APPLICATION ROUND ONE
We welcome applications from people with tons of roleplaying experience and people with none. The cardinal virtues of roleplayers are, I think: flexibility, creativity, respect. These count for more than experience. The game is not quite ready for launch, but I thought I'd get the application post up now, as starting to form concrete ideas for
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Back story: Manal came to Konstantiniyye around a decade ago; from contacts already in the city, she has carved herself out a niche in the black market, and is a fairly powerful figure therein. Although she cannot have been more than a child when her family left Syria (if that!), she is bitterly resentful of its state under the Ottoman Empire. (I'm figuring that on top of many of Syria's villages turning into ghost towns, and the falling population, the Industrial Revolution pretty much passed it by as a backwater.) She occasionally speaks as if she had personally seen many of the villages wither away, presumably to fuel the rumours about her age.
Personality: Manal is cocky (although smart enough to know offending everyone is just a bad idea) and loud; if she gets drunk, the word bombastic probably fits. She doesn't practice her religion, and clearly engages in haraam (unlawful in the eyes of Allah) behaviour; she flaunts the latter among her own social group, and feels guilty about both of them in private. She is self-conscious and rather brittle around those of higher social status, territorial, and can be theatrically cruel to competitors or underlings when she feels she needs to make a point. You know that overloud I-am-new-and-therefore-nervous vibe people will get when being introduced to a new social group? I'm thinking like that, despite the fact that she's been running her business in the city quite successfully for years.
(Oh my god. I just realized I'm thinking of her in terms of the middling chapters of The Screwtape Letters. Moving on.)
How do you see this character fitting into the game?: I hear we are short on people on the lower end of the social scale, and I thought that with the piracy and espionage, there might be room for a smuggler/dealer. Plus the interest in al-kemia and automata can tie her into people who are interested in those things; if she isn't approached, she might gather her nerve up enough to approach them. Finally, her resentment towards the Ottoman Empire might draw her into efforts to shove them out of Konstantiniyye.
Anything else: Comments welcome?
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