#unfortunaterp

[jacktherph]

from @unfortunate-rp: Please ignore this dreadful inbox message about a horrid roleplay. An Unfortunate Event is in fact a series of unfortunate event which follows the mystery of Sybil Halloway’s very fatal defenestration and the curious case of a missing compass and camera. This is your final warning to delete this message and spare yourself the misery and horror that is about to unfold. —Hi, Jack! May we please have a shoutout? We are a murder mystery roleplay and we need 5 more applications to reopen! Thank you!

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i’ve had the pleasure of not only giving this group a shoutout or two but also giving them a pretty extensive opinion — all of which were good things, i promise!! to see that they’ve revamped and are giving this a second go is an absolute delight and safe to say my thoughts haven’t changed!! the detail and effort put into just the main will blow your mind and how well the admin/s have captured and mimicked lemony snicket is something that must be seen to be believed. if you’re looking for a long-term rp to invest in and enjoy drama, misery, and absolutely terrible, wretched things happening to people who are not absolutely terrible and or wretched in the slightest, look no further!! this isn’t just a shoutout, it’s a rec!!

check them out!! ( 1/10 )

[azianxpersuasionwrites]

AN UNFORTUNATE EVENT RP INCORRECT QUOTES [ 3/ ?? ]

Diana Balotelli + Dutch Balotelli

[aprilrph]

Please ignore this dreadful inbox message about a new roleplay. An Unfortunate Event is in fact a series of unfortunate event which follows the mystery of Sybil Halloway’s very fatal defenestration and the curious case of a missing compass and camera. This is your final warning to delete this message and spare yourself the misery and horror that is about to unfold. —Hi, April! May we please have a shoutout? We are a new murder mystery roleplay and we need 4 more apps to open! Thank you!

sure thing,  sunshine.  shoutout!!

[azianxpersuasionwrites]

AN UNFORTUNATE EVENT RP INCORRECT QUOTES [ 5/ ?? ]

Sage Cohen + Violet Cohen (feat. Ruby Cohen)

[azianxpersuasionwrites]

AN UNFORTUNATE EVENT RP INCORRECT QUOTES [ 2/ ?? ]

Victoria Bradshaw

[azianxpersuasionwrites]

AN UNFORTUNATE EVENT RP INCORRECT QUOTES [ 1/ ?? ]

Adam Seong + Sofia Campos

[jacktherph]

Please ignore this dreadful inbox message about a new roleplay. An Unfortunate Event is in fact a series of unfortunate event which follows the mystery of Sybil Halloway’s very fatal defenestration and the curious case of a missing compass and camera. This is your final warning to delete this message and spare yourself the misery and horror that is about to unfold. —Hi, Jack! May we please have a shoutout? We are a murder mystery roleplay in need of new members. Thank you!

y’all fucking slay at encompassing everything the series is about!! you perfectly encapsulate snicket’s writing style in the plot and even in this awesomely designed shoutout. and i adore the wide and diverse range of faceclaims you have as well!! i wish y’all the best of luck and the most success because it sure looks like you have a lot planned!! i’d better see y’all around for a long time!!

check them out!! ( 1/10 )

[jacktherph]

Hi, Jack! We are a new murder mystery roleplay inspired by A Series of Unfortunate Events with new plot twists and characters. We would love some feedback. May we please have an opinion? Please, feel free to take as much time as you need. Thank you so much! We really appreciate it!

hi there @unfortunate-rp​! i’m happy to give you an opinion. since you didn’t specify private, i will post this on my blog. feel free to ask me to take it down if that was a mistake.

NOTE: all opinions expressed here are mine, jack’s, belonging to jack. i make no claims to knowing what is best for every group – i only offer advice based on my experiences, what i’ve seen in the community, and my personal knowledge. no one person knows what is best for you or any group other than yourself; because you were the one who put all of this together in the first place. so take everything i say as a suggestion, and remember that you have accomplished so much!!

and if you have any questions, want feedback on something specific, or want elaborations on anything said in this opinion, don’t hesitate to message me!!

this isn’t just an opinion, it’s a shoutout and a rec!! any fans of the asoue book series &/or recent netflix adaptation will adore this rpg. it perfectly captures everything snicket was about from beginning to end and the skeletons are frankly fucking amazing. what a creative admin team!! 

start: 2.30 | pause: none | end: 2.58TOTAL: HERE 28 minutes to read all pages (please don’t take this as a measure of anything, I simply time myself and am a speed reader)

*spelling error on /uptown: Mureau Cinema -- Christmas

So the first thing I’m going to say before I go into the full details of each page and contents and such is that I have one big recommendation: finding a way to adjust your line height in your code. The common theme I ran into while reading all of your pages is that after a while my eyes would gloss over certain sentences because I thought I was reading each line but they were too bunched together. Because you have such beautiful pages with so much information to give to your members, this is super important. If you’d like me to see if I can find that part of your code for you, feel free to IM me at any time and I’ll be happy to help.

My first impression of everything is a big fat fucking WOW. From the pages to the graphics to even the way you word things I feel like I’ve been transported back to that dreadfully delightful macabre world Snicket created for me as a child. I don’t know if you’ve been given proper praise for that yet but if you haven’t you certainly deserve it. You have a functional and helpful theme that works for what you need from it and your design of everything is both simple and artistic at the same time. When you have a new acceptance posted the dual ember gifs make it feel like there’s a lot going on but it’s not consistent, with too many repeated or flashing gifs, and so there’s not anything you need to do to change that in my opinion. It just tends to happen with graphics that use the same images. Really though, please feel extremely accomplished about the tone and theme you set on your main. I’ve never gotten more of an impression of what an rpg is about by one glance than I do here.

Your Plot is astounding. Disregarding the fact that you wrote it just like Snicket, I think this is one of the most original fandom concepts I’ve seen in some time. This was the perfect story to be able to take away from the canon and still keep it within the realm of possibility. I’m actually really glad you did this so well because this way people can still have all of the fun of the storyline and plots and not have to worry about the possibility of “playing a canon character wrong” or trying to fit it into the canon of the books/show.

I’ll sort of go into all of your lore pages as a whole rather than go through every single page? Because the love and dedication you’ve taken to ensure potential members and your members have everything they need in order to work within the worldbuilding of your group. I can seriously appreciate that as an admin of a group with a ton of lore, myself. That you go into so much detail on the locations pages and everything about VFD, you make it so your main is the one-stop shop for information rather than asking people to go elsewhere like a wikia page and I’m gonna shout my praises to you for that!

So your Guidelines are something I’m a little iffy on -- and I’m gonna say this is honestly the only thing I really find debatable about your rpg. The very nature of the ASOUE series was about children being involved in all of the gruesome stuff that comes with being an adult; so in that I can see why you allow writers of any age. But you also have content warnings such as smut, violence, drugs, and etc. and state that the roleplay itself will have mature themes and contents. So that being said, I have two moral issues: allowing members under 18 and the playing of characters who are minors. Generally I’m against playing characters who are minors of any kind. That results in using FCs who are minors and yes, while they are celebrities, it gives the potential for undue associations with the child star. Have you considered possibly keeping children out of the RPG except for in the case of mentioned NPCs? Regarding the “members under 18” bit, honestly that one isn’t as much of a big deal so long as your members are tagging and using read-mores where and when needed, but i’ll include that it will deter a certain number of people from joining your group. I’m not telling you to change anything -- but these are things I think you should maybe think about and consider adding changes to?

Your Skeletons and Faceclaims are so widely wonderful and diverse. You have such a wide range of trans characters and I always look for that in RPGs. But you’re also extremely body positive and age positive as well. This is what the faceclaim page of every rpg should look like, so applause for you. I only looked at a few of your skeletons to get a feel for them, but from what I did look at each one is unique in their own way and you have done an impressive job weaving them in with not only one another but the story. Each one has an important role to play and none feel like they’re just there for any sort of token points. You must have put a lot of work into this and you admin/s need to recognize that this immense amount of creativity is brilliantly impressive.

Personally, I think all you need to do is link to your skeleton page with the filters, rather than having a whole page with links that bring people to the tags the filters divide by, but that is more of a suggestion and if you find what you have works for you then there’s nothing more to be said. As for the images on the skeleton page: you obviously make them fit better with the psd/texture, which I like, but some of them still stick out in their brightness. Maybe go back and look at them and dim some of them individually or try to get them with a matching color hue to make them seem a little more uniform?? But the distinction between npcs and skeletons with the monochrome is great.

Overall your graphics match very well!! Your character template is perfect for the vibe and the psd you have on your images ensures they all look very uniform and put-together. The sidebar gif on the homepage feels a little left out compared to the rest, though? I don’t know if you have a lot of history working with gif editing but either changing the size, adding the psd, or adding a little SOMETHING to it might make it seem a little less “floating on it’s own in a void” in your sidebar.

Your Applications, both of them, are very well thought out and you definitely ask for everything that I can see being necessary in this group. Some in the community are against fully fleshed out apps like this but those who see your group and see the effort in your applications should feel inspired with everything that they answer!! You even provide links for them in helping find occupations and such, and that’s going above and beyond. My one thing is…. Why are both applications on bright white backgrounds and not set as pages of your main? It’s just confusing to me, nothing big. And the white sort of startles me after looking at your darker-colored pages for such a long time.

My FAVORITE THING about your rpg: the complete-ness of it all. I genuinely cannot think of one thing I would like to see here, information or rpg-wise, that would help me as a potential member understand your rpg better. You obviously put so much work into everything here and I could not be more thrilled. As the story goes on you might add more pages or such but for an rpg that hasn’t opened yet (at the time I’m writing this) there is NOTHING that needs adding, in my opinion.

My LEAST FAVORITE THING about your rpg: I’m… struggling to find something, but I guess if I had to pick it would be the layout of your applications -- how they exist on a white page rather than within a page on your main. It’s just slightly jarring to go from all that darkness to a bright white page. Think about putting them as pages on your theme and honestly you’re good to go??

OVERALL this is probably one of the best examples of a put-together skeleton and bio rpg I’ve ever seen. Like, I don’t even know anything about the series beyond the show and I had to stop myself from joining while writing this opinion. Even if someone knows nothing about the fandom they could be coaxed to join after just taking a few minutes to look at everything you’ve put together and provided for people. You didn’t leave anything I could think of out and included more than I would have thought if I were the one putting this rpg together. The fact that you may have done this solo stuns me even more. This is an rpg everyone should check out because it has everything people are looking for: diversity, depth, a well-formed plot, and the potential to last for some time with the right cast and crew behind it.

Well fucking done.

Sincerely,Jack

[jacktherph]

unfortunate-rp is a BIG rec

they sure fuckign are aren’t they nonnie!! i adore this rpg and honestly if i had more time on my hands i would look into joining it myself. its very rare that a fandom rp can really just fully capture the essence and identity of the course material but unfortunate-rp does it so incredibly i’d worry snicket himself was behind it!! or maybe olaf... hey... wait a minute...

no seriously go check out @unfortunate-rp, based on the series of unfortunate events books and netflix adaptation

[jacktherph]

Please ignore this dreadful inbox message about a new roleplay. An Unfortunate Event is in fact a series of unfortunate event which follows the mystery of Sybil Halloway’s very fatal defenestration and the curious case of a missing compass and camera. This is your final warning to delete this message and spare yourself the misery and horror that is about to unfold. —Hi, Jack! May we please have a shoutout? We are a new murder mystery roleplay searching for members. Thank you!

okay this is honestly??? such a fucking cool rpg. i just finished the series on netflix and y’all fucking slay at encompassing everything the series is about!! you perfectly encapsulate snicket’s writing style in the plot and even in this awesomely designed shoutout. and i adore the wide and diverse range of faceclaims you have as well!! i wish y’all the best of luck and the most success because it sure looks like you have a lot planned!! i’d better see y’all around for a long time!! this isn’t just a shoutout, it’s a got dayum rec!!

check them out!! ( 1/10 )

[azianxpersuasionwrites]

AN UNFORTUNATE EVENT RP INCORRECT QUOTES [ 4/ ?? ]

August Bianchi + Joanna Kingsley

[azianxpersuasionwrites]

A stolen compass. A priceless camera. An untimely death.

Sybil Halloway, a woman of many talents who was loved and respected by many, was found dead during her annual fundraiser and party. Despite having fallen twenty stories, her death was ruled accidental. Accidental is a word which here means there were no signs of a struggle and no signs that she jumped on her own accord. The death of Sybil Halloway appears to be nothing but an open and shut case of a woman who perhaps had a little too much to drink at her own party. 

Now, having told you this, I want to let you know that you should immediately continue to scroll down the dashboard of this infernal hellsite and stop looking at this post. This is not a roleplaying game that you would want to join for there is nothing waiting for you but despair and misfortune. Do not let the mystery of Sybil Halloway’s very fatal defenestration or the curious case of a missing compass and camera attract you to the horrors that lie within this city. This is your final warning to leave this place and spare yourself the misery and horror that is about to unfold. Please turn away from this series of unfortunate events.

An Unfortunate Event is a new roleplay based on A Series of Unfortunate Events with a few new twists and additions. 

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