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[IC] Ghost Stories

Wed, 02 Oct 2024 15:18:57 +0000

[STATIONARY_FRICTION] Has Started Stream "Darkest Night and Legends Investigation. Stories Welcome."

The camera is far too close to her face. She's rather awkwardly fiddling with it and her headset, before she realizes it has already started the broadcast for her. How odd.

"...Oh? Hello. I didn't think it would turn on with that...I suppose it at least has signal out here."

She backs off. It's a dark night. The sky is off. There's an oddly red sort of borealis and white stars in odd patterns. Strangely enough, tcp scale trees are in the distance, coniferous, but this is a clearing where she set up a campfire of twigs and bark, surrounded by pebbles. There's a makeshift sort of table, by a small tent a bit further. A tea set is placed on it...though the cup is empty. Aesthetic, likely. There's also a small book with a ribbon and a own nearby.

"Right. I headed here early...though it was far normal when I started my trek...to get my eyes on a subject of many interesting stories early...and well. The sights and odd...seeming shift and scale are already fascinating..."

The legend type points the camera more clearly at the sky, before turning it around to get footage of the trees beyond the clearing, and then returning it to standing, pointing towards her.

"Ironically, I've never been especially attached to legends, but...folk perspectives are an integral part of history and places...so, I figured...and was practically told, to try to round out the archives a bit..."

She grumbles...sighing heavily.

"Do you know how hard it is to get tcp size broadcast camera? While I'm glad to be able to get out and about for a bit...I had to find a specialty place to get this...luckily it wasn't too much and. Since I bought it on my own, I can at least reuse it for personal work too, but...it's honestly a bit odd. Not like the sort of stuff I'm familiar with, though it seems to work just fine and I'm sure I'll get the hang of what some of these dials and lights and meters do...the antennae are clearly quite effective..."

The camera is quite an odd one. It's a moderately sized video camera, with a couple little screens on a tab the flips out, a good few dials and meters with needles and lights and tubes and antennae sticking out of it. Bits of crystal and other bits and pieces and functional greebles are also present. It has a well loved design, that isn't quite the corporate style most would be familiar with.

"I almost think. I maybe should have omitted where I was going and what rumors I was looking to investigate and ask people about...it almost seems like...hm. Well, unless I seemed especially experienced I don't think they would have sold me that sort of equipment. It's probably just well made, stuff this size can be a bit odd sometimes, depending on how it was put together, after all. The headset compatability is quite nice too. I'll have to thank the friend of a friend who reccommended the place to me..."

She paces back and forth, before realizing she hasn't properly introduced the premise.

"...right, right. I suppose partly in honor of this place and the time of year and partly for a wonderful debut piece...I'd like to start with stories. Ghost stories, fairy tales, whatever you want to call them, feel free to discuss in the chat...or if you're a local or in the area...well. Then you can join the campfire if you find it, I suppose. I'll take a stroll around a bit later to get some other footage. Though honestly, I'm. A touch surprised I was able to get this far into the woods anyhow. Even if it were the right scale...it feels like I've gone much further than its size on the map..."

[OOC] Ghost Stories

Wed, 02 Oct 2024 15:10:34 +0000

Happy Darkest Night, everyone! I'll probably clean this up to be clearer a bit later, but feel free to ask questions or comment if anythings unclear or you have thoughts or suggestions!

Have you ever accidentally became a paranormal investigator? Chire (STATIONARY_FRICTION) is about to. Chat with her about ghost stories and the like, and watch as she goes around the spooky scary woods. Or also be there. Seasonal fun!

Anyhow this is kind of a two part concept. First of all, in person and digital ghost stories and the like! Second...being in the spooky woods!

Here's how it'll work I think.
- Stream
It's just a chat. Slap a username down and add text after it. Attachments if you want. It might be a bit silly but a stream chat with attachments could be fun. Have fun with reading and writing little stories and rumors and the like, or seeing a new one play out.

- In person Campfire and Woods
So. I want to have an opportunity for some mischief here. Other than the opportunity for others to show up (Which, given the nature of the season, need not be intentional or likely.), I'll also be taking suggestions for things in the woods and other weird phenomenon here! It'll be fun, I think. Chire can experience some horror up close. It'd also be kind of funny if any visitors in person experience the woods at their scale. Which could have some funny experience of tcps and complexes being on the same footing, where they wouldn't normally.

This is pretty loose so, just. Have fun. Remember forum rules and all. Be nice etc etc. The IC thread will be up shortly and I'll cross link the two a bit later.

[OOC] Character Designs!

Wed, 30 Aug 2023 19:36:50 +0000

post your TCP designs + their usernames here, for quick reference!

[OOC/AU] Critter-specific Roleplay

Wed, 25 Jan 2023 09:56:54 +0000

so some interest has been piqued (mainly by me (thresh) and pichi) for a critter-based RP with a sort of warrior cats feel, akin to what rin was originally going for with alias' intention for the "open species"...and pichi brought up the idea of making an AU timeline where critters are actually real, and exist in their own little world!

here's where we can discuss ideas for the roleplay, figure out a setting, etc. i'll probably add some discussion questions to this thread later, but it's almost 2 AM currently and i mostly just want to open up the floor to know what people want out of something like this, what would be cute/fun, what would allow for fun character dynamics and DRAMA etc

DUNGEON CRAWL

Tue, 24 Jan 2023 02:35:25 +0000

A large castle looms on a nearby hill. Legend tells of an unimaginable treasure deep within the castle's walls. You and your friends are determined to obtain this treasure at any cost. Gathering up as many of your fellow TCPs as you can find, you form a raiding party and embark on a quest to uncover the castle's secrets...

The adventuring party will move through a series of rooms, each one with different obstacles in them. In between each room, people will have a chance to give items to the adventurers or add traps to the room. Once the room's all set up, I'll write a short blurb detailing the TCPs' adventures! Then people will have a chance to set up the next room, and so on and so forth.

The players will not be able to directly control TCPs, but they will be able to specify a personality for them upon creation and can influence events by adding items to future rooms.

Here's the prices and formatting for all the potential player actions:
200 Forum Points- Add a new TCP to the party
NAME: The name of the TCP.
TYPE: The type of the TCP.
APPEARANCE: A brief description of the TCP's appearance.
PERSONALITY: A brief description of the TCP's personality.
DEATH: How okay it is for them to die- i.e. "immediately", "never", "only in a sufficiently dramatic twist"
150 Forum Points- Add a monster/NPC to the next room
NAME: The name of the NPC (if applicable)
APPEARANCE: A brief description of the NPC's appearance.
PERSONALITY: A brief description of the NPC's personality.
DEATH: How okay it is for them to die- i.e. "immediately", "never", "only in a sufficiently dramatic twist"
100 Forum Points- Add a trap or feature to the next room
DESCRIPTION: What the feature is
EFFECT: What the feature does
50 Forum Points- Give an item to a TCP
OWNER: Who receives the item
DESCRIPTION: What the item is
EFFECT: What the item does
OBTAINED FROM: How the TCP finds the item- i.e. "treasure chest at the end of the room", "it falls from the ceiling", "hidden in a crevice"
TRANSFERABLE: Whether the TCP can give this item to others or not
PERMANENT: Whether this item can break or be lost during the adventure

[MAZE TRIALS] Maze Trials RP Chambers

Wed, 19 Oct 2022 23:49:31 +0000

Please post your Chambers and subsequent short stories here. Forms below.

Quote:
OVERSEER FORM

SUBJECT NAME: (character's name)
CHAMBER NUMBER: (I.E. Spawn, 1, 2 or 3, etc.)
CHAMBER DESCRIPTION:

Quote:
SUBJECT FORM

SUBJECT NAME:
CHAMBER NUMBER:
STORY:

[MAZE TRIALS] Maze Trials RP Specimen Files

Wed, 19 Oct 2022 04:01:01 +0000

Feel free to post your Subjects Specimen File here, Parking the thread, I'll do some fancy formatting later

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SPECIMEN PROFILE TEMPLATE

SPECIMEN NAME

TYPE:
PRONOUNS:
OVERSEERS:
MODIFICATIONS:
TESTING NOTES:

[TRIAL CHAMBERS]

[MAZE TRIALS] Maze Trial RP Rules and Resources

Wed, 19 Oct 2022 03:26:28 +0000

MAZE TRIALS RP
A collaborative Role Playing forum game inspired by the Maze Trials, credit the Skinstealers for source material.

Read the Maze Trials Here

Ground Rules
- All content created within this RP is considered fanon.
- No participant must incorporate their participation into official canon or their fanon.
- Both Overseers and Subjects must follow each Player's blacklist.
- Harassment, such as malicious incorporation of blacklisted material, will be met with a zero-tolerance policy within the RP and may result in moderator action if sufficiently severe.

Now that the housekeeping is out of the way, let us begin. Spoilers are ahead.

The Maze Trials is a unique setting within Morbit, taking a distinctly experimental and dark tone at times that exemplifies the nature of Morbitian science.
Within the Maze Trials, newly spawned TCPs are subjected to various trials to shape the TCP towards a particular role or purpose.
This is exemplified by the Test Subject files. Found here and here.

There are two roles for characters to have in Maze Trials. There are Overseers; researchers and scientists, and there are Subjects; TCPs who have been spawned and placed into the trials.

In this RP, you will have the opportunity to serve both roles.

OVERSEERS
Overseers will be designing each test chamber, defining the setting for the trial, and any puzzles, as well as a blacklist of things they wouldn't be comfortable writing about. They shall do so building off the prompt that the player behind the subject has provided.

SUBJECTS
Subjects will be providing the character, the prompt, and a blacklist of topics you don't want the character to possibly interact with. And then taking their provided text chamber and writing the story of their character experiencing it.

STEPS

First, the subject will provide their character, prompt, and blacklist to their Overseer.
The Overseer will then take that information and design a test chamber for the character to experience.
The Subject will then receive that test chamber and ideally write a small short story detailing their character's experience in that chamber and the conclusion.
Additionally, Overseers and Subjects are welcome to collaborate on the short story, if they so wish, but the writing power/final say remains in the Subjects' hands.
Then the Subject shall become the next Overseer, and select a new subject from the list of applicants.

Additionally, Subjects are encouraged to record their trials, either the full story or a summary, within a profile similar to those of the canon test subject profiles.
Feel free to post them here.

Quote:
ENTRY FORM

TYPE:
NAME:
PRONOUNS:
PROMPT FOR CHAMBERS:
BLACKLIST:

Quote:
SPECIMEN PROFILE TEMPLATE

SPECIMEN NAME

TYPE:
PRONOUNS:
OVERSEERS:
MODIFICATIONS:
TESTING NOTES:

[TRIAL CHAMBERS]

[MORBIT] Eckermann's

Thu, 24 Mar 2022 12:20:17 +0000

Ah, yes, the global chain of Eckermann's restaurants...everyone knows and loves them for their inexpensive food, slapdash collectible toys, and winding playscapes.

Urban legend says that anyone can meet in an Eckermann's, regardless of their restaurant's physical location...they should be careful not to get lost, however!

A teddy bear concept steps into the restaurant, a mannequin construct in tow. He's wearing a huge black raincoat, his partner similarly dressed up for the wet weather- and it is coming down.

"Weird storm...never seen anything like it." The bear shakes off the rain, happy to have found somewhere to take refuge, at least.

"Well, the news did warn us."

"Yeah, but we never listen to that weather guy! He's always wrong!"

The two of them take a seat near the counter, looking over the menu from a comfortable position.

"...Did you bring any coupons?" "No, I thought you would." "Cordy..."

TCP: ??? SESSION DISCUSSION THREAD

Tue, 01 Jun 2021 01:13:50 +0000

> DISCUSS.

OK here we are! get your bearings! talk to other players before you get your communicator or ooc! the world's ur oyster!!! i'll start - if you've got any questions or think something should be changed, drop it in here. it's probably a good idea to keep up w/ the discussion thread before ur replies jic!

any opinions on what to name the session? more fun if everyone chimes in, we can base it on the world or whatever y'all want

[IN PROGRESS] TCP: ??? SESSION

Tue, 01 Jun 2021 01:12:37 +0000

> PRESS ENTER TO BEGIN.

To join the session, please provide a picture or description of yourself as well as a name, pronouns, abbreviation, and custom text color.

NAME AND ABBREVIATION:
PRONOUNS:
TEXT COLOR:
SPECIES/STATE OF DIVINITY:
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Show Content

<< Any character can join regardless of their prior experience, be it a god, collective, or player at an arcade. The game needs four more players to start. Standard TCP rules apply - keep meta-knowledge to OOC chat or to yourself. HERE is a discussion thread for your fellow players and observers. OOC statements may be made in the game thread, but questions for other players, planning, or off-topic speech go in the discussion thread or in DMs.

Please include your desired world - the base will depend on everyone’s wishes. You may provide as much detail as you'd like but it may not all show up. Once the world is created, you’ll be given a chance to choose your BIOME.

The game moderator will supply each spawned TCP (if not pre-existing) and their first CHECK.

Each player may, if wished, spawn a pre-existing one type TCP as their first. If so, when asked to spawn for the first time, supply a picture or description of them and a personality. Any subsequent TCPs will be randomized based on the supplied noun. Once a TCP has spawned for you, use the NAME and CHECK commands - once you’ve seen them checked for the first time, they’re all yours. The first CHECK command will only contain the TCPs canon ability, their full health, and their state at spawning.

The progression of the game is up to the players - the game moderator will make announcements such as the TCP limit rising, auto-balance being triggered, weather changes, and other necessary information. Outside that, it’s up to you where this goes, though if you'd like random or pre-set events for your territory those can be provided. You have control of your kitties only - when interacting with other players, be careful not to god-mod. To determine the outcome of an action on another’s TCP, roll a six-faced or larger dice OR talk with the player about what you’d both like to happen. This can also be used for risky actions of your own.

Mark OOC text in <> Speech to your TCPs and chat messages go in your chosen text color to make it easier to distinguish. To talk to other players in-character, please make sure to find a communicator. You can use a video or voice call, and icons are optional. Alternately, if your TCPs encounter each other, you can use them as proxies.>>

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NAME AND ABBREVIATION: Lan / LAN
PRONOUNS: They/them
TEXT COLOR: Text
SPECIES/STATE OF DIVINITY: Jabberclaw, mortal
<> Longer nights than days?

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[SEEKING:GROUP] Getaway

Wed, 17 Mar 2021 02:31:03 +0000

looking to starting seeing if people are interested in putting characters in established morbit towns and creating mini RP groups that way, instead of having things be scattered all over the place! just starting with getaway for now, considering thats the only commissioned town so far, but there is another one in the works

info on getaway can be found here, i figure we can talk over what characters would be good for this and what would be fun to work with for roleplays (an officially run sunchaser aquarium roleplay thread for sure, considering thats an established canon location)

canon character im throwing into the ring as an establishing one is stormcloud, a TCP gifted conceptually to me by marxz and someone who i figure either works for sunchaser or at the very least, Goes There A Hell of A Lot

Show Me What You Got

[MORBIT] Notion Support Center

Tue, 05 Jan 2021 02:31:07 +0000

Welcome to the Notion Support Center Chatroom- a chatroom created by and focused on support for the concept species. To join, you will have to submit verification that you are a concept, at which point you will either be approved or denied within 24 hours. This is to ensure that our space remains safe, secure, and focused on topics related to our species' health and wellbeing- though you are welcome to bring up whatever else you feel is relevant in the safety of this space.

Please remain respectful in this chat, and do not harass any other members. Please keep topics clean and arguments to a minimum or you will be banned, though swearing is allowed. Thank you for participating!

[DEVILS_LAMENT] has joined.

[DEVILS_LAMENT]: well
[DEVILS_LAMENT]: now i wait i guess

[SEEKING:THREAD] holiday parties + swaps

Wed, 23 Dec 2020 07:53:08 +0000

looking for threads for holiday parties and gift swaps, can go on from now until whenever

i do not have the energy to run any myself but i figure if we can get some going i will definitely do my best to participate, possibly with canon characters, possibly not- down for discussion here on what areas would have most potential for participants or whether ambiguous areas would be best, i have characters Literally Everywhere so location is not a problem

some kind of themed chatroom RP would also be fine if we could figure that out lmao

new years resolutions morbit edition

Wed, 23 Dec 2020 07:50:17 +0000

ok so time in RP canon is extremely fucking nebulous and technically we are all stuck in the year 316 until PCA happens sorry everyone i dont know why the team agreed to this

actually did they agree to this

anyway we're all stuck in limbo but i thought it might be fun if we workshopped some fun new years resolutions for our ambiguously timed characters