Spirit

Dreamscape Online: An MMO comedy RP

"Welcome to Dreamscape online! A world of unique adventures have become open to you via advances in neurological technology that has allowed us to tap right into your consciousness and put you directly into the game! While in this world your brain will be directly linked to the character's needs and perception, so it's just like real life with just a few exceptions! First of all, you have a wide array of races to choose from, ranging anywhere from Dwarves, Elves, Dragonkin, Werebreeds, and of course humans with many more not listed here! Every player has a unique ability linked directly into their account, created by our top notch developers to keep you as defined by your account as you can be! Classes here are a blast, being accessed not through character creation but rather through class coins, a system that allows you to gather class options and choose to your own leisure. But wait! There's more! Once you hit level 40 you open a secondary class slot, allowing you to fuse together your designated coins into a prestige class, with it's own unique skills that are completely seperate from the other two classes that made it up in the first place! Be warned though, once you've chosen a class coin you can't be ride of it easily, and once you've prestige classed you'll be stuck that way forever! Explore many lands, try your hardest, and may the RNG be in your favor!"

Alaston looked at his new headset unsure about what to expect from such a boastful box pitch. He had played hundreds of games before, but none of them had nearly as many rumors thrown about like this one did. Only 3000 applicants a year are sent the game once they've signed up, taking a large 1000 question personality test before even getting the confirmation that they've been considered in the lottery to get to play. The forums online said that you experience the game just like real life, you have to eat, you have to sleep, you can feel everything the same way as you do in real life. A fantasy world where 3 days can pass there for every 1 day here, a world that promises adventure. In some ways it frightened him, it's not like facing a dragon in those other games, here you can feel the heat of it's breath. Here you can see the glint in it's eyes, in that world, you can even feel the pain of it's teeth. But on the other hand it offers much more than combat and glory seeking, it offers the chance to live a fantasy just the way you actually would. Maybe he could be a farmer, or a fisherman, meet a cute girl in game and roleplay a happy married life instead. Though he had always wanted to play the hero...
With that sentiment the headset was on in a flash, and he was soon thrust into a vortex of light. And just like that, he was standing in front of a mirror. "Please, select your character!" a chipper female robotic voice chimed in from the white void that surrounded him.
"Uh... Human.... this is fine I uh... I guess." He shuffled in place, unsure of how he was supposed to go about the creation process in the first place.
"Thank you! Welcome to Dreamscape Online! We hope you enjoy your gameplay experience!" The voice said to him without hesitation as soon as he declared his wishes. "Your journey will begin in 10 seconds. Please, watch your landing, and remember to aim for the water." The last bit snapped him out of his confusion for just a moment.
"Wait, wha-" He was cut off by the sudden shock of being launched into a brand new world, falling through the an open blue sky that shattered the feeling of the mundane he had grown so accustomed to gazing out the window. To his left he could see a large orange open desert, with large strange elephant like creatures walking through the dunes, and to his right an open ocean beating against a rocky coastline with gulls and an inviting sapphire sea just stretching to the distance. Off the edge of the coast he noticed a large floating city, glinting wonderfully in the sunlight as if to boast it's marvelous spectacle. This all came to a sudden snap back to reality when he realized he was falling face first into the ground at hundreds of miles per hour, in a panic he began to scream to himself as he clenched his eyes shut desperately trying to figure out what to do. It wasn't long however before he felt the cold rush of water hitting his skin and the soft touch of a sandy bank. He launched himself upwards, crashing up to find that he, sputtering and flailing, had fallen into an oasis with three people staring at him with smirks on their faces.
"Well... Hello there." They burst out laughing at his awkwardness, and just like that, wet, embarrassed, and in a fantastical unfamiliar place, a new adventure was already awaiting him.

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Yeah I want to know if anyone would have fun with a small fantasy game rp with a duality of the real world thrown into the mix. Every character would get a unique skill that is completely and I do mean entirely, their own power. If you can walk through walls, nobody else could do that in the game unless they were a npc creature. I love creative world explorations and fantastical environments with a bit of comedy thrown in. The class system would be designed around keeping your flexibility open vs becoming something unique and powerful. Since it's set in a video game character death would be essentially inconsequential and non-existent unless it were to happen out of game in the paralleled real world half of the rp.

I prefer to keep my rp's open to participant's wishes, so multiple characters and diverse interactions are encouraged. I'm rather new to the guild so I'm trying to keep my horizons open. I kinda want the unique powers to be assigned to players randomly to make it more about how you use your power rather than how powerful it is. Comedy, adventure, romance, drama, school, and more await us all in Dreamscape Online.

Let me know if anyone wants to try it with me!

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@Elle Santiago Yeah AI's are fine but I would like to keep them generally disconnected from each other, that is to say not hive minded outside of maybe a few instances. I mentioned in one of my characters bios he made a robot out of scraps and a very old ai system that came from an advanced toaster. lol

As for your motivation I can't help to much with that, and honestly I have a lot of anxiety about being annoying so I'll hit you up every now and then but if you want to take your time that's fine with me too. This codex section is actually something I would love to have and was already making up a book for the world called the Xenobook. I have absolutely NO idea how to implement it though lol And I'm a god awful artist so I don't think there would be pictures to go with it since all the aliens I'm making are out of my own head and biologically feasible.

For now, there is no real goal so it's primarily world building, but I would be more than happy gain a plot point or two as we go, and designed my main character to be the adventurous type and a supporting character in Richard Morris that can also easily travel through the colony. I've also been trying to set up the Law Enforcement Corp as part of a distopian organization trying to keep the minimal means of peace through suppression and keeping aliens and the poor complacent since like I said in the pitch, this large scale of a colony with so many species and such would be just hell to keep in check in any real application. I don't like forcing direction so an over arcing goal is fine by me as long as we aren't hellbent on getting to it asap. The rp can be like "hey let's go to section 4 to get that one guy but also we have X, Y, and Z ways of getting there." and just winging it from place to place while trying to get there. Really I'm cool for anything as long as we're all having fun. A bit of a serious character could likely keep us all focused (again Richard was designed to be just the kind of guy to do so) or we could just explore the world around us. You want a rebellion? Sure we can do that. Want to topple a crime ring? Sounds fun to me. Stuff like that y'know.

And honestly the fact you're dedicated to 4 or 5 rp's does very little to deter me since as far as im concerned that just shows you are committed to something when you say you're interested. In the end I'm just waiting for someone to establish a second character before I start framing a first story post. I could just jump into it with one long ass post, but I don't want to leave my main character or someone like Richard in a place you can't interact with them, and it really sucks when your partners don't have an in cause they'll end up walking around for awhile and they get bored and bleh no fun for anyone and I just don't want to leave any of you in a situation like that.

If you want to pm me any rapid fire questions when making a sheet feel free, I'm really excited for this and so I've been thinking about all sorts of elements I can add into this for us to explore from groups, to life styles, to more species of aliens. I could really use a suggestion for how I should design this codex of species using the forum and where I should put it ^^"> I promise I'm learning fast I already figured out how to make lists and use colors.

Third Colony: Arcadia (A Sci-fi life exploration rp)

So without further ado allow me to introduce a total of 4 total characters, 1 main character and 3 support/secondary characters I have lined up for me to use

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Samuel (Leo) Bevin
Human Male
Age 23
Description: Caucasian, Grey eyes, light brown hair, roughly 138 pounds and 5'10" tall. He wears a simple brown cloth shirt and black
cargo pants with finger-less leather gloves (really basic poor scifi guy description I know T - T )

Though he fancies himself more of the dashing rogue type he is little more than your average petty thief stealing scraps of food and collecting pieces of tech he finds wherever he goes to bring home to his younger brother Conner who makes new machines out of junked bots.
Both he and his brother would have starved if not for a local xenopleasure club keeper, an alien man named Bogav that keeps an eye out for them even though Samuel personally disapproves of his business and refuses his help directly. He knows the street slums better than most people and isn't easily taken aback by the alien forms around him that he see's on a daily basis, and because of this environment he's come to call his average life he's very accepting of new friends that may not exactly be like him. His skills in acrobatics and cardio made him a prime candidate for the LCA (Law Crops Academy) but refused an offer to join due to the poor living conditions the law provides for the common alien folk that live on street level that he grew up with, though his childhood best friend Richard Morris gladly took his opportunity to leave the slum city and join the higher class which at first resulted in a rift but was soon mended with their bond after his graduation. The only thing close to any romantic relationship he may have is with one of the workers aforementioned club that developed a more mate like attraction to him after he showed her kindness since she is considered relatively ugly for one of her species, though these feelings are not shared due to his distaste of her profession and her casual feelings about procreation, the tongue thing never helped things in her favor either. (More on her later though)

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Conner Bevin (Support Character)
Human Male
Age 14
Description: Caucasian, Light Blue Eyes, Sandy Blonde hair, Roughly 118 pounds and 5'4". He typically wears a white cloth shirt and a
brown pair of shorts with no shoes dirtied with black grease.

Conner is the younger brother to Samuel and is a proudly proclaimed Junker, someone who takes worn out and discarded tech and makeshifts it into new exciting trinkets. His proudest achievement is a primitive humanoid robot he had found and refurbished called T-0457 who serves as his assistant and household companion, though it wasn't until later that he and Samuel realized that Conner had used the program module for an advanced AI based household toaster. Regardless of how odd his machines may come out sometimes he takes great pride in every one and they all have their uses. Rarely will he leave the little rundown garage building that he and his brother call a home, and though his brother would disapprove if he knew the power generator, food, and much of their clean laundry comes from the charity of the old family friend Bogav the xenopleasure club owner, who always treated them kindly after their father had died. It's by Bogav's doing in fact that their little home even has plumbing and decent stocks of food, but as far as his brother knows that comes from the money Conner makes selling his inventions. Overall Conner is a chipper and optimistic young boy that will gladly welcome people into their home any day, and despite their living conditions is a rather normal innocent teen boy focused mostly on his inventing.
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Richard Morris (Supporting Character)
Human Male
Age 24
Description: Dark Skin tone, brown eyes, black hair (shaved in accordance to LC regulations) roughly 200 pounds muscular and 5'9".
Often he wears his issued uniform while on duty, but in his casual clothes he has a wide variety of options due to his
income and may change based on the circumstances. He often carries his standard issue high density plasma gun at all times in case he has to act off the job.

Richard Morris grew up on the street just like Samuel, but unlike his best friend he eagerly took the oppurtunity to move up his social status when given the chance to go to the Academy. Now he serves the Colony as an officer of the law living in the mid wealth section of the city he grew up in, and upon request has been stationed as the residential officer of the sector he grew up in.
During his time at the Academy he performed at the top of his class eager to prove his capabilities and value to the Law Corps, which paid of in spades as he was given the ranking of Corporal upon graduation. He is very proud of his position, but tries his hardest to help reduce the crime in the area to make things better for the people there rather than embracing the conditions like Samuel has. Rarely does he resort to violence opting instead to try to solve issues without firing a shot but when he must he can boast an 80% accuracy record with several of the corps' standard issued arms. He often visits Conner and Samuel when he gets the chance but often chastises Samuel for his habits of stealing. Other than his two friends that he considers family, he has very few other relationships though rumor has it he has a interest in one of his superiors. -coughcough-

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Mennia'Dua Secondary Character
Deep Sea Aquarial Female (Woot First Alien)
Biological Age: 26
Description (Oh boy): As an Aquarial Mennia has scales on her back of vibrant purple and blue colors, light pink skin on her face,
chest, stomach, and inner thighs with light silver eyes on black sclera. Her body is rather humanoid though notably her chest where normally a human woman's breasts would be instead are hard bone like plates under her flesh with no mammary applications, two large slits on her stomach that connect to her gill like organ that allows her to breath under the water, webbing on her 4 fingered hands, a thin long and flexible worm like tongue used for grabbing fish while swimming and a long thin tail sprouting at her mid back and flowing down past her feat with soft pink skin on the inner sections where she may catch it in her legs to use as a propellant in the water. As a deep sea Aquarial her eyes can reflect light like a cat to attract prey, though this isn't very applicable in the colony, with pointed teeth that can be retracted almost entirely into her gums until needed to tear meat. She often doesn't show her feet though they are fin like with no toes though they fit comfortably in shoes as all the extended webbing on her body to assist in swimming are without nerves and can easily be tucked away. On her arms there are two small cartilage fins for steering at high speeds while swimming, and in place of hair spines with fins make hair like extensions. Her weight is rather low for an Aquarial at only 180 pounds and measuring at a short 5'11" for her people. She wears soft material short shorts, roomy boots, and though she sees no point in it since she has no reason to cover herself there a easy fit bathing suit top, her clothing often chafes against her skin which is sensitive where her scales are not covering, and so she tries to wear as little as she can while on the job. She is often slimy when wet, due to her people's need to re-hydrate their bodies every 10 or so hours, and because of this condition she needs to sleep in an aquarium like pool for a bed. (I think I generally covered her detailed description let me know if you need more to picture her properly)

Mennia is a cheerful creature, working hard for her boss who took her in and gave her a place to live in comfort with many of his other employees. She works in Bogav's club, but rarely takes any customers due to her "ugly" appearance among her race that are very intolerant of Deepsea variant Aquarials and their darker less appealing appearances. She was so overjoyed when praised as beautiful by Samuel and even though cross breeding is impossible between humans and Aquarials she eagerly refers to him as her primary mate, even though he never returned the sentiment and nothing happened to make this statement true. Her knowledge of Xenobiology is rather impressive for a citizen of the colony, and makes her rather useful as an information source when Samuel needs information for Richard. Her species is carnivorous which leads her to dislike most foods that are cooked with vegetables. Her species' vocal cords often force her to make chirpy sounds when excited and makes it hard to pronounce hard A sounds, often mispronouncing it with a soft E instead. Her biology is rather odd to humans, as her body is mesothermic and has the capability to breath on land as easily as in the water. She lays frog like eggs once every two weeks fertilized or not similar to that of a bird, but this doesn't affect her bodily functions like a similar cycle would in human females. These factors makes it hard to classify Aquarials in any particular species, but it's generally agreed upon that they are Amphibians. Not fish. She will be very upset if you call her a fish. Due to ancient survival instincts from a time long past in the species' evolutionary chain, she is very afraid of dogs (not cats) for some reason, akin to how humans are afraid of snakes or spiders. The non scaled areas of her skin, as well as areas such as her mouth, ear sensors, and other areas of soft tissue, have a high nerve density likely to sense currents in water and properly feel the prey they catch to make sure it isn't something they can't eat such as trash. Her relationship with Samuel is a very friendly one since they've known eachother for so long even though her feelings are not returned, and she even has a elder sister like relationship with his brother Conner who loves to ask her all sorts of questions about the aliens she meets. Sometimes she'll bring them sushi from a local restaurant she loves though they aren't as keen as she is on freshly chopped raw eel. She likes Bogav since he is a kind man and tries his hardest to provide a welcome environment for those that work under him, and shares his view that his business is a perfectly acceptable one to run especially in a place like the colony. Overall, she is a kind young girl that loves her friends and is eager to speak with new people, open minded to many things that most humans would consider odd even among people as open minded as Samuel since she herself is not quite the norm either.

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So far these are my 4 characters, I'm kinda worn out from a day of learning about biology and applying that knowledge to making a realistic yet beautiful aquatic based alien species so forgive my lack of alien cast. I'll work on a proper rules chart and learning to use the hiders and whatnot to hide these characters properly.

You know on further thought I mentioned him so many times in my other character's history I get the feeling I should make a CS for Bogav sooooo

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Bogav
Podrid Male
Biological age: 48 Actual Age: 60
Description: Rust colored leathery skin, large yellow frog like eyes, 400 pounds 4'10" tall. His species is short and leathery with
plate like layers on his arms and head laying one atop the other. His body's frame is rather square with his
arms reaching down towards his stubby legs below a blubbery belly. His species has two light purple tongues and
very short small jagged teeth like that of most lizards you would find on our word. His nose is simply two
small holes on his face above his mouth, and his ears are located under two large circles on his neck. The neck
his species is very stubby and short making it hard for him to turn his head very far. His clothes are mostly
simple and practical, large shirts and shorts that fit him like pants would on species with longer legs.

Bogav is a kind man that runs a alien pleasure club in the city, though he uses this business primarily as a means to keep his employees off the streets and providing them a means to stay safe, fed, and well treated instead of letting them do the same profession in some of the other places out in the colony that would mistreat aliens. He isn't particularly proud of the service his club provides,
but as the conditions of the city demand the people will do what they have to to stay clothed and fed. Where there's money to be had in a job there is no shame in earning it. That being said the club used to be normal restaurant that he was forced to turn slowly into what it is now just to make ends meet, but once he made the change his earned more than his keep. During the time before the club he was close friends with two higher up officers in the Law Corp, and it was because of their activism to improve the living conditions in the lower cities, as well as no small amount of financial aid from them, that he even had the opportunity to attempt his restaurant. These people changed his life, and when they were thrown out of the corp due to higher ups distaste of their vocalizations about the mistreatment of authority the lower factions of the corp were applying, he was quick to offer them aid as they had offered help to him. Unfortunately they lost their lives to sickness, and left behind two children that he pledged to look after in their stead. Even when they refused to leave their run down home, he was not deterred from his duty and made arrangements to improve their home to the best he could until one of the children, Samuel, openly rejected his charity. He respected the boy's wishes to make it on their own, admiring his determination, but secretly stocks their fridge and pays their bills. Bogav is still a close figure for these two considered to be the closest thing the boys have to family, even if Samuel openly disapproves of his business, and he takes a very tough guy attitude when talking with them but loves them very much. This disapproval hurts him a bit, but he would never admit it to him, and he hopes one day he would understand that people do what they must to survive.
At the club, called Bogav's Place, he is a kind and understanding boss that will gladly throw out anyone that mistreats his employees with enough force to send them across the street. Each employee gets their own personal room, which is surprisingly in expensive since the city was built in a manner that could house billions, and for his own he takes a small square closet space not much larger than the bed he sleeps on. He takes pride in his cooking and will feed any of his employees without even docking their pay. His species is incredibly strong and must eat quite a large amount daily, and because of his ease to become hungry he worries that others in his employment may go hungry too. He's particularly fond of gambling, sports, and television often watching it when he isn't needed elsewhere. His voice is gruff and deep, which often makes him sound angry to anyone that isn't familiar with him.

Third Colony: Arcadia (A Sci-fi life exploration rp)

Oh I see, I'll do that now for the other person, @caliban22. Thanks for the tip, and thanks for coming I'm looking forward to it too! Take your time on the CS and feel free to make anything more later whenever you feel like it.

Third Colony: Arcadia (A Sci-fi life exploration rp)

The Xenobook, Alien Catalog

Aquarials

My Hider

Aquarials are a amphibious humanoid race from a planet that's covered 90% in water and home to a large number of aquatic based species that live in coral reefs or cave systems. To adapt to this environment the Aquarial race comes in 3 primary variants including a few off shoots, these primary three being the Paradise Aquarial, the Mudfish Aquarial also sometimes referred to as the river Aquarial, and the Deep Sea Aquarial. All three have the defining traits of strong core muscle strength for incredible control of their ability to swim, large sections of nerve endings in their bodies to assist in sensing changes in water, triangular pointed teeth that can be retracted into their gums when not in use, black sclera in their eyes with varying hues of irises, two large slits on their stomachs that serve as gills, tails that sprout from their back though it should be noted that where and the type of tail varies between the three primary species, webbed hands with only four fingers missing their ring fingers, small tympanum ear canals on the sides of their heads, long thin tongues for coiling around fish at high speeds, and appendages that sprout from their forehead and hang down that sense air flow or water current. Their skin is very sensitive where not scaled, and these areas may include their back under their tails, their inner thighs, stomachs, chests, inner neck, face, under arms, back of the arms, most of the hands, and bottom of their feet. (if you have trouble picturing that just imagine where your body hair would typically grow with a few differences) All Aquarials have a tendency to be slimy when wet due to their need to stay moist to a certain extent to avoid drying out their fins. Though the paradise variant is the only variant that needs to do so desperately to avoid cracking their long elegant and delicate fins.
Their bodily structure is rather humanoid with similar body shapes and reproductive organ structures, though their inner structure is vastly different with two large bone-y plates where we would normally have our rib cage, smaller digestive tracts that process much faster, and two breathing organs capable of processing oxygen from water and air depending on what environment they currently are on, but to accommodate the room for these organs their lung capacity is smaller than the average human's resulting in shorter breaths. Male and females aren't too different in this species similarly to how male and females in human biology aren't too different from each other in terms of drastic changes except for the obvious reproductive changes, though females do tend to be thinner and more vibrantly colored than males likely due to their rapid fat burning to provide for a constant forming of frog like eggs they use for reproduction. The female Aquarial lays her eggs once every two weeks whether they are fertilized or not, but their birthing process is far less painful on them since these eggs are only a few centimeters large and rather soft. Due to the speed they can reproduce and the danger of their enviroments on their home planet Aquarial parents are not present for their child's growth and development relying instead on heavily ingrained instincts to get them through their first year or so of infancy, though at the age of 3 or so they are usually adopted by older couples that teach them more about Aquarial society. This kind of parental detachment in the mating process and the parental stage lead to a very different attitude in Aquarial society about relationships, making loyalty between lovers a very special bond for them.
The Paradise Aquarial is a tropical based variant with much more thin and flowing fins that focus less on swimming but rather more on disrupting water currents. These are considered the prettier of the three primary variants as they often look rather elegant and flashy than the others. Their tails aren't bone based like the others and instead sprout from their lower back and trail behind them similar to a robe, with similarly textured fins from their heads and forearms. These Auarials are popular in pop culture due to their smoother skin areas and soft tropical colors. Royal purple is a rather uncommon color for their scales but when it appears many Aquarials find it to be gorgeous similar to how much of human society thinks blonde is a beautiful hair color, but always their scales transition between similar hues as their scales travel down their bodies. Examples of colors that transition this way could be ooo, ooo, ooo, or even ooo and many many more. These Aquarials prefer warmer temperatures, and hate to dive below 200 meters though they could go deeper.
Deep Sea Aquarials are just as they sound, a deep sea variant that thrives in environments below 200 meters in sea depth. Due to the low light of their ecosystems they have evolved to have reflective portions of their eyes similar to cats that allow them to have low light vision. They aren't abyssal dwelling creatures so they can't see in pitch black or stand high pressures for extended periods. Their scales usually only come in one or two shades of color and they're typically darker hues of blue or purple such as o and o. Their tails sprout from their upper backs right below the shoulder blades, are bone structure based and supported by small amounts of muscle between flexible cartilage allowing it to move flexibly from side to side, but not very well at all up or down, resulting in many DS Aquarials preferring to keep them coiled around one of their legs until needed. Their tails are thin and have crevices where their thighs can lay to make one large tail like propellant, keeping all their more sensitive skinned areas of their thighs and tail hidden from the water at high speeds. Their head fins have more spines than most Aquarials and this is to serve as a sort of steering device when swimming, though these spines are often flexible enough to keep the hair like illusion these fins have. Due to their high pressured life style, DS Aquarials tend to have higher density bone structures, making them incredibly heavy compared to their fellow variants.
Mudfish or River Aquarials are rather unique, the lowest water level dwelling variant as well as the most differentiated of the three. These Aquarials typically only come in shades of brown and grey, and have very fine scales that are softer to the touch similar to silk. Due to this drastic change of appearance, many people don't often even notice they have scales let alone have the ability to differentiate where their skin ends and their scales begin. Out of the three, these Aquarials are more inclined to stay on land longer than the others and don't have to get back into the water as often, and because of this their lungs are at least 20% larger than the other variants. Like their name suggests, these Aquarials prefer river ecosystems and fresh water than saltwater, in fact they can hardly stand salt water. They like muddy waters and will often cover themselves in watery mud to maintain body heat in colder weather that affects their water temperature. They cannot dive deeper than 100 meters or they will suffer very painful migraines and hairline fractures in their bones past 200 meters. If they travel deeper than 250 meters the pressure WILL kill them. However to make up for this they are known to have tremendously good reflexes, the ability to stay very very still for long periods of time, and a very minimal camouflaging ability, allowing them to become masters of blending in. Their tails are actual wide rather than long and sprout from their lower back, some speculate that it could be for kicking up mud to escape danger, some suggest it's to help regulate body temperature through sun bathing. Mudfish Aquarials have a tendency to be smaller than their sibling variants, and breed in smaller numbers since they have less predatory competition. It should be noted that they tend to stay slimier for longer than their sibling variants.

Misc notes

It's hard to classify where Aquarials fit in the scope of biological genus since they have characteristics of both amphibians and fish, but it's generally agreed upon that they are amphibian in nature, and many take offense to being called fish even considering a sort of slur at times. They all tend to love raw fish, though each variant has it's preferences. Many Aquarials have trouble keeping their vocal cords from making a purring like noise when exited or happy, though by some higher class members of the race this is considered as primitive and embarrassing to be unable to control it. Naturally they have different reactions to certain substances that could typically be considered safe to humans or dangerous to humans. Their bodies have high amounts of neon that make their inner bodies a vibrant blue, pink, or orange color. Many Aquarials prefer not to wear clothes at all since it chafes against their scales, but due to societal standards they try to keep their bodes covered to some extent, females even going as far to cover their chests even though they don't serve the same purpose as human mammary glands, even going as far to call it odd. However they almost never have the tolerance to wear confining clothes that cover large amounts of their bodies like tight jeans or sweaters, and absolutely avoiding covering their gills as it's highly uncomfortable. Their tails also get in the way of fashion, so with Aquarials the less they wear the more comfortable they'll be as long as it's not too cold out. Their moist nature makes cold weather absolute hell for them, and they will occasionally bring out plastic heating coats in case of emergencies like snow or someone turning the air conditioning on too low.

Humans

My Hider

Humans are the base understanding of biology for the founders of the Colony to base their research on, and are where the term humanoid come from. Founding the Colony project, they maintain a large portion of governmental regulations and orginizations. They tend to be fleshy, light weight creatures that have long thin coarse like fur called hair all over their bodies. They tend to raise their young from birth, and live for on average of 80 years or so. They come in many different pigmentation from a dark brown transitioning all the way up to a pale peach color. Not much to really say about them otherwise, but don't let them fool you, they can be cunning, resourceful, and fast if you give them the chance.

Podrid

My Hider

The Podrid are short, leathery, and heavy little creatures. With terrible terrible attitudes. Their arms run the length of their whole body length, with thin fine patches of fur covering their forearms and hands. They use their arms as a sort of secondary support for their heavy weight that their legs often have trouble stabilizing. Their arms can pack quite a punch, so it's not recommended you make them angry. Their strength comes from an ecosystem that they had to adapt to lifting large rocks and shaking trees to get their meals, which was imperative to survival since they have to brace against a constant winter on their home planet with very short periods of spring and summer at a time. Their bodies hoard blubbery like deposits of fat to help keep them warm, but this has become a hindrance to them since coming to the Colony due to their more stable living conditions and lack of need to burn this fat to stay warm, making them quick to gain vast amounts of weight and slow to lose it. This leads to them getting incredibly hot very quickly as well, causing them to sweat and secrete a foul salty odor.
Their heads are made up of a large mouth, almost unnoticeable nose holes, large frog like ears on the sides of their necks, two large yellow eyes, two purple tongues surrounded by small lizard like teeth, and thick chitin plating on top of their heads that can only be speculated are use to ram predators. Their necks are short, making it hard to turn their heads when needed, and giving them a even stumpier appearance. Sleep is not very important for these creatures, only needing about 5 hours to function properly. Reproduction works very similarly to mammals we're familiar with, with their females carrying their children for 18 months rather than 9 so they can grow the fat needed to endure the weather. Otherwise, it works much the same way for them. Many people in the colony see these aliens as vulgar and disgusting, which lead to a wide spread distaste for them across the colony, but the truth is they're a kind food loving race that only grows truly bitter when treated poorly for long periods. The Colony's prejudice has killed their once vibrant sense of racial community, and they strive only to look after their own families now.

(*Bogav is a general exception to this, while there are a few out there still like him he is generally alone in his race as far as kind nature goes. Keep this in mind when approaching a Podrid.)

Third Colony: Arcadia (A sci-fi city life exploration rp)

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Here's the OOC Forum link for those interested. I kinda posted my characters in the OOC not realizing there was another forum for it soooo I'll transfer it later lol Thanks for the responses guys! All newcomers are welcome too!

Third Colony: Arcadia (A Sci-fi life exploration rp)

As mentioned in the interest check the Third Colony: Arcadia is a massive spherical space station placed in orbit around a gas giant far from the reaches of the solar system we came from, home to millions of people of earth and alien origin alike though times of these home planets have long been forgotten. Divided into about 8 sections containing their own ecosystems and cities to allow for healthy living within the protective shell of the station, all food, drinkable water, plant life, etc is maintained through controlled rotating weather conditions by the acting government of the station. For the most part starting out this will be a standard casual exploration rp of life in this scenario allowing for full creativity in alien creation and environmental interaction.

We can discuss and make any background information as we go if you run into anything you need to have some wider explanation on such as an organization or such. I am new to the guild site and I'm still trying to figure out the formatting but eventually I will make a list of hiders for player controlled characters, any rules we would have for newer players, and the general established species list as we go. This in mind please do be patient with me here in the OOC forum since I have no honest clue what the etiquette is on the forum for a rp dm and I'm hoping to let this rp be my kind of foot in the door comforting rp. (^ ^")>

Really I only ask you apply your characters as a formality and the rules I ask you follow are limited to:

*Don't control how other people's characters would react to your actions
*Don't give your characters abilities that other members of their species couldn't also perform unless they are variant specific
*If you want to have an 18+ interaction do it in private chats though I'm sure you're more than allowed to reference it subtly
*You can have as many characters as you can handle but please keep it Original content only, though referencing other preexisting aliens I guess wouldn't be that big a deal
*Don't fight in the OOC, we're all friends here
*Basically anything you want to do is ok with me, 18+ with anyone you want that consents, steal stuff, start fights, explore the enviroment, and take oppurtunities to interact with people to your heart's content. No fun in an open world rp like this when you only tunnel on one enviroment am I right?
*Just have fun, no need to be too serious on others
*If you want an alien creation try to cover as much of their abilities and limitations so we don't get too surprised later on in the story. Thanks!

Thanks for joining me! I hope this rp gets to last.

*ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT THE WORLD CAN BE DISCUSSED AND AGREED UPON TOGETHER DON'T HESITATE TO ASK*

Third Colony: Arcadia (A sci-fi city life exploration rp)

Excellent now we just need like 1-2 more people and we can get it going lol

Third Colony: Arcadia (A sci-fi city life exploration rp)

In a future farther to us than we can imagine, beyond the reaches of our solar system, and disconnected from the past that built it, there is a metal spherical satellite orbiting a gas giant. A feat of human engineering, the third of it's kind, the space colony of Arcadia. Within it's protective metal shell is a whole new world spanning hundreds of miles in any direction filled with aliens and humans alike. Politics and laws of it's very own, social classes of the rich and the poor, people living their lives like anywhere else you would see. The colony is divided into 8 sections, each with it's own massive city and degrees of living. Find anything from high class parties where the people bump elbows with the rich and powerful, to the lowly streets where the artificial rain pours on the neon lit city streets where the bread is days old.

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I always wanted to do an rp like this where imagination is just open for everyone to do something they wanted to have fun with. I'm rather new to the site so I figured a classic for fun creative rp would probably be best suited for me until I get used to doing it again, I still have no idea how to use the formatting cheat sheet so I imagine I'm rather green. Upon request I could write a long story pitch to give out a concept of what this would look like in application and already had an idea for one in my head but didn't want to throw out too many names of characters that may be expected to show up before I got to hammer them out more. For now what I'm looking for in partners for this is open mindedness to concepts of what goes on in a city and people who would enjoy an rp with no particular goal at first. I don't want to tell people they can't go to a space brothel or get upset if they see a homeless alien somewhere in the rp.

We could all come together and design aliens together and give a set alien list of say 10 species that inhabit the colony or we could all agree on literally hundreds of species of whatever we feel like making up at the time trying to challenge each other to more make crazier and crazier things as we go. Either way, I like dystopian environments and realism in my sci-fi where the reality that this concept would definitely be easier said than done applies and there would be no way law and order would hold and iron tight grip on a place like this. I don't know if anyone would want me to make up a history for the colony either but again I could upon request. I don't want to make pages a post but I don't care for one liners with no character actions either so casual is the perfect place for this to go. That pretty much sums this up so, let me know.

My name is Spirit, a pleasure to meet you all.

Hello Everyone!

I have plenty of usernames but most recently people have become fond of calling me Spirit. I haven't rp'd on a forum in quite some time, but I love to do it! I have always enjoyed putting myself in the mindset of my characters and reacting in ways they would in the situations given, and I consider rp'ing to be a great writing exercise to develop your writing style. I haven't had many dedicated rp partners in awhile so I may be a bit rustier than I think I am, but I hope that I can make a good amount of friends here on this forum. I would have introduced myself sooner but you see I am rather shy and it took me a bit of working up to take the initiative to explore the forum more.

My preferences are pretty broad as long as my partner/partners are just as interested as I am and I find myself rather dedicated to topics when they are, anything from fantasy, to basic high school rps, to lewd stuff (privately as per the rules naturally), to horror, sci-fi, you name it there's really not much I don't enjoy as long as characters are compelling. Rarely will I carry over characters between rp's though I do have a few that I love enough that I'm eager to play them wherever I can play them to their fullest. I don't specifically play any one kind of character since I like to experiment with character traits and develop stories but like I said before I play them as they would properly react, developing them along with the story as we go to react organically. I like to think that characters I make don't come out one dimensional unless intentional, and I don't particularly care for characters that avoid logical progression for the sake of preferential story development or to make them look untouchable or cool. A good amount of conversing in a chat room or a contextual non-rp thread linked to an rp to discuss over arcing plot development is something I encourage to keep an rp alive.

It always breaks my heart to have an rp break down over the course of a month or so without clear resolution so I hope to make plenty of friends here on this site to gain a tight knit group that will follow through on a story to the end. Also im not a good artist so I usually just google a picture to give a visual aid when deemed necessary so I hope nobody minds that. I think that kinda sums it up... Open to mostly all kinds of rp's... I love playing Oc's... Will play male or female characters... Want rp friends... Haven't done this in awhile... hmmmm....

Nope that's basically all I can think of right now. Soooooooo...

Yeah I'm Spirit, a pleasure to meet you all I look forward to growing as a writer and having fun with you all!