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    [RP Resume] - Prompts to flex your RP muscles!

    Note: This is a "port" of a thread I made on Menewsha in 2007. You can read the original thread to see how people have used it in the past, if you like!

    Welcome to the Role-Playing Resume Thread!

    Purpose
    In this thread, you can read the "prompts" below and write your own scenes based on the prompts. Please feel free to participate in this thread as often as you like!

    - This will allow you to "role-play" without committing to a game yet.
    - This will let you test out new character ideas/flex your writing skills without, again, committing to a game or character.
    - This can be used as a way to show "GMs" (Game Masters), thread hosts, or prospective 1x1 partners role-playing samples - which is very useful if you haven't had much role-play experience yet!
    - This can even be used to test out situations you might never usually put your original characters (OCs) into, without having to mess them up in your regular role-playing timeline.

    For an extra challenge, try rolling dice to let the dice choose which characteristics you use!

    I suggest (but do not require) that you use the form below when posting your samples!

    [b][u]USER:[/u][/b]
    [U][B]SEEKING?[/B][/U]
    [U][B]CRITIQUE ME HERE:[/B][/U]
    [U][B]PROMPT-CODE:[/B][/U]
    [B][U]SAMPLE:[/U][/B]


    USER: - Your username, just for clarity.

    SEEKING? - Are you seeking role-play and willing to be contacted? Make note if you would be open to being contacted by PM or thread (leave a url!) by interested role-players or GMs!

    CRITIQUE ME HERE - If you're looking for feedback on your prompt, why not make a thread in the Mentoring forum with your sample? If you do so - leave the URL here!

    PROMPT-CODE: Which Prompts did you use? ex: A-4-c. This allows GMs/others to read your exact prompt so they can judge how you did.
    If you used an original character (OC), please feel free to link to more information!

    SAMPLE IS AS FOLLOWS: Your writing sample. Please feel free to write as much as you like!
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    [PROMPTS: Character]
    This is the character base you are working with. Take this information and expand upon it! What does the character look like? How old are they? Do they have a talent that isn't defined by the prompt?

    Please be certain when you fill in your prompt-code that you use CAPITAL LETTERS for this part of the code or it will get confusing!

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    OC: If you have an existing character that you want to use the prompts for below, please feel free! Just use the code "OC" for the prompt-code!
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    A) You are the princess/prince of a small country. You deeply love your country and are willing to do very nearly anything for it - even at the expense of your own wishes and desires...

    B) You are a teacher of an exclusive, elite school. Whatever you teach, you are the best in your field at it. You are used to being the best and brightest of your personal sphere. However, at this school, you are only one of dozens who are exactly as famous/talented/skilled as you are in their chosen fields, so you are having trouble adjusting to this change...

    C) You are a normal high school student. There has never, ever been anything in your life that has been extraordinary. You aren't a sports hero, or a talented singer/dancer/artist or anything of that nature. You may be attractive, but you aren't stunning. You can't even teach the dog to fetch. But you aren't a 'failure' either. You do well enough in school that the teachers like you, but not so well that you're teachers' pet. You are average. And you hate it.

    D) You are an extraordinary high school student in at least two fields - one of which you are proud of and the other you are indifferent to (or even not proud of in the least). Perhaps you are a super football player. Or the captain of the cheerleading squad. Maybe you're flat out gorgeous and maybe you're slated to be Valedictorian. Whatever you're most popular for - it's the thing people know you by and they always seem shocked by whatever your other talent is. For example: A super gorgeous guy who is also very smart. Or the high school cheerleader whose flute playing is superb. You wish people would acknowledge the talent you're actually proud of... (Please note: Beauty is not a talent. Good fashion sense is a talent. But you certainly may write up a sample about people seeing you for your beauty first...)

    E) You are some sort of animal care-taker. Whether this is a zoo-keeper, a dragon-tamer, a pet-sitter, a vet... it's all up to you! But you understand animals (either in general or a specific kind) and relate best with them. In fact... you don't much like people at all. If it were up to you, you wouldn't even be human...

    F) You are not human, but an animal.... who was once human. How did you become this way? Did you choose to become an animal? Are you seeking to change back to human or do you want to remain an animal?

    G) You are inhuman. A zombie, a vampire, an elf - whatever it is, you are not of the world you have stumbled across (either by accident or design). Whether you are up to no good, very good, or seeking only to return to your true place - things have been difficult for you.

    H) You have a secret. Perhaps it's something relatively innocent. Or maybe you could go to jail or even be killed if people knew the truth. By nature, you are a very honest person. And this secret is sitting heavily within you...

    I) You know a skill or craft that is losing its significance/importance in the current culture. Perhaps your family traditionally created ornaments or objects/equipment for a profession that no longer exists. Perhaps you sing in a style that is widely considered unpleasant in the current culture. Whatever it is, many people are telling you to be smart and do something else with your life...

    J) You're very good at something you do. You're a sports player, or a dancer, or a singer, or a really fabulous mime. (Anything. XD) There's no limit to how far you can go in your field. ...There's just one thing holding you back...

    K) When you were really young, you saw something unworldly. Whether you were awed by it or frightened by it doesn't matter - you were always told that you hadn't seen it, so eventually you started to believe it was true. But even now it haunts you at odd moments...

    L) At birth - or at least as long as you can remember, if you don't know what name you were born with and were given another - you were given an utterly ridiculous name. Either outrageously cross-gender (a boy called Sue), extremely old-fashioned, or just... ridiculous (ex: Rubia Red Rosa Brown or Harmony Moon Faeriechild). Whatever your name is, you've got enough flack for it that even if you like the name, you have to deal with people who think it's funny, or stupid, or can't pronounce it.

    M) You hate your job.

    N) You are passionate about collecting a specific thing. You may even travel extensively to add to your collection.

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    [PROMPTS: Emotion/Set-up]
    These prompts are to set up the conflict in your post that your character is responding to. How would the character you selected above react to these situations below?

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    1) Someone you like very much just made it perfectly clear that they like you too. Maybe they asked you on a date. Maybe they asked you to marry them. Whatever their offer is - you can't accept it for some reason.
    How do you turn them down?

    2) Someone you don't like in a romantic way (whether they are a friend, enemy, or someone you don't know very well) just made a romantic overture. Maye they asked you on a date. Maybe they asked you to marry them. Whatever their offer is, there's a reason other than the fact that you're not attracted to them in that way that you can use to reject them. Or maybe you'd rather just reject them on attraction alone...?
    How do you turn them down?

    3) You are with a group of people that you have some connection to but you don't know particularly well (your countrymen, your schoolmates, your neighbors). A disaster of some sort has just befallen the group, stranding you with them away from your friends and family. Time and/or supplies are low and unless help arrives soon, most - if not all - of you will die.
    How do you react?

    4) You have just been granted powers that make you unique. However, you cannot share them with the world (though you may use them as you see fit) because it would frighten people. Maybe it's a magic thought to be evil. Maybe it's the ability to fly. Maybe it's just cat ears. Whatever it is, you can't tell just anyone.
    How did you get your powers? Do you tell anyone?

    5) You have just been offered your heart's desire - at a cost.
    What is that heart's desire? What is the cost? Do you accept the deal?

    6) You had been offered your heart's desire - at a cost.... And you took the deal. However, it backfired on you...
    What was your heart's desire? What was the cost? What happened to you as a result?

    7) Something evil lurks beneath (your school, palace, home, favorite place to be). It's your job to destroy this evil. But it could kill people you care for, and will probably destroy the place it lurks beneath.
    Where is this place? How do you know of the evil?

    8 ) You just ran across your double. Your doppelgänger. Your identical match. Is it a long-lost twin? A magical projection? Are you just going crazy?
    How do you react?

    9) Someone just discovered your deepest, darkest secret.
    What do you do?

    10) You have been accused of a crime you didn't commit. Nearly everyone - even friends or family - believe you are guilty. You have been taken into custody by the authorities and are about to be jailed in one of the most notoriously horrible jails/prisons/dungeons in the area. Your jailer has turned his back on you.
    You have a chance to escape. Do you take it?

    11) Your best friend/most trusted adviser is moving far away from you. It may be for the better for them - or maybe it's for the worst. Maybe you have a chance to see them again soon - or maybe you'll never see them again.
    How do you say good-bye?

    12) Congratulations!!!! You've just won the lottery!!!
    What will you do?
    (PS: The lottery does not necessarily have to be a positive experience...)

    13) A precious object is handed down generation-to-generation in your family. Perhaps for hundreds of years. Based on how the inheritance works, you are one of two candidates for the object.
    Do you get it? ...Do you even want it?

    14) Today you woke up and found out you were dead.
    Have a nice day.

    15) This is it. It's your best friend's big day! They're getting married! Everything's wonderful...
    ...except...

    16) Today is a holiday!
    (Insert traditional greeting that is appropriate.)

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    [PROMPTS: Setting]
    Use these settings and flesh it out. Good detail is key!

    Please be certain when you fill in your prompt code that you use lower case letters for this part of the code or it will get confusing!

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    a) A futuristic space-station.

    b) A lush fantasy kingdom.

    c) A garden or park.

    d) At or near a beach.

    e) Near your character's home - it is raining or storming.

    f) The town square or a plaza.

    g) A grassy/flowery field.

    h) On a boat/ship/water-going vessel of some sort.

    i) At an amusement park/theme park or playground.

    j) In the heart of a major city.

    k) On the grounds of an ancient landmark.

    l) On a battlefield. (Can be active or old - ie: Gettysburg.)

    m) Via the internet.

    n) A circus or carnival.

    o) Inside the universe of your favorite game/movie/book/comic/manga/whatever.

    p) Inside or near a jail, prison, dungeon, whatever.

    q) Deep in a basement, cellar, storm shelter, bomb shelter, sewer, or tunnel.

    r) Inside a tomb, catacombs, crypt, or other "home of the dead".

    s) Inside a library.

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    USER: AlexSilverX
    SEEKING? A moderately active general or adult RP with a small group. (contact me via PM)
    CRITIQUE ME HERE: via PM
    PROMPT-CODE: F1m
    SAMPLE:

    The eyes of the feline he had become blinked nervously at the sight of the message, his tail flicking at the air excitedly. Was she serious? This was fantastic news! Of course he wanted nothing more than to wrap his arms around her, caress her gently but firmly in a warm and lasting embrace. Energetically, he would slap his paw onto the keyboard and suddenly his heart skipped a beat. Shivers running down his spine at the dark realization, he rose the little limb to his eyes and observed it. "That's right... I'm a house cat." He realized, a soft meow escaping his mouth as he curled into a ball in front of the keyboard, his eyes set upon the screen. Thanks to the wonders of internet, he had managed to keep contact with his friends and could pretend he was on vacation until - hopefully - the curse would lift itself, but this did not change the fact that he was a twenty three pound black cat with white paws. How could he hope to reciprocate the love Sophia had just admitted to him when he was in such a state? With what chagrin his feline visage could transcript, he slowly lowered his paw onto the keyboard and typed out the dreaded words; "I'm sorry but... I don't feel the same way." Lowering his head, he would push the enter key and retract his paw, closing his large irises and letting out a light, groan-like purr.

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