NationStates Jolt Archive

Brief premise:
You are an individual living in Oxford, UK. You live an ordinary life. Weird things start happening. You can choose to investigate, or to ignore ever more random weirdness.

So basically, you can be any plausible individual given the setting. Any reasonable skill-set.
Once weird things begin occurring (i.e. as soon as enough good people sign up) you'll have a bit more freedom, though I'll still push you the way I want to go a bit.

The only requirement is reasonable RP skills. So if I don't know you, please give a link to one previous post, or just show me a bit of character writing. Obviously character-focussed posts will show your skills better for this than state-of-the-nation ones.

Once things kick off I'll have a map to show where everyone is, etc.
Oh, and if you want to, you can have a small group of friends as your 'character' - however you'll need to be a good RPer to pull that off, so tread carefully.

sounds good :)

I'll give the character a bit of thought and post it up later

BUMP. Had a couple more good people interested over IM, I'll be working something up over the weekend.

*kicks the thread to get it moving*

cummon... do something so we can start :D

incidently [totaly unrelated to the actual thread, really, beyond that i know this thread will attract at least some of the relivant people]

i started something: http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=504455

an RP that will hopfully be free of Godmoding, excessive argument, etc, and actaully be fun.

but that's nothing to do with this thread, at least directly...

so consider this a glorified bump from that point of view.

[oh yes, i Am participating in this RP if it ever gets going.]

Ach, I knew I was forgetting something. Right, initial post-age coming up later tonight.

Ok: change of plan. Now set in Bristol, as Google Earth can't do Oxford to any detail, and tbh I know Bristol much better anyway.
There is still a large student population, and various things such as Wookey Hole not all that far away, where weird goings-on might occur :o)

So. Pick yourself a character; my advice would be someone physically able to move about, not too insane, and reasonably mature, but if you want a challenge, go for whatever.
Give them a background. House, life, job, whatever. Normal, weird, whatever - just nothing that breaks the laws of physics, ok? And that means no aliens. Sorry. They're out there somewhere, just not in an English provincial city.


Background on the city itself:Bristol (wiki) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bristol)

Further notes: ideally have them living somewhere central. If you want advice on parts of the city, or whatever, post here or TG me.
And now I need to get back to thinking about the story arc sort of thing...

right. soon as i know what the heck i'm trying to do in this RP, i'm all good for it.

i'll be playing... myself. or at least, myself as i am in my head and would be if it weren't for all sorts of [mostly] external factors :D

for some reason i haven't thought of yet, i'll be atending the University of Bristol [just to justify my presance in a random city on the wrong side of the world :D]

and thus live somewhere near it, in theory. *shrugs* i really have no idea what i'm going to do in this RP.

I'm with the guy above me, what the heck is this rp about?

Basically it's a character RP, set in the real world, but weird things start happening, shaking the characters out of their cosy little bubbles, and then we see where things go from there.

alliens, magic, and waffles, oh my!

or something like that.

i think, Terra, that you're going to have to do some rather significant sceen setting at the begining to make this work properly.

and probibly run a whole bunch of NPCs or something as well.

July 9th 2007:
Looking out across Bristol, a man gripped the basket of his balloon.
He cold trace a rough arc across symbols of the Engineer. The Suspension Bridge. The S.S. Great Britain. Temple Meads Station.
He smiled - the blissful faith in rationalism they represented. Well, that could only last so long.
There were several individuals crucial to the whole enterprise, scattered across the city. Each one had a role to play. Each was entirely ignorant of that fact. Most would be waking up to go to work at around this time.
He knew they were there, but not who they were yet.
He would work that out, and start the process, before the day was out.
One month remained to have everything in place.
By sheer coincidence, the balloon fiesta would be on as all finished.

OOC: So guys, I need a basic rundown of character, basic bio stuff, then I'll give you the first 'event'.
Oh, and basically, I'll be running this dude, and any NPCs required by your characters - boss, colleagues, etc.

Sounds intriguing. I'd like to jump in if it's OK. If you want references, check anything done by Auralinia or Xeraph. I'll be thinking about a character and post it tomorrow evening (Sat.)

OOC: Now checked a couple of threads. You're in.

we gonna get [at least] one seperate thread for ICness?

it'll get messy otherwise. heck, if we're not all in roughly the same place, even just one thread can be horrible :S

allrighty. bio...

[names have been changed to protect... umm.... me :D]

Name: Victorious V. Victor
Age: 20
occupation: student at the University of Bristol, no apparant major or even logic to the courses taken [means of paying for them unknowen, even to him. just happens]. [free lance and as yet un published] Game designer
hair: long. dark brown. messy.
eyes: grey-[inditermant colour]. Appear to shift colours in the light depending on the suroundings.
hight: just shy of 6'
build: kinda scrawny, but not as weak as you'd think.
Country of Origen: New Zealand
history: (.... i got no idea. includes some health issues and a reason for coming to bristol to study)
above average skills: getting in trouble not of his own making. avoiding major consiquenses for trouble reguardless of who's fault it is. game designe. dropping the last piece [or first piece, or key piece] into other peoples plans to get them unstuck/functional. almost berzerk when enraged, temporaraly unaffected by any illness he might have at the time untill he comes back down again (i'm not makeing this up. i can actually do that :S i'm not sure if it's a good thing or a bad thing). the comedown from the adrenalin/rage mix is a bitch.


umm.. that enough? seriously, i don't know enough about various things to be able to fill in a lot of the gaps...

OOC: Good idea on separate thread, feel free to set one up and link it. Oh, and a note on accuracy, it's not possible to study at a British university without choosing a 'major', though you can do some very broad courses (human sciences, modern languages...)
I'll post the first point of interest for you tomorrow.

meh, i said "apparant"... i might come up with something somewhere along the way. the point is, it's sort of been brushed off as "irrelivant" or "unclear" as to what it is :)

as for the thread... if it is to be an IC thread, then... you're the one who knows what he's doing with the sceen setting and plot and whatever...

i'd say that's your job :p ... i'd essentually be makeing a blank post.

OOC: Now checked a couple of threads. You're in.


Thanks.......

IC thread is here. (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?p=11868464#post11868464)

All approved players, character bios there please, we can get going.

Name: Charles Sherman
Age: 18
Occupation: Works at a fast food restruant and supermarket
hair: Shoulder lenght, Blonde, Curly
eyes: Blue
hight: 5'11, 6 foot in shoes
build: Stocky
Country of Origen: Ontario, Canada
history:
above average skills: Driving. He can drive anything with wheels or without, and drive it well. He's also a very skilled mechanic, and can fix 90% of the problems that he runs into with vehicles.

History:
Charlie was born on June 8th, 1988, in a small town just outside of kingston Ontario, Canada. His family was never very rich, and he grew up haiving to build the majority of his bikes, and eventually cars.

Charlie's life was relativly normal until his parrents got divorced, and his father moved back to Brittish Columbia (where his father was from), and he never saw or heard from him again. His mother got a job at a local warranty company to support the family.

The job started out as a low pay job, but his mother excelled and was eventually chosen to go with 20 other representitives to England to start up the European head office of the company, and she got a huge pay raise.

Charlie went with his mother to england, and he finished his last simester of school there, and is currently employed at two part time jobs.

Coronisa, can you give me a link to one good example of character RP? If so, you're in.

I posted in the IC area. I don't have any that are even remotley recent, so I just figured that an example would be the best idea.

i'm going to forcfully request that you not bump the IC thread.

those of us involved get e-mailed when a new post comes up. if we don't respond we're either busy or unavailable.

and it clutters it up.

if you Really want to bump something, bump this one. people have to sign up here to participate anyway.

Coronisa, you can join, but please remove your second post.

Auralina, also, maybe I didn't explain this clearly enough. You have control of a character, your character, and possibly another character if you ask nicely.
You have input into what events happen and when, but basically the idea is for you to respond to events I throw in, and thus for a story to be built.

I will attempt to work what you two have done into the story, but please have patience next time, and give me ideas which I can then work in rather than forcing me to rethink everything.