[Denied]Splitchris' Application

[Splitchris 11]

Out-Of-Character Details

Minecraft Account Name: Splitchris

How old are you?: 12

Time-Zone/Country of Residence: GMT +1:00/Italy

Do you have a good grip on English grammar and the English language?: Yes

Have you had any previous experience in roleplaying?: Yes I have been on another rp server before

Have you read and understood and agree to the rules?: Yes I have and yes I do

How did you hear about the Lord of the Craft?: through youtube.

Link any previous applications you have made to the Lord of the Craft: This is my second application but I can’t find the first one.

Have you posted this application on Minecraft Forum? I’m afraid I don’t have a minecraft forum account =(

Definitions

In your own words, define what the act of roleplaying is: The act of roleplaying is living and controlling the life of another person or character in what can often be a magic and medieval world.

In your own words, define what the act of meta-gaming is: The act of metagaming is knowing things your character could not know in any way. It can be knowing the name of someone before they tell you it as an example. Metagaming is also using info that you have received in say ooc chat or from a friend that plays on the same server for your character’s or any other’s own goods in character.

In your own words, define what the act of power-emoting is: Power-emoting is not giving everybody else a chance and overpowering your character, like saying Randomcharacter throws a sword at opponent and kills him the second the rppvping begins. It can also be giving your character abilities he never had too.

In-Character Details

Character Name: Tob_Adem

Character Race: Human

Character biography - Make this at least 2 paragraphs long, which must explain your character’s history, appearance, personality, age and any other details you deem necessary: Tob wears leather pants that he has camouflaged in dirt and grass to not be spotted by animals in the forest. He is a careful man and he uses therefore a chain shirt if something should go wrong in a travel or he would be pulled into a fight. He also has a quiver with arrows on the back, even though his favorite weapon is the sword (Tob isn’t a man with a lot of money and arrows aren’t cheap). He has a white skin, big blue eyes, brown, messy hair and a normal nose that you wouldn’t say is special in anyway. He is proud of his hair and eyes and never wears a helmet (He says he can’t see anything and that he gets all sweaty).

Tob does not know but when he was born, his mother got serious back problems, forcing her to go away to the best doctors of Asulon. She was at last forced to search outside Asulon’s borders in which she was the victim of evil magic which made the grass look like fire and the mountains like giant waves, coming to get her. It eventually drove her mad and she walked off a cliff. His dad therefore raised Tob. He was tall and strong, with a yellow beard and hair. He taught Tob how to handle a weapon. They lived in a one-room apartment that was always dusty because Tob’s father was a man that never had time or experience in cleaning. There were two beds, one under the window and one right across from it, both were in dwarven iron from a friend of Tob’s dad. They were the most precious things they had. In the darkest corner there were always a sack of pillows that they trained their sword and bow skills on and a mouse named “Rasmus” that sometimes came out to see what they were doing, when he felt safe. Other than that there was just a chair and a torch they used when the sun wasn’t shining through the windows. Tob’s dad was originally a farmer and he worked hard to pay for an education for Tob. So far everything was good, but as his wife didn’t come back, Tob’s dad started to get lonely and angry. One day a soldier knocked on our door and said that Tob’s dad had to join the humans in the war. Tob never really got any friends except a boy named James that he got to know a little when Tob ran the bets in the school-fighting tournament. James always placed small bets on which fighter his stomach told him to. James’ dad was also in the war and Tob had someone to talk to for a while. But then a day James was just gone. The teacher wouldn’t tell Tob anything because James had told her to. He had gone to live with his uncle in the north when his dad died.

When Tob heard that his dad had died in war and that he was going to have to move to his uncle in the north he got very sad and he didn’t say a word for a month. His uncle was writing books and he was always home infront of his desk. Tob was used to living in a city and it was weird for him with all the open area and plants. Tob decided that he was against war because it had taken men and women from so many families, including his own. He had nothing to do all day and started taking long walks in

the mountains. But one day it didn’t go as planned. Tob met a band of escaped prisoners that captured him and took all his belongings. They forced him to show them his uncle’s house so they had somewhere to stay for the night. After breakfast the next day they killed his uncle, took all his money and books and put the house on fire, leaving Tob alone in the middle of the forest. He wandered around for weeks living off what nature gave him, until he stumbled over the clud sanctuaries, which is his situation right now. He’s a 20 year old man, hungry and with an affection for explosives, looking to adventure and see the world.

What are your characters ambitions?: Tob wants to see the world and find a place to get a house and settle. Tob is however more depending on faith than on himself for the future.

Please provide an in-game screenshot of your skin here: I will add a file.

Is there anything else you would like to say about your character: Tob is very social and says hello to everyone he doesn’t look at as a threat (he won’t stop an angry orc).

Open-Response-Questions

Each question here must be answered with a minimum of one full paragraph, and detail the scene you are given in the way it would happen in roleplay. These questions should be answered in first person. Be detailed, not short.

Upon entering the Mighty Human City of Arethor, you come across a shop-keeper calling out to sell his wares to passers-by. The shopkeeper is not a Human, he is a poor dwarf looking to make a living in a new city. What is your response? I go over to the dwarf and ask where his from. He isn’t selling anything valuable but I buy some anyways. I then offer to sell him my dagger with a medium amount of minas in the shaft for a price at least 4 times smaller than I got it for and walk on.

You’re in the Cloud Sanctuary late at night, when a large Orc begins to threaten a nearby dwarf. The only present monk is fast asleep, and the situation looks like it will escalate into violence soon, what does your character do? I go over there and try to calm the orc down, bribing him with anything I have that an orc might want. If that doesn’t calm him I step up for the dwarf making it 2v1 in our favour if a fight would start.

Whilst walking down the road to Malinor, you stumble upon an old man. His walking stick , looks weak and frail, and just as you are about to ask something, the stick breaks, and the man falls to the ground. As he falls down, a bag of Minas falls to the ground, and splits open. As you watch the multiple coins spill out, you peer down at the defenceless man. What does your character do?: I help the man up and collect his coins and bag before I put them in one of my own bags and give it to the man. I then offer him my wooden reserve sword as a temporary stick. I then help him to the nearest town if he doesn’t manage to go there himself and buy him the best stick I can get for my money.

[Song Druid 1486]

Reading through your application I noticed some promising aspects, but it isn't good enough currently. There are a few things I shall note about the application here, good and bad:

-I found the illness Tob's mother had interesting, well incorporated into the story and I liked how it was described as "evil magic", showing me you understand how human culture attributes evil to things they do not understand. Well done.

-One does not become a swordsman training on pillows and mice. Nor an archer. These skills are nonexistant, and he should have more training if he was to actually carry this weapon.

-If he has an obsession with explosives why was it not explored in the bio rather than just thrown in at the end?

-Your open response questions seem more "explanations" than actual RP. But that's a personal pet peeve of mine.

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[Skippy 2466]

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