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MrAdam
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TL/DR, because you’re busy and all these threads won't browse themselves….
Me: Male, British, 10++ years online roleplaying/tabletop roleplaying.
You: Female, playing a memorable female character, detailed and literate writer
RP Method: Anything other than real time IM – I just don't have time. Can usually post every few days or so. Preference for PMs via this site.
Writing: Literate and creative. Rarely less than a good three or four paragraphs, longer (sometimes much longer) when required, especially early in the RP. Shorter for conversations. Short, medium, long term plots are all fine... sometimes shorter and simpler are better.
Story/smut: Erotica over porn. I like plot, build-up, and interesting characters. Sex scenes need to be between interesting characters.
Characters: Human (or very close). Furries, vampires, dragons etc leave me cold. Sorry.
Settings: Flexible – modern, low fantasy, historical, quasi-historical. Actual historical can often mean getting bogged down in period detail, or breaking immersion if it's wrong. High fantasy I struggle with. I like scifi and would love to do more, but it needs quite careful planning about what is/isn't possible. I'd need persuading to write in a canon or fandom setting, and very very rarely canon characters.
Kinks/themes I’m raspberry ripple – not entirely vanilla, but with optional dom tendencies.
I enjoy vanilla romance RPs with the right characters/ideas.
Key Yes (some or all of): Spanking, lingerie/skimpy clothing, firm/fun/fair master, romance.
Key No: Rape, anal sex, incest, hardcore BDSM, very large age gaps.
F-list (and an old character idea) is here. You should also be able to find a few public thread RPs on this site to get a sense of my writing.
Current ideas – a non-exhaustive, indicative list. Very open to your ideas too.
Your character
Please, please, please make her interesting. If we assume that a master has his pick of beautiful women, why your character? For a romance RP, it only works for me with three dimensional characters with an interesting backstory and perhaps some baggage too. Just being nice doesn't make a well-rounded character. She can be nice, but she needs to be other things too.
My character
One of the main things I enjoy is creating an interesting, well-developed character so that I can try to inhabit him and think about what he'd do next, what he'd be thinking. I like multi-faceted characters with strengths as well as weakness... I like finding who they are. I enjoy playing confident, outgoing, witty characters, but I also like shy or lost or uncertain characters. I like playing heroes and rogues and scoundrels. Paladin types, morally compromised types, morally dubious or flawed or weak types... not sure about outright evil or psychopaths, though.
Me: Male, British, 10++ years online roleplaying/tabletop roleplaying.
You: Female, playing a memorable female character, detailed and literate writer
RP Method: Anything other than real time IM – I just don't have time. Can usually post every few days or so. Preference for PMs via this site.
Writing: Literate and creative. Rarely less than a good three or four paragraphs, longer (sometimes much longer) when required, especially early in the RP. Shorter for conversations. Short, medium, long term plots are all fine... sometimes shorter and simpler are better.
Story/smut: Erotica over porn. I like plot, build-up, and interesting characters. Sex scenes need to be between interesting characters.
Characters: Human (or very close). Furries, vampires, dragons etc leave me cold. Sorry.
Settings: Flexible – modern, low fantasy, historical, quasi-historical. Actual historical can often mean getting bogged down in period detail, or breaking immersion if it's wrong. High fantasy I struggle with. I like scifi and would love to do more, but it needs quite careful planning about what is/isn't possible. I'd need persuading to write in a canon or fandom setting, and very very rarely canon characters.
Kinks/themes I’m raspberry ripple – not entirely vanilla, but with optional dom tendencies.
I enjoy vanilla romance RPs with the right characters/ideas.
Key Yes (some or all of): Spanking, lingerie/skimpy clothing, firm/fun/fair master, romance.
Key No: Rape, anal sex, incest, hardcore BDSM, very large age gaps.
F-list (and an old character idea) is here. You should also be able to find a few public thread RPs on this site to get a sense of my writing.
Current ideas – a non-exhaustive, indicative list. Very open to your ideas too.
"Protect and Serve. And honey... you're about to get served"
I'm not an expert on Cyberpunk (other than playing the tabletop RPG back in the day), but any kind of near future urban semi-distopia will do. This comes from a discussion with another RP about her original idea, but we weren't compatible in other ways, so I'm recycling it. Much of this could also work for a lawman in other kinds of settings too.
I have a character idea for a law-unto-himself Night City cop, either a precinct head or task force or strike team head or something like that. He's the boss of the biggest, baddest 'gang' in his precinct... the cops. It's not the worst part of Night City, but it sure as hell ain't the best. Because of the precent's location, it's important to the powers that be that it's kept pacified and under control. The bodycount needs to stay below a certain level, the crime stats need massaging correctly. No riots, no spill-over to wealthier districts. No-one who matters gets killed. As long as he delivers on these things, City Hall couldn't give less of a fuck what he does.
If you've ever watched 'The Shield', you'll be thinking Vic Mackey as an influence and you'll be right. Not that character, but that mentality. But also perhaps Timothy Olyphant's character in Justified and/or Deadwood as a more noble/less corrupt lawman in a lawless frontier.
In my head, he's not entirely bad. In his head, he's a good guy. Where he's broken the law, taken bribes etc, acted out of self interest, it's because he deserves it. Moral licensing. He knows best, and does what needs to be done for the greater good. The courts are corrupt, lawyers are assholes, and the system stinks, and stinks at glacial pace. His style of justice is much more effective, because he knows these streets, these people, and what needs to be done. And why shouldn't he look after himself at the same time? Everyone else is getting paid. He deserves his share... and imagine what the neighbourhood would be like without him?
So... your character... is she equally powerful in her own way? A rival or adversary... a lawyer, or another cop, a corporate official, a journalist, Federal Agent. City Hall snoop? Or is she much less powerful? A petty criminal who deserves an ass whooping rather than prison time to teach her the error of her ways? Does she have information he needs? Does she needs his assistance or protection for some reason, and if so, what's the price to be paid? Or does he take it upon himself to provide it, whether she wants it or not?
Lots of ways this could... could be a (twisted) romance, could fall anywhere on a wide spectrum in terms of D/s content (though seem themes above for limits)
I'm not an expert on Cyberpunk (other than playing the tabletop RPG back in the day), but any kind of near future urban semi-distopia will do. This comes from a discussion with another RP about her original idea, but we weren't compatible in other ways, so I'm recycling it. Much of this could also work for a lawman in other kinds of settings too.
I have a character idea for a law-unto-himself Night City cop, either a precinct head or task force or strike team head or something like that. He's the boss of the biggest, baddest 'gang' in his precinct... the cops. It's not the worst part of Night City, but it sure as hell ain't the best. Because of the precent's location, it's important to the powers that be that it's kept pacified and under control. The bodycount needs to stay below a certain level, the crime stats need massaging correctly. No riots, no spill-over to wealthier districts. No-one who matters gets killed. As long as he delivers on these things, City Hall couldn't give less of a fuck what he does.
If you've ever watched 'The Shield', you'll be thinking Vic Mackey as an influence and you'll be right. Not that character, but that mentality. But also perhaps Timothy Olyphant's character in Justified and/or Deadwood as a more noble/less corrupt lawman in a lawless frontier.
In my head, he's not entirely bad. In his head, he's a good guy. Where he's broken the law, taken bribes etc, acted out of self interest, it's because he deserves it. Moral licensing. He knows best, and does what needs to be done for the greater good. The courts are corrupt, lawyers are assholes, and the system stinks, and stinks at glacial pace. His style of justice is much more effective, because he knows these streets, these people, and what needs to be done. And why shouldn't he look after himself at the same time? Everyone else is getting paid. He deserves his share... and imagine what the neighbourhood would be like without him?
So... your character... is she equally powerful in her own way? A rival or adversary... a lawyer, or another cop, a corporate official, a journalist, Federal Agent. City Hall snoop? Or is she much less powerful? A petty criminal who deserves an ass whooping rather than prison time to teach her the error of her ways? Does she have information he needs? Does she needs his assistance or protection for some reason, and if so, what's the price to be paid? Or does he take it upon himself to provide it, whether she wants it or not?
Lots of ways this could... could be a (twisted) romance, could fall anywhere on a wide spectrum in terms of D/s content (though seem themes above for limits)
A firm/fun/fair master and a slavegirl/companion.
Graduation Day
- New: A charming slavegirl. She's a skilled palace courtsean with a gift for magic, who casts charm spells on potential owners/customers to get what she wants (and avoid what she doesn't want) from then. It works most of the time, and even when it doesn't, she's not been caught trying. Until today, when she tries it on a more skilled user of magic, who not only resists the enchantment but catches her in the act.
- Nearly NEW: Poacher's Plight. YC is a beautiful ranger/archer/tracker type, caught poaching on MC's land. She's stripped and brought to him for judgement. Her sentence is slavery or servitude rather than death. Could go all kinds of ways... is she the one to tell MC the truth about how poor the people are? Or are the people largely okay, and her actions from criminality rather than desparation? Will her service be to warm his bed? Or will he recognise her other skills? Could have a lot of BDSM content, or be more of a romance or both.
- Something around a reluctant or conflicted slave owner. Perhaps an outsider unused to slavery/companions (either a foreigner or someone of previously lower status) who receives an unexpected gift, is pressured by convention into buying a slave, or even a spy or someone playing a role. Perhaps the 'slave' is a spy too, playing that role as part of a joint mission? Or someone who buys a slave to save her from a worse fate or worse master? In some ways having a slave/companion is a dream come true and speaks to all kinds of secret fantasies, but in others… well, perhaps he wants to be a good man.
- Or… an entirely non-reluctant and unconflicted slave owner. A connoisseur of slavegirls, a playboy, a man of sophistication and style who has a precious new toy to play with.
- Could be historical, low fantasy, modern, alternative universe, sci-fi. Could be any kind of conventional slavery arrangement (markets, auctions, gifts, spoils of war etc)
- Or could be something more like a personal assistant/companion/concubine to someone rich/powerful/important – perhaps that’s even a relatively high status or sought after role in that society.
- The tyrant has fled, the palace has fallen. The door of the last inner sanctum, the tyrant's personal quarters, is broken down and the conqueror himself strides in. He looks at the faces of the slavegirls looking back at him, and sees a mixture of emotions... fear, shock, hope, joy, sorrow, a desire to please. Does one in particular catch his eye, and if so, who, and why? Or is our hero one of the conqueror's soldiers, stationed to stand guard after the Conqueror has given his liberation speech and moved on to more pressing matter.
- A spanking/caning/paddling/whipping/corporal punishment scene.
In her first year at college, she accidentally sent some erotic fiction she'd written about a professor calling a student into his office for a punishment spanking to the professor the story was based upon, rather than a draft essay. Realising her mistake, she sent a second email with the correct document telling him to ignore the first. He never mentioned it, so she has no idea whether he opened it or not. He has, of course, but he's been waiting until she is no longer his student before he says anything. Inspired in part by this drawing (probably requires deviantart account to view).
The thread Parables (currently on hiatus) is a good example of my writing for a romance-themed RP.
Running the Distance
I thought that runners and running might be a good scenario for either the start of a relationship, or a hook-up. Maybe they see each other out running quite a lot, wave hello, run on, no time to stop. Then maybe they meet somewhere else. Or perhaps they're off running a 10k or half marathon somewhere, end up running more or less the same pace for the second half of the race, perhaps competing, perhaps cooperating, perhaps a bit of both. Maybe they're both visiting the city and staying over, and make plans for later. Just a suggested starting point. I’m thinking that they’re amateur runners of a reasonable standard, not elite athletes.
At the gaming table
Part of the same tabletop gaming group, perhaps get talking on the way home.... perhaps the spark is between their characters... at first. Easier to flirt as the confident, sassy thief, the silver-tongued bard, or the fearless warrior. Perhaps one or other of them is the GM and starts running little side quests or prequels or further character development stuff for them away from the main game, or perhaps they're both players.
Poacher's Plight.
I've listed this as under BDSM/slavery, but could also be a romance plot. YC is a beautiful ranger/archer/tracker type, caught poaching on MC's land. She's stripped and brought to him for judgement. Her sentence is slavery or servitude rather than death. Could go all kinds of ways... is she the one to tell MC the truth about how poor the people are? Or are the people fine, and her actions stem from criminality rather than desparation? Will her service be to warm his bed? Or will he recognise her other skills?
Seeds of ideas, half-quarter formed stuff.
Running the Distance
I thought that runners and running might be a good scenario for either the start of a relationship, or a hook-up. Maybe they see each other out running quite a lot, wave hello, run on, no time to stop. Then maybe they meet somewhere else. Or perhaps they're off running a 10k or half marathon somewhere, end up running more or less the same pace for the second half of the race, perhaps competing, perhaps cooperating, perhaps a bit of both. Maybe they're both visiting the city and staying over, and make plans for later. Just a suggested starting point. I’m thinking that they’re amateur runners of a reasonable standard, not elite athletes.
Poacher's Plight.
I've listed this as under BDSM/slavery, but could also be a romance plot. YC is a beautiful ranger/archer/tracker type, caught poaching on MC's land. She's stripped and brought to him for judgement. Her sentence is slavery or servitude rather than death. Could go all kinds of ways... is she the one to tell MC the truth about how poor the people are? Or are the people fine, and her actions stem from criminality rather than desparation? Will her service be to warm his bed? Or will he recognise her other skills?
Seeds of ideas, half-quarter formed stuff.
- A personal trainer. He's a little frustrated and embittered at how his career has turned out (perhaps he's a suspended cop or an injured sportsman or ex-military, lost in civvie street). After working at a more elite level, he feels frustrated at working with private clients and for some even feels contempt. Maybe all that is about to change.
- Masters of the Universe. Lots of people say that perfect characters are boring, but might it be fun to play as a power couple who have everything.... and each other.
- Losing my religion. A young man out in the rain, questioning everything he thought he knew and believed, especially about the social teachings of his faith. Looking to play opposite a very different kind of character from a very different background. <- Kind of half taken, but open to discussion.
- I like subverting cliches... which isn't to say that cliches can't underpin good RPs, of course... but what if she's the bodyguard and he's the person who needs protecting. Or she's the boss at work, and he's.... not quite the secretary, but certainly not the boss. Or she's the sports star and he's the civilian/fan. Or she's the Princess/royal, and he's the servant. etc and so on.
- Some sort of BDSM elements to a romantic relationship?
- Escort/stripper and client seems a common pairing... I'm potentially open to that, but it'll need a bit more character/depth.
- I'm vaguely fascinated by power/fame/wealth/etc and what happens when you've got so much of it that no-one says 'no' to you any more... where it's easy to end up surrounded by flatters and sycophants and people who'll only tell you what they think you want to hear. I'm imaging a character who knows that power corrupts and is trying to resist its baleful effects.
- Big, stupid/naive/unworldly/unsophisticaled/provincial warrior... gentle 'giant' with a heart of gold.
- High School/College/University romance... not in an ageplay sense or with huge age gaps, but trying to capture some of that sense of excitement and possibility but also of constraints like awkwardness/inexperience, authority figures (parents/teachers etc)
These are ideas for RPs which I've proposed in response to someone else's RT prompts; or which I've discussed with someone else; or which we've started writing but not got past a few posts for whatever reason. So these aren't entirely my ideas, but some of them are quite good and perhaps deserve a second go. I'm not suggesting that we use them entirely and certainly not that we continue them, but perhaps they can be the basis for something new.
- The Drummer's Girl has the best opening post I've ever written and introduces a drummer in a British band touring the USA circa 1960s-70s. Nothing after the first post has to happen.
- In Sacramentum Gladiatorum I came up with a barbarian gladiator character in a quasi-Roman setting. Not my usual character type at all, and all the more enjoyable for it.
- I recently discussed playing an original character in the Star Wars universe who was sufficiently moved to rescue a slavegirl from one of the Hutts... not knowing that she was a former Imperial Scout/Explorer. She was captured while on a mission, and then exchanged by the Empire for the information she was supposed to retrieve, abandoning her to the Hutt. I don't usually do canon settings, but who doesn't love a bit of Star Wars... and Hutt slavegirl costumes...
- Two very different D&D style adventuring characters with different outlooks and alignments and interests and motivations. I kind of think the hate-to-love/lust is overdone... for a light-hearted game I kind of like the idea that they do like each other, but find each other infuriating and think they can fix/save/help the other if only they'd listen. So a Paladin type would be one obvious character, and the other could be a sorcerer, or could be a rogue or bard or thief or anything like that. I'd be happy in principle to play either character.
- Bodyguard (MC) to a rising star, perhaps imposed on her by her agent/the studio/record company/whatever, not entirely in accordance with her wishes, because....?
- I'd like to play a downtrodden or world-weary cop or private detective... bit like an old fashioned gumshoe or Miller in The Expanse. YC... perhaps an underworld figure, stripper, escort etc?
Your character
Please, please, please make her interesting. If we assume that a master has his pick of beautiful women, why your character? For a romance RP, it only works for me with three dimensional characters with an interesting backstory and perhaps some baggage too. Just being nice doesn't make a well-rounded character. She can be nice, but she needs to be other things too.
My character
One of the main things I enjoy is creating an interesting, well-developed character so that I can try to inhabit him and think about what he'd do next, what he'd be thinking. I like multi-faceted characters with strengths as well as weakness... I like finding who they are. I enjoy playing confident, outgoing, witty characters, but I also like shy or lost or uncertain characters. I like playing heroes and rogues and scoundrels. Paladin types, morally compromised types, morally dubious or flawed or weak types... not sure about outright evil or psychopaths, though.
Tenses and Persons
Absolutely fine with third person past tense, which seems to be the standard and I understand why. I think first person and/or present tense writing in RP have a bad name by association with one-handed typing RPing, though there's no reason for either first person or present tense to imply low quality or poor literacy. But I respect preferences.
But I’ve tried a few experiments in writing and roleplaying recently. I’ve been playing around with present tense rather than past tense, after realising that’s how I run tabletop games. It’s harder to do, but gives a sense of immediacy. I've also been experimenting with internal monologues (see Parables above, and After)
Spelling and grammar is important to me, not because I'm a snob or elitist but because too many errors break immersion. If it becomes less about reading a post and trying to unpick the meaning, it's hard to immerse yourself in it.
"Yes, and...."
Generally "don't play my character for me" is one of the golden rules, which I'll follow. But I think between good writers who have come to trust each other, perhaps taking the golden rule of improvising - "yes, and" - can allow more creativity and a faster-paced RP than having to wait for partners to confirm the most mundane of reactions for their character. I also tend to scatter a bunch of NPCs around in my writing, partly to populate the world, and partly in case either of us need them in future. I won't use the "yes, and" approach unless and until we agree and know each other well.
In media res
Starting a story in the middle, then using flashbacks to fill in the blanks.
Meta-roleplaying
In the past I’ve found I’ve enjoyed “meta-roleplaying” – when a RP is planned out via negotiation that it becomes story telling at a higher level of abstraction that covers more ground and less detail. It’s difficult to explain, but a few times I’ve followed an idea to its logical conclusion with a partner and it’s felt like we’ve done it and enjoyed it, even though we didn’t RP out the details.
I'm absolutely happy to audition and be auditioned for the right plot with the right partner. I generally take on very few RPs at a time - quality not quantity - so getting the right partner is important. Speaking of time....
Absolutely fine with third person past tense, which seems to be the standard and I understand why. I think first person and/or present tense writing in RP have a bad name by association with one-handed typing RPing, though there's no reason for either first person or present tense to imply low quality or poor literacy. But I respect preferences.
But I’ve tried a few experiments in writing and roleplaying recently. I’ve been playing around with present tense rather than past tense, after realising that’s how I run tabletop games. It’s harder to do, but gives a sense of immediacy. I've also been experimenting with internal monologues (see Parables above, and After)
Spelling and grammar is important to me, not because I'm a snob or elitist but because too many errors break immersion. If it becomes less about reading a post and trying to unpick the meaning, it's hard to immerse yourself in it.
"Yes, and...."
Generally "don't play my character for me" is one of the golden rules, which I'll follow. But I think between good writers who have come to trust each other, perhaps taking the golden rule of improvising - "yes, and" - can allow more creativity and a faster-paced RP than having to wait for partners to confirm the most mundane of reactions for their character. I also tend to scatter a bunch of NPCs around in my writing, partly to populate the world, and partly in case either of us need them in future. I won't use the "yes, and" approach unless and until we agree and know each other well.
In media res
Starting a story in the middle, then using flashbacks to fill in the blanks.
Meta-roleplaying
In the past I’ve found I’ve enjoyed “meta-roleplaying” – when a RP is planned out via negotiation that it becomes story telling at a higher level of abstraction that covers more ground and less detail. It’s difficult to explain, but a few times I’ve followed an idea to its logical conclusion with a partner and it’s felt like we’ve done it and enjoyed it, even though we didn’t RP out the details.
I'm absolutely happy to audition and be auditioned for the right plot with the right partner. I generally take on very few RPs at a time - quality not quantity - so getting the right partner is important. Speaking of time....
RPs start, RPs finish. RPs work, and RPs don’t. The muse comes, and the muse goes. Energy and enthusiasm ebbs and flows. Real life can motor along smoothly, or kick us repeatedly where it hurts most. I guarantee that I will never vanish without a word, barring something absolutely catastrophic happening. If I’ve lost the will and enthusiasm to write, I’ll tell you. If I’m not enjoying it any more, I’ll tell you. If It’s becoming a chore, I’ll tell you. If I’m busy and will be delayed in posting, I’ll stay in touch. Our time is precious, and if I respect you and your writing enough to start a RP, I’ll tell you if I can’t continue. If you’re waiting for me to reply, you’re holding a RP spot open which could go to someone else.
And I ask for the same courtesy in return. Be honest with me – I can take it, and I won’t be offended. I understand that some people ghost because they're worried about an aggressive or negative reaction. For me, it's a compliment to want to write with me in the first place, and it's another compliment to be willing to tell me that they don't want to continue rather than drift away or ghost.
Having said that, I tend not to chase my writing partners for posts. I tend to assume that they've not forgotten, and if they've not written anything it's because they're either busy or awaiting inspiration or both. My experience has been that chasing for posts is rarely effective for more than a post or two. So please don't read anything into me not chasing - doesn't mean I'm not interested. Also... if a writing partner has been away for a while, I will at least consider picking up an old thread again.
And I ask for the same courtesy in return. Be honest with me – I can take it, and I won’t be offended. I understand that some people ghost because they're worried about an aggressive or negative reaction. For me, it's a compliment to want to write with me in the first place, and it's another compliment to be willing to tell me that they don't want to continue rather than drift away or ghost.
Having said that, I tend not to chase my writing partners for posts. I tend to assume that they've not forgotten, and if they've not written anything it's because they're either busy or awaiting inspiration or both. My experience has been that chasing for posts is rarely effective for more than a post or two. So please don't read anything into me not chasing - doesn't mean I'm not interested. Also... if a writing partner has been away for a while, I will at least consider picking up an old thread again.
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