences) per post. See individual GM for RP specific standards
The differences between the two subforums are not distinct enough. There are Casual roleplays that qualify as Advanced and vice-versa, and the large degree of vaguery present in the provided standards makes it so that nobody has any realistic idea of what to expect. New posters coming into the forum can occasionally stick at Casual due to a lack of confidence in their abilities despite writing better than most; others will head straight to Advanced despite having failed to grasp elementary grammar. For forum regulars, you have individuals who might be stellar writers but whose overall activity is mostly theoretical, and then juvenile writings whose activity blots out the sun.
Moreover, thread turnover is a huge, massive problem in both the Casual and Advanced subforums. Regardless of skill, many writers simply grow bored and tired of whatever roleplay they are a part of and leave, leading to stagnation. I get that this is a hobby for most and that jobs preclude full attention at all times, but that is true of most posters to begin with. Even younger posters still need to juggle school and the like, but most will treat having actual responsibilities as some kind of special, unique quality.
Given that, I think - and have proposed in the past - that the subforums should probably not be organized on some arbitrary basis of skill, but instead should cater to individuals depending on how much time, effort, and dedication they are prepared to invest. The Casual Subforum should be for people who do not necessarily want to be committed to a roleplay and want to be able to hold onto the option to bail without any kind of advance notice. Advanced should be for individuals looking for longevity and long-term projects. In theory that distinction alone would include how the Subforums are now, since the latter would (probably) attract more skilled and serious individuals with either time or at least persistence to spare. This would result in greater community coherence within the two Subforums - hence my earlier comment on the forum community not being cliquey enough.
In regards to the actual nuances of the general forum community - I have been Quadruple Secret Banned from both chatrooms and none of the staff will return my calls apart from the other Contest Mods, so I am not really prepared to remark upon the atmosphere of the community. My current impression of the RPG Community is that the various cliques and circuit of regulars in each of the subforums does not consist of individuals with the same expectations, skill, or overall dedication. They are just random people who are interested in the same genre or topic, thrown together through a system of organization that is no better than wholly randomized sorting.
I have been writing as a hobby for longer than you have been alive. I have been a regular member and roleplayer of no less than fourteen different online forums during that time (including the old RPG), [s]five[/s] [s]six[/s] eight of which no longer exist.
I was previously a regular on the Homestuck forums, but I became so sick of thread turnover there that I asked around and eventually found the Guild. Since joining, I have exclusively only participated in Advanced RPs. Before Mahz gave NRPs their own subforum, I used to be an NRP regular in the Advanced Subforum. I am a Guildfall survivor, and know/regularly write with a few others.
If you ask anybody who has written with me in previous RPs, they should tell you that I have a generally open schedule, I post regularly and in a timely fashion, and I never drop an RP once I join unless the thread dies. Some of them may tell you that I have extensive expertise within the realms of Biology, Psychology, and Physics, which I will make no effort to validate since there is no way I can provide hard proof of aforementioned alleged expertise to anybody over the internet (though I am happy to try and answer any questions you send my way).
My favorite fandom is the Myst franchise, which seemingly nobody other than me has ever heard of.
I was a Contest Moderator for the Writing Contests Subforum for just a little bit over two years. I wrote the Moderation Policy for that subforum and I ran a contest called the Twelve Labours; you can still go there and see all of them and the entries people wrote for them in the [url=https://www.roleplayerguild.com/forums/45-writing-contests]Contests Section[/url] and the [url=https://www.roleplayerguild.com/topics/79562-the-twelve-labours-victory-archive/ooc]Victory Archives.[/url]
I have been quadruple secret banned from the guild discord. That is not a joke.
<div style="white-space:pre-wrap;">I have been writing as a hobby for longer than you have been alive. I have been a regular member and roleplayer of no less than fourteen different online forums during that time (including the old RPG), <span class="bb-s">five</span> <span class="bb-s">six</span> eight of which no longer exist.<br><br>I was previously a regular on the Homestuck forums, but I became so sick of thread turnover there that I asked around and eventually found the Guild. Since joining, I have exclusively only participated in Advanced RPs. Before Mahz gave NRPs their own subforum, I used to be an NRP regular in the Advanced Subforum. I am a Guildfall survivor, and know/regularly write with a few others.<br><br>If you ask anybody who has written with me in previous RPs, they should tell you that I have a generally open schedule, I post regularly and in a timely fashion, and I never drop an RP once I join unless the thread dies. Some of them may tell you that I have extensive expertise within the realms of Biology, Psychology, and Physics, which I will make no effort to validate since there is no way I can provide hard proof of aforementioned alleged expertise to anybody over the internet (though I am happy to try and answer any questions you send my way).<br><br>My favorite fandom is the Myst franchise, which seemingly nobody other than me has ever heard of.<br><br>I was a Contest Moderator for the Writing Contests Subforum for just a little bit over two years. I wrote the Moderation Policy for that subforum and I ran a contest called the Twelve Labours; you can still go there and see all of them and the entries people wrote for them in the <a href="https://www.roleplayerguild.com/forums/45-writing-contests">Contests Section</a> and the <a href="https://www.roleplayerguild.com/topics/79562-the-twelve-labours-victory-archive/ooc">Victory Archives.</a><br><br>I have been quadruple secret banned from the guild discord. That is not a joke.</div>
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