Old RPG round-up

[innerslytherin]

I'm cleaning up my links list and want to take my old RPGs off there, so I'm putting the links to them here for my future reference:

farfromgracerpg - I played Peter Pettigrew and Evangelos Rosier in Far From Grace. I applied for Peter on a whim, because I was tired of seeing Marauder-era games where Sirius, Remus, and James were taken and Peter was just mentioned in passing. I firmly believe Peter was truly their friend for years, and just a bit weak. I tried to make him a deeply flawed but still sympathetic character, and as he was struggling with his hidden attraction to men, he eventually became involved with Remus--a relationship that was, to a certain extent, Peter's salvation, even though he ended up losing it in the end.

culpaepatria - Sins of the Fathers, a post-war Harry Potter game where I played Remus Lupin, who was involved with Tonks for a while and then became involved with Snape after discovering he hadn't really been a traitor. This one was fun because Remus was the Alpha of the werewolves who had defected from Fenrir Greyback's pack. They had driven Greyback out, and Greyback ended up returning and challenging Lupin, who had to fight for supremacy.

rcsnupin - the Snape/Lupin archive from Ruat Coelum RPG, a post-HBP game which was sadly hosted at GreatestJournal. The game itself is lost, but the Snupin archive remains.

The RPG I was proudest of, Artifice, was also hosted on GreatestJournal, sadly. It was AU Harry Potter and featured a world where Grindelwald had taken over much of Europe, Africa, and India, and had made inroads into other parts of the world. There was a drastically altered world map, Muggles were, at least under Grindelwald, subjugated by the wizards. The only 'canon' characters we had were Orion and Regulus Black and Tom Riddle (who had not yet become Voldemort, as he was Grindelwald's second-in-command). It was all kinds of fun, and I miss it, and now we don't even have the archive. :(

I got my start in online RPG with Walpurgis Night, but that was hosted on GreatestJournal and nothing of that remains except the scenes I saved on my computer in Word format. LOL


And of course I continue in RPG with bau_rpg, which is in the Criminal Minds fandom and is, honestly, the best game I've ever had the privilege of playing in. I truly like every single player in this game and feel close to everyone. The writing is superb on all levels. The relationships are complicated and interesting. I have read every bit of every scene, which hasn't always been the case in games I've played (you know how it is, sometimes the only scenes you really find interesting are your own, and that's NOT the case in BAU RPG). We've just closed a major case (the Reaper/George Foyet) in bau_rpg and are entering some down time with Christmas parties and the like. We have a reading comm at bau_rpg_readers where players and non-players alike can post thoughts, commentary, questions, and discussion. And we're always open to applications for characters like Haley Brooks Hotchner, Sean Hotchner, Ambassador Prentiss, and other secondary characters.

Comments

[emiv.livejournal.com]

Oh, Walpurgis Night! I think it is funny that the very last online RPG I was in was the first one you were in! Goodness, that was so long ago, I barely remember it! All I really remember is the few characters I played, and that overall it was fun, but it was also the RPG that completely burnt me out on RPGs. ;)

[innerslytherin]

LMAO! And I can honestly understand WHY it burned you out on RPGs. But I'd done RPG in the past, just not online (well, Prodigy I guess, but that was bulletin boards so so long ago...) and once I got the bug again, it really bit me. *G*

[essayel.livejournal.com]

I'm so sorry you lost your GJ games. We were very lucky that someone had the expertise to use lj archive to store the whole tMorningstar Manor [5 separate comminities plus an occ one]. Now we have it archived and the game has migrated to IJ. But I have a couple of other games that are gone forever. It's sad to think of all that effort and inventiveness wasted.

[innerslytherin]

It's possible that I might have LJ archived Artifice at least. Thanks for mentioning that! I'll have to go back and look now. I know that back when LJ had its whole deletion scandal going on, I backed up several communities that I owned, and it's possible I backed up things from GJ as well.

[astraea36.livejournal.com]

Awww- poor Ruat Coelum and Artifice. I loved exploring a different sort of Tonks. *hugs* I bet on one of the laptops I probably have most of that game. Minus the Snupin stuff, but you'd have all of that... Perhaps we could reconstruct that one day when I get my laptops fixed.

I think I looked for Artifice on LJ because I was sad it was lost and I couldn't find it. If you find it, please send me them as well! I'd love to be able to go back and read them later...

I miss that one the very most. :o(