Rebirth RP

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0><script> (function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){ (i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o), m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m) })(window,document,'script','//www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js','ga'); ga('create', 'UA-47423994-1', 'fortunecity.ws'); ga('send', 'pageview'); </script> <center> <br> <div> <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript" src="http://ad.broadcaststation.net/ads/show_ad.php?width=728&height=90"></script> </div> </center> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0 height="100%"><tr> <td valign="top" width=168 BGCOLOR="#000000" TEXT="#F7F7FF" background="044a11c3.gif"> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="0638f8c0.jpg" border=0 width="143" height="140" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Welcome to The HomePage of Rebirth Roleplay on Prodigy Internet Chat.</div> </td> <td valign="top" BGCOLOR="#000000" TEXT="#F7F7FF"> <div> <B>Rebirth RP</B></div> <div> <IMG SRC="043f4010.gif" border=0 width="500" height="1" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <A HREF="id18.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Player List"><U><B>Player List</B></U></A><B> </B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#A0A0A4" FACE="Arial" ><B>- Lists the Players and their Messages.</B></FONT></div> <div> <A HREF="id24.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Contact Us"><U><B>Contact Us</B></U></A><B> </B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#A0A0A4" FACE="Arial" ><B>-  E-mail Addresses, Message Boards, and Forms to contact GMs            </B></FONT></div> <div> <A HREF="id27.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="RPing Rules"><U><B>RPing Rules</B></U></A><B> </B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#A0A0A4" FACE="Arial" ><B>- Some of the Basic Rules</B></FONT></div> <div> <A HREF="id32.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Rules Of Play"><U><B>Rules Of Play</B></U></A><B> </B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#A0A0A4" FACE="Arial" ><B>- The Specific Rules of Roleplaying at the Rebirth</B></FONT></div> <div> <A HREF="id25.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Combat"><U><B>Combat</B></U></A><B> </B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#A0A0A4" FACE="Arial" ><B>- Combat Rules and Tips</B></FONT></div> <div> <A HREF="id30.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="IC/OOC"><U><B>IC/OOC</B></U></A><B> </B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#A0A0A4" FACE="Arial" ><B>- Notes and Rules about IC and OOC participation</B></FONT></div> <div> <A HREF="id28.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Setting"><U><B>Setting</B></U></A><B> </B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#A0A0A4" FACE="Arial" ><B>- The Room Descriptions</B></FONT></div> <div> <A HREF="id33.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="RolePlayer Articles"><U><B>RolePlayer Articles</B></U></A><B> </B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#A0A0A4" FACE="Arial" ><B>- Essays and Articles Written By Role Players on Rebirth</B></FONT></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>The Rebirth of Prodigy Classic Role-Playing</B></div> <div>  </div> <div> I'll start at the beginning.  In nineteen hundred ninety-four I began my career on the prodigy classic service, then simply known as prodigy.</div> <div> Before then, I had role-played very little on the dreaded AOL, which I found heart wrenchingly bestial in its form.  Like most of us, I also partook</div> <div> In my early years that of D&D, and even a freeform BBS chat system, which was briefly the home of my own system.</div> <div>  <IMG SRC="07c41500.jpg" border=0 width="65" height="80" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> The first room I ever entered on prodigy, (henceforth referred to simply as p*) was the vampires rping room, held under the supernatural realm.</div> <div> I remember this beginning at least for me was comprised solely of long, long, hours in these rooms.doing nothing, but simply chilling.very</div> <div>  Fresh-like with other such ungodly oddities that made me feel welcome.</div> <div>  </div> <div> To define a role-player is not an easy task.  Partly because by and by, we differ from each other in simply amazing ways. And partly due to the</div> <div> Tastes a certain cliché of role-players may hold true.  To make things short I'd say a role-player, is any sentient being who either willing or not </div> <div> Takes on the role of another persona.</div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div>  <IMG SRC="07ad8fa0.gif" border=0 width="216" height="250" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Websters defines role-play in this simple sense: to play a role.  And later on as: 1. A deranged state of the mind usually occurring as a specific disorder</div> <div> And usually excluding such states as mental deficiency, psychoneurosis, and various character disorders.  2.  Such undsoundness of mind or lack of </div> <div> Understanding as prevents one from having the mental capacity required by law to enter into a particular relationship, status, or transaction</div> <div> Or as removes one from criminal or civil responsibility. 3. Extreme folly or unreasonableness. b. Something utterly foolish or unreasonable.</div> <div>  </div> <div> And finally goes on to describe role-playing in its fullest extent:</div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div>  <IMG SRC="07e7c7c0.gif" border=0 width="124" height="124" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> A psychotic disorder characterized by loss of contact with the environment, by noticeable deterioration in the level of functioning in everyday life,</div> <div> And by disintegration of personality expressed as disorder of feeling, thought, and conduct - called also dementia praecox</div> <div>  </div> <div> That being said, I believe we can continue.</div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div>  </div> <div> Soon after the first three or so months of wasting away deep in the soft white underbelly of p* with such names as first generation role-player</div> <div> Msmystique and other undesirables who really don't deserve mentioning.  I left. Moved to Houston, where I stayed for the next six months.</div> <div>  </div> <div> When I returned, the prodigy supernatural area had exploded with pure raw talent, and after week or two I fell in with a few who had come to </div> <div> Stay, and dominate.  Viper and Arthur.  If you were around then, you know exactly what I'm talking about; if you were not then there is no way </div> <div> Describe what followed.</div> <div>  <IMG SRC="07f64960.gif" border=0 width="100" height="150" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Months came and went, years came and went and we remained, and prodigy grew around us.  It came to be known in time that p* was the home </div> <div> Free-form role-playing on the net.   They flocked from CompuServe and AOL, from BBS and email systems, flocked and collided, AD&D with Rifts, palladium </div> <div> With Whitewolf, each system spoke against the others book characters from well-known novels showed up, supposed gods with immeasurable power</div> <div> Fought even more supposed gods, the old ones tried there best to keep the supernatural realm in check, it was easy enough to lay a smack down on </div> <div> Someone who believed the more power he had given himself, the easier it is to role-play.</div> <div>  </div> <div> Odd layers formed then, the old ones stayed above of course but people separated into acceptable rping rungs.  Where life and death meant nothing, continuity</div> <div> Was unheard of, and death a mere long lost idea.</div> <div>  </div> <div> Without going into detail the lack of a recognized base set of guidelines brought the downfall of prodigy classic.  In the end prodigy was exactly what it </div> <div> Had always been a home for every shape and idea that any of the worlds wanted to take on.  It was the growing number of people under lawless rule that had </div> <div> Been placed in there own hands that ended prodigy long before y2k, and the shutdown of that service.</div> <div>  </div> <div>  </div> <div>  </div> <div> There are a few that had endured to the very end, these that had never given up and never will.  These that in time will bring forth the total revolution of</div> <div> Internet role-play. We have begun on irc.   A place we all despise if for no other reason than its obvious ugly appearance, but a place where we can be together</div> <div> Once more.  <IMG SRC="08064960.gif" border=0 width="100" height="150" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Brought to you by your founders and a few of the oldest role-players to step out of prodigy.   Viper & Detus now bring you back to an idea that cannot be bound</div> <div> By time or place.  This is the rebirth</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="08149300.gif" border=0 width="585" height="48" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id18.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Player List"><U><B>Player List</B></U></A><B>   |   </B><A HREF="id24.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Contact Us"><U><B>Contact Us</B></U></A><B>   |   </B><A HREF="id25.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Combat"><U><B>Combat</B></U></A><B>   |   </B><A HREF="id27.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="RPing Rules"><U><B>RPing Rules</B></U></A><B>   |   </B><A HREF="id28.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Setting"><U><B>Setting</B></U></A><B>   |   </B><A HREF="id33.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="RolePlayer Articles"><U><B>RolePlayer Articles</B></U></A><B>   |   </B><A HREF="id30.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="IC/OOC"><U><B>IC/OOC</B></U></A><B>   |   </B><A HREF="id32.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Rules Of Play"><U><B>Rules Of Play</B></U></A></div> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>