It's alive, it's alive.....!!!

[aureantes]

...by which I mean that my RPG members have not deserted me for being totally-and-distractedly preoccupied with everything but managing my roleplay for the past year-plus.

Though, I haven't heard from the L-word re her continued involvement in Secrets of the Past -- she may just sit on Laila and not post or interact OOC, in which case I will kick her ass to the curb and (as usual) re-advertise. Afterall, she already deleted me from her precious little VtM-fest because of my long and plot-freezing inactivity, even though it would have been rather overgenerous for me to put her game ahead of my own in attentions -- when one's on the back burner already, the other must take an even more remote place.

So yeah, either she plays along and stays impersonal about things in group or gets what she technically should have gotten long ago. Or perhaps our Nazi-boy Scott can kill Laila ahead of schedule....and personally, a little real hostility in Jonathan's direction might be quite the spice, as per our pre-rewrite hardball with the firefights and Nazirah getting her arm broken. Certainly helps to stay in the moment rather than being scrupulously canon-congenial.

[On that note: it's not necessarily something that's talked about much, but my girlfriend and I have both found it so in our different gaming experiences, that the firsthand experience of situations in RPing can be every bit as significant (and traumatic) as the firsthand experience of real life. Which is a topic I'd like to bring up in Scholomance Dramatica, seeing as we have a variety of lifestyle roleplayers in our membership.]

Apart from that, though, the main issue at hand -- and the only one that critically concerns everyone, as it is going to hold the game up a mite longer -- is that we need a new Rick O'Connell in Secrets of the Past. We need him before we move further in action, so that I (in autoing him as I've had to lately) don't monopolize his character choices and free range of action, and so that we can get back into freeplay and spontaneous interreaction instead of having to choreograph myself (not to mention anyone else in scenage) like a puppeteer with six hands.

Please note, though -- we need a player of considerable wit and solid writing skill (quick reading ain't a bad skill either, ftm), with a good taste/tolerance for having hris char get into tight spots and interesting situations, especially considering all the shite that's already involved in this plot. Also -- and some dedicated roleplayers and Mummy fans may well rejoice at this -- we are set in 1935 and are thus ignoring the whole Mummy Episode III: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor premise. We aren't even providing for it to happen later, 'cause we likes our Mummyverse quite well enough without it. Just like we likes our Indiana Jones without shoehorning in a teenage sidekick and relegating Indy to grizzled codger status.

[Note to any interested players submitting original characters: NO SHIA LABOEUF CLONES!!! He's a bloody boring tabula rasa cast for the mere convenience of his being an audience-identifiable teenage male!!]

This means that we have a time and a place and plenty of researchable historical things going on. Like evil treasurehunting Nazis and Fascists swarming the Middle East. And the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl and gangsters over in the US. And classic horror movies. And occultist secret societies. And weird sci-fi lit and pop-scientific trends. And the emergence of modern swimwear and Jockey shorts. and, um....yes, the Thompson....musn't forget the Thompson.

Thing is, we intend to have a lot of fun with this, and we want to bring our new Rick in at a point at which he has a say about the major/crucial direction of actions, instead of the rest of us having worked through the heaviest drama-knot beforehand, leaving just the aftermaths and lingering angstiness as its pickings. We need an engaged and vocal player who will interact well with other players, enjoy the collaborative messmaking process, and relish the scenarios and character possibilities at hand. And of course, Rick must not neglect Evy.....because Evy quite naturally doesn't like being ignored (I mean, she is Rachel Weisz, afterall....).

This is an RPG with many kinds of adult/mature situations, and its unvarnished historical verisimilitude will not be censored or filtered under the Hays Moral Code. We have sex, alcohol, drugs, violence and racism thoroughly involved already, so don't expect this vreality to be bowdlerized or converted to something sweeter/nicer/chaster. Or, to put it in current idiom -- "our vampires don't sparkle."
 
If you're interested in joining the ensemble as Rick, please read this game description from back when we started the current rewrite and then PM me a brief summary of your RPing and/or fictionwriting experience, together with an in-character scene sample of at least half a page (can be as Rick or another character, but relevance to the Mummyverse and its time setting is appreciated).

Needless to say, I'm not planning to just issue casting-calls via LJ, but it's worth a shot at the moment, besides being worth flistsharing anyhow.