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My question is a pretty easy one to answer so here it goes. How good do your stories have to be to get into the game. Also I feel that sometimes the story way can't be the best way to decide on roleplaying skills. If the GM reading your story isn't in a good mood than he will judge you a lot harder. Some people just want to play a game.

I also want to say one more thing. I'm not very good at writing stories, but I've been told that I am a good roleplayer. I have played about 10 online rpgs. All of those were about typing. So is there any other way I could apply for an account, if not, will there ever be another way to apply?
Oh, by the way, I am a former player of Illarion and I find the game very enjoyable.

Story's don't have to be novel material, the just have to show you understand how to use the English/German language, and be able to punctuate properly. The story just has to show that, and the fact you understand good fantasy, and not, somthing like,

2 men attack you in the forrest write a story about you character reaction

I begin to run very fast and then stumble across a magical sword which make me the greatest swordsman alive and i kill them both and then i go to my kingdom and kill the king and become the king myself and the i rule the world.

Just show some good knowledge of fantasy and you should be ok.

2 men attack you in the forrest write a story about you character reaction

I begin to run very fast and then stumble across a magical sword which make me the greatest swordsman alive and i kill them both and then i go to my kingdom and kill the king and become the king myself and the i rule the world.

This doesn´t sound like good RP. It´s rather megalomania.

Just reply logicaly. What would your char do in this situation (the char that you are given)? Ask yourself why she/he´d act like that and if it fits to his past and his future plans.

2 men attack you in the forrest write a story about you character reaction
I take my pants off, place them on my head, and run around imitating a chicken, scaring them beyond their own comprhension of reality, and whilst they stand and gaze at me with amazement and awe, I eat them.
The end

I should be a author.

It was the dead of night and the tranquility of Fangorn Forest was broken. The usual silence of the woods gone, in its place the sound of breaking branches and disturbed undergrowth.

A lone man wearing robes which would be mistaken for rags apart for the image of a blazing sun which could be made out upon this now ravaged cloth was in haste. Hes brow showed the sheen of sweat as he made hes way through the woods.
He was Aristeaus, once a scribe in the order of Heavenly Respite, but now a man on the run. He could hear no sign of pursuit but he knew he was not alone.
Hes once peacefull life of study had ended only hours before, where once there were books and the sounds of the choir, all that remained were flames and death.
Hes last memories of the monastery were those of screaming.
It had been an ordinary day in the young scribes life. Hes master the elf Laurandilas had been supervising hes research upon the races of Illarion.
' So Aristeaus what have you learnt about the lizard folk and their lost cities '.
Aristeaus looked up from the tome when the sound of somebodys scream erupted into the room. Laurandilas stood and motioned with hes hand for Aristeaus to stay seated.
Laurandilas stayed motionless towering of hes pupil, murmering odd sylables which Aristeaus had never heard before.
Before the doors to the room burst open Aristeaus noticed a change in hes master, he looked the same, but it seemed as a power radiated from hes allways peacefull presence. Before the Aristeaus could make out the figure in the doorway hes master had risen hes hand and cried out a word which Aristeaus had never heard, let alone hope to copy. Lights silhouted the figure in the doorway marking the stranger as an Orc, the orc began to howl in agony, the light was not just illuminating this fiend it was burning it alive.
' Quickly Aristeaus, make haste. These fiends are led by a old evil i can only maintain my powers for so long! '
As he spoke more figures where emerging into the frame of the doorway and suffering the same fate as their first companion.
' The window, flee you fool! ' as he spoke a large shadow started to envelope the room.
So i fled, as i vaulted from the window i heard my master hurling another word of power, its effect chilling me even as i fell through the air into the forest below. As i landed in the moat and emerged from the murky waters, i felt elation how could anything survive the power which my master had unleased. These thoughts did not last long as i heard a hollowing scream emerge from the window above, not any scream... My masters.
So i fled,I the coward, fled.

My story was funnier and alot more cute!

Sounds like you just edited and mixed a few pages of lord of the rings.
Cuderon, that was showing what not to do.

Moathia wrote:Sounds like you just edited and mixed a few pages of lord of the rings.

Really? ill take that as a compliment

Man, my story was pages long and I thought it was really good. Man still wish I had it. sniffles

That had nothing to do with my story im just bored

I got the story about the two men to continue. Since it said that the person hadn't seen evil, I wrote that he/she ran away. She hid behind a tree for a while(there was more detail). The men heard her feet rustling in the grass and chased he, She stumbled over a big stick and knocked one unconcious. When the other man approached she missed and dropped the stick. Then the guy lifted his sword and he got shot in the chest by an arrow by the persons father.

That was my story shortened down and with a ton of less detail, if you want the full version give me your email and I'll send it. I just want to know if that should have been accepted.

I like it. It should be accepted but I'm not a gamemaster so I don't know.

im still waiting to get my first email heh...

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I'm still waiting for the first mail as well, but it's only been three days since i requested an account so i'l guess it will take some more time..

Just wondering... Do you need any of that "sword master" fantasy stuff in there... I sent a character request, and the replied with the story to finish... and I did, but mine didn't have many things like that in it, it was more of a different kind of story with an un-expected outcome, is that alright that I did that?

The purpose of the story/questions is to see your roleplaying skills.If they consider it up to par your in, or your out.

There is no special story expected. Only a few points we want to read out of it. Write like you think and we will see.

2 more questions.

If your character dies in the story, will you be less likely to get in. And Arien, the reason that I dont want to send this so quickly is that I dont wanna get rejected like last time.

Oh and if the story is longer, is it easier to be accepted (not repeating though, all story plot).

Wait a second...

I was just reading another post. Someone mentioned that they used violence so they said that they wouldn't be accepted. Is this true? If a girl is being chase by 2 drunken men I don't see how violence is avoidable.

I'm sorry for replying so many times to my own post but i was reading others and I noticed something.

When I got the story of the two drunken men. I got an idea. But this idea slowly changed into more of a fantasy story and the drunken men became useless/pointless in the end. Is that okay?(there is another main character those tow men work for)

Also, does the influence of alcohol have to be the problem with the men's attitudes or can it just be that they are a bit sloppy in their job for the other man because they are drunk?

P.S. Thank you for taking the time to read my post.

Your story must prove you able to roleplay.