West Detroit that is- HEY, I just made my profile here, I think I've seen this site before but I've never joined. Great to see a place with so many serious, skilled roleplayers though! I feel like I'm about to get into some Big fish from a little pond getting dumped into the ocean territory here.

Anyways, I should probably admit, I have an ulterior motive for joining here. Like my profile says, I've got a fictional universe of my own, which I call The Falling World. You might be thinking 'Who doesn't?' I know, it's not saying much, but it's one I've been running roleplays in and writing in for about seven or so years now, and I really love it. I've got a roleplay running now on another site; it's going very strong but it's just me and a friend of mine. We're thinking of transplanting the ol' broad here, or maybe just shanghaiing some of the writers here to come on over and join the thread we've been writing in for a few years now. Yes, you heard me right. I'm a writer poacher. When the Nuremberg Trials of the roleplay world are called to order, I'll be right up there in the plaintiff's chair along with the other great criminals of our times. But It's been a long time since that story's had some fresh blood and hey, maybe some of y'all would be interested in it.

But that isn't my only reason for being here. I fully intend to check the site out, maybe join some roleplays or start some of my own (maybe a Falling World roleplay just for this site, now that I think about it). Hopefully I'll meet some new friends here too. I think there's a real possibility, cause I truly love writing, and it looks like you guys do too.

Hope you don't think I'm a dick but I probably am sorry guys sorry sorry

Hi, you have your own role play going already? What is it about?

Also, I sympathize with you as I also have my own world called Raksha (the demon), and my friend and I started our own RP that's been going on for about a year now. Considering I never actually did an online role play, this whole environment is really new to me. ^_^;;

Would love to hear more about your world!

Thanks for the welcome, @UltikanaRe and @Mara Velrose!

Y'know, it's hard to sit down and just explain my world in a cohesive few sentences. I guess I'd have to say it's a modern world, a version of our own (most of the same countries, music, stores, some different ones) - a kind of alternate timeline of our own modern life, Changed in the past and present by the presence of the Supernatural. Basically me and my friends liked to write together, but the only roleplays available to join were the typical Vampire ones and School ones - doesn't seem to be the case here, but on the site we frequented, those were your two options (and then the secret third option: Vampire School roleplays...). We usually joined into the ones we figured were okay and did what we did, writing it as if it were in our own world, realistically with consequences and a wider world and all that. Enough of those separate Vampire and School roleplays shared crossovers with each other, and soon enough, a combined fictional universe was born: The Falling World. There have been dozens and dozens of Roleplays in the Falling World sense then - only a few of them actually making it to the end of their stories, some going on endlessly - and today it's a rich tapestry of Cities, factions, pre-existing characters, dynamics, history and beings. Blaugh, that's a lot to spit out...

Essentially we just sat down and wondered what it would be like if Vampires and Werewolves and all that actually existed in our world. Well, we figured it wouldn't be long before some official or intrepid reporter would announce it to the world, and so the better question followed - What would it be like if creatures like that tried to join mainstream society? What we wound up with is Civil Rights campaigns, Vampire sitcom characters, Blood drives for donations to Vampires instead of Hospitals and a thriving bloodbag delivery industry; Governments would employ superpowered people as special agents while Werewolves call in sick to work because of the full moon. A tentative trade deal is reached with the fairy world, and fairy dust is becoming a major import, while at one point an angry mob of mermaid-like fish creatures rise out of the rivers and attack a city in retaliation for pollution and other offenses. In between, a big, messy world trying to catch up starts to take shape, informed by the secret wars and grudges that the previously clandestine supernatural world still fight out right among us. Since the supernatural has been around for centuries at least, the past is significantly changed by their presence as well, resulting in a map of the US and the world that looks very different, along with the history books. The core notion of the place, though, is that No Matter what kind of being, supernatural or otherwise, a person is, they are still just that: A Person. Basically, the Falling World is a long, long answer to the theoretical situation of 'What if all that was real?' So yeah, that's my world. The roleplay I mentioned that's currently active is about a training ground; in a world where the supernatural is a mostly accepted part of society, this is a place where people who have tried every other school, nonprofit and scam and failed to try to make something of themselves and their abilities. Part a secret institution of knowledge and part a very, very old wise lady's island home, this is a place for people to learn not only to master their powers but themselves. Aaaand all the other writers but me and my friend bailed on that so we're looking for some new students! So that's a long answer to a simple question, hope I said something worth hearing.

And Mara - if you've never done online roleplay, what medium has Your fictional universe been told through? How HAVE you been roleplaying? I always love hearing about new methods to do what I enjoy.

Hi Spear. West Detroit is cool. I lived there for like half a year. Hopefully we can roleplay together. :)

Also - do take advantage of the mention and quote functions - it will send alerts to other users and facilitate easier discussion, and so on.

Also - do take advantage of the mention and quote functions - it will send alerts to other users and facilitate easier discussion, and so on.

You got it Boss.

And really, you live here too? Round about where? Love this city.

If anyone's interested in the Falling world, I'm about to post an interest check thread, probably in Advanced.

@spearofhope
I lived around Milford wroth my best friend for pays of the summer.

Thanks for the welcome, @UltikanaRe and @Mara Velrose!

Y'know, it's hard to sit down and just explain my world in a cohesive few sentences. I guess I'd have to say it's a modern world, a version of our own (most of the same countries, music, stores, some different ones) - a kind of alternate timeline of our own modern life, Changed in the past and present by the presence of the Supernatural. Basically me and my friends liked to write together, but the only roleplays available to join were the typical Vampire ones and School ones - doesn't seem to be the case here, but on the site we frequented, those were your two options (and then the secret third option: Vampire School roleplays...). We usually joined into the ones we figured were okay and did what we did, writing it as if it were in our own world, realistically with consequences and a wider world and all that. Enough of those separate Vampire and School roleplays shared crossovers with each other, and soon enough, a combined fictional universe was born: The Falling World. There have been dozens and dozens of Roleplays in the Falling World sense then - only a few of them actually making it to the end of their stories, some going on endlessly - and today it's a rich tapestry of Cities, factions, pre-existing characters, dynamics, history and beings. Blaugh, that's a lot to spit out...

Essentially we just sat down and wondered what it would be like if Vampires and Werewolves and all that actually existed in our world. Well, we figured it wouldn't be long before some official or intrepid reporter would announce it to the world, and so the better question followed - What would it be like if creatures like that tried to join mainstream society? What we wound up with is Civil Rights campaigns, Vampire sitcom characters, Blood drives for donations to Vampires instead of Hospitals and a thriving bloodbag delivery industry; Governments would employ superpowered people as special agents while Werewolves call in sick to work because of the full moon. A tentative trade deal is reached with the fairy world, and fairy dust is becoming a major import, while at one point an angry mob of mermaid-like fish creatures rise out of the rivers and attack a city in retaliation for pollution and other offenses. In between, a big, messy world trying to catch up starts to take shape, informed by the secret wars and grudges that the previously clandestine supernatural world still fight out right among us. Since the supernatural has been around for centuries at least, the past is significantly changed by their presence as well, resulting in a map of the US and the world that looks very different, along with the history books. The core notion of the place, though, is that No Matter what kind of being, supernatural or otherwise, a person is, they are still just that: A Person. Basically, the Falling World is a long, long answer to the theoretical situation of 'What if all that was real?' So yeah, that's my world. The roleplay I mentioned that's currently active is about a training ground; in a world where the supernatural is a mostly accepted part of society, this is a place where people who have tried every other school, nonprofit and scam and failed to try to make something of themselves and their abilities. Part a secret institution of knowledge and part a very, very old wise lady's island home, this is a place for people to learn not only to master their powers but themselves. Aaaand all the other writers but me and my friend bailed on that so we're looking for some new students! So that's a long answer to a simple question, hope I said something worth hearing.

And Mara - if you've never done online roleplay, what medium has Your fictional universe been told through? How HAVE you been roleplaying? I always love hearing about new methods to do what I enjoy.

Very interesting. Do you have a map? I always love seeing the cartography behind the story.

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Very interesting. Do you have a map? I always love seeing the cartography behind the story.

Yeah, actually I made a couple of little document mock-ups a while back that featured maps of North America.

I'll see if I can get the image function here to work, but until then here are the links to those:
fav.me/d52vbol
fav.me/d53ri35

Hey there! You should think about expanding the view of your RP in your fantasy universe and get a different perspective on it. Change the mechanics of a game - you can create an exploration game in the amazons, a hard-boiled noire detective story, a slice-of-life day in the Olympic village...

You could frame a cover-up of alien contact within the universe, and see how it reacts. The absurd will be humans, vampires and werewolves all watching the sky in awe as a space-craft descends, while all three are just fine with each other existing and standing right next to them.

To anyone interested in My ideas, here's my interest check! @UltikanaRe, @Mara Velrose
roleplayerguild.com/topics/86577-falli..

Hey there! You should think about expanding the view of your RP in your fantasy universe and get a different perspective on it. Change the mechanics of a game - you can create an exploration game in the amazons, a hard-boiled noire detective story, a slice-of-life day in the Olympic village...

I always love trying out new formats and checking out new ideas - that's what I love about the Falling World, there's so much room to try out different types of stories. I've actually seen some Exploration stories and a Hard Boiled Noire detective story or two! And the Slice of Life stories are always best in fascinating places.

Fun fact, though - aliens do NOT exist in the falling world. Go figure!