Hello there! This is my first time back to RPGuild in a long time. I have a lot of free time during work this summer, and I want to spend it being creative, so here I am!

To start off: my name is Jamie (she/her/hers) and I'm a college student. If you want to learn more about me you can check out my introduction linked below, but really you're here for the stories, right? :D

One quick thing is that you'll see this is tagged as both 1x1 and Small Group, so if you're interested in doing a 1x1 with me, let me know, but if you're really into any of these ideas as a group project I am also open to that.

I am open to many ideas, but here are some guidelines:
1. Advanced style. I am looking for quality, and a little quantity (2+ paragraphs). I am doing this for fun and for practice so hopefully we have similar goals!
2. Can post throughout the work week. Most of my posts will happen 8:00 - 4:30 PM EST, as I tend to have free time at work but not so much after work. I don't need like 3 posts a day, but if you could do 1+ daily or ~4 a week that would be fantastic. Of course I understand we all have our own lives and schedules, so I'm not strict!
3. Be ready to have fun! Yay!
4. Nothing too rated-M, just because I will be on these forums during work. Feel free to swear and such but please don't size-18 your profanity o_o

I hope you're still reading, because here are the ideas. I would love to bounce ideas around with you, about these or anything else.
- Sci-fi adventuring gang, darting through space in a small spacecraft. Perhaps we are pirates, bounty hunters, pilgrims... who knows?
- Person of Interest fandom story, where we are another cell of the Machine's agents working to save some numbers! This is probably the one I am most excited about just because I adore POI, and I think the premise would actually offer a lot of freedom for us to design our characters and engineer the plot in unique ways.
- Post-apocalyptic story where, decades after human society crumbles as a result of a worldwide energy blackout, people reform into low-level communities in walled settlements to survive and scavenge. I envision this as having an emphasis on community building, politics, morality..
- Small group D&D adventuring. So I am absolutely so new to D&D so this would have to be pretty low-level D&D stuff and someone else would have to DM. I am still kind of learning how to play, as in, I have not completed a campaign yet. This probably would be impossible to get started just because of those two stipulations, but I thought I'd put it out there anyway :)
- Open to romance but not to anything that is the "romance genre", that is, centered on romance. If we decide to go there that would be cool, but I don't want to start out with it being the main premise.

And that's all! Let me know what you think and what ideas you have. Please introduce yourself and let me know your pronouns, if you'd like. Thanks!
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My intro: https://www.roleplayerguild.com/topics/164572-hi-im-back/ooc#post-4344044

A writing sample from ~2 years ago (o_o). This is not my usual writing style, and I actually wouldn't assume this character or setting again probably. But this can show you some of the effort I put in in a typical post.

~*~*~*~*~*~October, 1745~*~*~*~*~*~

The western frontier was growing ominously crisper as the year went on. Summer had faded away into the beginnings of the colder months. The landscape of those fecund Appalachian hills had already drooped into states of orange and red and dryness. The air held a tightness to itself as if Mother Nature were bracing for the oncoming winter. As Esther Leigh looked out the window of her family's modest cabin nestled in the seclusion of western Virginia, she fretted over her household's preparations. No one would guess, however, except maybe for her husband Francois; Esther rarely abandoned her stoic countenance, even during the most troubling and adverse times.

The wind was in a hurry, rushing through the valley, shaking up the potato leaves, but leaving the busy river undisturbed. Esther grabbed the shawl she knitted last year and wound it over her shoulders. Then, she stepped out into the October world. She could hear the sounds of her husband's boots crackling through the coat of dry leaves on the ground. Rounding the corner, she found Francois with a wet sack slung over his shoulder. "Good morning, darling," he greeted plainly enough. Esther could smell the fish from several feet away; she forwent hugging him, instead allowing him to simply slip inside to deposit the fish somewhere. Then, Esther approached the back of their cabin. Nathaniel and Abigail were sitting on the ground among the leaves. They were close together and had their necks craned toward each other, no doubt confiding some deep, scandalous secret with each other. When they heard their mother's footfalls, Abigail leaped to her feet and sheepishly threw her hands behind her back. Nathaniel watched her with alarm, squirming on the ground.

"Got something, Abigail?" their mother asked keenly, eyeing them with playful suspicion. Abigail shook her head violently, and in the process, let loose what had been in her hands. A brown bullfrog gave an effortful groan and leaped from the girl's grasp. It dotted away from them, disappearing somewhere behind a rock by the river. Nathaniel gave an exasperated screech, falling onto his back, while his sister adopted an expression as if she had been personally wronged by the amphibian. Esther allowed a smile to morph her normally plastered stoic face. "Come inside, we have salting to do," she advised, gesturing for her children to follow. The children were obedient when it came to their father and submissive when it came to Esther, and so they marched dutifully towards the door.

I'm a huge fan of POI. Can I be the computer nerd who does the research and collects the numbers?

I'm a huge fan of POI. Can I be the computer nerd who does the research and collects the numbers?

I would love that!

Bump!