Interest in a roleplaying Imageboard?

[brandygang]

I've had an idea in the back of my mind for a while now, a concept that's yet to take off. Would any of you take interest in a project involving using an imageboard (much like 4chan or the newer 8chan) to roleplay out your fantasies?

The way this would work is, it'd follow fetish scenes and scenerios in depth, but told through interactively between posters. (Think BEarchive or Fiction Branches) The OP would state a specific location/context, all participants interested would pick characters (abit not exclusively), post with their pictures, and from there the roleplay would be acted out, post by post.

Everything would be spontaneous, unscripted, open and freeform for people to explore their kinks without restriction.

It could be a way to creatively bridge the gap between visuals and storytelling. What do you think?

[Crash Ichimonji]

So, who's in charge of the 'story' itself? Is the OP the one controlling the flow of events in the story (even if just pre-setting certain events to happen at some points), or is this going to be completely open to anyone wanting to make stuff happen in the RP? If the former, or something close, it sounds fine to me. If the latter, have fun while it lasts.

And are the pictures the players post merely to show their character they're playing in the RP? Or would they also be posting pics during the RP for certain things? Say someone was playing a character that looked like (for example) Rei from Evangelion they post a pic of her at the beginning, and if there comes a scene in the RP where their Rei-character is (for example) having sex in bondage gear then the player posts a pic of Rei in bondage gear and/or doing something related to the bondage sex, etc? 'Pic-related' images for scenes along with the beginning introductory-pics?

[brandygang]

I believe it'd more likely be the former, establishing a short story, theme or context to the threads roleplay. Location included.But only up the first post, loose guidelines to leave the thread open ended enough to join in without monopolizing on it's content.
Not unlike Interactive/branching stories throughout the internet, where the OP sets the tone but others are free to interpret and input it as they wish.

In a similar (nonfetish) use of this I'm aware of, people only use location but nothing is established, and OP has little say or role outside that, beyond what they wish to contribute. That's because there's a loose continuity throughout the board, with people caring about what happens to their characters and stories. Since here it's just fetish rp, I doubt most people will care about that sort of thing.
"Pic related" is right, you've pretty much nailed it. They'd post Rei everytime they play as her, their post mostly her dialog as if chatting.
If they needed to perform an action or describe a scene, green text could be used.

Ex,
"Why yes Misato Shinji is ready to try the new NERV hypercompression equipments"
>Rei begins to strip
>She pushes a button and the bondage machine starts up
>It looks like [Insert description here]

And the pictures, as you said would be mostly visual aid. If someone didn't have a picture of Rei in Bondage or were lazy they could describe it in text however.

[Crash Ichimonji]

I see. I might be interested. I prefer writing out my RP posts though. My co-author and I do our RP's like a novel with two different narrators describing things as they happen to them. The more script-like green text idea is easier to do and less lengthy, but for me it lacks the enthralling feel of reading over RP posts like a book's excerpts.

At the same time, I do quick MS Paint pics of basic frontal anatomies of my partner, NPC's, and myself as we change in our RP's, so doing Pic-Related images and such I'm all for since I do it anyways.

So I'd say I'm 75% Yea on this.

[brandygang]

snipe

[brandygang]

I'm going to briefly bump this thread to again scout for anyone interested in this topic.

Such a board has been established, all it needs now are members.

If anyone wants to hear more just post here and I'll PM them about it.

[Prof_Sai]

This forum handles pics about as well as 4 chan. I'm not sure what the advantage of going elsewhere would be. Unless dice were built into the forum, or some other feature.

[brandygang]

Originally Posted by Prof_Sai

This forum handles pics about as well as 4 chan. I'm not sure what the advantage of going elsewhere would be. Unless dice were built into the forum, or some other feature.

There are a few such features (Dice included), however the overall advantage IMO is a more streamlined interface that allows you to post a quip, pick your pic and quickly post away. It makes roleplay a lot easier, and feels more akin to chatting than posting in a forum.

This forum in particular's image-attachment process is somewhat arduous in the long run for that sort of thing, if it were to be done on a forum one might as well just change their avatar to the character they were playing.