Dewey Deftones

Lyle's House for Troubled Teens

@ViolentViolet So am I good to go, as far as having my character accepted? I can only assume that's what you liking it meant, but I just want to be sure.

Lyle's House for Troubled Teens

Name: Cyril Szabo
Age: 18
Sex: Male
Sexual/Romantic Preference: Homosexual

Diagnosis: Cannibalism, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (more obsessive than compulsive)
Circumstance of Break: Found by police to be consuming the dug-up corpse of a recently deceased man who had been buried a day prior, and while in custody was constantly searching for coins and threatening to harm the children of the officers. Cyril didn't come to until the morning after the incident.
Supernatural Identity: Ghoul
_{(Arabic culture; a type of shapeshifting demon, known for collecting coins, terrorizing children, and consuming the dead)}
Stay Length: 3 months (Subject to change)

Likes/Dislikes: Likes hot/dry weather, shiny tokens such as coins or medallions, graveyards and such things associated with death. As well, he likes carnivorous foods such as steak, fish, etc, and will rarely eat any type of vegetable or fruit. Also likes learning about the human body. He dislikes being around multiple people for too long, when people touch his belongings without permission (though he's likely to refuse permission regardless of who it is). Also dislikes wet weather and large, open spaces. He likes to feel secluded.

Hobbies: Collects coins and other such tokens, and has a rather vast array of coins, which he organizes meticulously and never lets anyone do anything more than look at them. He studies human anatomy when he's not searching for coins, and will sometimes draw Da Vinci's Vitruvian Man on spare pieces of paper laying around. He used to enjoy hunting, but since he's at Lyle's, he obviously can't do that.

Personality: Generally a fairly sweet guy, Cyril is only limited by the stigma of what he was institutionalized for, and by his odd obsessions (coins, meat, human anatomy). He insists he's not cannibalistic, that he just had a mental lapse, and that he's not insane. As he'd say, "Collecting coins is a normal hobby, right?". He finds comfort in the familiarity of his collection, which is his reasoning behind his desperate searching for coins at the police station when the incident happened. Cyril tries to rationalize things, and likes to get straight to the point. He's convinced he doesn't have any real problems.

Biography: Given up at a mere age of 1 year, Cyril never knew and never cared to learn who his parents were. He was adopted, and his life as an orphan ended as quick as it had begun. His adoptive parents, who he always recognized as his real ones, lived out in the woods, just outside of a small town. His father was a hunter, and during deer season, they'd eat the meat and lots of it. Cyril was very fond of eating said meat, and even went out hunting with his father once he was old enough to withstand the kick of a rifle to his shoulder. He enjoys his meat cooked rare; any more than that and he doesn't enjoy it.

He always had a knack for finding loose change around the house, and even took a metal detector out into the forest where he lived in search of more. His parents thought nothing of it, since coin collection is a common hobby. When he turned 16, Cyril got a job as a waiter, and kept every single bit of change he got. To this day, he has over $400 in coins alone, not counting the value of old, outdated currency he's stumbled upon and kept in his collection.

He lived a relatively normal life, working a part time job, collecting coins, and eating local wildlife he and his father hunted. In school he excelled in his Biology and Anatomy classes, having a peculiar interest in the human body. It was, however, when his mother decided to take his collected money to the bank and deposit it into his bank account for him that set him off. She'd touched his belongings without his permission, and that screwed with his deepest obsession. In hysterics when he came home to find his entire collection of coins, aside from the ones no longer in circulation, gone, Cyril ran out of the house into the forests. He describes what happened as blacking out after being really pissed off. He doesn't remember anything aside from going into his room after his mother had taken his coins away. He was told he'd cannibalized a dead body, but refuses to believe he actually ate any of it, despite having been shown pictures of the body.

He was taken to Lyle's House shortly after the incident, and has thus far just been trying to prove he's not a cannibal, despite what his diagnosis is.

Lyle's House for Troubled Teens

So, I'm fairly interested in this concept (I haven't read the books mentioned, but I've read through people's characters and gotten a general idea of what kind of supernatural this is, and the split house/psych institution thing is very interesting), but I haven't done a group RP in... well, years. Probably around 6 years. I may be very rusty, should I be accepted, of course.

Interest In Developing Fallout Vault RP

Try and work out whether or not there'll be a goal. Or if your RP will be more character based. You know building relationships, going about their daily lives. If you decide you want a goal think what would best work to get all the players on board, don't let them go to far off course. Make it known if you have a goal based RP that you are in charge and you want to keep everyone on task. But allow input if they think you're doing something wrong. And consider that possibility.

A good goal could be trying to escape the Vault, and you can further complicate things some time down the road with the infamous Vault Tec experiments. Though some are more obvious at the start than others. Like Vault 69 Where one man is trapped with a thousand women, or some such number.

@VATROU

I was thinking the goal would be dependent on the character's own choice. There would be an overseer attempting to go through with the experimental nature of the Vault and those who align under them, whatever it may be (perhaps something like Vault 101, with the dictatorial/controlling overseer in the Vault that's never meant to be opened), and then those who wish to escape the Vault. But, I think in the end those who wish to escape would be the ones who would reach their goal.

Is there a certain forum I can go to to potentially recruit people for this idea? I know my way around the 1x1 forums, but I don't know anything really about the group forums.

Interest In Developing Fallout Vault RP

Alright, so, I'm not very experienced in group roleplays, but I've had the wonderful idea of developing a group roleplay based in one of the Vaults from Fallout. I've played Fallout 3, and beaten Fallout: New Vegas, and have done a lot of extra time researching all the extra fun details of the story of the post-apocalyptic wasteland. I enjoy it a lot. Needless to say, Fallout is by far one of my favorite series of anything, right up there with Star Wars.

Loosely inspired by the new iOS game Fallout: Shelter, I've had the idea or organizing a bunch of roleplayers into a vault with set stats like the SPECIAL system, with their jobs and roles in said environment. While this SPECIAL system, I think, would be practically useless in the actual roleplaying sequences, I think it'd just be an interesting thing to have tacked onto character sheets. Anyways, there'd be an Overseer, the security guards, the mechanics, general dwellers, etc. Problem is, I have no clue how to do all of this. I pretty much do nothing but one on one roleplays because I like the close and personal aspect of those types.

However, I am very interested in working with a few people to make this work. I think it'd be fun, if it can be kept alive. So, anyone out there willing to chat about this, maybe give me some pointers?

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Play with Fire!

Hello! I'd be interested in either the Dragon and Rider, or the Gladiator and Patron (I'm rather interested in magical stuff, but I feel I just don't know enough about the genre to include more of the fantasy ones). I typically can get responses in at least once every day or so, but considering I often type upwards of 2-5 paragraphs, sometimes it takes a day or two extra for me to think of a fitting, quality response. I always prefer quality responses over extremely fast ones.

I'll also be leaving for Boston the 30th, and won't be back until the 14th, so I may not have much time on my hands for that period.

I'm over 18, and have roleplayed smut and romance many a time, so that won't be an issue. In fact, most of my roleplays center around some type of romance. Gender doesn't really matter considering I can play males and females of any sexuality/preference, and I can also play any race, so I don't mind if your characters are perhaps Asian or of African descent. I'm really not picky.

Military RPs- a Cause for Debate

I've noticed in the 1 on 1 checks, there's quite a few more people willing to do Military roleplays of one type or another, including myself. I see medieval and the occasional WWII, and more often than not a sci-fi themed one. I've been personally developing my own sci-fi universe, with a highly militarized society.

I've wanted to throw it out there and get some critique, and maybe get a roleplay started in it, but I'm not huge on large-group roleplays. Small groups I've done once or twice, but I'm typically 1 on 1.

I'm a former soldier myself (shoutout to the Ohio National Guard), so I know more than your average person would. I've used my knowledge to think of the mentality a soldier has, to think of what war is like, and think of every factor that plays into military roleplays. I think a lot of the problem with the dwindling interest in military roleplays is the fact that they take a large amount of effort (a lot more that your typical werewolves and vampires). If they're historical, you have to do research so it's not horribly inaccurate (I've roleplayed with people who refuse to do research themselves). If it's sci-fi, you have to make your own world, or use a pre-existing one. And with the pre-existing, you'd have to know/research what the universe is like. It takes a lot of thought, and I feel that military roleplays are very mental. Soldiers are unique. You have to get into that mentality for your character/characters.

Genres like fantasy and slice of life are just easier, in my humble opinion, to create and sustain than militaristic roleplays.

But that's all just my opinion.

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