New Salem Backstory

If it's not too much trouble, please have icons in your journal when you submit your apps. <3

And remember the '& intro' tag for intro posts, because I keep having to do it and it's making me cry out in carpal tunnel pain :(

And since it wasn't defined in the FAQ before today (oversight) - scratchouts are exactly that. visible (but illegible) scratchouts <3

Okay folks, this comm is just for pre-game plotting and coordination and such, so please be aware that it won't be used AFTER the game starts. Posts will remain and be visible (should you want to link to something or go see an old post), but posting will be shut down and membership will be purged. Intros and character stuff should begin occuring in the OOC comm <3

Hellooooo all :D Okay, so here's the dealio. My name is Ashton and I haven't submitted my app yet BUT I did put a hold on her. The app is coming soon though, but let me do a couple of intros.

Like I just said, I'm Ashton. Howdy do. I've been RP'ing for a while, but (not so) recently, fell out of playing when games I was in dissolved and personal things took over. But now I'm looking at getting back into playing, so here I am. I might have played with some of you before, and if I have, awesome! Hit me up, but you might have to remind me which game we were in together. Before my hiatus I was in A LOT of games. I think at one point I was in like seven at once. It was ca-razy.

So here's a little bit about myself. I'm 22, and in school to be a Science Teacher. Super financially secure profession I know, right? I'm getting ready to do my internship and then graduate in the fall, which is AWESOME and terrifying at the same time. I spend my time watching too much TV and am starting to go through the summer withdrawls of post season finale times, so any excuse to talk about my shows would be awesome, lol. I have too many to name, so just start naming TV shows and odds are I'm obsessed with it. Same for movies, and some book series (Don't even get me started about my intense love for The Hunger Games).

And now for my character. Everyone, say hello to Emiliana Marisol Sosa, formerly Emiliana Marisol Ortiz. She is played by the lovely Penelope Cruz (speaking of, just saw Pirates 4 yesterday - LOVED IT. . . and her). She is 33 and the mother of two beautiful bebe's, Hector, who is 5, and 2 year old Pilar. She's going to be a Latin/Ballroom dance instructor at the Community Center. She was a competitive ballroom dancer back in the day, until she got preggers. Then she and her hubby decided to settle down and open their own studio (he was her dance partner. Twu wuv.). Now you may be wondering where said hubby is, and the answer is. . . in a cemetery outside of London :( Yep, her hubs, Ramón, was a Muggle, and got in a car accident two years ago while she was pregnant with Pilar. So no hubby for Em. But she still wears her wedding ring, cause she's not totally over it. But who knows, maybe someone can change all that. (wink wink nudge nudge)

So there you go. Me and my girl. I should have her app submitted either tonight or tomorrow, and then we'll just have to work from there. So anyone got any ideas?

My 5th character was originally going to be a Werewolf Architect. However, I couldn't really get a feel for the character - so he's on the back burner. Maybe when the month is up he'll come back. Anyway, Tasha submitted the lovely Elijah Vance, and I was already thinking about picking up someone that was a muggleborn. SO! Character number five for Andrea was born!

( Character Concept! )

okay, so much like Liz I know I've worked out plot with some of you, but a lot of it I've forgotten, or we never got details. So I'm following this new trend!

( cut for length on Noah Bole, Melinda Bobbin, and Mercy Ryan )

So I have a confession to make. There are so many characters in this game (AWESOMESAUCE) with unfamiliar names that my head was spinning trying to keep them straight. That's okay, I mean YAY FOR SO MANY CHARACTERS. So, after getting all my chracters finished and accepted, I have been working on their storyline pages so I can keep track of everything. (AKA, my cheat sheets to look back to when I feel confused or overwhelmed.)

Angelina's Storylines
Alex's Storylines
Laura's Storylines
Nadia's Storylines

To make it easy, I've even got listed the reasons your character might know any of mine as well as what I'm looking for (but I'm going to head over to the wanted page this afternoon to put up some postings there, too).

( CUT FOR LENGTH )

Feel free to comment here with any more plots you want to throw my way, any corrections/edits to things, or any plots we've discussed that haven't made it to my storylines pages yet. (I'm still combing through my posts here, all the places I've commented, and AIM conversations)

OMGOSH THE GAME OPENS SO SOON! ****EXCITED****

Hello again, friends. This is Angela, and I've already made an intro post, but that was back when Mango Pelham was simply a chalk slate! Now he has evolved into a person: you can find his app here. Some quick things:

• Ravenclaw through and through!
• Awkward.
• Huge-ass fan of H.P. Creevey-big.
• Very shy around new people, but tries to be friendly.
• Blunt and frank and very honest. To the point of rude sometimes.
• Has a fear of intimacy. (Emotional, physical, etc)

So, any plots/friends/awkward ex's/enemies that may evolve from him actually being a live person now, welcome! Also: he needs a roommate. I currently have him in a single, but I have a feeling that room may be being fought over, and he would probably do better with a roommate, anyways. As long as they aren't messy and touchy, he says.

Characters: Scott Turpin and Morgan Hopkins
Setting: Late July of 2000 in some nice-but-not-so-fancy restaurant
Summary: Basically breaking the backstory cherry of this comm! Scott needs a break from his life for the time being, Morgan doesn’t catch his drift until he has to say it bluntly. It... doesn’t end well.
Warnings: S for sadness?

( “Let me go, Scott,” she said, in a hushed tone without looking at him. )

So uhm.. hey. Please hit the Taken Character page if you've got characters already accepted, and make sure your character(s) is(are) there, on both the left and right sides.

If they're missing, OR if the info is wrong!, please let me know. I somehow ate poor Miss Laura Madley and macguffin wanted to hold her. MY BAD. So in the event that I ate more characters and didn't realize it, I'm asking you all to please check.

Autumn Reeser tastes like sandalwood and gentle rain, in case you're curious.

-Mattimus

I pushed this to today instead of Monday, because today marked ONE WEEK TIL GAME STARTS! Woohoo! Man, where'd the time go.

Anyway, here's the Icebreaker Meme, which I lovingly stole from waitandhope.

All you have to do is answer the questions for your character(s) (and keeping in mind that, while you should feel free to respond IC, this is OOC knowledge), which are:

1. Your favorite thing about that character?
2. Your least favorite thing about that character?
3. One person they would ship with in New Salem (if they were single)?
4. Their ship from hell in New Salem (again, if they were single)?
5. What is/would be their patronus?
6. Their (current) theme song?
7. Their motto/mantra or favorite quote?
8. The title of their biography or autobiography?
9. The last bad dream they had?
10. The deep, dark secret they don't want anyone to know?

And here it is in code form, since I'm supernice!
<b>Your favorite thing about that character?</b> <b>Your least favorite thing about that character?</b> <b>One person they would ship with in New Salem (if they were single)?</b> <b>Their ship from hell in New Salem (again, if they were single)?</b> <b>What is/would be their patronus?</b> <b>Their (current) theme song?</b> <b>Their motto/mantra or favorite quote?</b> <b>The title of their biography or autobiography?</b> <b>The last bad dream they had?</b> <b>The deep, dark secret they don't want anyone to know?</b>