Chatterbox: Inkwell

You float in a sea of darkness. Nothing is in front of you, and nothing is underneath you, and nothing is around you. It should be scary, you should be screaming, but you aren’t. You are calm, it’s peaceful here. 

But, from somewhere deep in the nothingness, came a presence. This presence swirled around you and wrapped you in its phantom grip.

Hello my friend.

You blink, somehow unsurprised to hear this calm, crisp, voice greet you.

Tell me, what is your name?

Where are you from?

I want to know about YOU! Your interests, your desires, your strengths, your weaknesses.

With every word the pressure around you builds, until you find answers pouring from your mouth: Name, gender, class, appearance, strengths, weaknesses… your deepest, darkest desires and secrets.

Nothing is left out, everything is told in full. And when you're done talking, the presence leaves you, standing on solid ground. 

You blink as the world comes into a fuzzy focus. You rub your eyes and blink some more, before seeing that the white fuzz isn’t your vision, but rather a thick snowstorm falling down all around you. 

However, shining from behind, you see a warm yellow light reflected on the snow. You awkwardly turn around, pulling a thick, wool, cloak closer around you as you find yourself staring at a worn, oak wood door. The handle is made of black iron and shaped into the face of a dragon. 

A creaking noise calls your attention and you look up to see the name of the building, carved into a wooden sign that sways on iron chains.

The Dragon’s Lair

You push open the door, accompanied by a rush of snow as it gets blown inside. You stand in the entrance for a moment, taking it all in.

Directly to your left is a coat rack, covered in cloaks and coats of various sizes, colors, and lengths. The floor is a polished wood, which reflects the various lamps and the fire's light all over. 

Most of the room is dedicated to tables and chairs, made of tree stumps and halves of trees, with the bark still covering it. The tops are, of course, polished to a gleaming, glitter and sitting in the middle of the tables are vases, full of small, white, flowers. 

On either side of the room are huge fires, two in all, which are surrounded by fluffy chairs covered in animal pelts and large, thick pillows. Next to the chairs are small side tables, made of curling black iron with glass tops, with coffee tables styled the same way. Laying on the floor amid the cozy chairs and fancy tables are animal hides, wolves and bears mostly. 

And hanging on the wall are animal heads, with glass eyes glowing and reflecting the lamplight. Bears, wolves, bucks… too many to count. And hanging at the far wall, directly across from the entrance, no one could miss it, a red dragon head. 

You frown and make your way over to a table, one with a quill pen pattern carved on the top. A crowd is already seated there, a motley collection of people. You make your way over to the table and say: 

“Hello. I’m…” 

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Ho ho ho! Greetings my friends. Tis I, Moonfrost, back for another roleplay. 

This is set in a fantasy world, the middle ages if it pleases you. You will be playing as… yourself, no AEs will be present. But, feel free to magic yourself up! 

This will kinda be like D&D, or a roleplaying game, please keep in mind your CLASS!

Some examples: mage, warlock, witch, cleric, healer, tank, rogue, thief… if you're looking for ideas I’m sure there's a whole slew of classes to choose from off the good ol’ internet.  

(Please one class each, I don’t really want a whole team of damage dealing mages. Some differences are fine though, for example, the subclasses for the classes. It’s totally OK to have a fire mage and ice mage on the team, because one would work exclusively with fire-based spells and the other exclusively with ice-based spells.)

I’m thinking 7 people at max, maybe 8, but no more than 10 people can participate. Make your character sheets as detailed as possible, but don’t break character once! Nothing like:

Name: Helen

Gender: female

More like: My name? Well, my name is… Helen. I’m a girl, obviously. 

This also means, no out of character plans/ideas/shipping. It’s ok to ship people, but don’t ask: Hey, is it Ok to ship X with Y. Rather, try and get them to hook up during the roleplay. 

(Easiest way would be to have your character say to themselves which character they have a crush on, and then the crush think about that character and think something like “I really like her!” or “I love her like a sister!”)  

This is going to be a guided roleplay! I will write out a scene, and your characters must react to that scene. Once the posts have slowed down, I will bring them to the next plot point. (Has this been done before? I feel like I’ve seen this before, but I don’t remember from who…) 

Did I cover everything? I sure hope so! 

Your first task is to introduce yourself to the presence, this will be everything about your character. Scarring backstory and the hidden intention you’re trying to do during the roleplay. 

The second task is to introduce yourself to the other RPers (questers), in The Dragon’s Lair. You can reveal as much or as little as you want. What you tell your fellow questers will be the only things they know about you, they will NOT know your hidden intention/secrets. Instead, these facts can be revealed over the course of the story.

I will make sure to provide times for your character to further their own plot, so make sure it's as detailed as possible so I can put the hidden plots into the overarching plot.