To be clear ahead of time, this is NOT an in-character post.

Hmm...to post this in 'Weddings, Feasts, and Funerals' or 'Companionship Wanted'?

Big weddings and sprawling feasts are dandy places for assassins and thieves of a thousand faces to work within crowds of distracted near or total strangers (to each other just as much as them), and funerals just seem to follow in their wake, so it might be fitting.

But I'm here essentially looking for potential playmates, understanding souls open minded to somewhat outlandish characters and unfortunately limited, sometimes randomly, play schedules. So 'Companionship Wanted' it is.

First the schedule difficulties part: Basically, mine isn't so great for having the kind gaming hobby a lot of folks enjoy here anymore. Typically I can be around in the evenings from 9ish CST to 1130ish CST, but even that timeframe can be suspect at times. I'm a happily married parent and hobbies just plain have to take a backseat to pretty much everything else in my life.

Still, I enjoy gaming and like to think of myself as a hardcore roleplayer at heart. As far as gaming here goes, for all practical purposes, I begin and end at the keyboard here. I'm unlikely to be found discussing my life away from here except in very vague and passing terms, and my preference would be to not spend a lot of what feels like far too limited gaming time chatting about non-game related stuff if it can be helped.

As far as roleplay, I think pretty much anything goes ingame. I enjoy Character vs. Character conflict, in the role of both good guys and bad guys, am not put off by any angles or styles of well-separated (IC from OOC) roleplay I can think of at the moment, and am just in general open minded and here to have fun playing out engaging stories if I can.

I typically play varying levels of 'villianous' characters, but I've tried to make most of mine more multi-faceted than a bit part Star Trek redshirt in the past (although, ironically, my character DOES just seem best suited as a hopefully interesting background character to someone else's story). As far as related conflicts go, taking things to the level of actually 'griefing' is something I'll want to avoid. I just don't get a kick out of having fun at other people's expense like that. I'm not suggesting I'm necessarily a 'carebear' player, just that I'm not going to actively waste my own precious time trying to make ruin of someone else's hobby time here.

Without sharing many more details (and again, keep in mind that anything and everything said here is strictly OUT-OF-CHARACTER) than are necessary to give a brief glimpse of what I'm up to, because playing out stories and getting to know the characters through those interactions is a huge part of the fun, I think it is safe to say my main character these days is a deeply flawed person.

A decent fit for the dictionary definition of a sociopath, the suggestion of some level of multiple personality disorder; a witness who somehow knew the whole story would be very kind to describe him/her as 'eccentric'.

Him/Her? When they said Bone Elves 'look like any other Elf', I doubt they intended the suggestion as thoroughly as it is reflected here. Thanks to the secrecy-veiled art of shifting, my Bone Elf could literally look like any other Elf and often does.

This carousel of faces and bodies, sizes, shapes, and genders, are just elaborate masks though; intricate disguises stolen from others, worn while useful, and then erased and cast aside into the ditch with the corpse by the two foremost fragments of a rather dysfunctional mind. That old bent crone huddled across the street, is that her casing that nearby mansion? The greasy pot-bellied cook, is it him preparing a contract target's mortally poisonous last meal?

He is a marked man living in hiding, a cold and calculating assassin, a sadist often aloof and depressed in the throes of his extreme vanity, but capable of sarcastic charm in his way regardless. The one thing he ever sincerely cared for was taken from him, and he has been steadily piecing together the masterpiece of his vengeance, one target at a time, over the years since. He concerns himself with being 'practical and efficient', evading the laundry list of enemies that want him dead, and is seemingly completely unaware that she exists.

She is the mercurial free spirit, a rambling thrill-seeker and seafaring adventurer privateer, a masochistic self-proclaimed 'tourist' (whether she might be stealthily sight-seeing in a mark's pockets or jewelry cabinet is a subtle matter of timing) and hobby locksmith that amuses herself with all manner of lawless cavorting at every turn. The excessive vanity is shared here, and she flaunts her expertly sculpted beauty carelessly. Her only concerns in wayward life are genuinely 'amusement and profit', of which she continues to thoroughly enjoy an abundance of both. She knows of him, but only by reputation through contacts and then only by his working nickname.

Anyway, if you've read this far and think a part-time darkling character like this and a casual player like me might be a good addition to your circle of playmates, I'd appreciate any nudges in the right direction or invites or whatever you're willing to share.

Just drop me a line at cemm@play.net or post here and I'll be sure to be in touch.

I'll definitely be in touch Reene. Thanks for the response!