I would like to take a moment to pimp an RP called
Sabra la Tau.
For the record I have no idea what the name actually means.
ANYWAY. Sabra is on Inksome, one of many LJ spin offs. The bonuses of this are... you get up to 150 icons FOR FREE. The non-bonuses are that... the default is blue, and most of the default journal options are pretty ugly. But for basic RPing it more than serves it's purposes and I actually got used to the blue.
Sabra itself... the PREMISE IS your character finds themselves in an underground, cave system/city thing. There is a Large Arena and some abandoned buildings. No food sources other than that which you gather or hunt yourself. Your character finds themselves as one in a group of four. Each unit has a color and name association. Your character has no memories.
Thus they are a Blank. They have a telescope like tube which gives them a brief message from the person they were, and then "I do this willingly". The overall premise is that in order for your character to get their memories back, they will play games hosted by Judges.
The Judges are basically gods, who host games according to their interests and personalities. SO FAR in Sabra we have had to do everything from kill a member of another team, to play Apples to Apples, or make up a story, or navigate a maze. The winning team is given back a memory.
AS YOU COULD GUESS, this makes for pretty interesting gameplay. Not having memories may change your character a lot, or not so much! I play Rin of Blade of the Immortal. I looooooooooooove Rin, but she isn't vastly different from her canon, she's just uh. A little less hard core and a little more girly and wanting to be taken care of )= But then we have a Sephiroth. Who is. You know. Sane. And a decent, if kind of awkward, human being.
Oh and we have Dilandau, who is (SPOILER!) a girl.
FOR THE MOST PART, the Blanks all get along. They choose names for themselves (or have them choosen), and form relationships they might not form if they had their memories.
It's a very SLOW PACED GAME. I am talking about it here because I WANT YOU TO COME PLAY. But the slow paced-ness is important to note. If you RP elsewhere, Sabra is unlikely to be a primary for you. But it is a very fun, easy going secondary. Games are roughly once a week, and between those you're welcome to do whatever you want. Time flows according to our will. Which is to say, if someone makes a post on monday and says it is morning in game. Someone else can make a post on Thursday and say it's only the afternoon of the same day. Or it can be the next day entirely. UP TO YOU. It leads to more realistic relationship building that happens at our own pace. Where characters can talk several times a day, instead of just once or twice a week at best, and then you assume they are just... keeping up with it when you can't really play them off screen all the time.
SO WHY SHOULD YOU JOIN THIS GAME.
Well. If you like the idea of playing a favorite character of yours with no memories! There is a TWO CHARACTER PER PLAYER LIMIT, so that things don't get heavily bogged down, and so people do play their characters if they are in the game. The emphasis is on relationship and personality building, but since most of the characters have no memories and time moves slowly, the direction is... focused inward? These relationships are the ONLY ONES THESE PEOPLE HAVE right now, so they are all important, but that doesn't mean they are all serious.
YOU SHOULD ALSO JOIN THIS GAME CUZ YOU CAN PLAY WITH ME
But yeah no it's mostly a non-plot, character driven. Thing. interaction and exploration. There are not funny effects, or much meta. It's just play. So if you like threads that are just based around interaction, and learning more about your characters and watching them grown and all THAT STUFF. And if you are okay with/prefer a slow pace. It's probably a good RP for you.
BUT AVIY. you say. BUT AVIY I HATE APPING.
No problem! The apps are very laid back. There is no vote. The mods just read it and say yes or no. You don't have to write a huge app. Infact, the back story can't really be more than 300 words and the personality sections only need be a paragraph or too. It's pretty zen and laid back, and you can app/reapp as fast and as soon as you want. It's a little slow to get in, because people only get in A) as a unit (so there needs to be four new people) or B) when someone drops and your character fills their space. But RUSHING IS NOT A PART OF SABRA. So.
Let's see, the other thing is that most of the game stuff is pretty player run. Which is to say, you are welcome to create your OWN Judge and run games, if you want to get things moving a bit. Not recommended to do immediately, of course. But once you're settled you can pitch an idea at the mods and then you are set to run games o/ And there aren't reaaaally any rules, other than that which upholds the spirit of the game. So obviously you can't give away memories willy-nilly. But games can be childish and simple, or complicated, or violent or dramatic or......whatever you want, really.
Uuuuuuuuh what else idk ask me questions OR JUST GO JOIN also the apping isn't especially anonymous as far as I know so talk to me about who you want to play so I can top you into joining o/