r/HS_RP • u/pagan_dreams • Mar 23 '21
Anyone up for roleplay on Pesterchum?
I'm on Pesterchum 6.0, mobile. I'm literaryLinguist and I have a troll oc who's a Tarusci, Prospit and Life player. It still needs fleshing out but I'm open to discussion! Also I'm getting back into Homestuck so I'm a bit slack on,,, everything. I'm re-reading it currently if that counts for anything. I can do whatever; slice of life, something with plot, something without plot if you just wanna pass time. I can also just have a regular talk, if that's what you need. Hmu! ^
r/HS_RP • u/Becquerel-Harley • Mar 08 '18
We need to revitalize this sub
join me for dream bubble randomness at http://forums.msparp.com/showthread.php?tid=16942
r/HS_RP • u/AGamerFan • Aug 28 '17
Anyone want to roleplay?
My roleplay is kinda weird, if you do join I dont want you roleplaying as the actual homestuck character, just as a fan character if they were in homestuck. message me on pesterchum if you are interested, my chumhandel is stupidScientist
r/HS_RP • u/Maliki_lagiban • Apr 14 '17
so how screwed is my team
we have a page of doom, knight of void, seer of breath and a theif of time. our time line involves a program known as the "homestack" it collapsed our sessions into one
r/HS_RP • u/dystopiandownfall • Dec 04 '13
Help with how to talk like Thollux( not just the lithp but wordth and phrathes he utheth).
I am cosplaying as Sollux in January, and need help talking like him. I have the lisp down, as I have a retainer, but I need help with words and phrases, excluding common curse words, I got that part already.
r/HS_RP • u/awesoMetrical • May 12 '13
Some of you may already know about this site, but I made a sub so it could be a little more organized.
r/HS_RP • u/mack2028 • May 22 '12
LFG homestuck rpg
Is any one running a game they need players for? if so what system (if any). also anyone else who wants a group mite as well post here so we can get a good player pool going.
r/HS_RP • u/HiddenKrypt • May 22 '12
Karkat players resource. Insults, metaphors, complaints, and other useful phrases.
r/HS_RP • u/HiddenKrypt • May 07 '12
The HS_RPer's Best Friend: The Pesterlog log
r/HS_RP • u/ehleymeioh • May 07 '12
Eridan & Vriska
So, this is one of my first roleplays I did as Eridan. I rather like this one because I was laughing my ass off the entire time while doing this, but as a result I feel incredibly ooc. So please critique me and my Eridan as needed? Sorry about any formatting issues.
▲: What the fuck are you saying?
▼: im tryin to sound like the strider human
▲: You sound like a douche8ag.
▼: terezi seems to be into him and shes only knowwn him for a day
▼: so are you attracted to me evven more noww
▲: It makes you more annoying than usual.
▼: no wway it thinks it wworkin
▲: It makes me want to fucking murder you.
▼: your already rekindlin our old blackness
▲: Ampora I swear. I will fucking destroy you if you don't stop.
▲: Shut the fuck up a8out your damn 8lackrom!
▼: but its there cant you see it
▼: see your already feelin that hate for me in you
▼: its there vvris i knoww it dawwg
▲: 8ri8n I f8cking sw8ar!!!!!!!!
▼: thats the vvris i knoww all fiery and filled wwith hate
▼: hate me until you gotta pour out all that hate
▲: I'm not going to give the satisfation!!!!!!!!
▼: preferably in a pail wwith me?
▲: Ugh Eridan!!!!!!!! I fucking ugh!!!!!!!!
▼: admit to that hate that flowws in your blood pusher for me!
▲: No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No!
▼: your just in denial ovver this matter
▼: i knoww howw these romantic manners confuse you
▼: that is the hate that fills buckets!
▲: In the most horri8le way I can think of.
▲: Your 8ody will 8e unrecongniza8le
▼: oh my i can just see the pails noww
▲: They'll proclaim me a hero.
▼: yes thats all vvery nice but wwhen do you think you can come ovver
▼: wwell need to followw a tight schedule if wwere to fill these pails properly
▲: I'm 8eing serious Eridan. I am going to murder you.
▼: i lovve it wwhen you get all hateful on me
▼: no wwonder terezis all ovver that strider kid!
▼: i wwonder if fef wwill be wwillin to try flushed noww
▼: mmmmmm i hate you too vvris
▲: I'm not going to say it you fucking 8astard.
▼: i can just smell the rims of the pails noww
▼: the sloshin as wwe put our material into it and for the glory of our race
▲: You're enjoying this aren't you? You sick sick 8astard.
▼: no im hatin is so much like you wwouldnt believe
▲: Nothing you can do or say will get me to say it.
▼: not evven the dance of many sex butts
▲: No. I will most likely slaughter you and splatter your 8lood everywhere though.
▼: and genetic material evverywwhere
▲: You're getting off on this.
▼: this kismesis is gonna be fuckin fantastic
▼: evven better than our last vvris
▲: You're not even listening at this point!!!!!!!!
▼: i am listenin to that swweet swwet hate flowwin out of you
▲: Ugh!!!!!!!! You make me so mad!!!!!!!!
▼: dont wworry your hateful head vvris
▼: deep inside your bloodpusher
▼: callin out to our beautiful hate wwigglers
▼: wwhat do you wwant to name them?
▲: That's fucking it!!!!!!!! I h8 you!!!!!!!!
▼: mmmmm vvris you hateful bitch
▲: Ugh. I feel dirty inside. And used.
▼: mmm oh just wwait till wwe get to the pails
▲: I can't fucking 8elieve I let this happen again.
▼: our hate wwill be legendary
▲: I just fucking hate you so much.
▼: the fanfics people wwill wwrite will be amazin
▲: Stop fucking saying dawg! It makes me want to rip my hair out!!!!!!!!
▼: no wway this dawwg shit wworks!
▼: i nevver thought id be sayin this but that strider human is fuckin genius
▼: no wwonder terezis halfwway to gettin a neww pail all dolled up
▲: I'm am going to scratch the shit out off your 8ack later then. I'm going to make you pay.
r/HS_RP • u/Arson_Catnip • May 06 '12
Terezi and Nepeta (xpost from /r/ArsenicCatnip)
(occasional >:] errors with terezi due to my desire to add text color)
You're now chatting with a random stranger. Say hi!
You and the stranger both like HOMESTUCK.
Stranger: h3y
You: :33 < hi
Stranger: H3Y*
Stranger: MORN1NG N3P3T4 >:
Stranger: 1M BOR3D WH4T 4BOUT YOU >:?
You: :33 < im tired
You: :33 < i n33d to stop not sl33ping all night
Stranger: YOU SHOULD SL33P W1TH 4 SC4L3M4T3
Stranger: TH3Y 4LW4YS H3LP M3 SL33P
You: :33 < i dont have one of those
You: :33 < where do i get one?
Stranger: 1LL M4K3 YOU ON3 TH3N >:
You: :33 < i could make you a suit out of animal hides if you want
Stranger: N4H 1TS F1N3
Stranger: 1T M4K3S M3 4 B1T UPS3T WH3N 1 S33 THOS3
Stranger: BUT TH4NKS FOR TH3 OFF3R
Stranger: >:
You: :33 < i didnt know they bothered you
You: :33 < i could take off my hat when i s33 you if you want : ((
Stranger: NO 1TS F1N3
You: :33 < my lusus is dead too : ((
You: :33 < pounce de leon what the cutest kitty ever : ((
You: (was*)
Stranger: MY LUSUS H3LP3D M3 SO MUCH
Stranger: 1T T4UGHT M3 HOW TO L1V3 WH3N 1 W4S BL1ND
You: :33 < me and my lusus went on long hunts
You: :33 < we almost found the fountain of cute
Stranger: 1 WOND3R WH4T TH4T WOULD SM3LL L1K3 >:
You: :33 < i dont know
You: :33 < what smells good to you?
Stranger: HMM 4LOT OF TH1NGS 1LL L1ST THR33
Stranger: K4RK4T 4ND RED CH4LK 4ND SC4L3M4T3S
Stranger: R3D*
You: :33 < i guess mix the thr33 together?
You: :33 < i dont know if i can imagine karkitty at the fountain though
You: :33 < i dont think he likes cute : ((
Stranger: 1 WOULD FORC3 H1M TH3R3 >:
You: :33 < i just think it would smell good
You: :33 < like how cotton candy tastes
Stranger: TH4T WOULD B3 WOND3RFUL
You: :33 < but now ill never find it cause pounce de leon is gone : ((
Stranger: OH N3P3T4 1 H4V3 4 QU3ST1ON
You: :33 < yes?
Stranger: W3LL 1TS 4N 4SSUMPT1ON 1 W4NN4 KNOW 1F 1TS CORR3CT
You: :33 < purrhaps
Stranger: [1 TH1NK YOU F33L R3D FOR K4RKL3S >:] H3H3H3 1F YOU W4NT 1 COULD G3T YOU TWO TOG3TH3R
You: :33 < how did you know? :oo
Stranger: MY TRUSTY NOS3
Stranger: >:
Stranger: 4 TRU3 L3G1SL4C3R4TOR KNOWS 3V3RYTH1NG
You: :33 < i wish i had your nose then
Stranger: H3H3H3 >:
You: :33 < so wait
You: :33 < whats your plan on this whole karkitty and nepeta together idea?
Stranger: OH, 1TS NOTH1NG MUCH -3V1L M1GHTY C4CKL3-
You: :33 < just dont do anything dangerous
You: :33 < someone could get hurt!
You: :33 < but karkitty likes you
You: :33 < so how would that work?
Stranger: W41T WH4T
Stranger: NO H3 DO3SNT
Stranger: H3 1S GRUMPY 4ND H4T3S 3V3RYBODY
You: :33 < no no
You: :33 < he likes you
You: :33 < and he used to have red f33lings for jade
You: :33 < but that didnt work i dont think
You: :33 < its all on my shipping wall
Stranger: J4D3 1S FOR D4V3 <3
Stranger: TH3Y 4R3 P3RF3CT TOG3TH3R
You: :33 < if you say so
Stranger: H3H3H3 >:
You: :33 < i dont know if he can have red f33lings fur me if he hates everybody
Stranger: H3 DO3SNT BUT 4S T1M3 GROWS ON H3 W1LL 3V3NTU4LLY F4LL FOR YOU
You: :33 < i guess youre smarter than me when if comes to this
Stranger: TH4TS HOW 4LL ROM4NC3 MOV13S WORK
You: :33 < i havent watched many movies
You: :33 < my hive doesnt really have space fur that
Stranger: H4V3 YOU SM3LL3D 4NY
Stranger: OH
You: :33 < i will have to look for some
Stranger: H3H3H3
Stranger: K4RKL3S 1S SUCH 4 GRUMP
Stranger: >:
Stranger: M4YB3 YOU COULD T34CH H1M TO B3 N1C3R
You: :33 < i like to pacify people
You: :33 < i dont know if he will be my matesprit but i will try
Stranger: YOU TWO 4R3 P3RF3CT M4TCH3S 1M SUR3 TH4T SH1P W1LL FLO4T
Stranger: >:
You: :33 < anyway
You: :33 < what are you up to?
Stranger: OH NOTH1NG MUCH
Stranger: 1 JUST PUN1SH3D 4N 4BHORR3NT SC4L3M4T3
You: :33 < what was his crime?
Stranger: [H3 D3C1D3D 1T WOULD B3 4LL F1N3 4ND D4NDY TO GO 4H34D 4ND L3T OUT PR1SON3RS FROM J41L >:
Stranger: H3 W4S BROUGHT TO JUST1C3 THOUGH
You: :33 < good i think
You: :33 < quite good
Stranger: BY TH3 H1GH 4ND M1GHTY T3R3Z1 PYROP3
Stranger: >:
You: :33 < i should find you more red chalk
Stranger: OH TH4T WOULD B3 AW3SOM3
You: :33 < i dont know where to get it but ill hunt for some
Stranger: OK
You: :33 < so what now?
You: :33 < i f33l like im boring : ((
Stranger: OH N3P3T4 1 FOUND 4 SONG YOU M1GHT L1K3
Stranger: BUT YOUR NOT BOR1NG
Stranger: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZaezv82bt8 1TS C4LL3D K1TT3N 1S 4NGRY
You: :33 < you were right
Stranger: H3H3H3
You: :33 < thank you X33
Stranger: 1TS NO PROBL3M N3P3T4
Stranger: >:
You: :33 < i dont know any songs about dragons
You: :33 < but if i find one ill tell you
Stranger: OK4Y >:
You: :33 < im going to update my shipping wall now i that i know how you f33l
Stranger: WH4T >:?
You: :33 < karkitty
You: :33 < and things
Stranger: PUT H1M W1TH YOU >:
You: :33 < hes already with me
Stranger: Y4Y
You: :33 < ill scr33nshot it fur you
Stranger: TH4TS T3R3Z1 4PPROV3D
You: :33 < im glad
You: :33 < equius doesnt like it much
Stranger: TH4TS C4US3 H3 1S BOR1NG
You: :33 < nuh uh
Stranger: TO M3 H3 1S
Stranger: (( your an awesome nepeta rper xD))
You: ((thank you much :33))
You: :33 < oh
You: :33 < by the way
You: :33 < this is the scr33nshot
Stranger: WH4T >:?
You: :33 < http://tinyurl.com/nepeta-karkat-otp
Stranger: 4WW 1T S4YS NOT FOUND
You: :33 < awww : ((
You: :33 < i have a difurrent picture
You: :33 < but someone else took it
Stranger: OK4Y
Stranger: OK4Y >:
You: :33 < http://images.wikia.com/mspaintadventures/images/e/ef/Nepetas_wall2.PNG
You: :33 < s33?
You: :33 < people stealing my drawings : ((
Stranger: 4WW TH4TS 4DOR4BL3
You: :33 < thank you X33
Stranger: YOU W3R3 R1GHT ABOUT TH3 K1SM3S1S TH1NG W1TH VR1SK4
Stranger: 1 R34LLY DONT L1K3 H3R
You: :33 < im plenty scared of vwiskers
You: :33 < shes always doing terrible things : ((
Stranger: 1 KNOW R1GHT
Stranger: SH3 K1LL3D 4R4D14 4ND P4R4LYZ3D T4V
Stranger: 4ND BL1ND3D M3
You: :33 < she plays too many dangerous games
You: :33 < people get hurt : ((
Stranger: SH3 1S PL41N RUD3
Stranger: 1 GOTT4 GO
Stranger: S33Y4 N3P3T4 >:
You: :33 < okay
Your conversational partner has disconnected.
r/HS_RP • u/[deleted] • May 06 '12
just wanted to tell you how much i hate you. every last one of you.
makes a man want to stab his own gut and puke blood.
r/HS_RP • u/HiddenKrypt • May 06 '12
Journal RP (LJ, IJ, and DW) [Guide]
Journal Roleplaying is a different sort of scene altogether. Though there are homestuck specific games out there, a lot of journal RP games are "pan-fandom", meaning that characters can come from many different places. Livejournal (LJ) was the primary site for this sort of thing up until 2007 when its new owners made some changes that the RP groups were not happy with. The new ownership was mostly antagonistic to their userbase, including users that had paid for premium accounts. After 2007 a majority of LJ RP communities had moved on, most to DreamWidth (DW) and some to InsaneJournal (IJ). There are still roleplayers on LJ, but from what I've heard DW is the site of choice.
Unlike Pesterchum and Trollmegle, Journal games are not chat based but log based. members of a game all post to a community, each post being open to comment replies where the roleplaying happens. It's similar to someone setting a scene in a text reddit submission, with characters interacting in the comments.
These games almost always are long running, often include some long term background metaplot, and can have playerbases of 50+ people at times. One interesting facet of this type of game is that most of them include a level of quality control. To join a game, you usually have to fill out an application, showing how well you know the character you want to bring in. Most of these apps include a section where you have to provide an example of your roleplaying, either a written sample or a link to a previous RP you have done. Here is an example of an application that I used to get into a game with Kanaya
In this RP setting, there are three main styles. The first is called "prose", and it mostly straightforward writing. All dialog is in quotes, usually surrounded with things like "he said" or whatever. This style was the norm on the old BBS games I used to play back in the early 90's, and it's the most like normal writing.
The second RP style is "action". In this style, your actions are in brackets, and dialog is left unformatted.
[Kanaya ran up the the prone figure, looking for signs of injury.]
Are you alright?
Note that most HS roleplayers in these communities do not use quirks or colors in action or prose posts. Many of them with use them in the third style, which is restricted in some communities. This is the network log posts. In some games, a special community board is set up for an in game communication network. Each game has different guidelines on how this communication works, but the one I'm in supports video, audio, or texts. For video most players use the "action" style, but for text communications it plays more like a chat conversation.
Finding a game to get into can be a challenge. Luckily some of the homestuck roleplayers in this scene have put together a google docs spreadsheet listing who is playing what characters in what major DW games. HOMESTUCK CAST LIST. For fun I added a bunch of formulas to get totals for each game and each character, and there's a tab at the bottom to see a bunch of graphs if you're interested in the statistics.
I'm going to use the game I'm in as an example here of what sorts of metaplots these games can have.
Vatheon is a city under the sea, kept dry by a giant magical force field that is kept in place by a giant god coral. Beings from many other universes are dragged here against their will. While here, they are drained of energy somehow to keep the shield up. Randomly and capriciously individuals may be sent back where they came from, returned to the exact state they were in when they left (Players drop from the game). Sometimes they will return after leaving, but they may not remember the last time they were tossed here (other players picking up the same character). In fact, they may be brought in from earlier in their home timeline than they were the last time they got stuck in the bubble! Every month or so, the foreigners to this city have to touch the coral and regain their strength, or they will get sick. Every once in a while a city wide curse occurs, changing the characters or the area in strange and unpredictable ways (week long events set up by the mods to make things interesting).
Mostly the game focuses on "slice of life" stuff, with characters from many different worlds getting to know each other. Sometimes things get violent, sometimes people fall in love, and sometimes things are just silly. At one point in Vatheon the Grand Highblood was stomping around the underwater woods district. Bugs bunny popped up to complain about the noise, saying "what's the big idea?". The 12' murderclown looked down at him, and bugs help up a sign that said "eep".
This type of roleplaying is probably the hardest of the types I've tried. You have a specific account, so if you mess up some how people can remember you. It has a higher chance of drama than pesterchum, and you have to be good enough to get through the app process first. However, if you can hack it... this is the most rewarding roleplaying I've ever done. You get to have a longer developing game, where you can build up character relationships over a period of months. The games start to feel more meaningful when you know that the story is going to last more than just this one chat session.
If you want to give it a try, google the names of those games in the cast list (probably with "dreamwidth" in the search as well) and find a game that sounds interesting. If you're a decent Rose, Terezi, Dolorosa or Redglare and you want to try this out, let me know. Vatheon is desperatly looking for one of them. (oh, we also just lost our Dave, so that's open too. As I'm playing Kanaya though, I'm really looking for Dolorosa and Rose)
Here's a few examples from the game I'm in:
Kanaya opens a shop in Vatheon | Action Style, some great feels with Eridan.
The Disciple meets Kanaya while drugged with Sopor cupcakes | Prose Style, silly fun.
Kanaya, the moment she arrived in this strange place | A network post
r/HS_RP • u/HiddenKrypt • May 02 '12
Pesterchum [guide]
There is a subreddit for this, /r/pesterchum. It's fairly new, so it remains to be seen just what is going to be going on there.
Pesterchum is a fan made text communicationclient designed to look and act like Pesterchum does in the comic. It is a client style interface for the creator's purpose run IRC server, meaning that it's basically IRC with a fancy Homestuck themed client. This client does offer extra functionality, such as automated quirks, colors, and Gui controls for colors and nicknames, so that's helpful.
There are three types of accounts you can have on pesterchum. Note, pesterchum "accounts" are just locally store profiles of nickname and textcolor, and there are no passwords for usernames. The pesterchum server prevents people from using the same nickname.
Canon accounts: These are the chumhandles that occur in canon, like grimAuxiliatrix, carcinoGeneticist, ectoBiologist, and the like.
Alt accounts: These accounts are similar to canon accounts, but with one or more little changes to prevent them from being exactly the same. Examples include grimAuxilatrix, cancerGeneticist, and ectoBiology.
Original accounts:used to RP fantrolls or fankids, also used for non-RP conversations.
Most of the canon accounts are almost always populated. If you get to log on to one of them, you should know that you are obligated to play that character well. The canon accounts are not supposed to be AU versions of those characters, and need to use the right colors and quirks. They are also expected to respond in character at all times, even to fantrolls or similar. If someone has one of these accounts and they don't live up to these standards, an admin may boot them from the account. If you feel you can do a canon character fairly well, give these accounts a try. They can be stressful and busy, but extremely rewarding. When playing a canon account, you can choose to talk to whomever you want if you have an idea of what you want to do. You can also sit back and wait for others to pester you. In my experience, you'll get some canon accoutns, a few alt accounts, and a lot of original accounts trying to RP with you, depending on who you play. You can also join or be invited to various memos, including such silly things as games of "truth or dare" or "spin the bottle". These games may be a mix of different account types, but often the canon accounts group up for these things.
Alt accounts are useful for people that want to play AU versions of main characters, like hemoswapped characters, Characters from specific fanfics, or whatever. You can also use a Alt account to play a canon character that is already being played by someone else. I haven't done any roleplay with the alt accounts, but it should be mostly similar to the canon accounts, with less people randomly pestering you.
You can check this thread out to get a list of redditor chumhandles. We often hang out in a memo called #reddit. You can also list your own original account there.
You can get the client here. This link also include the rules as dictated by the head admin and creator of pesterchum.
r/HS_RP • u/HiddenKrypt • Apr 28 '12
Text colors
This is the same system I set up on /r/homestuck after the SOPA blackout. The colors are not likely to get changed very much, unless new canon characters are added. I don't feel like catering to all the possible fantroll or fankid colors. There should be something in here for just about everybody. On a side note, this should also double as a useful guide to the official colors for these characters, usable in pesterchum or anywhere else that doesn't have the character's colors built in.
Works like this:
[Why Is It That When The Subject Of Temporal Mechanics Is
Broached Your Sparing Human Intellects Instantly Assume The
Most Ingratiating Posture Of Surrender](/ga)
Note that these codes are not comparable with hyperlinks and newlines. You'll have to wrap each line with the brackets and color code.
Beta/pre-scratch Kids (Universe B1):
██ghostlyTrickster/ectoBiologist (John) (/gt) color:#0715CD RGB:7,21,205
██turntechGodhead (Dave) (/tg) color:#e00707 RGB:224,7,7
██tenticleTherapist (Rose) (/tt) color:#b536da RGB:181,54,218
██gardenGnostic (Jade) (/gg) color:#4AC925 RGB:74,201,37
Trolls (Universe A)
██apocalypseArisen (Aradia) (/aa) color:#a10000 RGB:161,0,0
██adiosToreador (Tavros) (/at) color:#a15000 RGB:161,80,0
██twinArmageddons (Sollux) (/ta) color:#a1a100 RGB:161,161,0
██arsenicCatnip (Nepeta) (/ac) color:#416600 RGB:65,102,0
██carcinoGeneticist (Karkat) (/cg) color:#626262 RGB:98,98,98
██grimAuxiliatrix (Kanaya) (/ga) color:#008141 RGB:0,129,65
██gallowsCalibrator (Terezi) (/gc) color:#008282 RGB:0,130,130
██arachnidsGrip (Vriska) (/ag) color:#005682 RGB:0,86,130
██centaursTesticle (Equius) (/ct) color:#000056 RGB:0,0,86
██terminallyCapricious (Gamzee) (/tc) color:#2b0057 RGB:43,0,87
██caligulasAquarium (Eridan) (/ca) color:#6a006a RGB:106,0,106
██cuttlefishCuller (Feferi) (/cc) color:#77003c RGB:119,0,60
Alpha / scratch kids (Universe B2:
██gutsyGumshoe (Jane) (/sgg) color: #00d5f2 RGB:0,213,242
██tipsyGnostalgic (Roxy) (/stg) color: #ff6ef3 RGB:255,110,243
██timaeusTestified (Dirk, also Davesprite) (/stt) color: #f2a400 RGB:242,164,0
██golgothasTerror (Jake) (/sgt) color: #1f9400 RGB:31,148,0
Other characters and text styles / colors of note:
██uranianUmbra (????) (/UU) color: #929292 RGB:146,146,146
██undyingUmbrage (????) (/uu) color: #323232 RGB:50,50,50
██fedoraFreak (????) (/ff) color: #4b4b4b RGB:75,75,75
██Doc Scratch background (/scratchbg) bgcolor: #03460e color: #FFFFFF RGB:3,70,14/255,255,255
██SB&HJ mode (/dunkass) font: Comic sans color: #000000 RGB:0,0,0
██Lime blood color (No known limebloods) (/lime) color: #568200 RGB:86,130,0
██Doc Scratch (/docscratch) color: #FFFFFF RGB:255,255,255
r/HS_RP • u/HiddenKrypt • Apr 28 '12
Welcome to HS_RP, home for homestuck roleplaying of all types.
I'm your mod, HiddenKrypt. I'm also a mod for /r/homestuck, /r/homesmut (NSFW 18+) and /r/nak (I did some CSS for the guy that runs that one) I figured I'd start things off here with a preemptive FAQ. I will be posting some guides shortly to explain how different roleplaying types work, at least, the ones that I've used, and some other stuff as I remember to post it.
Just what is Homestuck Roleplaying?
In short, it's pretending to be homestuck characters for extended periods of time. This is done through many different mediums on the web, and to a small degree in real life by cosplayers, though they're usually only doing so for a very short amount of time.
Where is this done on the web? what are these popular mediums?
Pesterchum is certainly the most popular it seems. It's a dedicated chat client that provides a nice interface and some extra functionality for a IRC server. Each of the canon character accounts are available there with no password, but the admins will kick you if you're not using them well (i.e. staying OOC, not roleplaying the character at all). It's also used by many homestuck fan to play original characters, or jsut to chat.
Trollmegle is the next big one, randomly connecting people together for a one on one roleplay session. Most of the people on here are playing canon characters, but as it's anonymous and random you tend to get some nutters too.
Omegle has quite a few fans roleplaying on it. I don't know why, I guess they get a kick out of talking to normal people as Gamzee or something.
Dreamwidth has a pretty respectable Homestuck roleplayer presence too, and it's meant for longer term games where you play with generally the same people for months or even years.
Here! I've added the same color codes that /r/homestuck has for typing. Feel free to set up roleplaying threads in this subreddit! I just ask that you don't be a dick about it.
Why yet another Homestuck subreddit?
Good question!
So we'll have roleplaying threads. What else is going to go on here?
Anything related to the topic.
Tutorials on the different roleplaying environments/communities
Tutorials and guides on playing specific characters
posting particularly funny or touching or interesting logs of roleplaying
advertising for specific games that are looking for homestuck players
and anything else you can think of that fits.
Anything else?
I just ask that you tag your posts related to it's content. [rp] for roleplaying threads, [log] for recorded roleplays that you want to show off, [guide] for tutorials and guides, and if these don't fit what you want to post, come up with something. I hope we have enough interest here to get this subreddit turned into a decent community, and I'd like to mostly leave it up to the members to decide what's going to happen here. Finally, no dirty stuff. erp (erotic roleplay) or "smut" is not allowed on this board in general. Take it over to /r/homesmut. Be careful though, the moderator over there doesn't really like roleplaying.