[color=#FF33FF]General:[/color]

If you've been accepted, please post your character in the characters tab.
 
So far, our party composition is:
Br3ead: -Human paladin/healer
dragonmancer -Dragonblooded human Warlock
Pathfinder -Ratman Fighter
Copperpen -Human Crossbow Ranger
71452K - Human Adventurer (alchemist? rogue? NPC?)

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[color=#FF33FF]From the Life of Raidne:[/color]

I think school is finally settling into routine. Like I said, I plan on posting four times a week; that should be actually feasible now.

Also, I'll update the zeroth post with what we've got so far.

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[color=#FF33FF]Specifics:[/color]

First, [@71452K], [@Copperpen] and [@Pathfinder], you've all raised an important issue: how do we worldbuild without stepping all up in each others' business? I think this is worth discussing, but here's my suggestion (and preference): post more, shorter bits of worldbuilding rather than fewer, longer things. That way people have an opportunity to add to what you've written without feeling like one person is dictating the entire story. Sure, it'll be less well-polished, but we've got ~6 other people to help polish it. My other thought, which you've already noted, is to pay attention to our fellow RP'ers characters and respect them.

Secondly, keep in mind that literally nothing but your characters is 100% written in stone. Even though we (myself included) all have ideas on what we want the histories of certain races and empires to be, at some point they will be defined, and that will destroy some of our head-canon assumptions. Easy, simple case: I was picturing this RP as dragonless - I think they're overdone and often overpowered - but now dragons are definitely canon. [b][i][u]Don't focus on what we lose, focus on what we can build on top of the thing our comrades have posted.[/u][/i][/b] Make everybody else's thing as awesome as you can. Just as the real universe has an infinite amount of detail and entirely new things to explore, so does this one. Going back to my dragonless concept, now we have an interesting hook for dragons as somehow conduits for magic, which raises interesting possibilities in my head for fun questlines for you guys.

The scariest part of this whole exercise is trusting each other with our creations. I truly, deeply, believe in our ability to care about each other's things enough to respect them and then make them even more fun, interesting, dark, awesome, or frighteningly normal. But, we're not going to get there if we don't take leaps of faith (especially at the beginning when we don't really know each other).

TL;DR - please take the human history out of PM's; I'd rather we develop them here.

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[color=#FF33FF]Characters:[/color]

[@Br3ad] Accepted! I'm pleased that this is your first thread! Welcome to the Guild!
[@dragonmancer] Comparing James to the other characters, he does seem more powerful to me. What were your thoughts on toning him down? Conditionally accepted.
[@Pathfinder] Accepted! Have you, by chance, read anything from the Jenkinsverse? ratmen remind me of Gaoians.
[@bleedingwords] Yep, there's room. Go ahead and post your character sheet. I'll close the thread to applications after this, though.
[@Copperpen] Accepted!
[@71452K] Accepted as well, like I indicated in the PM.