"Here, it's kill or be killed. Solo or united. You are either alive or dead."
Reject Isle is an ongoing, text-based Wide-Open Sandbox roleplay on the website Scratch
. It was started by user ArtemisaBean and currently has more than 3,000 posts. Reject Isle's premise is that many hybrid animals that were the results of a failed science experiment were shipped to a deserted island and have to survive. Anyone with a Scratch account is able to join, so long as they fill out a sign up sheet and remix the project with a picture of their character. Tropes
- Mix-and-Match Critters— All of the player characters are hybrids between two distinct species.
- Apocalyptic Log— The recently added "progress reports" that play in the Abandoned Laboratory, saying small pieces of information about how and why the hybrid animals were made.
- Vertebrate with Extra Limbs— Nearly all of the mammals and reptiles with wings in the roleplay fit in this trope. Exceptions include Limpar, a vulture/tasmanian devil, and Octillo, a komodo dragon/falcon. However, both characters are explicitly stated to not be good flyers.
- Patchwork Map— The island has several diverse locations, including a meadow with flowering plants, a temperate forest, a tropical jungle, and a mountain range with an active volcano all in one area that can be enclosed in an electric fence.
- Insurmountable Waist-High Fence— According to
Word of God, the fence around the island cannot be crossed, not even by an animal that can fly over it. It also can instantly kill whatever it touches. - Animal Gender-Bender— Bramble, a wolf/deer hybrid, although being stated as female, has antlers. The species of deer she is half of is never specified, but her appearance and behavior makes her seem more like a white-tailed deer than a caribou.
- LEGO Genetics— The hybrids were born regular animals, but they were given the DNA of other animals after being captured from the wild or raised in captivity. Often, this is done by the time they are adults.
- Humanlike Animal Aging— Due to a lack of agreement between units of time between players, characters have varying age scales. Ebony is a tiger who is part falcon, and he is said to be 18 years old. In Real Life, 18 is a ripe-old age for a tiger, yet Ebony's physical capabilities are like that of a young adult.
- No Biochemical Barriers— The introduction passage claims that the air is toxic to humans, but somehow, all the animals can breathe without any problems.
- More Predators Than Prey— There are far more carnivorous player characters than there are prey characters to feed them. Often, the players will just create NPCs to hunt because of this (not to mention that players do not give the permission required to have their characters killed off).
