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What is Republica?
Topic Started: 26 Mar 2008, 13:43 (399 Views)
Corinth
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What is Republica?

Created January fourth, 2008, Republica was originally intended as a discussion forum for Latin and Classics aficionados. As can be well imagined, that idea never really took off: partly due to a lack of advertising; partly to a small party of interest. And so, on March twentieth of that same year, the admins decided to convert it to a roleplay forum, which is what you see today. The only visible remnant of the board's original purpose to remain is its name: "Republica." It's hard to say why this was kept . . . perhaps because that is what we envision this community to be: a republic.

Keeping pace with the name, Republica does not have any single defining plot or storyline that its roleplays all must follow. Rather, they are limited only to the ingenuity and resourcefulness of its members (and its PG-13 rules, of course). Our mission stands to provide a diverse and colourful environment for advanced and dramatic roleplayers of all interest groups. We strive to do our best to refrain from censoring threads and ideas, simply because of ideologically sensitive material, and rather encourage this kind of eccentric thinking; pushing the boundaries of what is considered "normal" or safe.

Who's Running the Show?

So now, who all is running this? Some crazy, emphatic little man behind a curtain? Dwarves, tucked away in their cavernous lairs? Actually, it was started up by a couple of teens from northern Ohio. Such a pity--I was leaning towards the dwarves, myself.

"Corinth"
 
Well, he just about summed it up: I'm half of the duo to start this site. ^_^ One Christopher Wetherill by name, I am sixteen years old at present (born early on in '92) and actually just got back into roleplaying. And yes, zomg, I gave you my last name--it's in about half a dozen threads' copyright notices if you haven't seen it already. I first started back late in 2004 on a site called Maelstrom's Guardian. Looking back though, I'm not entirely sure that you could call what we did "roleplaying." Whatever it was, it certainly wasn't very pretty. So, that continued through 2005 and capped off in early '06, where I rather lost interest and began to pursue other goals.

But then, early in March of 2008, Klockwork, our other admin, inadvertently got me interested in the whole shebang again. And now, a couple of weeks later and too many hours of writing to count, here we are: a mildly dysfunctional board with no clear-cut goals in sight, eh? Nah, I'll never admit it to anyone, but I'm really quite proud of what I've gotten done in this past week or so. (What do you mean I just admitted it? Yeah, well . . . you're a Communist!) So, that's just a little bit about me--no mysterious caped crusader, fighting for justice whilst managing a website, but an enthusiastic supporter of roleplay, nonetheless.

Remember kids: 9 out of 10 admins agree, clichés aren't funny. Hotels, Universities, anime and manga, "human boys trapped with female vampires;" these kinds of roleplays will not earn you any brownie points with the voice--admins . . . yes, admins.


"Klockwork"
 
I'm the other half of the duo, sort of the Bonnie to Corinth's Clyde if you'd like. The name's Jessica, and at seventeen years old I'm the elder of the pair ^-^. I've been RPing since November 10, 2001- and how do I remember this? That's the join date of my first Neopets account: Nevada76, where I got started RPing. Since then I've done almost every genre of RPing, Horse, Wolf, Lion, High School, Fantasy, etc. I've RPed on almost every major server out there, AG1, Acornrack, Proboards, Neopets, Gaia, and now Zetaboards. I RP so often because I have amost no life outside of my computer, except for when Chris comes over to play my Wii. A few friends, no family I enjoy, and no relationship to speak of leaves me open to RP as much as I want, yay me!If by chance I'm not on, either I'm reading "The Dresden Files" or playing "Fire Emblem"... or something less important like preparing for college in my near future... silly stuff like that.

Early in March 2008, I dragged my admin partner back into this lovely world, and BAM! This site was born, the lovechild of my influence and his work (honestly I've done nothing worthwhile, Zetaboards is his forte, not mine- I'm just here to keep him from enslaving you all.) And that's it, I went out of the country for a few days, came back, and found all of this xD
Edited by Corinth, 8 Apr 2008, 05:16.
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