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I'm looking for someone, or two someones, to do some fantasy roleplays with. Let me state foremost that I'm not looking to do a roleplay about how two character fall in love, that is not my intent. I would rather take a fantasy or historically inspired setting and roleplay a more serious story focusing on character development and exploration of the world. To that end I'm looking for someone who wants to actively build the world and contribute to the story with me rather than being guided along. I have some ideas already, one well constructed, that we can work off of if you don't have anything off the top of your head.

About me: I feel like I used to be an advanced roleplayer, but that was years ago when I consistently roleplayed. Now I consider myself more of a casual or slightly high-casual roleplayer and would appreciate it if my partner could average at least three paragraphs and even challenge my skills. I don't care what gender or age you are so don't feel compelled to tell me if that's a one on one obligation. It seems to be one to me based on browsing a lot of the threads. I work Tuesday to Friday and typically two weekends a month so don't expect an exuberant amount of posts from me, I like to average about two a week. I believe I'm pretty easy going and I know I'm hard to offend so feel free to chat me up about something outside of the roleplay too, I'd rather have a good OOC relationship than none at all.

My Ideas:

Idea 1

My more completed idea is a very simple one and is probably why it's the most complete. That being said I think it's an oldie but a goodie, so on to it then.

There's a human town that acts as a local trading hub. They bring in iron and lumber from two nearby communities and sell them in turn to a human fort to the south and the orcish war tribes they've allied with to the north. This town is rather well funded and has a significant population for being so far from any of the major cities. A large port facilitates the life of this town. Recently though trade caravans have been attacked on the road that passes through the nearby woods. Due to a lack of iron the relation with the orcs to the north has deteriorated and they've become more and more hostile towards the humans, though there's yet to be any display of force despite threats. The town has decided to enlist the help of adventurers as the current situation leaves little flexibility for the guardsmen. That's where our characters come in. They're hired to find out who is ambushing the caravans and provide the town with a location so that a fighting party can be sent out to end the ambushes.

This would be a kind of generic D&D type roleplay without the dice. There's a lot of flexibility in this idea so if there's something that isn't quite up to snuff it's workable.

Idea 2

One of my less fleshed out ideas is pretty well just a premise at this point. It takes place during a 1940 to 1950's inspired setting in an unstable country. After losing a war the country has been annexed and the foreign military position inside their cities to end any attempts at rebellion. Retaliation was anticipated and so a larger than typical allotment was granted to the new garrison forces, but it hasn't been enough to keep the rebels at bay. The story would focus on our characters who are squad leaders trying to keep their guys alive while at the same time routing out the rebels and winning over the local populace, a near impossible task.

This roleplay would be more historical and magic would take a back seat. I've played with the idea of having alchemy (think Fullmetal Alchemist) present in the setting, but maybe downplayed a little and not readily available to our characters. I haven't got much more than this planned out yet and would need a fair degree of input before I would be happy to kick this off the ground.

Idea 3

I just wanted to look like I had more than two ideas. I'm a terrible human being I know. But, feel free to suggest ideas and I'm sure we can bang something out.

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Not me, well kind of. Fresh Tats I got from the expo in town.

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I'll be building a PC in the near future.

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Buy some SSDs for me please! I've been meaning to upgrade.

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@Tancuras Made my post. A bit short, sorry on that, but I figured something to work with is better than nothing to work with. And now we can go on a nice calming walk in the woods while finding something to murder... or hunt.

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Frederik laughed at the hunters. It wasn't as though he meant to actually hunt a deer with his sword, but what kind of a slayer would he be to leave it behind. Orren calling him a wolf stirred another chuckle in his stomach. "Ain't never tried hunting a deer with a sword, nor would I turn into a wolf overnight." His words came out roughly, as though drunk and needing to think of every word on its own. That damned tongue and his teeth had changed all too quick for his speech to keep up and now he was left looking like a yokel. "Nah boys." He continued, "I ain't looking for the hunt, just leaving the walls. You go mad if you stay cooped up."

A few brief exchanges ended the conversation and the hunters left behind Orren and Frederik to their own ways. When Orren paused to make sure his own words were pronounced properly Frederik wondered if he was mocking him, but realized this was probably the wild boy he'd heard about from some of the others. He fit the bill of being wild quite well, the scarred and toned body one born likely of necessity.

"Well then Orren, I am Frederik Steinon, third son of my house and the bastard that ruined it." He extended a hand towards the gate. "But what say we talk of it all on a stroll through the woods instead." Frederik smiled, then with a roll of his shoulder stepped towards the gate waiting for the experienced hunter to lead him after a deer or whatever secret the forests held.

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I'm gone until Sunday for work, though I might be able to get a post in there if I hurry tonight or tomorrow night. Just an FYI.

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The morning sun was brighter than it needed to be Frederik thought. He shielded his eyes from it with a large gloved hand, casting his face in a deep shadow. This morning he'd already had an early breakfast, tended to some small chores, and had found himself buried into a book about nothing in particular. It was like many of his days simply spent idling about like a teenager. Now he found himself ambling in the courtyard of the guild, looking for something to reinvigorate him. It had been a while since Frederik had been out and about in the world of dragons and he felt the walls of this place closing in on him. If he didn't busy himself soon he was going to go mad.

Across the courtyard standing at the entrance Frederik saw what might have been his only chance. A group of hunters stood there, bows ready in hand for a busy day of tracking and hopefully slaying. They were clad in neutral colours, and for the most part looked to be average size men. One though was quite thin by comparison. Frederik wasn't a particularly good hunter either; dragons were kind of stupid considering they chose to fight parties of dragon slayers rather than turn tail and run.. or fly. His tracking and marksmanship skills were lackluster at the best of times, but bad work was better than no work.

Dressed in the bottom layers of his armour, mostly a brown leather and scale clad shamble, Frederik waved at the group with a great arm whistling loudly. From their eyes he must have looked like an old kook who'd forgotten how to dress himself. His sword was strapped on his hips and the dagger into a belt, and he hollered at the group of hunters.

"Eh! Boys! Take me with you will ya?"

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yeah I'm gonna get a post up briefly here, just have to catch up IC and make a not dumb post :)

Thanks for being patient on me though, I'll get right to it.

Edit: Yeah so I'm trying to do a tiny collab kind of thing with Tancarus, but I'll have something up tomorrow if you guys think I'm taking too long.

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@Ghost Queen Everyone else seems to be kind of dedicated to each other in a nice little group of fun and merriment, do you want to intro our characters together in some way shape or form?