The Clockwork Mansion

You found the note in the mail when you came home from errands this afternoon. Now, it's about five minutes to midnight at the old boulder outside of town and you're starting to shiver from the cold. You arrived ten minutes ago, as per the note's instructions, and have found a comfortable little niche on the rock's craggy surface. Or at least, as comfortable as you can get on solid stone. Around you are other sillhouettes, all apparently here for the same reason as you. As you think of heading home, a warm hand suddenly claps over your mouth, oddly silencing your sounds of surprise. "Shhhhh..." the hand's owner whispers next to your ear. "Hold still. You don't want them to notice you. Just be glad that they've put on blindfolds for this." The figure settles onto the rock amidst your group, out of sight, as you lean back against the rock and resume waiting.

The figure kept true to their word. A few minutes later, your breath catches as three shapeless shadows, each at least eight feet tall, step out from behind trees and  buildings and approach Bishop's Stone. Forming a triangle formation, thick arms pull down hoods as they near. Your breath catches as furry ears spring up. You couldn't move if you tried as the leader intones, "Avalon, we wish to be gone." The figure beside you springs up as the boulder begins to rumble, and the trio of creatures continue towards the base of the rock and out of sight. Leaping down from their perch, the figure beckons you down.

"Come on," he shouts up, apparently no longer worried about the people he'd cautioned you against minutes ago. "Don't you want to look?"

Do you?

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The time has come to try my hand again at GMing a forum RP. This is an urban fantasy RP, flipping back and forth between our world and the world of fantasy creatures. Players must begin, at least, as humans, though between magic and faerie mischief they may not stay that way. This first post will become a compendium of all that the players know about this world when play begins, though all knowledge must be discovered in due course. I have no idea what aesthetic this story will reveal itself to contain, however, as the fates of each character will rely on my deck of tarot cards, and who knows what will evolve from it?

If you're interested, make yourself known! After two people have shown interest I'll throw together a character sheet. After five people have submitted characters I will begin the RP. I look forward to showing you through this tale.

The character sheet template is as follows. Please, PM me for approval before you post it up!

Name:
Occupation:
Living Conditions:
Significant Relations: (friends, family, bosses, companies, societies, cults, etc)
Reason to Follow the Note:
Card: (Don't worry about filling this out; I'll give you one once I get your submission)

Characters:

Marci Kensworth (http://clockworkmansion.com/forum/index.php/topic,8814.msg372766.html#msg372766)
Robert Orin Charles (http://clockworkmansion.com/forum/index.php/topic,8814.msg360075.html#msg360075)

In Stasis:

Damien Stryfe (http://clockworkmansion.com/forum/index.php/topic,8814.msg360383.html#msg360383)
Daniel Nevans (http://clockworkmansion.com/forum/index.php/topic,8814.msg360133.html#msg360133)
David Matthews (http://clockworkmansion.com/forum/index.php/topic,8814.msg360070.html#msg360070)
Lemick Faust (http://clockworkmansion.com/forum/index.php/topic,8814.msg360155.html#msg360155)
Lorelei Ainsley Evans (http://clockworkmansion.com/forum/index.php/topic,8814.msg360074.html#msg360074)
Nanabi Tybalt (http://clockworkmansion.com/forum/index.php/topic,8814.msg360147.html#msg360147)

Dead (or Close Enough):

Kirrin Shaddix (http://clockworkmansion.com/forum/index.php/topic,8814.msg371932.html#msg371932)

INTEREST.  There, I've expressed it. :U

Very interesting, but isn't Avalon common knowledge for anyone who has seen Gargoyles?

Sure why not : D I'm interested.

Alrighty, I'll have a character sheet up in no time.

Quote from: Meany on February 05, 2012, 10:55:15 PM
Very interesting, but isn't Avalon common knowledge for anyone who has seen Gargoyles?

I wouldn't know. I stole it from Skin Deep 'cuz I couldn't think of a better name on the spot. Avalon's just the formal name for it, of course.

Considering my personal reading library includes every single Dresden Files, October Daye, Mercy Thompson, and SERRAted Edge book, as well as observing your performance as a player in Of Steam and Steel, I doubt I could be dissuaded.

Sure, I'm up for it.

I wish to try, to receive more practice at RPs

I'm interested.

As someone pointed out to me, some players might like to play the RP with a particular atmosphere in mind. If you are one such player, let me know when you submit your character what atmosphere you would like and I'll tailor the tarot deck I'll select your card from with that atmosphere in mind. If, alternatively, you want to write your character based on the atmosphere, again just let me know and I'll draw your card and let you know what atmosphere it is, saving the exact card for when you submit your sheet.

An RP involving Tarot readings?!? Count me in! Also, Avalon is the name of that mythical island they took King Arthur to after he not quite died. Anyone with general knowledge of Arthurian tales would recognize that name. It is also used in high connotation to mean fae related things. So yeah, when my character hears something about not quite human looking people going to Avalon, he's going to jump to some instant conclusions...

A good portion of the RPs I am in are sporadic or nearly dead, possibly undead, I would express interest in possibly trying this.  I have a passing familiarity with things faerie, though not much knowledge in Tarot (unless Sins webcomic counts :P). 

Well, I've finally gotten my tarot deck, so I can start assigning people cards. Also, since it may not have been clear, I am randomly selecting from either the full deck or a deck tailored to have cards themed around the atmosphere you'd like to describe future plot, not picking by hand for the atmosphere you want or to match the character.

And with my character approved...

Name: David Matthews
Occupation: Science! Also college...
Living Conditions: He rooms with a few others at an apartment during the school year, or with his parents otherwise. He doesn't have a regular schedule though, so they're well used to him being active or doing things at crazy hours of the whenever.
Significant Relations: Parents and a little brother (just a little bit little tho) at home, a couple of casual to good friends otherwise, but none that talk with him on a daily basis.
Reason to Follow the Note: Abject curiosity. This guy has way too much of it.
Card: Three of wands

David is one of those people who wants to believe magic is out there, but has never found any proof and is starting to lose that belief. He's taken to coping by finding magic in the little things. When other people see something like a standalone streetlight in the torrential rain, David will force himself to see tiny jewels falling from the sky, each one briefly lit up in splendor as it passes through the light before shattering into oblivion and washing away. He's used to seeing things in the light of science and treating obstacles like many intricate puzzles with a way to solve them if you can just figure it out. However instead of the world being robbed of its beauty by knowing what makes it tick, he always tries to see the beauty in the composite parts and how amazing it is that they all work together. Not that he always succeeds or does this constantly, but he tries.

All his life he feels like he's been searching for something but doesn't realize that what he's searching for is the search itself. Offered a chance to go to a world of magic where he would be free beyond constraints, he would take it in a second if not for the fact that he loves his own home so much. However, not having access to such a world... he makes due by a vivid imagination and semi-lucid dreaming. He loves those cloudy days where the color seems drained out of everything just as much (if not more) than those where the sun is shining and extra vivid because it feels like a blank slate that he can paint over with his mind. Imagining lights, ribbons of color, and whatever else comes to mind as he pretends he isn't just making a world that only he can see, but perhaps seeing into a world behind his own that no one else notices. But that's just him being silly and whimsical. After all... if such a world existed science would have surely found it... right?

David is going to be following an atmosphere of discovery and wonder. The world isn't black and white and all those shades of colors he's been painting over it actually do exist, even if not quite in the same way he painted it. His element is air and his season is autumn or winter. Year of the tiger, month of the lion, these are things about him that don't really matter to everyday practical things, but some people like to know these things anyway.

With approval, so it is posted.


Name: Lorelei Ainsley Evans(-Lorraine)

Occupation: University Graduate Medical Student/Reserve British Army Medic (23 Special Air Service)

Living Conditions: Upper Class lifestyle.  Lore lives in an expansive 6 bedroom penthouse flat in the nice area of Plymouth in Massachusetts.  Compared to her parents' expansive mansions it is rather modest.  She has a reasonable staff consisting of an attendant/butler, maid/housekeeper, chef, and chauffeur.  Her apartments are adorned with a collection of the rare and mystical, tasteful art, and fine electronics.  To reach the university campus, she is typically driven in her not very modest, new Bentley Mulsanne, she can drive herself in her less exquisite Aston Martin Vantage, or more typically she takes the train to Cambridge.  

Significant Relations:
•   Parents:
    o   Father - "The Most High and Noble, His Grace Harold Richard Evans, Duke of Cleveland, Marquess of Winchester, and Earl of Middlesbrough"
    o   Mother - "The Most Honourable Lady Rebecca Evans-Lorraine"
    o   Brother (older) – Richard George Evans-Lorraine
    o   Sister (younger) – Avril Kimberly Evans-Lorraine
    o   Brother (younger) – Frederick Harold Evans-Lorraine
•   Friends:
    o   Professor Powell – Occult studies/Mythology Professor
    o   Captain Macgregor – commanding officer for B Group Medical Corp for 23 S.A.S.
    o   Beatrice Kearney – Amateur Occult investigator, occult studies student, and magical enthusiast
•   Alma mater: Harvard University
•   Reserve Military unit: 23 Special Air Service as a Medical Officer, 2nd Lieutenant
•   Silver Dawn Reading group – the official name for a magical studies and occult investigations enthusiast group that she is a member of.  Qualifies as a magical cult.
•   Staff:
    o   Attendant/Butler – Bryce Adler
    o   Maid/Housekeeper – Candace Hall
    o   Chef – Jonathan Green
    o   Chauffeur – Mei Li Ward

Reason to Follow the Note: A strong curiosity, overriding common sense, for anything mystical or legendary.  A small part of her wishes to escape the pressures her parents, society, and academia place on her.

Card: Three of Swords


Despite grounding in medical science, part time British military discipline, and stuffy high society English nobility upbringing, she has always had a strong love for magic, faeries, and other fantastical things.  While other children wanted to play the Princess or the knight, she happily took on the role of the dragon, the witch, or the beguiling faerie.  She has independently studied the occult and suffers from an unnaturally strong curiosity for such things.      

Lorelei, or Lore as she is known her friends, is someone who has been forced into a specific mold of what one should be.  Forced to wear a mask of a proper lady, high culture, and refinement.  For much of her life it has been what father or mother wants, father or mother gets.  Her only small successes were being able to choose medicine as her course of study in university, selecting Plymouth, in the United States, to live and attend school, and undertaking her family's duty to military service as her elder brother is physically unfit to do so.  Her father's influence and desire to protect his precious daughter allowed her only to enter the reserves.

Generous to a fault and fiercely loyal to those she holds dear, Lore can still be caught up on appearances and inconsequential details.  Never afraid of hard work, Lore can get the job done.  A precious trait she holds close is the last remnant of her naive youth, the belief in the fantastic and mystical.  She may not view the world with childlike wonder, but she is open-minded to the possibilities of things that can defy reason and logic.

Lore was born in the year of the dog, in the season of summer; in the month that Emerald holds sway.  She is strongly drawn to sapphires and has been told that both metal and fire are elementally important to her.  

Name:
Robert Orin Charles

Occupation:
I.T. Support Technician

Living Conditions:
Robert works nine to five doing I.T. drudge work at a university he graduated from not too long ago. When that's over, he goes home to a studio apartment and tunes out mostly, reading, surfing the web, watching TV. Occasionally he hangs out at the local bookstore, and most Sunday nights he sits in on a Dresden Files RPG one of the Biochemistry professors runs. Lather, rinse, repeat.

Significant Relations:
Zachary Cameron is his boss at the local university he works at, Professor Michael Bishop Ph.D leads his Dresden game, his mother lives in Maidstone, and really, not much else. His friends all moved on to bigger, better things after college graduation, he's the last holdout.

Reason to Follow the Note:
Robert's life has been in a holding pattern since college. He's soul-crushingly bored with what he has, and has been looking for an escape. Mysterious notes arriving out of nowhere? Shadowy inhuman figures? This is EXACTLY the adventure he seeks.

Card:
Wheel of Fortune

Robert is very intelligent, and as is implied earlier in his profile, rather bored. He had grown up reading and watching stories of mystery, action, adventure, but his own life always seemed to him rather normal, even dreary. Some of this, however, is his own doing, as the closest he's come to seeking out action and adventure was buying a car with painfully bad resale. Now that he is going to be getting a bit of adventure, who knows how he'll actually react to it. He may end up wishing he was more careful what he wished for.

Robert (don't call him Bob, just don't, he hates it.) likes to think of himself as cultured, sophisticated, and a bit eccentric. However, he comes from a working-class background and it shows, as he is prone to seek comfort in the more simple things, a drive in his 147 or a curry and a bitter. He was born in the year of the Tiger and the month of the Twins, and he is vaguely aware of this. He hasn't looked much into what it MEANS, mind you, but hey, some people are going to be interested in this sort of thing.

Name: Daniel Nevans
Age: 23
Occupation: College Student
Living Conditions: small appartment with three others, typical college clutter. Living room with a couch and game setup, kitchenette in varying degrees of cleanness.
Significant Relations:

Mother: Mary Nevans
Father: Eric Nevans
Sister: Linda Nevans
Brother: Eric Nevans
Friend+Unseen Realm Contact: Emily Marron
Professor Allen Hershal: Lit Professor, keeps tabs on Daniel as he sees him as a kindred spirit with potential.
Edward Sanders: Best friend, chemistry major.
Charles Maron: Roommate
Benjamin Childers: Roommate


Unseen Realm: Unseen Realm is a loose coalation of occultist, occult followers, conspiricy theorist. Has no central leadership, but can organize via an online forum. Members are typically encouraged to avoid causing problems for the public, though they have not real control over their members, but try to work with the local authorities when a member gets out of hand.

Unseen Realm is known to be one of the seedier occult "cults" (bit of a misnomer as not every member adheres to the same beliefs). While not exactly dangerous, some members skirt the edges of the law to varying degrees.

Reason to Follow the Note: Curiosity, seeking to capture the living, breathing, occult over the stale book definition in his writing.
Card: 5 of swords

Daniel Nevans is a Creative Writing Student at the local College. Since the age of ten, Daniel has had a varied palate of activities. He was quite active in martial arts, Boy Scouts, literary forums and metallurgy. Though he never truely mastered in these endevors, this gave him a wide base of knowledge and experience for which he finally decided to try and market this random mishmash of skills through writing.

Daniel is a relatively personable person. He's easy going and can talk to almost anybody. Though he has many aquantances, he doesn't have many people who he'd really consider as a friend. Other than Edward, his best friend, and his roommates Daniel has started hanging out with Emily Marron, a self proclaimed wiccan, who has been helping him with his research by introducing him to the occult community. Daniel's willingness to plunge into things, and the fact that he keeps an open mind about him even if he doesn't believe in the subject, has let him join the Unsceen Realm's members with little friction. Allen Hershal, a writer and litterature professor from semesters past, keeps tabs on Daniel from time to time to see how his writing is coming along out of interest.

Name: Nanabi Tybalt.

Occupation: Retired, (former CEO of the Tybalt Trading Company).

Living Conditions:  Upper Middle Class.

Significant Relations: Solomon Tybalt (husband, deceased).  Kiriko Tybalt (daughter, deceased).  Michael Tybalt (son, estranged.) Tybalt Trading Company (Former CEO, Founder, since replaced by Michael Tybalt.)  Agnosticism.

Reason to Follow the Note:  Loneliness, regret over missed opportunities, and a profound desire to communicate with people again despite being dreadfully afraid.

History: Nanbi is a Japanese woman, pushing sixty now, who married an Italian merchant, and with him founded a successful trading company.  Becoming renowned for ruthlessness, she turned a tidy bit of profit from the company.  When a vengeful CEO of one of the myriad companies Nanabi had ruined took vengeance upon her through her husband and daughter with a shotgun, Nanabi pressed on.  Almost a decade later, she passed the torch to her surviving son, and retired to the suburbs in a modestly large home with servants to tend to on her behalf.
Alone, and realizing that she had years of her life left but no hobbies, no friends, and no longer any family to spend time with...Nanabi came to regret.  She came to regret her decisions as CEO, as a wife, as a mother, as a human being.  Her son refused to speak to her, now that he had her company and the sums it produced.  So, from her own funds she spent time trying to make amends for her misdeeds.  In the end, she just had more wasted time.
Periodically, she would try to speak with the servants, get to know them, perhaps find a friend among them.  But it soon became clear her reputation for cruelty preceded her, and she was alone.

Alone with the memories, and regret.

Her days go with reading books she does not care for, and reading the newspaper for societies that perhaps she could join to find human contact.

Card: Two of Pentacles.

And with that, five characters have been approved! I'll get to writing up an IC post and close the RP to new characters after the post has been up for a week.

Finally I've cut down to a manageable size and now meet

Lemick Faust (Age: 21)

Occupation: Janitor for the Second Federal Bank (Cleaner's Union 66)
Living Conditions: Working Class

Significant Relations: Glenda Vanilla (Downstairs Neighbor, works mostly as a cosmetics saleswoman but also moonlights her cooking skills) Mr. Darwics (Lemick's Boss and President of the bank) Marinetta Delora (Lemick's superior and a mean hand with a feather duster) Cleaner's Union 66 (Joining this is a requirement for janitors, cleaners, housekeepers, etc.)

Reason to follow the note: Living has become rather dull in Lemick's eyes and so the note was an interesting event to warrant following.

Card: Nine of Swords

Life has not been easy for Lemick Faust, starting out abandoned at birth. Unfortunately he was just bounced around in foster care, never ending up with any caretaker taking enough of an interest in him. In his education, no matter how hard he tried, in spite of all the late nights reviewing and note taking he ended up with average grades. When he applied for college he didn't even manage to make a single acceptance to any institution. And so he had to make do with what he had when he left foster care at the age of eighteen. Finding a job with only a high school diploma is not easy but he finally managed to become one of the janitors at the Second Federal Bank. The salary was enough to let him rent a small one floor apartment, though at times requiring serious maintenance. Routine has been the key word of his week, from waking up, speaking to Glenda the cosmetics saleswoman living on the floor below his, to making sure that the clean image of the bank remains that way, to going back home and enjoying the small entertainment he is able to steadily afford, fairy tales.

The IC thread is now up. The RP will officially close 2/27/12 until it is workable to bring in more people.

http://clockworkmansion.com/forum/index.php/topic,8834.0.html

I'm interested!  *Goes to PM character profile*

And my character has been approved!

Everyone, meet Damien:

Name:  Damien Stryfe

Occupation:  Works full time in a music store, going to college part time (studying music, with a side of business and teaching.  He wants to own his own store and offer music lessons one day).

Living Conditions:  Upper Lower Class.  Damien comes from a poor family, and thus didn't have anything to start with when he came of age to be on his own.  Through lots of hard work and plenty of overtime hours, he's managed to get himself a studio apartment in a not TOO bad part of town.  What money he makes that he doesn't use on essentials tends to go towards his part-time college courses, so his apartment is only lightly furnished.  What he does have is secondhand and worn, but his place is spotless and he takes good care of his possessions.  As a special note, he's hung thick blankets on the walls of his apartment to act as a sort of amateur soundproofing, so as to not annoy his neighbors when he's practicing music.

Significant Relations:
Family -
Father:  Adam Stryfe
Mother:  Mary Stryfe
Older siblings (in order):  Lucas Stryfe, Riley Stryfe, Taisa Stryfe, Adrial Stryfe, Adair Stryfe (twins)
Younger siblings (in order):  Cain Stryfe, Rose Stryfe, Sophie Stryfe, Blade Stryfe.
Boss -
Tom Carter is Damien's boss at the music store where he works.  Tom is rather fond of the young man, treating him like a younger brother and giving him a discount on things Damien needs for his instruments when he can get away with it (Damien has a little too much pride to take advantage of it often).
Pet -
Lucky is a retired alley tomcat who Damien found sick and injured and nursed back to health.  This massive, battlescarred cat is a perfect sweetheart to his owner, but is SATAN INCARNATE to everyone else.  Tread with caution (and boots, he likes ankles).

Reason to Follow the Note:  Damien has three reasons for following the note, although he himself probably wouldn't be able to voice them all.  The first reason is that he's a bit of a dreamer, and deep down inside has a secret hope that there's MORE to the world than just what we normally see.  The second deals with growing up in a large, poor family.  He had to share EVERYTHING with his siblings, and never had anything new that was his and his alone.  He would like to have something besides his music that is just for him, and he doesn't have to share with his siblings (even though he loves them to bits).  The third is simple, plain curiosity.  As in, cat-levels of curiosity.

Card:  Seven of Pentacles

sorry, its gonna be a bit before I get a post up. Just had a new computer arrive in the mail, and between that and writing a short story for class, I've been a bit tied up.

Edit: Also, wasn't my card 5 of swords?

Quote from: SquirrelWizard on February 25, 2012, 02:47:46 PM
Edit: Also, wasn't my card 5 of swords?

Yes, Daniel's card is. However, the Nine of Swords is his event card, so to speak. Daniel's (or any other character's) card represents a common theme over time, which hopefully I can do justice as the plot progresses. The event card represents the "here and now", so to speak, of what's going on during the short period of time described.

EDIT: At this time, Bishop's Stone is now closed. It will open again in time; it's just a matter of how fast the plot progresses before it does so.

"The city," as most people know it, is officially named Joneswark. Built along an oddly secluded shore on the east coast, it can be thought of as three "rings," in a sense, centered around a central government building known as the Spire. Each ring is a separate economic class, starting with the wealthy upper class in the central ring, the middle class in the ring outside it, and the lower class on the edge of the city. At the same time, the city is also divided into five districts radiating from the Spire, named Plymouth, Jamestown, Saybrook, Charleston, and Roanoke. Plymouth covers the northern half of the coast, and replaces the lower class of the outer ring with the upper class's summer homes and luxury harbors. The lower class living in between the two upper class realms make their living off souvenir sales and tourism, as the beaches are often used as spiritual retreats. Charleston, on the southern half of the coast and extending to a major shipping highway, is a hub for all things mercantile. Many corporations have their HQs in the central ring, and more than one black market can be found if one goes looking on the fringes. Next on the clockwise rotation is Saybrook, home to the emergency HQ, from which policemen, firemen, and emergency room doctors are distributed across the city. In addition, it houses the local militia-like National Guard chapter. On the far side from the coast is Roanoke, nicknamed the Disappearing District after its lack of anything particularly special, and thus ease of being forgotten. Here the basic structure of the city's rings - that is, of upper class and a couple of multi-corporate administration buildings in the center, middle class and office buildings past that, and lower class and factories on the fringes - is most evident. Finally, Jamestown serves as a hub for the food and drug industry, both legal and illegal. Aside from the buildings housing such things as epigenetic research corporations, microbreweries, and meat packing plants, there are the heroin dealers, "party homes," meth houses, and the homes of the people who work in or make use of each.

Places of interest include Joneswark University, the local public college; Edward Jones University, the local private college; the Spire, behind whose mirrored windows nobody really knows what occurs; and Bishop's Stone, a well-known boulder just outside the city limits so named after it was the only thing left unblessed by the founder's bishop in the colonial days.

Check check one two, check one two, is this game on? Saturday is coming.

Dont you know? There is an invasion on. Giant sentient ships flying out of dark space hellbent on ending all life in our galaxy as we know it. I've been a bit preoccupied keeping our species alive....

(anywho... i'm trying to work on my post...)

On foot against a Reaper...

I am working on a post... really.

Protip: Most people just look until they find the relevant paragraph to their character. Once found, they assume nothing else will pertain to them since after all, wouldn't that just end up in the paragraph pertaining to them anyway? If you're going to do something like this again, put notes at the end of each section that says, "(see also: last part of post)" or something like that. It took me a few looks to figure out that bit myself and that was mostly because you had declared to some character (not mine) that everyone was going to be gathered back together any moment (aka next GM post) and my particular section ended with no such prompts so I dug deeper to figure out what I was missing. If I did not habitually read other characters' storylines, I probably would assume I was still in Avalon myself.

Point. I'll make a habit of putting something like ((Plot post! The last section is in addition to any of the personal sections!)) at the top of plot posts.

I updated my post.

Sorry, I've been swamped by my creative writing class, been spending a lot of time on my work to ensure I pass.

You know, I must admit, running this game has given me an interesting look at how people respond when they discover a danger they didn't know existed before, even if it was always present. As GM, I'm thinking, "Oh, yeah, they need faerie involvement and such to show that this is everywhere, but it won't cause too much strange behavior." Meanwhile, it seems like everyone who's directly interacting with them is going, "Oh god it's a faerie they're so dangerous they're going to kill meeeeeeeeeeee!!!"

Really? Who's doing that? I mean the most I've been seeing is that people don't want the fae knowing that they know. Cause fae don't mess with normal people, but they do mess with people who know about them. So it's not just that we've noticed we've walking along a tightrope so much as we're walking a tightrope and ALSO our shoes suddenly have spikes on them that might fray the ropes if we're not careful.

Bah, I've finally got done with the big glaring project my class wants but now it looks like I've fallen too far behind to keep up with this RP. Sorry about that.

Quote from: SquirrelWizard on April 21, 2012, 11:34:07 PM
Bah, I've finally got done with the big glaring project my class wants but now it looks like I've fallen too far behind to keep up with this RP. Sorry about that.

No major plot points have been hit between your last post and now. Feel free to hop back in; plot won't advance unless everyone is accounted for in one way or another. Besides, you're not getting out of this that easy. >:D

Alright, I just cant garruntee a post anytime soon.

Having just finished the work for my creative writing class, I can see my finals looming in the distance holding a baseball bat meaningfully.

Just in case it wasn't clear, you're only in control of your own character by default. If you have an NPC that you'd like to have a hand in writing or something similar, feel free to PM me and we can discuss.

Fff-- Sorry guys, I completely forgot to make a post today. I'll make sure it's first on my to-do list tomorrow, so a post should be up by noon MST (GMT-7).

So... I take it people haven't killed Diablo enough times yet?

Repetitious monster grinding gets so very boring after awhile.

I'd blame AnthroCon for the derth of posts and move on, but I don't think anyone here actually went to AnthroCon... Any last posters before I make a GM post?

I may not be play Diablo 3 anymore, but I am involved in an alpha and two ongoing betas.  I don't have a whole lot to add at the moment, but I will add a bit now.

Sorry, I'm running low on inspiration for this at the moment. Right now I'm sort of doing my own thing away from the group and my path is pretty straightforward in that next step is get the nightshade to little bro but after that I am honestly at a loss for what to do. I have the feeling that without their own personal quests to go off, other players are feeling a similar loss for what to do. Right now the plot is essentially, "Fairies exist! Now go about life as normal." which works for a bit... but quickly devolves into just going about our regular business which makes for not a terribly interesting plot to follow and does not inspire most muses. Not sure how you can use that info, but I hope it helps.

Hopefully that won't be a problem, though if you'd prefer, I can try having multiple character plots going at once instead of the current one-at-a-time approach.

Edit: By the way, if anyone finds themselves looking at one of my posts and going, "I don't need to respond to that," let me know and I'll continue your story.

Fair warning, I'm going to do a plot post the Sunday after this one come hell or high water. I'll try to find a way to make scenes not seem too weird as the transition goes if you don't post next week, but try and at least get something there for simplicity's sake.

Triple posting for the win? SilverDemonWolf, if and when you do come back, Damien is now in stasis. I can pull him out and back into the story whenever you're ready. Same goes for you, SquirrelWizard; it seems like you're focusing on more important matters, and I don't want to pile more on your plate.

Guild Wars 2, I am blaming it as my reason for missing posting.  Seems legit, right?

Anyways, there wasn't a whole lot I was going to add.

It seems I forgot to say this outright somewhere, and have just been heavily implying it by accident: Normal humans don't go into Avalon. They don't even know it exists. When they do go in, and do know it exists, it means something's gone wrong. So, if you're going to try and leave a good impression of humans, don't be in Avalon when you make your scene or whatever. I realize I probably made that difficult in the last plot post, since I skewed the description heavily towards Avalon's side of events, so I'll write this next post for those present without any major impression-making opportunities.

Wait, is the festival in avalon? I thought it sort of mingle-y. Although it probably doesn't matter too much in David's case. Too much pessimism so he's really not thinking in terms of "Imma do something impressive to convince these guys we aren't so bad!" Whatever happens in his case is going to be coincidental and fundamentally based on who he is, not something he's doing on purpose.

It is in both Avalon and Joneswark, though Avalon has it in a more widespread fashion (it's all one big street party), whereas Joneswark has it more like the Superbowl (lots of revelry and good times in bars and the like, but not so much out in the streets). Since yours was rather ambiguous as to where David is (and I drew the Page of Pentacles >.>), I think I can get away with you having the opportunity for being a known face, at least, since I can throw you into either city.

EDIT: Huh. So, reading more in-depth into everyone's post, I find that the only one that isn't in Joneswark is Lorelei's. Sorry Azlan, but it looks like you're the only one that isn't going to at least have some way of sharing your face; I'm not going to delay for one person.

I did not really have any idea what to post really, so I just posted her having fun.  There is no need to be a prick about it.

Hello Meany I'm speaking to your character if you don't mind.

Okay, so... between my sister's birthday, too much gaming, and homework, I'm probably going to be late with the post, and it may be a bit funky. Just FYI. If I don't catch any confusing/weird things tomorrow when I'm rested feel free to send me a PM and ask.

Let me know if there is not enough naive idealism in her reply, my inherent cynicism can bleed through without my knowledge.  This is one of those questions that can have strong overriding opinions.

Quote from: Inumo on December 10, 2012, 02:24:03 AM

Eight of Cups

The kappa sighs at Lorelei's edge over his mythical status.

This may not be what was intended.

Whoops, thanks for pointing that out. *goes to fix*

Ugh, my bad on forgetting a post. I'll try to get one up by 8:30 AM (GMT-7) tomorr-- today.

I'd say this is my cue to post something quickly, but I'm fair distracted of late and won't have anything for this week. Maybe for next week too.

So, it seems like we might be getting bogged down a bit in the menial back-and-forths of fake choices and quasi-dialogue. Do I have your guys' permission to expand reasoning to play out scenes via PM and do a bit of railroading if it's absolutely necessary? I'll try and make my fake-choice stuff a bit more actual-choice either way (for example, pointing out that inaction is always an option).

On a semi-related note, is anybody using the glossary in the first post, or should I just go ahead and nix it since I'm not sure what's still accurate and what isn't/what to share and what to keep secret?

There was a what now? Totally didn't even notice. I suppose I would be okay with having things shepherded a bit more. Guess I'm a bit distracted by stuff...

A stronger hand on your guiding hand would not go unwelcome in my case, as I tend to err on the side of passivity.

I do tend to be rather busy, so it is fine to do so.

I am cool with the pming, not so sure on the glossary. :x

So, ah... This thing still running, or is the engine dead now?

So, it's been just under two weeks since my last post. Even with my derps here and there, and school finals coming up/already passed (for those of us still in school), I would think people would at least be able to have said, "Yeah, I'm still around," or "No, I've gotta drop." Can I get a response, por favor?

In the words of John Rzeznik, I'm still here.

Yes, I am still here.  Lore and I are at an impasse and in order to resolve this, I've taken a bit of a break to finish New Vegas (after several years of absence).

Ah yes, sorry. I meant to tell you last month but finals and then other stuff and I literally have not checked the forums in like two weeks. David's a cool guy and I've actually learned a few things from playing him, but right now his character is at a place where he just wants to get on with his life. He's been thoroughly disillusioned of the mysticism that came with the fae world and he's pretty much treating it as 'business as usual' now. As a result I have not really had any further inspiration for him for quite some time now. Add that to the fact that I'm literally in no other RPs that are even stirring around here and I've been kind of drifting away from Clockwork. I'll probably come back eventually, but in the meanwhile I have other things to worry about. I'll be back in like a month or so I'm sure, see you around.

Alrighty, I've tossed David in stasis. PM me when you want to join back in.

On a half-related note, opening the RP back up for submissions, though I'unno if the RP population has changed enough to get new folks in.

I'm interested in joining the rp if possible. (EDIT: or if its still goin...)

The RP is still going, though the only interaction going on at the moment is through PMs. Shoot me a PM with your character sheet when you're ready.

Ok then, it's Sent.

Ok It seems i've been approved for the rp here. So here is the char sheet i'll use for this one.

Name: Kirrin Shaddix (Shadowclaw)
Occupation:Construction Worker Foreman
Living Conditions: Average at best though he does live in a ramshackle trailer park with little or nothing better to do than get drunk or sleep since the company he works for doesn't pay proper for the position he is in.
Significant Relations: His relatives of note cut him loose a long while back, mostly because of his temper and smoking habits (A lot of folks can't take the sour smoke of a thumb-thick stogie style Cigar) His friends though don't truly count as friends. He Considers them people to drink, smoke and fight with.
Reason to Follow the Note: He is actually seeking to change his life, make things a little more tolerable for him in most parts he is, for lack of a better word, a delinquent. Though all things considered he may fall into old habits if not watched or is pushed enough.
Card: The star
(Edit: Just realized i double posted here, technically i think though.)

Something I feel I should make clear, time is extremely malleable for this game. Don't worry if you end up spacing for a few weeks between posts; you don't need to account for them, since time moves at speed of post, not speed of life.

Apologies for not posting yesterday; I neglected to mention here that I was going to a local convention. I'll have something up tonight.

it's no problem. Have fun!

New character approved

Name: Marci Kensworth
Occupation: Courier
Age: 23
Living Conditions: Average, typical two bedroom apartment.
Significant Relations: Her mother (Janice) a very caring woman who just seems a little over protective even with Marci on her own. Her Father (Alan) A stern and Strong Man and encouraging, finally there is her younger Sister (Stacey) she's only 17 and a bit on the zany side, but these two sisters love each other very much.
Personality: Most people consider Marci a sweet person with a bit of a sunny disposition, fiercely loyal to any friend she makes and tough on anyone who gets her mad.
Appearance: Marci has long midnight Blue hair and hazel eyes. She usually wears a bright green t-shirt with a band logo upon it a pair of blue jeans with a brown leather belt around her waist and a pair of black and white sneakers
Accessories: A gold necklace with a gold Locket that has a picture of her parents and her sister on the inside. Also a Pair of silver colored rectangle framed shades with Emerald lenses that she likes to wear.
Card:Six of Swords

Before I forget: Due to moving, my tarot cards are in a box being shipped halfway across the country at the moment, and I derped on drawing new cards for some folks. I don't know if I'll have them by Sunday, so posting might be delayed until the box arrives.

No prob, thanks for the heads up.

With the recent moving of Lorelei Ainsley Evans to the stasis section of the character list, we're down to two active players. You probably already noticed that, but now it's official. At this point, the question arises: do you guys want to keep playing, or should we call it here?

I'd be good with either really, though i'd like to keep going if we can.

I'd like to see where this is going, but given my (lack of) speed in posting, I'll leave the final decision to you.

Hm... Here's how we'll do it, then. Let's keep going with it, keep the RP open, and go until each character ends their latest plot (Marci and the bombing, and Robert and the interview [with a possible side track down a party path]). From there, we can re-evaluate.

Okay, finals week and coming home for winter break combined took a lot more energy than I expected. I promise, I will write up a post before Christmas Day.

Between my new semester of two lab courses and the infestation of crickets that has taken over the IC thread, I think it's just time to write up the toe-tag for this RP. I might try reviving this concept later, but in the interim if anyone wants to know what was going on in their stories, feel free to shoot me a PM!

Yeah, u'll be opting to wait on the off chance this gets a revival. Sorry  went quiet in it though.