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Brivta · #2 (**permalink**) 05-01-2008

Basic Situation (vital):

This is a modern roleplay in which two factions face off against one another. I can’t think of good names, so I will refer to them as the Tigers and the Cobras. They aren’t gangs, just groups, cursed groups, and extremely opposed to one another, quite extremely. When a member of either group closes their eyes, they will see a symbol that will either remind them of a Tiger, or a Cobra. However, although they themselves know what groups they are in, they will not know any other members. Of course, to keep things from being obvious, some will be in neither group. If an opposing group member learns of the symbol of an enemy, they are obligated to do everything in their power to harm them mentally, physically, and spiritually. Of course, if you do something especially heinous and make yourself obvious, you could get picked up by the cops, and jailed, so try to keep things secretive.

Setting (vital):
A relatively small town, specifically, the high school, houses, and hangouts of the teenagers of the town. The Senior High is composed of about fifteen hundred students, and is the only senior high school in town. The sophomores and freshman will also play a part, although their high school won’t be as significant. The hangouts include, but are not limited to: The town square (shared by everyone), the parking garage in the square (not used often, as the adults of the town don’t like the kind of kids who hang out there), the mall (stomping ground of mall rats), and a multitude of personal hangouts, like the “haunted house” (more on that later).

Characters (vital):
The teenagers of the town will be the focus here, however, there will be some adults, of course less focused on. Other than that, the main split will be between those who were born corrupted at birth, and those who were not. For those of you who wish to play someone cursed, I will assign a sign, don’t tell anyone else of it unless it becomes relevant in the story (it will). The sign will in no way effect your behavior, but the curse will. For these, think of all the worst people you’ve ever known, and form their traits into a being of pure malice. However, don’t be too crazy about it, we want this subtle. Of course many will brag about their actions and conquests, it should be hard to tell who is evil because of their curse, and who is just a dick. This brings me to my next point: because of their surroundings, the uncursed people of the town will still be affected by the influence of those who are cursed. Therefore, the majority of the people in this RP will be, as an onlooker would say, “ On the wrong road in life, bound for trouble”. There will be some less evil people, but, of course, everyone’s human.

How to join:
There can be a pretty large amount of people because of the scale of this whole thing, so I shouldn’t have to worry about excluding anyone unless it gets out of hand (altogether unlikely). Just send me a PM, a personal message if you wish, but you have to include a character sheet, along with a request to be cursed or uncursed. If you want to be cursed, I will send you what symbol you see, once again, it makes no difference which one it is, and once again, don’t tell anyone unless it comes up in the story. If it’s way unbalanced, I may have to give you the opposite position, but once again, it would have to be way out of hand, and that’s unlikely. However, in the event you get what you don’t want and still want to join, you have two options. First, you could embrace your status and make your character according to it. Or, what would be interesting, is that you could not change your character at all, for example, an uncursed individual who consciously chooses evil, or a cursed individual who suffers with their psychological need to do terrible things, but fights to overcome them, or some other variation. I will accept you and add you to the roster

Rules:
1. Don’t piss me, or anyone else off.
2. If characters fight, PM among yourselves and predetermine a winner. If you can’t decide, tell me and I’ll flip a coin. The last thing I want is two people in the OOC arguing about what each other can and can’t do. By the way, there will be fights
3. Don’t piss me, or anyone else off.
4. Because of the set up, there will be all kinds of immoral activity (I’m talking about what the general population considers immoral), so there could be scenes of sex, and maybe rape. DO NOT GRAPHICALLY DETAIL THESE ACTIONS ON THE ACTUAL RP PAGE IF AT ALL. These things happen, but we’re not shooting for porn, and we’re definitely not trying to fulfill your dream of getting laid in text. Just give a hint that they are going for it, maybe a little psychological explanation and commentary while it’s being done, but nothing explicit, and bam, it’s over.
5. Don’t piss me, or anyone else off.
6. Concerning rape, I do not condone it in any way, but I expect there to be characters deranged enough to do this, so if one character is assaulted, and one of the authors wusses out and decides this is going too far, the victim will escape, or the rapist will discontinue his actions, depending on which party the wuss belongs to. I can’t blame you, it takes some guts on both sides to write this kind of thing.
7. Don’t piss me, or anyone else off
8. You can go pretty overboard, but still, try to keep in mind that your character, cursed or not, is a human capable of moral choice, and keep the psychology in the realm of realism.
9. Don’t piss me, or anyone else off.
10. I don’t know how strict this site is about content, but if someone sees something terrible that I let fly, feel free to tell me. And if you’re a mod, and have seen anything wrong with my rules, tell me so I can continue to be legal.
11. Don’t piss me, or anyone else off
12. Pay attention to the build section. I’ll allow builds of all kinds, from almost unrealistically muscular to anorexic. You just have to explain why that is in your characterization (Some guys take steroids, others work out a lot, others eat a lot, others do nothing, others eat nothing). Also, this will affect the outcome of fights one way or another, so keep it in mind.
13. Don't piss me or anyone else off
14. DO NOT PUT ON EITHER FORUM WHETHER OR NOT YOUR CHARACTER HAS A SIGN!! An exception to this rule, is if your character, during the actual roleplay, divulges the information.