Welcome to the City of Metropolis

[®onnie ®ude]

Note: I'm pretty sick atm, so despite how excited I am about this, I'm still having trouble typing out my true enthusiasm, but I made a promise to get this up today!

Now Announcing...

"A Role-playing experience like no other..."

The Project of Metropolis

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After being away from the site and modding, I realized a lot was missing in a lot of mods' roleplays. With all due respect, I took some time to sit back and attempt to compile the best way, at least imo, to run and maintain a consistent Gantz role-playing experience.

Because at first, I was just a regular roleplayer just looking for a Project that mirrored how gantz was. I have yet to see that, and perhaps its impossible, but I hope to get as close as possible to that goal w/ this Project.

Besides that, modding is fun!

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Project Metropolis vs Project Eastern

Project Metropolis is what I'd like to call "one hell of a manifestation from its past predecessor", Project Eastern, but only to the the smallest extent. In no way will either be so similar that role-players can already know what to expect. I'm merely taking the great aspects of Eastern and building on them.

Project Eastern was my first real Main Project. Unfortunately, it had a plot that was completely erratic, and was thought up as the missions came and went. I'm pretty sure people would hear me shout on the c-box, "oh shit...next mission is going to be raw"; I literally would just think up a mission and a plot at the spur of the moment. Most of the time it was hit or miss, but a lot the time there were endless loose ends and plot holes scattered all about because of this. That alone annoyed the hell out of me and it makes me come to terms w/ the fact that Eastern's demise was inevitable.

I must admit though, that Eastern was in fact one of my greatest accomplishments on here and I always wondered what would happen if it were continued. Some even wanted it to continue, but its far too late now.

However, why not just start over from the beginning, change the setting, refurbish the characters, add in some new characters and tell it in an entirely different way?

But, who wants to read the same old shit?

No one.

This is why I'm taking the liberty of making sure that majority of the recycled aspects of Eastern are just a minor case of Deja Vu in Project Metropolis. Bad guys in Eastern may no longer be your foes and the same can now be said about past allies; a lot of roles have been changed and expanded. Missions of the past have now been expanded and explored deeper with even more different types of aliens and bullshit for the gantz team to be put through.

To call it Project Eastern's sequel or even anything close to it would be far from the truth. Think of it as starting anew...just forget everything.

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What to expect from Project Metropolis

Some may already know how I mod from Eastern, but allow me to reintroduce the way that I mod. I'm a big advocate on realism and character development. So yes, I kill characters, but other then that I strive to include everyone's characters and I try my best to be as fair as possible when it comes to all my decisions as mod. Sometimes its just your characters time to die. So if you die just make a new character and hop in next mission; its Gantz, get used to it.

If you talk to my NPCs they WILL talk back! Hell, they might even react to you looking at them or just being around them! Everything you do effects my Project in some way shape or form and no plot is set in stone. I wouldn't even be surprised if one of my npcs wished your character back if you left a big enough impression on them.

I'm not saying rping in my Project is easy, but nether is it anything too hard. I'm just saying if enjoy rping your character and don't mind focusing on character development, you'll have so much damn fun in my Project!

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Original Project Eastern Character Revival

Lets say you had a character you were using in Project Eastern. Whether dead or alive, they'll be usable in Project Metropolis. The only catch is that they MUST be an original character and not a "self insertion" character. An example of this would be Dane using his character "Dane" or Jpimpin using his character "Justin". Project Metropolis is all about originality...no self insertion characters will be permitted.

If you have a character that you would like revived, PM me about it and I will dig up your character and allow u to upgrade them to the new template.

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^New! Gantz LOG Side-Hunts

The worst thing of all is having a mission only to slow down and dick around in LOG. I will now be allowing Gantzers to participate in Side Hunts where a target will be available to kill for each log. Points will be awarded for successful Side-Hunts.

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^New! Password Protected Controller Briefings & Map

I've also decided to try something new w/ controllers this time around. If a role-player's gantzer has a controller, only they will be able to see where aliens are on my map as well as the personal messages that Gantz sends about the mission. To make sure only those in possession of a controller can see this, a board will be made and will be password protected.

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^New! Immerse Yourself in an Entirely Interactive LOG

I for one hate it when I participate in a log that only revolves around what the main plot is about or what my previous action was. Expect to be able to interact w/ anything and everything on the LOG map w/o having me to introduce it or tell you that it exists!

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^New! Entirely Mapped LOG

As you can see this is just a beta, but all this entire area (in much closer detail) will be accessible w/ no restrictions other then transportation!

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Hunter Templates


In order to participate in this Project you will need to use these new templates.



Project: Must be set as "Metropolis Project"!!!

Name: <last name>, ''<nickname>'', first name

Age:

Gender: M/F

Sexual Preference: M/F or both?

Race (Nationality): Race is very important!!!

Height: in feet

Weight: in lbs

Hair Color:

Eye Color:

Language(s):

Career: Is your character employed?

If so, Answer the Following:

• What is your character's profession?
  
  
• Does your character get paid well? Why?
  
  
• Does your character like their job? Why?
  
  
• Does your character like their boss? Why?
  
  
• How long has your character been employed?
  
  
• Does your character work in the City, a Farm, a tourist Island or the Suburbs?
  

Education: Is your character currently enrolled in school?

If so, Answer the Following:

• Does your character attend school in the city or the suburbs?
  
  
• Does your character like school? Why?
  
  
• Does your character pay attention in class? Explain why or why not.
  
  
• Does your character get good grades?
  
  
• Does your character have a romantic relationship w/ any of their peers? If you have person in mind state and describe them as well.
  
  
• Does your character do any extra curricular activities? Describe them.
  
  
• Is your character popular? Why?
  
  
• Is your character considered a bully? Why?
  

Inventory: What is your character in possession of when they enter Gantz? Also, how are they holding or storing all their possessions?

One Strength: Your character may only have one strength, but may also specify any qualities that derive from it.

Remember to Answer all that apply:

• How does this strength effect your character physically?
  
  
• How does this strength effect your character mentally?
  
  
• In what way would this benefit others working alongside your character?
  
  
• In what way would this NOT benefit others working alongside your character?
  

One Weakness: Your character may only have one weakness, but may also specify any qualities that derive from it.

Remember to Answer all that apply:

• How does this weakness effect your character physically?
  
  
• How does this weakness effect your character mentally?
  
  
• In what way would this benefit others working alongside your character?
  
  
• In what way would this NOT benefit others working alongside your character?
  

Appearance: What does your character look like when they arrive in the room and what are they wearing?

Remember to Answer all that apply:

• Does your character have a preferred style of dress? Describe it.
  
  
• Does your character appear intimidating, average or preferably approachable at first glance? Describe how so.
  
  
• Is your character attractive, average or ugly? Describe how so.
  

Personality: Describe your character's personality.

Remember to Answer all that apply:

• Is your character shy or are they outgoing?
  
  
• Is your character a leader, a follower or a balance of the two?
  

Background: Give a brief description of your character's background.

Answer the Following:

• What brings your character to the City of Metropolis? How did they arrive in the city?
  
  
• Does your character live with parents, guardians, a husband/wife/kids, a roommate/friend or by themselves.
  
  
• Does your character live in the city, on a farm, in the wilderness, or in the suburbs?
  
  
• Has your character ever gone to jail? What did they do?
  
  
• Does your character have a warrant for their arrest? What did they do?
  
  
• Would you like your character to be a member of a gang? In what type of gang?
  
  
• Has your character ever killed anyone? Elaborate.
  
  
• Has your character ever witnessed death? Elaborate.
  
  
• Does your character have experience w/ melee combat of any kind? Elaborate.
  
  
• Does your character have experience w/ any firearms? Elaborate.
  
  
• Does your character have experience w/ driving a vehicle? Elaborate.
  

Cause of Death: Describe how you'd 'like' your character to be killed in LOG. This will always be subject to change. However, this does not always apply to those who choose not to participate in LOG.

Death in Gantz: to be filled by the mod

Note: Optional, but important information about your character goes here.

Note: Same post restrictions apply for animals and vampires.

Animal Templates


Project: Must be set as "Metropolis Project"!!!

Name: <last name>, ''<nickname>'', first name

Age:

Gender: M/F

Sexual Preference: M/F or both?

Race: (race and species are separated here, for animals, Race would refer to the type of breed, for example a beagle or great Dane for dogs would go under race, this is not applicable to all animal types)

Species:

Height: in feet

Weight: in lbs

Hair Color:

Eye Color:

Language(s):

Career: If possible, how does your animal make a living?

Free or Enslaved: Does your animal live free or has it been captured and put to use by humans?

Remember to Answer all that apply:

• Does your animal like its master/owner? Why?
  
  
• Does your animal's owner treat it well? Elaborate.
  
  
• Does your animal wish to be free? Why?
  

Inventory: What is your animal in possession of when they enter Gantz? Also, how are they holding or storing all their possessions?

One Strength: Your animal may only have one strength, but may also specify any qualities that derive from it.

Remember to Answer all that apply:

• How does this strength effect your animal physically?
  
  
• How does this strength effect your animal mentally?
  
  
• In what way would this benefit others working alongside your animal?
  
  
• In what way would this NOT benefit others working alongside your animal?
  

One Weakness: Your animal may only have one weakness, but may also specify any qualities that derive from it.

Remember to Answer all that apply:

• How does this weakness effect your animal physically?
  
  
• How does this weakness effect your animal mentally?
  
  
• In what way would this benefit others working alongside your animal?
  
  
• In what way would this NOT benefit others working alongside your animal?
  

Animal Perks: Copy and paste the perks that your animal species obtains from here

Animal Disadvantages: Copy and paste the disadvantages that your animal species obtains from here

Appearance: What does your animal look like when it arrives in the room?

Remember to Answer all that apply:

• Does your animal appear intimidating, average or preferably approachable at first glance? Describe how so.
  
  
• Is your animal cute, average or mangy looking? Describe how so.
  

Personality:Describe your character's personality.

Remember to Answer all that apply:

• Is your animal shy or does it like everyone?
  
  
• Does your animal trust humans? Why or Why not?
  
  
• Does your animal dislike or distance itself from a particular type of animal? Why?
  
  
• Does your animal travel alone, in packs or a balance of the two? Why?
  

Background:Give a brief description of your character's background.

Answer the Following:

• What brings your animal to the City of Metropolis? How did they arrive in the city?
  
  
• Does your character live with a family, a owner, a zoo, a circus or are they homeless?
  
  
• Does your animal live in the city, on a farm, in the wilderness, or in the suburbs?
  
  
• Would you like your animal to be a member of a gang? In what type of gang?
  
  
• Has your animal ever killed anyone? Elaborate.
  
  
• Has your animal ever witnessed death? Elaborate.
  
  
• Has your animal ever had to defend itself? Why?
  

Cause of Death: Describe how you'd 'like' your animal to be killed in LOG. This will always be subject to change. However, this does not always apply to those who choose not to participate in LOG.

Death in Gantz: to be filled by the mod

Note: Optional, but important information about your animal goes here.







Vampire Templates


Project: Must be set as "Metropolis Project"!!!

Name: <last name>, ''<nickname>'', first name

Age:

Gender: M/F

Sexual Preference: M/F or both?

Race (Nationality): Race is very important!!!

Height: in feet

Weight: in lbs

Hair Color:

Eye Color:

Language(s):

Career: Is your vampire employed?

If so, Answer the Following:

• What is your vampire's profession?
  
  
• Does your vampire get paid well? Why?
  
  
• Does your vampire like their job? Why?
  
  
• Does your vampire like their boss? Why?
  
  
• How long has your vampire been employed?
  
  
• Does your vampire work in the City, a Farm, a tourist Island or the Suburbs?
  

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Education: Is your vampire currently enrolled in school?

If so, Answer the Following:

• Does your vampire attend school in the city or the suburbs?
  
  
• Does your vampire like school? Why?
  
  
• Does your vampire pay attention in class? Explain why or why not.
  
  
• Does your vampire get good grades?
  
  
• Does your vampire have a romantic relationship w/ any of their peers? If you have person in mind state and describe them as well.
  
  
• Does your vampire do any extra curricular activities? Describe them.
  
  
• Is your vampire popular? Why?
  
  
• Is your vampire considered a bully? Why?
  

Inventory: What is your vampire in possession of when they enter Gantz? Also, how are they holding or storing all their possessions?

One Strength: Your vampire may only have one strength, but may also specify any qualities that derive from it.

Remember to Answer all that apply:

• How does this strength effect your vampire physically?
  
  
• How does this strength effect your vampire mentally?
  
  
• In what way would this benefit others working alongside your vampire?
  
  
• In what way would this NOT benefit others working alongside your vampire?
  

One Weakness: Your vampire may only have one weakness, but may also specify any qualities that derive from it.

Remember to Answer all that apply:

• How does this weakness effect your vampire physically?
  
  
• How does this weakness effect your vampire mentally?
  
  
• In what way would this benefit others working alongside your vampire?
  
  
• In what way would this NOT benefit others working alongside your vampire?
  

Appearance: What does your vampire look like when they arrive in the room and what are they wearing?

Remember to Answer all that apply:

• Does your vampire have a preferred style of dress? Describe it.
  
  
• Does your vampire appear intimidating, average or preferably approachable at first glance? Describe how so.
  
  
• Is your vampire attractive, average or ugly? Describe how so.
  
  
• Does your vampire look like a vampire at first glance?
  

Personality: Describe your vampire's personality.

Remember to Answer all that apply:

• Is your vampire soft spoken or are they outgoing?
  
  
• Is your vampire a leader, a follower or a balance of the two?
  

Background: Give a brief description of your vampire's background.

Answer the Following:

• What brings your vampire to the City of Metropolis? How did they arrive in the city?
  
  
• Does your vampire live with parents, guardians, a husband/wife/kids, a roommate/friend, other vampires or by themselves?
  
  
• Does your vampire live in the city, on a farm, in the wilderness, or in the suburbs?
  
  
• Has your vampire ever gone to jail? What did they do?
  
  
• Does your vampire have a warrant for their arrest? What did they do?
  
  
• Would you like your vampire to be a member of a gang? In what type of gang?
  
  
• Has your vampire ever killed anyone? Elaborate.
  
  
• Has your vampire ever witnessed death? Elaborate.
  
  
• Does your vampire have experience w/ melee combat of any kind? Elaborate.
  
  
• Does your vampire have experience w/ any firearms? Elaborate.
  
  
• Does your vampire have experience w/ driving a vehicle? Elaborate.
  
  
• How did they become a vampire?
  
  
• What is your vampire's disposition toward other vampires? Why?
  

How vampire arrived in Gantz: This will always be subject to change. However, suggestions are always allowed.

Death in Gantz: to be filled by the mod

Note: Optional, but important information about your vampire goes here.

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That's it?

Fuck nah, why would I tell you guys EVERYTHING?!? You''l just have to sign up and see for yourself...

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Phew, that was a lot of typing...I'm not entirely sure when this is going to be ready to start, but for now I guess you can start making your characters. In the worst case scenario will be starting 1-2 weeks from now.

[Benry]

everything seems great to me ronnie but there's something bothering me. Why the hell arent u using the OFFICIAL hunter templates? I mean, what's the point in those if every mod creates his own personalized hunter templates? Kbell did it and now you are doing it. Don't get me wrong, i am not saying this template is horrible or whatever, on the contrary, it offers more detail to a character than the one we use ever will but it just bothers me that we have a template which everybody should use but two of our admins seem to forget about those in the first place...

[XenoD]

I like the Template, it allows me to get everything out.
Plus I'm the first one to submit his character, yes!

[Virtuoso]

@ben-Ben: Unless I'm mistaken, and that may very well be the case, those "official" templates are only the basest of guides for making characters. Some mods will be able to work with only the information given in these templates, but others, such as KBell and Ronnie, take their projects in completely different directions, and may require a little more info so that characters can be developed and everything goes along a little more realistically. Then again, I may be totally wrong. Who knows?.........well, probably Ronnie.

and @ronnie: YAAAAAYYYYYYYYY!!!!! I'm really excited about this, man. Hope it's as epic as your making it out to be. Eh, who am I kidding? Of course it will be!

[Dane]

lol, thanks for using me as an example

[®onnie ®ude]

Sept 27, 2008 9:30:44 GMT -5 Benry said:

everything seems great to me ronnie but there's something bothering me. Why the hell arent u using the OFFICIAL hunter templates? I mean, what's the point in those if every mod creates his own personalized hunter templates? Kbell did it and now you are doing it. Don't get me wrong, i am not saying this template is horrible or whatever, on the contrary, it offers more detail to a character than the one we use ever will but it just bothers me that we have a template which everybody should use but two of our admins seem to forget about those in the first place...

Personalized...you say? Did I rename them as Citizen Templates? No, the template modification was NOT made as a way to personalize anything and IMO that just sounds stupid for anyone to do; it would be a major waste of time for me or anyone else who tried.

I'm offended and I'm confused as to why what I'm doing could possibly put a cloud in your blue sky. Besides, its impossible for me to forget about something I helped create and Luke pretty much said all that there was to say about my reasons behind it. While your Project and others may only require a certain amount of character information (not that there's anything wrong w/ that), my Project requires that and so much more. So, you'll have to excuse me for wanting RPers to work harder on their character templates so they can have more fun in the long run.

However, before you begin to accuse anyone of "forgetting about anything", understand that no mod is required to mod with an "official" style; I assume you are aware of this. All we ask is that you follow the mod rules, the gantz mechanics and inform us when your planning on altering or breaking any "official" rules in those categories.

Furthermore, to bring Kbell into this is completely ludicrous, because Alpha Project has a role-play style based on a perks and flaw system; its no where near being as simplified as our regular rping style. Different templates are needed for RP's based on different Modding & Role-playing styles.

So, may I ask a question in return? How are different templates for RP's based on different Modding & Roleplaying styles something to be bothered about especially when you are allowed to mod w/ a style of your own?

[Benry]

Sept 28, 2008 2:28:47 GMT -5 ®onnie ®ude said:

Sept 27, 2008 9:30:44 GMT -5 Benry said:

everything seems great to me ronnie but there's something bothering me. Why the hell arent u using the OFFICIAL hunter templates? I mean, what's the point in those if every mod creates his own personalized hunter templates? Kbell did it and now you are doing it. Don't get me wrong, i am not saying this template is horrible or whatever, on the contrary, it offers more detail to a character than the one we use ever will but it just bothers me that we have a template which everybody should use but two of our admins seem to forget about those in the first place...

Personalized...you say? Did I rename them as Citizen Templates? No, the template modification was NOT made as a way to personalize anything and IMO that just sounds stupid for anyone to do; it would be a major waste of time for me or anyone else who tried.

I'm offended and I'm confused as to why what I'm doing could possibly put a cloud in your blue sky. Besides, its impossible for me to forget about something I helped create and Luke pretty much said all that there was to say about my reasons behind it. While your Project and others may only require a certain amount of character information (not that there's anything wrong w/ that), my Project requires that and so much more. So, you'll have to excuse me for wanting RPers to work harder on their character templates so they can have more fun in the long run.

However, before you begin to accuse anyone of "forgetting about anything", understand that no mod is required to mod with an "official" style; I assume you are aware of this. All we ask is that you follow the mod rules, the gantz mechanics and inform us when your planning on altering or breaking any "official" rules in those categories.

Furthermore, to bring Kbell into this is completely ludicrous, because Alpha Project has a role-play style based on a perks and flaw system; its no where near being as simplified as our regular rping style. Different templates are needed for RP's based on different Modding & Role-playing styles.

So, may I ask a question in return? How are different templates for RP's based on different Modding & Roleplaying styles something to be bothered about especially when you are allowed to mod w/ a style of your own?

All i was trying to say was that it seemed pointless for me that in "Create a Hunter" section there is a sticky on the Human Hunter Template if every mod is allowed to make his own template. I am in no way saying that this template is not good, like i said this is way better than the sticky one. It's just something minor man, no need to get offended.

[®onnie ®ude]

lol, there's no need to quote me if your posting right below.

Now if a new template is necessary for your project by all means make one. Its not a topic of whether or not mod's are personalizing templates, because they shouldn't; its only necessary to alter a template when additional information on your character is needed.

I also plan to make modifications to the create a character section so that Project Alpha, Project Metropolis and all others are more "choose which Project you want to participate in" friendly. I'll do this by making a sticky including any Projects that have a different template and a link to those templates. Then I'll proceed to make it so that if a rper posts a character in your project's sub-board, they'll want to participate in your project, but if they post on the main create a character board and put Main Projects in their template they'll be up for grabs by any mod.

[®onnie ®ude]

I hate to say this, but some modifications have been made to the templates to ensure that they can be answered in question/answer & question/paragraph format, the font in them can be easily carried over from the original template into ur own and questions can be more elaborated on. To be more specific I really didn't like that a few questions asked "have you ever used a gun?" and your answer would merely be "yes". I want to know about that experience and know whether or not to consider it note-worthy.

You can find each template here.

If you already made a template I will PM you (or post on your template) informing you whether or not you need to modify your template. I will also tell you whatever needs to be modified.

I also forgot to inform you all that your template will also determine where your character will live. A character w/o a good paying job will not be able to live in the city, instead they will live in the suburbs. What you post in your template will be judged by me and I will then inform you of where you will be allowed to live.

This isn't meant to belittle anyone's characters, instead I think it adds way more realism...