APPLICATION ROUND ONE
We welcome applications from people with tons of roleplaying experience and people with none. The cardinal virtues of roleplayers are, I think: flexibility, creativity, respect. These count for more than experience. The game is not quite ready for launch, but I thought I'd get the application post up now, as starting to form concrete ideas for
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Name: Frances
Age: ...ohgod. If I weren't over eighteen, I would have to have been thirteen when Excolo started.
--ahem. Right. Yes. Over eighteen. Over thirty, even!
Email address: fmoffatt@gmail.com
Have you roleplayed before? What kinds of games?: Yep! Tabletop, LJ, and LARP. For years. And years.
YOUR CHARACTER:
THE BASICS
Name: Manal al-Atrash
Age: mid-thirties?
Gender: Female
Nationality and/or ethnicity: Syrian Bedouin, settled in Konstantiniyye for several years now
Religion: Shia Muslim, non-practicing
Marital status: Single, I'm thinking.
Occupation: Smuggler and dealer of al-kemia, automata, and art.
Physical description: Rangy, medium height, unpretty; heavy jaw and sharp teeth. Long black hair that is bound back under a headscarf, ropey muscles, calloused hands, and tattoos on her jaw and arms. An expression that is quick to sour when dealing with idiots or the naive (the two are interchangeable? no? yes). She is unusually strong for her build, and occasionally speaks of her past in a way that ( ... )
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FURTHER DETAILS
Back story: Manal came to Konstantiniyye around a decade ago; from contacts already in the city, she has carved herself out a niche in the black market, and is a fairly powerful figure therein. Although she cannot have been more than a child when her family left Syria (if that!), she is bitterly resentful of its state under the Ottoman Empire. (I'm figuring that on top of many of Syria's villages turning into ghost towns, and the falling population, the Industrial Revolution pretty much passed it by as a backwater.) She occasionally speaks as if she had personally seen many of the villages wither away, presumably to fuel the rumours about her age.
Personality: Manal is cocky (although smart enough to know offending everyone is just a bad idea) and loud; if she gets drunk, the word bombastic probably fits. She doesn't practice her religion, and clearly engages in haraam (unlawful in the eyes of Allah) behaviour; she flaunts the latter among her own social group, and feels guilty about both of them in private. ( ... )
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