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[N Spencer]

Slender Man RP

[Deimos]

Ill give it a shot. if i epic fail my chracter will commit seppuku for the integrity of the RP

Name: John Slater

Age: 24

Physical Description: 6'5, lanky looking but fit. short ash brown hair, seemingly permanent 5 o'clock shadow. Olive military style jacket, grey cargo pants. Wears sunnies. Scar on the right side of his jaw line.

Personality Description: Angry and cynical, slightly unstable. Never heard of slenderman.

Equipment: Satchel holding binoculars, knife and notebook.

Other Info: Vagabond, originally employed as a hunter, occasionally of humans. Searching for his brother.

sorry if this is crap lol

[Dray]

I don't know if I'll have time for this, but you guys need one more to get started, right?

Name: Ashley Higgens

Age: 14

Physical Description: Ashley's a lanky girl who looks a little younger than her age. She has long, dishwater blonde hair that is often kept back with braids or pigtails and hair-bands or barrets, an open face with large, brown eyes, and freckles across her upturned nose and cheeks. She wears pearl studs in her ears, and tends to wear tight jeans, baggy shirts, and puffy black shoes that have never seen the surface of a skateboard, even if they look like they were made to go with one. Currently her jeans are ripped at the knee from a recent accident, though she always seems to be wearing bandaids or sport scrapes and scabs from trips and tumbles.

Personality Description: An accident prone girl who is completely uninterested in the world of growing up. She's an outdoors sort of person who, being a single-child and a latch-key kid to boot, will usually take off walking in a direction and and go for hours. Being born in a small town has meant that she doesn't see much risk in running away or being on her own, a sentiment with which her parents apparently agree! Ashley has more friends who are boys than those who are girls, the latter having plunged through puberty into boy-band posters and cell phones and cigarettes (at least in some cases) and looking pretty. She would prefer to hurl insults and maybe get into a scuffle than to use the sly, underhanded tactics that her female classmates employ.

Equipment: Ashley doesn't carry much with her, ever. Instead of writing in a journal or making collages she prefers to hit the road when she's feeling angsty and maybe get into a yelling match with her friends. The many stories that she makes up for people she sees in town stay inside her head.

Other Info: She's a local, and to her knowledge has never been stalked by Slender Man. She's heard of him via classmates going on about him, using him as a reason to explain the disappearances of a few children over the past decade or so. Ashley is more inclined to believe her parents explanation: a bad economy leads to people moving out of town on a regular basis. Besides, she's never seen anyone wearing a business suit in the woods, even if the thought does freak her out.

[SticktheFigure]

Ah, I have a question. Are we able to include things in the story that weren't previously mentioned? Like traits or items?

[Seraphic Adonis]

^For our characters? If there's a justification for obtaining them (e.g. looting a cutlery drawer to get a knife), I see no reason why not. No deus ex machina, though.

If someone did resort to that, then I'd be happy to bump Slendy's power level up a few notches to level the playing field.

[SticktheFigure]

No, I mean more along the lines of, "I had this for awhile, but forget to mention I had it," kind of thing. Like a mental condition, way of acting, or even toilet paper in a backpack. Things you may forget to mention, but are of some kind of relevance.

[Seraphic Adonis]

As long as you leave a note, I guess it's fine.

(As long as it isn't "I forgot that I was a member of the SAS specially trained to fight SlenderMan" shenanigans.)

[SticktheFigure]

Obviously nothing like that. I'll make sure I don't dun goof.

[Dray]

If it's some kind of mental condition that's going to have a big impact on the way that your character acts, adding it to the character sheet somewhere would be a good thing to do, that way others can refer to it. Even if they're demonstrating symptoms of that problem but haven't been diagnosed, alluding to it gives us a better idea of what we're interacting with so that other players can potentially help to play that aspect up, if you want!

[Seraphic Adonis]

(Incidentally, Dray, how tall is your character?)

I do believe Stick is referring to thinking up additional character traits later on in the story, then retroactively applying them to the character. Of course, if there's a large personality thingy in there, it might get a bit unbelievable.

[Dray]

Oh! In that case, probably the best route to doing it would be to roleplay towards that change, instead of adding it in retroactively! Make it part of the story... it's more work, but the reward is always way more satisfying.

Ashley's 5'1" tall.

[Watson]

Is this still located in Toronto, or has the location changed now? I'd totally be willing to join a more realistic Slender-based RP than the original(which, although fun, has become veeeeery ridiculous for anyone not involved. lol) I have a character in mind already, if you guys don't mind a sixth person haha

[Mr.Beyond]

This looks pretty fun, haven't rp'ed on anything besides Deathnote in a while. If I write up a character sheet, can I hop in?
Also I second the question as to whether this is taking place in a rural location or Toronto. The whole "bunch of people on a broken down bus" sounds good to me, certainly explains why some characters would be carrying knives, cameras, etc- if they'd planned to go on a trip.
And knowing public transportation, I'd be carrying a knife anyways D:

[Dray]

I'd say that the rural location is a go. I really like the bus idea (though my character will be from whatever town they arrive in!) and I don't see anything wrong with having more characters. Just so long as it doesn't become a race to reply to everyone -- find someone else who replies with roughly the same regularity as you and go from there!

(And, yeah, a slightly more realistic game sounds better to me, too. Even if it is a little ridiculous, I don't think it would be hard to keep it more realistic than the last one.)

[Watson]

haha, Yeah, the other RP is actually still going on another site, and it's just as ridiculous as it has ever been. In a good way, though.

I'm all for the characters meeting on a bus idea, as it seems liek a good way to shove us all into the story and reflects the strange bond of fate that people being stalked or otherwise related to Slenderman usually share. I'll do a character bio soon enough!