Chronicles of Earth and Thrae(PG/14)(OoC)[Test Run][As in, looking for work.]

[Forycles]

The Introduction

I suppose I'll just get out with it: This RP has no specific genre, though the greater part of it is scifi/fantasy. It is freelance in that the members (you) will decide main plots, as well as being able to step away from the main plot for your own storylines. Of course, for the main plots, you'll have a voting system.

Earth and Thrae

Earth and Thrae are, to a degree, just parallel universes to each other. However, Thrae is more technologically advanced (bionics, anyone?) and hasn't murdered its planet with world wars and global warming like Earth did. Even the states and countries have the same names. However, civilization did crash around the year 1000... but I digress. Everyone who exists has, shall we say, two lives. When they die on their home universe, they are instantly sent to the parallel, though they leave a body behind. Their second death is also their last.


The Races
There are various races, and one can even create races as long as they are not godmoding. The current races are subject to change (for instance, one could suggest female werewolves, or that weres be generic).

Werewolves: Werewolves, first and foremost, are nothing like they are in the movies. For a person to be a werewolf, one of their ancestors must have been one. The werewolf gene rests on the Y chromosome, meaning that only males can develop it. All males have this gene, but only 4% will ever develop it. All werewolves lust for human meat, but the want is manageable, and most can live among society with no issue. A werewolf has three forms, human, wolf, and half wolf. His half wolf form is only accessible during the full moon, possibly because of the genes reaction to moonlight in large doses. Most "evil" werewolves choose to feed at this time, because in their half wolf form, there is little any human can do to resist. They are free, however, to shift between human and wolf forms with no restrictions. It is also entirely possible for a werewolf to live its entire life without "phasing", in the exception of the very first full moon, in which a frenzied change into a half wolf is guaranteed. While in the half wolf state, the person's judgment and rationale suffer, but they are gifted with great power and durability. The half wolf form is also capable of human speech.
(Credit to Necronightmare for the bio.)
Humans (if you can't figure this out, PM me.)
Elves: Not quite as adept at magic as their film counterparts, they still retain the natural beauty, speed, and grace you're always hearing about.
Elemental: Elementals are not very common. They are normally female, but cases of male Elementals have been found. The Elementals have few rules but one is never use your gift for evil. In other words the Elementals cannot kill without feeling whatever pain they inflicted on the person they killed. If they burnt the person, they feel as if they are being burnt too. Each Elemental also has an element that they can control the best. The Elementals have another side effect though. They have a trademark of whatever element they best control. If they best control air they might have little wings on their feet or a huge pair on their back.
(Credit to Harvest Life for Elementals.)

Nonselectable
Phoenixes:
Phoenixes are a very rare and proud species of bird, found only in Thrae. Firstly there are multiple different kinds of phoenixes, Ash and Silver Phoenixes are known. Ash Phoenixes hide in fires eating ash, which gave them their names, most Phoenixes don't actually burn and reincarnate, only gold and Fire Phoenixes do that, Phoenixes either live in forests or mountains, usually the latter. They have unique abilities but are always very intelligent, some can even understand English. A very proud race some Phoenixes will go a very long way for revenge; they stalk their enemies from the sky. They don't get along with most species, not even their own, Phoenixes only meet once a year, during their mating season. Phoenixes also range from 1 and 5 feet in height, depending on specie. Their shared traits are: Long life, powerful talons, beauty, sharp feathers (only in some), omnivore traits, flight (duh), immunity to natural elements, super strength and cunning.
Rarer traits found in certain species are: Universal language, inconceivable knowledge, beaks nearing dragon blood strength, invisibility, rebirth, breath/tears of life, invisibility, highly water dynamic, fire breath, dream travel and immortality (only found in white Phoenixes of which is only a legend).
A powerful and dangerous species, most are non-violent, only when they are attacked do they attack back, or when they hunt but they never eat more than they need and thus only the large ones ever slay humans, no Phoenix will ever harm a child, even one that has harmed them.
Credit to Murray3

The Plots

Because of the setting, plots can range from horror to adventure to romance. You could play out your own horror movie on Earth, creating a monster race for the sheer terror of it. You can adventure, hunting for treasure in the ruins of the Thrae pre-civilization of 1000. You can live out your own doomed romance between *shudder* a vampire and werewolf. Of course, these are all branch plots. Main plots must incorporate at least half a country, and have sides one can take (be they both evil, both good, etc.). These will then be submitted here, or through PM, and will be copied to the front page. Then when it comes time for the next plot, all members will vote for one, through PM, and we will do the one with the most votes.

The Rules

Rule 1. The only time less than five lines will be allowed are inter player conversations and the like. However, I do not want to see entire pages of back and forth one liners.
Rule 2. You may have up to four characters at any given moment. You may kill/drop and make as many as you want, as long as you give them a plausible exit and keep your count at four or less. This is a way for you to get out seven lines without having to use another's characters. And that leads to...
Rule 3. You may use another member's character if they are in your character's vicinity and the owner allows it.
Rule 4. You knew this was coming. There will be no flaming of other members, or going above the rating.

The Sheet

If anyone joins I'll be surprised, especially considering the fiasco of the last test. But if you're going to, here's the sheet.

Username: Your username
Name: Your character's name
Age: Your character's age
Origin: Your character's world of origin (Earth/Thrae)
Location: Your current location and world, because these can differ from your origin.
Species: Your character's species
Gender: Your character's gender
Appearance: The appearance of your character/how he or she looks.
Personality: The personality of your character.
History: Your character's background and past.
Other: Any extra information you may wish to add about your character

The Extra

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[llearch n'n'daCorna]

Rule 1. A seven line rule applies here. If you can not submit at least seven lines of meaningful text, your post will be ignored.

Seven lines on whose screen? Is it seven sentences, seven paragraphs, or what? And what's the five lines mentioned in the next rule?

[Tapewolf]

Seven lines on whose screen? Is it seven sentences, seven paragraphs, or what?

I must admit I have a problem with that idea.  BotM, for example has a lot of important dialogue in the form of short questions, which, if ignored, would either break continuity or bring disaster to the campaign, probably both.  And as llearch points out, you could post anything on an HTC Dream and it would come out as seven lines.  (Will our questions be ignored because they're too few lines...?)

[Forycles]

Ugh. This is what I get for sleeping in on Saturday.

Seven lines on whose screen? Is it seven sentences, seven paragraphs, or what? And what's the five lines mentioned in the next rule?

Alright... let me see. Alright, first off, by lines, I mean actual lines on the screen, not sentences or paragraphs. For instance:

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

That is a line(at least on my screen...>_>)

I realize that seven lines will be different on everyone's screen, so as long as it's around seven lines, like, say, five, it'll be taken(because I seriously doubt that anyone's screen is thin enough to be seven lines on one computer and not at least four and a half on the widest). I also realize that seven lines on the text box looks different in post, so in order to assure there's no mixups from that, use the preview button. (Yes, I will hopefully add all this to the rules).

As to the five lines mentioned in the following rule, thanks for pointing that out. That was a typo, and I fixed it.

I must admit I have a problem with that idea.  BotM, for example has a lot of important dialogue in the form of short questions, which, if ignored, would either break continuity or bring disaster to the campaign, probably both.  And as llearch points out, you could post anything on an HTC Dream and it would come out as seven lines.  (Will our questions be ignored because they're too few lines...?)

First off, I'm not an arse; I mean in character posts(so I'll be adding that, too).

I just know that there are good enough writers out there to pull off seven lines(I will downgrade to five if it gets too bad), and that for those who can't there are multiple characters. I've just looked at some of the posts of these forum members, and I thought I could expect long posts. *Shrug* Maybe I've just been spoiled by Neo.(Not pets)

If you wanna yell at me, or continue helping me fix this, go on, it's a test run.

[Lucheek]

Ugh. This is what I get for sleeping in on Saturday.

Seven lines on whose screen? Is it seven sentences, seven paragraphs, or what? And what's the five lines mentioned in the next rule?

Alright... let me see. Alright, first off, by lines, I mean actual lines on the screen, not sentences or paragraphs. For instance:

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

That is a line(at least on my screen...>_>)

I realize that seven lines will be different on everyone's screen, so as long as it's around seven lines, like, say, five, it'll be taken(because I seriously doubt that anyone's screen is thin enough to be seven lines on one computer and not at least four and a half on the widest). I also realize that seven lines on the text box looks different in post, so in order to assure there's no mixups from that, use the preview button. (Yes, I will hopefully add all this to the rules).

As to the five lines mentioned in the following rule, thanks for pointing that out. That was a typo, and I fixed it.

I must admit I have a problem with that idea.  BotM, for example has a lot of important dialogue in the form of short questions, which, if ignored, would either break continuity or bring disaster to the campaign, probably both.  And as llearch points out, you could post anything on an HTC Dream and it would come out as seven lines.  (Will our questions be ignored because they're too few lines...?)

First off, I'm not an arse; I mean in character posts(so I'll be adding that, too).

I just know that there are good enough writers out there to pull off seven lines(I will downgrade to five if it gets too bad), and that for those who can't there are multiple characters. I've just looked at some of the posts of these forum members, and I thought I could expect long posts. *Shrug* Maybe I've just been spoiled by Neo.(Not pets)

If you wanna yell at me, or continue helping me fix this, go on, it's a test run.

That's not even half a screen on my computer. It might be more simple just to say "seven sentances."

[Tapewolf]

First off, I'm not an arse; I mean in character posts(so I'll be adding that, too).

Yeah, I was being a bit facetious there.

I just know that there are good enough writers out there to pull off seven lines(I will downgrade to five if it gets too bad), and that for those who can't there are multiple characters. I've just looked at some of the posts of these forum members, and I thought I could expect long posts. *Shrug* Maybe I've just been spoiled by Neo.(Not pets)

I had a quick scan through BoTM when I was looking to see how many lines we generally used.
This is a typical page:

http://clockworkmansion.com/forum/index.php/topic,5794.180.html

...most of the descriptive posts are at least 7 lines of standard text on a 1024x768 screen.  But there are a lot of things, especially in inter-player conversations, where less than that is more appropriate.  What you may end up with is players/characters waffling a lot in order to meet the quota.  For me, that would get old real fast.

[Forycles]

That's not even half a screen on my computer. It might be more simple just to say "seven sentances."

Unfortunately, sentences are far easier to make shorter. 'I like pie' is a sentence, and it's barely an inch long.

...most of the descriptive posts are at least 7 lines of standard text on a 1024x768 screen.  But there are a lot of things, especially in inter-player conversations, where less than that is more appropriate.  What you may end up with is players/characters waffling a lot in order to meet the quota.  For me, that would get old real fast.

As I said, I've probably been spoiled by neo. I'd also like to notify you that members are allowed to do the conversations alone, if the other member(s) will take it. But I might make an exception for inter conversations. Unless someone's entire post counts are just conversations.

[llearch n'n'daCorna]

Alright... let me see. Alright, first off, by lines, I mean actual lines on the screen, not sentences or paragraphs. For instance:

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

That is a line(at least on my screen...>_>)

For me, that's about 2/3rds of a line. But, I have my browser set to 2/3rds of the screen width at most.

Admittedly I'm running 1920x1200, so I'm not really typical, but you can see the problem with "7 lines"... I'm gonna be writing enough that you'll see 10 lines or more. But, you've already answered this, so meh.

(And, at least for me, I'm not yelling. I'm merely attempting to assist you in coherent explanations...)

[Forycles]

Rule 1. The only time less than five lines will be allowed are inter player conversations and the like. However, I do not want to see entire pages of back and forth one liners.

I've edited the rule for hopefully the last time. I even set the bar down,  because I thought back and realized: I couldn't eek out seven lines when I first started RPing.
So, yes, moving on from that rule, unless this is not correct and I have misread the previous posts?