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My name is Rosewood and as the title suggests I am here to offer you a CYOA (Choose Your Own Adventure). What I'm offering is a bit different from a standard roleplay so I'll explain the idea a bit.

Rather than write posts back and forth, I will write posts and then present you with a list of choices for how you want to handle the situation your character finds themselves in. Let me give you an example:

Bob walks down the road and finds the road forked in two, one road that led to the right and one that led to the left.
He stopped to consider his options for a moment.

Choices:
-> Pick the road that leads to the left
-> Pick the road that leads to the right

You pick a choice from the list, copy-paste it back to me and I write out the next post based on your choice and it keeps going like that. Sometimes you'll also get situations like this:

At long last Bob had found his way to a village, his feet were sore from all the walking and his stomach felt like a hollow pit, churning with hunger. But as he approached the village borders he was approached by a man. "Who are you? What is your business here?" the man asked, clutching a farmer's scythe like a weapon. There was a clear tone of hostility and wariness in his voice....

Choices:
-> Tell him you are a traveler seeking a place to stay (your choice how)
-> Tell him you are looking for work (your choice how)
-> Ask him why he's so wary (your choice how)
-> Say something else (your choice what)
-> Do something else (your choice what)
-> Leave (your choice where to go)

In these situations you aren't just picking a choice but also providing details like dialogue and how your characters presents himself and what kind of tone he uses and so on, these are kind of like RP posts but short ones. It'd end up looking something like this:

-> Tell him you are a traveler seeking a place to stay
Bob holds his head as high as he can manage. "I am Bob, I'm just a traveler looking for a place to stay. I don't mean you any ill will," he said in a firm, strong voice that showed he wouldn't stand for being intimidated by some farmer and his sad excuse for a weapon!

Now I understand this isn't for everyone, plenty of people will feel like they lose the chance to write or to exert influence on how the story develops, but I urge you to think of this as a one on one D&D session or a Telltale game. You have plenty of agency and trust me when I say that your choices can have a huge impact on how the story plays out for your character. Your choices can even end up killing your character, requiring you to start over!

I have one particular idea in mind for this which I'll present here. Keep in mind that this is just the premise, it'd take too long to describe the whole setting and the details for the five races and I don't want to bore anyone. But I'm more than happy to answer questions if you have any!

Without further adue, the premise:



The continent of Khosa is a dangerous and harsh continent for humans. Ignoring the many wild beasts and monsters that roam the land, humanity is surrounded by other races who prey on them as well. Vampires, dhampyrs, werewolves, shapeshifters, all of these have their own reasons to hate them and seek to hunt them down. Life is harsh, brutal and often cut short. But humanity survives, all the same. Your character, who you will create yourself, was born on this continent.

But not necessarily as a human....

Pick from one of the five races: Vampire, Werewolf, Dhampyr, Shapeshifter or Human and select a backstory or come up with one yourself and off you go! Each backstory comes with a purpose that drives you forward. Perhaps you are a vampire or werewolf hunter, trying to hunt down a powerful member of their species to exact revenge against them. Perhaps you are a werewolf trying to become the leader of your clan. Or perhaps you are a vampire blood mage, loyal to his aristocratic House and attempting to win glory in it's name.

It's all up to you!

Notes:
A few things to keep in mind with this plot. The setting is harsh, if you think you know what harsh means because you've seen Game of Thrones you're close but not quite there yet. In order to survive, let alone thrive in this world you'll need to be harsh yourself. If you play as a Vampire and come across a lost child on the road, you are within your right to turn the child into a Happy Meal and walk off. As a Werewolf you might be called upon to slaughter an entire village in your werewolf form in order to prove your strength, women and children and all. In other words, if you want to be a hero this story isn't for you. This is also not like D&D where the world revolves around you having a fun adventure. This story is about reaching your goal through whatever means necessary or about just surviving to see another day. It's about being challenged and succeeding, it's about the rush of fighting for your life.


Criteria
If you've read this far and are considering approaching me, there's a few things to take into consideration. If you can't meet these criteria it's likely we won't be a match though you can still try!

Criteria:
- An interest in the setting and how things work there. I'll be providing as many details of the world as I can and there will be a lot of options to talk to characters and ask them questions. Most characters have a backstory and you can talk to members of other races and ask them about their society. Knowing things is important, some of the things you learn will come up later....

- The ability to post on a regular basis. A single post doesn't get much done so I'd like to see regular posts. I'm not too strict about a daily requirement or anything but I would like to see at least one post a week, ideally (a lot) more. Naturally I'll adhere to this requirement as well. Optional is also that we schedule appointments for back-and-forth PM sessions.

- An interest in realism. The story will be as realistic as I can make it. Any magic in the story is hard magic and follows certain rules. If you know those rules you can use them to your benefit. If you don't know them, though, they can be used against you. Other characters also can and will betray you, do unexpected things, make mistakes, panic or otherwise mess up or screw you over. Cowardly characters may run away, brave characters may charge in recklessly. Your character can die if you make too many mistakes. We can discuss how realistic we want this to be, ranging from hardcore realism where you can trip on a rock and die from hitting your head too hard to me giving you a pass in certain situations. But some amount of realism is a must.

- Attention and commitment to detail. As mentioned in realism this will play itself out realistically which means that sometimes you'll have to spend some time dealing with tedious details. Obviously I won't make you go over what your character wears to bed or what his favorite color is but I do keep track of things like food and water, how much money you have, what kind of items are in your inventory and so on. Keeping an eye out for opportunities like that is important because they can and will come up. If you bring a rope and you end up at a canyon you can lower yourself down by tying it to a rock and sliding down the rope.

Interested?
Add me on Discord at: Rosewood#5556

If you want to ask some questions first about either the CYOA format or the setting, feel free to PM me!

Are regular roleplays not already choose your own adventure?
This just sounds like normal roleplay, but with extra steps.