8bitIcecube

Thank you This means I can have the long awaited Stamp?

Thank you for the feedback. I made some changes and added a small description of his personality. I hope it made that part clear. I also rewrote pieces of the rest, hopefully making it easier to read. My problem has always been the problem of writing clear sentences, without constantly resorting to small statements. Hope people will enjoy the changes and gets me into Roleplaying! Please reflect and leave your comments, 8bit-Icecube

Ashton hits the nail on the head. I used a dictionary to be certain of the gender. But apparently it doesn't "translate" into American... (no offense, European dictionaries tend to translate to 'Britain-English') oh well. The other option would be using the word "it", to refer to moderator. Don't like that one.... makes you more like things. And before this thread dissolves into a language war, let us drop the point?

I did no such thing, I merely used the gender of the word "Moderator". For all I care, each other poster on the internet has no gender at all.

This dragging on kinda spurs me on to make a "Mad Scientist" character, who wants to use Celestia herself as a power source...... And although I've played enough DnD, I play other systems and role-playing games as well. And I fully realize that this is a place to have fun RP'ing as ponies, Why did you think, I became a member? But yea, I'm always leaning to, players vs DM mindset. But I can... hopefully... control myself. As I purposely said several times, I'm inexperienced in forum roleplay, not roleplay itself. And Corsair settled most questions I had with the remark: "Each RP is a miniature timeline unto itself". So thank you all for your answers, and.... FREEDOM TO EQUESTRIA , dethrone the celestial tyrants!!!

Tsssk, naive Moderator. Thinks he can stop my devilish plans before it's too late! If I'm correct, it is possible for a Role-player to within bounds of the Mane-RP. Role-play such a story to raise, through cunning tactics and devious ways of persuasion, at least the question why Celestia should be in command. And if you gather enough ponies to cooperate, an attempted coup d'etat. It should make an interesting thread at least..... until said pony mastermind gets shipped off to the moon. .....I'm marked as potential threat ain't I?

Want to see your puny insect survive this monster.

Aha! Maybe my random gibberish can cast a new light on how you look at your character. Let me say, the more details and background you already can put into the character, the more direct flow of ideas you get from people here. Try to specify his personality, his ideals, his history. And figure out a plan from there. If you really want him to be involved into military, I'd suggest studying that here, or somewhere else. Now for some ideas: Your character screams PRIVATE DETECTIVE to me. Something along the lines of Rorschach (he's a tad grim for this). Or bounty hunter near the borderlands. Or any kind of inspector. Try to work some more details in your character: What does his cutiemark mean? What type of magic does he specialize in? Does he like cupcakes? What makes him seek to bring justice. Why didn't he save that little filly from those bandits? The more you give us, the more we can give you. Hope this rambling helps even a tad.

"Dying is the day worth living for." - Captain Barbossa.

Thanks a lot! This kinda answers most of the questions I had. I could've wrote it down in a much shorter version, but that wouldn't be as much fun. It's basically driven by the possible problems I conjured for my yet to be existent OC's. And too seek the boundaries in here. Though I reckon it's not a wise idea to seek those extremes. And thank you Phil for the word of advice. I've had tendencies before to "DM" or play things that are eccentric and that didn't fare quite well with everyone. It's nice to know your possibilities beforehand. I'll try my best to stay on the right track. Thanks for helping a Forum RP-rookie

Don't get me wrong here I intend too keep within bounds of the canon and the additional info established here, To make and partake in some enjoyable RP threads. I'm just curious what problems I may throw at my slice-of-life threads. Not that there isn't enough play possible with only personal trifles and interaction between players. Just want to know if and how you may spice somethings. If I'm to do something with it, I would probably open up a thread with it. People that like the idea would be the ones to reply. Or with the consent of all players in the thread. The more bold things I'd probably indeed setup in the FFA sections. And I have too much experience in D&D where the campaign escalated into Powerbuilding parties to barely survive ingenous encounters professionally engineered to take us. That mindset is kinda stuck. I need reprogramming.

Well first off: "Aha! I knew there was a rules section floating around, I wonder why I couldn't easily find it". But sadly, it doesn't answers the questions I have. I'm talking about the "World of Equestria" section, the one where you have to apply to. I'm basically asking if I may include problems or occurrences that: - Could very likely occur in the setting. - My OC would have little to no influence on. - Would be of such magnitude that would include more ponies than only myself. (Eg: a heatwave) As well as some other things, but I'm not gonna write a post explaining another large post. As for the plan to overthrow Celestia. If I'm sneaky enough to stay under the radar of the admins, to plant enough facts around the world in my posts. That the only logical conclusion of said facts/occurances would be the dethroning of Celestia herself. Well who's there to really stop me? The thread would probably get deleted, but I would have the satisfaction that I outplayed the admins. And the right to demand a title........ Not that it's gonna happen, I fail at long term planning. .

Bwah, basic. I'm making myself laugh.

Hello all, 8bit-Icecube here with some questions related to things I may and may not do in the Mane-RP. First off I've have a dread feeling that there is a FAQ or Rules post floating somewhere describing all these things forehand, but with my sloth I'm unable to find it in these forums. So if there is such post, suggestion to have it pinned to this Q&S forum. Second, I'm new to forum-based Role-play, so some questions are probably basic knowledge. I'm ignorant, deal with it! Lastly, I've a general idea what the answer to some of the questions are, but I'm better off safe than sorry. So on to the questions: - Are the topics, season related? Or some guidelines for this? (Eg: a thread started in summer, plays in summer. Prolly not,) - May I use plausible, natural or social occurrences as "plot" devices at the start of or during an RP? (with the other players consent) As in, may I use a large hailstorm as a reason for my OC to buy new windows? Or a heatwave causing distress for my OC Ice-cream pony. (Or a plausible tidal-wave) Or using a NPC burglar, angry mob, demonstrations, annoying officers to direct the flow of the story. Things that could and sometimes really do occur. Large enough to carry impact on the world, very plausible, but without leaving a mark on history. - How far can I go creating non-canon places to go to? Without creating a whole subsection of proposed lore to that part of forum. As in, I know I may write in my own shop/establishment/apartment. But how about a deserted graveyard in the Everfree. A monastery of exclusive monk-ponies in the mountains near Canterlot. A bazaar of ill tempered henchman griffins? And to top it off: The lost kingdom of ancient diamond-dog civilization? And for the grand finale, a genuine question without the intention of actually using the answer. - May I or may I not, start a deceptive set of RP-threads that would or would not imply to start a plan spanning over several ponies that could or could not have any active relation in a ingenious engineered plot that possibly or possibly not hopes to achieve a coup d'etat on Celestia? These questions are all related to the question: "By how much may I affect the world?". Some aspects I actually hope to achieve, whilst some are just to search the boundaries of this RP-community. Again I've a dreaded feeling that this is posted somewhere extremely obvious, but I'll take my chances. Please take an effort to answer my questions and to elaborate on the things my wicked mind plans. (I'm really suited for "the genius Evil-Overlord with too grand schemes that will absolutely fail" role.) And I'm worried that the amount of difficult words and complex grammar raised the PG ratings of this post too high. Spontaneous combusting, 8bit-Icecube.

This is the exact way I feel about it. Thank Chocoswirl and xIceStormx and you for all of your help. I look forward to roleplaying.

Done editing. Added some thoughts with his cutiemark and weaved some more information about him succeeding his parent's shop. And adjusted the structure. It seems much less now, but that's what I expected. This should cover most of his background, giving him a clear point to start. And giving people a clear idea about his personality and his background, without getting really familiar with him or confining him with excessive details. I feel that this is good enough to set to final, but I'd like some second thoughts. Please leave your comments, 8bit-Icecube.

The weird thing is, I get the same feeling. And I'm tempted to make it rhyme..... But then again, I find that annoying for these things and it's too difficult for me. It's because I avoid large sentences with extra sentences with several extensive clarification on them to make a long sentence that's difficult to comprehend and read and that really don't fits me so well. AND I find it annoying to use the full width of the page. Makes it hard to read on an 1900 pixels wide screen. To break a line mid sentence is also something to avoid. So these things I prefer together make it like a poem. I'll go and experiment with that. Thanks for bringing it up.

Blasphemy! I would never make such mistake..... oops. Grammar issues?! English ain't my strongest language, so if you'd care to PM my mistakes I could learn from them. The biggest problem I have right now is the length. I try to keep it at ~3 decent paragraphs. Thanks for the suggestion, let me address them. I hope to be approved soon enough.

What do you mean? How he feels about his parents or how his parents feel about his cutiemark? I iz confuzzled. And honestly I don't really have a good vibe how to describe his feelings about his cutiemark.... Could you give me some suggestions? Have milled it over since yesterday.. And thanks for the compliment. I try to have some quality.

Basically rewrote his whole background. The thoughts remain the same, only different wordings. Reflecting my thoughts more clearly, whilst refraining from loads of text. I hope I didn't screw up the grammar. Which I'm pretty sure I did. Anyway, would like another review before marking this as final..... again. (Last time was waaay too soon, sorry for that. I'm new and I demand the right to make mistakes ) Please leave your comments below, 8bit-Icecube.

First off, thanks for the abundant and well pointed reply. Mind the exact wording, I intended him to act somewhat "cool and not caring" not because he is but because he has problems showing expressing his emotions. It's a part of his inner personality. Not something caused by a youth trauma. I guess I could word it better. This is a part where I clearly failed to clearly describe my thoughts, my bad. I wanted to explain something as, he wants to start his own life. Get loose from his parents' care. Overread that mistake, replace "town" with "dawn". To shorten the story, I left out that part. It's open for interpretation how a young colt gets a bucket load of vanilla ice off his horn. It was an idea that played in my head, but didn't dare to imply because I didn't know what was involved. Regard it as discarded. Thanks for catching those errors and supplying me with (hopefully) the last flaws in his character. I'm going to take my time to fix them. But I guess I can get it done this evening. Thanks for your help, Sublimating again, 8bit-Icecube.

Really love the concept. And the application shows a clear writing style that brings enough details. I think that the application is being assessed when a privileged person replies with an "application assessed" stamp. But I share the advice with Trilobite. Hope to join you soon in RP-manehatten. Good luck!

Removed some inconsistencies, fixed some words and grammar. Added a mediocre cutiemark story. And lastly, marked as finished. Please leave your comments.

Roleplay Type: World of Equestria Name: Soft Rime Sex: Male Age: Adult Stallion Species: Unicorn Coat Color: Alice Blue; #F0F8FF Mane/Tail Color & Style: Midnight Blue; #003366; with Pale aqua streaks. His mane is a messy Midnight blue pike of average length ending in pale aqua streaks. His tail is also average length with Midnight and Pale blue streaks present in equal amounts. Eye Color: Aquamarine Cutie Mark: A melting ice cube; Physique: He is a slender stallion standing about top-average height without much added weight by fat or muscles. Origin: His birthplace is Manehattan. He grew with his parents which ran an Ice-Saloon, which he now owns. Occupation: He is currently running the Ice-Saloon, preparing, mixing and cooling the different flavors of ice. Motivation: His drive are the smiles and thanks of overheated-ponies after being cooled by the ice. Likes: Soft Rime likes vanilla and banana flavored ice-cream. The soothing sounds of violins. Perfectly made Ice-sculptures. Running for long periods and the time right before dawn. Dislikes: Hot weather. Very young Foals. Chocolate sprinkles. Character Summary: Soft Rime grew up with his two unicorn parents in Manehattan and went through schools as a mediocre student. He rather spent his time at his parents’ Ice-Saloon, learning magic from his father than learning from school books. He also enjoyed company with his very small group of friends, playing games and having fun. He earned his cutiemark when he was helping his father clean out the Saloon's fridge. As eager colt he started to melt one of the bigger cooling elements, but also a bucket of vanilla ice-cream next to it. His father saw the good ice going to waste and cried out to stop. This startled Soft Rime, making him lose his concentration and balance. Stumbling into the table, he toppled the bucket of half liquid vanilla-ice. Soft Rime's thought of ice made the liquid freeze on impact. Creating a vanilla flavored Popsicle-unicorn, with a cutiemark. His father congratulated him cheerfully on freezing that ice so fast and gaining the cutiemark, proud that his son could succeed him in his work. Soft Rime addressed his new cutiemark with the widest smile he'd ever pull, filled with pride and glee he turned his attention to remove the frozen problem at hand. Soft Rime is to be noted as an trustworthy pony, capable of keeping secrets and always trying to keep his word. But he always had problems showing his emotions and state of mind. He is the last pony to break out in laughter, to cry uncontrollably or to cheer loudly. This makes him look ‘cold’ to others while he actually has lots of warmth to give. And although he tends to be melancholic and pessimistic he’s very easy to cheer up. Soft Rime's parents retired last year, leaving their son with their saloon. Soft Rime is now faced with the daunting task of running the saloon all by himself, preparing the ice, using magic to cool the fridge and saloon, serving customers and various other odd jobs. Not sure if he can handle the busiest season on his own. But when he saves up enough bits from his business he would like to see the rest of Equestria before opening up shop in a quieter place than Manehattan.

It's good to see that my frigid presence creates such welcoming and awestruck responses. Thanks guys and many thanks for the compliments. I try to fix my texts as much as possible. @Silver; Yea, I see what you mean and it's happening right in my campaign. I'm capable of powergaming myself, but I also know "how not to". So you've no fear for me to make an ridiculous OP pony . @Rosewind; YOU MURDERER!!!! And I like my stay in the fridge, thank you very much. But maybe the lemonade doesn't sound that bad.......