Darkraven

Surviving: The End. (Season 1) (CLOSING, look for reboot!)

We've run the RP with less, truthfully.

@Vilhelm

Great! If we can start the engine first... :)

Surviving: The End. (Season 1) (CLOSING, look for reboot!)

So with only a few of us here, its safe to say that we're restarting?

Surviving: The End. (Season 1) (CLOSING, look for reboot!)

I am back. If you are still willing to RP in light of the unfortunate events, please let me know. I am not sure how many of you have unsubscribed so I'm sending out this one last message to see who's still in it to win it.

So far, Vilhelm (sigh...) and Sterling are on board.

Thanks all.

Az

@Azseth

I thought you've been banned or something? Anyway, I've decided to give roleplaying a go again. I've thought of some good characters, but I could always go back to using the original one.

Here's what I got:

- A Chinese Triad member who works as a metal worker by day and shaking people up for money by night. On the right, he's fiercely loyal (if you can gain his trust), but on the left he can be brutal, ruthless and quick to mess up anyone he doesn't consider to be one of his.

- A 20 year old gangster punk who's a real asshole. His only redeeming quality is that he'd be a minion to whoever's shown himself to be in charge, making him pliable and giving him a real possibility for change and improvement as a character (or he'd descend into worse immorality if he's following another gang boss), though he tends to be overzealous.

- Hmm... Or maybe I could go with the Japanese JSDF medical officer, who was on a military exchange programme during the zombie apocalypse, and when things turned bad, got stranded. He's going to be highly dependable, versatile, disciplined and selfless, but he's a long way from home therefore a little withdrawn, depressed and suicidal.

- Or I could just go with the original. A 10 (and a half) year old kid who'd lost everyone, and as a result suffered things a kid shouldn't have throughout her ordeal in the outside world. Adaptable with so much room to grow, surprisingly independent, but also unstable and liable to snap.

Managed to dream up two more ideas...

- A Sikh convenience store owner who was about to turn his single store into a chain when the apocalypse hit. He's an asset when it comes to negotiation, but he has little experience when it comes to fighting - he's a lousy shot.

- Can I play as Rick Grimes? (j/k, just can't remember another idea I had.)

- A Singaporean conscript sent in on military exchange with the US. Has quality and high tech gear, but begins mentally broken and in the abyss where morale is concerned due to recent defeat and being thousands of miles from home.

Surviving: The End. (Season 1) (CLOSING, look for reboot!)

Hi @Azseth, I notice that the roster for this RP is getting filled up really quickly. That said, I've seen what characters there are and I've kinda concluded that Valentina Vetrov's niche has been fully taken up. What do you think?

I could always create a character to fill the CDC up. I'm thinking of throwing in a UN peacekeeper who'd been abducted and put in the vault, along with a 'sorry' note saying that they're gonna need him for as a foreign contact who could survive well, yet is a 'nobody' unlike real foreign diplomats. What do you think of this idea?

Surviving: The End. (Season 1) (CLOSING, look for reboot!)

I'll put up my CS by the end of the month.

Surviving: The End (Season One)

Man, I'm in the final stages of my writing project. If I join, I'd be doing it two weeks later or something.

P.S: Sorry about your last one, didn't join even when I expressed interest. Bad timing as I was working on my writing project.

Why do you RP?

It was originally just for practice, but now I don't really have a purpose to RP anymore. Roleplaying is obsolete compared to even simple writing-stories-for fun because of tons of reasons, as I discovered:

1) High mortality rate and shelf-life of roleplays. People just could just up and quit anytime, and usually for no good reasons. What this does to your practice is that it'd never come full circle and it'd never be as wholesome as writing a story-for-fun that'd be complete.

2) No single authorial vision. The GM could have vision, but the roleplayers would have their own. In the end, you don't get to practice writing a good story because there's no single collective vision of what the story should be (not that it's really possible), and neither can you impose your own vision (and you shouldn't either, in roleplaying). This can also lead to #1.

3) You write as a break from reality, or writing requires a break from reality. Either way, you record reality in the absence of its constant bombardment in some way or to express creativity. With roleplaying, you'd have to deal with the reality of working with people. While most of them are fine, don't count on all of them to be fine, and that'd lead to frequent distractions that'd compromise practice. Could also lead to #1.

4) Roleplays lack the 'purpose' of writing traditionally. Practice pieces aren't supposed to go nowhere. Even as you write to practice, you're practicing your craft (giddit? :D). Your practices pieces could easily be published somewhere, or they could be refined to be published. They're yours to do with, totally. With roleplays, the extremely different medium makes for poor storytelling in the traditional sense (for example, what a novel could do in 100,000 words, a roleplay does in a million, and good luck finding someone to edit that!), and as it's a collaborative effort, cannot be published easily. The publishing industry caters mostly to single-authored stories/novels/what-have-yous.

5) Roleplaying requires a bigger infrastructure to accommodate. You need a website, you need your internet, you need people and you're going to need SOPs, standard practice, rules, a social order and in addition to everything a traditional writer needs. Logistically, it's less sound than pure writing, which requires only a grand total of one person, one good location and a writing medium, and maybe some books, the internet and other people only when you're going journalist.

That's all I can think of for now. Coming on here is now only a habit, one that I've been trying to kick for years. I realise that I'm being negative, but I call it as I see it. This probably won't apply to most of you, because we're all living in our own worlds. In my world, that's how it is.

Pandemic (Post-apocalyptic survival)

My guess is that people got bored of this kind of RP? Either that or there's too many RP like this. Anyway, I'll be watching this. Consider me a potential candidate :)

Endure. Survive. (Set in non-canon Last of Us world)

Alright, I'll decide on a character. A writer it is, but I'm not sure if I want a character based on Stephen King. I'll have to decide.

In the meantime, why not revive the interest check and bring in more people?

Also, I've been busy, which is why I haven't be prolific here, because I've been prolific in writing elsewhere.

Endure. Survive. (Set in non-canon Last of Us world)

@Azseth What do you mean by goof? I meant at the time when you came here and started another RP. I didn't expect you to create a Last of Us RP. Because previously it'd been something original. So it kinda threw the zombie RP character generator in my head off, because I've never played the Last of Us games, neither am I a big fan of it...

Anyway, here's a bunch of ideas I have, do tell me what you're interested in:

- A Chinese shopkeeper who's innovative and opportunistic, resulting in a booming business selling what have become known as retro-tech weapons (basically regressed weapons that are nonetheless lethal, reusable and durable) such as Cho-No-Kus, spears, and even ballistas for dispatching Cordyceps. He does all sorts of other things, but he had become one of the main sources of new furnitures, small buildings and raw materials. He's also involved in the smuggling business, and is actively lobbying for its legalisation. He is one of the patriarchs of an extended immigrant family.

- An Atheistic, I-Don't-Give-A-Shit Former British SAS trooper sent into the US for peacekeeping purposes, as the UK was doing better in the initial outbreak. He got stuck in the US when society's infrastructure fell apart on both sides. At present, he is serving in the city's militia, but belongs to a party within the militia who wants to make scavenging and smuggling legal. He personally believes that it is how the city will survive in the long run. With him, the group would have the backing of a portion of the police/military, although they're a minority within it.

- Or how about a Carpenter who's also a member of the local mafia? He's involved in everything dirty, and he's a good soldier of the Mafia, getting his hands slimy for them. He believes in survival of the fittest, he believes in material wealth and money, and he's unapologetically cold, mean and harsh. But he has a soft spot for those who he saw as above him, and of course, girls. So he's basically a minion, and has the mentality of one. Namely, he doesn't really like making decisions, nor is he any good at it (which is why he's in the mafia business to begin with), but he knows how to take initiative and do work. With him, the group would have the backing of a Mafia family, but not the entire criminal underground.

That's all I got for now...

EDIT: Oh, I got another one, here you go:

- Or maybe... Steven McQueen (), a guy who used to be a big name in the world of horror fiction, but now has to push that to the side and work as a propaganda writer. Let's just say he's pretty wrecked by this that he started resorting to alcohol and drugs. He's also trying to redeem himself by getting involved in politics and doing what's right, which is where he gets involved with the group. He wants to help legalise scavenging and open trade. Steven McQueen has vast connections in the literary world, whatever's left of it, and remains a folk name such that only the coldest, meanest and most illiterate or unread would want to do anything to him.