We have opened this roleplay for anyone who wants to jump into the story and join!You may be wondering to yourself: "Kakyoin, why? Don't you have enough players already/Neo WUFTD is already a work in progress/how come it isn't dead yet?" :V
All right, let me get straight to the point and address questions for those interested in joining, or why this is happening at all in the first place.
Why are we looking for new roleplayers?Simply put, it's a combination of factors. After some recent concern and GM deliberation, Nemo Ma and I decided to open it up for anyone else who wants to join. Why? Reasons follow:
1. Another chance to let those interested know what they're in for when they sign up.The first time we reopened the roleplay for people to sign up, we didn't do a good enough job letting people know what it is they're getting themselves into. This is not a Quest roleplay. It is not a roleplay where the GMs do a lot of heavy plot lifting and context-providing and leave a few moments for participants to act out their roles before moving on. This is a roleplay where participants have a lot of freedom to control what happens in between crucial plot points. Most of the time, we will tell you situations and let you know that your character(s) must go from point A to point B, and...that's it.
This sort of roleplay is worth as much to you and everyone else involved, as the time you want to put into it. If you prefer more detailed roleplaying with an emphasis on freedom in writing, flexing your creativity and taking control of character interaction and development, this is a roleplay for you. It might take more time/effort, but we hope that the experience is worth it.
We did not make the previous points clear the first time we reopened the roleplay. This time we are. We want those interested to know what they're potentially going to get themselves into. We're serious about this: this roleplay has a timeline that summarizes each post based on timestamps and locations, a constantly updated list of teams and signups, and we send monthly newsletter-style PMs here on MotK to keep you up-to-date. We want this to be thrilling and exciting, but we can only do it if everyone is eager to paint beautiful pictures with their posts. We don't want this to be an assignment, we want it to be a fun but detailed and organized experience. But we also want to try to make it a good match for those interested in it.
2. There won't be another good time for players to jump in for a while.Currently, all new Season 2 participants are on the verge of having their OCs acquire their Touhou partners in a virtual world that mimics Gensokyo (the real Gensokyo has been destroyed). There won't be another such opportunity in-story for those joining the protagonists' cause in a considerable amount of time! This is the best chance for those interested to jump in and immediately join the cause with their OCs, picking up Touhou partners right away and learning what it all means.
This means that if you are interested in joining this roleplay, you don't have to know much about what's already happened!3. Current player roster is falling off/stagnating.No, we are NOT doing this because Neo WUFTD is a failure or is struggling because it's a bad roleplay (and yes, I've heard from some critics, but no names will be given). The roleplay is very well-maintained and the GMs are very responsive to questions and adaptive to concerns or problems. And no, we are NOT saying that any of the current participants are performing poorly. We reopened this roleplay for others to join once before, but as indicated by reason 1 above, we likely weren't clear on what they were getting themselves into, so they could have been poorly matched up among other things. So what went wrong?
The biggest issue is that we've had quite a few players drop. Why is that? All of the Season 1 players (who roleplayed this same concept
2-3 years ago) not named Nemo Ma have retired, and this is because the roleplay changed compared to what it was before, and so they couldn't have fun with the old gang like they did back in the day. As for the others who have joined in Season 2, perhaps we just had a stroke of bad luck and they all got busy with school projects and other more important things, but we have had a big handful of newer participants quit as well.
The next biggest issue is a seeming lack of current participant spirit. As it stands now we are worried about sticking with the current roster (what's left of it) until the next opportunity for others to join the roleplay, which isn't for quite some time in-story. This does not exclude GMs either: if we were slacking off the situation would be completely our fault. But Nemo Ma and Kakyoin (myself) have tried to be particularly active in making sure things stay fresh and participants are enjoying the roleplay, as well as participating often themselves. We just can't do it all ourselves (
Ken and Nemo's Bizarre Adventure, anyone?), or rather, we COULD, but that wouldn't be fun for anyone but the two of us.
All right, now that the explanation is out of the way...What's Neo WUFTD all about? (and why it's awesome!)Now I know what's on EVERYBODY'S mind right now...
"Wat's a Neo WUFTD, Kakyoin?" :V
Well, sir or ma'am, simply put it's a roleplay that revolves around Gensokyo having been destroyed in the past by a nasty organization
led by Dr. Robotnik called RAI, and all of Gensokyo's inhabitants spilling out into the real world. Unfortunately, it's like throwing a human into space except less extreme: those who lived in Gensokyo used to receive energy from the world itself to fuel their powers and lives, but without it they die off very quickly. To prevent these untimely deaths, they have been forced to rely on
mana, which is achieved in one of two ways: get captured by RAI and be painfully experimented on for reasons only they know, or live more freely with humans that somehow have the ability to produce mana that fuels their lives. Currently quite a few of the Touhou characters have been living in a virtual Gensokyo for years (yes, it's like The Matrix), wasting away their lives for RAI's sake (hint: these are the ones YOU get to save!). However, RAI is actively trying to hunt down and capture those who have managed to escape back to reality.
"But Kakyoin, where does my character come in?" :V
You'll find out...
Soon?. We have plans, don't worry.
Now for some important additional information about the roleplay (in other words, this is the stuff that draws you in and makes you think that Neo WUFTD is cool):
1. Post Content > LengthIf it wasn't already clear based on the previous block, Neo WUFTD is for people with creative minds who love to paint a picture and weave an interesting story when they roleplay. Make your contributions as long or short as you want (at least a paragraph a month is the minimum we ask for), we don't mind either way. We just want to make it a quality experience for everyone. Look at
this post in the story. The post is clean and well-written. It focuses more on character dialogue and interaction than describing the scenery. In Neo WUFTD, we want to focus on character interaction and development. You can even have your character(s) interact with characters that aren't even yours! Still, that post is
really long. What kind of obsessed loser has the time to write such long--wait, that's my own post...
(it also only concerns my own characters and no one else's, and I tend to get carried away when I have full control over the situation. DON'T JUDGE ME!)Anyway, the point is...your posts don't have to be that large, they can be smaller like
this one. They can be anything in-between, as long as they're at least roughly a paragraph long. It's about quality of content over quantity, but if you want both, by all means go for it!
That's what I do...2. Everyone can (and should) interact with everyone!No one is an island. We want players to interact with each other using their characters in-story. Some posts for example:
OC to OC interaction: this one's good, and
this.
OC to Touhou interaction: Pretty much everything else. But if you want some examples:
here and
here.
Heck, there's even some
Touhou to Touhou interaction!
The point is, we want people to interact with each other often enough (not too much), not just between their OC(s) and Touhou partners but also with other participants' OC(s) and Touhou partners. Which leads to the next point...
3. YOU control character developmentOkay, we all know that Touhou has a canon side and a fanon side. Yuyuko Saigyouji, for example: Canon Yuyuko had a terrifyingly unfortunate, tragic life while she was alive, then became much more whimsical as a ghost but retained her innocence and hidden cunning. Fanon Yuyuko loves teasing/abusing Youmu and eats anything not nailed down. Why am I mentioning this? To point out that Yuyuko already has "predefined" personalities. But in Neo WUFTD, there is no more Gensokyo. Gensokyo is GONE. It got
DESTROYED. And now to even stay alive, Touhou characters need energy from human partners. Everything is totally different in reality. They'll meet new people, they'll make new friends, they'll experience new things...and they'll develop personalities to reflect that. In Neo WUFTD,
YOU pick all your Touhou partners,
YOU control how all of your characters develop and behave, regardless of how they may be canonically or fanonically portrayed. It's all in your hands, for the most part. It's definitely more open and flexible than many of the other roleplays here. Which makes the next point a shoo-in.
4. Be FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEThis roleplay prides itself on not having many constraints. If you have to get from point A to point B, you do it how you want to. We can adjust and adapt to pretty much whatever you want to do. Just let us know beforehand if it's something wild or drastic, please. Chances are good we'll allow it, though.
OMG!!! KAKYOIN IT SOUNDS SOOOOO COOL! I WANNA JOIN! WAT DO?!AKA TL;DR IF YOU WANT TO JOIN HERE'S HOWSo you're interested in joining Neo WUFTD, great! What now?
0. Read the part marked "VERY IMPORTANT" in the first post in this thread and make sure you know what to expect.
1. Read the part marked "How to Join this Roleplay" in the first post in this thread for more information on how to apply to join the roleplay.
2. Read the part about participant expectations in the first post in this thread just below the part in step 1 (not step 0, step 1).
3. Feel free to ask us questions you may have about the roleplay, in this thread. We will answer them swiftly. You can also check out the "Important contact information" part in the first post in this thread to see how else to contact myself or Nemo Ma.
4. Optionally, turn on Notify for this thread (upper-right corner of this page, should be a button "Notify") so as to be notified (quite the appropriate name, huh?) when there is a new post in this thread. It may send email reminders or whatever, something like that, but at least you'll be notified when there's activity here like if we have more information for you.
5. If you're THAT interested in it and you really have your heart set on joining (chances are pretty much 100% that you'll be accepted if you apply now), check out the
story thread to see what kind of content to expect and/or consider getting a head start on creating your character using
this post as a guideline. Character profiles will need to be posted after you go through part 1 in the application process.
I like how I make Neo WUFTD sound like it's a special elitist club to help students look good for getting into college, or something...That's it! You don't need to know anything in advance (no prerequisites other than your genuine interest in a roleplay like this). No need to brush up on what's already happened so far in the roleplay or whatever, we're not going to quiz you. Thank you in advance for your interest!
(I spent over an hour on this one post to try to get peoples' attention, dammit. Where's my money, Nemo?!)
