One of my goals for making this site is to activly recruit for the CRP, the Complete Role Playing League. Trust me, its a lot of fun, and the more members we have, the more fun it is. But the CRP site is a tad sketchy on how to make a character, and many people seem to be confused. So here I will show you all the nice happy steps needed to make yourself a valued and enjoyable member of the CRP. I will use the common method of "Tutorial" to teach you.
Step 1: Create a character.
You've probably already got a PSO char you intend to use. This is fine. But since this is a tutorial, we will create a HUnewarl named...... Aya. She's dressed in a short miniskirt, like all hunewarls, with short, trimmed blonde hair. We've given her a draw handgun +5, and played offline with her until she reaches level 11.
Step 2: Create a backstory.
This is CRITICAL. A good backstory is the difference between somebody memorable to play with, and somebody you change your password to avoid. It provides inspiration and motivation for the character. Some standard ones are: Family/Master was lost on Pioneer 1, independant bounty hunter hired to solve the mystery of Ragol, etc. These can work, if you make sure you develop them. But Aya here shall use her own.
Aya Brea. Age 21.
Occupation: Special Services Officer
Background: Aya is a newly inducted member of the Special Services, a branch
of the Pioneer 2 military devoted to handling things "outside" of
normal police/military duties. I.E. Ritual murders, Terrorists, Hostage Situations,
unexplained dissapearances. She began training at the age of 18, 4 years after
Pioneer 2 left the homeworlds. She became a full officer just two weeks before
the arrival at Ragol, and has now been assigned to invistigate Ragol's surface.
Personality: Aya is subject to violent mood swings, cool and collected one
moment, furious the next. This is due to enhancement drugs she took voluntarily
to increase her capabilities. She shows compassion to those weaker than her,
and gets REAL mad when somebody is threatening the innocent. Basically kind-hearted,
if a little trigger happy. She is nervous about her first mission, and ready
listen to almost any explanation offered as to what caused the explosion. She
trusts the government totally, and would willingly lay down her life for it.
Step 3: Make an introduction post.
Simple enough; Write down your backstory, full or abbreviated, make a post, and throw the story on it. Express your desire to meet with somebody and RP. Somebody will respond, and you can meet. If nobody responds, look for us in Puck 7.
Step 4: Go RPing
This can be handled just about any way you want. It depends on who you meet. I've written an imaginary transcript, its rather lengthy, so it gets its own page.
Step 5:
Develop your story; Aya gradually begins to unravel the mystery of Pioneer 1, all the while going on nice happy side quests and interacting with everybody else.
Does this sound like a lot of work? Maybe it is, I don't know. Anyway, you don't have to do any of it this way. By no means do I run the CRP. And even if I did, I wouldn't turn down anyone for not doing this. We don't turn down people, BTW, or at least not to my knowledge. Once again, in order to avoid the expected hailstorm of flak for this, this is just some advice.