This has been something I have been thinking of doing for a pretty long time but never really had the motivation or know how to do. Please do correct me for errors and other things.

The thing I want to create is something that has two layers. The first layer being signatory Marzannan nations which along with free trade are to have closer economic cooperation and the second layer is nations which choose to associate or affiliate agree to free trade with the signatory marzannan nations via negotiation with the commission.

The nations that would eligible for joining the treaty would be Saratov, Mordvania, Valisfoldek, Biyra, Nentsi, and Videjszeme. Other nations who seek free trade would negotiate the commission and have free trade with all signatory nations.

Proposed Treaty Preamble

Dear Leader, His Most Esteemed Imperial High Majesty, King Alldays, Role Play Director has, by his Grace, provided the plebeians with an up to date dark-theme, hereby dubbed "Revolution"*. Revolution shall replace Ignite, may it be at peace, as the official dark theme of the Eternity Role Play Community, complementing the light-theme "Focus"** that entered service <whenever that was>. Ignite and Rush have deactivated and may face summary DELETION at any moment***.


*note: the use of this word does not advocate, condone, encourage, or otherwise support any violent or nonviolent insurrection, uprising, or rebellion against the Administration of His Most Esteemed Imperial High Majesty. Any attempts to promote or otherwise propagate any sort of insurrection, uprising, rebellion, revolution or civil disobedience is unlawful and punishable with Eternal prison.
**note: while the Eternity Role Play Community condones the concentration of your attention on the Eternity Role Play Community, it does not claim or otherwise intend to take responsibility for any adverse health, social, financial, etc. consequences or effects of doing so.
***as soon as His Most Esteemed Imperial High Majesty feels he can get away with it without having to listen to a lot of bitc complaining.

I had an idea for an RP, and I’ll keep the explanation brief until I get home and can flesh out some specific details. I was inspired by some old old old rp in another region from back when I was active in NS politics.

The premise: someone important - it might be a king somewhere, or maybe just someone really rich (but I’ll just say king to be easy) - is holding a masked ball and has invited a whole host of (supposedly) high-society types for a bit of fun; as everyone is in costume and no one is supposed to know who anyone else is, this king -who loves his games, it must be said- has proposed to make a contest of this ball, where party-goers must correctly guess who the guests are; the most correct guesses, and/or whoever correctly identifies the king by the end of the night, wins a fabulous prize!

players rp as someone (supposedly) very important attending a masquerade ball: you won’t know each person’s character, only being given a description of their costume and perhaps an alias. Through the course of the festivities and interactions, players are to learn about the attendees, and guess who is who based on the names in the guest book. There is a time limit: the party will move from room to room in the manor at regular intervals (usually) after all participants have interacted at least once, and when it’s time to say goodbye, the party ends!

But players must be careful, as there may be one or more imposters in the crowd who are at the party for one thing only: to kill the King!

So, show of hands as to who is interested in the premise. For tldr sake:
- I am not playing, I am DM and create all npcs, as well as moving the plot and setting from room to room.
- the king will be randomly decided from among those who want to be the king (interest in being the king should be sent to me secretly, or you might not live long)
- everyone will pick elements of their costume from a set list. (This will become very important, as rumors begin to spread amongst the partygoers)
- the potential killer (or killers) will be chosen at random from those who want to be the killer...again, send interest to me secretly. or maybe everyone can have a reason to be the killer?
- you will make a character sheet and send it to me secretly with relevant info I will provide later.
- guesses are sent to me. You only get one. The party ends at the first murder attempt. If you kill/guess the king first, you win, but if you’re caught killing the king you also lose. Funny that...but even worse is if you kill someone not the king, because the party ends and you’re declared the biggest, stinkiest loser of all losers.
- you’ll want to be sparing with details about yourself, but not so sparing that people think you’re hiding something and are thus either the king or killers?


The Setting:

The tycoon business mogul and philanthropist, the Lanlanian Baron of Bärøn, is throwing a masked ball and you're invited! Few if any have seen this "famous" eccentric Baron in person, and the mystique and thrill of seeing the mysterious man - or is the Baron maybe a woman? - is drawing quite a crowd of interest from the party-goers! Ever quirky, the Baron has decided to make a game of the proceedings: those who can correctly identify him/her from among the party guests, or correctly guess the identities of the most guests, will win a "Fabulous Prize!" Truly, the party will be a night of games, socialization, merriment, and lots and lots and lots of drinks!

However, rumor has it that one of the guests has a feud with the "good" Baron. It would be a shame were the party to be interrupted...


Create Yo Characters:



Some inspiration!


Send the following form code, filled out with your character information, to me in a PM. Do NOT post it here, or people will know who you are.
At the end of the form is a link to follow. This link will take you to a thing to create your masquerade costume. https://goo.gl/forms/FOv1oYnT2y7g1Xyw1

It’s that time again: the air is cooling. The pumpkins are spiced. The skeletons are ready to rise. And the side of my dominant hand is covered in marker smudges.

It’s Inktober!

...What’s Inktober?

Inktober is a month dedicated to using traditional media to make art in a digital age. Specifically, inks of all kinds - India ink, marker, acrylics, gel pen, and so on.

There’s an official prompt each day, and this year, the prompts are:



I’ve actually attempted Inktober for the past three years, but I’ve ended up changing jobs and moving and having other life stuff get in the way for the past three years. But no more excuses! (Hopefully!) I’m going to try and do something for each day this year.

My goals with this are: (1) To commit to making time to practice with different tools and (2) to learn something with every drawing.

So yep, that’s Inktober. I’d love to see what everyone creates, because I know there are definitely some artists among us. Even if it doesn’t fit the themes, if you make some traditional art during the month of October, feel free to share it so we can all ooooh and ahhhh over it!

Seats206 Clan List Seats
12 Non-clan seats

Party Platforms(5 key policies):
CSP:
1:Reversal of tax cuts for the rich
2:Increase in Corporations Tax
3:Re-Nationalisation of key infrastructure
4:Increase in funds for co-operatives
5:Increase in government spending to promote growth

CPP:
1:Cut in immigrations requirements to 15 years from date of marriage to a citizen
2:Referendum on joining Eskkya
3:Legalisation of meat sales
4:Tough stance on the Carpathian Menace
5:Increase in environmental incentives
PoT:
1:Reverse extremist CNP reforms
2:Increase in environmental protection
3:Establishment of more National Parks and protected regions
4:Reform of regulation of religious practises to balance liberty against anti-extremism efforts
5:Tax cuts for the working class
CNP:
1: Protection of our national culture
2: Defense of our Sovreignty
3:Crackdown on the Akhadic menace
4:Crackdown on the Sentric menace
5:Listing of all homophobic and sexist religions with immediate deportation of their leadership
DRP:
1:Reform of the democratic system away from clan system
2:Restructure of society to a more civic identity
3:Limitation of powers of Breizhighism over culture
4:Increased secularisation of society
5:Scrapping of clan visas and non-clan visas to be replaced with visa allowing movement to anywhere in the country
LP:
1:Legalisation of meat
2:Reform of immigration to 5 years of residency requirement
3:Reduction in fines system
4:Increase in relations with Brignadia
5:Scrapping of anti-extremism legislation
CP:
1:Reform of anti-extremism legislation
2:Tax cuts for middle and working class
3:Corporate tax cut
4:Increased privatisation
5:Legal requirement to consider private providers in running of services.

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Inspired by some short stories I’ve read and podcasts I’ve listened to recently, as well as by some of my favorite games and cheesy sci-fi movies, I’ve been thinking I’d like to toy around with a survival/exploration type of RP. I love any kind of game with a chance factor, but I want to keep it lit-based, too, so the style — for me, anyhow — will be kind of experimental. So here’s what I’m thinking...

The Background
In a future not even distant enough to be considered “futuristic” — maybe next month, maybe next week, maybe even tomorrow — an anomaly springs up deep in the temperate rainforests of the Pacific Northwest along the Canadian-U.S. border. First detected by a team of researchers sent from the Los Alamos National Laboratory to study occasional unidentified energy signatures which seem to have been stemming from that area sporadically over the past year or so, the anomaly is unclassifiable. Although they trip the alarms on almost every device possessed by the LANL, the detections are not purely radiological, nor are they completely biological, magnetic, seismic, or — well, exactly anything that has previously been identified. It is all these things at once, and it is something else. The energy seems to peak in inconsistent cycles, sometimes going silent for weeks at a time between spikes, and sometimes having as many as three spikes within a single day.

Stranger, still, are the reports from hikers and scientists alike of strange wildlife spotted within the area. Bald eagles flock in strange patterns, seemingly agitated by something unseen to man. Redwood saplings double in size overnight, and in just under four days, they tower over their neighbors. Sitka deer with antlers as big as oak branches, all gnarled and thorny with dozens of tines, are reported by hunters. Kermode bear sightings increase exponentially — and these bears are huge. Massive. Eight feet tall at the shoulders, and twice that when they stand to full height on their hind legs.

And then there are the beasts that can’t be classified. Rumors of wolf-like creatures with the coat pattern of a wolverine and a scream like a cougar’s spread quickly. Supposedly, they are fast. Supposedly, very fast.

The land in the forest begins to change. Familiar landmarks are suddenly gone. Lakes appear just to be swallowed up overnight as if they never existed at all. Deep, bottomless gorges open up and swallow the earth and everything living on it. Earthquakes centered around the depths of the forest are felt as far south as Boise and as far north as Edmonton.

Disappearances of tourists begin almost three weeks after the first detected anomaly, and the National Park Services of Canada and the U.S. close the parks in the area to the public immediately after one hiker’s remains are found in ribbons. Signs are posted at all entrances into the forest, and trailheads are cordoned off. An international team of scientists (ecologists, biologists, and hydrogeologists, primarily, along with nuclear physicists and others), military, and government representatives is convened to answer the question that is now on the forefront of the public’s mind and that is plastered across every front page of every newspaper from Seattle to Seoul: What’s in the forest of the PNW?

The Plot
You are one of the elite members of the PNW Anomaly Response Team (PART) — or maybe you’re a journalist or a stowaway hiker looking for an adventure and just pretending to be an expert in your field — but either way, you have been selected to deploy into the (Name of Forest Here) to research the anomaly epicenter.

Here’s what you know:
1.) It has been eight weeks since the anomalies in the forest have started.
2.) It has been established that the epicenter of the anomaly is somewhere along the border of Washington state and Vancouver, but no one has officially located it at the start of your excursion. The anomaly seems to span in a radius of approximately 68 mi/110 km around the epicenter. An additional 15 mi/25 km buffer zone has been established.
3.) Wildlife and geological shifts occur more frequently and more noticeably closer to the epicenter and less so at the perimeter.
4.) There have been six confirmed deaths/disappearances related to the anomaly.
5.) The frequency of geological shifts in the anomaly area still occurs irregularly.
6.) There have been no reported irregularities in the Pacific Ocean or Vancouver Island.
7.) Access to the anomaly zone and all national parks/forests in southern Vancouver, Washington, and northern Idaho has been restricted. Entrance by civilians is not permitted and all roads entering the area have been closed with guards posted and traffic diverted around the buffer zone.
8.) Background radiation levels are slightly elevated inside the anomaly zone.
9.) Radio signals are sometimes disrupted near the zone.

Additional information will be forthcoming.

The RP
As mentioned, this roleplay will be part chance-based dice rolling, and part full lit. My part in this will be to serve as DM, or to play the anomaly zone itself and the creatures within it if you prefer to think of it that way. Each “round” will more or less correspond to a day (meaning your characters will mostly be forced to stop to rest at night), and each day will proceed as follows:

I. DM Setup
- DM provides map
- DM provides temperature and weather conditions
- DM describes any notable landscape changes to the area in eyeshot of the party that occurred overnight (roll D12*1 where 1 = no changes; 12 = significant changes)
- DM describes any losses/damage to equipment and supplies overnight (roll D12*1 where 1 = no losses/damage; 12 = significant losses/damage)
II. Player Setup
- Each player rolls a D12 to determine overall individual success that day (1 = death; 2 = survival with critical failure/injury; 12 = survival with major success)
III. Player Posts
This is the part where you guys roleplay as normal, keeping in mind the constraints set by the preceding setup rolls. The recommendation is at least two posts per character per day, possibly more if fewer characters. Other than that, this is open ended, so go wild. I will be available to perform DM activities as needed (rolling tie-breakers, describing new areas as they are entered, deciding the outcome of significant decisions, etc.), but don’t feel that you need to rely on me.

Suggested PART roles (important roles in bold):
— Seismologist, hydrogeologist, wildlife biologist, nuclear physicist, LANL scientist etc. (this is a research team, so multiple kinds of scientists are needed; feel free to make up anything that sounds science-y but might not actually be a real profession)
— National Park Service ranger/guide
— Military representative (can essentially be anything as long as you convince me that there’s a good reason for them tagging along)
— Journalist/photographer - LIMITED TO 1
— Local Bigfoot enthusiast with really good forged credentials - LIMITED TO 1

It is recommended that you create more than one character as your characters may die.

Q ‘n A

Q. Do you have a predetermined plot for this RP? What is our team supposed to find inside the zone?
A. No, I don’t have an endgame. I will contribute as needed, but I am leaving it up to you all as to what PART finds in the forest. Aliens? A secret WMD? God Himself? All up to you.

Q. During my setup phase, I rolled a 1. I don’t want my character to die - it doesn’t even make since because [insert reason why they’re so cool and unkillable here]. Can I just RP them surviving instead?
A. No. Them’s the breaks. You have a 92% chance of surviving each turn, which is actually quite generous considering it does not account for the fact that the land around you is getting more and more hostile as you move toward the epicenter. The odds are in your favor. Make more than one character.

Q. What if everyone dies before we find the epicenter?
A. I’ll write a summary post. The NPCs will mourn your loss.

Q. I don’t know anything about the sciences you listed needing our characters to be experts in. Can I still join?
A. Absolutely. I don’t know anything about like 90% of them, either. And heck, I don’t know much about government/economics/military, and this is primarily a MRTP board. If you can’t dazzle me with brilliance, baffle me with bullshit, etc.

Q. What if my character needs to be awake overnight?
A. Send me a PM to let me know so that I know when to proceed with the setup phase for the next day.

Q. Can we split the party?
A. Yes.

Q. Is there a cap on characters?
A. 8 or 9 seems sufficient.

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For people with RP ideas:
Hello! I'm not one for flowery descriptions, so I'll keep it short: if you have an idea for a role play in SIora - a one-shot, a series, or anything that interests you - but you don't want to run it, post your idea here. If you post an idea here, please at least make sure you'll actually join such a thing, to not waste anyone's time.

There are no rules or format for posting your RP ideas, and you can be as long or as short as you want. Please don't comment on ideas and such here beyond adding/claiming ideas; please discuss such things in their own discussion threads. Of course you could just forego this and make your own discussion thread, but hey, I'm sure this'll be useful to someone.


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Thanks for considering it! If an idea here strikes your fancy, simply quote the post and claim it. Please try to start the RP within one month of claiming it, in consideration of others.

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