APPLICATION ROUND ONE

[rachel2205]

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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[polocrunch]

YOUR DETAILS:

Name: Call me Polos!
Age: 20s
Email address: PM me on LJ, if it please you
Have you roleplayed before? What kinds of games?: No, I am a complete roleplay virgin.

YOUR CHARACTER:

THE BASICS

Name: Lagos
Age: Late twenties, but looks much younger
Gender: Male
Nationality and/or ethnicity: mixed race, born in Lagos (IRL in Nigeria) of a French sailor and a Yoruba maid
Religion: Yoruba, Vodun and Muslim, but the latter only by necessity
Marital status: unmarried
Occupation: Slave
Physical description:
Lagos has a youthful appearance, despite probably being in his late twenties and having lived a tough life so far, with good skin, even features and all his teeth. He is mixed race, of medium build and average height. His characteristic expression is the calm deadpan of the slave, worn to avoid irking his masters; any other facial expression is, in his experience, likely to give them cause to beat him.

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[rachel2205]

Awesome :) Would you be interested in being a PC's slave? That'd probably give you more interacting possibilities. I'd be happy to have Lagos in Ashraf's household, but you might also want to approach other players too based on what you want to do with him!

Welcome to Kostantiniyye!

[lagos_konstant]

Ah, as you see, the remainder is below and I was very much thinking along those lines. I don't think Lagos would necessarily suit Ashraf's household, so I'll wait and see on that front...

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[lagos_konstant]

But before either of them could come to a conclusion, Lagos was itself brutally finished by a Hausa slave raiding party, who burnt the town to the ground and killed many inhabitants. All three were enslaved and carried away across the Sahel and Sahara to be sold at Cairo. En route, the bokor was able to impart some of his knowledge to the boy. However, upon being discovered administering death rites to a fellow slave at Kano, the bokor was executed by his Muslim guards for witchcraft

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[manal_al_atrash]

...so I have a dealer-and-smuggler of, among other things, objets d'art, who spends most of her time down around the docks area? App is in the profile of this LJ; let me know if you think we can work something out?

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[rachel2205]

I likey :)

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[d_van_swinderen]

I would love to figure out some way for Diederik to meet Lagos. It seems like they have similar origins, but their stories took two very different paths.

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[manal_al_atrash]

(You might want to reply to their comment, rather than mine? Don't know if they're tracking the post.)

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[d_van_swinderen]

ack, whoops~! I thought I had.

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[d_van_swinderen]

(not sure if you got this since I accidentally replied to someone else first!)

I would love to figure out some way for Diederik to meet Lagos. It seems like they have similar origins, but their stories took two very different paths.