[OOC] Third Colony: Arcadia (A Sci-fi life exploration rp)

[Spirit]

As mentioned in the interest check the Third Colony: Arcadia is a massive spherical space station placed in orbit around a gas giant far from the reaches of the solar system we came from, home to millions of people of earth and alien origin alike though times of these home planets have long been forgotten. Divided into about 8 sections containing their own ecosystems and cities to allow for healthy living within the protective shell of the station, all food, drinkable water, plant life, etc is maintained through controlled rotating weather conditions by the acting government of the station. For the most part starting out this will be a standard casual exploration rp of life in this scenario allowing for full creativity in alien creation and environmental interaction.

We can discuss and make any background information as we go if you run into anything you need to have some wider explanation on such as an organization or such. I am new to the guild site and I'm still trying to figure out the formatting but eventually I will make a list of hiders for player controlled characters, any rules we would have for newer players, and the general established species list as we go. This in mind please do be patient with me here in the OOC forum since I have no honest clue what the etiquette is on the forum for a rp dm and I'm hoping to let this rp be my kind of foot in the door comforting rp. (^ ^")>

Really I only ask you apply your characters as a formality and the rules I ask you follow are limited to:

*Don't control how other people's characters would react to your actions
*Don't give your characters abilities that other members of their species couldn't also perform unless they are variant specific
*If you want to have an 18+ interaction do it in private chats though I'm sure you're more than allowed to reference it subtly
*You can have as many characters as you can handle but please keep it Original content only, though referencing other preexisting aliens I guess wouldn't be that big a deal
*Don't fight in the OOC, we're all friends here
*Basically anything you want to do is ok with me, 18+ with anyone you want that consents, steal stuff, start fights, explore the enviroment, and take oppurtunities to interact with people to your heart's content. No fun in an open world rp like this when you only tunnel on one enviroment am I right?
*Just have fun, no need to be too serious on others
*If you want an alien creation try to cover as much of their abilities and limitations so we don't get too surprised later on in the story. Thanks!

Thanks for joining me! I hope this rp gets to last.

*ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT THE WORLD CAN BE DISCUSSED AND AGREED UPON TOGETHER DON'T HESITATE TO ASK*

[Elle Santiago]

I'll maybe start my CS soon, playing a boring human :p

I'll make sure to create aliens and world build. It would be great writing exercise as well as dip my foot in sci-fi. I also recommend tagging people in the interest check here like so: @Spirit so they can be alerted. In order to make this, basically put their username inside the brackets: []. Looking forward to it

[Spirit]

Oh I see, I'll do that now for the other person, @caliban22. Thanks for the tip, and thanks for coming I'm looking forward to it too! Take your time on the CS and feel free to make anything more later whenever you feel like it.

[Elle Santiago]

@SpiritAre Artificial Intelligences fair game here? I want to establish an AI information broker that my character goes to for missions.

I'm also curious if this is mainly a world-building focused RP or if there will be plot points to go through, maybe topple an organization or something? Just wanted to be more clear on that.

A recommendation, if you may. For the general information of Aliens and other factions and stuff, I think it would be good to have a singular codex area to check in, maybe sneak it in in your first OOC post at the bottom or in the Zeroth thread of the CS tab. (It's okay to ignore this. Sorry if I'm stepping on toes here.)

On another note, 5 days till Uni's here and I'm currently in 4 or 5 RP right now (some aren't very active and even haven't gone past the interest check but I'm invested and have to keep it in mind). I should be able to create at the very least my PC character once inspiration strikes before Uni starts. If I'm oddly silent, it's because I hit a writer's block and doubting myself (or being lazy but shh, I'm doing my best to be cooperative but sometimes I just can't find the inspiration or the motivation). Just ping me if that happens. I'd be chastised, embarrassed, and would finally get my head out of my ass and write.

For now, I sleep.

[Spirit]

@Elle Santiago Yeah AI's are fine but I would like to keep them generally disconnected from each other, that is to say not hive minded outside of maybe a few instances. I mentioned in one of my characters bios he made a robot out of scraps and a very old ai system that came from an advanced toaster. lol

As for your motivation I can't help to much with that, and honestly I have a lot of anxiety about being annoying so I'll hit you up every now and then but if you want to take your time that's fine with me too. This codex section is actually something I would love to have and was already making up a book for the world called the Xenobook. I have absolutely NO idea how to implement it though lol And I'm a god awful artist so I don't think there would be pictures to go with it since all the aliens I'm making are out of my own head and biologically feasible.

For now, there is no real goal so it's primarily world building, but I would be more than happy gain a plot point or two as we go, and designed my main character to be the adventurous type and a supporting character in Richard Morris that can also easily travel through the colony. I've also been trying to set up the Law Enforcement Corp as part of a distopian organization trying to keep the minimal means of peace through suppression and keeping aliens and the poor complacent since like I said in the pitch, this large scale of a colony with so many species and such would be just hell to keep in check in any real application. I don't like forcing direction so an over arcing goal is fine by me as long as we aren't hellbent on getting to it asap. The rp can be like "hey let's go to section 4 to get that one guy but also we have X, Y, and Z ways of getting there." and just winging it from place to place while trying to get there. Really I'm cool for anything as long as we're all having fun. A bit of a serious character could likely keep us all focused (again Richard was designed to be just the kind of guy to do so) or we could just explore the world around us. You want a rebellion? Sure we can do that. Want to topple a crime ring? Sounds fun to me. Stuff like that y'know.

And honestly the fact you're dedicated to 4 or 5 rp's does very little to deter me since as far as im concerned that just shows you are committed to something when you say you're interested. In the end I'm just waiting for someone to establish a second character before I start framing a first story post. I could just jump into it with one long ass post, but I don't want to leave my main character or someone like Richard in a place you can't interact with them, and it really sucks when your partners don't have an in cause they'll end up walking around for awhile and they get bored and bleh no fun for anyone and I just don't want to leave any of you in a situation like that.

If you want to pm me any rapid fire questions when making a sheet feel free, I'm really excited for this and so I've been thinking about all sorts of elements I can add into this for us to explore from groups, to life styles, to more species of aliens. I could really use a suggestion for how I should design this codex of species using the forum and where I should put it ^^"> I promise I'm learning fast I already figured out how to make lists and use colors.

[Spirit]

@Elle Santiago @caliban22
We all still doing this or should I just cancel it?

[caliban22]

@Spirit
I may have to bow out, not sure yet.

[Spirit]

That would be unfortunate, if you can stay it'd be a fun ride I'm sure. But if you have to go to and I gotta take it back to the drawing board, no hard feelings either.

I'd love to rp with you if I ever get the chance again.

[Elle Santiago]

@Spirit I'm currently too exhausted to create a character and alien factions. Sorry about that. May have to bow out of this one, unfortunately. It's a shame, though. I have ideas in mind but just can't put it in words rn.

[Spirit]

@Elle Santiago That's alright, if you guys for sure have to drop it let me know. I'll stay patient, I just wanted to make sure if interest was still in this before I deleted anything.