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What's your roleplaying career? - Amaterasu - 11-15-2016
We have all levels of writers around here, from newcomers to experienced players, but how did you end up in the Omniverse? Was it the first site you found, or do you have a long-standing career? I'm curious to hear it.
For those who're curious, here's my story. T'is a bit long.
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Tl;dr version:
Children Network => [break] => roleplaygateway => rolepages => The site that shall not be named => Omniverse
My first writing experience was on a german social network type of site called "Children Network" (translated) which was heavily regulated and sheltered. Just to give an indication, you had to print and mail a letter to the guys to activate your account.
The site was designed for kids from 6-16, you had your profile site where you could pick the most eye-boggling background tile pattern, text background color and text color. Oh, and the font was locked to Comic Sans. There were some other stuffs but the main thing I was there for was the roleplays. This was restricted to creating one per person (if you made a new one you had to delete the old one first), and joining 15 roleplays from other people at max, including your own. You submit your story for approval from staff, and the roleplay owner makes all the characters which other players can then request permission to use.
As for the roleplay itself? One "feed" with the newest post at the top, no formatting options or the like. Most plays were consisting of 2-5 lines of 10 words each, with players having an attention span of a month on average (posting every 3 days, too) before they forget about your play. Just to think of the atrocities I joined, created or posted back then makes me cringe.
After that, big break of several years. I was too busy with other stuff but eventually (age 15, I think?) I got back in the groove. I wrote a few things here and there but no site struck me outside of one called roleplaygateway, which to my knowledge still exists. It has a few restrictions and a short attention span for people as well, but I was the type of player that refreshes the site multiple times a day expecting activity. Although, I'm still rather fond of the memories I accumulated back then, I actually made a decent roleplay and learnt a few good lessons (mainly that being a doormat and letting people join as scifi characters into a medieval fantasy roleplay with the excuse of "time travel" is not okay). I was too focused on writing fanfic though, so this isn't as big a chapter of my career.
Fast forward to when I was 18, I stumbled upon rolepages.com by sheer coincidence. That was my first experience with live-chat roleplay sites, and my fondest non-Omniverse memory. The site featured a chatroom with a consistent theme and a site-spanning story that was driven forward by a weekly event, driving the crapsack world into an even worse situation or getting it back from the brink of extinction. It was pretty fun and I made a few friends there, as well as developed my first character that lasted for a while. Due to the site's members being almost exclusively american and the events only happening while I was asleep though, I eventually lost interest. It was impossible to get myself really established in the (small) community and due to the lack of events for me to play I didn't feel involved and progressing. It lasted me about one and a half years, but it was a pretty big turning point.
I went to seek out other sites after that to get a better experience. It quickly led me to a site that shall not be named, as it's adult content. I've been on there ever since, mainly thanks to that it has a ginormous community (usually there's upwards of 4000 people logged in at a time) and several neat features for its live-chat. Been there for five years and some, and counting. Funfact, I also met Arthuria there!
And finally, the Omniverse. I believe that I found the site when searching rpgfix, in any case it was one of the "roleplay sites list" sites. I decided to give it a try, and ended up here. Transitioning from live-chat roleplay where two paragraphs are more than the average post to a site that encourages people to write big posts and has cross-site consistency in its events, people's actions, quests etc. was a pretty big leap but I fell in love with the site pretty fast![/spoiler]
RE: What's your roleplaying career? - Alex - 11-15-2016
I started writing when I was in... the 7th grade? I think it was highschool. That was roleplaying, since those stories were like, Mary Sue characters in a DBZ/Tenchi Muyo universe. Before that, I would make up adventures and games in my head with action figures. Like, grandiose RPG adventures. Goofy stuff in hindsight, but hey, I was baller as a elementary-age kid.
I started on the internet with DBZ chat sites. I went through 2 or 3 before I created my own. That went all right for a year or so then I stopped. I ran across my PbP-home (Chubbs DBZRPG) around that time but lacked the discipline to understand the rules and the concepts of play-by-post. Few years later (~2005) I found CDBZ again. Wrote there for a while. Wrote on one or two spin-offs and side projects of other members. Made my own. Stopped writing. Came back. Wrote some more on that site until it stopped being a thing. Didn't write. Omniverse started. Now I'm here, doin' stuff.
RE: What's your roleplaying career? - Omni - 11-15-2016
http://www.neopets.com/newnt/index.phtml?section=2661&week=013
Censorship fuckers changed 'blue' to 'green'. but the real fans understood the message
But seriously Neopets put a thirst in me. A thirst to have my character be the strongest - since there was no limit on stats, just diminishing returns. Wonder what happened to that thirst?
The rest is pretty much this.
RE: What's your roleplaying career? - Mitsuki - 11-15-2016
I started back on the Runescape forums. What a glorious time. Ended up RPing in WoW, sat as an officer for.. 5 years? Took over for a while then quit when I realised how much time WoW took up. Played across a few different forums and ended up here
RE: What's your roleplaying career? - Dawnika Snow - 11-15-2016
Im sure I've explained this before somewhere, but let's go again. I got my start in highschool where I started writing short stories. I started writing to work on my alternate universe of Quotin. My first Roleplay I ever did was with a friend in real life. It was a decent roleplay if not for the quality of the story, but we mostly did one liners through text messaging. The roleplay ended up finishing with my characters death.
I was never good with English, in fact, all throughout my school career, English was my worst subject. You may be wondering, "Why did you decide to play in such a big roleplay system where lots of members make mini novels of their story lines?" Well, i started out online with a small roleplay site that no one here has probably even heard of, and Im quite sure it's been removed. RoleplayChat.org. It was a site for chat based roleplay, which I udderly hated until I found it's very unpopular forum site. I played their for like a year, then most people ignored me because I was hardly interested with smut. After that I took a break from roleplaying because I round I girlfriend, and she didn't like my roleplaying with other girls. We broke up after highschool and my first thought was to get back into it. I started looking for a site, and stumbled upon the Omniverse first. When I saw all the rules, I almost puked. However, when I saw the systems of most other roleplay sites and their communities, I did puke, and now, here I am. :yay: That's my writing story.
RE: What's your roleplaying career? - Trixie - 11-15-2016
I started roleplaying in 6th grade with a girl in my class. Me and her were avid nerds so we created a storyline via AIM Chat and we roleplayed by posting through there to each other while talking on the phone about it. That's where Felix came from. I modelled him after a character from Golden Sun and Ogre Battle 64. Felix's wife was Chi Chi because I had a thing for her as a kid. (Favorite DBZ character). My friend Tina made Raven and her boytoy Cloud (Yes, from FF7). We did that extensively. Making up stories and backstories for who we were. Entire families and such. I'll even take credit for the idea of making a Super Saiyan transformation Blue, because Felix's power was represented by the colors of the rainbow. His hair would change color to be whatever powerlevel he was at. Blue was one of those forms. I DID IT BEFORE GODS DID IT! FUCK YOU AKIRA (love you).
From there I delved into the world of text based gaming between 2001 and 2004. I was a roleplayer on Dragonball: Saga where you could be any race from DBZ and the goal was to earn powerlevel in a PvE environment. You could roleplay on a special channel with other people based on what powers you had unlocked. It was cool. I bounced to Achaea Dream of Divine Lands from there where I made an Xorani dude who belonged to the Ashuran Guild (martial arts class). I created a whole history and backstory, made friends, made enemies, fought in a war against the Vertani. Then I just lost interest. Raden is still there. He's an Atavian now and pushing 500 years old if not more. I go back from time to time.
In 2004 I found Chubbs which is where my writing really started to take form. I was Toma Zulenka, who looked like Vegito, because Toma pictures were non existent at the time seeing as Toma was from the Bardock movie. I roleplayed there and on DBZ Evo for a time. I left in 2006 because of World of Warcraft, but came back in 2008 for the reboot. I made Vad as a custom character, the son of Toma and his wife Luna. Vad started with Trixie as a demon who possessed his mind, but she learned corporeal form and...well...there you go. Ergo they got married. She's a demon. He's a saiyan. Whole big story. I rekindled an old friendship with Alex and he was the first person I wrote with on the revamped CDBZ. Made new friends, became better friends with old ones, and joined staff in 2009. I worked my ass off for that place until it eventually died.
I heard about the Omniverse in 2013. Made Trixie, but was in the middle of being dominated and abused by my ex so I didn't really have the motivation to join. I was on WoW all the time, etc etc. It was horrid. I came back last year and finally reworked and "kicked the tires and lit the fires" under Trixie's ass and got her moving. Banished myself. Escaped. Yada yada.
TL;DR I've been roleplaying for 16 years.
RE: What's your roleplaying career? - Kyle Crane - 11-15-2016
So, when I started, I think it was on a forum website that's still up today, and that you can still find me at today. It started with everyone shitting around, but as time went on, it grew into something more. It got an actual story, actual characters. But we were all still really cringy at it. (I still think I'm cringeworthy sometimes.)
Ultimately, I found a close friend through this site(Gavin). Then, came what I call, "Era of Developous."
At first, the user mentioned above - Developous - was mostly fine. He created an RP system, The Nexus, and proceeded to spread it to his vast amount of other RPs he created. Multiple of them, I have pitched on other sites, to no avail. However, eventually, things got toxic. He forced the Nexus system down other people's throats, announced he wanted to "unite all of gaming" under the Nexus system, and started reporting people to the mods for saying something negative about the system. He was told to stop flagging people, but he didn't. The guy got himself banned, eventually.
A spam attack later occurred, a shitton of NSFW content was plastered everywhere and I ended up being forced off by my mom so I wouldn't have to see more of that shit - I was determined to stick around through the shitstorm, but it eventually got to me. I came back about a year later, to find the roleplays of the site have long died out. Been spending a fair amount of my time since then trying to start the roleplays back up, to no avail.
On the way, I joined other RP sites, but never stuck around long there. I couldn't find myself joining another RP site permanently...
Then, came the Omniverse. My home for RPing since I found it.
I am still happy to this day that I found the Omniverse while wandering the internet. I was not used to writing big posts, but eventually I sucked it up and started doing it. We've had multiple bumps along the way - and a lot of shitty posts...And a big brick wall(Most old-timers know what I'm talking about, but don't you dare bring it up). But overall, it's been a hell of a ride, and I can't wait to see what comes next through my time here. If it weren't for this place, roleplaying would likely be a distant memory for me by now. Thank you guys, SO MUCH, for helping me keep that spark for roleplaying. I feel like I've developed as a writer a lot since I showed up here, and I can't wait to see what comes next, in my own Omniversal future and Mick's.
Thanks again, guys,
-Mick Rory
RE: What's your roleplaying career? - Violet - 11-15-2016
Let's see... it's been a long time, but I guess my first foray into roleplaying was fanfiction, if you want to count that. Before I had a computer I kept a journal and wrote stuff. When I first started, my love was the Space Jam universe, so that's what, 20 years ago? Shit, I'm old. Coincidentally, that's when I also took up drawing. It was the beginning of a real shitty time in my life and writing and drawing was a great escape for me.
I got my first computer when I was like, 15/16, so around 2000/2001. It was a shitty Acer, 2gb hard drive and windows 95. At that time, AOL was huge, so that's what we had for a few months (because $24 a month on a fixed income was insane, and I didn't have a job, also the computer broke not long after). I did a lot of roleplaying in AOL chat rooms (not really sexy time roleplaying, but a bunch of nerds doing on the fly space type roleplaying. It was pretty cool. I eventually came across another computer and started getting into coding and found my first pbp roleplaying site. I eventually became admin after the original admin kinda disappeared. It was a shitty RP site and went down quick, but I played Pan there. I branched off and made my own RPG on proboards that only had a few players, and that did get a bit "mature". I met a cool guy named Ren who played the Tien to my Launch.
After that failed, life happened and I just didn't have a computer for a while, so it wasn't until about 2005 that I got onto my step mom's computer and went back to roleplaying in AOL chat rooms, then eventually stumbled my way onto Chubbs December 2005 (signed up officially on January 1, 2006) and since Pan was taken, I took Violet. I experimented with Kazuya and Kayne (one was an old world Japanese warrior, the other a space pirate). I did FoF as Zabuza and Anita Blake for a very brief time. I can't remember who I was on AD. The thing is, I started writing as Violet and she became a way for me to escape life when it was getting REALLY shitty. I fell in love with this story that was being told, and she became mine. Everything and everyone else I played just wasn't the same, and I couldn't capture that same excitement I got when I wrote as her. I guess, in a way, she's my Mary Sue.
When I came to Omniverse, I started as Garona Halforcen. I liked her, I still like her, and still feel I have a story to tell for her, but I haven't really found quite what I want with her yet. I switched to Violet to continue her story (albeit in a bit of a different direction...I would have revived some of her former associates, but I am keeping a promise to a friend to keep that particular part in the past , although there is still room for another eventually...>.>). And then I'm here in all my friggin nerdy old glory. I love this community, both the old people that I've known for the past ten years, and the new ones that I've met since joining, and my occasional drop ins when I'm feeling social. love you sexy bitches.
RE: What's your roleplaying career? - Victor Wolfe - 11-15-2016
Well for me it started because my cousin and I where really into anime ,manga and comics and we planned to write a few with her handling the art and me writing a lot of the dialog , the first major idea we had was essentially a cross between Harry Potter and Pokemon with mythical creatures. It was a fun little fantasy but not very well done XD but we where like 12 so we didn't care.
After that didn't work out I got really into wrestling and found a site called the wrestling game. This was an actual game that had a spears system known as federations where you could sign up and tell stories with other writers, I got on well with a good group of people in the server chat and thus managed to get a contract for their show lost souls dynasty ( yes LSD ) this is where the idea for Victor really started. I was going through a rough time dealing with bullying and losing a close family member so a cocky best in the world attitude heel ( Villian in wrestling ) who could flip At any moment essentially Victor acted the way I wish I could have . I then hopped around a few sites the character changing a lot (background , age , even species when I made him a velociraptor for a Jurrassic park role play once.) until I came to the Omniverse. I had a lot of fun and met a lot of awesome people . Then shit happened that made me not want to write for a long time until eventually I started doing some writing stuff with some peeps from here that allowed me to discover a lot more about Vic as a character than I even realized. So filled with determination I came back
on mobile so had to keep this shortish.
RE: What's your roleplaying career? - Sarah Kerrigan - 11-15-2016
just keeping it to roleplaying, I still have a relatively long story.
I guess my first "roleplays" were just silly things in a Kongregate chatroom. no real underlying canon or story, just kinda flowed as we were all self-insert OC's. I didn't even think of it as roleplaying at the time.
A little later a site I used to go to that was originally made as a flash game's fan community (flashtrek Broken mirror 1.5, which long story short was an elaborate fake sequel to pump up the Site head's ego.), recreated itself and merged with a community of RPers that did "forum wars". Long story short, it was a sci-fi RP where you controlled a civilization.
I, however, ended up more interested in the large fantasy crossover RP that popped up there later called "Legends of Avalon", which occupied my time for several years and lead me to find out the exact maximum amount of characters I could play before breaking. The answer was like 17 or something.
Long story short, that RP started to fall apart due to lack of people and lack of real ruling or direction, so I found myself joining a Bleach Roleplay, made as part of a larger bleach vidya game's forums. that RP crashed, but some of the people from the site took the rules, slightly changed them, and made a new site.
That was the site I ended up joining in earnest, creating a character that lasted me seven years and two different site moves. I ended up being notable for being both the person that developed basically everything for my race option as well as one of two people who actually played said race option. five years in I also ended up joining a Kingdom hearts site, which was closed by it's owner in about six months but was nonetheless immensely fun while it was up.
Long story short, that site ended up falling apart, and I sorta drifted from site to site seeing where I could play for a while, my only real "RPing" being with Dungeons and Dragons. Then I found this site, and, well, the rest is history.
RE: What's your roleplaying career? - Jade Harley - 11-16-2016
You know how young kids are obsessed with animals? Yeah. So, like, 13 year old me played a bunch of animal-themed games, roleplayed some in the little chats there, then made some really great, amazing, wonderful friends and spent the next..... three years or so roleplaying in chatrooms on and off about characters from Romantically Apocalyptic and OCs for different science fiction things. Oh, and writing fan fiction and running a few short-lived RP blogs! Theeeeeen, I got a serious hankering for crossover roleplays. I love those things. But, I didn't think there would be many, so I just kind of.... browsed around for a RP that didn't seem too scary for months and months, and then I found the Omniverse..... somehow.
TL;DR Jade was almost a furry, somehow wasn't, and then found this place. Yay!
RE: What's your roleplaying career? - Soldier 75 - 11-16-2016
My short career as a roleplayer only began because of my obsession with dragons and minecraft. On an MC forum I discovered the wonderful world of raising virtual dragons via dragoncave. One day i was perusing the site, and stumbled upon the roleplaying section. Of all the role plays open, one struck me as the perfect candidate. I spent a week trying compiling my first character, which turned out okay enough for me. I tried my best to get caught up on the story, but there were at least 100 pages at the time I believe. I was extremely tentative, and tried to make sure I had everything I might need covered. Finally mustering the courage to message one of the hosts, I waited for the reply to come in, expecting the worst. The guy responded, and he was completely cool with me joining. He patiently answered my numerous questions, and helped me get set up. I joined.
Within a couple of months I had become slightly annonyed and restless. There were about 10 people in the topic I'm pretty sure, one of them spoke in broken English, most were inactive. Near the end of my stay one of them called me out for including one detail that he hadn't agreed to, and told me to fix it. I, being a new writer, was incredibly discouraged, so I prett much told myself I was done with that site. I discovered that one of the participants had a list of roleplays in their profile, so I decided to check them out.
I lost hope gradually as I moved down the list, and readied myself to continue the search. Near the bottom was the Omniverse. Clicking on it, I instantly fell in love. I spent a week reading the rules, and another creating a character. With my roster made and corrections corrected, Eric Everstorm was officially brought into existence.
I've had a great time with the Omniverse, and I would not trade this privilege for anything.
RE: What's your roleplaying career? - Jams Bolero - 11-16-2016
I make $0 annually, with weekly paychecks.
I first wrote seriously in 4th grade, with my composition notebook creation titled "ADventures". Featured plenty of things like Jams in his rawest form, pictures on every right page, wince-worthy 1st person, and copyright conflicts everywheeeere. It was due to this book that I learned about copyright, obviously. Considering that two of the main characters were essentially stolen, it was kind of inevitable. Made some sequels, but only ever finished the images, and not the actual writing. Then my writing skills jumped off a cliff and were only found in 8th grade, with an incomplete work, "Common Logic." It had a somewhat neat idea, but I never really pursued it so that work, and my writing skills, fell off the face of the Earth.
In the meantime, I was going to Cloud's Forum, which was originally dedicated to the downloadable game Super Mario Bros. X. This was where my first form of roleplaying took place, though it's way more game-like than what most of you may be used to. It's actually kind of similar to a vastly simpler form of DnD, in terms of creating characters and having a gamemaster who plans out the adventure. When this RPG ended on the forum (along with various other factors), I looked for other roleplay forums and found this place, where my writing actually has a chance to flourish.
RE: What's your roleplaying career? - Illidan Stormrage - 11-17-2016
Mine's not nearly as varied as everyone else. When I was about 17 (around 2003) I was looking for DBZ games online, and searching 'DBZ RPG' yielded Chubbs DBZ. I almost didn't go further than the front page, but the site owner at the time (Jeroen) had put an update there only a week previous, so I figured it must've been active and took a look. While I never had done a lot of writing in the past, I had always enjoyed the short story stuff in English in high school, and since my love of DBZ was (and is) overwhelming, I gave it a go and fell in love with writing.
I wrote there almost exclusively, occasionally dabbling in other DBZ sites and other forums (like the several predecessors of this site) until its very slow and sad demise a few years ago. Thankfully, Greg (who was Super Buu on Chubbs) had built this place, and I still have a place to write. I do intend to write books one day but this place is fantastic for me to keep my writing muscles sharp while I build up the discipline.