If they cared about children they'd reform our horribly abusive foster care system. Create a more robust shelter network for homeless kids. Fund after-school programs. ADOPT. Nope. Not a fucking cent.
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Taking their "protecting the unborn" rhetoric at face value is being too generous. It was never about advocating for children, but about controlling women.
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Baby's first fetish, I take it? 🥰 They grow up so fast
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Petition for Krasnaya and Kaithe Dame to start roleplaying with each other 👇
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The more statuses you need to write about how unbothered you are, the more obvious it is that you're bothered lol
I can't believe you people. A master speaks and you dare interrupt him? Travesty. Nay, worse——blasphemy! What else——if the heavenly choir shouldst grace thine ears wouldst thou plug them? If thou wert gifted the Lance, the Shroud, and the Holy Nails wouldst thou cast them aside to be trampled? Hath not a Jew eyes, doth not a Jew bleed?
Despicable. @Chronic is a prophet and a saint and where He goes I, for one, mean to follow; so as where He speaks, I will listen.
Hi! Aspiring ghostwriter here. Since I assume this position pays in experience rather than the industry-standard by-the-word legal tender, the only thing I'd need to get started helping with this post is to have a few questions answered. (Don't worry about the too much free time to have anything better to do, or the too little self-worth to expect recognition and/or compensation for my work; I've already brought those!)
1. I feel like an opening post from the POV of the Evil Organization could be interesting, kinda like how the Deus Ex games like to start with ominous Bob Page cinematics. Foreshadowing and all that. But I'm struggling to understand what sense they saw in nuking the entire planet? Could you go into their reasons for doing this a little bit?
2. Actually, sorry, I should have started from the beginning......how did the Evil Organization "take the worlds nuclear weapons[sic]" in the first place? I didn't realize world governments liked to leave those things laying around for anyone to take in this setting. (Such interesting worldbuilding so far; kudos!!)
3. The radiation seems to be a very important plot device in this story. But I cannot quite wrap my head around why everybody wanted to shelter underground and hide from it. After all, instead of melting people's DNA sequences at the submolecular level and causing them to suffer horrific burns, lesions, desquamation, and other unspeakably agonizing afflictions, it gives them kickass superpowers! If radiation gave people wings and laser vision I know I wouldn't want to hide in some underground vault somewhere; I'd slather on the sunscreen and say, "Load me up, baby!!"
4. Also, did the Evil Organization know radiation is cool as fuck and liable to give kickass superpowers to spunky teenagers, or was that an unintended consequence? (A potential setup for some moral ambiguity in our story's villains?? Me likey!)
5. But back to our intrepid heroes, and as for perhaps the most important question driving the entire story: if the world is already destroyed and the Evil Organization has already succeeded in nuking it, then what's the point in journeying out to "stop" them in the first place? How does one "stop" an apocalypse which has already happened?
By all means please take your time in answering these questions, but know also that the sooner you answer them is the sooner I can get started writing your roleplay for you, and considering how action-packed and exciting the story sounds, I truly cannot wait!!!
The Laachtalian army needs officers, and only the sharpest, the boldest, the most capable may graduate through those gates and into the venerable ranks. For over a hundred years have they stood, attracting young warriors from heartland and hinterland alike to test their mettle, destroy the Prince-Electors' enemies, and bring glory unto their houses. Girl or man, noble or common, the Academy obliges all who can pay its steep tuition; admitting them like raw iron, separating the steel from the dross, and forging them for greatness who survive its many tests and rigors. Or so it goes.
Hloþhilde de Guillarmes, daughter of an impoverished and ambitious earl, knows the truth: ‘tis her elder sister, heir-apparent to the county of Rodon, who will taste all the adoration and praise she has so deeply coveted since girlhood. She has been discarded, never to inherit, never to bring her father the pride and renown he so craves. That is, until discontent begins to brew along the southern marches, and war becomes not merely an empty slogan but an inevitability...
Hloþhilde and 49 other secondborn from across Laachtalia will never be earls—nor dukes, nor princes. But to be anybody at all, they will not only have to impress their ruthlessly demanding teachers but likewise navigate the delicate and dangerous ecosystem of the Kriegsschulen. Because once caught somewhere between insults, honor, expectations, and the razor-sharp smallswords carried at all times by every student in uniform, a single mistake could mean far worse than just expulsion...
Welcome to Honorguard, an interest check about unlikely camaraderie, bitter rivalries, high-stakes duels, and great expectations! My name is TokyoPewPew and I love all things historical, dramatic, and romantic. All of which are present and accounted for in this game.
The setting: a war academy, widely considered the best of its kind—feeding dozens of fresh, fine lieutenants per year into the war machine of the Laachtalian Empire, a Franco-Germanic styled entity in its final, waning years, given to decadence, corruption, and infighting. (Think a little late-period Holy Roman, a little Prussian, with a heavy dose of Victorian medievalism.) Even though I tagged this game as historical fiction, that mainly describes the vibes and atmosphere I'm aiming for; in actuality this game takes place in a Secondary World, albeit one broadly mimicking a real-world Germanic nation in the first half of the 19th Century (muskets and sabers and cannon). 100% fictitious though. So no research necessary to inquire, and no need to worry about anachronism or "inaccuracies." While I have, true to my nature, prepared lore for this rp, I encourage your ideas and your passion to emerge during play as well.
Heavily inspired by the practice of Mensur (academic fencing), Ridley Scott's The Duellists, and the troubled and Byronic figures of various Brontë novels, the school in question, and the society wherefrom it arises, place massive importance on personal dignity, courage, and strengthening through adversity. However, the real Mensur is/was heavily ritualized, more so for demonstrating personal valor than resolving disputes. I thought it far more interesting for the bouts fought at this school to instead be proper duels: quick, vicious, and sometimes, depending on the severity of the insult, deadly.
As for what I want from your character: a wealthy child, probably, but not necessarily, aristocratic in origins; 16 to 20 years old (the typical Prussian military education, post-Frederick the Great, lasted for three years), and either male or female, of either or any "preference"; someone with deeply personal reasons to graduate into the junior staff of the Imperial Army. Which could be anything from proving him/herself, escaping the duties which await him/her back home, finding love, advancing some scheme or plot on his/her family's behest......maybe even exacting vengeance. After all, the grounds of this elite academy will quickly prove themselves rife with longstanding desires and grudges, hierarchies and intrigues.
A quick word about me as a roleplayer: I'm 30 years old, and have been doing this hobby for at least, by my reckoning, 18 years (even if I didn't know at the time what it's called). In real life I am both very married and very content with that, so I'm not here to fantasize about our characters, or pursue an online or IRL relationship, or in any way get my rocks off. Sorry. I can maybe depict graphic sexuality if I feel like its thematic or literary merits justify a scene?.....but considering this game is gonna star barely-legal young adults/teenagers, maybe we shouldn't. Romance is super welcome though.
Anyway, I'm a native English speaker who makes few grammatical/spelling mistakes; an Advanced to Novella-level writer, both in style and in post length; ghost and hiatus-friendly (though preference will be given to people with strong communication skills, ie. people who seem like they'll let me know what's going on in their lives so I'm not waiting around for a post which never comes); and on the whole, eager to find someone who wants to play around with some juicy gothic, dark academic, Wagnerian/Byronic melodrama vibes!
Oh, and by the way: if you speak German in real life, I am so sorry. 😭
But! If you're a High Casual to Advanced-level roleplayer, and this check did anything to pique your interest or inspire your creativity, then here I am, on the edge of my seat, looking forward to hearing from you!
I will field any questions or general engagement posted in this thread; but to actually attempt to set up a game with me, please send a PM. :)
Hellooooo. What were you thinking for a setting here? Earth or a secondary world? Modern or historical (or strictly fantasy)?
Cool premise
EDIT: Also, how taboo is homosexuality going to be in this setting? Would they already have gotten in trouble well before the racial dynamic? More of an egalitarian setting or (sadly) a realistic one?
@Zeroth The intensity with which you're defending stolen goods says more about you than about the thief at this point. I will hope it's because you're ashamed of having been fooled, and are doubling down in embarrassment instead of admitting your mistake, the way cultists and MLM victims so often do. Good luck to this thread, a pox on all its houses, and may its IC tab die on page 2.
@Zeroth "If you don't like it just go somewhere else" is the same trash logic that corporations use to pay you less than you're worth, and that roommates/guardians/partners use to abuse you in your own home. And apparently, that writers use to defend plagiarists. I'm not buying it. Sorry, not sorry.
Vlad owes @Kiragan_Natsuki a PUBLIC apology which involves IMMEDIATELY editing out their work from his rp and replacing it with his own original character sheet. And although it's better shown than told, it should also include a resolution never to do this again, especially not doing this to a two-year-old thread in the assumption that no one would notice. If he doesn't, then everything he produces for a thread from here on out is suspect, and he is still a plagiarist even if he stops stealing from this moment. Because he's still benefiting from something someone else wrote.
You wouldn't buy from a shop that peddles fenced goods, so why should a game which fences ideas be any different? Because it's "just a hobby, that means integrity doesn't matter, teehee"? Bullshit.
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