We Are Our Avatars (Discussion)

Are we allowed to use more than one character?

If so, do we have to do the test thing for that character, too?

[insert something relating to myself here]

Yes and No respectivly

Alright, he's just from something I was working on.

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Name: Lorenzo, or Enzo for short

Alt. Name(s): Virgil

Gender: Male

Eye Color: Blue (with pupils)^* In-Universe, ghosts don't normally have pupils, and Apparoids only have pupils when they're possessed by a Guardian

Hair Color: Brown (alive), Green/Blue (as an Apparoid) [apparition+android]

Height: 5'11"/1.8 meters

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Powers: Can shoot ice beams out of hands (shown when he turns blue), or electrical beams (shown when he turns green), Apparoids are waterproof

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In Apparith, an afterlife dimension, Enzo (or Virgil, as most know him) is something of a myth to those that have heard of him, mainly because he spends most of his time fighting the monsters in said dimension, as well as saving any Apparoids that may have been struggling with fighting a monster.

When he's not fighting monsters endlessly, he's mainly writing stories and/or entries in his journal. He mainly spends his time alone or in disguise in Apparith, and in disguise, he's much more open to the residents of the various towns and cities in Apparith.

Why does he go into disguise? Well, aside from the fact that humans are social creatures (Apparoids ARE the ghosts of humans who agreed to be fused into an android body), he just feels wrong using the name and appearance of his former friend.

When he meets someone who DOESN'T know him, whether it's mistaking him for Virgil or only knowing about him from the rumors that other Apparoids have spread about him,^* (They're mostly things like, "I heard seeing him brings you good luck", "I heard he destroyed a hundred monsters by himself", "I heard he tried to take on Non by himself", and other such rumors.) he drops the stoic and brooding act and uses the opportunity to open up to whoever he's talking to. He might show some of the stories he wrote or make things with his ice powers, and he'd definitely prattle on about his family if asked. Of course, he misses them the most.

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Years ago, his ghost was summoned to Apparith (along with 9 others) to help fight the monsters there.^* They were summoned every night when they slept, and sent back when they'd normally wake up.

After years of being able to fight the monsters, Enzo thought, "Why not take on whatever is making these things and get rid of the problem for good?"

Long story short, the fight didn't go well, but Enzo wasn't so quick to give up. His ghost ended up getting critically wounded, which impacted his body in the real world, making it look as if he died in his sleep. If it weren't for quick intervention and Virgil's Chronic Hero Syndrome, he likely would've ceased to exist. After a while, the real Virgil faded into Enzo's subconscious.

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Main Possessions: Satchel (brown), and in that satchel are two worn journals and writing utensils, as well as a hat and another change of clothes when he goes into town.^* Said disguise mainly consists of said brown hat, him hiding his eyes with his blue hair or in some other way (his eyes and green hair were a dead giveaway that it was him), a dark long-sleeved sweater, dark pants, and a heavy coat. [[Hand Wave He has a lot of space in that thing.

Main Outfit: A white longcoat with a green-blue trim on the sleeves, with his pants being a darker green. He also wears green gloves (the same shade as the trim), which are often covered by the sleeves.

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Misc. Info

• In Apparith, he spends most of his time in the nearest Cavern of Contact, which is basically a cave with a giant mirror that allows ghosts and Apparoids to watch over their loved ones

• He has an X-shaped scar on the lower left side of his face. How did he get it? It was technically Virgil who got it, but he was too embarrassed to talk about it.

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Alrighty.

Sorry for the probably unnecessary background information.

edited 3rd May '18 10:26:33 AM by Reuknighted

[insert something relating to myself here]

There's been periods of long lull activity time in the thread, where not many people post. It seems we are at one of those times. But considering how long this thread has been going on, since 2009, I think it's managed to last quite a respectable amount of years without stopping.

After talking with several players in private who have a good grasp of how the game works, and with the low post per day count, it's been generally agreed to put this game into hibernation. At least, for a little bit. This game still has some life left in it yet, considering its premise is very bare-bones and its lack of continuity in-spite of its post count, but it's at an age where discussing where to take it is a good idea. Think of this as like mid-life crisis for an rp that used to be in Forum Games.

For now, there's some things I'd like us to consider;

1) Talking about what to do regarding the rp itself, whether we focus on plots over interaction or vice versa, whether we revive the game or let it rest permanently, etc. I've seen one suggestion for effectively starting from a cleaner state, which does have its merits, but considering this game has built itself on recurring characters with strong histories, we'll have to think a lot where we want to take it.

Me, as the figurehead for We Are Our Avatars, I'm all for manning the boat until it sinks well into the earth in its watery grave, so you don't need to worry about me jumping ship at this stage.

2) In a bit of a "duh" moment, we'd long neglected the WAOA TVT page for a while, because a majority of the content on it is from over half a decade ago (and I feel old just typing that out). And outright nuking it is not an option since removing information haphazardly goes against TVTropes' policies. While I'm still more than happy to let it be, I think that doing SOMETHING regarding all that loose flotsam of years past could help a lot. Especially because a lot of the people who added to the page in the first place no longer play in it currently, likely moving onto other pursuits of interest.

3) If anyone here has any ideas for future things they want to put out here for posterity, definitely feel free to. We'd taken a lot of off-topic chatter offsite to help free up this space, so it's open for character ideas, plot ideas, discussion regarding possible changes and things to consider, and minimal shitposting general feedback regarding ideas.

Finally, if anyone who is playing WAOA still wants to get their roleplay fix with a similar player base to this one, feel free to join us over in the Across Universes game. It's a game similar to this in intent, but more focused on action-oriented roleplaying. We're always happy to see new friendly faces.

Or heck, try any of the fine games on this fora. You never know what you could find. The only limit in roleplaying is your imagination, after all.

>Across Universes thread
>Across Universes Discussion thread
>Across Universes Signup thread

edited 25th May '18 12:51:06 PM by Raidouthe21st

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For 2) What does everyone think we do about the TV tropes page for this RP? I don't think anyone is going to like going through thousands of pages to add missing content onto the page. Should we add things from a few months back or maybe up to a year?

Edit: After looking through the stuff it's going to be a pain to actually clean it up. The page has been left alone for far too long and it'll be easier to mostly leave it be.

For 3): A few plot ideas, though I'm not sure any of them are feasible. I'm just throwing out ideas to keep this RP going.

1. A report that some scattered fragments of a Reaper is causing trouble on an isolated planet. The first signs that something is wrong were that people have started performing strange activities and more and more people have joined them. We are sent to investigate. (Mass Effect)

2. A chance Warp incident has dumped off some isolated groups of W H40k and bits of the Warp are leaking into real space. ( I don't think this much grimdarkness is healthy, though playing up the comedic grimderp value in 40k might be better. Bloody slaves loading macro cannons and the daemonculaba)

3. There are reports of temporal fluctuations on a planet, despite events mostly seeming normal. The group finds isolated cases of unexplained damage and find traces and residue, such as a grief seed or two. (PMMM)

edited 9th Jun '18 7:01:55 AM by ericshaofangwang

This is the internet. Jokes fly over in private jets, and sarcasm has bullshit stealth technology.

Okay, after a few weeks of stepping back from this game in its hibernation period, the process of reworking this game is officially unofficially begun. No confirmed date of when we'll all be back in, but we've definitely put in some concrete thoughts regarding where we are going with this game.

1) Interest for the game is still existent, so we've no intention of shutting it down permanently for the immediate future. But we're going to be cleaning up some things.

1a) The mercenary company Kerberos has been a big part of this game since the cast from WAOAA was merged with this one. Definitely a lot of player-favorite characters who have strong history and characterization. However, it's also lead to a tonal shift in the game that has ultimately restricted what we can do in plots, in order to keep things fair if challenging. A lot of characters are also restricted by their affiliation to this group for the sort of plots they do, since they all are working towards cash benefits.

So it's very likely that we are going to revamp the cast from the neck up. Possibly having the mercenary guys go bankrupt and have to rebuild their lives, while their erstwhile friends either help or don't. Bring in some new characters, or bring back some revamped old veteran characters. Whatever we think works.

Basically, we'll be just a bunch of jackasses playing our avatars again, so that should be pretty fun.

1b) Related to above, we're going to more actively shift focus to regular freeform rp plots and downtime than a more gritty action-focused one like in Across Universes. With intent to help us get back into this game, help give us wiggle room for some of the more outlandish plots, and because I know a lot of players in the past enjoyed the interaction over the plots themselves.

Don't worry, they'll never permanently go away. Just giving us all a bit more leeway in how we play here.

1c) Also related to above, people who have been dissatisfied with past characters have shown interest in bringing them back in a revised, far less continuity messy fashion, so look out for seeing some old-new faces.

2) Okay, I think even the moderators agree that the We Are Our Avatar page is a very obvious mole on the backside of our game for a very long time. Our ultimate goal in dealing with it is to a) Filter out the massive amounts of chaff and possibly just put down "highlights" of events and arcs that represent what we want the game to be going forward, and b) Fix the character pages, since the majority of related characters were played by people who no longer play with is, and there are plans to retcon and edit old characters by current players.

The current obstacle is finding a mod to give us the go ahead to essentially rewrite the whole thing from top to bottom, given that they both want us to fix the page's length BUT don't want us to remove content. Once we understand how we can fix the page to meet the standards of TVTropes, then we'll work on it. Until then, keeping continuity simple and to the point like we always have is going to be our main goal.

3) Plot ideas are still going to be more than open to suggestion, but as before, we'll be starting with more focus on doing things for the sake of doing them than the reward itself. Also, if you want to propose doing something that isn't a plot but just a side thing or event, go right on ahead. As long as it doesn't involve total genocide or universal destruction, obviously.

All the links above still work if you want to rp in a game related to this one.

Further Game Master news will be forthcoming.

Edited by Raidouthe21st on Jul 15th 2018 at 1:48:26 PM

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If I may ask, are there any particular criteria for the rewrite of the TV tropes page? Considering how long the page has been left alone, where do we begin to put in recent-ish events/plots or is it more simple to wipe most of the slate clean and start from plots in recent memory? There doesn't seem to be anything from at least 2016 and I don't think people would want to go through thousands of pages to dig out things to put there.

Edited by ericshaofangwang on Jul 18th 2018 at 3:35:52 AM

This is the internet. Jokes fly over in private jets, and sarcasm has bullshit stealth technology.

We've already got it figured out to focusing on arcs most of us actually remember. You really don't have to worry about that kind of stuff.

Because I will have to politely ask you to leave.

Seriously, while I don't take the actions of other games like AU into account, the negative attitude that you had in this thread has been combative enough in the past that many of the other players expressed discomfort in further interacting with you.

Please try Forum Games. They've got plenty of places you can mess around in, and they have even less rules than we do.

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Apologies then. I'll leave.

Edited by ericshaofangwang on Jul 18th 2018 at 9:33:13 PM

This is the internet. Jokes fly over in private jets, and sarcasm has bullshit stealth technology.

Tentatively, we're preparing to defrost the game around August 1st, although no huge rush.

In the meantime, we might as well put down stuff we know we're going to do on paper, like with retcons if any to our characters.

For my part, I've always maintained a policy of "good enough" for continuity. That is to say, I'll probably just keep things really simple and use an overview of my character's respective histories. There might be one or two minor changes, but nothing big enough to erase character development.

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So, I'll primarily be using two characters; Noble Six (the personal favorite), and the return of Mitch (the fan favorite).

Mitch is getting the most complex makeover. Effectively;

• The same "close enough" doctrine Rai is using for his characters, for the most part, applies to Mitch. Unless I explicitly say something never happened to him, it's safe to assume everything he's been through still applies.
• The way I intend to play Mitch going forwards is as somebody who's really good at soldiering (no surprise there for me, huh?), to (presumably) contrast with a lot of the other characters present. In exchange, he isn't really supernatural beyond the fact he's a player character from Battlefield who can shoot down a dragon in a jet, jump out of it, snipe somebody out of a helicopter on the way down, then hotwire a tank.
• With that in mind, he's not biotic any more. To be blunt, the way I gave him those powers was incredibly dumb and contrived, so he doesn't have them any more.
• After a discussion with Sunny, Mitch is now retroactively still unlucky with women, and he and Kasumi are not together any more. I would expect them to be an item again sometime within the next six months.
• Mitch has also been somewhat busy since WAOA went to sleep; out of boredom and altruism, he founded a company of troopers explicitly formed with the intent of making a tiny slice of the multiverse better. This is not intended to be another Kerberos; this is intended to explain where all of Mitch's wargear comes from. This is their primary purpose. Everything else is nice fluff. Officially, Mitch has since retired from the group after mentoring them to the best of his ability to thrive in the multiverse; in gratitude, they let him use spare supplies for whatever purposes he needs them for, and can occasionally be called on to provide some help (though only in the form of an airstrike here or some helping hands there, as they have their own things to do and can only extend so much help). Unofficially, however, Mitch still worries about them, and at times finds it difficult to let them do their own thing, given how dangerous the multiverse is... Regardless, I am aware that no matter my intent this can look incredibly sketchy, so I am open to questions about this to ensure it will cause no further harm to the game, or dropping it entirely if people consider it too much.

Six, in the meanwhile, isn't being changed much. Beyond an appearance change for personal reasons, as well as minor retconning of the My Little Pony elements (her main residence is not located in Equestria, essentially), she's pretty much the same peppy take-no-shits SPARTAN you've come to know and presumably love.

"Seven is here too, dressed like the concept of choosing clothes that look nice together was an arcane secret far beyond their grasp."

so curious to know which of my old characters to bring back in you guys opinion

" I did the right thing, didn't I? It all worked out in the end." "In the end? Nothing ends, Adrian. Nothing ever ends."

Due to my lack of actual staying involved within the WAOA power structure, my retcons are nothing significant but I feel it is best to say them here for posterity as my only character is Gespenst.

• He's an on/off team mate of the group, he sticks around just long enough to either tag along for a mission or to recruit a few people for a personal undertaking. He's still friendly towards the group, but he sticks around so little that most people are unlikely to know him beyond 'that guy in the black armor'.
• He still has the colossal blade he recovered from the elder scrolls universe which he modified with technology from Omega and Neo-Seattle.
• He doesn't have a voice box.

I'm not going to be making any major alterations with my characters since 1) I haven't played a lot recently and 2) never had any of my characters involved in Kerberos plot stuff. They might have to reintroduce themselves to a few people but that's really all.

That said I should decide who I'm bringing in, if anyone, when this all starts back up again.

Stupid doomed timeline...

For char Imca I am formally removing, any thing deity related, or on a planetary scale, and shifting her to a more defined backstory that I have been using elsewhere for a couple years now, with her being one of the daughters of a samurai family from a planet of foxes. She will still have access to a lot of equipment since samurai are kind of the warrior caste, so she can kind of go borrow something from home, but not to unlimited amounts.

Relations with other characters kind of remain unchanged.

I am also really considering a name change since I am not sure about sharing my name with a char any more..... but I am still unsure on that one.

Probably come up with more, later, but Drakina is going to be retcon'd into being single, due to Chilifro leaving the game.

Thinking on it, doing something similar with my character of Vivian. She was also married to a character that Chilifro was playing, but since he has departed, it might be easier to have her single again.

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And with this, WAOA is officially reopened

Happy gaming, guys

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It's good to be back.

Edit: One retcon I would like to make is to make Kayla a full-blood elf

Edited by NeonMoon on Aug 3rd 2018 at 11:53:04 AM

I realized that Inuyasha has not been cured after some goofy sideplot we did a long-ass time ago, so I've decided to go "fuck it" and run with it. >.>

Whoah, I picked the right time to come back.

I actually am feeling a hankering for a canon character this time, so I might make her. Or I might go with an OC. Could be the one on here, could be a different one.

"Call me dickmaster."

Welcome back! Go ahead and take your time figuring out what you want to play.

We're currently in Nether Vegas, which (if you need a reminder) is basically a coke-fueled fusion of a Netherworld from Disgaea and the Mojave Wasteland from Fallout: New Vegas. As of right now, everyone is currently chilling in the New Vegas Strip, though there are a few people prepared to head out towards the Colorado River in order to scout around Caesar's Legion as they prepare for another attack on New Vegas.

Edited by SpartyMcFly on Aug 21st 2018 at 11:47:50 AM

"Seven is here too, dressed like the concept of choosing clothes that look nice together was an arcane secret far beyond their grasp."

So, I said I wanted to do a canon char, and here she is! I can make some edits around the crazier parts of her backstory (mostly aging her up a bit), but this is actually how things went in the series.

NAME: Monaca Towa (Not mine, from the Danganronpa universe)

GEAR: Black Suspiran, a giant, six-armed robot (image here: ), a wheelchair, assorted odds and ends.

POWERS: Monaca doesn't have powers as such, but her intelligence could be considered superhuman. Even at her young age, she's capable of building sci-fi tier robots, mind-control devices, etc. Robotics in particular is a specialty of hers, as is manipulation.

PERSONALITY: Monaca outwardly acts sweet and innocent for the most part, but on the inside harbors a great deal of disdain for virtually everyone except the one person she looks up to. She will oftentimes use her appearance as a helpless child to provoke pity and get a pass on the more aggressive things she does (which she also tries to do subtly).

BACKSTORY: Monaca was the illegitimate child of the CEO of Towa Group, a tech corporation in the Japan of the Danganronpa universe. She was not well-loved by her father's side of the family, and indeed likely abused, but thanks in part due to her manipulation tactics (including pretending to be wheelchair bound) the family began to see her as more of an asset than a black sheep. She was even put in charge of Towa Group's Robotics division at an EXTREMELY young age at one point, due to her superhuman intellect.

She met her idol, Junko Enoshima, some time later, and decided to help her bring chaos and despair to the world. She even blackmailed the Towa Group CEO (her father) into allowing her to make all kinds of destructive weaponry that would be used to that end, along with the weaponry used to fight against it.

Some other things happened, but I haven't decided how much of that I'm going to have her have experienced yet.

"Call me dickmaster."

Do you mind if we put you through a quick roleplaying exercise, just to glean how you would approach a character such as this? Given that we're essentially working from a semi-fresh start, it'd probably help everyone out here

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Sure, go ahead.

Edited by Privilege on Aug 23rd 2018 at 8:23:26 AM

"Call me dickmaster."