Reply With QuoteI'm pretty happy we don't have to make a bloated character sheet. Writing some huge history to me takes away some of the mystery around a character. I'll have a sheet whipped up by tomorrow.
After Death: The Spirit Detectives Saga | OOC
The Interest Check | HERE
The In Character | HERE
The Character Sheet Deadline | Closed for Chapter One; Open for Chapter Two
The Roleplay Group Size | 5 TO 6 PLAYERS // 5 TO 6 CHARACTERS
The Roleplay Post Size | 4 TO 5 PARAGRAPHS MINIMUM
The Roleplay Post Frequency | ONE POST ONCE A WEEK AT LEAST
The Genres | ACTION // COMEDY // DRAMATIC // SLICE OF LIFE // ROMANTIC // MYSTERY
The Setting | TOKYO, JAPAN // JANUARY 2013
The Premise |
| You're a college student at the prestigious college, Tokyo U, you're between the ages of 20 and 23 and live in your own apartment close to campus which the university privately owns. You may or may not have a job or be close to your family. The new semester has just begun and you are ready (or not) to get started after the nice break to celebrate the holidays. It's a chilly morning on campus and the sky is looming overhead like a dark cloak of insecurity. There are a few raindrops sprinkling the mostly parking lot leading up to the library. The soft welcoming scent of coffee escapes into the public when the door opens and a male walks out with an armful of books. He gets into his car and drives off to another part of the large campus which is sprinkled around the dense area of the city. You enter the library and do your thing. You get coffee or a snack and stuff your head in the books. Or you might take out your laptop and do something else. As soon as the digital clock above the entrance to the large modern library changes to 09:42 A.M the door opens, letting in a burst of cold wind and the person who is about to take your life.
| You don't notice the shifty look in the man's eyes as he wanders around the large complex, pretending to pick books up and leaf through them. At 09:47 A.M the attack begins. The man dressed in black jeans, a blue gray wind breaker, and a black cap pulls out two medium sized guns and begins firing. He manages to run along the aisles and stairs. Within the span of just four minutes, he manages to murder fourteen people: ten students, three faculty and one elderly civilian. The police arrive at 09:52 A.M and apprehend the gunman who had attempted to take his life. For a moment you see a flash of black and then you find yourself suspended in the depressing sky. You're wearing the same attire you had on but you have not a scratch nor blood on you. You see the police officers dragging the murderer out the door. You see the ambulance arriving as well as a news crew. You see many people standing by, obviously upset and yet it feels like you're just watching some crummy film. They begin wheeling out the dead bodies and you catch a glimpse of your own face between the black body bags trailing out like a hopeless parade. It then hits you: you're dead.
| This begins your new journey. A blue haired woman sitting atop an oar appears in front of you and the others deceased and says she has something special to offer. You're taken to the Spirit World and are given a choice, to either remain dead or to go through a trail ordeal which grants you your life back. In return, you will offer you services as a Spirit Detective. A Spirit Detective is someone who is a link to the Living World and the Spirit World, they have cases to catch demons or aid ghosts. They will live normal daily lives and keep their otherworldly profession a secret. They will also hone their skills that they have tapped into upon dying. They can now utilize their spirit energy to help them as detectives. You are now in a group with your other classmates from Tokyo University, you must form a bond in order to ensure your job gets done efficiently. Along the way you will be challenged by other morals, difficult cases, crime, and of course those pesky end of the year exams as well as the possibility of finding love amongst the chaos of your changed life.
The Expectations |
| You will play up to two characters between the ages of 20 and 23. You will roleplay in third person, past tense. You will be active in the OOC for roleplay discussions and overall friendly chit chat. Should you be inactive or very flaky for an extended period of time without notice, your character becomes mine and I will either find a way to kill them off or will have them be sent elsewhere on a new solo case. It will depend on what is happening in the story thus far. Your posts will not be color coded but you are free and encouraged to use 'thoughts' in your post to personalize your character. Cursing should be appropriate to the character and setting. You are free to be as descriptive when it comes to blood and gore if you're within human reasoning. Your character will have to hone their style of fighting as Spirit Detectives, each person should have a different "thing" that they bring to the group. We cannot have the same skills or tactics in the group or it will make me slim the group down in order to not have a bunch of copycats. The roleplay will be played in "Chapters" and these chapters will revolve around either a case, day to day life, training or something else like travel or character development.
| This is not a roleplay where you should forget about your character's wants and needs as a human, sure they are a Spirit Detective and a student but they need to form bonds with living people. If people take the action for granted and it becomes too much of an issue, I will scale it back. So far in my roleplays I have been able to mix action and human interaction itself fairly well. If you are with me for more than two chapters, you have the option to PM me privately if you wish to add on a temporary role of an antagonist for us to face off against. This roleplay will also use "Rounds" in which we don't have a posting order but we will all post once before a new round begins. This ensures everyone is on the same page, no one is left out or left behind. Though this also means, you need be active, a post once a week should make us finish one round a week. Chapters will likely have anywhere from six rounds to twenty, it just depends. If you need more clarification, see my other group roleplays for examples but when I post, you're free to post once. Once everyone has, I will post again, thus starting the next round, it's not too complicated. Your posts should be about four to five paragraphs minimum and each paragraph I have written so far is an example of the length I see each paragraph as being. Aka, skimpy paragraphs won't cut it with me. You're here to read and write with other passionate people.
The Cast |
| Whenever you're applying for (Chapter one or anything else) you must fill out a sheet like the ones I have used. You must follow it to a t to be accepted easily. At the end of the submission period, I will then go over all applicants and go over any corrections needed. Then we can start. If you think about the story as a whole and how much development and potential you can give your character over time, you'll likely be a better candidate than someone who isn't a team player or someone who doesn't have a decent moral compass. Let's be frank here, if your character doesn't seem like the type who can at least act as a detective with fair social skills, then it's likely they wouldn't even be asked to come back to life if they are wasting it. Should you have any questions at all, please feel free to ask away. As a note, my character sheets are unfinished but Naha's at least gives you the entire sheet to mull over and begin filling out. Thanks for reading and have fun guys!
The Chapter One Cast |
| Genkai's Characters // Naha Umikyo and Chiroui Uede and Toshiki Mon
| FiroIV's character // Aki Yuushi
| Guinness' Character // Nako Kai
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I'm pretty happy we don't have to make a bloated character sheet. Writing some huge history to me takes away some of the mystery around a character. I'll have a sheet whipped up by tomorrow.
All credit for this awesome set goes to Lillian Thorne!
Good, I feel a long winded back story may help me as a GM to weed out any "cliches" but at the same time, I'd rather give people the benefit of the doubt here. The quicker a CS sheet is, the easier it is to refer to later on, rather than worry too much about details that should just come up on their own in the roleplay itself. So hopefully people don't just sling things together and do have a plausible back story in mind.Originally Posted by guinness
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hope I can make the cut
Seems like the red heads will be the happy helpful types. ^^hope I can make the cut
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I just followed the examples others have put up as their submission.
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At the moment we will be moving to a new house wherein I may not have internet connection of any form. I will still be able to go online whenever I go to school on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays because they have free internet, but the problem is they won't allow me to access this site for some reason.
One of my current ideas on how to access this site was for me to make use of the public library's internet, but even that may be tricky. I had an idea was that someone from an RP send me the posts made on the RP via email and I reply to them for that said person to post for me, but that would be taxing and I cannot impose that task to someone unless they volunteer. I came up with the compromise that maybe someone can send me just the details of what has happened and I can reply to them in short posts if again that's fine with the other person involved. As for the advanced RP's seeing as the short reply's won't really do justice to the story If it's okay with any of you then I hope that the idea of sending the individual posts would be okay.
If any on you who are in the RP with me has the time to spare then I will be most happy if any of you wish to volunteer, but if not then I will be okay with what decision you guys make.
To my 1x1 and own RP's here is what's going to happen. For the 1x1 if it's okay we can continue the story vie email as long as you want or until the arc ends with dignity. For my own RP I have already mentioned how the 1st arc should go and be followed so please feel free to continue that until the arc ends afterwars it is all up to you what happens and to the person who I will ask to be in charge after the arc ends if you guys want to continue the story.
As for now this is still all just conjecture seeing as that the person who will decide to get a home internet connection is not me. However I have with confidence that for at least a few weeks going onto months we will not have internet connection. Therefore if I disappear then please treat the characters I have made kindly and if possible kill them off with respect or throw the in the freezer until my eventual return.
Great start everyone, I'll give everyone around till Monday evening till I go over everyone's submission, so you have roughly 48 hours, at most to get everything sent in and polished up!
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