STROPE

>Begin explaining game

Yes chums it's another Home Stuck RP! This time it was built to capitalize on the overflowing of ideas that were clogging up the webcomic thread proper.

So a few things to differentiate this game from your typical Homestuck game. First of all you won't be playing as thirteen year old kids, you will be playing as 16 year old teens (STROPE got a T rating).

>Continue Tedious Explanation

The tone of the game will strive to hit as close to Original Flavor os Homestuck as we can. Scary and silly will go hand in hand, and awesome will play twister with stupid and heartwarming. Or at least it will try.

Pesterlogs will play a part in the game. If two characters want to talk to each other and they are not right next to each other, a pesterlog should be created by both players. An IRC channel will be set up to help with this.

The game will start with each character already in the medium. If you want to flashback to you putzing around setting up stuff go ahead, but it won't be a part of the game.

Alchemy will be a part of the game. We will just wing it as we go along. Come up with fun combinations of stuff, but just as a guideline, the more awesome items don't come until later.

PM me you're ideas about your character's planet. It will be worked out over P Ms and be revealed the first time each player gets through their gate.

We want an even number of players.

>Input Player Data

Things required for a character in STROPE:

• Your character's name and their pesterchum handle.
• Info about your character. You know the THINGS they have a passion for, enjoy, like and occasionally do.
• Typing quirks (optional)
• Derse Dreamer or Prospit Dreamer. 50/50 split
• What is your character's Sprite?
• Your sylladex (must occasionally be inconvenient to use)
• Your Strife Specibus
• Title and associated powers (should in some way reflect your character's personality, either their strengths or their flaws)
• Who is who's server player. Work it out between yourselves.

> Open Thread for submissions

> Warning! Thread closes once we have twelve players.

> Announce closing of sign ups!

Well that's it. We've got 12 players. Thanks for the interest so far everybody!

>Reveal Glimmer of Hope

For those of you who wanted to join, but didn't get in in time, you can still follow the thread and wait. If the game gets far enough you might just be able to join yourselves.

edited 26th Jan '11 7:11:50 PM by Alkthash

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>Be the TSUNDERE COOPERATE JERK ASS

You are MEGAN CROUPIER, a high rollin', heavy dealin', douchebag of a sixteen year old girl that happens to be in this particular story. As the heir to a MASSIVE YET LARGELY ILLEGAL FORTUNE acquired by your father, a dealer in the BLACK MARKET, you find yourself accommodated for in virtually all respects. Of course, being tied to illegal activities isn't exactly incisive to a healthy social life, thus you have distanced yourself from your father by literally moving out, and receive MONTHLY CHECKS WITH EXORBIANT AMOUNTS OF MONEY TIED TO THEM.

You enjoy BUSINESS, and have already made quite a few HONEST DOLLARS and some DISHONEST DOLLARS dealing in various ENTERPRISES in your school. Your recent CORPORATE TAKEOVER has left you with all of the LOCAL BUSINESS. There is a MEME you could insert in this particular sentence following the previous statement but you don't feel up to it. In any case, you are obviously studying to become a CEO of some FABULOUSLY WEALTHY AND HATE INDUCING CORPORATION when you get older. Beyond this, you enjoy FINE MUSIC and DANCING and you are a BALLERINA of almost twelve years.

When it comes to people, you are CHARMING yet still RUTHLESS. You keep people at a distance but also try to keep them close, and people are generally confused when dealing with you. It's in your nature, though you wish you could be an HONEST UPFRONT GIRL every now and then. Then you smell the latest POTENTIAL MERGER and forget all about being a LIKABLE PERSON.

You are a dreamer of PROSPIT, as suits a conflicted little lady such as yourself. Your chumHandle is artisanInternationalGentlewoman, or AIG, and you type in an Extremely professional manner with excellent syntax and capitalization. Your SPRITE ultimately ends up being your OLD NANNY, ANTOINETTE. You have a TRUST SYLLADEX which you must pay to use, and also has it's own STOCK VALUE, which is what I call an EXCELLENT INVESTMENT. You STRIFE with TIEKIND, a funny little category that takes advantage of the existence of LETHALLY CASUAL BUSINESSWARE. You eventually become the DEALER OF FORTUNE, which ultimately grants you the ability to take enormous chances at virtually no risk, at a cost of your HUMANITY. This could be an ISSUE later on.

SERVER PLAYER for ERIK.

edited 26th Jan '11 6:33:49 PM by Katsuun

Well, this should be interesting!

Name: Benjamin Soune

Interests: Music, card and board games, Fantasy, BIRDS.

Basic Personality: A pretty cheerful guy. Optimistic. Enjoys playing games and reading REALLY CORNY FANTASY NOVELS. Wishes to see every type of BIRD in the world before he dies.

Pesterchum: belatedSoundwave

Typing Quirks: he Alternatively capitalizes Every other Word and Likes to Use cheerful Emoticons! ^_^

A Prospit dreamer

Character's Sprite: A suit of old armor (first thing) and his dead pet owl, Henry. (second thing). Appears as a human-sized owl wearing a suit of armor.

Sylladex: Alphabetized, with only one item allowed per letter.

Strife Specibus: Cardkind

Title: Gambler of Generations Can change the course of FATE in mild ways. Comes from Ben's way of treating life as another one of his GAMES.

Powers: Can influence anything, with any kind of result. It has a 24-hour cooldown, however. He also gets a free chance to one mistake he makes in one hour, provided that he uses this ability immediately after the mistake.

Server Player: I am the server player of Randy.

Edited for formatting.

edited 26th Jan '11 5:58:50 PM by dmboogie

>Erik: Describe fictional self in more organized manner

• Your name is Erik Vogel and your chumhandle is tacticalGunsmith
• You are a MILITARY BUFF interested in WEAPONRY AND THEIR HISTORY, VIDEOGAMES, ANIMATION, LITERATURE AND TABLETOP MINIATURE GAMES DEPICTING MILITARY COMBAT IN A REALISTIC OR UNREALISTIC MANNER, and CUTE JAPANESE ANIMATION. You TEND TO STAY QUIET ABOUT THAT LAST ONE but everybody has FIGURED IT OUT BY NOW. You wear a SHIRT EMBLAZONED WITH A CHEVRON.
• you TEND to be a little LOUD sometimes!!
• Your dreamself slumbers on the dark planet known as DERSE.
• You are guided by a SPRITE prototyped with A MODEL OF A TACHIKOMA POLICE ROBOT.
• You allocated your SYLLADEX to the TAG-CLOUD MODUS, which assigns tags to CAPTCHALOGUED ITEMS. Since all items related to a tag are retrieved when calling one tag, IT GETS A TAD ANNOYING.
• Your Strife Specibus is SPEARKIND, since unlike Joe YOU DO NOT HAVE EASY ACCESS TO FIREARMS.  ^*
  ^{You MAY CONSIDER ALLOCATING GUNLANCEKIND once SUFFICIENT AMOUNTS OF GRIST ARE FOUND to enable the alchemization of such an UNCONVENTIONAL WEAPON.}
• You are the Baron of Shadow and your CURRENTLY VERY LIMITED ability to MOVE INCONSPICUOUSLY currently DOES NOT SEE MUCH USE.
• You are the CLIENT PLAYER of MEGAN but currently are not serving as anyone's SERVER PLAYER.

edited 26th Jan '11 6:14:34 PM by Eriksson

Alright, here I go.

Name: Randy Ericson

Chumhandle:recurringNote (RN)

Interests:Heavy Metal, Fantasy and Science Fiction novels, cheese, staring blankly into space, robots of a transformable nature ,and tabletop roleplaying. He also believes himself to be a hit with "the ladies" though this is a delusion if anything.

Guardian: Mother, who tends to partake in renactments of battles from the nordic period.

Typing Quirk: Speks somewhat normaly, but capitalises the U's in his sentences in place of Umlauts.

Prospit dreamer.

Sprite: First tier is an Optimus Prime figure. Second tier is a stuffed bear. Appears as a ghostly bear with Optimus Prime's arms and head.

Fetch Modus: Blind Man's Bluff. To select an item, the user must close his eyes and attempt to pick the item out through memory.

Strife Specibus: Guitarkind. Used as a bludgeoning weapon, of course, because using sound as a weapon is just absurd.

Physical Description: Randy is short, around 4'7. His face is riddled with acne, and that's they way he likes it. His hair is around waist length, brown and dirty. He usually wears a Metallica t-shirt with a pair of hole filled blue jeans. His eyes are a dull shade of blue.

Title: Bard of Space. At low levels, can make minor alterations to the fabric of space with music, i.e altering the surface area of clothing, expanding the dimensions of a room, etc.

Server Player: Benjamin. Server player of Jake.

edited 28th Jan '11 2:30:23 PM by Monkeyface

13-year-olds aren't teens?

Heh, well at least maybe now I can use that profile I made...

• Name and handle: Kale Vertue, kinestheticQuintessence
• Info: Likes CLASSIC VIDEO GAMES, HARP-PLAYING, and RELIGIOUS AND MYTHOLOGICAL RESEARCH
• Typing quirks: Speaks with simple, yet overly formal composure and syntax.
• Prospit Dreamer
• Sprite: Faronsprite (a mid-life phoenix); only prototyped once
• Sylladex: Prayer. Likelihood of successful item retrieval depends on the strength of his faith in it.
• Strife Specibus: Harpkind. More often than not he just hits enemies with it.
• Title: Lord of Will; stems from his uncertainty in himself, but underlines his propensity to keep trying. Powers as of yet unknown.
• Planet: Land of Clouds and Grace
• Server Player: Jettison
• Client Player:

edited 26th Jan '11 5:04:53 PM by Keybreak

Considering to give this a try. I'm a little behind on my Homestruck, but I have the basics, hope it'll work.

Added INTERESTS because I am a doof and forget them.

• You are Joe Teller (Handle pending, but expect something like imperialGeologist)
• You are a HISTORY BUFF who's favorite history is THE KIND THAT NEVER HAPPENED. You're the president and sole member of your school's GEOLOGY CLUB. You have LITERARY PRETENTIONS, but YOU'RE NOT VERY GOOD.
• You're quirky enough, why would you type weird? Worth considering, though.
• You're a DERSE DREAMER, though you're not too commited
• Quartz Sprite (initial) Quartzfishsprite (second, with goldfish)
• You have the Metaphor Modus: You must write a metaphor for the object to be removed, toggles between Dick Joke and English Class.
• Your DAD just HAPPENED to forget to Lock his GUN CABINET. You're a fan of PISTOLKIND.
• GUARD of TRUTH: As JOE you can control the perception of others, making them see what you want to see.
• You are ANNE'S Client Player, you need a client of your own.

edited 26th Jan '11 6:10:05 PM by HungryJoe

• Name: Alexis Vance Schneider
• Chumhandle: [VS] Viral Skeptic
• Interests: Literature, Comics, Supernatural lore, Origami and Knitting
• Prospit Dreamer
• Wraith Sprite: Chucked a Ring Wraith figurine into her sprite.
• Typing Quirks: Forgets to add punctuation at the end of her sentences. Adds them later the next line. Uses dashes instead of commas.
• Tarot Sylladex: Has to assign each item put in to a thematically appropriate major arcana. The deck has a trick Rule of Symbolism system she still hasn't mastered.
• Strife Specibus: Knifekind
• Title: Knight of Doubt - at low levels allows her to discern if information is true or false. Not the reasons behind why it is wrong or correct, just which status it fits. Early on can believe false info to be true if the source creating it believed it to be true(so it is possible to trick her by tricking somebody else). Higher level powers let her sow doubt in enemies, making combat against her a guessing game and expand her stealth abilities.
• Server Player: Ezekiel

edited 26th Jan '11 5:55:19 PM by Alkthash

Dude that's such a knock-off!

edited 26th Jan '11 4:27:07 PM by Keybreak

D'oh! I knew her name sounded too familiar. Will fix that!

>>> Create your character.

• Name: Jake Pratchett
• Chum handle: christenedTemplar
• Interests: You are interested in The Past, especially becoming an Adventurer Archaeologist, but those don't exist in the real world sadly. You enjoy Satire and Weird Humor, because you tend to Space Out at Bad Times. You keep a note of everything in your Red Notebook, because you tend to be Extremely Forgetful. If it's not in your notes, it didn't happen.
• Typing quirks: ...tend to ... ... space out at times, using inconsistent punctuation and... rarely using capitalization except for I; except for when you're talking about archaeology or The Past, inwhich case you become extremely focused.
• Sprite: On accident, or maybe by design, one of your Father's Wooden Nutcrackers fell into your kernal, creating a kernalcracker.
• Derse Dreamer preferred, can be Prospit if needed.
• Sylladex used: Note-Checker; taking a few seconds to skim through your notes in the back of the notebook, you can pull out your items... unless you forgot to write it down, in which case you must get someone to remind you and write it back down.
• Strife Specibus: Hockey-stickKind
• Title and powers: Heir of Fugue. You have a poor memory, and sometimes even black out and can't remember what you've done in those times. Sometimes you can find notes in the notebook, written in a slightly different hand. Perhaps in the future, Skiain Ruins will respond to you in a way that is Different then the others. You also tend to have Startling Insights into other people's histories that you cannot explain.
• Server player: Monkeyface
• Client player: Keybreak

Okay I think that's right?

edited 28th Jan '11 5:49:39 AM by Jettison37

==>Create Profile

You are JACOB RAFE, and your handle is placidTempest. You only capitalize the start of sentences/ and use slashes/pipes/ and other signs in leau of proper punctuation| Not too hard/ right> Good~

You have a keen interest in STUDYING FLORA, and have a knack for recognizing some of them by smell alone. While you enjoy LIGHT READING while not waist-deep in soil, you usually while your time away PLAYING VIDEO GAMES, some of which may or may not be for girls. You would consider yourself a tad unfortunate to be a DERSE DREAMER, in the case your DREAMSELF ever wakes. Your location on EARTH is just past the outskirts of FORT WORTH, TEXAS.

You prototyped your SPRITE with a TAXIDERMIED FOX and a ROSE BUSH. The mixture of snickering and rustling sets you on edge more than you would like to admit.

Your SYLLADEX is keyed to the EMOTION MODUS, which has its inventory slots directly linked to the intensity of certain emotional states: JOY, FEAR, SORROW, and RAGE, and places the items where it thinks they will work best. While this should work with minimal flaws, you find it very difficult to recall you have healing items accessible while in a state of SHEER PANIC, or that the note that just revealed itself in your BLIND FURY told you not to kill what you just did, among other various examples.

Your STRIFE SPECIBUS is equipped with CHAINKIND, causing some annoyance when your friends expect you to tell a monster that it "doesn't belong in this world".

You are the KNAVE OF DECAY. Low level FRAYMOTIFS allow you to induce sickness in the living and structural damage to the inert, though you have heard that higher levels could rust items to uselessness and rot the living to a state of undeath. Thinking about it really freaks you out.

Your SERVER PLAYER is PAUL, and your CLIENT is BEN.

edited 27th Jan '11 5:14:52 PM by Maverick8187

I could be yours Jettison. Lest school renders me unable...

Hopefully at least I'd set you up before that happens though.

Actually Monkeybone claimed it just a bit earlier, sorry Keybreak. But I do need the opposite still, since Monkeybone's paired up with dmboogie on that issue.

This is all so confusing and fun XD

• Name: Anne Varney, bibliophilicLollygagger
• Info: You used to be obsessed with FANTASY NOVELS, but in recent years your interests have expanded to SCIENCE FICTION and ANIME. You are somewhat talented at drawing, and hope one day to publish your own GRAPHIC NOVEL. You also have a history with WEBCOMICS and FANFICTION, which have had a negative effect on your SCHOOLWORK to the point of almost failing your HISTORY CLASS.
• Typing quirk(optional): I like to think I speak normally, if with a self-deprecating tone, and I am unfortunately prone to anime-style emoticons. >.>
• Derse dreamer or Prospit dreamer: Prospit dreamer. Golden city, baby!
• Strife Specibus: PenKind
• Sprite: ManneSprite: iPod, drawing mannequin, wool hat
• Sylladex: Haiku-linked. User must write a quick and elegant description of the item in need in 5/7/5.
• Title and associated powers: Herald of Sloth; You have the power to instill slothfulness in other beings. How this manifests isn't quite clear yet, and as it's kind of a bummer power, you're not sure you want to learn how to use it.
• Server to/Player of: Server to Joe Teller. Player to Kale Vertue.
• Location on Earth: Utah, land of the Mormons and their Hive Mind mentality.

edited 29th Jan '11 6:25:39 AM by dundee_998

Is my character the only douche? I guess her server player would be who ever is left at the bottom of the barrel.

Would make sense for the History Buff and the kid flunking to be at least part of a server set up.

First of all, it's face. Monkeyface. Second, please just call me Monkey. I get uncomfortable when someone uses my entie username.

@Jet Eh, you could be mine then. :P

@dundee And darn, gotta put my planet in...but are more-than-three-syllable titles still safe?

Shouldn't we figure out the server players on the talk page?

Err, sorry Monkey. I'm half watching TV with the missus, and working on homework.

Likely this should have been named "The STROPE Sign-up Thread" with STROPE renamed elsewhere...