Streets of Gotham

Hey folks!

I wanted to give it a few days for everyone to have a chance to participate, but now I'd like to extend the Volunteer option for the meme. Feel free to volunteer for another person's Offer! The volunteering won't be worth more points, but the posts you make FROM it will still be worth more! So feel free to jump into another background connection, and reap the awesome rewards from it!

Also, there's still plenty of time for this meme (all of September!), so don't think it's ever too late to add a new Offer in if you've yet to participate!

In other news, meet Marcus Driver, a new feature NPC we decided to add for those of you who want a good cop nearby. We're hoping to see some players pick up cops, but in the meantime we have this fellow to assist:


Marcus is a detective in Gotham City's Major Crimes Unit, the last detective recruited to the department by Commissioner Gordon before his retirement. A trusted 'old dog', he always does things by the book and has a strong sense of right and wrong.

Also, so everyone's on the same page, the current 'week' ends Midnight EST on 9/8. For future reference, in activity periods that are 15 days long, the first week will always be 8 days, the second 7.

Excelsior!

-Brett

As the plot ramps up and takes shape, it's time for meme #2! This time, we delve into the shared history of our characters. There are three parts:

1) OFFER. Post a new element of your character's history, a shared experience, and ask for a VOLUNTEER (use the structure of our plot prompts here as a guideline). This will be worth 10 points and can only be earned once. However, if you wish to offer more than one of these, your added participation will be most welcome!

If you've already made a planned connection with someone else via chat or your introductions, add one new detail to it, and instead of typing VOLUNTEER write their name in all caps as well. Make sure you clear this with them ahead of time. And in order for them to get VOLUNTEER points, they must respond to your comment on this page.

2) VOLUNTEER. You can VOLUNTEER for another person's post as well! But before you volunteer, you must make an offer. Here's the trick, though: this is a new connection, which means it must be a character you have not yet written with! Also, you cannot volunteer on someone's entry if they have already volunteered on yours! This will also be worth 10 points and can only be earned once. Please do not volunteer for more than one entry.

3) THREAD. Start a thread based on this new connection! Either a backdated post set during the original shared event, or a current post that in some way (even as small as a mention) ties into that shared history. Not only will these posts qualify you for the weekly plot-related bonus (20 pts), it's also worth an additional 10 points, and these points can be earned multiple times (if you make multiple offers that different people volunteer to)! Again, it must be with a character you've not yet threaded with.

The thread must be started during the next two activity periods (9/1-9/15 & 9/16-9/30) to qualify, and it must have a minimum of three tags by each character (the initial post does count as a tag) or a completed by Gdoc/email post.

As we enter our first official activity period (with point cuts and whatnot), you may start requesting items from the store. We have noticed that most characters have yet to set up a drop box for player/mod interaction so please do and remember to select ‘screen all comments’ under the options before you post. This is to keep certain parts of the game under wraps until such time that they are made public. We do love our surprises, don’t we?

Second, as this is the first time points have been tabulated. Please take a look here. If there are any errors or if you don’t understand anything, please ask (here) and we will try to correct/answer as soon as possible. You may hold your second character now if you have enough points! Exciting!

Lastly, please run the friend button!

The second part of this post will be our first plot prompt. These are free prompts that you may volunteer for. Each character may claim one spot in the first 24 hours that this post goes up and if there are available spots after the 24 hour period, they may claim another. Please choose your top choice and the mods will reserve them for you on a first come, first serve basis. Volunteered spots that are written within the same activity period gets you a plot-related bonuses but you are free to do whatever you want with your characters regarding the information given below. Some of these spots require secret modly messages so again, please set up your drop boxes.

And now on to this period’s plot prompts.

( Plot Prompts - September 1st to 15th )


Questions? Ask now.

Your mods,
Brett and Deli.

PS: The second meme will be up soon.

Loved this one, Brett:

“Well tell your daughter if I can’t get you the time off next month, the pony’s on me, okay Phil?" - Dick Grayson from Sneak Attack, Journalist Style

Hi everyone! I'm so sorry that it has taken me so long to post this intro and to start really looking at/starting to play in the game. I've had a hectic last few weeks, and really am planning on getting in to things here ASAP.

I mean, I haven't even introed yet!

I'm Bette, and this is Lonnie AKA Anarky or Moneyspider (if you know him as a hacker). There's more info about him here. He's basically an 18 year old graduate student who is an anarchist, very socially and politically minded, and believes that the uninformed need to be liberated from the social constraints that are enslaving them.

He's naive, has mad computer skills, likes to build gadgets, and considers himself a vigilante.

And I am, again, so sorry that I've been lax in getting myself in here! I'm here now?

betterps

Hello All!

A quick reminder: the activity period ends in three days, this Friday, at Midnight EST (-5 GMT). While we won't be subtracting the 50 points a week for this first two weeks, it will go into effect starting next period. Be sure to get as many posts/tags as you want in though! If you are struggling for plot ideas or anything else, try setting up a thread as Open To All and see who joins in! There is also a reception sub-thread on the existing Funeral post if you wish to mingle. Or feel free to contact others for brainstorming, including the mods! We are more than happy to plot. There will also be some plot prompts you can volunteer for when our Bi-Weekly update comes out on the 1st!

- Your Mods :)

Hello, guys. Some of you may know me already, but for those who don't, it's Deli and I'm your previously absentee mod.

I've just officially joined the game with Ev Crawford, otherwise known as Starling and she's a shady hero/support blend. She is a Riley from her mother's side and she spent several months in Blackgate a couple of years ago. On paper, she's really not someone you want to befriend if you're a goody-goody but honestly, she's on the 'good' side. Most of the time. She also used to work for Penguin, although I kept how much exactly it was vague.

More about her here. You can catch me on delishope @AIM or Gmail by the same handle. :D

Hey gang!

Unfortunately my Internet is broken at the moment. Comcast is promising me they will fix it Tuesday, but I will believe it when I see it. Sorry for any plot delays.


Lauren.

Hey Guys, Shiver again. the dread I just wanted to let everyone know that if you need any journal icons done for you I would be more than glad to help. I like to do that kind of stuff in my spare time and I made a ton of them for this journal already. You can gander at them in my userpics if you like. Anyway, I just need to know the PB name and if you wanted some specific kind of pictures done you can just link them to me. I'm usually on AIM (fuiiyaiive) or your can e-mail me (my.depravation@gmail.com)!

I don't bite hard so just hit me up. ^^

Hey everyone, Bill here with Tim Drake. He took up the mantle of 'Robin' after Dick dropped it, and was all set to become 'Red Robin' when Bruce was killed. Now that he is gone, Tim feels an enormous pressure to do whatever he can to help hold the city together, while at the same time trying to determine who it was that killed Bruce. Which is to say nothing of the matter of the 'asian woman' running amuck that he needs to catch up to in some fashion.

Far as ideas with him, I think it'd be amusing for him to start up his Neon Knights foundation as a means through which to try to keep some semblance of peace among the Gotham youths. This would be a public works and charity organization, the idea being for young adults to do positive things for Gotham instead of, well... joining any of the myriad gangs out there.

If anyone wants to work out any lines going into this game, hit me up here! In the mean time I look forward to playing with each and every one of you.

Hello, Everyone! There are some updates and reminders, but this time I thought I'd let some of our resident NPCs lend a hand! Not that they had a choice in the matter, so if they look a little upset... my bad! -Brett

( presenting proxy and calendar man )

This is Kate, and I have Aleksandr Creote. His all-important boyfriend will just...be at home until I can lure the player out. I am amused to know I'm not the only legally blind player, so yeah, I apologize in advance for any wacky font mixups. I am prepared to unleash Creote's not-technically-a-psychopath vigilante confusion on just about anybody.

Howdy howdy howdy! I hope this finds everyone oh-so-well. My name is Shiver and I bring you the lovely, oh so tantalizing, super fun bag Miss Crazy Pants herself (was that enough adjectives?) Miss Harley Quinn.

I know, I know. The crowd is going wild with enthusiasm at this very moment in time, but please hold your applause. That will be saved for later. ^^ Okay, so super serious time now. I'm really excited to play this slap happy little gal and would love to plot away with anyone who cares to.

Right now Harley-Girl isn't into crazy land but she's wild, fun, and more than any girls gone wild camera can handle. (Dang, thought I was done with the banter..) Anyway she is a psychiatrist at Arkyhum, does liaison work with people from the college, and went to school at the coveted Gotham Heights so she's open to ideas and thoughts coming from that point. Anyway check out her journal for the full bio or hit me up on AIM, this post, or even e-mail. I can't wait to hear from you guys! :]

Hi folks!

I'm David. Most of you know me from the New Alliance RPG. I bring Cassandra Cain to this here shindig.

Her bio can be found here, but long story short: Cassandra was raised in Hong Kong by her father, David Cain, to be the ultimate fighter/assassin whose primary language is body language instead of the verbal or spoken kind. Under her father's orders, she killed a man at age six, thinking it was a game, but she felt him die and realized it wasn't. She escaped from him, moved from place to place, and five years ago she arrived in Gotham where she saw Batman in action. Inspired by his awesomeness, she took down a gang of Street Demonz who had taken the Park Row Clinic & Community Center hostage, and Dr. Leslie Thompkins took her in. This put her on Batman's radar, and within a year she became the first Batgirl.

That's been four years ago, and now she's twenty. She lives in her own apartment above the community center, where she teaches self-defense. She's a well-liked fixture of that neighborhood, and she was the first person to see Bruce Wayne's body after he was shot. She's the Asian woman alluded to by the media (residents of the neighborhood all know it was Cass, but out of solidarity they've refused to identify her to outside sources), and she's been in her Batgirl costume ever since, tracking down leads in order to find Bruce's killer.

I'd like to have Cass interact with as many characters as possible -- in costume and out -- so don't be a stranger! Has she met your character? Will she meet him or her for the first time?

Hi Guys! I'm Deb and some of you might know me from New Alliance where I play the lovely Selina Kyle. I decided to stray outside of my feline comfort zone and create a new OC here (With a little help from Brett that is...) So please welcome Marissa Pennyworth, great niece of Alfred - she's here to light a fire under the Bat!fam's ass and try not to poison them with her cooking.

Marissa is a Gotham newbie (Imagine Cordelia in the first season of Angel...she's a little like a British version of her with more smarts.)and was brought here because of a letter that her Uncle sent before he died, leaving her a job and telling her that the Wayne family would always need a Pennyworth to care for them. Gee Uncle Al, thanks for that. Not having much to leave behind, she's seized the opportunity for a fresh start - flying seven hours coach to Gotham, sandwiched between a family with screaming kids and man who tried to get handsy.

She's also a wannabe actress, so if you run a theatre/club you might get her CV and an audition tape. She has a habit of randomly quoting Shakespeare when cleaning. Be aware Bat kids, you will get your assess educated.

You can catch me on AIM @ nixxxypie or email me if you like :D I'm always down for any plotting and fun times ♥

Hey guys! Before I'm wisked away to work I figured it'd be a darn good idea to introduce myself. I'm Carlin and I bring you Aaron Wei, former ER nurse at Gotham General turned nurse practitioner. He runs a free clinic that is supported by the Wayne Foundation in the China Basin and lives in an apartment above the clinic with his four-year-old niece Meilin "May" Chang. There is an additional apartment for rent above his if any of your characters are looking for a place.

He's lived in Gotham his whole life (excluding the few years he lived in Washington for schooling) and is an uncharacteristically positive guy. His clinic is open to all, though I suspect there are likely to be turf wars considering he's right smack in the middle of Lucky Hand Triad territory. If you want a complete idea of what Aaron is like, you can read his bio here.

Now I must be off. Feel free to contact me via comment, on AIM at xscarletkittie or send an email to dark.fantasia@gmail.com.

First, let me please point out the irony of having loaded this adorable icon of Somerhalder holding a dog before I realized it was a dachshund. Just sayin'. Dick holding a wiener dog makes me lol so hard.

Hello everyone! This is Brett. One half of the mod team, and writer of one Richard Grayson, Esq. Those of you familiar with his long history in the comics will probably realize some of the subtle changes I've made in his history, and those of you not as familiar have nothing to fear, as everything one needs to know can be found in his bio here! He moves in every circle, meaning I have no excuse not to thread with you. Let's talk plots!

But also, let me say, as others have, just how excited I am to see this game come together. It's wonderful to be surrounded by so many people who love to tell stories, bring characters to life, and share in this group atmosphere the satisfaction of building something truly rewarding together. Collaboration is singlehandedly the most enjoyable part of games like this, and I'm amazed by everyone's enthusiasm and talent. This game would only be a shadow and a thought without all of you!

I would be remiss not to mention that this could not have happened, especially so quickly and with such incredible polish and depth, without the aid of Deli. Everything she's done to make the site functional and gorgeous has only spurred me forward, and her alacrity and creative outpouring - not to mention her kind and enthusiastic spirit - are rare traits and should be cherished. I look forward to seeing your character show up soon too, partner!

There is something special in the air (or suspicious in the water, either way). Please drop a note and let's talk plots. How can Grayson/Nightwing best serve you?

-Brett

Hi, lovelies. It's Deli, the other half of the mod team.

As this is the sixteenth of the month, it is the start of our first activity period (16th of August to end of the month). Normally, we would post a plot prompt and an update about the game but since this is the first ever activity period, there isn't much to say except 'welcome to the game!'.

We have a total of six players right now so I encourage you to pimp to your friends to join us. In the meantime, we shall have our first meme. The meme is basically one question: Which canon character would you most like to see in game and why? The character must be someone who does not relate to your own character at the moment.

We're trying to write a Wanted canon characters page y'see. So, get on with it! :)

I just want to start by saying how excited I am for this game and I am really looking forward to playing with everyone here now and that are yet to join us. :) Now, on to the proper introduction, yes?

Hello one and all! I am Chrissie, and I am introducing to you, Vicki Vale (valevicki) who is going to be the nosy reporter/journalist for the Gotham Gazette. She could be your greatest ally or she could be someone that could prove to be the monkey wrench in your well laid plans. She recently moved to Gotham City and comes with a reputation for her critically acclaimed journalism during the Corto Maltese revolution. She purposely took a job that would keep her in a town, but give her room to do her journalist thing.

I'd love to see her get tangled up in messes with villains, hopefully on the trail of something big they have planned. I'd also like to keep her alive too, mind you, and not always a damsel in distress, but she'll likely need some rescuing. I'd also like her to be friends with heroes and, of course, tensions and occasional partnerships with the police department. As well as other things.

Hit me up on AIM at nothanksjoker (though I'll only be on in evenings as of right now) or shoot me an email. All that info, as well as details of Vicki in this game are found here in her profile.

Hi everyone!

Thanks so much to Brett & Deli for organizing this game and accepting me into the young SOG circle! I was an active PBeM-er back in the 90s and was GM of a rather successful Trek SIM for a few years. I'm super stoked to get writing again on a regular basis and diving into the world here.

My character is Louis "Oz" Oswald - a new take on the classic Batman villain the Penguin. Major differences - he's black and he's a banker (seemingly the profession of choice for high class criminals of today, one might say). His real business is in information - buying, selling, amassing, creating, stealing and networking for it. Other than that, he's mostly what you'd expect - always smartly dressed, plotting to expand his empire (or net worth) and not far from a tricked out umbrella or two. The full character bio can be found here.

I'm always up for collaborative stories and new ideas. And with this character, there is TONS of potential for writing together - Oz is a well-known Gotham personality, he's a powerful CEO, popular nightclub proprietor, and generous if selective philanthropist... a villain, but someone who can swing with the upper class socialites or be found slumming it from time to time too as his schemes dictate.

Look forward to getting to know everyone in the near future and writing together!

Just hope not to end up on the wrong side of the law too quickly ;)