Time to start getting this going!

If you don't know what this is: http://www.ndimforums.com/fe/thread.asp?threadid=1027&pagenum=1&pp=15

This thread will be for official sign ups. I'm gonna aim to start next Monday, so sign ups will be up throughout the week. Sometime after signing up, you'll each need to PM me your character choice. Everyone will be writing their segments from the POV of a made up character. Make sure you like your character, because you'll be stuck with them for as long as you're kept alive in the story.

Sometime this week, please PM me the name of your character with a brief description of them. You must also send me a photo of what you imagine your character looks like. No cartoons or animals plz, and no existing characters from anything. Feel free to also send other details, like age, job, backstory, etc.

If there are characters that are just way too similar, I'll tell one of you and ask you to change it. A variety is best. Also if you can't think of a character, let me know and I'll help you come up with one, or I'll send you a premade character.

After I get all the characters and sign ups close, you'll all create a new account on FE for your character. I'll put them all in special member groups and only allow them to post inside of the subforum where we'll be doing all of this. I'll also make them not show up anywhere on the board, so no one can tell who is who based on who is online at the time and such.

Keep in mind, one character will be chosen as the killer

Post any questions you might have about characters below. In the meantime, sign up!

1. Curtis
2.

Some more plot details so you can work out your character choice:

The story will start at a small New England coastal town. All the characters were sent a letter from someone claiming to know them (the killer), and lures them to their mansion for a LAVISH WEEKEND. For whatever motive (up to you), your character was compelled to respond to the invitation and arrives to the ferry to start out the story. The ferry takes us all across to the island, and at the top of the island is a mansion. There are no other residents on the island.

So you have full creative freedom over where your character is from and all that. You don't even need to explain what your specific letter said if you don't want. Whatever lured you there is your secret. Remember that we're all gonna be fairly sketchy or shady at some point or another. Makes it much more fun to confuse your fellow writers and make yourself look suspicious

One more thing we should discuss before characters start coming in

Do we want this to be semi-serious, or completely zany and ridiculous? People would probably like to know that before coming up with characters. I have no idea how the tone will be until everyone starts writing and we all start getting on the same page, to keep it from being uneven

Though, like in Lab 3, some characters were over the top and goofy, while others were pretty serious. They all still felt like they could still fit in the same story. That might be the best way to go about it, just creating whatever you want and writing serious, funny, or a mix

1. Curtis
2. Nobert
3. Samm
4. Matt
5. Rob
6. Boc
7. Dylan
8. Leos

1. Curtis
2. Nobert
4. Matt
5. Rob
6. Boc
7. Dylan
8. Leos
9. Skylar
10. Mal

We're gonna have to!

UPDATE. Talking things through with Justin a bit right now. I think a more detailed character bio would be better. I'll make a pinned thread with all the character info in there. Writing out these bio's before hand should help everyone start to really form their character going into this. Don't forget...your character can lie in their bio a little bit ;)

Here's what I'm gonna ask from each of you when you PM me:

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Photo:

Full name:
Age:
Date of Birth:
Sexuality:
Nationality:
Hometown:
Occupation:

Likes:
Dislikes:
Strengths:
Weaknesses:

(^ Minimum of five each plz)

Height:
Weight:
Tattoos:
Piercings:
Scars:

Before FE Manor:

(^ Brief description of your characters life before the story begins. You don't have to spill your entire life here)

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This is a lot more than what we're used to compared to alias mafia games and Lab, but this will be a pretty character driven thing. It won't take long to fill out, but it'll be worth it because you'll start to really shape your character. Send these to me in a PM please!

Remember everything you fill out there is what everyone will see

Skylar @ 28/7/2013 23:34

So putting "Likes: murdering things" isn't something good to put down?

Wouldn't suggest it!

ANOTHER SHOUTOUT FOR JUSTIN. He gave me this link

http://www.modelmayhem.com/browse

This site is good for some pretty legit and consistent looking character pictures. You just gotta look around. I'm not sure exactly how to search for the type of person you want, but it's better than most awful google images stock photography sometimes

Shoutout to Dyl

Go to bed

Should we have a title for each character? Like the Harper's Island pics I linked to earlier:



I wanna make simple graphics for each character anyway, and titles might be pretty fun. If you wanna send what your character's title should be with your character info, that'd be good

We're around the perfect number of people right now. I know Wikey, Ari, and Drrr said they wanted in in the other thread. Drr's not around now though. ARI AND WIKEY COME SIGN UP

That'll bring us to 16. I'll probably close sign ups on Friday. If you guys know anyone else who might be interested, have them sign up!

Yup