Hello all, my name is Alpha, and I'm currently hoping I'm not going to get in trouble for this... I haven't applied to the server yet... don't worry I have every intention of applying, I just wanted to get a bit of help first. Not help with rules or how to make a character or stuff... let me explain.
I love roleplay. I have loved roleplay since I was 12 and I started up on old forum roleplays. Even before then I was doing written roleplay. But something I've found more and more as I start getting into the world of online roleplay is that it's pretty hard to get into the roleplay when you're by yourself. I know that personally I feel really shy and nervous, and I don't know where I would fit or where my character would.
Now sure, I could just join up and search and roleplay to figure out where I fit... but I've tried that before on other roleplays and I've found that I give up before I find a place, and I don't really want to do that with LOTC.
So, I have a proposition. I understand that my character has to be 18 in my application, but I would like to ask that my 18 year old (or whatever year old) character be melded into someone's family somewhere. I feel like if I could have a group when I start out, it would help me already have a place, have someone to go to with simple questions I wouldn't want to bother staff for, as well as race and culture based questions, and I would have something to base my currently unformed character on. I believe it would really help my experience on LOTC, and help me to feel more welcome from the start.
Some things about my potential character that are musts. For one, I like playing things that are more unique. Not in the magical sense or like being the best at something, but things that should be fairly common, but people don't usually play. Like Dwarf women. I would enjoy playing a dwarf woman. Or an orc woman. It can be profession based too, like an orkish bard or something. Something that wouldn't be unique if this was a real world, but is because people don't usually do it. So long as that is understood, I'm completely open to suggestions.
If there's some unwritten rule I didn't know about or missed about not posting until you have been accepted, I'm very sorry for breaking it. I just really like the lore of LOTC and I would like to be able to enjoy my time and not be so nervous...