Ways to Start Roleplaying in Erie:

 

ADDITIONAL THINGS TO DO

 

• Join the Non-Factional Groups or a Faction There are also optional factional and non-factional groups to join, the information for which can be found in the OOC area in the sim Entranceway or in the Roleplayers Resource Center.

 

• Decide Who Your Character Is

This doesn’t have to be a final decision right now, but it’s a good idea to come up with a rough sketch based on the island’s background. Are you a new resident? An old-timer? Try to come up with a basic background for yourself early in the game and then flesh it out later. And then based on that definition, select the appropriate race in RPCS. The best way to get started is to think in terms of answering some basic questions about your character:

 

1) Who are you?

2) If you came here from somewhere else, why?

3) What does your character need or want? What kind of goals do you have?

4) Are you generally good? Evil?

 

There is additional Character Development and specific race information available in the Roleplayers Resource Center which can help you in creating your character here in Erie.

 

• Meet People and Get Roleplaying You want to create is a role that will bring you into contact with others and give you a chance to get to know the members of the different groups. Don’t wait for people to come up to you and start talking - decide who your character is and act appropriately.

 

• Find an Occupation or Role on the Island Another great way to get started with roleplay on the isle is to pick one of a number of jobs which are available and use those as a means to get to know other characters.

 

Some possible ideas to consider for characters include:

• Reporters for the newspaper (we need actual people to write and submit stories... roleplay being a reporter. Contact Yannena Homewood)

• Paranormal investigators (ghost hunter?)

• Start out as a "victim" ... get haunted by a ghost, hunted by something that likes to eat people, attacked, whatever. To encourage this to happen, simply wear an "Erie Isle Victim" tag.

• Bartenders (this is a great way to get to know people in the sim)

• Dancers

• Waiter/waitress

• Medics/doctors (all of the groups need medics, but so does the sim as a whole. Roleplay as a doctor or medic, with the hospital as your base of operation)

• Medium or fortune teller (plenty of need for this in a town filled with ghosts)

• Prostitute (obvious enough... but you could also put a twist on it. What if you are the ghost of a murdered prostitute?)

• A native… you’ve been away from the island, but have a history there

• A smuggler (Erie Isle is always teetering on the edge of disaster, with shortages of all kind of supplies. Roleplaying a smuggler, you can get hooked in with the black market and help keep the different factions alive)

• A thief or bandit (again, a great way to meet people, though not necessarily friendly ones. Maybe you've been a pickpocket for 20 years, you're down and out on your luck and end up here)

• A vampire/werewolf/etc (turned into a werewolf last week? Maybe you're a little worried people will know and try to kill you. Keeping your identity as a were secret might be central to your roleplay on the island)

• Former cop/military/mercenary (former military? maybe you're looking to hire yourself out as muscle for one of the factions) • A Supernatural Being drawn to the island's spiritual energy (What are you here to do?)

• An Entreprenuer (working in one of the many shops or even the Black Market) • A drug dealer (plenty for folks to escape from in Erie)

• An Actor/Actress (sign up with the Phantom Theatre Company by contacting Journey Maertens)

• A public service professional (Fire Department contact Aircom Graves, Sheriff's office contact Choi Zhangsun)

 

More Jobs: LEGAL

Dock Workers Make deliveries, unload supplies, organize inventory Can rp things like what types of things have come in to the Isle or left. Can talk about how strange, heavy, noisy, illegal looking etc.

 

Pawn shop workers Sell, Buy, Trade Rp can include buying or selling sentimental items, rare good, putting things on "time". Can give info on where you got it or be closed mouth interaction with criminals and law at times as well as desperate citizens

 

Occult traders and creators (potions, herbal remedies, poisons, lucky charms, cursed items) Making and selling magical items. This can be a mysterious rp. Helping people with healing items, placing curses, poisons, lucky charms... ILLEGAL Gambling

 

Dealers Poker, Blackjack, Bookies for fights or tournaments etc. any contest that can be bet on. This rp can get people in debt or make them high rollers lots of opportunity for showing weakness or ego

 

Drug Dealers Providing various drugs legal and illegal one no prescription necessary as well as bootleg alcohol in dry times. Creates addictions, debt, can influence others to spread the addiction to friends, parties with drugs, give out free tastes etc.

 

Weapon Suppliers Selling and buying weapons military surplus experimental items etc. Contacts with crime and rogue law enforcement. Latest tech, large scale destructive devices, shady deals in the BM or back of the bar

 

Merc For Hire /BH Ready to do the deed of hurting, capturing or killing for a quick buck the muscle of the underground harsh and mean or silent and sophisticated the quiet killer

 

Underground fight personel - refs and fighters Organizing the fights, keeping the fighters in line and healers to keep them healthy, fighters there to make money or to pay off their debt to the market or feed an addiction.

 

Bouncers Guards and Bouncers there to keep the order and stop unwanted visitors during deals and fights

 

Slave Traders and Slaves People bartering in pets and slaves for the unscrupulous buyers. Slaves sold to the market or paying off a debt or feeding an addiction with their own flesh. These usually go to the Brothel and may come in via the Womens shelter at times

 

Healers Helping to keep fighters and slaves healthy as well as women at the womens shelter and brothel

Womens shelter

Counselers/Coercers a couple of people to guide the young women into the brothel or hand them over to slave trade. Or send them into other questionable jobs

Again, welcome to Erie Isle! Do not hesitate to contact any of the Staff [with GM or Roleplay Staff titles on their RPCS or listed on the payphones throughout the sim] for additional information or assistance.

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Page last updated Oct-22-2009 12:00 AM by Colleen Marjeta