((OOC: Someone asked some questions and they were all really good! I'm going to put here my answers to them, to help people understand how the show operates.<br/><br/>Multiple characters are definitely allowed as long as you can play them. If you app both a predator and a prey, it may come to pass that your characters end up hunting each other, but I as the GM will try to do what I can to prevent that. There will be plenty of NPC's to interact with even after other players join.<br/><br/>If something happens to any of your characters, you can app another to replace them. Obviously, late-coming prey are at a disadvantage, but given the nature of the show it is still possible for them to win! ;3<br/><br/>I feel like keeping this rp open to many possibilities, though personally I prefer soft and sexy oral vore to other methods. I dislike excessive scat play but more neutral scat/watersports are fine. Heck, if someone wanted to do hard vore with another player I wouldn't complain. Generally this setting is intended as a launch pad to draw other players and get them all playing with each other, so when in doubt ask your partner. (which is a good idea in any game in which one character does something to another)<br/><br/>"Assistive technologies" is a catch-all phrase that basically means that both predator and prey have to rely on their own natural wits, instincts and inherent gifts in order to hunt prey or stay alive. For example, an antelope with cybernetic limbs would not be allowed to compete. Tazers, guns, shields, and most forms of magic are also disqualified. If you want to fashion a weapon or gadget, you have to make it yourself from parts available. The gameshow won't allow people to smuggle things onto the island. (note that some tech such as passive cybernetics or passive magic may be allowed. But nothing that would give a character a big advantage over any other.)<br/><br/>Prey are encouraged to do whatever they can to stay alive. They will not be penalized if they should happen to kill or eat a predator.<br/><br/>The gameshow is monitored by hidden cameras, usually driven by remote, since inserting crew into the game is risky.<br/><br/>Actually, the planet itself is a fully populated and functioning system of slightly larger than Earth size. The Gameshow takes place on a remote chain of islands. Outside of those islands there are continents with big cities full of people that function more or less normally. The show is seen as a quirk of locality to that planet. Some are drawn to see it, others to participate. Many more don't care, and there is even a group that protests against it. The reason I said "distant planet" and not "some island somewhere" is to give the impression that you can app just about whatever you want. Feel like playing a pokemorph or a snake-naga or a human or an intelligent wolf? be my guest! The galaxy is big, so you come from...somewhere.<br/><br/>In terms of popularity, the show is still relatively new, though some of the predators have gained notriety over pass seasons. In terms of viewers, it ranks slightly under professional sports, and has a galaxy-wide broadcast (though only those planets within the nearest 12 parsecs are capable of getting the broadcast live!). In the first season, the winner was a female Raichu morph, who managed to successfully have kids and raise most of them into their teens. She wished for a stake in the show to replace her mate (who was eaten) and is now a predator in the show's roster. The second season was won by a family of rabbits, of which the girl at the desk is a daughter. The cameras capture everything, so some people watch it for the porn or erotic vore; but there are plenty of non-vorish fans who watch it just for the drama of seeing who will come out on top.<br/><br/>As far as interbreeding species, there are indeed some that have that capability. What I'm going to do is use dice rolls for pregnancy success after a scene in which two creatures mate. The closer two creatures are in terms of physiology and genetic make up the higher the chance is that pregnancy will occur (IE, anything higher than 10 on a 20 sided die would be considered success). If we have, say a non anthro wolf trying to have sex with an anthro raccoon the success roll might jump to anything higher than 15, and so forth. Some species absolutely cannot breed, but this is based on common sense (Plant based creatures can't breed with meat based creatures, for example.)<br/><br/>The show is divided into seasons by editors in the taping room, but for most participants the show is always 'on'. Whenever someone wins, the season ends (due to the nature of the game, a season of the show runs for shortly under a year). For the purposes of the game, I will be employing something I call "video game time". A "round" of the game is complete when all predators have roleplayed eating somebody, either fodder or a contestant. Then, after everyone else has finished their interactions, things move forward by a "month", although for the players things stay more or less the same. What changes are the seasons, the location of predators, and so forth. Fertilized females go through four stages of pregnancy in the game, with each stage lasting one month. A month after the fourth stage, they give birth, and in order to win their litter has to survive for another four months, with each month advancing their age up to adulthood. Once the offspring of the original prey are able to produce offspring of their own, the family is declared a winner. But that's all technical stuff. The real OOC point of this game is to give people a chance to play with each other, not necessarily to win the game. If it should happen that someone wins, I'll work out with them what happens next.))