Faction Before Blood
My people skills are rusty...
Do you like the Beatles? Then you can't be friends with someone who likes The Rolling Stones. Do you have an iPhone? Then you can't be friends with someone who has an Android phone. Mac or PC? Republican or Democrat? DC Comics or Marvel Comics? Come on—you can only choose one.
Okay, that's not true: you can enjoy both the Beatles and the Stones; you can be a Republican and still be friends with a Democrat (or even a third-party voter); and you should like both DC and Marvel Comics. But imagine a world where you could only choose one and that one choice would dictate the rest of your life. Your friends, your job, your hairstyle—all of those would be set after you made that one choice.
If you have trouble imagining that world, no biggie: Veronica Roth has imagined it for us in her 2011 book, Divergent. And yours truly am reinventing it. In post-apocalyptic Chicago, everyone belongs to one faction, which you choose when you turn 16. Each of the five factions is dedicated to one ideal, which basically decides everything about its members' lives.
So when everyone turns 16 they have to choose to join either self-denying Abnegation, brave Dauntless, knowledgeable Erudite, truthful Candor, or friendly Amity. While each of everyone's May have grown up in an Abnegation, Eruidite or other family, we all choose to join Dauntless. But joining Dauntless is a lot harder than it seems. You not only have to fight the other applicants—you gotta fight your own fears.
Divergent is Veronica Roth's first book, which may make you feel better or worse about your own accomplishments when you learn that it was published when she was only 22-years-old. It's the first book in a series, with Insurgent (2012) and Allegiant (2013) as numbers 2 and 3. So if you're hooked on Divergent, Roth will be keeping you busy with awesome books for years to come. (YOU GO GIRL!)
WHY SHOULD YOU CARE?
Before you dismiss this book as simply another The Hunger Games ("look, teens are fighting in both") or as a retread of Harry Potter ("look, the factions are just like the different houses in Hogwarts"), let's admit the truth: yes, there are similarities. But Shakespeare stole all of his plots from history books and other plays, and he was still pretty good at that writing thing. So let's not write off Divergent as yet another teen dystopia just yet. It's got more to give.
For one thing, everything you character will be going through, you're probably facing, too. It's just this version may be a little more extreme. For example, maybe you have to decide whom to sit with in the cafeteria and whom to hang out with—which is pretty much what you character will go through when they have to decide what faction to join, except that choice is for life, whereas where you only need to make it through a lunch period. Or maybe you're dealing with the complex feelings of being a friend but being in competition with someone (hello, SATs). Your character will know what that's like, too, since they have to compete with their friends to get into Dauntless. So in a way, this may look like an extreme version of what you're going through already if you're now around 16. (Though, hopefully, your school doesn't require people to jump off trains. xD )
But Divergent isn't just about fitting in and making friends at school or in a faction. When you choose which faction you want to belong to, you're making a choice about what kind of person you want to be (brave, please say brave). Do you want to be truthful or brave or smart or generous or nice? That's kind of an awful question—who says you can't be all of those things?—but it's the kind of question that people ask themselves every day. Long after you graduate from school, you'll be presented with a situation where you'll have to ask yourself: should I be nice or truthful? ("Yes, that dress looks good on you" or "You look as big as a house, so try again.") Brave or smart? Generous or selfish?
It only looks like you answer this question once, but in fact, you keep answering this question all the time with what you do. This is why you'll see adults commuting to big fancy office jobs reading this book on the train. (But, again, hopefully not jumping off that train!). So really the big question is this: what sort of person do you want to be (please say Dauntless, please say Dauntless)? Maybe you start answering that question when you're a young adult reading a young adult book, but you'll keep answering it throughout your life.
First thing's first, I am looking for a good handful of people who:
Are in or near the time zone UCT-5 (east coast America)
Have decent grammar (I don't mind mistakes, I just want to be able to read what you write)
Are reasonably active (I understand everyone has a life outside of RPN) and can give heads up as to when you won't be on for awhile
Now let's get down to the nitty gritty, shall we?
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Erudite Teacher: One hundred years ago, after the war, our founders created a system they believed would prevent future conflict and create lasting peace. Today's aptitude testing, based on your personality, will assign you to one of the factions. While it is our belief that choosing the faction indicated by your test is the best way to ensure success within the faction system, it is your right tomorrow, at the choosing ceremony, to choose any of the five factions regardless of your test results. However, once the choice has been made, there will be no change permitted.
***
Welcome to Dauntless!
People, people! Listen up! Initiates! Now that I have your- shut your trap!- ahem... Now that I have everyone's attention, welcome to your new home. You have chosen to join the warrior faction, tasked with the defense of this city and all of its inhabitants. We believe in ordinary acts of bravery and the courage that drives one person to stand up for another. Respect that. Do us proud.
Mechanics
Complete Your Initiation
Score points for your completion of fighting tournaments, knife throwing, target shooting and for showing ordinary acts of bravery
Move up the Ranks
Stay ahead or go live with the factionless. At the end of each round, those who have not reached the right amount of points to progress will be eliminated from the Rp/ will have to join the factioless thread(perhaps even join the Evelyn's Factionless resistance force? Which can be started in this rp if everyone is interested. Ranks will be posted in my signature and updated after all dice have been rolled for a specific event.
Win at all Costs
Pm the Gm(me) if you feel as if you need to attack another player. Perhaps you want to take down the guy or gal at the top of the leaderboard? But be careful, they will fight back if you don't fight hard enough.
Create your Own Initiate
Design your own character with his or her own strengths and weakness. Were they dauntless born? or maybe they're transferring stiffs?
Fair and Just
There No Special Snowflakes in Dauntless! Events such as knife throwing will be decided by the throw of a dice; this will help keep things 'clean.' Rankings will also be determined by the dice you roll for skills or survival.
Eliminate the Divergent
Some new players will be Pm-ed about this status at the start of the rp. As you may expect, this status makes you Divergent, allowing you to do a whole array of suspicious stuff, such as expressing traits from multiple factions, being able to resist serums etc. THERE IS A CATCH, HOWEVER! If your fellow Dauntless suspect your Divergence, you are in for a whole heap of trouble. Your fellow Initiates can: report you to a supervisor(puts you at risk of being removed from Dauntless and sent to the factionless), kill, maim or otherwise humiliate you into leaving the compound, reveal your status to the rest of the Dauntless(The corrupt Dauntless are welcome to lynch you). The number of divergent characters will be determined by a dice role.
What is Divergence?
In this world you are supposed to be one of five things; smart, brave, selfless, kind, or honest. But when you are divergent you can be more than one; smart and brave, kind and honest, or even selfless, brave and smart. If you get chosen to be divergent, that is. And who gets chosen is completely random
APPROVED CHARACTERS
(By faction of origin)
Abnegation
Amity
@Zed - Michael Pierce
@Blackrose7 - Alice Knight
Candor
@viska - Satu Ammada
Dauntless
@Orihara - June Saunders
Erudite
@Bazmund - Rickard Holborn
Character sheet:
Birth name
Chosen name
Faction of origin
Personality
Appearance
Other important information
Fears
*number of fears will be determined by one role of a 15 faced dice,
then come back and YOU make up the fears that equal the number rolled*
Okay, that's not true: you can enjoy both the Beatles and the Stones; you can be a Republican and still be friends with a Democrat (or even a third-party voter); and you should like both DC and Marvel Comics. But imagine a world where you could only choose one and that one choice would dictate the rest of your life. Your friends, your job, your hairstyle—all of those would be set after you made that one choice.
If you have trouble imagining that world, no biggie: Veronica Roth has imagined it for us in her 2011 book, Divergent. And yours truly am reinventing it. In post-apocalyptic Chicago, everyone belongs to one faction, which you choose when you turn 16. Each of the five factions is dedicated to one ideal, which basically decides everything about its members' lives.
So when everyone turns 16 they have to choose to join either self-denying Abnegation, brave Dauntless, knowledgeable Erudite, truthful Candor, or friendly Amity. While each of everyone's May have grown up in an Abnegation, Eruidite or other family, we all choose to join Dauntless. But joining Dauntless is a lot harder than it seems. You not only have to fight the other applicants—you gotta fight your own fears.
Divergent is Veronica Roth's first book, which may make you feel better or worse about your own accomplishments when you learn that it was published when she was only 22-years-old. It's the first book in a series, with Insurgent (2012) and Allegiant (2013) as numbers 2 and 3. So if you're hooked on Divergent, Roth will be keeping you busy with awesome books for years to come. (YOU GO GIRL!)
WHY SHOULD YOU CARE?
Before you dismiss this book as simply another The Hunger Games ("look, teens are fighting in both") or as a retread of Harry Potter ("look, the factions are just like the different houses in Hogwarts"), let's admit the truth: yes, there are similarities. But Shakespeare stole all of his plots from history books and other plays, and he was still pretty good at that writing thing. So let's not write off Divergent as yet another teen dystopia just yet. It's got more to give.
For one thing, everything you character will be going through, you're probably facing, too. It's just this version may be a little more extreme. For example, maybe you have to decide whom to sit with in the cafeteria and whom to hang out with—which is pretty much what you character will go through when they have to decide what faction to join, except that choice is for life, whereas where you only need to make it through a lunch period. Or maybe you're dealing with the complex feelings of being a friend but being in competition with someone (hello, SATs). Your character will know what that's like, too, since they have to compete with their friends to get into Dauntless. So in a way, this may look like an extreme version of what you're going through already if you're now around 16. (Though, hopefully, your school doesn't require people to jump off trains. xD )
But Divergent isn't just about fitting in and making friends at school or in a faction. When you choose which faction you want to belong to, you're making a choice about what kind of person you want to be (brave, please say brave). Do you want to be truthful or brave or smart or generous or nice? That's kind of an awful question—who says you can't be all of those things?—but it's the kind of question that people ask themselves every day. Long after you graduate from school, you'll be presented with a situation where you'll have to ask yourself: should I be nice or truthful? ("Yes, that dress looks good on you" or "You look as big as a house, so try again.") Brave or smart? Generous or selfish?
It only looks like you answer this question once, but in fact, you keep answering this question all the time with what you do. This is why you'll see adults commuting to big fancy office jobs reading this book on the train. (But, again, hopefully not jumping off that train!). So really the big question is this: what sort of person do you want to be (please say Dauntless, please say Dauntless)? Maybe you start answering that question when you're a young adult reading a young adult book, but you'll keep answering it throughout your life.
First thing's first, I am looking for a good handful of people who:
Are in or near the time zone UCT-5 (east coast America)
Have decent grammar (I don't mind mistakes, I just want to be able to read what you write)
Are reasonably active (I understand everyone has a life outside of RPN) and can give heads up as to when you won't be on for awhile
Now let's get down to the nitty gritty, shall we?
***
Erudite Teacher: One hundred years ago, after the war, our founders created a system they believed would prevent future conflict and create lasting peace. Today's aptitude testing, based on your personality, will assign you to one of the factions. While it is our belief that choosing the faction indicated by your test is the best way to ensure success within the faction system, it is your right tomorrow, at the choosing ceremony, to choose any of the five factions regardless of your test results. However, once the choice has been made, there will be no change permitted.
***
Welcome to Dauntless!
People, people! Listen up! Initiates! Now that I have your- shut your trap!- ahem... Now that I have everyone's attention, welcome to your new home. You have chosen to join the warrior faction, tasked with the defense of this city and all of its inhabitants. We believe in ordinary acts of bravery and the courage that drives one person to stand up for another. Respect that. Do us proud.
Mechanics
Complete Your Initiation
Score points for your completion of fighting tournaments, knife throwing, target shooting and for showing ordinary acts of bravery
Move up the Ranks
Stay ahead or go live with the factionless. At the end of each round, those who have not reached the right amount of points to progress will be eliminated from the Rp/ will have to join the factioless thread(perhaps even join the Evelyn's Factionless resistance force? Which can be started in this rp if everyone is interested. Ranks will be posted in my signature and updated after all dice have been rolled for a specific event.
Win at all Costs
Pm the Gm(me) if you feel as if you need to attack another player. Perhaps you want to take down the guy or gal at the top of the leaderboard? But be careful, they will fight back if you don't fight hard enough.
Create your Own Initiate
Design your own character with his or her own strengths and weakness. Were they dauntless born? or maybe they're transferring stiffs?
Fair and Just
There No Special Snowflakes in Dauntless! Events such as knife throwing will be decided by the throw of a dice; this will help keep things 'clean.' Rankings will also be determined by the dice you roll for skills or survival.
Eliminate the Divergent
Some new players will be Pm-ed about this status at the start of the rp. As you may expect, this status makes you Divergent, allowing you to do a whole array of suspicious stuff, such as expressing traits from multiple factions, being able to resist serums etc. THERE IS A CATCH, HOWEVER! If your fellow Dauntless suspect your Divergence, you are in for a whole heap of trouble. Your fellow Initiates can: report you to a supervisor(puts you at risk of being removed from Dauntless and sent to the factionless), kill, maim or otherwise humiliate you into leaving the compound, reveal your status to the rest of the Dauntless(The corrupt Dauntless are welcome to lynch you). The number of divergent characters will be determined by a dice role.
What is Divergence?
In this world you are supposed to be one of five things; smart, brave, selfless, kind, or honest. But when you are divergent you can be more than one; smart and brave, kind and honest, or even selfless, brave and smart. If you get chosen to be divergent, that is. And who gets chosen is completely random
APPROVED CHARACTERS
(By faction of origin)
Abnegation
Amity
@Zed - Michael Pierce
@Blackrose7 - Alice Knight
Candor
@viska - Satu Ammada
Dauntless
@Orihara - June Saunders
Erudite
@Bazmund - Rickard Holborn
Character sheet:
Birth name
Chosen name
Faction of origin
Personality
Appearance
Other important information
Fears
*number of fears will be determined by one role of a 15 faced dice,
then come back and YOU make up the fears that equal the number rolled*
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This is my first time ever having heard of the series so bare with me here guys haha.
Where do they come from? Who has them? What do they do? Why do we want to kill the people who can resist them? Which brings up another good question:
