What's wrong? Get a bit of scare out there?
No problem. Have a seat and get comfortable.
We'll both be Hollow before you know it.
Hah hah hah hah…

When the light becomes weary, and the watchful eye of the sun begins to close its lid, so begins the darkest hour.

In Lordran, there are no seasons. The verdant fields do not sprout through the snow. The sun does not rise again through the murky black. In Lordran, time has an end, and that end approaches quickly.

Like the tinder of a fire, it can only be tended for so long before it vanishes in embers. Someone must stoke the flame, if it is at all possible. Perhaps there is still enough time... or, maybe, time is the plight. Like the sun withdrawing the day, perhaps it is destined to fade, and only dark will remain.

This is a Dark Souls RP. Shocking, I know.

A few things will be different, however. You will not play the Chosen Undead. In fact, there really never was a chosen undead because hundreds tried and failed, but one happened to succeed, but that's irrelevant. This is an alternate universe. The layout of Lordran is exactly the same, but some events will not occur, and others may not have occurred at all yet. The premise is that a much greater deal of time has passed before some worthy heroes made it to Lordran, and now it seems hope is lost. In Dark Souls, the narrative is tight, and every character knows their part and plays it. In this game, however, things will start to come apart, and there may be options available that were not available before.

Your characters, unfortunately, do not know about the Bells of Awakening. Your character's equipment can go outside of the in game equipment; you are not limited to the in game equipment, and you are encouraged to make up armor, clothing, and weapons. Your characters may not be together at all. You can do and discover whatever you like, but you may not get a desirable end. I could go on, but the point is that you are not the Chosen Undead, and you will not be playing Dark Souls in text form. Your role in the world may be anything, and you may find its best to find a way to survive rather than save the world.

Lordran, and the world, rests on your shoulders, but can you bear it? Can it even be bore?

Well, what are you going to do?
I've already decided.
I don't really care; I'm simply crestfallen…

I would be very much interested in joining if you'll have me! This sounds like it could be fun and I've been itching to do an RP that's a little more, uh, versed? I guess.

(And this sounds like a perfect way to kill time until March 11th to.)

I'm interested certainly, though so far you have been a little vague. Do you have some kind of plot in mind or is this alternate Lordran just meant to be our playground?

Lionheart said
I'm interested certainly, though so far you have been a little vague. Do you have some kind of plot in mind or is this alternate Lordran just meant to be our playground?

There's a plot, but I'm not going to tell it to the players. You'll have to figure out exactly what's happening.

If you want a clue, imagine if everything in Lordran hit the fan. I will, however, elaborate on some things that you will have to know once there's significant interest, like that bonfires won't work the same as in the game. You cannot revive at a bonfire. If your character dies, they die. That's also a plot point.

Count me interested.

Alright, I'll just wait for a couple more people, and then I'll begin working on an OOC. Maybe more, because someone's bound to drop out.

This sounds interesting. Just before the down-time of the site I was joined up to a similar RP. I think with a little re-hashing my character from that ought to work in here. I'll be looking forward to further info and any preferences you may have for how the character sheet ought to be set up. Also, could we have some more background in regards to known information such as the past history differences between this setting and the game?

Zepta said
This sounds interesting. Just before the down-time of the site I was joined up to a similar RP. I think with a little re-hashing my character from that ought to work in here. I'll be looking forward to further info and any preferences you may have for how the character sheet ought to be set up. Also, could we have some more background in regards to known information such as the past history differences between this setting and the game?

You will only be told what you need to be told. I should elaborate that this is also a bit of a game. Your characters will have to do their own adventuring, for whatever reasons they have, to find out what's going on in Lordran, and what they can do about it. Part of the game is figuring out what's happening, what you intend to have your character do about it, and if they are in a position to do anything about it.

For example, if the fate of Lordran and the world is in the hands of Gravelord Nito, you're basically out of luck since there is no appealing to him, unless you have something he wants. The RP is just as much a game as an RP, and those game like elements will be discussed once the OOC is up. I'm still debating whether or not to make it really short and let you guys retry if you fail, or just make it decently sized with room for error.

Interested. This games caused me much pain. Hopefully I right about it better than I play it. Also still having trouble getting used to the site, so much has changed. And please tell me the unicorns are placeholders, despite mine being awesome with a rainbow.

Quite interested, so long as it remains small enough.

Alright, I'll see about an OOC tomorrow.

For those of you looking for more information: you'll get a lot more elaboration and explanation in the OOC. This was just to grab interest.

Well if you're still accepting you can colour me interested. I'm doing another run through the game so I can use the same ideas for that character here.

Color *me* clueless. I like the intro, but I don't know what Dark Souls is. I assume a game...for a platform.

I can do some research, if you'll have me.

PRAISE
THE
SUN
\o/

Still waiting around for the OOC.

Hmm also still waiting on the OOC. Card, is this still going ahead?

Yeah guys, bad news.

Papers are getting thrown at me super hard, and I've got lots of school work to keep up with. I could probably participate in one RP, but not manage one with this kind of workload.

I'm sorry to those that I've disappointed, but I'm afraid this is not going to happen. It would probably become immeasurably irrelevant when Dark Souls 2 comes out in a month.

My sincerest apologies, but this isn't happening.