Hi there everyone and thank you for the welcome.

A little bit about me.  I'm possibly the oldest of us as I turn 45 in a couple of weeks time.  I'm British, live near Maidstone in Kent (SE of London) and work in London, also in advertising.

I've been role-playing for approaching 35 years and I've tried a lot of systems over the years.  I'm a big fan of post-apoc settings and am looking forward to gaming with you all.

Hi Jari welcome to the game.

Welcome!

What kind of advertising work do you do? I'm an account director and develop marketing strategies for consumer packaged goods (mostly).

Everyone welcome Erwin Smythe!  We are now full up and I'm aiming to start tomorrow night so we can get fully underway by the end of Monday.

The game map didn't post with the same zoomed in quality.  Use the download link (I put it on Mega).

Thanks for the welcome.

I work in the media side of advertising.  I used to plan and buy campaigns but I now run an accountability team ensuring that we meet our deal commitments to clients (on a global basis).

Ok, I'm taking a break, I'll be back on in a couple of hours and then I'll focus on answering questions and posting character specific info messages.

Welcome to the game.


I did mention this in a PM but just to let everyone else know I'm away on holiday from Monday to Friday next week.  I hope to have WiFi in the hotel and be able to post in the evenings but I can't guarantee it.  I might therefore disappear for several days.

I will try to get Jari complete by the end of Sunday however.

Thanks.

Maybe a Check In/Check Out thread would be a good idea. I am sure people will be away for various things throughout the duration of the game and it would be good to know if someone is just on hiatus or if they have dropped out.

Welcome Irwin

Thanks all, glad to meet you.

Ok everyone,

I'm taking care of rl stuff today, but I will continue to push out the info pushes.

Given some of the mature themes and language inherent in post-apocalyptic games, what do all of us think about changing the game to Adult?

I was already running on the assumption that it was, so that works for me.

Probably a good idea.

I will send my statement via PM now

I don't have any problem with the rating, but I think you technically have to remove us and have us re request to join with an age statement. Not a big deal but it's a bit of work on your end to turn all of our characters to npcs to save what we've done, then delete us all, then re add us.

That sounds like a hassle.

Can we all just agree that we are OK playing in an adult themed game and those who are not comfortable with that can back out?

Ditto.

No, there are very strict rules.  Each player has to send me the following statement in a PM:

I, <rpol username>, am <your real age> years old, and it is legal for me to view adult content in my current place of residence.

This is a non-negotiable rule which protects rpol.net, so it's a requirement.

I will not change the game type flag until I have statements from all the players, so right now we are still currently operating under rpol's Mature Games Policy as found in the Help section of the site. That means nothing that wouldn't be printed in a mainstream newspaper.

Ah, gotcha.

In reply to Yollie Guevara (msg # 47):

I was in an "Adult" rated rpol game for over a year and the only real difference is graphic sexual descriptions.

And those got annoying after a while.
I've browsed other A rated games since and in my opinion the porn interludes get in the way of actual roleplay. and I don't bother with A rated games here anymore.

We can have some profanity with the M rating, and violence. But love scenes need to "fade to black."
Imply what you like? But we won't be detailing bedroom scenes.

So this is roughly equivalent to a Rated R for violence movie.

Oh, wait, you mean this isn't the right place for me to act out my post-apoc snuff-writing hobby?

DAMNIT.

That's correct.

Apologies, sarcasm doesn't drift through the ether of the Internet well enough sometimes.

Great posts ICly!  I'll be able to respond when I get back from work.