@MelonHeadWe're a group of interstellar ne'er-do-wells who also happen to be friends.
As like minded individuals are want to do we've have decided to rally under one banner in order to pool our resources and create a more vibrant roleplay for everyone involved. But unlike your standard clique we're also interested in combat and fighting one another gets oh-so boring after a time. Now we drift from one community to the next in order to challenge their warrior spirits and sate our blood lust. Sometimes if we're really lucky we pick up like minded individuals such as Everett who are willing to hitch their wagon to ours and the game gets a little better for it. In fact that's how just about everyone in the group who isn't Enki signed up over the years, including several members who are too cranky to join new communities.
In other words we're a clan.
On our home forum we run a Multiverse where our creations mingle with one another. Technically anyone and everyone is welcome to join but given that it's a small group and most of us have been at it for quite some time there is something of an established setting. In that sense Shin-Ra is but one of many ongoing projects but its one that's very dear to us because its a callback to our roots. Way back in the prehistoric Enki ran
the Shin-Ra Industries in an age where instant messengers were host to viable communities and we were all too young to feel shame about co-opting a videogame setting. Really the remake of Final Fantasy 7 was little more than a spark that reignited the fire under our asses, an excuse if you will, and now we're back.
If I'm being honest being a part of a group
really helps. When you're roleplaying on your own it's very easy to feel like you're just pissing in the ocean and getting nothing done. That there's somewhere close to a dozen of us on a good day who are actually willing to pitch in to help with new ideas or even just willing to share a passing thought helps make it feel like we're making progress towards something greater. Aside from the storylines we have running on our forum we(I specifically) try very hard to enforce the idea that everything we do is canon no matter what the consequences. If you check out any of our threads(mine, Enki's, DLL's, or Everett's) you'll notice we all make an effort to call back to our home setting even if it's only a sentence or so. Even Nergal's pseudo death will result in character development for the poor bastard when we inevitably send in the clean up crew to retrieve his remains and put him back together. None of this is something that you can't accomplish alone but being a part of a community makes every step of the process more enjoyable.
I guess you could say we're something of a mobile community that just happens to be visiting yours for a short period of time.
Heck we even have a storyline that explains why Shin-Ra is here during which we've fashioned a setting for the Arena and RP Guild when we could find none in place. It's not that obvious since we're not
invading the community and making a shitshow of things by throwing our egos out there. But that fits SRI's theme, we're not here to destroy the Guild so much as we're here to explore and make new connections, it's our job.
