Sign Up The Maze [M - VLS]

[Rachmaninoff]

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Somewhere, or perhaps nowhere, a group of strangers wake up to find themselves in what appears to be a laboratory. They don?t know how they got there or why they were brought to this strange place. They only know that they want to leave, to return to their homes. But there is no one to answer their questions and only two doors leading out of the room. What lies behind the doors? Does it lead to whoever brought them there? The only way to find out is to step through and see just what lies on the other side.

However, do you go it alone? Or do you decide to team up with others in your quest to find out what happened? Because behind the two doors leading out are fantastic wonders as well as lethal hazards. As well as the bones of those who have failed to escape the Maze. Something they will realize as one after another dies in the attempt to find the way out.

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Welcome to the Maze. A place where strangers from all over the galaxy, aliens and humans alike will wake up to find themselves in an unknown laboratory. Brought from not only different words and places, but different times as well. Past, present and even the future. Although this is based on the Labyrinth Event held last year by Sandy. It will be similar and yet different in many ways.

There is no set amount for how many people can join. Each person who does will create two generic characters. Ones that other than their name, age, race and origin will have no personality. Since everyone will be able to control any character, their personality will develop within the game. And in the end only one or possibly two will find the exit to the Maze.

[B]Here is how it will work:[/B]

[B]1[/B] - In order to join I will need you to send me a pm with the profile of your two characters. [I]I will be providing the details for this later[/I]. However in addition to sending me a pm I would like you to post indicating your interest. Basically a post saying I sent the pm with the character information. Along with any questions you might have. Just to let others see how many have joined up.

[B]2[/B] - All of the characters will be secret to everyone else, except for their creator and myself. The goal is to protect your characters as much as possible from the other players without revealing who their creator is as the goal is to get one of them out alive.

[B]3 [/B]- The winner of course will be the player who?s character (or both characters) makes it out alive. Which means for every round you will be killing off each other?s characters. This can be done though traps, beasts, fellow players, pretty much anything you can imagine. When both of your characters die, at the end of the round you will be required to leave the game.

[B]4[/B] - My role will be to create two fake characters, which will be known only to myself. They can be controlled like all the other characters; they can die like the others. However, I cannot kill and will instead revive characters at the end of each round.

[B]5 [/B]- I will be using a type of card system where each player will be given one death card that must be used in the current round. Even if both of your characters die, you are not out of the game until the end of the round and I announce you are out, so you can still use your death card. Once I have revived someone, then I will announce if you are out of the game.
[INDENT]When you use your death card, you will have to put it in your post like this with the picture of the character you want to kill:[/INDENT][CENTER][IMG]http://img371.imageshack.us/img371/629/deathcarduv1.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://img363.imageshack.us/img363/6198/examplecharacteryv4.jpg[/IMG] [/CENTER][INDENT]I will do the same when I revive a character:[/INDENT]
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There are other cards that I will be giving out, but for now I?m going to keep them a secret. I do promise you this, though they are similar, other than the death cards, they will work differently than they did in the labyrinth game this is based off of.

[B]6 [/B]- There is no set pattern to the Maze. Anything you can think of can be encountered. The only thing limiting you is your imagination. And seeing that the characters will be coming from different parts of the galaxy, may not even be human or from the same time frame, there will be plenty that can be encountered. The only thing you cannot encounter is the exit. I will be indicating when the exit has been found.

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Now that you?ve read the rules it?s time to sign up! As stated in order to do so you must send me a private message with your two characters and then post saying that you have done so.

[B]Here is what I am looking for:[/B]

[B]Picture: [/B] Other than real pictures, anything is acceptable. I?d like them all to be 100 x 100
[B]Name: [/B] It should reflect where they are from.
[B]Gender:[/B] One must be female the other male.
[B]Age:[/B] How old they are.
[B]Race & Origin:[/B] Any race through out the galaxy, either in the past, present or from the future as well as where they are from. However they do need to be humanoid, no dragons, angels, demons or vampires as they don't really fit the game.
[B]Occupation: [/B] What is their job?

And there you have it! If there are any further questions about signing up or in general just post them here.

Also, special thanks to [B]Sandy[/B] for tips and suggestions as well as to [B]SunfallE[/B] for helping with the graphics.

[Darren]

YAY! I was sad that I missed Labyrinth in the events section whenever Sandy held it... I'm glad that I won't miss out on this one as well.

I sent you the sign-up, but I may have added too much information. If and when you decided to hold this (granted that I'm accepted) feel free to edit my info if I provided way too much! :D

I'm just a little curious: What's going to be different from Labyrinth? So far, besides it being a different setting and characters and such, it all seems spot on. So can you tell us or are you wanting to keep it a secret???

[Aaryanna]

[COLOR=DarkRed]Fun! After the last one started I was wishing I had joined. I like how you've left it more open as far as the type of characters one can have. Only because I think that will make it more interesting. I assume that's instead of the characters having powers? Anyway, I've written up my sign up, but I'm still looking for pictures for my characters so once I have that I'll send it to you . :catgirl: [/COLOR]

[Rachmaninoff]

[quote name='Darren']YAY! I was sad that I missed Labyrinth in the events section whenever Sandy held it... I'm glad that I won't miss out on this one as well.[/quote]Heh, same here since it had started before I joined the boards. [QUOTE=Darren]I sent you the sign-up, but I may have added too much information. If and when you decided to hold this (granted that I'm accepted) feel free to edit my info if I provided way too much! :D
[/QUOTE]No it was fine. If I do edit it, it will only be to better match other entries. If everyone is putting very little I may trim it so it won't look out of place, though I'll send it to you to see what you think if that should be necessary.[quote name='Darren']I'm just a little curious: What's going to be different from Labyrinth? So far, besides it being a different setting and characters and such, it all seems spot on. So can you tell us or are you wanting to keep it a secret???[/quote]Well some of it is a secret, but one major difference will be in how the life cards work. I noticed in the previous game that having people use a life card just made them a target to the other players. Since who else would you bring back to life but your own character?

So this time, even though life cards will be given. They will be completely secret. You won't even know who got one. What they will do at the end of each round is decide who to bring back (they will send me a pm saying who they want revived) and I will revive the character in a post. Thus helping to protect the identity of the creator of the character. Making it harder to know who to eliminate to win the game.

Also, I intend to put identical borders on each picture so no one will stand out by having a different border. In the last game I noticed two pictures had a black pixel border. Making it fairly obvious that they were probably submitted by the same person. So by putting matching borders on all of them that will help avoid that problem.[quote name='Aaryanna][COLOR=DarkRed']I like how you've left it more open as far as the type of characters one can have. Only because I think that will make it more interesting. I assume that's instead of the characters having powers? [/COLOR][/quote]Yes it is. The powers idea was fun, but it doesn't really fit the meaning behind the maze.

[Sandy]

I'll be joining this as well, if Rach so chooses.

... What the heck, he'll pick me anyway, or else I'll take my copyright back! ;P

[Rachmaninoff]

[QUOTE=Sandy]I'll be joining this as well, if Rach so chooses.

... What the heck, he'll pick me anyway, or else I'll take my copyright back! ;P[/QUOTE]No danger there *picks Sandy along with the other two entries* Nothing like having the original creator around to spice things up! And to make me nervous at the same time! lol

[Aaryanna_Mom]

I have a question for you, since this is rated mature I am assuming that like the previous one the deaths will be quite graphic. However, if one should choose to join, do they have to make the deaths graphic? Or can you write it in a manner indicating the character died without going into all the details?

[Rachmaninoff]

No they do not have to be graphic. The mature rating is really meant to cover the fact that there will be a lot of death in this game. But the actual deaths do not have to be done in a gory or graphic manner, or rather it's not necessary to write all the details. So implying things would work just as well. ;)

[Aaryanna_Mom]

[quote name='Rachmaninoff']So implying things would work just as well. ;)[/quote]I'll hold you to that young man. Especially since I'd rather not be gory and graphic. It's one thing to read it but to actually write it? Anyway, having said that I have sent you the required information.

[2010DigitalBoy]

[COLOR=DarkOrange]I am interested! And I have sent you the PM. This definetally looks to be interesting, and hopefully it will! I didn't participate in Labrinth but I remember eading the rules and stuff when it first started (can't remember if I signed up or not >_<). In any event, I can't wait! I hope my characters weren't too out-there.[/COLOR]

[Horendithas]

[COLOR=DarkRed][QUOTE=Rachmaninoff]I noticed in the previous game that having people use a life card just made them a target to the other players. Since who else would you bring back to life but your own character?

So this time, even though life cards will be given. They will be completely secret. You won't even know who got one. What they will do at the end of each round is decide who to bring back (they will send me a pm saying who they want revived) and I will revive the character in a post. Thus helping to protect the identity of the creator of the character. Making it harder to know who to eliminate to win the game.

Also, I intend to put identical borders on each picture so no one will stand out by having a different border. In the last game I noticed two pictures had a black pixel border. Making it fairly obvious that they were probably submitted by the same person. So by putting matching borders on all of them that will help avoid that problem.Yes it is. The powers idea was fun, but it doesn't really fit the meaning behind the maze.[/QUOTE]I noticed that with the life cards last time, especially near the end. It just made figuring out who the character belonged to that much easier. Even though I was out of the game at that point. I still think it took the fun out of it, at least from an outsider's point of view.

As for the pictures with the same border those were mine and I swear [B]Tekkaman[/B] went after them like there was no tomorrow, killing off both of them for me. lol

So I guess if the life cards are going to be different and you plan on giving the pictures matching borders...I guess I'll give it a try again. Who knows? Maybe this time I'll actually make it to the finish! So I've sent you the required sign up.

One other thing, I hope the ending you have in mind is different, or I'll have to hurt you. And unlike the others here, I know where you live! :p[/COLOR]

[Rachmaninoff]

All right, just to give a quick notice, so far the accepted players are:

Darren
Aaryanna
Sandy
Aaryanna_Mom
2007DigitalBoy
indifference

However, there is still plenty of room for more people. I?m going to leave this open for more sign ups till the 21st this Saturday. Either way, for the rest of you who have signed up, at that point either Sunday or Monday I will get this started. ;)