ThatOneMisting he/him Posted March 13, 2015 Posted March 13, 2015 (edited) Looking for a group of people to run a play-by-post game of MAG Anyone interested? If so, read over this stuff below then post your interest and an RP sample. We will build characters through discussion once we have the people. Looking for a crew of 3-6 people. To be clear I am looking for literate roleplayers with good writing skills. Posting expectations: At least one paragraph, more is better (if relevant), but writer's block happens. I will shoot for one post per day or more, I expect the same from players. Again, writer's block happens. Maybe try to let me know in the OOC. We're going to play in a private forum on Roll20. This is for a few reasons. I can warn you, which I am doing now, this game may get very graphic and adult. M for Mature. This forum doesn't allow that I am sure. Even so, things are a little disorganized here, no offense to the mods, and I can organize my game the way I want on Roll20. Also, dice. Plot summary: About twenty years before the fall of the Final Empire, the noble and prestigious Family Venture has made more than its share of enemies. There are many, noble and skaa, or would be more than happy to see the family fall. What soul is brave enough to do that, you ask? That is where our heros come in. Go ahead and be thinking about a character who has been slighted by the Venture Household or for another reason may have a vendetta against them. I've never run this particular system in PbP so if I am missing anything, feel free to ask. Edited March 13, 2015 by ThatOneMisting 5
Lord Pifferdoo he/him Posted March 13, 2015 Posted March 13, 2015 I like it. Expect a post later, or an edit to this post.
little wilson she/her Posted March 13, 2015 Posted March 13, 2015 What's R20? I'm guessing it's Roll20, but that's just what a Google search told me... 1
ThatOneMisting he/him Posted March 13, 2015 Author Posted March 13, 2015 It is in fact Roll20, I shouldn't have assumed that everyone knows about it on a site not ENTIRELY dedicated to RPing and RPGs. That is the sort of place I spend most of my internetting on.Posted that intro at almost 3 in the morning. I shouldn't have. 1
ThatOneMisting he/him Posted March 14, 2015 Author Posted March 14, 2015 From Roll20? Of course not. It's super legit. It's all crowdfunded and run by a great group of guys, I've been with it for a couple of years now. 1
ThatOneMisting he/him Posted March 15, 2015 Author Posted March 15, 2015 A sample of your writing/RP abilities. This can be an original write-up or a copypasta. Just something to give me an idea of how you RP.
Lord Pifferdoo he/him Posted March 15, 2015 Posted March 15, 2015 Here's my intro RP from the Anniversary Elimination Game: Baron von Piffertiff was hungry. His steward was taking quite a long time to bring him his afternoon snack. Piffertiff sighed, and resumed writing his third book, On the Creations of Cans and Can-like Vessels. "Traded in a lot of favors for permission to write this, I did." mumbled Piffertiff. "And for what? To see the manuscript here rot after the koloss slaughter the whole town? Load of rubbish, this is." Piffertiff sniffed, then looked up from his writing to glimpses at the sun. He had been seeing less and less of that fiery old thing as of late, thanks to the mists. The mists always had frightened Piffertiff, but nowadays even thinking about it made his body shiver. It was a good thing coin was still valuble in this broken world of ours, else Piffertiff would have had to pay his guards in bread. He had precious little of that left. Piffertiff thought he saw Yulin again, this time outside his window. Insufferable old fool, that one. He'd always be there to help once you'd all but helped yourself. "Still managed to annoy me, even in death, Yulin?" Piffertiff grumbled, cursing his former steward. If only that fool had left well enough alone. He knew to not interfere with Canton business. His steward was certainly late this time. You'd think after a few beatings he'd learn to be punctual. Piffertiff sighed. Insufferable as he was, at least Yulin was on schedule. Former farmhands really couldn't compete with Terrisman. He must have gone through three this month. They were just so idiotic, so incompetent, so fragile.
ThatOneMisting he/him Posted March 15, 2015 Author Posted March 15, 2015 If all of your roleplaying is like that, you're certainly what I am looking for. Still need at least a couple more people though.
Wyrmhero he/him Posted March 15, 2015 Posted March 15, 2015 (edited) I would be interested in this, since my current PbP game has basically died (for the third time, I swear...). I've used Roll20 before for D&D (briefly), but not the forums themselves, so should be rather interesting to see if they do anything different to help with roleplaying. My only concern is timezones - I am on GMT, so that might be a bit of a problem. If you don't mind what timezone we're on, then I submit the Elimination games I've GMed with their writeups: First writeup for a Scadrial game. First writeup for a Roshar game. Bonus mark, RPing in another game (Annual Game). Ignore the fact that I forgot to colour some of the OOC text >>. Edited March 15, 2015 by Wyrmhero 1
Gamma Fiend he/him Posted March 15, 2015 Posted March 15, 2015 I might be interested in joining this, actually. Never played the MAG before yet, although I recently got the book and have been reading through it, preparing to try and run a game for my friends to get them into Mistborn. So this will be interesting to have an opportunity to play as a player, so I can get that experience first.I've never used the Roll20 site or anything before, but it looks rather nifty and will be interesting to check out! I have some RP established in the Sanderson Elimination forums as well. Here's my first write-up for my Wheel of Time based Elimination game. I'll also post some sample RP in here, after thinking of some possible characters.
Gamma Fiend he/him Posted March 15, 2015 Posted March 15, 2015 Is it only funny to me that we're all giving SE samples? Also, Gamma. I'm reading the Urbain Doc and I have to say, you guys go on and on and on... Heh, this is the only forum I've actually done RP on, and exclusively for the Elimination games. I have also posted a small, unfinished segment of Fanfiction I wrote based off of the first.... wait for it.... Elimination game that was run on these forums! If you want to check out a sample of non-RP writing of mine -- In the Wake of the Koloss: A Short Story It seemed to get positive feedback at the time when I posted it.... and I swear I mean to finish it one of these days....
ThatOneMisting he/him Posted March 16, 2015 Author Posted March 16, 2015 Guys, if I have given you a link already, don't forgot to check Roll20. That IS where the game is going to be played, 1
Gamma Fiend he/him Posted March 17, 2015 Posted March 17, 2015 Yeah, I'll make sure to check it as frequently as I can. I am currently involved in an Elimination Game on these forums at the moment, so most of my attention will be split at first between the two, but as that game winds down and ends, that should leave me plenty of time for the MAG! (I will still be active in the MAG, of course, just not as active as I'd like to be, at first. At least daily checks/posts, for certain.)
Lord Pifferdoo he/him Posted March 18, 2015 Posted March 18, 2015 I'm currently working a MAG with Lady Pifferdoo, three Sander-initiates, and one guy that keeps making dick jokes (his character name is Gaylord Penrod)
Gamma Fiend he/him Posted March 18, 2015 Posted March 18, 2015 It looks like we still have room 2 more people on this Crew if anybody is interested in joining!
Lord Pifferdoo he/him Posted March 20, 2015 Posted March 20, 2015 ANOTHER! (slams MAG book onto the ground)
Blank Fate Posted March 23, 2015 Posted March 23, 2015 (edited) -crashes in through window-Hello everyone, I'm reliably informed that a game is afoot? Wyrmhero pointed me to this, and I'd love to join up if you'll have me.As a fair warning, I'm relatively inexperienced when it comes to the setting, though I've been in many RPGs as both GM and player By way of a sample, here's the prelude I wrote for one of my Pathfinder characters (caution, wall of speech ahead). “I’ve always loved this time of the morning. The sun’s just come up, hardly anyone about… the first rays of daylight leaving long shadows as they reach through windows and alleyways. If you stand in just the right place, you can see everything – nothing lost to the light, nothing lost to the darkness. “A lot of the time, I’m just finishing work about now – I’ve always been good at going unseen, so the agency often puts me on night-time jobs. “It wasn’t always this way, mind you – free time, coin in my hand, something close to a stable job… I spent most of my childhood in the slums of Ashill with my mother. She was human, just like a lot of the others… every year was a struggle. She did a good job of shielding me from how bleak it all was, but she couldn’t keep it up forever – even as I grew up, doing what I could, I saw her health getting worse, wasting away… until one winter I was knelt by her side, the only living thing in the house. I was fourteen years old. “I never knew my father – he’s probably still around somewhere, pretending she never happened and that he didn’t do anything wrong. I wonder if he even knows I exist. If I ever find him, he’d best hope he’s a fast talker. “After that, I was pretty much on my own. I got by, doing odd jobs – some legal, some not so much. Every time I scraped, and I saved… a warm cloak here, a new knife there… every time I could afford a carriage out of town, away I went in search of better luck and new faces. It never really worked out on either count – sure, I made a friend or two, and there was always someone who needed a drudge to do the things they wouldn’t dare to. But that was it, the same wherever I went – it wasn’t getting better, and sooner or later I was sure I’d be killed, or thrown in prison… who would notice? Nobody. I must’ve travelled to every city in the Arc over those years, further and further east until there was nowhere left to go except back. Well, almost nowhere… “People say that there’s one last stop before you reach the edge – a little shrine to Aluth, who’s probably the only one who knows why it was put there to begin with. And maybe I was desperate, or determined, or just too damnation sick of all of it… but I put down every copper piece I had for the journey – they went on food, medicine, good boots… and I set out for the End of the World. I’d have written a note, if I’d thought anyone cared. I wasn’t expecting to come back. “Not many people make it to the edge of the world, I know that now. But it’s amazing what you can do when you have nothing to lose by trying. And as I stood there, where the horizon fell away… “Ha, you’re not even listening, are you? Still asleep… maybe that’s for the best. I think I’ll take my leave before you wake up, otherwise things might get a little awkward. See you around… or maybe not. Either way’s fine.” Edited March 23, 2015 by Blank Fate 2
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