The roughest Interest Check you'll ever see: "The Cyberworld Project"

[Access Denied]

Hey guys! I'm Access Denied. This is my first interest check--go easy on me, no biting, alright?

Hah, yeah. But anyway, here's the deal. Right now I'm working on an advanced roleplay after being away from writing for a long, long, long time; so, I'm a bit rough, but me and a friend have been throwing around the context of a sort of "cyberworld" thing. I don't have an elaborate paragraph prepared. I don't have a prelude. I have nothing but ideas--what I want to know is how many of you are interested in these ideas and if you would throw your hat in to participate in the roleplay or would even go so far as to wanting to assist in developing it.

I thought I'd go ahead and outline some things here about myself to give some credit to this mess of a post;

• I am not new to RPG. I used to run a couple of advanced roleplays here 3 or 4 years back, and though they had good followings, I wasn't able to maintain focus back then and dropped a lot of them because of a lack of interest.
• I want help on this so I can pinpoint my focus. I'm better with substance; the main plot points, fleshing out main characters, creating solid backstory for small, important things.
• I like fusing a lot of stuff into my roleplays, and this one will be no exception; there will be powers, there will be drama, but there will also be regular every day life, prejudice, personal conflicts, and greater questions.

So, now that I've thrown all that stuff down, here's some of he solid stuff I've got so far. First are two diagrams; one of the cyberworld itself, and one of an extremely barebones timeline that I made using shitty megaman sprites so that the friend I was trying to explain this to would understand it better. That stuff is right here. It's cheesy as all hell, but I hope we can glance past that after a couple of smirks and look at the ideas that are in them.

The concept of the world.

The concept of the timeline -- each "Anomaly" is a space of 1,000 years.

This is some stuff I typed out in a Skype conversation that shed some light on what I thought were the big, important mainpoints of the roleplay. There are a ton of specifics that aren't mentioned, so don't think that I'd get lazy and oversimplify a roleplay by using only this.

[8:04:21 PM] [ justice ]: well
[8:04:24 PM] [ justice ]: let me think about how to
[8:04:30 PM] [ justice ]: shorten 3 pages to bulletpoints
[8:04:53 PM] [ justice ]: starting with the denizens
[8:05:28 PM] [ justice ]: - : The Original Populace are those that are and that are descended from the people who were first dematerialized into the Cyber World.
[8:06:08 PM] [ justice ]: - : The First Generation are people who came from Earth before the Cyberworld was launched into space, and are thereof 100% biological entities translated into code.
[8:07:29 PM] [ justice ]: - : The Second Generation are the offspring of the First Generation, who are a contain a mixture of biological code and source code. They, like their parents, are capable of rematerializing when the Cyberworld project comes to a conclusion, after a little resarch and development was done in the first couple of centuries.
[8:08:28 PM] [ justice ]: - : The Third Generation are the offspring of the Second Generation. They are completely compromised of source code and cannot, as of now, rematerialize when the Cyberworld project ends. Compared to their fathers and forefathers, they are technicaly speaking the "least evolved".
[8:10:24 PM] [ justice ]: - : The Copy Race are a single generation of very interesting denizens that are composed of one-third source code, one-third biological code, and one-third Repair code. They are capable of the most within the Cyberworld, even moreso than the First Generation, but still fall victim to Anomalies and have no way to rematerialize when the Cyberworld project ends. Also, a large portion of their evolution is locked away as the Copy Code was not completely sane enough to efficiently replicate itself.
[8:10:51 PM] INFINITE: what race/gen do you plan to have people playing?
[8:10:52 PM] INFINITE: or is it varied?
[8:11:11 PM] [ justice ]: The Second Generation, The Third Generation, and the Copy Race are all open.
[8:11:50 PM] [ justice ]: The First Generation is something that I'll have complete control over and will only use when use is required to forward the plot.
[8:12:03 PM] [ justice ]: Anyway.
[8:14:37 PM] [ justice ]: - : The Surface World is a complete replica of Earth's surface except for the skies; they were programmed to alternate through many simulations of fantastic scenery, from projections of the auroras of the North Pole to a normal, blue-sky day, to stormy weather. The "oceans" are really dense manifestations of code that cycle down through the layers to the core of the cyberworld and are brought back up in a sort of recycling process to maintain the stability of the world. Thereof, they have the consistency of real oceans, but do no manifest downwards pressure past a specific point that was deemed inappropriate for recreational activites.
[8:16:30 PM] [ justice ]: - : The Sea of Exchange is the ame of the Second Layer and is a massive system of caverns that are completely submerged in the ocean's water in its way down to and up from the Cyberworld's core. Small cities have been built here by the First Generation and it is where delegates and traders from the Original Populace and the Copy Race meet, with very specific political restrictions, to trade, discuss, and move forward scientifically in a side to side--but not shoulder-to-shoulder endeavor.
[8:18:43 PM] [ justice ]: - : The Copy Utopia is a stunning world that is smaller, but houses just as many denizens, as compared to the Surface World, as much of the living there is housed vertically. The entirety of The Copy Utopia was created by the Copy Code, and it is a brilliant world full of technologically advanced cities and dozens of floating continents to hold more denizens where the ground could not. All cities and continents are connected by millions of small, high-speed chutes for traverse.
[8:20:55 PM] [ justice ]: - : The Void is a MASSIVE empty space that is distorted spacially--though it is within the Cyberworld, it is much larger propotionally than The Surface World. It is filled with quite literally nothing but empty space and billions of small and large floating platforms. Far in its depths, a faint, multicolored glow can be seen that is the guiding light for denizens that intend to either descend or ascend back to the more explored layers.
[8:23:09 PM] [ justice ]: - :The Source Crater is a sort of small continent around the Cyberworld Core. It is dangerous, it constantly changes, it is volatile, and it is spectacular and brilliant. Rather than matter being created out of code here, code manifests itself in a solid form which is what creates the exotic and multicolored terrain. Due to the nature of its proximity to the Cyberworld Core, however, it is dangerous and uninhabitable. Simply being around such volatile and dense packets of code could wipe a person from the Cyberworld entirely, damage their memory, or completely reconstruct anything random about them.
[8:26:34 PM] [ justice ]: - : The Cyberworld Core is, compared to all the other Layes, an extremely small structure, only a few dozen miles in every direction. The code within the Cyberworld Core is completely stable, orderly, and moves in a specific fashion, though the scenery retains the same spectacle as the Source Crater. At the very center of the Cyberworld Core is a structure that contains the three containers for the Repair Codes. The Cyberworld Core contains all the source code for the Cyberworld and all the oceans process through it eventually to be refreshed an reorganized.
[8:26:56 PM] [ justice ]: *there are supposed to be columns of water falling throughout the Void and Source Crater, oops
[8:28:53 PM] [ justice ]: - : The First Anomaly was what was intended to be the "first cycle" Repair Code, but was corrupted by an error that caused its purpose to be moved from defragmenation to deletion. It was created by the scientist behind the dematerialization and rematerialization programs and was created alongside the first projects that would eventually become the basis of the Cyberworld.
[8:31:14 PM] [ justice ]: - : The Second Anomaly was what was intended to be the "second cycle" Repair Code, but was corrupted by an error that caused its purpose to be moved from defragmentation to deletion. It was created by the scientist behind the actual code that served as a basis for the cyberworld and the programs that supported sentient life within it. Of the three Repair Codes, it is blatantly the most advanced. Compared to the First and Third Anomalies, its train of thought was much clearer, it had massively advanced capabilities of changing the world around it, and it was extremely intelligent in its design. It can be most accurately described as an "insane genius."
[8:34:56 PM] [ justice ]: - : The Third Anomaly was an updated version of the First Anomaly created by the same scientist, but was in contrast to its predecessor created near the end of the final stages of the Cyberworld Project's construction. It is not as advanced as the Second Anomaly, but is much more integrated into the Code of the Cyber World and was organized differently. Rather than having a single purpose, the Third Anomaly was a sort of directory program--alongside it a Repair and Defrag program had both been individually created, and the Third Anomaly was programmed specifically to optimally maintain, overview, and maintain them when it was awakened. Having 3,000 years to be corrupted by the error that plagued the other Anomalies, it is barely recognizable, its very state of mind is in shambles, but it still maintains the general delusion of its purpose to delete and is much, much more powerful than the First and Second Anomalies as it is more closely integrated into the Cyber World.
[8:34:58 PM] [ justice ]: ok
[8:36:41 PM] INFINITE: alright

And that's all I've got for now.

So, the two points of this are as follows.

1: Are you INTERESTED IN THE IDEA?
Would you be willing to speak up with your interest of a roleplay like this, and is it something you'd join up in when I finished it in the near future? A lot of what's above is subject to either being changed or refined, but I think it's a pretty good start.

2: Do you WANT TO HELP OR HAVE IDEAS?
Self explanatory. If people actually do want to help, I'd have no qualms picking a couple of you guys up and talking a lot more about the roleplay with you and giving you a hand in developing it. Like I said, I like to focus and put all my work into certain things, so if I have good writers putting their effort into other things, then the result is a great roleplay.



That's it. Thanks for your time.

[DarknessDawning]

Hello there... I'll start with... I'm new to this site. I've only been actively engaged in a forum rp once in my entire rp experience (13yrs)... and it was great, however it merely died off as other players slowed and eventually stopped posting leaving too few involved to make it a good game really. However, I have extensive experience in multi-player rp in the old yahell chat rooms (before you crucify me.. I swear para and multi! no auction house one liners ^_~ heh), and even further extensive experience with one on one both single and multi chara plots. ALL of that said!!!! You're idea looks interesting, complex, and passionate, however I feel like I'm missing something in my inability to actually blow up your diagrams to a size that allows me to read them hehe. The way that they are pasted into the text box doesn't allow for them to be "opened" and increasing the size of the text actually shrinks them as embedded pictures. Something to think about.

[FoxSVK]

Give me a couple of minutes, hours, maybe a day to read it through please

[Access Denied]

Weird, the diagrams look perfect and pretty big to me. I'll work a little on the post today. Questions and stuff are encouraged of course if you don't understand anything or would like to know more.

I haven't used a forum for ages so I forgot how to format and such, or what was most appealing to people! Hah.

[Ashgan]

If I may add, I think the issue with the pictures is that the forum automatically scales them to fit the size of the thread page, which itself is variable depending on the end user's resolution and screen size. A simple remedy to this, however, is to just right click the image and select "View Image", typically opening the picture in a separate tab in which you can see the file in original size (with scrolling around if need be). While at it, if I can make a remark, I think the second graph is much larger than it needs to be since over half of the image is just black.

As to the idea itself, uh, it's rough all right. My biggest problem so far is that you're either keeping some really hot info from us or haven't made it up yet, but for example I would be really curious to know what the hell this entire Cyberworld Project is about. Who made it and why? Rematerialization is being tossed around quite a lot, which paints the picture of the project being of temporary nature and the Cyberworld collapsing in planned apocalypse eventually, but so far I've no clue what purpose any of this serves. Maybe it isn't supposed to be known, but I think at least rough info would help set a better frame to the setting and allow the reader (me at least) to better understand what I'm seeing.Something else I would have liked to see is some kind of idea what the story is going to be like. Simple quest to slaughter those copy code monsters or whatever they are? I expect there's more to it, possibly spanning beyond the closure of the digital world or perhaps revolving around the salvation thereof. Again, hard to say what to expect with so many things unknown. Aside from that, it's pretty weird and something else. That's exactly what you were aiming for (I think?) and you definitely nailed it.

Lastly, Megaman sprites are not stupid. ;D
I, by the way, don't really expect to be joining this (but who knows), so I hope you don't mind me chiming in like this.

[Access Denied]

If I may add, I think the issue with the pictures is that the forum automatically scales them to fit the size of the thread page, which itself is variable depending on the end user's resolution and screen size. A simple remedy to this, however, is to just right click the image and select "View Image", typically opening the picture in a separate tab in which you can see the file in original size (with scrolling around if need be). While at it, if I can make a remark, I think the second graph is much larger than it needs to be since over half of the image is just black.

As to the idea itself, uh, it's rough all right. My biggest problem so far is that you're either keeping some really hot info from us or haven't made it up yet, but for example I would be really curious to know what the hell this entire Cyberworld Project is about. Who made it and why? Rematerialization is being tossed around quite a lot, which paints the picture of the project being of temporary nature and the Cyberworld collapsing in planned apocalypse eventually, but so far I've no clue what purpose any of this serves. Maybe it isn't supposed to be known, but I think at least rough info would help set a better frame to the setting and allow the reader (me at least) to better understand what I'm seeing.Something else I would have liked to see is some kind of idea what the story is going to be like. Simple quest to slaughter those copy code monsters or whatever they are? I expect there's more to it, possibly spanning beyond the closure of the digital world or perhaps revolving around the salvation thereof. Again, hard to say what to expect with so many things unknown. Aside from that, it's pretty weird and something else. That's exactly what you were aiming for (I think?) and you definitely nailed it.

Lastly, Megaman sprites are not stupid. ;D
I, by the way, don't really expect to be joining this (but who knows), so I hope you don't mind me chiming in like this.

Great question! I knew this would come up eventually. Let me toss you guys a bit of backstory.

The entire basis behind the roleplay itself is that it takes place at the end of the year 2,999, right before the emergence of the Third Anomaly. However, as far as backstory goes, it's a little bit more complex. See, the Cyberworld Project was a last ditch effort by the human race. Their entire world was falling to shambles, everything was going in the direction of destruction, and hope was being lost. A group of scientists from all over the world came together for a solution--not to save the human race, but to preserve it. So first and foremost they built a large shuttle to contain servers, computers, data, material, all the things that would be necessary to give a new population an ample start in a new world, and afterwards they began development of what they called the Cyberworld Project.

The Cyberworld Project was a three step process. One; bring together a small group of the most promising individuals left in the world and "dematerialize" them, or turn them into code and upload them into the Cyberworld itself. Two; launch the shuttle into space with the destination of a far-off planet that had very similar qualities to Earth and could support like. Three; on arrival, the shuttle would rematerialize the original group of people, and use certain mechanics and extra features within the shuttle to also materialize the offspring that the original group would have created.

This is purely backstory and won't affect the roleplay beyond dialogue and conversations, however. The focus is on the 3,000th year of the Cyberworld, the conflicts, war, and other things that come with it.

I'm also currently working on refining and adding detail to a lot of this stuff such as dematerialization--for now, since I don't have a lot of sense behind it, it sounds like some made-up bullshit, but over time I'll find ways to make it seem more plausible and create a process that actually makes sense.

Thanks for asking, hope this helps.

[Vietmyke]

^^ Alright, that clarified a few of my questions...

I'm not completely sure whether or not I will want to play this RP, but my interest is definitely piqued..

[Access Denied]

^^ Alright, that clarified a few of my questions...

I'm not completely sure whether or not I will want to play this RP, but my interest is definitely piqued..

Have any other questions? I have a lot I could say, but what I want to do is make sure that what everyone's thinking or wondering about is answered first. The questions that you have may be the questions a lot of other people have, so it'd help a lot!

[DarknessDawning]

New formatting is perfect, and I can see ^_^ Yay! I'm still interested. It sounds like it has potential and possibilities though I'm sure I'll develop questions as we go through, I imagine to really be sure what questions to ask, I'd need to be thouroughly probing the universe through your mind... therefore likely rping in it. At that point, if I've missed a detail I suddenly find to be important, or develop an idea that I'm unsure is possible, such questions would arise and be presented. Until said time, I accept the idea as a rough sketch ready to be sanded down into beautiful art ^_~. If you get it off the ground, count me in.

[Access Denied]

This isn't dead, for the people who had their curiosity piqued. I'm simply working on a clean version as well as a full OOC page. I got what I needed from this thread, which is information on what aspects needed revising and exploration.