Introduction

This competition is a small team role-playing competition. It will take place in a thread of the #rp-lobby chat on the Brotherhood’s Discord server. Each team is responsible for the creation and management of their RP thread; the Voice Staff and Exarch Staff are available to assist with any issues.

Members are encouraged to write multiple posts throughout the event and to engage with the wider story as they see fit. The overarching goal is for the team to attempt to complete the objective given in the prompt below.

Each team will have access to one [IC] and one [OOC] thread for the RP. All RP posts must go in the [IC] thread; coordination and discussion about the RP should take place in the [OOC] thread. Each main or alternative character used by a member of the team should have a snapshot attached to the RP following the instructions in the SA Roleplaying course. Teams are solely responsible for creating and managing their RP thread. Each team should select a single member to create its RP. Note that this event will award Envoy Society progression based on Envoy Marks (but not Golden Envoy Marks).

Sitrep

You and a group of other pilots have just completed a routine mission patrolling Brotherhood space. The shift was a long, quiet, boring one, and you're all looking forward to returning home to get back to... well... whatever it is that your character does for fun. Just as the group is about to split and head their separate ways an alert rings out over your shipboard communications. A group of pirate vessels are attempting to board and hijack a Brotherhood supply ship carrying mission critical data and supplies.

Your group is closest to the scene. The supply ship is holding off the pirates as best it can with their limited weaponry, but if allowed, the pirates will soon overwhelm the ship's defenses and attempt to board. You have been tasked with engaging the pirate vessels and eliminating them or causing them to flee with enough fear instilled within them to never dare return to Brotherhood space. How will you and the ragtag team that has been assembled handle the challenge?

Rubric and Rules

The RP will be graded following the Voice Fiction Rubric.

• Teams must have 3-5 members. They are not required to be from the same Clan.
• Each Team’s RP must be named using the following convention: “Lorefest August RP - [Team Name]” where “Team Name” is a unique name for the team. If we can’t find your RP thread, we can’t grade it!
• For participation credit, members must post a minimum of at least 500 words in their team [IC] RP thread. Members who post less than 500 words total will be disqualified. Posts may be edited as per the Edit Rules below.
• Teams must have at least three members meet the 500 word requirement to be eligible for placement.
• Members may write their alternative characters and NPCs into the RP in addition to their main characters. Snapshots must be provided, and the use of alts/NPCs must comply with all other rules of this competition.
• An author MAY send consecutive messages in order to complete one coherent “post.” Discord messages cannot exceed 2,000 characters, so multiple consecutive messages may be necessary for long posts – plan accordingly, and be sure to write your posts outside of Discord and copy/paste them into the application if you anticipate them being longer than a few hundred words. For reference, this bulleted list of rules is approximately 2,000 characters long.
• Authors anticipating the need for multiple messages can send placeholder messages that they later edit to fill in with sections of their post, to ensure that others do not interrupt a cohesive post.
• Posts may be edited or deleted at any time, but doing so may disrupt the flow of the RP and negatively impact your Team’s score.
• Once the RP is closed and processed by the Exarch staff, only one member of the team needs to submit the RP URL to the competition. It will auto add your teammates.