This is a text-based role-playing game, I'll act as the GM and you respond with your decisions
Rules
Please only start one thread at a time.
Keep it clean, this is a public space
If you'd like to join other players' threads ask them for permission first through a dm
Don't edit your posts after you've already gotten a response, before hand is fine tho
If there are multiple people in a thread, feel free to interact with each other and do things together in the thread between my responses but try to keep it spaced out so that I will have an opportunity to jump back in as gm
How to Play
Start by creating a character and posting it in the replies of this post.
Think of it similar to a ttrpg, give your character a name, species, background and their starting equipment and any other information you think is important, you arent limited to things from dungeons and dragons you can be anything you want. Including your character's pronouns would also be preferred. If you don't want to do combat in your roleplay and would rather keep it solely focused on story just say so in your character creation post. The combat isn't going to be exactly like a ttrpg, itll mostly just be you describing your actions, but to keep things fair I will roll a die to determine the outcome of the battles. If you and another person have decided to work together before starting, have one person post both characters as one post.
After youāve made a character, Iāll provide you with a prompt to get you started, but the story will be largely determined by you.
After I provide the prompt, you can reply to it anyway you feel comfortable, I wonāt dictate a specific format as long as I can understand it. Itās okay to be creative.
Lastly, Iām open to feedback, it might be a little rough since this will be my first time doing something like this but I thought it might be fun.
Itās supposed to be like a fantasy setting, basically like classic jrpgs or dnd kinda stuff tho since this is mostly just telling a story the genre is adaptable if someone wants to change it.
It can be one player at a time or it can be multiple, whichever people want as long as they coordinate it ahead of time
Rethinking the logistics Iāll just make a new post for each player who responds to this titled their character name instead of replying to their character posts (assuming a ton of people donāt respond) because otherwise itāll get messy
Appearance: Around 5ā6 tall, light gray fur with a white circle on his stomach, medium length curly brown hair, a long gray tail. Average-to-slightly-underweight build, round glasses, wearing baggy or heavy clothes, such as large jackets, trenchcoats, pants with multiple pockets. The mice equivalent of being in his late 20s, though he looks younger due to the physical appearance.
Inventory: A notebook, a diary, two pens, a magnifying glass, two packages of biscuits (one sweet and one salty), his ID, business card (handmade and homemade), a small bag of fingerprint powder, a switchblade. All items are scattered his multiple pockets, and he canāt quite recall which is where without patting around.
Background: Dentin always looked up to the fictional detectives he read in mystery novels before bedtime. The fascination with discovering secrets, uncovering hidden plots and unearthing culprits followed him to his adult life, despite his meek, shy, almost cowardly demeanor. Not the most imposing mice, he hasnāt inspired much confidence from those he has sought to help, though he has a moderate amount of success at inconsequential ācasesā, such as finding missing pets, keys, or drunken family members. Currently residing by himself on the basement of a pension, with a few months of rent late.
Appearance: Tall, broad, athletic but not skinny. 27 years old. Wears baggy clothes to avoid matting her fur, avoids sleeves for similar reasons. Wearing some fantasy analogue of a tank top and baggy cargo pants. Thick gray and brown fur, and no hair otherwise. She wears a serious expression.
Inventory:
A long steel dagger
Small vials of useful extracts
A wooden spear with a polished steel tip
Pearlescent plate armor with silk straps, only the arm pieces. The rest was sold.
Enough dried tea leaves to buy someoneās silence.
Background: Grew up on the streets and was drafted into the military at age 19. After 4 years as a soldier and attaining the rank of captain, she was exposed for leaking intelligence to the enemy and has been on the run since then. She came to this remote town 2 years ago and now owns a small apothecary. She is almost starting to feel comfortable here, but sheās certain it wonāt last.
or if thereās a multiple person thing going on we might be interested in joining then if thatās ok? still a tiny bit confused w how everything works. if itās cool we can try and write a character up later today
As long as multiple people are interested, we can do a multipurpose thing, I just donāt know how many people are interested so if people do want they just have to say so, and like I said if someone says itās okay, you can join thereās later too
Sorry itās confusing Iām still ironing out the kinks lol
gotcha, ok. so it seems like @Adell was going for a solo one unless @catgirl-real talked with him in like DMs. so i assume itās up to adell on if heād wanna do a group thing or not since he was first and then we can just go from there?
-edit: oh i didnāt see that already started lol.
-edit 2: disregard this entirely i misunderstood the rules lol
sorry iām not trying to dictate anything thatās just my assumption of what the deal is
Absolutely! The fun thing is doing stuff like this means itās very open to however you want to do it also I love magical girls
If you have a specific way you want it to work like powers and stuff just put it in your character post and if you want me to come up with it thatās fine too
ok hi i hope this isnāt too over the top or anything. cool with others joining if thereās a desire. honestly the first part of the background is just setup so that we have an excuse to have her also be a robot girl because we like robot girls lol
Lillie (She/her)
Species: Android
Inventory:
Pink purse/backpack thing
Smartphone
Assorted candies and small snacks (her body has difficulty processing things more difficult than carbohydrates)
Apartment keys
Mysterious meteor that may or may not be lodged inside of her.
Magical girl weapon will be a bow. She has zero experience with archery.
Appearance: 20 years old. Long, straight pinkish-lilacish hair, usually worn down; eyes of the same color. Medium tan skin, on the slender side, about 5ā8". Fond of long skirts, dresses, and cardigans. Generally likes dark/neutral colors but enjoys a pop of color and occasionally some frills/lace. Tends to dress with layers. Usually wears black boots. Sometimes Mary Janes if sheās feeling cute.
Background: Lillie didnāt think that ādiscovering her father created her as a sapient androidā could really be one-upped in terms of things she would have to recon with in her life (even if it did honestly explain a lot in retrospect. She feels silly for not figuring it out earlier honestly.), and yet. A month after moving out into the city with a friend and their roommate; she went on a solo camping trip, to try and ponder what she wanted to do with her life, when it turned out she was in just the wrong place to be hit by a fucking meteorite. Somehow though, she was fine and it left no wound or entrypoint. In the few months since sheās gone about her life and been fineā¦ mostly. She still feels like something is inside her, somehow. Sometimes it feels like itās trying to say something, like itās worried about something? Occasionally she thinks she catches glimpses of a girl in the edges of her vision too. Thereāve also been these weird dreams about being likeā¦ a superhero or something? Itās whatever though, Lillieās got other shit to worry about; between learning how to navigate being around people, and trying to find a job or whatever it is sheās supposed to doā¦ or at least thatās what she thought, until the night she transformed.
house keys (he was willed a house in [insert city/town here] by a man heād never met; the house is built SO badly that it is alive and eldritch and is very house of leaves-esque but thankfully it likes him and his sister)
wallet (debit card, credit card [just one], $19 in cash, driverās license, various business cards of other wrestlers/photographers/etc, certified pharmacy technician card & cpr certification card)
handheld sewing machine & sewing kit & some scraps of fabric (dave sews/makes clothes, including wrestling gear!)
wrestling gear & boots (maroon trunks & kickpads)
appearance: 6ā0" and decently muscular (bout like this), white skin (not super pale but heās like, definitely white lol), medium-short brown hair, brown eyes. beard & mustache & stubble. 30 years old and doesnāt realize heās autistic yet smh. hereās a pic of him (ignore the other person for now, a partner in another au). tends to dress plainly, like t-shirts (āfunnyā pharmacy technician and wrestling related ones, primarily), a flannel over it depending on the weather, and jeans/sneakers. tends to present stoically.
dave's backstory, kinda long sorry i have a lot of deets abt him lol. cws for car crashes and child abuse
background: (cws for child abuse and car crashes) born in charleston, wv, usa to charles and charlotte cavanaugh. dad was an abusive drunk and mom was often spaced out due to the valium she took to deal with said abuse. a few years later, his younger sibling was born. being a gnc young child, the abuse often targeted his younger sibling and his mom, and as dave grew up heād try to defend them, which culminated when dave was 15 and his younger sibling was 12, where dave fistfought his dad and won and earned an uneasy truce, which lasted until dave graduated high school. he did amateur wrestling and journalism in high school, and was going to go to wvu for graphic design. the truce lasted til then because after his graduation, dave stayed out with his gf (whom he only had to prove to himself he wasnāt gay but, Well,) and on the way back home, his parents and his younger sibling were hit by a drunk driver and totaled the car and killed both parents and severely injured his younger sib. dave immediately dropped out of college in order to care for/adopt his sib, who then came out to him as transfem. after ainsley healed up, they went back to school and ended up going to wvu for chemistry. dave worked his ass off doing a lot of odd jobs etc to pay their way + keep them afloat. during that time, dave also did the like, one selfish thing heās ever done in his life which was, decide to train to become a pro wrestler (it had been an escape for him to watch wrestling growing up, and he was always obsessed with one specific Guy [who is one of my friendās oc haha] and wanted him to train him). he didnāt get that but itās fine, trained for a few years with a famous retired technical wrestler. indie wrestler, was in a tag team with a dude named trent valentine whom he had trained with. ended up with a HUGE crush on trent. trent ended up moving to japan to wrestle and on the last night they had together they ended up having a drunken one night stand before trent just left in the morning before dave woke up. anyway. then dave got willed the house and moved to [city/town], where he got a shoot job as a pharmacy technician at an independent pharmacy run by a very nice japanese man. dave still wrestles but is considering retiring in order to??? make gear maybe?? heās torn abt it. also heās not Out as gay bc heās very worried about pushback from wrestlers/fans even tho the indie scene is a lot more accepting than it was 10 years ago. tfw internalized homophobia. has a dry/deadpan sense of humor. and he staunchly does NOT believe in the supernatural even in settings where it exists AND he tends to be a weirdness magnet. ok now im done :)
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ainsley cavanaugh (she/they/it)
species: human
inventory:
smartphone (jailbroken google pixel)
house keys (has various stim toy keychains on em)
wallet (debit card, a $2 bill, state id, expired coupons)
stim slime (homemade)
e and prog pill bottles
car ride playlist (gets anxious on car rides so makes dave play her music during rides really loud)
purple quadcane with various ironic stickers on it
appearance: 6ā0" and gangly and pale. flat as a board god bless her. long brown hair and brown eyes. hereās a pic of her (minus arm bandage and with cane). 27 years old and Knows sheās autistic at least. dislikes pants but tends to wear shorts bc sheās too anxious to wear skirts. wears a lot of purple and dresses very very casually (wants to dress in lolita but finding things that fit her r hard). the most casual person alive, always has a dopey grin on their face.
ainsley's backstory, kinda long also. cws for car crashes and child abuse
background: (cws for child abuse and car crashes) born in charleston, wv, usa to charles and charlotte cavanaugh. dad was an abusive drunk and mom was often spaced out due to the valium she took to deal with said abuse. due to being a gnc kid ainsley was often targeted by their father for abuse, though dave did try to protect them from it (which was not repaid until years later bc until she came out and grew up some she did Not treat dave very well. shitty little kid/teen tbh). ainsley was a big nerd growing up and was often on the computer on sites a preteen shouldnāt have been on, such as 4chan. there, being a teenager, ains would go on the porn boards and that was where she realized she was trans! which she would keep hidden for obvious reasons. until the car crash that changed her life and killed her parents. in the hospital she came out to dave as trans (though didnāt apologize for prior mistreatment. Yet), and he was like Yes Dipshit Iām Going To Support You. it took like a year for them to fully heal up and even then their legs were never right so they walk with a cane now. went to wvu with scholarships bc despite being a shitty teen and losing a year of school sheās Smart (though doesnāt act like it LOL). graduated with a b.s. in chemistry and proceeded to not get a job. or at least a ānormalā job, which isnāt their style anyway. went from 4chan to tumblr and unlearned a bunch of shitty stuff and now runs a well known stim blog AND sells stim slime on etsy. which she makes with her chemistry degree :) lives together with dave in their fucked up eldritch house and she spends much of her time online. also lesbiab.
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