Rules of the Damned

[lokisma]

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[Lloyd999]

Ah, I usually address my presence in the OOC before making a character. Well, hello y'all. Kinda glad this RP has started now, but I have a couple questions, along with things I'm a little uneasy with.

Well, first would be the obvious. What exactly is going to happen in this RP? It's set up with the intention of being either an free-exploration or an adventure RP, but really, none of us other than you really know what this world is about. We can't be as clueless as our characters, so we need to be able to know what we're writing about. Basically, I really want to know what exactly the plot is, for it doesn't seem like you've written one, and also, we need more details about this place. In an adventure RP, we need to know exactly what the plot is and what the goals of the protagonists are and at least hints about the obstacles to come. A free-roamer should at least tell us of obstacles to come and possibly something that would effect character interaction, and possibly give every character different goals so that they want to wander at a different direction, to the point where eventually the remaining protagonists have the same goal. You can either describe the world or say that it is endlessly possible. And then there's sandbox RPs, where a descripted setting is given and occasionally a beginning plot, but beyond that, the story is shifted only by the characters, where the uniqueness, backstories and goals shift the entire RP through interaction, unlike adventure where the RP moves along a plot and it's obstacles, and I guess free-roamer is a mix of the two.

The only type of RP I could imagine giving the amount of information you did would have to be a darker and more ambiguous free-roamer, where neither the characters nor writers have any clue what lies ahead of them, where as it moves on, hope only seems to fade for the lost and clueless characters, where the plot rides mostly on a character's emotions, and most of the characters would have been innocent ones or never felt pain before and had never had regrets or bad karma, nor any emotional preperation for what would happen to them. The setting is often endlessly possible with restrictions and emphasis on what harm could come to you, or it's just a description of hell, and is usually in a fantasy land, such as a dream/nightmare, such as in this RP. There's always a fifty-fifty chance the characters survive and make it out, the other possible outcome being the characters will die, succumb to their sins, face eternal torment or become forever transformed, commit suicide or become lost forever. Of course, such a dark RP type needs literate and experienced writers/RPers, keywords being "literate and experienced".

Also, I want to know, does reality take place in a more modern setting or a fantasy setting, because the RP stated there were multiple races, so I assumed it took place in the latter, but the other characters give the impression it takes place in the former.

And also, I want to comment on the writing skills of the other RPers. I came in with a decent profile, unsure if I would be good enough for this seemingly 'prestigious' RP when it came to literacy, but I find that the other entrees, eh, aren't as detailed as mine, and they seemed not quite as literate or as I said, prestigious. I'm sorry, but with the amount of effort I put into my profile, I feel kind of irritated to see not just half, but two thirds of the profiles with minimal detail. I'm sorry, but I'm just really not-so cool with it. And though I haven't properly reviewed your first post yet, but seeing that it's no more than a short paragraph long, and that nothing has really happened besides your character touching a tree, with no obvious call to action, I don't really think that you're the most experienced RPer here. So yeah... I'm going to keep RPing anyway, but, I really want to see more potential in the RP, or at least that if anybody else joins, they will be at least a moderately experienced/educated writer/RPer, and please don't mind if I constantly criticized people's writing, but I'll at least give advice for improvement.