The Floating World

Welcome to the floating Isle. We are a skype/forum-based roleplaying group that aims to combine the arts of character-profiling and world-building to form a unique rp specifically tailored to our character's (and, subsequently, our player's) imaginations. The world of Ithaca will start as more or less a generic fantasy land, but as it is explored it will start to bloom into a rich landscape molded from your character's thoughts, fears, memories, and ideals. As a player, you control one of the young adults who find themselves snatched from their mundane world and dropped into the land of Ithaca. They will have no memory of their lives on Earth, only the false memories of a fantasy land stitched together by an unseen force. As they go along, and memories of their forgotten lives begin to bubble to the surface, they will either grow to loathe or love the subtle manipulation at play within the world around them. {Inspired by Final Fantasy Tactics Advance and A2}

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is this thing still going...?

Yes, it is! Anyone who’s interested in joining is still welcome to. We’re in the later stages of world building to fit everyone’s character, so we haven’t done much official canon roleplaying yet, and it won’t be hard for people to get up to speed. Currently our group chat is very active and all of our lovely members are keen on playing IC and OOC games, as well as writing AUs to practice their characterization.

We have very few character slots available (particularly very few males left) but we are willing to work with you still to give you the writing experience that you desire!

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IMPORTANT: Recently it's come to our attention that apps are not always coming through. To those of you who have submitted a question/app, if we receive it then we will always respond to it, even if it's an app that we choose to deny. If we haven't contacted you even though you've tried to reach us, please shoot an ask our way to let us know there was an issue.

We're very sorry for any inconvenience this might have caused, and we hope to hear from you again!

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Hello everyone, Ayli again! All of our character bios are officially completed, and the taken page has been updated for those of our members who have chosen who they want to play. All other characters are available for the pickins, so come look over the new bios and apply for one before someone else claims your favorite!

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Hey there everyone, mod Ayli speaking! I know you've been on the edge of your seats waiting for us to start rolling acceptance and, luckily, we've finally received a sufficient amount of apps to start this bad boy up. We'll be sending out acceptance/denial notices shortly, so you'll only have to wait a tad bit longer. Applications will not be posted to the blog, since we find that it's more efficient to contact everyone directly in this case.

This also means that from now on - for all of you lurking about - we'll be responding to apps almost as soon as they come in. So don't be shy, come check us out!

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Hey, I'd just like to give a big thank-you to Tabitha over at kahlanamnellrph for giving up some really helpful tips and tricks for our blog. She's a real sweetheart, so check her out if you get the time!

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Can I just say that i absolutely love the fact that there's all these Final Fantasy gifs being used for this? Cause I do, and I love that and I think it's amazingly adorable and it's just. asdfjkl; <3

Aww, geeze, you’re making me blush! We’re glad you like the gifs; final fantasy has been our inspiration from day one of this RP, so when we were looking for promo material it just seemed right. I spend erryday looking for new, enticing pictures of Cloud wearing his signature vaguely bored expression for the ads, so keep on the lookout!

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Are the admins alright with non-hetero characters? Do you mind if we make a character's appearance different in Ithaca than what they looked like in the real world?

Oh god yes. First of all, all our members are required to respect their fellow member’s characters and all that jazz. We will have no narrow-minded ruckus. That is not an acceptable form of ruckus, obvs. Second of all, your character wouldn’t be the first non-hetero character. That distinction goes to my co-mod Ayli’s character Jinhai. You can see his profile in the taken page, btw. We were going to put his orientation somewhere in his profile, but decided not to as it wasn’t really something we thought particularly defined him. 

As for your next question, absolutely yes. I mean, to a degree it’s expected. There are absolutely no limits as to how physically different your character can be from their “real” self. Hair color, body shape, height, weight, sex, etc. Not to say that it’s mandatory to change any of those, but I mean this is your character’s IDEAL body. If they want the face of Beyoncé and the body of Venus Williams, sure why not. We can dig it.

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I've only ever RPd via forums and 1x1/maybe up to 3 people via IM systems. The amount of people that this potentially includes is a little daunting to me; how friendly is the environment for someone who may need to take things slow when it comes to including more than a small handful? The setting really intrigues me but I also fear I don't fully comprehend how the openness of the world will be controlled from getting too "extreme" for lack of a better word on mind, care to expound? :)

   Sky here! The short answer is very friendly. The long answer is that I think both Ayli and I are aware that skype rps are a relatively rare breed in the world of tumblrping, and because of that we’ve been prepared from the beginning to help people transition into this format.  To be honest, while there is tremendous potential for like a metric dickton of people (rough estimate there, don’t quote me) I don’t think it will balloon much past ten or so quality, dedicated role players. That’s the goal.

   As for managing the setting, it depends on what you mean by extreme; as far as the size of the world, that will be controlled by your friendly, neighborhood omnipresent impartial mod-god gming several different “instances” or settings your character can chose to be located in. Kind of like a dungeonmaster, if I were to go full-nerd here. We’ll sort of manipulate the environment to keep certain people travelling in quasi-groups though so we don’t have to mess with like twenty-some instances at a time. As for keeping the concepts behind the setting from getting to extreme, well that’s really more relying on us mods to be arbiters of good taste. Ah, those examples are both a little non-specific, but I hope they answer your question. Please ask again if you’re still curious!

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Howdy doodly neighborinos, 

   This is your prodigal mod Sky speaking. It's Monday and I do indeed have my internet back; big thank-you to Rob the repair guy, big fuck-you to Time Warner Cable. (You know what you did.) Anyway, now that I'm here I'd like to express my gratitude to all of you who have checked out the blog in my absence. I assure you that your mods are trying hard to roll out cool features, improve on our pages, and other things that will subtly entice you to drop an app our way. Wink wink, nudge nudge and all that. As for those who have already applied, I assure you that your applications have not been ignored. We've just decided that, to save it from being like two people awkwardly bouncing around a skype chat with us mods, we will wait to accept applications until there is a minimum of five. We're not that far away, so we don't believe it will be too terribly long. In the meantime, please keep sending in your applications! Ayli and I can't wait to start roleplaying with all of you.

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Are you guys accepting apps...? Just curious because you're a new group :)

We are, indeed! We already have one member aside from the mods, and another app currently in review. Unfortunately, my co-admin has lost internet until Monday and I’m hesitant to accept or decline any members without her go-ahead. But we are still open for business, so don’t shy away from sending your apps in before then.

- Ayli

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☾ A HIGH FANTASY, PSYCHOLOGY-INFLUENCED SKYPE RP ☽

    What would you give up to have a perfect life? How about everything. Unfortunately, you were never given that choice. Stolen from your home, your family, your companions. You’ve lost everything you’ve ever known, and the worst part is this; you’ll never know it. Welcome to the floating isle, where dreams and delusions thrive. 

   Welcome to the floating isle, we’re a group rp that aims to mix fantasy settings and intense world building with psychological profiling of our characters to build a fantasy world subtly controlled by their imagination, fears, and memories. As the characters mature, so does the world; collecting lore and characteristics akin to it’s creators. 

   As a player, your goal is to create one of the souls plunged into this fantastic world. Although initially they will not remember their mundane lives in the real world, instead replacing those recollections with what they once would have considered “an ideal life,” as memories of their previous existence start to bubble to the surface, they will either grow to love or loathe the constant manipulation at play in the dreamlike paradise they’ve been trapped in.

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