The Zombie
New Member
I am The Zombie, but you can call me Zombie, Jere, "hey, you," or whatever else you like. Just don't call me early, that's when I sleep. I've been lurking for a few days reading information and skimming RPs with every intention of joining when I had time to type out a coherent introduction thread, but one RP really caught my attentiom today and I decided to go ahead and join the site in the hopes that the owner/creator (whatever the correct term is) will allow me to take part.
Now for some actual details. Brace yourself; this might be a long one...
As for the man behind the curtain: no clue if my birthday shows on my account as I haven't fiddled with preferances yet, but I am in my mid-twenties, I have a daughter who means the world to me, and I have a full time job that I hate. Though, at this point I should classify it as an over-time-or-no-time job. I have a rather extensive list of hobbies, but the main ones can be summed up as gaming, music, and the written word.
In gaming I enjoy both tabletop board, card, and dice games and video games. On the table I will try anything you put in front of me, but I really enjoy games that pit the players as a team against the board like Arkham Horror and Pandemic. I've also been getting into Netrunner lately. On the screen I will play pretty much anything except sports or rhythm/dance games. I am primarily a conaole peaset (sorry, just prefer the relative simplicity), but I will occasionally sneak into the PC camp to play RTS. There is just too much going on during a Zerg Rush to consider a controller an acceptable input.
I honestly am just in love with music. I will give any genre a try, and my collection looks like it's shared by a dozen people or more. The only genres I can't seem to get into are J Pop and K Pop. They're just too "bubblegum" for me. Lest you think I am simply a consumer I also play guitar, bass, and piano. I am hoping to also learn viola or cello, but those will have to wait until I can afford lessons with one of the few instructors in my area that loan out student instruments. I can't afford to buy one of those without knowing if I will actually be able to play them.
Written word is much simpler; I enjoy reading and writing. Which leads me to the part you all actually want to hear about; RP experience.
I have been RPing since my sophmore year of high school. Mostly by-post, but I have done some by-email as well. I have done various fandoms, fantasy, modern/realistic (including one crime noire type thing that was a lot of fun), future/sci-fi, and one that..well, I suspect the creator was under the influence of some seriously mind altering stuff when he came up with the concept. I haven't written for an RP in about a year, however, as I got a bit burnt out being stuck in single setting forums all the time, which is a big part of what drew me to RpN; the variety.
As for preferances;
I don't really have a preferred genre, but fantasy and sci-fi (especially post apocalypse and cyberpunk) catch my interest the easiest.
I prefer RPs with more detailed posting. I am a "wall of text" writer if given enough things to react to. In fact one of my favorite people to RP with and I have a running joke about the two of is secretly competing for post/reply length. She currently holds the record at just over four pages in a Word document (granted, we do know one another well enough to be comfortable puppeteering one anothers characters a bit). That said, I am fine with shorter post lengths, so long as I am given something to react to.
I also only write hetero or non-sexual male characters. I have tried my hand at writing other genders and sexualities, but I didn't feel like I wrote them believably, so now I leave those characters to people who can write them well.
Now, I apologize if this was longwinded or seemed disorganized and scatterbrained; I wrote much of it between handling my various duties at work (night shift). Anyway, glad to be here, looking forward to writing with you, and thanks for reading.
Now for some actual details. Brace yourself; this might be a long one...
As for the man behind the curtain: no clue if my birthday shows on my account as I haven't fiddled with preferances yet, but I am in my mid-twenties, I have a daughter who means the world to me, and I have a full time job that I hate. Though, at this point I should classify it as an over-time-or-no-time job. I have a rather extensive list of hobbies, but the main ones can be summed up as gaming, music, and the written word.
In gaming I enjoy both tabletop board, card, and dice games and video games. On the table I will try anything you put in front of me, but I really enjoy games that pit the players as a team against the board like Arkham Horror and Pandemic. I've also been getting into Netrunner lately. On the screen I will play pretty much anything except sports or rhythm/dance games. I am primarily a conaole peaset (sorry, just prefer the relative simplicity), but I will occasionally sneak into the PC camp to play RTS. There is just too much going on during a Zerg Rush to consider a controller an acceptable input.
I honestly am just in love with music. I will give any genre a try, and my collection looks like it's shared by a dozen people or more. The only genres I can't seem to get into are J Pop and K Pop. They're just too "bubblegum" for me. Lest you think I am simply a consumer I also play guitar, bass, and piano. I am hoping to also learn viola or cello, but those will have to wait until I can afford lessons with one of the few instructors in my area that loan out student instruments. I can't afford to buy one of those without knowing if I will actually be able to play them.
Written word is much simpler; I enjoy reading and writing. Which leads me to the part you all actually want to hear about; RP experience.
I have been RPing since my sophmore year of high school. Mostly by-post, but I have done some by-email as well. I have done various fandoms, fantasy, modern/realistic (including one crime noire type thing that was a lot of fun), future/sci-fi, and one that..well, I suspect the creator was under the influence of some seriously mind altering stuff when he came up with the concept. I haven't written for an RP in about a year, however, as I got a bit burnt out being stuck in single setting forums all the time, which is a big part of what drew me to RpN; the variety.
As for preferances;
I don't really have a preferred genre, but fantasy and sci-fi (especially post apocalypse and cyberpunk) catch my interest the easiest.
I prefer RPs with more detailed posting. I am a "wall of text" writer if given enough things to react to. In fact one of my favorite people to RP with and I have a running joke about the two of is secretly competing for post/reply length. She currently holds the record at just over four pages in a Word document (granted, we do know one another well enough to be comfortable puppeteering one anothers characters a bit). That said, I am fine with shorter post lengths, so long as I am given something to react to.
I also only write hetero or non-sexual male characters. I have tried my hand at writing other genders and sexualities, but I didn't feel like I wrote them believably, so now I leave those characters to people who can write them well.
Now, I apologize if this was longwinded or seemed disorganized and scatterbrained; I wrote much of it between handling my various duties at work (night shift). Anyway, glad to be here, looking forward to writing with you, and thanks for reading.
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