SBURG - Round 2 Sign-ups

[ANNOUNCEMENT: Sign-ups are CLOSED to new characters, but several characters are 'up for adoption' for an intrepid roleplayer much like yourself. See page 5 of this thread for details!]

Due to a problem with the number of people who dropped out of SBURG, we've decided to re-boot the roleplay and start afresh. As such, we're re-opening sign-ups.

If you played in the original SBURG, you do not have to submit the same character.

Essentially, this is another Homestuck Roleplay.

Now, a few caveats about the setting: it's a little different from normal Homestuck, mostly to facilitate easy role-playing. Most notably: all the players live in one (extremely large and luxurious) apartment, and as a result, the Lands have become merged into one super-planet (we mostly did this so people could meet up and interact more easily). We are also not (at this point in time) going to be using any Trolls or equivalent entities. Otherwise, try and keep with Homestuck canon with regards to the inner workings of the game and Medium when possible.

For the general purposes, you only need to have read up to the End of Act I to join, although it is recommended to have read further.

Stuff relating to this roleplay:

• Sprites of everyone except Viktor◊, courtesy of Rivux.
• Sprites of Viktor, the ditched character of Luke Castle, and a re-coloured Robin◊, again courtesy of Rivux.
• The Black Queen, ten-times prototyped, courtesy of Rivux again.
• A pair of◊lovely charts◊ showing order of entry. The first shows rough order of entry, the second the server-client chain. Courtesy of Rivux, with fan-made Godtier symbols from narcolepticBeanie on MSPA Forums).

Now that the introductions are over, let's get on with the sign-ups.

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• NAME: (obvious)
• GENDER: (obvious)
• APPEARANCE: What does your character look like (physical attributes, clothes, etc. all go here).
• PERSONALITY: What is your character like? (This, along with History, is probably the one you want to put the most thought into).
• HISTORY: As much of a backstory as is reasonable.
• CLASS: Your class in SBURG (always in the form of '[PERSON] of [NOUN]. Keep the classes to 1-syllable, ie: Lord of Space or Witch of Fate). Please don't use class combinations already used in the comic.
• LAND: The part of the Medium in which your character will land. Always written as 'LAND OF [X] AND [Y]'. Again, don't use a canon Land .
• FETCH MODUS: Used to retrieve items from inventory. Try to be creative.
• STRIFE SPECIBUS: Your Weapon Of Choice. Can be anything, just don't make one which allows you to use any weapon.
• CONSORTS: The inhabitants of your LAND, always small, colourful animals.
• SPRITES/PROTOTYPINGS: This category is optional (you can leave your prototypings secret or leave them to be decided in game).
• PESTERCHUM HANDLE: This is the name you go by on Pesterchum. Always two words, now gaps, the second word capitalisation (i.e. arachnid'sGrip, turntechGodhead, or ectoBiologist).
• TYPING QUIRK: How does your character type and speak? (Try to be creative here, don't just settle for totally normal speech).
• OTHER DETAILS: Anything else worth noting about your character.

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Sample sign-up (also, my character):

• NAME: Eric Donovan

• GENDER: Male

• APPEARANCE: Before you stands an IMPECCABLY DRESSED TEENAGER, who is OBVIOUSLY UPPER-CLASS. Seriously, this guy should be WEARING A MONOCLE OR SOMETHING. He wears a CAMEL HAIR JACKET with a TIE and designer sunglasses the PROBABLY COST MORE THAN YOUR CAR. His hair is LIGHT BROWN and IMMACULATELY GROOMED, like everything else.

• PERSONALITY: You come from an IMPROBABLY RICH FAMILY, and are SLIGHTLY SNOBBISH because of it.

You have a passion for COLLECTING, everything from STAMPS AND COINS to items of a more ESOTERIC AND EXPENSIVE NATURE. You also enjoy BUILDING OR DESIGNING MECHANICAL DEVICES, but you are nigh-universally acknowledged to be pretty terrible at it. You USED TO ENJOY many other interests but HAVE ABANDONED THEM IN A FIT OF SELF-DESTRUCTIVE RAGE because your parents encouraged them.

You are RATHER SNOOTY but are a fundamentally nice person who ENJOYS LIFE and TRIES TO BE FRIENDLY, but will resort to SARCASTIC VITRIOL AND BILE (learnt from years learning to be a member of the social elite) when angered. You have a love of CHEESY, CLICHED MELODRAMA, and often SPOUT CLICHED MOVIE LINES and act in an OVER-THE-TOP FASHION.

• HISTORY: As you may have gathered, you come from a family with RIDICULOUS RESERVES OF WEALTH. As is often the case, you were RATHER SPOILED as a child. However, your parents DIDN'T SPEND ENOUGH TIME WITH YOU, and as a result you gradually began to despise them and their way of life, and in a self-destructive TEMPER TANTRUM, stormed off with a SHEDLOAD OF MONEY they let you have.

Since then, you bought an APARTMENT (although INDOOR MANSION might be the more appropriate moniker) and, realising you COULDN'T KEEP THIS UP FOREVER, started renting it out in order to pay your bills. However, you've also become PARANOID that your parent's are keeping tabs on you, mostly because you are sure you see your old butler, WINSTON, out of the CORNER OF YOUR EYE.

Since everyone else in your apartment is playing SBURG, you've decided to join in, if only because you want to make sure they don't BREAK ANYTHING while they're at it.

• CLASS: PRINCE OF TIME

• LAND: Land of Circuitry and Neon

• CONSORTS: Uncoordinated rainbow-coloured chameleons who are technologically adept.

• FETCH MODUS: VENDOR MODUS. Your Fetch Modus acts like a vendor in a sloppily-programmed RPG, and can hold an extremely large number of items. Unfortunately, you need to expend MODUS COINAGE to 'buy' your items back, and can only get more MODUS COINS by 'selling' random junk to your modus.

• STRIFE SPECIBUS: pistolKind Abstratus, as well as variants on it such as 2xpistolKind. Unfortunately, you only have WATER PISTOL to begin with, making this a hilariously useless weapon.

• SPRITE/PROTOTYPES: RoboSprite: Prototyped on an unfinished steampunk robot Eric had being trying and failing to build. Second prototyping to be decided in-game.

• PESTERCHUM HANDLE: fractalEconomist

• TYPING QUIRK: "Speaks in quotation marks using proper punctuation & auto-censors swear words like *%!&."

edited 31st Jul '12 3:06:57 PM by MadeOfAxes

"One thing, though- apparently the eldest goat is the bastard child of Muhammad Ali and the Hulk." ~ Exelixi, on The Three Billy Goats Gruff.

God dammit, I feel like such an asshole.

I'm really, really sorry for leaving you guys like that. I swear it won't happen again.

On a related note, would it be alright if I joined this?

"You have more than enough potential. So tell me what is the one wish that would make your soul gem shine." -Mitt Romney, probably

You're definitely not an asshole, Bindle! Welcome back, and yes you can join again. Hopefully we won't stall and flounder this time.

"One thing, though- apparently the eldest goat is the bastard child of Muhammad Ali and the Hulk." ~ Exelixi, on The Three Billy Goats Gruff.

'kay, cool. It may take me awhile to think of a new character, though.

"You have more than enough potential. So tell me what is the one wish that would make your soul gem shine." -Mitt Romney, probably

Clarification: You can use the same character, you just don't have to. I may have worded that wrongly.

"One thing, though- apparently the eldest goat is the bastard child of Muhammad Ali and the Hulk." ~ Exelixi, on The Three Billy Goats Gruff.

Erm, hello. This all seems incredibly intriguing, as well as suitably offbeat for my tastes. I would love to have a part in this, and I have been desperately looking for a good RP to sign up for.

The problem is that I know almost nothing about Homestuck.

I know that it centers around some kind of reality-warping video game called SBURG that somehow involves creation and editing of virtual worlds, but nothing else.

If someone could give me a straightforward couple of paragraphs on the setting, then I promise to you on pain of banning I will be the super-duperest roleplayer EVER. I really hope I'm not being a bother asking for this.

...Please?

Need a tall, brawny fella to come by and inspect your pickle? Perhaps I may be this fella.

You know nothing of Homestuck?

Well, tvtropes page: Homestuck (warning, it's ridiculously large).

Actual link: This is the first page.

Fan wiki.

Now, to get you started, the setting revolves around SBURB (or SBURG in this RP), you're right about that. However, the moment the game fully, loads, a few things happen:

1) You connect with another player, with player 1 being the 'client' and player 2 being the 'server'.

2) The server has the ability to manipulate the real world around the client player.

3) They can use this to do a whole lot of nifty things, like building awesome gadgets, smashing up buildings, re-decorating, or actually helping their client.

4) A countdown starts. This countdown, when completely, begins the apocalypse.

Now, to avoid being annihilated, the server utilises a complicated process it would be better to explain elsewhere to teleport into a realm known as the MEDIUM. Namely, to a LAND which they can continue to play the game in, accruing experience, weapons and generally growing more powerful as they go. The Medium also contains:

A) Prospit: the realm of light, the planet of Prospit is inhabited by the forces of good, white-skinned aliens lacking a proper name (we'll call them, and the black-skinned versions, 'carapaces'). It is ruled by the White King and White Queen.

B) Derse: The opposite of Prospit, Derse is ruled by the Black King and Queen, and is generally the force of evil. It is inhabited by creatures identical to Prospitanians, except with black skin.

C) Skaia, a planet, patterned like a chessboard, at the centre of the Medium. Skaia is the ultimate objective, and a fierce battle is waged there between the two kingdoms. The goal is, in part, to reach here. Unfortunately, the battle is rigged in Derse's favour.

D) The Veil, a ring of asteroids around the whole place. When Derse wins the battle, the Black King fires the asteroids at Skaia, which redirects them to hit the planet the player is on instead.

E) The Moons: Prospit and Derse each have a moon (which is chained to the planet). These Moons contain the players' 'dreamselves' (duplicates of themselves which wake up when their realworld versions go to sleep) which are rather important later on.

The goal of the game is to escape the apocalypse, fight through your Land, then reach Skaia and create a new universe. Then, you face the absolutely final hurdle: the Black King. Unfortunately, every session thus far has been horribly derailed by something beyond anyone's control.

Glossary of other terms:

Sprites/Prototypings: When you start playing, you receive a 'kernelsprite' which they can 'prototype' with up to two objects, usually something which has a form vaguely related to a living being. This bestows the object's form and abilities on the Sprite. This prototyping also effects the enemies you will encounter, up to the Black King himself. The Sprites act as mentors and allies for new players.

Pesterchum: an instant-messaging program.

Exiles: Another form of mentors for players, the Exiles are natives of Prospit and Derse, living in a desert in the far future. They have all lived through the events of SBURG before, and they can communicate and monitor their players.

Captchalogue/Sylladex/Strife Specibus/Fetch Modus: Homestuck runs like a video game even before SBURG starts. To use items, you 'captchalogue' them into 'captchalogue cards' (slots) in your 'sylladex' (inventory). You use your 'fetch modus' to withdraw items from your sylladex, but fetch modii are generally extremely irritating to use. A strife Specibus decides which weapons you can use.

Class: Each player has a unique class assigned to them, which grants them supernatural powers. The 'dominion' of the class (say Time, or Light, or Life) decides the general theme of the powers, while the 'occupation' (Seer, or Thief, or Knight, etc.) decides exactly how your powers work. Accessing your class powers is important to completing the game.

Grist: This is the 'money' in SBURG. You get it from killing monsters, and you use it to make stuff.

Alchemization: This is complex process, a sort of punch-card based alchemy, which allows you to combine and create new items through the use of three pieces of equipment: the Cruxtruder, Totem Lathe, and Alchemier. Alchemization is important as it's how you get new items and it is necessary to build the item you use to enter the Medium and avoid fiery death. I'll go more into detail in this process later if you decide to play.

Trolls: Aliens who played the game in another universe. They aren't important here, since they won't appear.

"One thing, though- apparently the eldest goat is the bastard child of Muhammad Ali and the Hulk." ~ Exelixi, on The Three Billy Goats Gruff.

Haha, I must of accidentally logged in as an old handle.

Look downwards for my sign-up.

edited 29th Sep '11 8:14:47 AM by MetaRidley

This sounds awesome, and I think I am getting the idea of how all this works. I am working on a character at this moment. Expect a signpup in an hour or so.

I am also making my way through Homestuck and enjoying it greatly.

EDIT: Aw man, that's almost exactly what I was going to make my character like. Two hours then.

edited 28th Sep '11 1:51:30 PM by Aniventerie

Need a tall, brawny fella to come by and inspect your pickle? Perhaps I may be this fella.

Looks good. Your strange and mysterious past better pan out into something interesting, though.

Aniventirie, you're welcome. Hope you enjoy it, I certainly did. Looking forwards to your sign-up.

"One thing, though- apparently the eldest goat is the bastard child of Muhammad Ali and the Hulk." ~ Exelixi, on The Three Billy Goats Gruff.

Hey guys! Signing up... Does this look good?

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• NAME: Thomas (Or more conversationally, Tom) Ambrose

• GENDER: Male

• APPEARANCE: This teenager is a PROBABLY DELIBERATELY UNINTERESTING SIGHT with his SLIGHTLY UNKEMPT, DARK BLONDE HAIR and FAIRLY STANDARD WHITE SHIRT/BLUE JEANS COMBO.

• PERSONALITY: You've always KEPT TO YOURSELF over the course of your life and this still holds true. You are perfectly content with this arrangement, and eventually you figured that the most natural way to KEEP OTHER PEOPLE OUT OF YOUR BUSINESS is just GENTLY DEFLECTING THEM with an air of "DON'T PRY AND I WON'T EITHER" coupled with your SOMEWHAT GROUCHY YET STILL POLITE AND NONTHREATENING DEMEANOUR. Despite this STUPIDLY INTROVERTED BEHAVIOUR, you are MOSTLY WELL-MEANING, only with an emphasis on LOOKING OUT FOR YOURSELF before anything else. Your composure is DIFFICULT TO SHAKE, but when it gets shaken it's TYPICALLY NOT PRETTY. You maintain an expression of POLITE INTEREST whenever you talk to someone to keep things businesslike and yourself ANNOYINGLY DIFFICULT TO GAUGE.

When you think nobody is looking, you have a fondness for OLD VIDEOGAMES and HISTORY BOOKS. You also like to make PENCIL DRAWINGS. Though you consider yourself to be PRETTY DECENT AT THIS, you NEVER show these to anyone and almost never manage to finish any of your projects due to your tendency to QUICKLY LOSE INTEREST.

• HISTORY: Though you never lacked for anything in particular over the course of your middle-class upbringing, you lived in a SPARSELY POPULATED AREA and you grew more and more distant from other people. You struck out for yourself fairly early with enough backing from your PARENTS to let you focus on your education, and somehow, despite how your by now IRRATIONAL UNWILLINGNESS TO LET PEOPLE GET TO REALLY KNOW YOU should have (and maybe has) CRIPPLED YOUR DEVELOPMENT INTO A NORMAL HUMAN BEING, here you are - a TENANT OF DONOVAN'S, MINDING YOUR OWN BUSINESS.

You normally would have stayed the hell away from games like SBURG but boredom, curiosity and the wish to make the other tenants stop nagging you about it got the better of you.

• CLASS: MAGE OF LIFE

• LAND: Land Of Storms and Silver

• CONSORTS: Thick-skinned, bright grey toadlike creatures that base their society around metalworking.

• FETCH MODUS: PAC-MAN MODUS. If you want to retrieve an item from your SYLLADEX, you'll have to play a game of Pac-Man. Just eat the dot representing your item to fetch it from your SYLLADEX. Getting caught by a ghost ejects all items. Sounds as though this could be troublesome as your inventory grows larger, but simple enough to weaponize.

• STRIFE SPECIBUS: knifeKind abstratus along with its variants as applicaple.

• SPRITE/PROTOTYPES: SNES-SPRITE. Gives the game enemies a slight degree of pixellation, and sometimes translation errors. Second prototyping to be determined later.

• PESTERCHUM HANDLE: inherentlyProblematic

• TYPING QUIRK: types with no (aps and repla(es all ('s with a left-paranthesis. does not use question marks or exclamation points.

edited 29th Sep '11 5:38:04 AM by l3wt

When in deadly danger, When beset by doubt, Run in little circles, Wave your arms and shout.

All right, here goes:

Name: Robin DuMonte.

Gender: Male.

Appearance: Somewhere off to the side is an ODD LOOKING BOY. He is TALL AS A BUILDING, THIN AS A RAIL, and BONY AS SHIT. His hair is LONG, GINGER-COLORED, and probably hasn’t seen the liked of a COMB for MONTHS. His eyes are STRIKINGLY AMBER, and are HALF-CLOSED IN RAPTUROUS CONTEMPLATION. He wears a RUFFLY DRESS SHIRT, a pair of BLACK PANTS, a BROWN LONGCOAT, and a DUSTY FEDORA. He also sports a FANCY WOODEN PIPE.

​Personality: You are BOLD but POETIC, PHILOSOPHICAL and even a bit THEATRICAL, but above all very CHARISMATIC. Overall you CARE ABOUT PEOPLE QUITE A LOT and would do anything for a friend, unless they are a NIHILIST, whom you care naught for. You are QUICK TO QUOTE SHAKESPEARE or some other SUITABLY INTELLIGENT POET OR PHILOSOPHER. Not much seems to GET ON YOUR NERVES (except, again, NIHILISTS).

You have an affinity for POETRY and OLD BOOKS, and are a fairly talented CELLO PLAYER. You have a thing for NOIR MYSTERIES and have tried your hand at being a SLEUTH, but are absolutely bollocks at solving mysteries. In addition, your LOVE OF COFFEE exceeds all others emotions except concern for others, and would SELL YOUR BLOOD for a GOOD CAPPUCINO.

History: You came from a PLEASANT but CONSERVATIVE working-class family. However, you became fed up with their PRACTICAL THINKING and OLD-TIMEY IDEALS and decided to STICK IT OUT ON YOUR OWN as a POET. You have been MODERATELY SUCCESSFUL and are working on a BOOK. You decided to get into SBURG once your PUBLISHER recommended it.

Class: WITCH of MIND (do NOT make jokes about his class).

Land: Land of CITIES and FOG.

​Consorts: Miniature ghosts with gaseous bodies and trickster spirits.

Fetch Modus: PARENTHETICAL MODUS. ITEMS are placed inside nested parentheses. New levels of nesting may be added at will, and only items from the lowest level of nesting may be retrieved. Parentheses may hold only five items (including further parentheses). Basically works like NESTED ARRAYS.

Strife Specibus: rapierKind Abstratus. Something you picked up at a PAWN SHOP in BROOKLYN because you thought it made you look DASHING.

​Sprite/Prototypes: BansheeSprite. Prototyped from a doll of an Irish banshee he once gave to his younger sister.

Pesterchum handle: hopelessHumanist.

​Typing quirk: Uses parentheses to denote emphasis, and he is (quite) set in that habit.

edited 31st Oct '11 12:38:43 PM by Aniventerie

Need a tall, brawny fella to come by and inspect your pickle? Perhaps I may be this fella.

So, at which point in the game does the RP begin? Pre-SBURB launch, or after some of the players have made it to the Medium?

I am also wondering if I should make my guy slightly less of a social cripple. Unless we want a dysfunction junction, naturally.

edited 28th Sep '11 3:52:00 PM by l3wt

When in deadly danger, When beset by doubt, Run in little circles, Wave your arms and shout.

Hi...Yeah, I, uh, was a little hesitant to ask to join again, after the last attempt stumbled up...but..if you'd accept me back, then, hi again...I'd like to play my old character if that's alright, just changed a few things.

Name: STEVEN AUGURE

Gender: Male

Appearance: You are an UNSEEMLY YOUNG MAN, and wear a shirt emblazoned with the symbol of a DOT IN THE MIDDLE OF A CIRCLE. Other than that, you wear a PLAID THREADED COAT and JEANS. You also have VERY BAD EYESIGHT, and as such, wear INCREDIBLY THICK-RIMMED GLASSES. Your hair is WILD and DARK BROWN and you are kind of SKINNY and PALE.

Personality: You have a variety of INTERESTS. You once had a passion for ASTRONOMY but it was lost and soon replaced with a TERRIBLE ADDICTION TO PEEPING, which has caused some ire with other RESIDENTS in the complex. You once aspired to be an ASTRONAUT growing up, but after a CRIPPLING INCIDENT, lost your DREAM, gained ASTROPHOBIA and attained the status of LEGALLY BLIND. Due to these detriments, you have on-going ANXIETY which increases in CERTAIN SITUATIONS.

Land: Land Of Meteors and Frogs (Though, again, it's divided into fragments.)

Title: SEER OF SPACE

Consorts: Stereotypical 'little green men' aliens with some reptilian features.

Prototyping: Will be decided in-game.

Fetch Modus: ORBITAL MODUS: Items rotate at varying rates. Can only pick out objects closest to you at a given time. The heavier an item is, the longer it takes to cycle.

Strife Specibus: Laserkind. This Specibus is ironically TERRIBLY USELESS as you do not have any laser-weaponry to wield other than your LASER-POINTER PEN, which causes a SURPRISINGLY VERY SMALL AMOUNT OF DAMAGE.

Pesterchum Handle: Astronomic Oracle

Typing quirk: Talks in a manner...Such as...this...with...alot...of...ellipses...but, if he get's really anxious, talkslikethiswithnospaceswhatsoever.

I'm a ghost, you didn't see me.

Screw it, I'll just use my old character with some alterations. I'll fill in the history section when I'm feeling a bit more inspired.

• Name:Ronald Blanche
• Gender:Male
• Appearance: About as tall as an average teenage boy. Wears a white t-shirt with a hand giving the "thumbs up" on it. Usually wears a plaid jacket along with it. Every single pair of pants he owns is a pair of tattered, faded blue jeans. Ron wears comically oversized sunglasses and his hair is cut short and neatly combed. A few scraggly hairs sprout out of his chin.
• Personality:Ron's main motivation in life is making people happy. He's happy enough as it is, so why not spread it around? His interests include robots of a transformable nature, busts of movie monsters, tabletop roleplaying games, practical jokes (though he's not very good at them), and the works of "Weird Al" Yankovic. A very generous person, Ron's more than willing to give everything he owns if someone else needs it.
• History:(I'll fill this in later. Please don't hurt me.)
• Land: Land of Bones and Static
• Title: Page of Void
• Consorts: Perpetually angry, football-sized scarabs.
• Fetch Modus:Slider Puzzle. Each captchalogued item is turned into a slider puzzle depicting the item. The puzzle must be solved before the item can be retrieved.
• Strife Specibus: hookKind. Used with a fake hook-hand from an old pirate costume.
• Sprite/Prototypings: OrlokSprite. From a small, cracked bust of Count Orlok.
• Chumhandle: cheerfulAssistant
• Typing quirk: Never uses commas an' frequently uses contractions when none're required.

edited 1st Oct '11 8:13:02 AM by Bindlestick

"You have more than enough potential. So tell me what is the one wish that would make your soul gem shine." -Mitt Romney, probably

I'm picking between two different characters, One male one female. they both have the same base personality, though.

edited 28th Sep '11 5:19:56 PM by stargirl93

Play what you want to play.

edited 28th Sep '11 5:30:29 PM by l3wt

When in deadly danger, When beset by doubt, Run in little circles, Wave your arms and shout.

I need to remember not to rewrite posts like that, it never works. Sorry.

It's alright. If you want an opinion though, it might be more interesting if this adventure wasn't monogender, just saying.

When in deadly danger, When beset by doubt, Run in little circles, Wave your arms and shout.

Agreed. In fact, if we get another male character I am tempted to rewrite my character as female. I wouldn't even have to change the name...

Also, should we be defining class abilities upfront?

edited 28th Sep '11 7:35:09 PM by Aniventerie

Need a tall, brawny fella to come by and inspect your pickle? Perhaps I may be this fella.

• NAME: Alexandra Jones
• GENDER: Female
• APPEARANCE: You are now a SEVERELY SERIOUS-LOOKING girl, with a CLEAR FONDNESS FOR DETAILS. You are METICULOUSLY DRESSED, with STRAIGHT BLONDE HAIR in a PRUDENT PONYTAIL. You also have CLEAR BLUE EYES.
• PERSONALITY: You are a HIGHLY SERIOUS PERSON and something of a NEAT FREAK. You are very fond of ORDER and keeping things WELL ORGANIZED. This means that You are GOOD AT PLANNING THINGS but NOT VERY GOOD AT IMPROVISING. Despite your SERIOUS DISPOSITION, you are very fond of LIGHT-HEARTED LITERATURE and you are a big fan of POPULAR SCIENCE BOOKS. You also partake in VIDEO GAMES, where you are highly OBJECTIVE DRIVEN and will often concentrate on EXPLOITING STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES in the programming to OPTIMIZE YOUR ABILITIES. To KEEP YOURSELF HEALTHY, you PRACTICE KENDO.
• HISTORY: Your parents are VERY BUSY PEOPLE who have very important jobs. You have learnt the value of EFFICIENCY and NOT GETTING IN THE WAY. Your parents paid for your LUXURIOUS APARTMENT as part of your education, and you are DETERMINED NOT TO DISAPPOINT THEM. You have chosen to partake in playing SBURG, as you feel it will be USEFUL IN GETTING ACQUAINTED WITH PEOPLE.
• CLASS: Maid of Hope
• LAND: Land of Springs and Pathways
• FETCH MODUS: As you are a VERY ORGANIZED PERSON, you use the DESKTOP FETCH MODUS. When you captchalogue an item, it will go to an APPROPRIATE SUB-FOLDER in your VAST AND WELL-ORGANIZED array of folders. However, the Sylladex does not have a customized system of archiving, so sometimes you have to SEARCH THROUGH SEVERAL RELEVANT FOLDERS AND SUB-FOLDERS before you can find the item you are after.
• STRIFE SPECIBUS: Bladekind. A strife specibus with PLENTY OF POTENTIAL. However, as you feel that CHEAP REPLICAS of real swords is not SERIOUS ENOUGH to leave lying around the apartment, the only weapon you have is a WOODEN SWORD.
• CONSORTS: Small winged humanoids, known as BIRDMEN.
• PESTERCHUM HANDLE: meticulousManager
• TYPING QUIRK: While in theory you are opposed to writing disorderly for the sake of personality quirks and you place great weight on using proper British English with correct spelling and capitalization, there is no denying that you have the habit of writing very long-winded sentences, separated only by commas and semicolons, so that your entire thought-process and method of reasoning may be presented at once in an informative way.
• OTHER DETAILS: You're ENGLISH, and while you are obviously not as OBSESSED WITH DRINKING TEA as some of your compatriots, you nevertheless enjoy A NICE CUP OF PROPERLY MADE TEA.

edited 2nd Oct '11 9:06:05 AM by Lemurian

Join us in our quest to play all RPG video games! Moving on to disc 2 of Grandia!

^ She sounds like one of those people who'd use the Serious Business app.

edited 29th Sep '11 5:25:26 AM by l3wt

When in deadly danger, When beset by doubt, Run in little circles, Wave your arms and shout.

She does, doesn't she?

Join us in our quest to play all RPG video games! Moving on to disc 2 of Grandia!

Maybe one of us should switch to regular blue instead of teal, though, to keep things a little easier to discern. I think I'll just go ahead and do that.

edited 29th Sep '11 5:40:49 AM by l3wt

When in deadly danger, When beset by doubt, Run in little circles, Wave your arms and shout.

• NAME: Michael Vallance

• GENDER: Male

• APPEARANCE: In front of you is an UNNERVINGLY CALM MAN. You guess even if his parents had died he would STAND STILL and STARE INTO SPACE. He is wearing a BLACK AND RED HOODIE and seems to never put the HOOD UP. He is also wearing COMPLETELY WRECKED JEANS. I mean come on, this guy should have thrown them out years ago. His face is COMPLETELY BLANK and you'll probably never be able to understand what he's thinking.

• PERSONALITY: You never show ANY EMOTION. It's as if the LINK BETWEEN YOUR MIND AND FACE/BODY has been completely severed. This annoys an AWFUL LOT OF PEOPLE because they can never tell whether you LIKE THEM OR NOT or find them even VAGUELY INTERESTING.

You have a PASSION for EXTREMELY COMPLICATED ALGEBRA and you're EXTREMELY GOOD AT IT. In fact you have a habit of REVIEWING MATHEMATICIANS FORMULAE to look for HIDEOUS MISTAKES. You also enjoy HIKING and LONG WALKS OUTSIDE but recently you have stopped doing it because you've seen EVERYWHERE in the nearby vicinity.

Although no one can understand ANYTHING YOU ARE THINKING you like most of the people you've met and you ENJOY PEOPLE'S COMPANY. You also really like THE PLACE YOU LIVE IN and spend most of the time in your FLAT.

• HISTORY: You don't really have ANY MEMORY OF YOUR PARENTS because they either died or abandoned you when you were EXTREMELY YOUNG. Since then you have been in many HOUSES with many different FAMILIES. However at about the AGE OF 12 you ran away from home. Instead of GOING TO SCHOOL you spent a lot of time either on a COMPUTER (in the local library) or READING BOOKS.

At the age of 19 you went to PICK UP money from your bank account. You only recently found out about this BANK ACCOUNT but it was set up a while by your ORIGINAL PARENTS and contains a considerable deal of money. You decided to use this money to RENT A FLAT IN A NEARBY APARTMENT BUILDING. The one thing you're not sure about is that you were given the DETAILS FOR YOUR BANK ACCOUNT from a man called HARRY. You got the feeling that Harry had been watching you for a long time and had been 'helping you out' while you were on your own. At least now you know where those £50 notes were coming from. Also in the BANK ACCOUNT was a SAFETY DEPOSIT KEY. When you went to unlock it you found some family jewels and a STUFFED EAGLE.

As you like to be around people, once you found out about SBURG you decided to go see what all the fuss was about and hopefully MAKE SOME FRIENDS while at it.

• CLASS: SCRIBE OF DOOM

• LAND: Land of Bells and Poison

• CONSORTS: Black-haired rock climbing monkeys who carry pick-axes.

• FETCH MODUS: MATH MODUS. Your Fetch Modus is possibly the most complicated ever. The Math Modus can hold 10 items maximum and is based on extremely complicated algebraic equations that could never be explained to someone not of your supreme mathematical intellect. It's so weird sometimes even you muck up and have to go check your calculations.

• STRIFE SPECIBUS: harpoonKind Abstratus. You have one vintage harpoon that you used to use while fishing when you were tight on money.

• SPRITES/PROTOTYPES: STUFFED EAGLE: Check history for more details.

• PESTERCHUM HANDLE: abstractAngel

• TYPING QUIRK: Uses +'s instead of t's, /'s instead of full-stops's and ='s instead of hyphen's.

Example: Hello my name is Michael Vallance, it's my birthday today and I'm really happy. My dog gave me an odd-looking bone.

Hello my name is Michael Vallance, i+'s my bir+hyday +oday and I'm really happy/ My dog gave me an odd=looking bone/

That's my real handle.

edited 29th Sep '11 10:16:57 AM by Meta-ridley

Ashe? Really? Sad Little Try-hard.