in absentia (uncharted jungle island, survival, drama) high cas

[Takyon]

Postponing this for now. Might revisit soon but not putting OOC up anytime soon.

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In late May of 2018 a flight travelling from Seattle to Singapore vanished, the tracking of the flight being manually disabled. 126 passengers were on board, 35 of which were junior and senior High School students on a Geography trip. Months later the passengers were declared dead in absentia by the US government.

However, the passengers of the flight did not all die. At least, not on that day. The plane crashed on an uncharted pacific island. Sinister events transpired leading up to the crash, and they would continue on the island in the months following.

may 28th, 2018;
07:45 AM: Flight 314 departs from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport.
10:19 AM: 314 begins to deviate from it's planned route.
10:30 AM: The last known location of 126 is tracked.
11:02 AM: 314 is officially marked as missing.

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Concept
The main characters will likely be High School seniors and juniors, or other people aboard the flight, who have ended up stranded on a jungle island in the pacific following a deviation from their original destination of Singapore. Although the RP will be primarily character based, the overall story will involve treachery, action and drama, with a main villain. Your character can fall anywhere on the moral compass, acting as a protagonist, a neutral or an antagonist.

Anyone interested?

[Ioua8654]

looks good but there are some problems

[Takyon]

looks good but there are some problems

@Ioua8654

Care to expand? lmao

[Blazion]

It's not my usual thing, but it sounds cool so count me interested!

[Ioua8654]

So one thing since you don't decide characters moral spectrum there is literally no balance, as there can be 6 antagonists,2 protagonists, and 1 neutral it isn't really balanced. Also, you don't specify if's there n end goal or not so for all we know we're gonna be stuck on the island until the day we die. And the third problem is that characters can be op without being "op" the reason is that in most roleplay op is being too good at too many things as in most, there are a lot of skills that fall into different specializations but in this instance, if you are an expert survivalist would pretty broken as their knowledge to survive without modern technology would bring a lot of unfair benefits, like becoming leader, being able to find and collect insane amounts of supplies. So if you could fix that it'd be better

[Dusty]

I’m intrigued as well, count me as interested.

[Ioua8654]

I am also intrigued besides some of the flaws i found

[2plus2isnot5]

Also interested, but also I can't help but disagree with @Ioua8654, in literally every rp you decide your character's morals, that's part of being in an rp. Again, with the whole 'being too op' thing, irl and in fiction people have different skill sets, that's just, y'know, life, and something you have in every rp. As long as it's a skill it makes sense for that character to have, then I don't see the the problem, and as always, final say on acceptance is at the GM's discretion. As for the end goal, @Takyon already said there was a plot - I for one would rather not know how it ends before it's even started, also this is only the interest check, lighten up a little. You don't need to know everything right now this second.

[Takyon]

Dude, are you kidding me? Just because I didn't list every single detail doesn't mean I haven't thought about it. Seems to me like you're just saying stuff for the sake of having something to say. None of your criticisms would be real issues.

So one thing since you don't decide characters moral spectrum there is literally no balance, as there can be 6 antagonists,2 protagonists, and 1 neutral it isn't really balanced. Also, you don't specify if's there n end goal or not so for all we know we're gonna be stuck on the island until the day we die. And the third problem is that characters can be op without being "op" the reason is that in most roleplay op is being too good at too many things as in most, there are a lot of skills that fall into different specializations but in this instance, if you are an expert survivalist would pretty broken as their knowledge to survive without modern technology would bring a lot of unfair benefits, like becoming leader, being able to find and collect insane amounts of supplies. So if you could fix that it'd be better

@Ioua8654

[Takyon]

But hell, lemme address the criticisms now anyway just for future reference. @Ioua8654

Q: since you don't decide characters moral spectrum there is literally no balance, as there can be 6 antagonists,2 protagonists, and 1 neutral it isn't really balanced
A: This isn't a video game. You crash on an island with (mostly) strangers. This isn't League of Legends. I'm not going to decide people's characters for them.

Q: you don't specify if's there n end goal or not so for all we know we're gonna be stuck on the island until the day we die
A: Yeah, sorry for not giving away the entire plot of the RP in the interest check. But for your sake I'll spell it out. The 'end goal' is survive. Get home, if you can.

Q: characters can be op without being "op" the reason is that in most roleplay op is being too good at too many things as in most, there are a lot of skills that fall into different specializations but in this instance, if you are an expert survivalist would pretty broken as their knowledge to survive without modern technology would bring a lot of unfair benefits, like becoming leader, being able to find and collect insane amounts of supplies
A: Again. Not a video game. Not every character starts at level 1. It's just not realistic. There are bound to be leaders, or people with more talents. A doctor is naturally more valuable than a journalist, for example. It's part of what adds variety. In addition to this, I will be rejecting applications I feel are ill fitting or overly OP, but if they are realistically OP they will be accepted. But every RP has this, I don't see what's uniquely wrong with mine in this regard.

Edit: also, the likelihood of a expert survivalist being on a plane of 120~ people is extremely slim so let's go ahead and rule that out. I also stated most of the main characters would be High School students, so... not expert survivalists.

[Takyon]

bump

[Helo]

Interested

[Blackstripe]

I could be interested in this.

[Takyon]

OOC this weekend. Thank you for your interest!

[Days]

Yassss

[Takyon]

Instead of rushing out an OOC, here's a rough CS. If you want to start working on your character, go ahead. Format it however you want. DM me if you have any questions/get it finished.

rough cs

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[Zapdos]

A: This isn't a video game. You crash on an island with (mostly) strangers. This isn't League of Legends. I'm not going to decide people's characters for them.

@Takyon

Aww, it isn't? Can it be Heroes of the Storm so I can be Uther and heal everyone? :-P

But seriously, I'm interested in this. The premise sounds interesting and if I end up being busy at a later point, it'd be easy to kill off my character. I'll work on brainstorming a CS.