Why You're Interested In The Server: Because it looks really awesome and I would love to play on it when it is done.
Do you know how to roleplay? (Say so if you don't!): Well, to answer that question, we must first ask ourselves, 'what is roleplaying?'
While, if you mean can I take on the role of a person and act through them then yes, but if you mean can I eat 7 tacos at the same time, also yes.
If yes, how long have you been roleplaying? (And, optional, on what games?): Since Summer of '12.
The games I have roleplayed on include (but are not limited to): gMod, Minecraft, omegle (I've been asked to do some stuff I am not proud of- no what, scratch that, I am proud of sexting with Frank the 43 year old)
IC
Character Name: Cruben Longsword
Character Age: 42
Character Personality: An old crabby man who hates mostly everyone who walks into his line of sight, and will do what he has to to get you out of it.
Character Physical Description (Preferably your minecraft skin, describe if needed):
Character Backstory(The more detailed the better, but I'll ask for quality over quantity. Make it interesting first, long afterwards. 2-3 paragraphs of decent length will do fine.):
Long ago, there lived an young boy named Cruben. Cruben had a nice home in the kingdom. He had a mother and a father who worked very hard for him because, as his mother had always said "If you can't help yourself, help another". Cruben had always tried to help make some money around the kingdom to give a nice surprise to his parents but, was never really respected and was treated how he is, a child. Cruben always hated that. But what Cruben didn't know was that that was about to all change within a matter of years.
Cruben is now 17 years of age and has finally fulfilled his dream of helping his parents, for, they cannot work anymore. They had caught one of the many plagues going around. They had grown sick tremendously fast and couldn't do much. Almost everyone in the kingdom of Ga'al had this plague, it was a disgusting sight, the plague made the people infected by it vomit every time they ate, forcing them to starve. Those who weren't infected however, had chosen to continue working as if nothing had happened. Although Cruben, has chosen to get to the bottom of this mystery. He decided to try and figure out where this plague came from, for his huge imagination has thought up an somewhat horrible idea of what the answer was. He thought it was a wizard who had cast a spell to make them plagued. Cruben had never seen a wizard but had heard many legends about them. He had wanted to become one of them ever since he heard his first story about them. Back on track, Cruben looked around the forest next to the kingdom in hope of finding evidence of a wizard when he saw something peculiar. A squirrel was looking at him very oddly, so Cruben started after it. It didn't move oddly enough, and Cruben picked it up. To his amazement he saw something odd in it's eye, it looked like a person. The squirrel then exploded and Cruben walked back in shock of what happened. Then he heard rustling in the trees next to him, so he chased after him. He saw purple ropes running away. He ran faster. The thing he was chasing after tripped over a twig on the floor and Cruben went closer to investigate. He saw a dark skinned man face down in the dirt. The man wasn't black so to say, but more, gray. Cruben turned him around, got on top of him and asked him "What do you have to do with this!" "What?" the man asked in noticeably fake shock. "You know!" "Okay! Okay! I'll tell you! I was sent here by the dark ones!" "Who are they?" "I WISH I KNEW". Cruben punched the man in the face several times, feeling stronger each time. "Who are you!" Cruben asked "I am one of their servants, a dark mage!" Cruben looked at the sky knowing he was right for believing in magic. Blood spurted from the man's face, and he died. Cruben suddenly felt very strong with, what he could only assume was magic.
Cruben was on his way back to the kingdom when he saw 3 men entering wearing the same robes as the man who Cruben had just killed. The man slowly turned, eventually facing Cruben and one said "Stop! or face the power of the Dark Ones!" Cruben- without intentionally, put his hand up, palm towards the 3. The 3 did the same. before the last one could put his hand up, Cruben yelled- not knowing where it came from "Brsingr!" And a burst of fire shot out of his hand, setting the 3 on fire. Cruben hid the bodies and stayed in the forest for a while, contemplating what he had done and what to do next. He decided to go back to the kingdom and see if anyone else had news. When he went back, he saw that everyone who had the plague, was cured! Cruben instantly assumed it was his doings which had cured the infected of the plague! He decided to pretend nothing had happened in the forest and everyone believed it was some powerful being who had done what had happened.
Cruben had done that for 10 years and all had gone has it went before the plague. Cruben's parents were growing old and weary, with not much he could do. Cruben was going in the forest to gather lumber. When he saw a man in the robes he had saw 10 years ago. The man didn't wait for Cruben to make the first move, he put his hand up and yelled un-audible words. A beam of lasers shot out of his hand right towards Cruben, with nothing he could do, so he ducked. Cruben just dodged the beams but another burst of them hit him right in the face, Cruben fell to the floor.
Cruben woke up, dazed by what happened. but when he stood up, he noticed something odd. His skin was all wrinkly and dehydrated as if he was on the floor sitting there for 20 years! He turned around to see his old kingdom in ruins with all but his house still intact. He ran to the house to see skeletons of what he could only assume to be his parents, he sobbed uncontrollably until he looked up at the mirror above him and saw that he was atleast 20 years older than when he was hit. He then yelled at the sky saying "WHYYYYYYYYYYYY"
Sorry about some of the backstory, not enough info in the lore, I also didn't want to make myself pre into the story important, but still a good lore in my opinion.
JimJimJimBob, I'm going to have to defer you (And not only because of the odd humour in the OOC Chat that had us facepalming ourselves-) because there's some problems with the backstory.
1. You've made up a set of villains that aren't possible to exist in this realm. 'Dark ones' with magical powers sent by evil...
2. Cruben knows magic without ever having trained. This is a semi-realistic medieval fantasy world, and that can't happen. Magic is weak, and you HAVE to train, you don't have hidden powers.
3. (Minor) Yelling at the sky saying 'whhyyyy'? Cheesy.
JimJimJimBob, I'm going to have to defer you (And not only because of the odd humour in the OOC Chat that had us facepalming ourselves-) because there's some problems with the backstory.
1. You've made up a set of villains that aren't possible to exist in this realm. 'Dark ones' with magical powers sent by evil...
2. Cruben knows magic without ever having trained. This is a semi-realistic medieval fantasy world, and that can't happen. Magic is weak, and you HAVE to train, you don't have hidden powers.
3. (Minor) Yelling at the sky saying 'whhyyyy'? Cheesy.
Sorry about 2, I forgot something to put in at the end, for 1, not much I can do, wanna pretend it didn't happen and I'll do a Frank on you?
OOC
In Game Name: JimJimJimBob
Age (Optional): 14
Why You're Interested In The Server: Because it looks really awesome and I would love to play on it when it is done.
Do you know how to roleplay? (Say so if you don't!): Well, to answer that question, we must first ask ourselves, 'what is roleplaying?'
While, if you mean can I take on the role of a person and act through them then yes, but if you mean can I eat 7 tacos at the same time, also yes.
If yes, how long have you been roleplaying? (And, optional, on what games?): Since Summer of '12.
The games I have roleplayed on include (but are not limited to): gMod, Minecraft, omegle (I've been asked to do some stuff I am not proud of- no what, scratch that, I am proud of sexting with Frank the 43 year old)
IC
Character Name: Cruben Longsword
Character Age: 42
Character Personality: An old crabby man who hates mostly everyone who walks into his line of sight, and will do what he has to to get you out of it.
Character Physical Description (Preferably your minecraft skin, describe if needed):
Character Backstory(The more detailed the better, but I'll ask for quality over quantity. Make it interesting first, long afterwards. 2-3 paragraphs of decent length will do fine.):
Long ago, there lived an young boy named Cruben. Cruben had a nice home in the kingdom. He had a mother and a father who worked very hard for him because, as his mother had always said "If you can't help yourself, help another". Cruben had always tried to help make some money around the kingdom to give a nice surprise to his parents but, was never really respected and was treated how he is, a child. Cruben always hated that. But what Cruben didn't know was that that was about to all change within a matter of years.
Cruben is now 17 years of age and has finally fulfilled his dream of helping his parents, for, they cannot work anymore. They had caught one of the many plagues going around. They had grown sick tremendously fast and couldn't do much. Almost everyone in the kingdom of Ga'al had this plague, it was a disgusting sight, the plague made the people infected by it vomit every time they ate, forcing them to starve. Those who weren't infected however, had chosen to continue working as if nothing had happened. Although Cruben, has chosen to get to the bottom of this mystery. He decided to try and figure out where this plague came from, for his huge imagination has thought up an somewhat horrible idea of what the answer was. He thought it was a wizard who had cast a spell to make them plagued. Cruben had never seen a wizard but had heard many legends about them. He had wanted to become one of them ever since he heard his first story about them. Back on track, Cruben looked around the forest next to the kingdom in hope of finding evidence of a wizard when he saw something peculiar. A squirrel was looking at him very oddly, so Cruben started after it. It didn't move oddly enough, and Cruben picked it up. To his amazement he saw something odd in it's eye, it looked like a person. The squirrel then exploded and Cruben walked back in shock of what happened. Then he heard rustling in the trees next to him, so he chased after him. He saw purple ropes running away. He ran faster. The thing he was chasing after tripped over a twig on the floor and Cruben went closer to investigate. He saw a dark skinned man face down in the dirt. The man wasn't black so to say, but more, gray. Cruben turned him around, got on top of him and asked him "What do you have to do with this!" "What?" the man asked in noticeably fake shock. "You know!" "Okay! Okay! I'll tell you! I was sent here by the dark ones!" "Who are they?" "I WISH I KNEW". Cruben punched the man in the face several times, feeling stronger each time. "Who are you!" Cruben asked "I am one of their servants, a dark mage!" Cruben looked at the sky knowing he was right for believing in magic. Blood spurted from the man's face, and he died. Cruben suddenly felt very strong with, what he could only assume was magic.
Cruben was on his way back to the kingdom when he saw 3 men entering wearing the same robes as the man who Cruben had just killed. The man slowly turned, eventually facing Cruben and one said "Stop! or face the power of the Dark Ones!" Cruben- without intentionally, put his hand up, palm towards the 3. The 3 did the same. before the last one could put his hand up, Cruben yelled- not knowing where it came from "Brsingr!" And a burst of fire shot out of his hand, setting the 3 on fire. Cruben hid the bodies and stayed in the forest for a while, contemplating what he had done and what to do next. He decided to go back to the kingdom and see if anyone else had news. When he went back, he saw that everyone who had the plague, was cured! Cruben instantly assumed it was his doings which had cured the infected of the plague! He decided to pretend nothing had happened in the forest and everyone believed it was some powerful being who had done what had happened.
Cruben had done that for 10 years and all had gone has it went before the plague. Cruben's parents were growing old and weary, with not much he could do. Cruben was going in the forest to gather lumber. When he saw a man in the robes he had saw 10 years ago. The man didn't wait for Cruben to make the first move, he put his hand up and yelled un-audible words. A beam of lasers shot out of his hand right towards Cruben, with nothing he could do, so he ducked. Cruben just dodged the beams but another burst of them hit him right in the face, Cruben fell to the floor.
Cruben woke up, dazed by what happened. but when he stood up, he noticed something odd. His skin was all wrinkly and dehydrated as if he was on the floor sitting there for 20 years! He looked at a rabbit infront of him and tried to mimic what he had done 20 years ago, but to no avail, it seemed he could barely remember the words he said.He turned around to see his old kingdom in ruins with all but his house still intact. He ran to the house to see skeletons of what he could only assume to be his parents, he sobbed uncontrollably until he looked up at the mirror above him and saw that he was atleast 20 years older than when he was hit. He then yelled at the sky saying "WHYYYYYYYYYYYY"
Cruben is now 17 years of age and has finally fulfilled his dream of helping his parents, for, they cannot work anymore. They had caught one of the many plagues going around. They had grown sick tremendously fast and couldn't do much. Almost everyone in the kingdom of Ga'al had this plague, it was a disgusting sight, the plague made the people infected by it vomit every time they ate, forcing them to starve. Those who weren't infected however, had chosen to continue working as if nothing had happened. Although Cruben, has chosen to get to the bottom of this mystery. He decided to try and figure out where this plague came from, for his huge imagination has thought up an somewhat horrible idea of what the answer was. He thought it was a wizard who had cast a spell to make them plagued. Cruben had never seen a wizard but had heard many legends about them. He had wanted to become one of them ever since he heard his first story about them. Back on track, Cruben looked around the forest next to the kingdom in hope of finding evidence of a wizard when he saw something peculiar. A squirrel was looking at him very oddly, so Cruben started after it. It didn't move oddly enough, and Cruben picked it up. To his amazement he saw something odd in it's eye, it looked like a person. The squirrel then exploded and Cruben walked back in shock of what happened. Then he heard rustling in the trees next to him, so he chased after him. He saw purple ropes running away. He ran faster. The thing he was chasing after tripped over a twig on the floor and Cruben went closer to investigate. He saw a dark skinned man face down in the dirt. The man wasn't black so to say, but more, gray. Cruben turned him around, got on top of him and asked him "What do you have to do with this!" "What?" the man asked in noticeably fake shock. "You know!" "Okay! Okay! I'll tell you! I was sent here by the him!" "Who is him?" "I WISH I KNEW". Cruben punched the man in the face several times, feeling stronger each time. "Who are you!" Cruben asked "I am one of their servants, a dark mage!" Cruben looked at the sky knowing he was right for believing in magic. Blood spurted from the man's face, and he died. Cruben suddenly felt very strong with, what he could only assume was magic.
Cruben was on his way back to the kingdom when he saw 3 men entering wearing the same robes as the man who Cruben had just killed. The man slowly turned, eventually facing Cruben and one said "Stop! or face the power of the Him!" Cruben- without intentionally, put his hand up, palm towards the 3. The 3 did the same. before the last one could put his hand up, Cruben yelled- not knowing where it came from "Brsingr!" And a burst of fire shot out of his hand, setting the 3 on fire. Cruben hid the bodies and stayed in the forest for a while, contemplating what he had done and what to do next. He decided to go back to the kingdom and see if anyone else had news. When he went back, he saw that everyone who had the plague, was cured! Cruben instantly assumed it was his doings which had cured the infected of the plague! He decided to pretend nothing had happened in the forest and everyone believed it was some powerful being who had done what had happened.
Cruben had done that for 10 years and all had gone has it went before the plague. Cruben's parents were growing old and weary, with not much he could do. Cruben was going in the forest to gather lumber. When he saw a man in the robes he had saw 10 years ago. The man didn't wait for Cruben to make the first move, he put his hand up and yelled un-audible words. A group of bandit-like people charged at Cruben, there was no way he could win, there must have been at least 30 of them. All Cruben remembers is a pain on his forehead and falling asleep.
Cruben woke up, dazed by what happened. but when he stood up, he noticed something odd. His skin was all wrinkly and dehydrated as if he was on the floor sitting there for 20 years! He turned around to see his old kingdom in ruins with all but his house still intact. He ran to the house to see skeletons of what he could only assume to be his parents, he sobbed uncontrollably until he looked up at the mirror above him and saw that he was at least 20 years older than when he was hit. He then yelled at the sky saying "WHYYYYYYYYYYYY"
Okay, I am pretty sure I fixed the dark ones stuff but, can't take them out entirely without taking a good 2 paragraphs out of my backstory. But I will do that if I have to. I also took out the OOC Because it didn't change.
JimJimJimBob, I believe I'm going to have to reject you now (NOT Defer) because you don't understand why I had a problem with the dark ones even though I said it, and you replace "Dark ones" with the word "Him" in a sentence..That isn't much effort. Thanks for applying, but you'll have to look somewhere else.
Darknesscrusher, your backstory was a little short, but it got in enough character development to know why she's a shy person. I'd like you to work on her personality a bit (Shy is just one aspect-), but you ARE Accepted to the server. It'd just be nice if you have a more developed character prepared once we open .
No, I don't need help building, Darkness, we have plenty of workers. Thanks for the offer, though.
Jim, I meant I rejected YOU. You aren't comprehending why I rejected you, and what you did wrong with your application. I can't accept you--Nor am I willing to teach or help you to roleplay if you're putting in such little effort with changing your backstory..
I've got a question about deaths. If a character dies, do we have to create a new one, or can we be revived? And does it only count as a death if it is roleplayed out or can PvP also do the trick? It would be a little frustrating for an assassin to have to pretty much tell the victim what is happening and greatly lessen the chance of a kill.
I haven't decided that yet. PVP Kills will never permanently kill your character, it will have to be a roleplay death. An assassin would have to say that he aerial assassinates a guy from a rooftop (And if the guy wasn't looking at the roof, if he managed to dodge with nobody to shove him out of the way, it would be godmoding and he'd get in trouble, so it wouldn't be frustrating for an assassin if he wasn't an idiot.)
I Think I'll issue permanent deaths on characters mainly if it's during a story event or something and they die to a villain, because that seems the most suitable time to die. If you don't want your character to die, don't pick fights you can't win. It's fairly simple. You aren't a god, so just be careful in fights.
(If you WANT Your character to die outside of story events, you can feel free to.)
Otherwise, just try to get severely injured at most in roleplay, or if you actually get killed you can use the 'NLR' or 'New Life Rule' that some roleplays use, and have your character forget about the fight and stuff, basically revert back to a while before he died.
(PVP, if roleplayed, would likely count as injuries.)
EDIT: I'll be updating the 'races' lore soon, although they aren't quite races any more they're more like factions. You'll all see, just watch the OP.
We're considering opening the server tonight, guys. Start a conversation to see if we can get some more members and let me know if you think we should or not
Neither, still finishing Southbay, once it's finished we could probably open it (Working on another story thing at the moment though, which could wait to be finished since it wouldn't be used right away)
Basically if we start the server now, not all of the story things will be set up, and the roleplay will be mainly between players until we're prepared to advance the story.
EDIT: Also, we definitely need more players first to be able to fill all of the cities, or everyone would have to stick to one until we have enough people to do otherwise. (We only have 20 slots right now but I'm upgrading sometime)
I kind of wanted some time to build my tavern before the story started anyway. And I'd be fine if we all had to stay in one city, I probably would have drifted to the most densely populated city anyway. I dunno about anyone else, but I'd be fine if it started now.
Okay I have to ask if we should push the release back to this coming friday, because I have school every day and I'd only be on after like 5 pm my time...So friday is a more ideal opening time, but then the week after would be me having school again. Soo..worth pushing back to friday, getting a bit more work in, or do you all not want to wait another week?
Edit: If more people don't respond we're not starting tonight either way.
Still haven't had enough responses (and likely not enough players to start with.)I count 8 accepted players, we have 6 admins online, IF all 8 players responded we'd have 14 players and that may be enough to start with, but it still might be better to start on a friday. Idk.
I already told you I have school on weekdays, which means I'd get home at 5PM, only be able to start it then, and then have only a few hours to play on the server and introduce all my players. Friday I'd be able to stay up as late as I damn well please, and then I have the whole weekend. Starting on a weekday is a bad idea.
Sorry about 2, I forgot something to put in at the end, for 1, not much I can do, wanna pretend it didn't happen and I'll do a Frank on you?
Okay, I am pretty sure I fixed the dark ones stuff but, can't take them out entirely without taking a good 2 paragraphs out of my backstory. But I will do that if I have to. I also took out the OOC Because it didn't change.
This one goes out to Frank
Jim, I meant I rejected YOU. You aren't comprehending why I rejected you, and what you did wrong with your application. I can't accept you--Nor am I willing to teach or help you to roleplay if you're putting in such little effort with changing your backstory..
I Think I'll issue permanent deaths on characters mainly if it's during a story event or something and they die to a villain, because that seems the most suitable time to die. If you don't want your character to die, don't pick fights you can't win. It's fairly simple. You aren't a god, so just be careful in fights.
(If you WANT Your character to die outside of story events, you can feel free to.)
Otherwise, just try to get severely injured at most in roleplay, or if you actually get killed you can use the 'NLR' or 'New Life Rule' that some roleplays use, and have your character forget about the fight and stuff, basically revert back to a while before he died.
(PVP, if roleplayed, would likely count as injuries.)
EDIT: I'll be updating the 'races' lore soon, although they aren't quite races any more they're more like factions. You'll all see, just watch the OP.
Basically if we start the server now, not all of the story things will be set up, and the roleplay will be mainly between players until we're prepared to advance the story.
EDIT: Also, we definitely need more players first to be able to fill all of the cities, or everyone would have to stick to one until we have enough people to do otherwise. (We only have 20 slots right now but I'm upgrading sometime)
Edit: If more people don't respond we're not starting tonight either way.