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[Armok]

This is a forum game.

You can summit a character by specifying 4 points of data:

Name/title: This will determine the style and personality of the character. Examples: "Lancelot the brave", "Dark Lord Sauron", "Joe Smith"
Classification: This will determine the characters abilities and goals. Examples: "Fallen paladin", "Politician", "Axedwarf"
Position: This will determine the starting situation of the character. Examples: "King", "fisherman", "Adventurer"
A link to a TV tropes article. Be prepared for it to be applied in a different way than you intended, or played with.

Once 10 or so character have been submitted, the three most unique, interesting, creative, and conductive to serious roleplaying will be chosen. Each one with a specific storytelling role:
Home base/villain, who will be very powerful and command things from a distance.
Hero/anti-hero, who will do clasic protagonist stuff.
Wildcard/gimmick of Three, hehehe.

There will be some unique elements of GM/player interaction working ifferent than most RPs:
The characters will be determined by the GM going by the data points, the details of the characters will not be determined by the players. I will however try to stick to what seems to be the general idea with the exception of a few twists, and if you don't like it you can just raise objection.
The plot and setting will be affected by the kinds of player characters submitted, even ones not actually making it into the game might affect it.
Even those that doesn't play can still contribute: they can suggest actions to NPCs or even scenery like in text adventures! Example:
 > serpent: quickly retrieve arms from hollow tree.

Everything and anything will pass through my official posts and artistic judgement before becoming canon. Technically.

Now get on it and submit some characters!

[Phantom]

Eh, might as well try to prevent the death of something that sounds promising.

Name: Ricky "Illinois" Louis   
Classification: Expedition Guard
Position: Lost but Spelunking
TV Tropes Article: Adventure Archaeologist
( http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=49111.0 )

[Armok]

bump

[silhouette]

Name/title: Roumualdo ... just roumualdo...
Classification: jester
Position: On the run/ Wanted for mocking a powerful man.
Any link?
...
Was gonna choose crowning moment of awesome... but that would be... weird... And too hard to write for.
The jester


Edit: whoops, forgot to put crap in the name field.

[RandomNumberGenerator]

Name: Tajek Serket
Classification: Assassin Prince
Position: Head of the Mal'Arzan Guild
Totalitarian Utilitarian

[wolfchild]

Name: Malcontent the Archmage of Menzopuuranzan
Classification: Dark-Elf Sorcerer
Postion: Archmage of Menzopurranzan, population: 1
Squishy Wizard
Functional Magic
Evil Sorcerer

With a bit of A Wizard did it

[Grek]

Name/title: Officer Kolya
Classification: Time Police
Position: On The Case
Trope: By The Book Cop

[Armok]

Ok, there are awesome characters enoguht to start now, but I'll wait a little while more just in case there is a jackpot...

[Armok]

Shuld I take the lack of nw posts as that I wont get more character submisions and start the game?

[Armok]

Ok, I guess I'll start this then.

First role: Tajek Serket, Whom will take your body.
Second role: Roumualdo, Whom will take your mind.
Third role: Officer Kolya, Whom will take your soul.

Setting:
Accused by the cruel winds of the tundra which stretches as far as anyone knows in all directions lay the city of Irkpvarlg. A jitter of grey boxes tightly grouping as if huddling together for warmth. The city is completely dependant on the many magic users for providing it's sustenance and warmth...

Spoiler: silhouette (click to show/hide)

You are squatting in an abandoned warehouse right now. Cursing that assassin you until recently worked for as having no appreciation for the very comedy he hired you for.
Finally, you saw the glow of the guards torch finally die down, and drooped from the lamp you had been hiding on five meters down onto the floor, landing gracefully without a sound. To bad on the hat earlier, but it had been making to much noise. You slides along the wall, and into a side room, finding your target: the guards refrigerator. You pulled the switch that put the spell channelling the outside cold into the box in order to not freeze your hand solid, and pulled up some badly cooked meat, which still tasted exquisite after your long hunger. As you ate, you pondered your next move.

Spoiler: RandomNumberGenerator (click to show/hide)

Paperwork. You hated paperwork. But there is a price to benign a guild leader.
While your brain worked away at numbers and columns, you pondered the events of the day.
Several successful kills, much better than usual, and for one of them you got paid twice. Several more deals negotiated as well. Business was good this time of year.
Then there was the matter of the jester. The one who had dropped an, admittedly excellent, inappropriate joke while tended to an important client, and now you had to kill the jester before the client would pay you. And then the jester disappeared.
Then there was the taxes... You didn't want to think about the taxes.
And then it was the pet project of yours... 

Spoiler: Grek (click to show/hide)

A large grey room, with a tiny window, and under that a tiny grey desk, and sitting by it that a tiny grey woman with a tiny grey hat and large grey glasses. The woman were looking at a note that had just appeared on her desk. This was a fairly common event, the note was from the future, she'd be sending herself it tomorrow.
There is a common misunderstanding "time police" try to prevent paradoxes, and keep history from being changed. Anyone who knows how time travel works, like this grey woman does, realize that's an ridiculous notion. There is no such thing as a paradox, and time does all to well in looking after itself.

The note said: Murder, 21:38 Legfast Street 29, bring reinforcements.

Kolya, took her tiny grey coffer, and left the room.

[dragnar]

This could be interesting. Watching.

[Grek]

Waiting for character details/objectives.

[Armok]

Ok, finally finished the first post.

As you noticed, this is rather freeform, almost more of cooperative storytelling than a classic strict RP.
And remember that if you're not playing you can suggest things about NPCs and the environment!

[Grek]

Kolya stepped out the door and into the main hall of her large grey house. She turned and opened the grey cupboard and took out a small grey bag of tiny grey dog treats and then closed the cupboard. Officer Kolya smiled thinly and stepped outside to check her tiny grey mailbox. Inside as a thick grey bundle of letters, each with a time on them. She carefully placed these letters into her tiny grey coffer and went off to find Mr. Toodles.

[RandomNumberGenerator]

But... I don't want to kill the Jester.