A World of Winter [OOC]

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  • [dash=white]It has been winter for far too long now. The world was not built for stagnancy. Without change, there can be no future.
    You are that change.
    You must bring about the shifting of the seasons. [/dash]

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    You never knew this world. It was always just a part of a story you heard as a child: a world where the seasons no longer changed and for an eternity, Winter maintained its hold on the land. This world was said to be beautiful, but dangerous, for it loomed in a delicate balance, like a set of scales, ever-nearing its tipping point. Stagnancy is not the stuff of life. A world can only stay frozen for so long.

    You awake from a dream in a world you never knew. The cold air swirls around you and silently, snowflakes drift down from the sky, kissing your chilled skin before melting away. The sky is dark but for the dancing lights that dazzle the skyscape. The stars are outshone by these lights of blue and purple. The beauty is entangling, but something within you demands you look away. All around, you see a white blanket of snow and hear nothing but the gently breeze. Where are you? You do not know this world of Winter.

    It becomes quickly apparent that you are far from home. Are you alone? With some searching, you come to discover there are others, more like you that are lost, unsure of this strange, beautiful place. You come together, one of you noticing a strange creature leaping about in the distance. It looks to be a deer of sorts, but it is larger than any you've ever seen and its coat is white as the snowy landscape, its antlers are made of ice, and its eyes are a cool, purple.

    Together with the others, you decide teamwork is the best chance at survival. But none of you are sure how you got here or where you must go. And so, as a team, you venture out into this wintry world, seeking answers and seeking shelter. If you can survive, you may find yourself caught up in a magical adventure.

    Welcome, to the World of Winter.
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    SURVIVAL
    This roleplay will be an unpredictable adventure filled with curious opportunities driven by chance. I will be rolling dice consistently throughout to determine encounters and sub-adventures you will come across in the main plot. Your characters will be your own, but I will be giving you situations where your character fails or succeeds at certain actions and you must react accordingly. Like survival in the real world wilds, nothing is certain, you will face a number of difficult decisions; this is all a part of the survival experience.

    MAGICK AND COMPANIONS
    Two key features in this roleplay will be the bestowal of a magical ability and a companion or familiar from the world of Winter. You will not be able to choose either of these. They will be given out at various times as the plot progresses. If you are not mature enough to be okay with the unexpected and extended equailty (not everyone will have a power at the exact same time, not everyone will get a companion at the same time, but everyone will get one) then I fear this roleplay is not for you. A key aspect of any great adventure is the unexpected. This roleplay will be based around how your characters respond to the world and you will not have the same OOC power you would have in other roleplays. That is the point of this RP.

    FORMAL RULES
    +Do not complain about your ability or companion. I will take generic requests at the start of the RP but the surprise is the nature of the roleplay.+
    +Be mature, communicate, and be kind.+
    +Posting requirement is once per week, sometimes once per two weeks. My roleplays are long term. We all have vastly different schedules and so a week to two week long window helps ensure everyone has ample time to post. We'll aim for movement in the plot once a week.+
    +COMMUNICATE WITH YOUR GM. I'm patient as hell but I do expect effort.+
    +I EXPECT GOOD WRITING. You'll be PM'd by me if I don't accept your writing level. Poor writing makes it harder for your GM's and harder for your fellow players. I'm sorry but that's just the way it is.+


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    Name:
    Gender:
    Age:
    Hometown: (real world locations)
    Occupation:

    Personality in 5 words:
    Descriptive Personality:
    History:

    Strengths: (Character traits like leadership, intelligence, etc)
    Skills: (physical abilities, hiking, hunting, cooking, riding, etc.)
    Weaknesses: (mental and physical weaknesses, like fears, inability to run long distances, etc.)

    NOTE: I'm a tough GM. Don't even try to give me a traumatized 17 year old that has mastered martial arts and swordsmanship and comes from the army and can ride a horse professionally and was abused and abandoned as a child and left in the streets and still has perfect linguistic skills, no coping issues, and happens to also be handsome, athletic, and charismatic. I will shut you down immediately.

    THIS IS AN INTEREST CHECK BUT FEEL FREE TO CLAIM A SPOT FOR YOUR CHARACTER AND START BUILDING A CS. I ONLY NEED 4 PLAYERS TO GET THIS MOVING. I WILL CLOSE SIGNUPS WHEN WE HAVE 8 PLAYERS.


    Thank you all for your interest. I am sincerely grateful.
 
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Cait said:
@Soulserenity20 I believe that I have finally finished Adeana. Take your time in reading her and if you see anything that needs to be changed, please let me know. Her history is fairly bland because she has not had anything of real importance happen to her aside from graduating college and becoming a teacher. I can expand on her history more if you would want, but I can't promise it will be good. I'm much better at expanding the character in the roleplay than I am with character sheets. Bwahaha! But hopefully you like her.
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I'll review it today!
 
What if our team is discovered by some hostile natives and a fight breaks loose? That would be interesting.
 
Oh yeah, that's definitely going to happen haha. What fun is a new world without violence with the locals?
 
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This keeps getting better xD.
 
@Cait your char looks good. She's accepted.
@Akashi I still need a history for your char
@PlastixRoyalty I need you to try and resort your strengths and skills because I'm seeing a lot of strengths that are more physical skills, like acting, poker face, etc. Ask yourself if this is a learned skill or a personality trait. One can be naturally stoic but acting isn't typically a character trait. It's something she would have learned and developed as a skill. So just have a once over on there for the sake of organisation of the CS for your GM's.

Traveling around the world most of her life, she knows multiple languages. She can read, speak and translate; English, French, Russian, Japanese, Mandarin, Korean, Italian, Spanish and Swedish.
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I have to scrutinize this because there isn't any form of travel written into her history and even with a high level of travel, at 29 its unlikely she would have learned 9 languages. I'd wager its impossible given her history. I have university professors who have spent time studying in dozens of countries with different languages and not any of them can fluently speak, read, and translate the languages of these countries. It's just unrealistic. Knock it down to maybe 2 languages and it'd be more believable but given her history it doesn't make sense (<30, half of her life [including development years and education years] spent in Hollywood, travelling not for the sake of tourism, study, or living in the regions but instead for acting roles, none of which are explained in her written history). Beyond that, I think you did a good job of balancing her skills, abilities, and weaknesses and really made her realistic based on how she grew up and the dynamics of her family, so good job :)

I would, as a last recommendation, remove the physically weak section. Even without severe muscle building, anyone with a lifetime of cardio would be strong, fit, and capable. Certainly not labelled as weak :)


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she could learn the science that daddy was so passionate about. Felix began to bring home little experiments for Amalia to do, and she couldn't be more joyous. It was this that drove her to try to enter the world of science, to become a scientist who learned the way things work, and why, and inventing things.
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@Bitterblue what kind of scientist is her father/what kind of science is she in to? Her ability to discern edible from non-edible plants is based on "yay science" but a chemist wouldn't know, nor would a biologist, necessarily. (2 years as a bio major and no clue which plants are edible.) It would take specific practice and studying of ecology for her to be able to discern edible and non-edible plants, not just the presence of science in her life. So I'd like for you to try and either rework it or establish a different skill to use.

I would also add in "collected" or "cool headed" since she was a cop and was trained to handle stressful and traumatic situations. She would also know first aid as a cop. I would consider adding in a trust issue based on the fact that she lost a family member completely randomly. That would likely instill a lot of uncertainty in her mind towards life in general, perhaps an uncertainty towards life in general: "We could all be dead in 5 minutes from now, all because of something as arbitrary as a mistake on someone else's end." You don't have to add it in, just something to consider.
 
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Soulserenity20 said:
@Cait your char looks good. She's accepted.
@Akashi I still need a history for your char
@PlastixRoyalty I need you to try and resort your strengths and skills because I'm seeing a lot of strengths that are more physical skills, like acting, poker face, etc. Ask yourself if this is a learned skill or a personality trait. One can be naturally stoic but acting isn't typically a character trait. It's something she would have learned and developed as a skill. So just have a once over on there for the sake of organisation of the CS for your GM's.


I have to scrutinize this because there isn't any form of travel written into her history and even with a high level of travel, at 29 its unlikely she would have learned 9 languages. I'd wager its impossible given her history. I have university professors who have spent time studying in dozens of countries with different languages and not any of them can fluently speak, read, and translate the languages of these countries. It's just unrealistic. Knock it down to maybe 2 languages and it'd be more believable but given her history it doesn't make sense (<30, half of her life [including development years and education years] spent in Hollywood, travelling not for the sake of tourism, study, or living in the regions but instead for acting roles, none of which are explained in her written history). Beyond that, I think you did a good job of balancing her skills, abilities, and weaknesses and really made her realistic based on how she grew up and the dynamics of her family, so good job :)

I would, as a last recommendation, remove the physically weak section. Even without severe muscle building, anyone with a lifetime of cardio would be strong, fit, and capable. Certainly not labelled as weak :)



@Bitterblue what kind of scientist is her father/what kind of science is she in to? Her ability to discern edible from non-edible plants is based on "yay science" but a chemist wouldn't know, nor would a biologist, necessarily. (2 years as a bio major and no clue which plants are edible.) It would take specific practice and studying of ecology for her to be able to discern edible and non-edible plants, not just the presence of science in her life. So I'd like for you to try and either rework it or establish a different skill to use.

I would also add in "collected" or "cool headed" since she was a cop and was trained to handle stressful and traumatic situations. She would also know first aid as a cop. I would consider adding in a trust issue based on the fact that she lost a family member completely randomly. That would likely instill a lot of uncertainty in her mind towards life in general, perhaps an uncertainty towards life in general: "We could all be dead in 5 minutes from now, all because of something as arbitrary as a mistake on someone else's end." You don't have to add it in, just something to consider.
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I didn't know I would have to have written in her history that the movie roles she's been in, in those countries were in that language; since she has done plenty of foreign films, but I brought it down to English, French and Russian but she has been in movies where she had to speak and understand that country's native tongue. I moved the ones that I thought could be physical things she learned into the skills part. I personally thought skills and strengths could be the same thing. Multiple things could be a strength and a skill, but I switched it around.
 
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The IC is up. The link is on the very top of the page here. Don't post until I get the intro set up. We're still waiting for @Mowkie @Akashi and @Dahrinn

A few notes:

  • The map will be filled out as we go. I haven't built the world, but will do so as we explore and come across new things :)
  • I have the powers and the companions developed now and I think you'll all like the diversity of them
  • I will have the dice system developed by tonight and will store it in a tab in the IC stickied post.
 
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I will have the history up later today.
 
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My boyfriend is going to join the rp. He's never done any form of creative writing or anything so take it easy on him. This is me introducing him to my world of roleplaying and it'll take some time to acclimate him.
 
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Hi Soul boyfriend... whenever you see this XD
 
Hey folks. I will attempt to have my character sheet done by the weekend.

Cheers
 
I swear he's more talkative/less business IRL XD
 
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