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"It's not like dying is a big deal or anything. I mean, everyone knows they're going to die someday, whether you are 80 or 16 years old. I guess I didn't think I'd be the latter... It's not the worst thing in the world though, at least I'm not in pain, I'm not hallucinating and I'm not in a coma either! Yeah, I can beat cancer just fine!"


The story this time around is going to be about a teenaged girl that's diagnosed with cancer and not too very long to live. As the quote above suggests, she is in a state of denial upon first receiving the news. When it finally dawns on her that her chances are incredibly slim she slips into a coma. The coma sends her to a high fantasy world a la Neverland or Wonderland. During the coma she will meet various characters that all represent a real person in her real life and she'll have to go through the processes of maturity (She's a teenager for a reason, you know) and mourning due to the cancer that looms over her.

One of the challenges I present with this RP will be to have a protagonist-driven story where the protagonist is not the GM's PC but rather the combined concept of all of the involved RPers. Hence why each PC represents a person the protagonist knows. Because of this, all of you have equal stake in changing the way the main character behaves, what her backstory is and how she will grow through the experience. Clearly the Big Bad that is present in almost all High Fantasy stories is going to be the cancer here, where at the end our protagonist will either overcome or succumb. Various symptoms of her disease will most likely be represented by the evil minions of the Big Bad.

Due to the potentially complicated nature of the RP I would like High Casual writers on board for this one. If you don't fancy yourself in that category come on anyway, you'll probably still be of much use here as long as you can participate in planning out of character.

The CS will come up when there are enough people on board to justify an OOC, until then please share your ideas on potential characters. Do so even if you're not sure if you'll use it or not, I prefer every idea to be said as opposed to none.
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How do you define "high casual". Just wondering.
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Competence, plain and simple. I do not expect long, drawn out posts that go on for days (I actually detest that if done regularly) but I do expect a modicum of creativity and an understanding of the English language so we don't have to struggle reading your writing. Or at least an understanding of Google to check that your sentences make sense. Make the posts as long or short as you want within reason and use whatever pacing you feel like. Just write like each of your posts helps toward a common goal to advance the main character in an interesting and half-meaningful way. Just that behavior alone is great.

Hope that was a helpful answer ^^
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It was a very helpful answer. Thank you. I am already in one game which has enormously long posts which I have trouble keeping up with. I just wanted to hear your answer before throwing my hat in the ring. I'm interested, but I start a new job soon and would only be able to check the game once per day. If it turned into a ton of posts by the same people, every day, it would be difficult for me.
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Hey hey~
Well, you told me I had to be here, so here I am.
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In my experience, activity like that lasts only a few days after the IC is up if you're snappy about getting it out there. I want more planning than that so maybe it will work out in your favor a bit there.

EDIT: Hey Rune! Glad to see you round here.
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O.K., sounds good.

Hello Rune. Good to meet you.
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Optimist said
Hello Rune. Good to meet you.


Hi!~
Pleasure to make your acquaintance as well!
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Badly timed bump :/
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When is a bump ever badly timed?
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It's badly timed when you do it an hour after the heat of interest check activity.
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Ah, that makes perfect sense.
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It's as badly timed when you bump in the morning, however.
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Rune and I could both double up on characters, if you don't get enough players, and if Rune does not mind. It would be fine with me.
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I can play two characters easily~
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I feel like the server junk might be hampering the popularity a little bit... But I'll wait some more, it hasn't been 24 hours yet.

Have you two gotten any cool character ideas yet?
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Haven't even thought about it. >_>

should probably get to work on that xD
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I want to play the CRAY uncle!



Seriously though, if you don't get any females I could play the mother/fairy god-mother figure. I am not writing any female characters right now and quite like doing so.
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Mine will defiantly be female, I can guarantee it xD
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Technically the protagonist is a female character that you and everyone else is going to be writing for. Just to be snarky xD
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