Board Thread:Project Discussion Board/@comment-25436862-20160626044200

Hello, Ded here with an update on the Rise of Jashin (RoJ) project. So to get to the point, in light of some recent changes to the project, I feel the need to make a more recent and official forum for applications. So, let’s talk about the recent changes so that everyone is one the same page. Originally, RoJ was going to take place exclusively in a post 4th Great War getting. But this has been done in every FC that NF has seen so far. It was then suggested that we have RoJ take place in the past, during the Era of Warring States. Though there was plenty of support for this idea, and it was indeed original, after further 1v1 discussion with a variety of users, it has been decided that RoJ will take place in BOTH pre and post 4th Great War settings.

So you may be wondering “Ded, are you talking about incorporating time travel into the FC? I thought you wanted to avoid that?” Well, I am still working out the details of how exactly things will be brought into the past, whether it will be time travel or some type of alternate reality genjutsu thing, such as what we saw used by Obito in that one movie, remember the one? Though I was initially hesitant to involve such things in the FC, the more I thought about it the more I realized how many cool story elements we could bring into the FC.

For those of you that have already sent applications on the previous thread, fret not, I will bring those apps over to this thread in due time and your application status will not change. For those of you who wish to send in new applications, it is still pretty much as simple as it was the last time. Just simply put a link to your character in the comments. The only change to this process will be that I would like you to specify whether your character is from the present (post 4th War) or the past (Warring States Era). We will need at least a few characters from both these time periods for the FC. In addition, I’m also removing the limit on the number of characters people can have in the project. I now realize that was an overly simplistic system. People may have as many characters as they want. The reason I am changing this was because the two character limit prevented people from having support characters join the FC, such as Honrui.

As the FC progresses, I plan to have the FC narrow is focus. When it starts, I foresee many characters that will be deemed important by their respected authors. As things progress, many of the characters (minus the very few that will be labeled as plot essential) will either be reduced to supporting roles or even taken out of the story, whether they are killed off or taken out by some other means. The characters that remain will be the characters that stand out among the crowd, the ones who are the most interesting, best conceived and overall best written. How this will be determined is yet to be decided on, but this provides an excellent opportunity for quality writing to be rewarded here on NF.

More details about RoJ will be given after the 2016 Chuunin Exams (ya’ll should join, Shon and I are hosting this year). If you have any questions relevant to RoJ, please feel free to contact me on my message wall (let’s leave the comment section for applications only please). I’ll do my best to get to them as quickly as possible. This is your friendly neighborhood Dedmn, wishing you all well and telling you to get out there and write some totally awesome fan fiction!!! 