I don't quite recall, but is there sort of "assumed to be doing stuff when offline, has a day job, make money you can use when you get back" sort of mechanic going on?
Because most of the concepts I'm coming up with involve a lot of moonlighting in comparison to a fairly boring and drudging day job that lets them fund it. And while I've got routes of character growth coming out of that, I don't want to spend all my valuable RPing time focused on earning food money and around town spending for someone who is supposed to have a background of a somewhat stable if incredibly boring job.
I can't quite remember where it's assumed players /are/ when they aren't around, but I certainly wouldn't mind "at work".
I've got some concepts that avoid that problem neatly, mind you, but still.
First concept:
Youngest child of someone of minor importance, she works at and expected to take over the family business. However, this definitely isn't what she wants out of life - she sneaks out, concealing herself as a man to avoid detection and word getting back to her family. She's got a keen love for adventure, though her rather romantic understanding of it might not serve her well. And she may be burning her families money to feed her appetite, putting the entire business at risk.
(I know only certain characters are allowed to write, but what about keeping accounting ledgers?)
Second concept:
A rather simple, fairly young man, working as a clerk or a secretary or a tradesman of some sort. He has a fascination others would consider morbid, catching small animals, opening them up to study what's inside. The functioning of the body, the separating of skin from skin, it fascinates him, the little squeals of pain when you do it while they are still alive... He'd love to get a human body to explore... ah, but such predilections must be kept secret, of course. Still, he has dreams... (this character could conceivably become either a warrior or a doctor, and by doctor I mean the medieval definition of the word doctor aka nutjob, but eventually his appetites and fascinations outgrow him, and he hopefully manages to set the authorities on a merry chase before inevitably being killed - either by one of his victims, a vigilante, or the authorities).
Imma sell books of ancient power, sealed with powerful locks that hide maps of deep riches - all pages are blank except for a series of crude drawings that can be turned into a flipbook of a large phallus.
No drawings, god damn it. :/ That's still seriously one of the things I hate the most. Can't even RP it because there's no mechanics to do so, since there's not even supposed to be any OOC communication about IC stuff, and I was told doing it that way was warnable. Thus, impossible. STILL FRUSTRATING.
Would be a great and hilarious scam for the dedicated though, even though they don't know how to write, they could fill page after page with gibberish and pass it off as legitimate because the other guy wouldn't know either. (except, of course, you can't. Goddamn game, this is why most of my character concepts fail, they all end up built around being able to draw or fake-write stuff. Damn my one track mind and RPing history)
Oddly enough, you /can/ probably manage graffiti with the command from before, which gives me ideas...