Post by ¤Amy Grace¤ on Dec 14, 2014 18:58:01 GMT -5
outland.forums.net/
This is the official thread for Project Outland which is the working title for the new large RP project I am working on with several others. This thread will detail the things we wish to accomplish as well as the plans in the making. You may post here with your own questions and concerns and suggestions.
Starting off...
What we've all dreamed of for the last 10+ years, depending on who you are and when you joined our little group, is to have a domain of our own that was considered 100% our own. When I started out with the majority of this group it was on the lucas arts forums where they had placed a role play section on their forums. While we placed a lot of history there it wasn't until I founded the Star Wars RP Realm that we really started to progress forward. Since then the group I role played with back then has their own Star Wars Domain (http://www.thestarwarsrp.com/forum/) but I branched off once again to explore a more open experience RP. I founded Dead Sight under the idea that it would take place within a Resident Evil setting but with an open universe plot where any and all could join. This was the first step to creating the group we've played with ever since and for the last decade I'm happy to have role played with them all.
However, with the coming of ten years will come the end of one era and the start of a new one. Dead Sight is now an obsolete idea that has been done and redone five times over ten years with two different main plots. The recent incantation of Dead Sight was a sequel to the original and thankfully I had a great time reliving my favorite characters for a good while, but I realize the problem with Dead Sight is that Resident Evil isn't as popular as it once was and the idea that we have an multiuniverse Resident Evil forum doesn't go over well with others. So this is where Outland comes from, it's the Golden Bastard Child of Dead Sight.
The Plan...
Outland will be using Forums.net as its hosting site, which isn't free. $9.99 a month is a very chill price for us to have to pay in order to finally get our own domain and finally step out of the PG-13 role and into a more mature role. I'm not advocating a smut forum, nor a porn forum, but I am saying that we will have no boundaries anymore with this forum. Forever gone are the days of holding back our characters from slaughtering a person in fine detail, forever gone is the vague detail of explaining my characters naked body like I should be ashamed of it, forever gone is the fade to black scenes we all avoid, and forever gone are the days where we couldn't say, "Fuck you mother fucker, suck my fucking dick." At one another without having TOS step in.
The plan is simple, we kill the Batman by distracting him with naked women and strapping a bomb to his cape that will suck him through a black hole the size of a golf ball and we'll explain this in some gory detail!
Forums.net runs off the proboard v5 software and is owned by proboards but is governed by a less strict content TOS. This means what ever rules I place on the forum are the ones we abide by and whatever content posted must follow along with laws set in your state and country. Of course this doesn't mean that I'm going to unleash a horde of role players onto a forum to screw and murder their way through a story, there will still be a form of rule set up to avoid pure smut.
The Plot...
So far there isn't really a plot in place. What I do know is that the story is a rewritten version of our own history to include magic and super natural creatures to our own history. The plot will be set at least twenty years ahead of present day and there will be two major hub cities that control regions of the planet and have their own separate governments. The start of the story will focus mostly on the Pacific side of the planet with the first major hub being the Pacific Republic, a mega city located where Hong Kong once was. The start of the story will focus on tense negotiations with the DIU (Diplomatic Indian Union) over control of the Australian continent and a tense civil war with the Atlantian Principality that holds major parts of America and the European frontline.
Most locations starting off will be located on Australia and New Zealand with some following up to Japan and China. There will be one location in America that will be the base of the Civil War plot. As the story progresses it will introduce new locations in Europe and America that were lost ten years prior and many ruins and old war relics will be rediscovered.
The Story as it Changes: Following the collapse of the United States government and the rise to power of the Russian power the world was in a large long range fire fight with one another lobbing missiles at one another from the safety of their boarders until a terrorist organization took control over the United States government and found their nuclear reserves. The fallout wasn't as bad as perceived but much of the world is still lost thirty years later. Most of Europe is unpopulated except in major cities that had the best defenses. Cities like London, Moscow, Berlin, D.C., Tokyo, Hong Kong, etc. Survived the war but had to progress forward with advancing their cities. This is where Tokyo and Hong Kong came into play, scientists and researchers were given all the power in the world to advance technology and thus ten years ago they cracked a major nano technology and the world changed once again.
The Pacific Republic was born sharing its technology with the known world that was left, this birthed the DIU and the Arctic Front in the north but brought tension when they discovered the Atlantian Principality had taken almost all of the land surrounding the Atlantic Ocean doing so with advanced technology of their own. Cities were rebuilt into massive metropolises to house the couple billion people left in the world and things were peaceful for a while until a year ago when the Atlantic Principality advanced deeper into America taking control of neutral territory without an agreement from the other nations, thus starting the war between the Atlantic and Pacific forces.
(Work in progress)
Multi-Verse...
We'll be allowing people to play their favorite characters from their favorite shows, games, books, etc. However, I have one stipulation, all canon characters must be made into Original Characters. This means you can play Cloud Strife but you must make him an OC and rewrite his story to fit with our story. This may just mean changing his name and names of many locations in Final Fantasy 7 and just dropping the plot straight into this role play and it'll work, or it could mean actually writing new a new story with the same character under a new name. To make things simple, a lot of the planet is now undiscovered due to the fallout and the history of the Earth has drastically changed allowing many plots to work here. Of course, technology has its drawbacks and some things will have to be developed in Role Play or explained with current technology, but this doesn't disallow you from using or making any character you desire.
I will have a say so however, if your character does not make sense then it will be declined and asked for a rewrite. For instance, if Rainbow Dash is scripted as a character I will decline. No hard feelings, it is just TOO absurd for the absurd forum.
Renown/Fame system...
The idea behind a fame and renown system is so you are forcibly labeled by your deeds like a common celebrity or hero. For instance, Arix came in and wrecked all havoc toward the Vultures army and was thus declared a renowned hero to the Crown, but how many people meeting him would remember that day who weren't on the forum? Logically they should know about said event considering they live in such a world where word travels fast. For this reason I have the idea of making an "trophy" system where said trophy will link back to the thread and events that caused that person to get that award. The profile of each person will have a link to their trophy thread or page (depending on the work we put into it and if we can code it in properly) with all the trophies and renown of that person. Multiple people could have multiple trophies and this would go toward our hall of fame as well and the tomb of the lost heroes.
Likewise, the example where Alucard destroyed Domino City, would be recorded as well and placed on his page as a trophy and follow him as a sign that he is a BAMF. Some trophies will be rewarded with positive points, others with negative. Depending on the event or how many people were present may result in a high renown gain. This system is purely cosmetic but also allows outsiders and admins to play NPCs and comment on your characters deeds and the like. It also allows people to play another role against you and use intel to find out more about your character and piece together events.
To avoid the cosmetic system we will be using a NPC system like the one we have here and everyone will have a 'hidden' option and it's up to you to explain how you're hiding your identity.
List of races so far (will be added and subtracted upon)
Human
Elven (Many types)
Qunari
Demon (nothing to do with heaven and hell, demons are spirits who have possessed bodies and become self aware)
Vampir (original race, appears humanoid some can shape shift to look more human.)
Vampire (sub-race)
Lycan
Dwarves
Giants (The Giants are humanoid and are related closely to humans but can be between 7-12 feet tall. Ancient giants were once 20 feet tall.)
More to come...
This is the official thread for Project Outland which is the working title for the new large RP project I am working on with several others. This thread will detail the things we wish to accomplish as well as the plans in the making. You may post here with your own questions and concerns and suggestions.
Starting off...
What we've all dreamed of for the last 10+ years, depending on who you are and when you joined our little group, is to have a domain of our own that was considered 100% our own. When I started out with the majority of this group it was on the lucas arts forums where they had placed a role play section on their forums. While we placed a lot of history there it wasn't until I founded the Star Wars RP Realm that we really started to progress forward. Since then the group I role played with back then has their own Star Wars Domain (http://www.thestarwarsrp.com/forum/) but I branched off once again to explore a more open experience RP. I founded Dead Sight under the idea that it would take place within a Resident Evil setting but with an open universe plot where any and all could join. This was the first step to creating the group we've played with ever since and for the last decade I'm happy to have role played with them all.
However, with the coming of ten years will come the end of one era and the start of a new one. Dead Sight is now an obsolete idea that has been done and redone five times over ten years with two different main plots. The recent incantation of Dead Sight was a sequel to the original and thankfully I had a great time reliving my favorite characters for a good while, but I realize the problem with Dead Sight is that Resident Evil isn't as popular as it once was and the idea that we have an multiuniverse Resident Evil forum doesn't go over well with others. So this is where Outland comes from, it's the Golden Bastard Child of Dead Sight.
The Plan...
Outland will be using Forums.net as its hosting site, which isn't free. $9.99 a month is a very chill price for us to have to pay in order to finally get our own domain and finally step out of the PG-13 role and into a more mature role. I'm not advocating a smut forum, nor a porn forum, but I am saying that we will have no boundaries anymore with this forum. Forever gone are the days of holding back our characters from slaughtering a person in fine detail, forever gone is the vague detail of explaining my characters naked body like I should be ashamed of it, forever gone is the fade to black scenes we all avoid, and forever gone are the days where we couldn't say, "Fuck you mother fucker, suck my fucking dick." At one another without having TOS step in.
The plan is simple, we kill the Batman by distracting him with naked women and strapping a bomb to his cape that will suck him through a black hole the size of a golf ball and we'll explain this in some gory detail!
Forums.net runs off the proboard v5 software and is owned by proboards but is governed by a less strict content TOS. This means what ever rules I place on the forum are the ones we abide by and whatever content posted must follow along with laws set in your state and country. Of course this doesn't mean that I'm going to unleash a horde of role players onto a forum to screw and murder their way through a story, there will still be a form of rule set up to avoid pure smut.
The Plot...
So far there isn't really a plot in place. What I do know is that the story is a rewritten version of our own history to include magic and super natural creatures to our own history. The plot will be set at least twenty years ahead of present day and there will be two major hub cities that control regions of the planet and have their own separate governments. The start of the story will focus mostly on the Pacific side of the planet with the first major hub being the Pacific Republic, a mega city located where Hong Kong once was. The start of the story will focus on tense negotiations with the DIU (Diplomatic Indian Union) over control of the Australian continent and a tense civil war with the Atlantian Principality that holds major parts of America and the European frontline.
Most locations starting off will be located on Australia and New Zealand with some following up to Japan and China. There will be one location in America that will be the base of the Civil War plot. As the story progresses it will introduce new locations in Europe and America that were lost ten years prior and many ruins and old war relics will be rediscovered.
The Story as it Changes: Following the collapse of the United States government and the rise to power of the Russian power the world was in a large long range fire fight with one another lobbing missiles at one another from the safety of their boarders until a terrorist organization took control over the United States government and found their nuclear reserves. The fallout wasn't as bad as perceived but much of the world is still lost thirty years later. Most of Europe is unpopulated except in major cities that had the best defenses. Cities like London, Moscow, Berlin, D.C., Tokyo, Hong Kong, etc. Survived the war but had to progress forward with advancing their cities. This is where Tokyo and Hong Kong came into play, scientists and researchers were given all the power in the world to advance technology and thus ten years ago they cracked a major nano technology and the world changed once again.
The Pacific Republic was born sharing its technology with the known world that was left, this birthed the DIU and the Arctic Front in the north but brought tension when they discovered the Atlantian Principality had taken almost all of the land surrounding the Atlantic Ocean doing so with advanced technology of their own. Cities were rebuilt into massive metropolises to house the couple billion people left in the world and things were peaceful for a while until a year ago when the Atlantic Principality advanced deeper into America taking control of neutral territory without an agreement from the other nations, thus starting the war between the Atlantic and Pacific forces.
(Work in progress)
Multi-Verse...
We'll be allowing people to play their favorite characters from their favorite shows, games, books, etc. However, I have one stipulation, all canon characters must be made into Original Characters. This means you can play Cloud Strife but you must make him an OC and rewrite his story to fit with our story. This may just mean changing his name and names of many locations in Final Fantasy 7 and just dropping the plot straight into this role play and it'll work, or it could mean actually writing new a new story with the same character under a new name. To make things simple, a lot of the planet is now undiscovered due to the fallout and the history of the Earth has drastically changed allowing many plots to work here. Of course, technology has its drawbacks and some things will have to be developed in Role Play or explained with current technology, but this doesn't disallow you from using or making any character you desire.
I will have a say so however, if your character does not make sense then it will be declined and asked for a rewrite. For instance, if Rainbow Dash is scripted as a character I will decline. No hard feelings, it is just TOO absurd for the absurd forum.
Renown/Fame system...
The idea behind a fame and renown system is so you are forcibly labeled by your deeds like a common celebrity or hero. For instance, Arix came in and wrecked all havoc toward the Vultures army and was thus declared a renowned hero to the Crown, but how many people meeting him would remember that day who weren't on the forum? Logically they should know about said event considering they live in such a world where word travels fast. For this reason I have the idea of making an "trophy" system where said trophy will link back to the thread and events that caused that person to get that award. The profile of each person will have a link to their trophy thread or page (depending on the work we put into it and if we can code it in properly) with all the trophies and renown of that person. Multiple people could have multiple trophies and this would go toward our hall of fame as well and the tomb of the lost heroes.
Likewise, the example where Alucard destroyed Domino City, would be recorded as well and placed on his page as a trophy and follow him as a sign that he is a BAMF. Some trophies will be rewarded with positive points, others with negative. Depending on the event or how many people were present may result in a high renown gain. This system is purely cosmetic but also allows outsiders and admins to play NPCs and comment on your characters deeds and the like. It also allows people to play another role against you and use intel to find out more about your character and piece together events.
To avoid the cosmetic system we will be using a NPC system like the one we have here and everyone will have a 'hidden' option and it's up to you to explain how you're hiding your identity.
List of races so far (will be added and subtracted upon)
Human
Elven (Many types)
Qunari
Demon (nothing to do with heaven and hell, demons are spirits who have possessed bodies and become self aware)
Vampir (original race, appears humanoid some can shape shift to look more human.)
Vampire (sub-race)
Lycan
Dwarves
Giants (The Giants are humanoid and are related closely to humans but can be between 7-12 feet tall. Ancient giants were once 20 feet tall.)
More to come...