1. Name - or what you'd like to be called!
My name is Steve, and saying it is probably the easiest way to get my attention. I'm kind of a capricious bastard and change my account and screen names all the time, but some of the name's I've rocked on other writing forums include:
- indica apostate
- Ironfang
- Gelid Brutality
- Adjunct Birdcatcher
- Mister Mask
- [ LOL ]
- Obturador
etc. etc.
2. What sort of RP experience do you have if any?
Ah, man. Sometimes I feel like I've been writing my whole life, but I know I got my start from my mother. I was raised in what some would consider an over-the-top religious environment, and for the better part of my childhood reading and writing offered a cathartic sort of escape from that. Ministerial School stifled a lot of things for me, but my mother always made sure that reading and writing each had an unrestricted presence in my life. I started roleplaying on Blizzard's b.net when I was 12, and was subsequently raised into the global roleplaying community by its creeps and geeks.
Now I'm 25, and instead of full-time ministry I run a medical marijuana dispensary in WA. While my lifestyle has changed dramatically (and I no longer part my hair or wear button-ups), I never stopped writing- or roleplaying- and my line of work gives me inordinate amounts of spare time to do both. I've held the top slot for highest-rated and 'Most Liked' threads on Valucre.com since I found out about it, and was briefly picked up as a staff member there to help revamp their lore. I've been (apologetically) active on Gaiaonline.com in the past, as well as Roleplay Adventures, Roleplayer Kingdom, and a few chat-based mediums. Some of my fondest memories include roleplaying on notebooks and passing them back and forth with friends in high school, and I still roll between forums with those same friends today.
Outside of roleplaying I've been published twice, I've won several awards for my poetry, I've sold lyrics to and smoked out some of my favorite bands, I've done freelance work writing content for video games and tabletop roleplaying compendiums, I've contributed articles to pot magazines like DOPE and Northwest Leaf, and I've used my awesome pen powers to woo dames and shame fools.
For a writing sample, here's a link to a horror event I'm hosting right now-
http://www.valucre.com/index.php?/topic/21313-fete-ghede-pale-libations/
and its sister thread:
http://www.valucre.com/index.php?/topic/21504-fete-ghede-warehouse-of-horrors/
3. How did you find us?
Mizahar is the only roleplaying site online that has a better user rating than Valucre. Myself and a large group of members there have been feeling kind of disenfranchised for a while, so I figured I'd give you guys a shot.
4. What sort of RP style is your favorite?
Errr...
5. What do you like to write about - not write about?
When it comes to roleplaying, I'm really just looking for a setting that's fertile soil for story development. Like most active roleplayers I'm talented and quietly kind of an attention whore, so I need a large community with a higher likelihood for reciprocation.
6. Whats your favorite thing about Mizahar so far?
The scale and depth of your lore, and the talent pool of your writers. While loose-knit forums like RPK, RPA, and Val seem to be favored spots for young hentai and cat-fox-demon-vampire-SEMPAAAAIII roleplayers from Gaia to fly south to, Mizahar seems like an inhospitably adult brick wall built for rude writing awakenings. I'm pretty sure I actually read in some info thread that those kinds of stock characters are forbidden outright based on your lore, which is dope. A lot of forums are entirely open ended and permissive in order to be conciliatory to everyone, and I think you lose something in a setting by letting it be that fucking mercurial.
7. What, if anything, has frustrated you about Mizahar so far?
I don't think I know enough about Mizahar to toss criticism around quite yet, but I'm getting an initial sense that the site's primary member base or administration has developed an activity-based progression system, in order to ensure that the only members who are powerful enough to effect the story in a big way are the members who are the most active. I get it, but I already know based on my own personality flaws that I'll get frustrated quickly if less capable writers are more powerful, and express that power often. On a basic level, its the whole reason I don't play MMO's and don't fuck with table-top roleplays... I hate waiting, and if competition is involved, I check out the second its based on anything other skill.
That may be a completely moot thought though, since I haven't even figured out how face-offs work in Mizahar (or if they even happen, lol).
8. What would you like out of the mizahar experience?
I'd like to make some new friends and get involved in anything large or exciting in scale. I have -no- idea where I plan to start, so if anyone felt like BSing with me, filling me in on overarching plots and showing me around, that would be most righteous.
9. Is there anything you'd like to see expanded?
Cooommbaaaaaaaat!
10. Anything else you want to talk about?
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