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[ss_mod_miller]

Are you not satisfied with where you currently are in life? Do you just want a place where you belong? Well, look no further!

silo_sunset is a group without borders, ideologies, or isms, and has no regard for age, gender, nationality, or race.

A voluntary recruitment program is now in effect. Clicking this link is all you need to get started. Apply and we'll find the perfect spot for you to maximize your skills.

Mother Base is where a solider can always have purpose and a home, guaranteed.

Comments

[otakon_geek]

That looks like an awesome base and an interesting concept behind it all.

[neverloseagain]

Nice pitch, eight out of ten. You forgot to mention the lovely seaside location and complementary flights.

Has anybody ever told you you're pretty handsome?

[ss_mod_miller]

Oh yeah? Interested in joining, soldier?

[He's just going to ignore that this guy sounds eerily similar to Huey.]

[ss_mod_miller]

Can't mention everything up front, can I? New recruits will just have to see for themselves all Mother Base has to offer.

Plenty of ladies sure have. [HUGE GRIN.]

[neverloseagain]

And we could always do with more of those.

Say, what's your recruitment strategy there? I've been trying to come up with one lately, but no dice yet. We don't want to risk our image as off-the-grid hardasses, but we still need to appeal to them somehow. Something sensitive, with feeling.

[ss_mod_miller]

I was thinking this might appeal to some people.

[otakon_geek]

Uh, I'm not a soldier, I'm a computer engineer. I build and programme things.

[neverloseagain]

Oh hey, you got that on film! Looks nice!

[a pause, and his expression drops to thoughtful]

Say... what about making Peace Day an annual thing and using that to set ourselves apart?

Not telling people that we're fighting for peace, we don't fight for anything other than those who hire us. It'd be more of showing a universal desire as human beings. That because war exists, we can't help but hope for peace, even if its presence would be directly contradictory to our own ability to survive.

[ss_mod_miller]

You'd be welcome here. We always need things built.

[ss_mod_miller]

So you're saying Mother-Base exclusive holidays?

[neverloseagain]

At least one, anyway. We can't have everyone fighting all the time, or morale will take a hit.

[ss_mod_miller]

That is true.

Although, the Mess Hall does do a pretty good job at keeping morale up.

[neverloseagain]

Yeah, but it takes more than just good food sometimes. Even if they make a damn good curry now.

[gematria]

I think this looks like quite the interesting concept.

Have you tried spreading the word through the internet beyond this place? I hear tumblr is all the rage these days, but there are some muns that would rather play journal-based, and I'd bet mine is not the only one.

translation: Japanese curry

[ss_mod_miller]

Especially the カレーライス kind. It's almost as good as the real thing.

[ss_mod_miller]

I have intel that my mun posted on tumblr, but hasn't had any response yet. Maybe sending out another message would be beneficial to us.

Journal-based, huh? Could you tell me more about that? I'm interested. [So is mun.]

Hope you don't mind the TL;DR then :')

[gematria]

As far as I see, I think there are several of us-- from the same universe, I mean. Maybe personal messages would work, too. I would be willing to play.

[Getting into exposition-mode] It's called "journal-based" roleplaying in this kind of platform. It used to be the most popular way for online roleplaying until the Great Fall of Livejournal, starting 2009. Bad management mostly killed off this kind of rp style, despite the rise of several similar sites with a better administration.

But the internet and its inhabitants aren't forces to be so easily stoppped. And so, nowadays, most of people prefer tumblr. But my mun dislikes tumblr-based roleplaying, and also forum-based roleplaying, which is even older. Both of them offer poor versatility for "threading" compared to "journal-based" roleplaying.

It'd be certainly nice to see a Renaissance. Specially for the characters of our universe.

Of course not. ^^

[ss_mod_miller]

So, muns would post scenarios that fit within Silo Sunset's conditions to their own character journals.

Then the same mun would link that post onto the community page.

And then anyone who wants to respond to the scenario does so in the mun's character journal.

Am I following you correctly?

[gematria]

That could be a way [Hal answers, always a diplomat. He actually likes getting to explain stuff, helping people, and it has been so long for him.] But as far as I know, the standard went: Posts were made directly in communities, with the location and or time of the day set in the subject, and the narrative - or specifications - written in the body of it. And then, the characters would answer right on the community... unless a thread took a turn towards an NC-17 rating.

Some communities would encourage to keep the thread in the same place, with a members-only lock, and others asked the players to roleplay their, ahem, more private interactions in the character journals, with a members-only locked link to the main community.

[Would you like to save?]

[ss_mod_miller]

That pretty much sounds like the way we set up Silo Sunset, except the location and other details are part of the tags, instead of the subject.

Member-Only locks is a must for sex, violence, and other sensitive topics in the comm, too.

Maybe I didn't write the profile as well as I thought... [Scratches his chin.]

[SAVING IS FOR THE WEAK.]

[gematria]

[Animated] That's amazing! Then you only need more publicity.

And indeed, I was talking more of how a lot of players would rather play in a comm than in tumblr. As far as I've seen, there are several people from our universe going around here. Maybe it's time we all moved into a more permanent home. [He-- kind of knows you used to be with BB, yanno. But Dave has always talked fondly of you, so he guesses you're alright.]

[ss_mod_miller]

Right. I'll bug some of the soldiers to get on that again. [Soldiers meaning mun.]

Permanent home, huh? We can definitely accommodate that at Mother Base.

[As far as Miller knows, Hal is just a voice similar to Huey's. He doesn't have too much of an opinion yet, except that the other man seems to know some good intel.]

[gematria]

As far as I know, my next stop is living the next four years aboard an airplane, so... even a base set in the middle of the sea would be better, I think. So, I'll speak to my friends about it as well. ["His friends" meaning the mun's, though she hasn't kept contact with any of Ye Olde Days of LJ.]

[Please don't tell that about his father to his face or do it, since getting compared to him is one of the few things that can change Hal's good disposition into Pure Salt.]

[ss_mod_miller]

Right. [He nods.] Contact me if you have questions about any of it.

[Miller can make no promises as of this time. Try again later.]

[gematria]

I promise. And, oh! Before I forget. My mun told me to hand you this.

It's a banner, to help you promote the game. She says: "Sorry for taking the liberty to do this, I just didn't see a banner back at the profile, and it's easier to lure people in with something visual". [Glassespush, and Hal looks away.] Honestly, she should have let me handle it, she's hopeless at Photoshop...

[ss_mod_miller]

I'll run this by the Boss and let you know what he says.

[Mun says ty. :)]

[gematria]

Good luck, Master Miller.

[Mun says "it was no problem <3, and also, you should unlock the OOC comm so people can take a look to the map and how to app before they press the "join in" button." :3]

[ss_mod_miller]

[((Good catch! I unlocked the entire OOC comm.))]