07-07-2006, 10:48 AM
Stilton On Rye
The taste of a new world.
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Welcome to Stilton on Rye. This RPG is based on a simple idea. You are the owner of a retro restaurant in a distant future. The only things you serve here are natural things, bread, made of rye, cheese, stilton, or other types, and other foods. In this high-tech world, everyone eats very little as a result of genetic experiments, so you only sell sandwiches made from stilton cheese spread on rye bread. In the next pages you will learn how to manage your restaurant using a play-by-post mode to do it.
The point of the game is to gain as much money as possible, spending it as efficiently as possible.
Rules/Help
OOC Rules
1. What staff says, goes. Should you think a mod or admin is being unfair, post in the OOC Area, saying your complaint. They will try to be as fair about it as possible.
2. No complete OOC Posts in the IC Area. If you wish to make a comment, add a line or two at the end of your post with an OOC: tag at the start. Complete OOC Posts are warned.
3. No flaming is allowed. If any thread goes from jokes to flaming, it is closed and the flame-baiter, or flamer is warned.
4. No Porn?whatsoever. If you don?t know if your image is classified as porn, talk to an admin in a PM and ask him if it is okay.
5. Quite the clich?, but ?Have Fun RPing here!?
Starting Out
You start out with one restaurant, with one table, one cow, one cheese-making machine, one patch of rye, and one robot chef that will make the bread and the sandwiches. You will also start with 10 000 dollars which you can spend to increase the efficiency of your restaurant.
As often as possible, you will RP having a customer. There is a limit to how many customers you can RP a week. This makes the furniture upgrades valuable, more furniture, more customers. However, if you do not RP all of them in one week, you will lose money proportional to the amount staff thinks he would have given you. (Staff posts about this.)
You will show him to a table, and you must have a discussion. In these high-tech times, almost surely, the customer you will be interested in ?the old times?, or else he would have picked a normal restaurant. The RP itself won?t be so long, because there isn?t much to say. Then, staff will come in as the customer, and ask questions about how the food is made, the old times, or something not really related. It will be either about our current time or about even before, in the Middle Ages.
Depending on your answers, staff will give the money you deserve. If you give extremely detailed responses, you might get bigger rewards. Do not look on other sites, if you don?t know what it is, just say it. We can?t stop our members from doing that, but it is your problem. If you cheat, it won?t be as satisfactory to gain money. Also no links and no copy/paste?s from other sites. It must be a completely original answer, preferably long as well, one or more paragraphs.
Every member gets his own forum; at least until the member count is too much.
Competition
Of course, what joy is there in a multi-player online RPG without contact? You are able to go into one of your competitor?s restaurant, and try to do what you want. You can sabotage, look at their techniques to answer customers, steal furniture, plant evidence for the Sanitation Department, etc.
All of the above and more can be done via an RP in a competitor?s forum. You post trying to do what you came for. Ending the post for example with a: ?He tried to place the smoke bombs on the ground slowly, looking in every direction?Would he make it without being caught?? type of sentence.
At that moment, staff will come in and post whether it succeeded. If it succeeded, staff posts how much money it costs him to repair/pay a debt/pay a fine. The longer, and better quality the post, the bigger the costs. However, should your actions failed, you might end up paying a fine. Staff will tell your competitor that you either have to let him go, or to RP the punishment. If you go for a fine, it can be how much you like, up to five thousand dollars ( 5000 ). This is without contradicting items, bribes and such, which will reduce the fine.
Special Upgrades
These are upgrades given for extraordinary RPing. If at any time, staff decides you don?t live up to this ranking any more, it is immediately retracted.
High-Put Friends - You have gained advantages by gaining friends in high places. This saves you the trouble of being caught by a competitor, or being the target of a hoax. Any fines you have to pay will be split in half and you pay only 50%.
?Special? Uncle - Seems your uncle has been hired as a DA. He can get you off the hook, should you find yourself face-to-face to a fine. This time, you don?t have to pay the fine at all, but this has a limited number of uses a month, staff will specify how many you have left in your roster.
Special Recommendations - So, your high-society friends have decided to help you out. At any party they go, every new person they meet, they recommend your restaurant. This causes your customers to be generous, most likely rich. 50% more at every money gained.
Furniture And Items
Need a new table, some more chairs, or a fancy chandelier? Here you are able to buy furniture for your restaurant, which will increase your customer count, you money gains, etc. Remember, the value of a dollar is different than in our times.
Standard Retro Table - Buying this normal, two-seated table, will increase your customer count by one.
Cost - 1,000 Dollars
Gain - +1 Customer Count
4-Seater Retro Table - Buying this bigger, 4 seated table, will increase you customer count by two. Also, it will gain you a +500 dollar benefit every two customers. This makes up for the higher price.
Cost - 3,000 Dollars
Gain - +2 Customer Count, +500 Dollars every 2 Customers.
Ye Old Round Table - The mother of all tables, this 8-seater will increase your customer count by four. Also, it will gain you a +500 dollar benefit on every customer. Upgrades stack. Also, if used with the chandelier, the benefit in total from both the table and the chandelier, will be 2,000 instead of 1,500.
Cost - 8,000 Dollars
Gain - +4 Customer Count, +500 Dollars on every Customer
Chandelier - This lighting source is made from old crystals. It will amaze your customers. It increases the money gain by 1,000 Dollars. If used with the Round Table, the effect will be double, of 2,000 Dollars.
Cost - 4,000 Dollars
Gain - +1,000 Dollars on every Customer
Knight In Shining Armor - A rather old statue of a knight, this master-piece will impress your customers. It can only be bought, however, when you have at least a 5 Customer Count, and if you have both Ye Old Round Table and the Chandelier. It will increase the income per customer by 2,000 Dollars.
Cost - 8,000 Dollars
Requirements - Ye Old Round Table and Chandelier, Customer Count greater than 5.
Gain - +2,000 Dollars per Customer.
Ye Old Cheese Maker - This old machine is the same to the one you start with. It requires one cow to work with, and will manage to produce mediocre stilton cheese. It will increase revenue by 500 per Customer.
Cost - 2,000 Dollars
Gain - +500 Dollars per Customer
Cheese Maker 6000 - Replacing your old cheese-making machine will surely increase your revenue. This new machine can impress your customers not only through the excellent cheese it makes, but it can also answer questions when not busy.
Cost - 5,000 Dollars
Requirements - 2 Extra cows per Machine
Gain - +1,000 Dollars per Customer, You may skip one question a week.
Cheese Maker 10000 - This state-of-the-art machine will manage to make the best cheese around, increasing your revenue. Also, it can be programmed to do two things as well. If you don?t know the answer to a question, it can answer for you. And, it replaces the cows you need to make the milk.
Cost - 12,000 Dollars
Gain - +2,000 Dollars per Customer, You may skip one question per customer.
Ye Old Cow - Before you go and buy yourself the Cheese Maker 10000, to make cheese you?ll need milk. This cow will manage to give enough milk for the first machine, and half the second machine needs.
Cost - 500 Dollars
Joining
So you want to join, eh? Well, it?s not so easy. Fill out the form below, posting it in the Joining Boards.
Owner Name: Will Johnson
Store Name: Ye Old Sandwich Pub
E-Mail:
AIM(if you have one):
MSN(If you have one):
Store appearance:
Here you have to choose the color of your store, preferably a small logo which will be used as your forum?s marker, and what type of interior is present. Each store can be RPed as you wish.
Owner Personality:
This will usually be your personality. If you say cocky, he will act like he knows everything. Shy, and he will be afraid to talk to the customers. This is for RPing purposes only.
Then, staff will ask you to RP a situation, for example, a rich customer came in. You will write a small RP of what you do then, and then staff asks you three questions. If you manage to answer them as good as possible, you will pass and be admitted into our RPG.
Good Luck!