Supposed Assassins: The Beginning

[Akiran]

YO! Post as you see fit with reservations and questions. I know the actual plot probably isn't totally clear at the moment, but... yeah.

[Thundergod1020]

DIBS ON ASSASSIN! And before I forget, I wear T-shirts like pants and rub motor oil all over myself in my spare time. Hakuna my Tatas, fool.

[Thadine]

I'm quite liking the idea of this "Royal" character so far.
Seems like my type of guy.
Here you go.

"Picture"

Because I'm on my phone and it takes way more time than I'd care to use to load one page and get the URL for something.

[Seirei]

Promising roleplay! Out of interest, some questions.

Why is the prince particularly notorious for murder in a village of murderers? Does he really have the leisure to dress himself like a pleb and ambush random people out on the streets? It seems a bit petty and inefficient for someone with the mind and resources for much greater havoc.

Did you have any plot role in mind when you created the bookkeeper?

You mentioned demons - are they the common superstition, or actual demons? Supernatural healing was spoken of - is this the only magic in the setting? Overall question: what degree of fantasy is appropriate in this roleplay?

The medic's summary reads rather like the archetypical Purity Sue, with her prodigious skills, incorruptible purity, and near-unsurpassed intellect. Is this intentional, e.g. because the prince requires an opponent in his mind games?

Not entirely clear on your image requirements. Not sure why DeviantART is okay and eastern illustrations aren't, but I presume it's permissible to stick to plain text? (It feels awkward to me to use actual existing people as a portrait. Robert Downey Jr. is just gonna act like Tony Stark, my will be damned.)

[BraceBlaze]

I have a question also, would all these characters live in the same city or would they be scattered everywhere?

[Periodic]

May I reserve the 'notorious thief' role, if that is not already taken?

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[CrownTheEmpire]

Please reserve me role #6 The Silent Killer. :3



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[Thundergod1020]

Seirei... RDJ IS Tony Stark. As in, I'm pretty sure Iron Man is just what Earth would be like if RDJ was smart enough to make an arc reactor.

[Paintpoint]

Wanted to reserve, if I could, the Assassin role.

[Paintpoint]

I was reading through the introduction again (just to take notes on the setting and various characters more in depth) and a question came to mind. Besides the 6 lead roles will other minor characters be accepted or will it remain the responsibility of the six to provide these secondary and minor characters? Also, just coming to mind, will there be a detailed report of the city (map or other reference), a description of the palace, etc...etc?

[Akiran]

Woah, sorry guys. I've been working overtime a lot the past few days, and by the time I get home I've either forgotten or I've been too exhausted to get on. Oh, the bothers of life. Let's see what we've got here. There's been a reservation for every role--in some cases, multiple reservations. Plus, multiple questions. Let's sort all this out.


Seirei,
Those are... very good questions. I must warn you, I'm notoriously bad at getting my point across--at least, in my own opinion--so hopefully my stream of consciousness will make sense in the end. People usually (somehow) understand me... So I guess it'll be fine, but... as a warning, beware? Yeah, MOVING ON.

1. The Prince.
In life, people are inefficient and generally unethical. I know this, sadly, because I know inefficient people and I cannot strangle them... no matter how much I want to. What a pain. Yes, the prince seems illogical in this sense. He IS illogical in that sense. But, that's somewhat the idea.

His father was assassinated. Outside his wall, there's a town of (according to his perspective) evildoers and cold-hard killers. Naturally, he would want to destroy the person who killed his father, but it's such a pain to find the real culprit. They're just a bunch of murderers anyway, the world would be better without them, so why not kill them all of? And why not have fun doing it too--dammit. He was always a little messed up in the head, enjoying the pain of people, so naturally he'd want to make them suffer by his own hand. What fun is there in sending an army to burn them all at once? Why not break them down psychologically, make them suffer for years by picking them off one by one... make them largely incapable of treason, for they'll never know who's listening. They'll never know if their accomplice is, indeed, the King himself. Plus, and this is totally up to whoever gets his role, there could be some odd longing to experience some sort of non-royal, normal life? Or, perhaps he does send soldiers in disguise, and the people of Sacrim are mistaken in thinking it's the King himself. He could be a hermit, enclosed in his castle torturing the souls of orphaned puppies...

Plus, he could always do something bigger as the story progresses. Maybe some gladiator arena/hunger games type thing? Or he could just set fire to the town and burn them all. Who knows. I tried to keep my description of it kind of small-scale, to allow the RPer who takes him to have a little freedom with his cunningly evil actions. Yet, it was necessary to say what I did in order to characterize him. Hopefully all that makes sense.


2. The Bookkeeper's Plot.
This is another one that has a bit of freedom. He lives inside the wall, were people are split between liking the kind and abhorring him. The bookkeeper (who leaves the city as a messenger and knows the King as a record keeper) has ties to both inside and outside the wall; thus, he could be FOR the king or AGAINST the king. Logically, either way would work.

This is more of a character-driven RP as opposed to a plot-driven RP, if that makes sense. Instead of having a very detailed/strict plot, we have detailed characters that engender a plot (based on a general setting) through their actions. It makes perfect sense in my head, but I can only hope I’m successfully imparting my vision to you all.

How this will work, once we have all the roles filled, I'm going to divide it into 3 groups of 2. People can request to interact/start out by a certain character. Otherwise, my friend RANDOM NUMBER GENERATOR will do the honors. Then, after a bit of that, people can move around a bit. Switch into another group of 2, form a group of 3 or 4, make side characters to join in groups. Y'know. And when I say groups, I mean little bubbles of interacting characters. They don't have to be on the same team, there can be conflict and everything, it just means they're grouped in the same area interacting. It's really up to the person, and where they start off, what plot role they get and how important they become.

(Me: answers a 1 sentence question with 3 paragraphs. I Feel no regrets. ^^")


3. Fantasy level.
Yes, yes. That's it exactly. (I'm joking.)

Many (NPCs, and perhaps real characters) believe it is only superstition. However, it can be physical demons. I'm not against fantasy at all. In fact, I enjoy it. As to the actual level, it's up to those who make their characters. The monster could be an actual monster, the bookkeeper could be a demon or a person possessed by a demon (or normal or something else entirely). Really, everyone could include some element of supernatural in their characters should they so choose.

As far as magic, sorcery is completely allowed. You know, it would kind of make sense for the bookkeeper to be a sorcerer of sorts... I mean, surrounded by books all his life. I’m sure there could by spell books mixed in there and whatnot.

Basically, as long as you explain it well and it flows with your character, I’m okay with any level or type of magic. Just be reasonable and don’t be a god-modder.

4. The Medic.
Well, this is my character. So you needn’t worry about her. I’m quite known for my characters on other sites, but I’m notoriously bad at getting my point across, as I have mentioned. Brief summaries aren’t really my forte. Hence, she’ll make perfect sense in post and after I get a skeleton up.

Basically, she isn’t a Purity Sue. However, she TRIES to be one. I believe I mentioned something about multiple personalities and hiding herself and inner conflict and the like. That’s what all that meant. The only thing that’s really true in the summary is she’s intelligent, in a way. That’s only because I’m not capable of playing a non-intellectual character, and I wanted someone else to be the prince. So… yeah. Pulling strings as the GM, I suppose. I’m not sure if she’ll end up being the prince’s mind-game opponent. It all depends on how everyone interacts and how it goes.


5. RDJ is gonna be Tony Stark, AKA Iron Man.
Well, why wouldn't he be Sherlock Holmes? No, no. Yeah, I understand what you're saying. That's quite true. (and thunder, I second your thoughts. lol)

HOWEVER. There's a very logical solution. Don't use a celebrity face. I usually find pictures of random people I don't know and call it good. Google portrait photography or specifically say "brown haired guy" or "blonde girl" or "emo dude" or "alternative girl" or "biker guy" or "rainbow hair" or anything of the sort. ^^

Deviant art was just an example, since I get a lot of my artistic pics from there. What I mean is, I don't want someone to take a screencap of their favorite anime and call it good. If someone absolutely has to have something from an anime show, I'd rather it be a fan art--not a screencap. But, that'd just be a supplement. (To define "supplement" ...for instance, having a pic of what they look like, then adding a moody pic of a shadow in the rain to represent their personality... like, extra pictures that visually characterize the character?)

I want everyone to have a picture of a real person, as I hate to envision everyone as real faces and have one odd animated one in their. It's inconsistent and awkward. Plus, if all were animated, there are different styles of animation. It's like pasting spongebob in the most recent Call of Duty game. Would that seem right? No, not at all. I guess it's a weird personal preference of mine. Anyway, you can stick with a text description. I prefer to have a visual picture, but y'know. That's fine.


Brace Blaze,
As of right now, there's the castle city--were the King and his people live--and there's Sacrim, the city of evil (as it's called). The characters should start interacting in these areas, but there's more to the world than two cities. If anyone would like to venture elsewhere or conjure up a place in their backstory, that's fine. I'll even add places as time goes on, should someone request it.

Huzzah for character driven RPs.


Paintpoint,
After the main six roles are filled, those people can submit secondary minor characters. I will allow other people to join and add minor characters as well, but they must fir in with whatever story is unfolding, and they have to be high-quality just like the mains.

Perhaps people can converse with mains and work out a related role with them. Like, someone from their backstory or a family member/friend/nemesis... whatever. If a main wants to have someone play a related character, they could make a post or a thread requesting it. Then people could vie for the role and such.

I had no plans to provide a reference of the city (I'm bad at art, and geography... go me.) and I thought it would be the decision of the King what the castle looked like. I'm kinda against the idea of limiting creativity with such things as maps and such in RPs such as this. As I said, it is more character driven than pre-set plot driven. In a plot-driven RP I would provide a detailed description.

If it was an issue, I could type something up, of course. Just let me know, I guess?




Whew--that was quite the Q and A. I don't think I've ever gotten so many questions. Perhaps I really didn't explain myself enough in the intro... I mean, more than usual. Oh well.

I look forward to getting more characters in! I've only received the assassin thus far.



OH--oh, I need to say this. For the roles with competing claimers, I'm terribly sorry to those who don't get it. Sorry, sorry, a million times sorry. Don't take it personally, it's just... I go with the more interesting and/or detailed of the lot, and... yeah... Oh, the joys of not being first come first serve. Y'all can try for a secondary/minor character, if you'd like. Play your cards right and you can become just as critical to the plot as a main. ^^

Hopefully that wasn't too nomadic and incorrigible.

[Paintpoint]

After taking the twenty years necessary to read that Q&A (Though im glad you settled some of the more troubling issues, don't get me wrong) my mind is more at ease about the entirety of the plot and what some of your expectations are for those who do have major roles within the story line.

Back to my map outline concern though, I know you aren't trying to hold us down with a layout set in stone, I just thought that it'd be easier for us to build off of a backbone, at least. Perhaps just a deviation between poor, middle, and upper class living/market places. (Don't forget the very important castle at the wee top) Something that the characters and writers can navigate through without being completely blind. I'm just saying, this city plays an important role in the development of the story and it'd be nice to be able to traverse through it.

Eh, what do I know? I've never made a roleplay before, I may just be overworking myself (and you for that matter) over something small. All I'm really saying is: Backbone, something to get us started?