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Current Poll Results

Here’s how things are shaping up! This post will be continuously updated as results roll in. While not set in stone, these are the poll results thus far:

INFORMATION

The community overwhelmingly prefers information to be shared on Tumblr, using links to other sources. A significant amount also showed preference for an informational website! We may go somewhere in the middle— information is posted to Tumblr, but will also be put on a simple website for ease of access and to put everything in one place.

PLATFORM

The vast majority prefer a simple Discord structure, where activity takes place in channels rather than forums. Forums may be used for organizational purposes, like group allegiances because it’s easy to change tags as needed.

AGE LIMIT

The results are quite clear— nearly 70% of votes went towards the server being gated for 18+!

SERVER JOIN PROCESS

In progress!

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Roleplay Preferences- Part 3

How do you like members joining the Discord server to be handled?

It’s impossible to put every nuance possible in here, so these are kind of the broad strokes of types of intakes I’ve seen in the past. The more detailed things, like how auditions/applications would be run, will be in a separate post if that’s the path it seems like we’re taking!

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how many groups are you thinking about having? also completely unrelated but is the staff for this project just one person or do you have a team?

The amount of groups will be up to the community. As we get closer to kickoff of the rp (still a long while away!) we may hammer out a sort of “end goal” in terms of numbers. During RP, the number of groups may shift and change rapidly, and allowing that fluidity is important to development.

Currently, staff is just one person. You may have noticed I occasionally use “we” in some posts, and that was more for posterity’s sake. I don’t intend to run this alone, and as I’m building things up it just feels personally odd to me to refer to things behind the scenes as a singular person since it won’t just be little old me for much longer!

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when making characters for this setting are we writing their back stories and then bringing them in as amnesiacs or are we submitting blank slates (so to speak) ? i'm so curious about this concept!! ty!

This is largely up to the individual. Players may come in with a full backstory, but that’s not required! It’s a difficult thing, erasing memories, so everyone’s experience with the Forgetting will be different. One cat may have no idea where he stands with anyone*. Another may have an overwhelming sense of déjà vu when they’re interacting with certain cat, or some sort of inkling that they were close to another. Some may know their own name, some won’t!

Particularly strong feelings (positive or negative) are more likely to endure past the Forgetting, but this may not always be the case. Former high ranks or other notorious members of the Clans are more likely to have staying power within the collective memory. Cats may “recognize” them as being important or worthy of respect, but may not be sure why. Even so, memories or understanding of Clan ranking and structure does not exist. Functionally, players will be rebuilding their society from scratch, code included.

These memories are not lost forever, though! StarClan is holding on to them. From time to time they may release bits and pieces of memory to individuals— or to the entire community. When a cat dies, any remaining memories that StarClan holds for them is then released to that cat. This usually comes as a bit of a shock, and it isn’t uncommon for newly deceased cats to do little else than wander through StarClan in search of their missing connections.

*an important note- the cats may not start out knowing their relationships with each other, but we do! Characters may not be aware of their family ties and blood relatives, but we will be making sure that no accidental incest or other unsavory relationships occur.

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Hello friends! Apologies for the absence. I’m wrapping up my final year of college so as you can imagine, things are very busy around here!

The good thing is I have had plenty of time to cook things up in the back of my mind. I am hoping to pad things out in the coming weeks. Is there anything about this world you are particularly curious about and would like to hear more on?

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Looks like ‘allow anonymous questions’ was turned off by mistake. It has since been fixed!

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Roleplay Preferences- part 2

A continuation of our roleplay preferences poll. This one has to do with the ages of participants.

If you prefer an rp with a hard age limit AND have a specific age in mind, choose that option! If not, choose the simple hard age limit option.

NOTE: looking at trends in Tumblr’s WCRP space, the community trends older so results will likely appear skewed. The intention is to open this roleplay up to others outside of Tumblr, but gathering information is easiest on this platform without having folks commit to joining a server. Winning poll results are not a guaranteed lock for the roleplay, but help us know what people are looking for!

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Roleplay Preferences - part 1

This is a series of polls to see where people are at in terms of what they may be looking for in a wcrp!

As before, if you have multiple answers, select the one you would be MOST likely to use.

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Just wanted to say that this is so awesome and I’m excited to follow the outcome! I’ve had ideas very similar to this one recently and it makes me happy to see others in the community giving the format a try. Best of luck with this! ^_^

Thank you! I’ve had this idea kicking around for about a year and a half and I was inspired by seeing other rps take a lot of their worldbuilding and structure from community contributions. I’m very excited to see it come to life!

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Information

When looking at roleplay information (rules, character guidelines, allegiances, lore, etc.), what format do you prefer using the most?

If you have a few formats you prefer or like using a combination, pick the one you would use the most often. By nature of running an rp, information will inevitably be spread across multiple of these formats; this poll lets us know which ones to prioritize.

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We have some polls scheduled to be posted in a few hours! Here is a non-exhaustive list of some topics to mull over before then. Polls will be separated by topic; if needbe, multiple polls for one topic may be run as we narrow down options and interests.

• Age requirement of rp participants- OTSOG will be sfw regardless of age limit.

• Platform- forum, Discord, etc.

• Admission style- tryouts, auditions, rolling applications, open entry, and so on

• Setting- climate, environmental hazards, and points of interest

• Relationship with canon (i.e traditional wc vs. specialty ranks, professions, and technology)

Obviously we cannot smoothly incorporate all ideas at once. Poll results will be taken into consideration, but if we feel things are not aligning or adjustments need to be made for the good of the roleplay, we will do so. The goal is for this to be a collaborative effort so folks can be invested and get excited for something they’re building up together, but we will never be able to please everyone! Please keep this in mind.

If you have any questions, ideas, or feedback, feel free to shoot us an ask or DM!

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The mountains are calling… are you prepared to answer?

On The Shoulders Of Giants is an upcoming warrior cats roleplay built from the ground up by the community! Stay tuned for more information and polls to help shape the future of OTSOG.

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Welcome to the blog for On The Shoulders Of Giants!

Set directly after a reckoning from the stars, a large group of feral cats find themselves in an unfamiliar landscape— a massive caldera situated at what was once the peak of a mountain, as if the heavens reached down and carved the earth to their liking. But something is… off. As the cats begin to acclimate to their new home, they realize that none of them have any memory prior to waking up in the caldera. To add to the confusion, even more cats are appearing in the caldera, claiming to have discovered it in their dreams after feeling a tug to its location.

In the wake of this instability, some cats begin to report visions of ghostly cats made from starlight with achingly familiar voices that whisper in their ears, urging them to do one thing: rebuild.

At the moment, here’s what to expect:

• Set directly after the collapse of multiple Clans ravaged by seasons-long war and tensions. Seeing the bloodshed as never-ending, StarClan has dissolved the Clans, wiping every cat of their memory and shaping the land anew in hopes of providing a fresh beginning.

• An environment with a high priority on collaborative storytelling. Members hold an active role in the direction of OTSOG, with the chance to develop their own factions and— eventually— Clans. Every character can have an impact!

• More to be announced. Previous poll results can be seen here!