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Welcome to SWURB - A Homestuck Game

You are in your room. The beta version of a long awaited game is about to arive. You don't know what this game is, or what you're about to get yourself into.


Welcome to SWURB is a game based off of Andrew Hussie's Homestuck, which focuses mostly on four groups of kids; The first group we meet in Homestuck plays a game called the SBURB beta, a game about self growth and discovery. We later meet the Trolls, who play the SGRUB beta, and the dancestors, who play the alpha versions. But no matter the version, all four games are the same game. SWURB beta is the same game, too.

There are seven players who are fated to play this game together. They are you. This fate cannot be changed. But for all you know, you were just living your lives...


There are very few rules. Bold your actions, if your action is impossible you will find out. In order to hold something, you must Captchalogue it, which means that it gets imprinted into a card with a code on the back, and the Captchalogue card gets put into your Syladex, a personal storage solution that varies from person to person.

If you want to chat with another player, you must do it through a computer program. The PesterChum program has already been supplied to each player's begining computers, as well as an individual internet browser. You are not allowed to feel that a different browser is superior, becuase you know your browser is superior to all others. When chatting through Pesterchum, include the text you are chatting to.

You have no special powers. You are an ordinary human... for now. Oh, and you can't wield a weapon unless it matches your Strife Specibus. Weapons that match don't need to be put in your syladex, as they can go into your Strife Deck.

Anything else is an in universe thing that you can take an action to interact with. The game is about exploring, after all. Interfaces count as part of that.


Signups sheet:
INTERESTS: Things that you find interesting. Hobbies, collections, stuff you decorate your room in.
TYPING QUIRKS: The color of your pesterchum chat text (which happens to be your eye color), as well as if you type in some specific way (SUCH @s typing EVERY third work IN full caps AND repl@cing lowerc@se As with @s)
PERSONALITY: Are you a cool dude? A cute gale? A rowdy psychopath? Just a basic starting point for me to get to know your character.
APPEARANCE: What your character looks like. Clothes, face, etc. (keeping in mind that your eyes are the same color as your text).
ASSOSIATED COLOR: Which of the seven players you are; not related to your text color. This determines what plans I have for you, and your gender, Claspect, and other things.

The five players who got pre-inned have reserved the following slots:
BLACK/WHITE for Derm
PINK for Tiruin
GREEN for Jack A T
PALE MAROON for Arcvasti
LIGHT GREY for Elpephant Parade

These two other slots remain:
DARK GREY (female)
BRIGHT RED (female)

If the pre-ins do not confirm in thread that they are in, with full character sheets, within a few days, then their slots may become availible to other players. Players who do not get in may have guest appearences, as the whole Homestuck thing is about connections and coincidences and overcomplication.

Play will begin once BLACK/WHITE, PINK, and GREEN have been set, and signups will continue until all seven players are set.


NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENTS:

PLANETS:

SERVER/CLIENT CHAIN:
Dermonster <--
Tiruin <--
Unchained so far:
Jack AT
Elephant Parade
Arcvasti
NAV
The Froggy Ninja

OTHER SIGNIFICANT ENTITIES (Cameos/"waitlist"):
Rolepgeek
Kassire
flameboy99

[Arcvasti]

IN

Spoiler: Character sheet (click to show/hide)

INTERESTS: Literature and video games. The more obscure and impenetrable they are, the better. Collects diverse types of polearms, and displays them everywhere. His room is littered with books, both shelved and not. He has a soft spot for small furry animals, but stashes his pictures and stuffed animals away in drawers and cupboards.

TYPING QUIRK: Encloses all his text in []. Uses _ in lieu of spaces between words in sentences. Uses spaces normally between sentences. Uses a non-descript GRAY for his text. When actually provoked, uses ALL CAPS and tends towards terse sarcastic statements. Example: [Greetings. How_goes_your_day?] Example 2: [WELL_THEN. YOUR_RENOVATION_IS_APPRECIATED. VANDAL.]

PERSONALITY: A shy bookish guy with a depressive streak. Rarely shows much emotion and is very reserved.

APPEARANCE: Caucasianyish looking with brown hair[Although this is pretty hard to tell]. Wears a dark shirt and pants under a thick black trenchcoat, which he wears even in sweltering heat. This obscures his gender, and even some of his friends are confused about it. Wears oval sunglasses and often sports a hood or a hat pulled down low over his face. Always wears gray gloves, regardless of outside conditions. Has a stylized gray dragon on the front of his coat, the only acknowledgement of aesthetics in his entire outfit.

ASSOCIATED COLOUR: Pale Maroon apparently.

[The Froggy Ninja]

INTERESTS: Invention and video game design (though most games are godawful I think they can get better.) Also fascinated with the concept of an illuminati of gnomes and fairies (and constantly reminds people that fairies were huge jerks.)
TYPING QUIRKS: Bright Green. Capitalizes the letters in DWARF FORTRESS as example of both a game gone right and a game gone wrong.
PERSONALITY: Pretty cool, tends to have a deep hatred for everyone I meet (though I've learned to deal with people), has a short fuse and a short memory for grudges.
APPEARANCE: Tall, curly haired, strong but not in a physically obvious way, kind of sad looking, wears a lot of graphic tees.
ASSOSIATED COLOR: Bright Red

[Dermonster]

So many PM's to dig through arg

This was made back in april btw


INTERESTS: Tactical war games, horror novels, and transhumanism.
TYPING QUIRKS: Dark green. No particular speech patterns.
PERSONALITY: Mysterious and commanding, this girl will get to her goals one way or the other.
APPEARANCE: Really tired brown eyes. Red hair down to the mid-back, untied. A dark green shirt with this symbol on it, and a grey-black jacket overtop blue pants. Standard skin coloring of pure white.

[flabort]

I have to say, Froggy, that happens to be... perfect for my plans. Couldn't have made a better character match for that slot myself.

Derm, glad to have you still. See you put the sprite I made on display. Now I'm upset that I've decided not to illustrate it. Oh, well, obviously not great work. Better than some. Er. I have a whole bookshelf already planned out, just incase you start pulling books at random from it.

Arcvasti, also glad to to still have you. Did you expand on that sheet? The quirk and appearance sections seem longer than I recall. I'm curious how this will turn out.

Waiting to see if Tiruin and Jack are still in, Tiruin I think is having internet troubles but I hope she can still make it. Jack, I don't recall any problems with.
Elephant Parade said he'd post a sheet later today.
And then we just need our Dark Grey character.

[NAV]

IN. I didn't read all the way through Homestuck to not play forum games about it.

INTERESTS: Insects, photography, and war.
TYPING QUIRKS: =|===> Teal. She starts every message with an ascii sword.
PERSONALITY: She is very competitive, but also kind and cheerful.
APPEARANCE:She wears knights armour most of the time that conceals her appearance.
ASSOSIATED COLOR: Dark Grey

[The Froggy Ninja]

I have to say, Froggy, that happens to be... perfect for my plans. Couldn't have made a better character match for that slot myself.

... That's convenient. I just based it on myself as of my three main archetypes I'm the easiest to roleplay.

[Rolepgeek]

INTERESTS: Music and singing of all sorts; writing, story-making, world-building, and designing things; card games, dice, and other means of gambling; geeky stuff and obscure references.
TYPING QUIRKS: .A Light Orange Called Coral. .BeginS Sentences With The Same Punctuation She Uses To End Them, and Capitalizes Every Non-Conjunction, as if It Were A Book Title. .AlsO Capitalizes The Ends of Proper Nouns, Words That Start Sentences, and Other Places where The Word Would Normally Be Capitalized.
PERSONALITY: Tomboyish, gets bored easily, simultaneous short attention span and patience; she likes things that you only have to deal with for a short time, but can go for long gaps in between. Existentialist, usually pretty upbeat but can get very particular about things, and her anger, slow to arise, is a burning fury when it does. Surprisingly philosophical and usually practical.
APPEARANCE: Bright orange eyes, tan skin, a lithe build, and short curly blonde hair. Likes simple, comfortable clothing, which tends to be fairly boyish. Always carries around a musical instrument, a stick, or a book. Where she gets them or puts them is unclear, as it'll happen in weird ways and she'll change what she's holding at the strangest times. Typically a fantasy/sci-fi book(though sometimes it's philosophy), a walking stick, or a small instrument like a drum, harmonica, or flute.
ASSOSIATED COLOR: Bright Red

NOTE:

I have never read all the way through Homestuck and only have rudimentary and osmosis-ed knowledge of the events in it and the background stuff.

Apparently everything's taken. Nevermind, then, I guess...
Maybe, I think? I dunno.

[Jack A T]

I'll submit a character sheet soon.

[flabort]

OK... still need to put some finishing touches on NAV's notes, but I've got that noted. I assume from that you'll likely be using bladekind?

Rolepgeek, if Tiruin doesn't show up, you could have her slot. I'm hoping she does, but if she doesn't. And if she does, I can still get you in as someone who died in their session or is using Trollian or something; the story just won't focus on you since you lost or won your particular session already. It'd be a really extended cameo, I guess.

Jack and EP, the sooner the better, but don't hurry and make it sloppy just on my account

I have to say, Froggy, that happens to be... perfect for my plans. Couldn't have made a better character match for that slot myself.

... That's convenient. I just based it on myself as of my three main archetypes I'm the easiest to roleplay.

Even so, it filled in the gaps of my data perfectly, I didn't even have to think in order to finish that up.

[Rolepgeek]

That works, I suppose.

*shrug* I didn't understand what the pre-inned list meant at first, was all.

I notice we don't have names yet or anything.

[flabort]

You haven't turned 13 yet, and your commemorative plates are not engraved
Sure, I guess you can pick character names, but I'll just refer to you by usernames.

[Kassire]

Spoiler: Character sheet (click to show/hide)

INTERESTS: Celestial bodies like nebula's, suns, planet, ect. The concepts and ideas of space stations. Chemistry formulas and sets. Breeds of turtles and penguins. 
TYPING QUIRKS: ▓ Ends  every sentence with a ☼ Mixes different characters fφr words and before every sentence she puts ░ ▒ ▓ in order for the sentences importance, darker the more important ☼ When saying boy, male, female, woman, girl, ect ☼ She uses ♂ or ♀.
PERSONALITY: A very intelligent girl that doesn't like being wrong, loves debates and maybe even debates, she can become a little ballistic, things that make her appear smart, finds enjoyment in things like explosions, EMP's, and the future
APPEARANCE: A pale average sized girl how doesn't exactly have a powerful stance or demeanor but certainly an aggressive one. She only wears long sleeved shirts, hoodies, sweaters, and such. They generally are of Bright colors and some with mildly amusing designs like a shirt with cute small Penguins dotted around it. Has steel blue colored eyes. She always as her dark brown hair down to her shoulders.     
ASSOCIATED COLOR:Dark grey.

Done!

[Tiruin]

I have no idea what Homestuck is by the way.

Spoiler: Sheet!. (click to show/hide)

INTERESTS: Philosophy, Humanism, Benevolence, Medicine, Music (primarily Flute/Woodwind instruments//instrumentals), Literature, Creativity, the Renaissance, History, Existential ideals, Peace, Balance and General Knowledge.
TYPING QUIRKS: Types in a color associated with dark brown (though is coded as chocolate); usually uses emoticons to emphasize an emotional reaction or a feeling in response to a statement, otherwise types very formally. No particular quirks or speech patterns in specific.
PERSONALITY: A well balanced girl who knows her limitations, said to be humble and modest yet very helpful, and even regarded as wise by those close to her; she is shy, though easily puts her trust in people she finds friendly, and is generally described to be altruistic despite some minor quirks in her persona.
APPEARANCE: Asian in origin, she has a light brown complexion with a lanky build. Usually her clothing consists of simple fabrics, though mixed together forming an aesthetically pleasing color combination to the eyes--T-shirt and jeans are the usual garments, coupled with a vest at times depending on the weather. Her hair is black and falls to shoulder-length. Her facial structure is 'pointy', and she has high cheekbones. Her irises are dark brown, though in the light appear a sort of mellow color of the same shade.
ASSOSIATED COLOR: Pink

[flame99]

INTERESTS: Mechanics, transhumanism, programming, and engineering.
TYPING QUIRKS:
>>str.(black text)
>>str.(precedes messages with >>str.([MESSAGE])
>>str.(doesn't use capitals or periods)
>>str.(tends to be very terse)
>>str.(one sentence per line)
PERSONALITY: Very disconnected, tends to be very focused on tasks. Dislikes others for the most part. Will only very rarely give up a chance to test parts on a subject, willing or otherwise.
APPEARANCE: Keeps her hair in a ponytail (Less likely to get caught in parts), usually wears oil-stained overalls on a black tee-shirt with jeans. Almost invariably covered in grease, oil, dirt, or something else. Face is generally plain, and very pale. When working on something, she usually wears a welding mask, even if the job at hand has nothing to do with welding or any source of bright light.
ASSOSIATED COLOR: Dark Gray

EDIT: Just noticed that Derm also has transhumanism as an interest. Should I change it, or is it find as is?