[OOC] Veritas

[icmasticc]

Ah! I remember you Lady Aria! No way I'd forget lol. Good to see you again. If you should decide to submit a CS, I'd be greatly pleased lol. Potentially looking forward to something... Or looking forward to a potential submission? Screw it, here's hoping you decide to send something in XD.

[corneredbliss]

Yes, yes, I remember you as well, Aria! Good to see another familiar face :) Icc's given you the speech, so I'll just say I hope so, too!

[Chai]

I have a question.

icmasticc said ...They're on a quest to discover the truth in the history of the world and end up discovering a bit more than that. In addition, they aspire to kill the Guardians who previously brought peace to the world...

Does this mean the character we create is tied to those exact reasons or can we add their personal beliefs as to why they would want the Guardians to fall, whether it was due to their spirituality, philosophy, ethics, religion, etc.?

[icmasticc]

Ariamella said
I have a question. Does this mean the character we create is tied to those exact reasons or can we add their personal beliefs as to why they would want the Guardians to fall, whether it was due to their spirituality, philosophy, ethics, religion, etc.?

Yes, of course. Player characters are encouraged to have their own personal beliefs as to why they are undertaking this quest with everyone else. I like tight narratives, but I'm not so hell bent on it that I take away creative freedom. I was mainly trying to say that the characters will end up discovering the history of the world and the truth behind the Guardians and the events surrounding them. Of course the characters would also have personal reasons as to what they believe regarding them and such. You won't be that restricted Aria. Hope I answered well enough.

[Chai]

Great! You answered my question perfectly. Now looking at the dark nature of this roleplay, are the characters expected to be equally as dark? I've had some GMs prefer that, while others prefer having a wider variety of characters although the game content is dark.
I apologize for the questions, I just like knowing exactly why and how I'm making a character, lol.

[icmasticc]

Ariamella said
Great! You answered my question perfectly. Now looking at the dark nature of this roleplay, are the characters expected to be equally as dark? I've had some GMs prefer that, while others prefer having a wider variety of characters although the game content is dark. I apologize for the questions, I just like knowing exactly why and how I'm making a character, lol.

It's fine Aria lol. Well, that's a bit more complicated to answer. I don't necessarily like dictating how a player prefers to play their character, but at the same time it makes the most sense to roleplay to the situation. It's like, if you're watching bodies fall around you, people getting eaten, and others being slaughtered around you in theory, are you going to make some witty one liner? It's just little things like that. The characters don't have to be super dark or gloomy, but they are also cultists so that fact has to influence them somewhere or another.

I guess I'd say there shouldn't be any super happy or super bubbly characters in the main cast, but like I said, I don't really like dictating how a person wants to play a character. I feel like I'm controlling too much if I go that far. Hopefully I provided a bit of clarity though. I'll try to answer another way if you don't understand still.

[Deamonbane]

I have a question, as I read over the Interest Check and OOC and didn't find an answer... what would be circumstances of these characters gaining these powers? Or would they be born with them? What is the reason for their need to destroy the Guardians?

I am interested, but I don't think I can put in a Bio unless I know just... what was supposed to happen...

[icmasticc]

Hmmm. I'll answer in a vague way due to plot spoilers, but I'll also clear up your question I think.

Firstly, the characters will encounter a Guardian in the very beginning of the RP. Suffice it to say, they will gain these powers from this Guardian which is why I used the word "inherit". The reason for their need? Well, that's complex because as I was telling Aria, every character will have their personal reasons to do this. As for a narrative reason, it is because the cult they are a part of believe that the world cannot truly be at peace under the fear that these god-like beings will once again storm the globe in an all out offensive. Of course the cult has no proof that these beings exist either.... Until the beginning of the RP that is.

Once they discover that the Guardians are indeed real and powerful beings, they aspire to rid the world of them because they believe they would be saving humanity by doing so. Of course, this is also a twisted truth of sorts and there's many more details than just that, but that's the surface of it. I like to title my RPs after the essence of the game and the name "Veritas" definitely will hold meaning in the grand scheme of things.

I hope I answered well enough. I was trying to navigate between plot details that shouldn't be revealed in the OOC as of yet haha.

[Deamonbane]

I am interested, but I can't seem to come up with the creativity for it... I will be following the story though, if that's alright with you..

[icmasticc]

Yeah, that's fine with me :D. If you do change your mind though, submissions aren't closing until Friday so you've got some time on that front.

[corneredbliss]

Ugh, I get so nervous whenever the site goes down now... Am I the only one?

[icmasticc]

I know it's beginning to get to me too. I thought these were over when I came back, but I guess I was wrong lol. Oh well, hopefully it won't be too much more.

[Adorabadass]

It happened to me earlier when I was trying to check. It made me cry bitter tears cuz I had to go to work and couldn't wait to see if anyone posted anything in a roleplay I was in/entering.

Now I have to clean bitter tears off my keyboard.

[icmasticc]

Alright, today is Thursday! Don't know if there have been thread lurkers or potentially interested parties, but today is the second to last day to submit characters!

If you're even the slightest bit interested, don't hesitate to send a character via PM to me and Bliss. Tomorrow, we'll be announcing the final cast. Well, I should say tomorrow night that is. Interested people will have all day tomorrow to submit until I get off work. When I get home, I'll be making another posting officially closing submissions and then me and my cohort will discuss things before updating the thread with the final cast list.

If you've been watching and thinking, now's the time to make a decision.

EDIT - Just putting this here.

I've got submissions from:
Adorabadass
Halo
NotExceeding(Rut)
Shadowefil

Hoping to see:
Aria
K9
Deamonbane(I know what you said, but I can still hope XD)

Just want to clarify that I have received the sheets even if I didn't respond to them as of yet.

[Halo]

I'm thinking about starting to save the entire ICs of roleplays I'm in, and trading emails with people in my RPs, so that everything isn't lost if the site goes down. You could then do group emails for your RP IC, copy and pasting into the original email all the original posts you have saved, while keeping in contact OOC through a facebook group or something.

[icmasticc]

Halo said
I'm thinking about starting to save the entire ICs of roleplays I'm in, and trading emails with people in my RPs, so that everything isn't lost if the site goes down. You could then do group emails for your RP IC, copy and pasting into the original email all the original posts you have saved, while keeping in contact OOC through a facebook group or something.

I've always hated email roleplay lol. It just seems so... Non-involved maybe? I don't know, it doesn't feel as though everyone is connected as well as a thread does. However, we should indeed figure out something for the times the site goes down and stuff. We'll talk more about that after the final cast is announced though. Don't want to jump the gun or anything.

[Halo]

Agreed; aside from for 1x1 roleplays, it's not the best RP medium, but it's better than nothing. And I was just talking more in general regarding all of my RPs and how I plan to deal with a second Guildfall if it occurs - don't worry, I'm not jumping the gun, or trying to worm my way in :P

[icmasticc]

Wait, that's not what I meant Halo lol. I should probably PM you.

[Chai]

I'm almost done with mine, I promise! I'm in class right now so I can't finish it (damn me for taking a summer course), but I'll send it to you guys later tonight when I get off work.

[corneredbliss]

Oh, yay! Must admit I'm really excited to see yours Aria. Mainly because I'm going to assume that it's for a female char heheh. Have a sort of deficiency around here, tut tut….

Joking! But ah, brave of you to take a summer course. My lazy ass couldn't have done it haha.