Hi folks I ran this about a year ago on another site and it was pretty popular so I figured I’d give it go here. If you stick with me for a moment though I’d like to explain how the game is played first as that’s kind of the main draw.

The basic idea is my NPCs give your character’s jobs that they must complete then you write up how your characters complete the tasks. Your characters can succeed or fail, die or live and I write up how it affects the world. The point is your posts start to really shape the world, all I ask is you use common sense and keep it realistic. I totally support killing characters and if you do so you can come back with a new character, I accept writers not characters. The aim here is too tell great stories, not make great characters, it is impossible to overstate this point. I’ve run things this way in the past for Steampunk and Cyberpunk settings but it seemed to be most popular in the post apocalyptic setting.
The Live Together or Die Alone (LOTDA) setting is The UK after an apocalypse. The base is a small farm called Haven. Your characters all live on the farm and contribute to its operation by scavenging nearby ruins. This is where the jobs come in to things. Like I said above my NPCs give jobs, you write about how your character tackles them and then I write about how your character’s actions impact on the world. The world got really fleshed out in the previous version and I’d like to see what different ways it will go with a different group.

Anyway, obviously I’m looking for people who like to write and this will be a real slow burn thing, like one post a week or less slow. Each post that does go up is so dense with info though that they are almost short stories.
Anyway just testing the waters to see if anyone would like to give it a go.

I like the idea - the slow burn is actually a bit of a draw for me and the concept is really interesting. I'd love to participate.

I could go for this RP. It seems like quite an interesting idea. I am still a bit curious of how it would work.

Great we have interest!

This is what I used in the old game to explain the whole thing to the RPers.

Step 1. The GM (that’s me Bosch) will post Missions in the IC section of the RP. These Missions will be clearly titled in the IC post.

Step 2. The RPers (that’s you) read the missions and choose one. They state which mission they would like to undertake in the OOC section of the RP. This is to prevent two people doing the same mission. The Missions are allocated on a first come first serve basis.

Step 3. After declaring your interest you can get writing. Remember from the day you say you want mission you have one week to complete your post.

Step 4. Once all the posts have been received the GM will create a post that deals with the epilogues of each mission and their impact on the setting. The GM will also post a new selection of jobs at which point we go back to step one.

Over time the missions grew more complex and we had doubles missions where two RPers work on one post. Some people enjoyed that while others preferred to just do solo jobs.

The previous RP was a zombie apocalypse but I reckon this time I might change that and have a different kind of threat. It'll probably be similar but something a little more original.

This kind of thing works best with small numbers so I'm thinking three RPers tops but I'll allow multiple characters. Writing ability is important so if we have lots of interest I'll decide who gets in based on how good the character sheets are.

Sounds awesomely epic. I'd love being a part of this.

Alright. That's what I gathered from the explanation. I just wanted to make sure though. The idea sounds neat. I probably wouldn't mind doing co-op missions every so often, but that's just me wanting some interaction between characters.

Yeah the doubles were really popular for that reason we tried trios but it was difficult to coordinate in a week.

Ok so with three intrested people I feel good about starting an OOC. The RP is still open but like I said we'll only have three RPers at a time in the RP. I'll get to work and will have something together by Friday.

Hi guys the OOC is still a work in progress but I wanted to get something out so you all can start work on character sheets.http://www.roleplayerguild.com/topics/61370/posts/ooc?page=1

This certainly looks like something I'd be interested in. Are there any spaces still available?