Intro Time!

[Lirriel]

Hello there lovely people!

We used to have a general intro thread... I think? I've got terrible memory - but anyway, we definitely don't right now, so I figured I'd go ahead and make this! If you're unused to making intro threads or just don't want to post and not get any replies, then feel free to post here! The more the merrier.

Now, as for myself - my name is Lirriel and I'm 23. I got into roleplaying back when I was around eleven or so and have roleplayed on and off ever since. It's been a few months since I last rped, so I'll probably be a bit rusty to start - please bear with me! I've run my own sites before and occasionally do templates when I have free time. Several years ago I also used to do manips but those honestly take more time than I have nowadays lol. I enjoy the old standard of wolves, but I'll also play humans if the pitch is right. I enjoy most games with powers just because I'm a bit bored of the mundane.

More personally, I'm currently working on a degree in Marketing with a focus on Graphic Design. I'm a bit behind my peers education-wise since I spent several years working as a graphic designer. I'm a huge lover of animals and currently have a german shepherd, several reptiles, and a little budgie in my possession. I mean it's kinda shared custody but whatever lol. My drink of choice is something mixed with vodka, but I'll drink other stuff if it suits my palate. My days tend to be kind of packed but I try to check in whenever I have time, even if I don't necessarily announce my presence lol.

Looking forward to getting to know you all

[Ray]

Hello :D

I'm Ray and I probably started the old intro thread last year because of who I am as a person. lol I'm also probably the little shoulder demon who made Lir make this new thread.

I just turned 24, I'm Chinese-Cantonese and I stay in GMT+8 which is very useful for mod duties. (No prizes for why I've taken a mod position on so many games and RP sites lmao) I have been RPing since I was like 9 on Neopets when everyone would RP in the same thread and there was NO POSTING ORDER (yikes) and your intro (that you saved in Microsoft Word and re-used every time a new thread started) would take like ten posts if you were part of the "advanced lit" bourgeoisie. It's been wolf RP predominantly for most of my life but I have occasionally been part of some human RPs too :3

More on me - I have a degree in Graphic Communication, my previous education includes concept art, illustration and animation. I'm currently working two jobs - my full time day job is in PR&Comms at a golfing club, but I moonlight as a freelance penciller for a local superhero comic. :') I didn't use to be so busy and actually have a crippling fear of overcommitment but clearly past me wasn't thinking ahead when they said yes to every single opportunity that came their way - I blame my ADHD lmao. I speak English and Mandarin, some Korean and some Cantonese. I also like video games but recently have had zero time for that :( My fav types of video games are open world adventure shooters (cough Far Cry cough Borderlands cough) but also a certain game concerning the cumulative lifetime years of large winged fantasy reptilians. >_>

Okay I've rambled enough, next person!!

[persecutor]

Well Hello!

I'm Umbra, and I'm about....14 years right now and going through my first year of High school! I really don't have much to say, but here's some information.

I'm a young girl and I adore drawing, even if it's on my hand. I'm a lefty, so I'm kinda unique! I am about 5'8 or so, and absolutely all of my friends are so short. Well, almost. I want to get a major in graphic designing and I plan on going to Clemson university. I live with five snakes, five dogs, four rats, about three cats, and three more outside cats. I'm an anime dweeb and I cannot stand it when someone makes my friends cry or upset. I listen to dubstep and other bands and I absolutely love transformers!

I'll stop rambling I don't have much to say about me. Next person!

[Kenren]

YEAH, SO LIKE

I'm not actually a very interesting person, but I've done some interesting things? I'm 24 also, and I've been RPing for a good long while. I was probably 9 or 10 when I started, getting up early before school to use the family desktop to throw a post or two up. Since then I've mostly been around horse and wolf roleplays, though fantasy wolf stuff is where I really found my niche. I was on those sites for awhile in high school that were like "elite", aka the person with the longest post and the prettiest graphics were the winner. I got to the point where that was pretty dang tedious, and thus you find us here.

I graduated from college with a degree in Animal Science, and from there went to Kentucky in a program called the Kentucky Equine Management Internship. I've always loved horse racing because of the stories and the guts and the incredible athleticism of Thoroughbreds, so it was only a natural progression. I'd been volunteering at barns since I was little, I worked on research projects when I was in college, and did a 3-month camp counseling stint at a prestigious riding camp in West Virginia. None of that meant anything compared to the level of professionalism I found in KY. I worked at Ashford Stud with mares and foals for six months (if you guys know who American Pharoah is, he arrived there the fall I was there!), then did the second part of my internship at Timber Town Stable, which has the most expensive broodmare band in North America. We had 2011 Horse of the Year, $10 million Havre de Grace, dual Breeders' Cup winner Groupie Doll, and about 148 others lol. I kind of found my love-hate second home there, meeting the best people and doing the job I loved while struggling to maintain the hours while being away from family. After staying on there for another year and a half, I've moved back up to Michigan to be closer to and help out my grandparents. I still go down every couple of months just to hang out or to make absurd amounts of money working sales, which I need because I'm now back in school full-time. Kentucky doesn't require a vet tech degree to do what I was doing, but Michigan does. So instead of totally starting my career path over, I'm doing online classes to get licensed. I'm substitute teaching in the meantime, yay children.

UM obviously I enjoy writing. I love to travel, or just road trip, and I'm a big redneck in that fishing and camping are A+ in my book. I've got a Silverado, just to keep that track going. I volunteer at a local animal shelter so I can pet the animals, and still gush when I even pass a horse driving down the road. My drink of choice is vodka cranberry, though I have a lovely habit of taking shots of bourbon to prove how tough I am mid-night-out #kentucky.

And I think that's it. There's my life story. I like to pat ponies. Huzzah.

[baylentine]

-flails arms in greeting- Ello!

I'm literally brand-spankin'-new here so I guess it'd be best to put one of these up. Let's see here...

I am nineteen years old and am currently an CNA (Certified Nursing Assistant) so I apologize if I suddenly through medical lingo at you. It isn't intentional and I will explain if you ask! I graduated from an accelerated high school program as of 2016 in which I was pursuing a career in Forensics. That's right NCIS and Criminal Minds type of jazz because if I'm not always doing something or doing something to keep my attention I'm a great mess of something that doesn't function. Currently though, due to living on my own and that fun stuff you do as an adult I have had to put school on the back burner for a while until I can attain that cash money stuff that's green and disappears the moment you get it. -coughs- I love food too much..

Along with being freakishly tall I am a bit of a gamer and have dabbled in coding as I used to help create websites as a hobby along with mod work when I was extremely active in the rpg world. I've been rping for about ten years now mostly with fantasy animal styled themes, but I've had my fair fun in with human rp's as well. I'm a girly with many trades and love to help out in what ways I can, so please don't be afraid to come talk with me and interact. I love it! Save this workaholic from herself <3

Neeext!

[Heika]

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Hey hey! <3

I'm Heika and I'm one of the biggest enablers you will ever meet lmao. I'm not exactly super interesting, but I think I do have my redeeming quirks!

But, first things first. I'm 18, a current freshman in college, and my planned major is international and global studies so politics is my #grind. I'm Chinese-American, and I'm currently residing in the Eastern Time Zone, though I am from San Francisco. Somerset was actually one of the first sites I've ever roleplayed on, and it's introduced me to a bunch of really amazing people so I'm super glad to see it's come back!

Aside from rping, my other interests include puppers (namely the ones with the strong brow game), talking/chatting like I'm a real life shitpost, playing ultimate frisbee, and eating. I am also a hardcore musical nerd, so I'll always be down to talk about Broadway and other productions!

Anyways, it's great meeting everyone, and I'm really happy we're all here! :D

[Lexx]

Hi! My name is Lexx (or Lexi)!

I'm very much a fantasy wolf kind of girl, so this is my first and only realistic wolf site. I've known Kenren since 2009, where we met on my first ever fantasy wolf site, and she's literally never been able to get rid of me since! Every time she texts me like "Hey I have this RP project" I immediately strap myself onboard and I'm amazed she's not sick to death of me yet LOL.

I'm 23 years old, and I live in Akita, Japan, so my timezone is GMT +9. I speak conversational Japanese, and I work as an English teacher full time. When I was around and writing on Somerset last summer, I was living in a teeny mountain village in Niigata, so I'm super happy to say that I now have an apartment in a real city! In school I studied Japanese language and culture, and also geology. I'm super into disaster risk management, and I'll talk you to death about how the North-Pacific part of the US is totally doomed unless we start preparing for a massive earthquake and tsunami now.

I like art and I like coding, but I'm not very good at it! If we're writing together, there's a good chance I'll make you some art if I can find the free time. I also really like writing (of course), and I'm participating in Nanowrimo this year as an ML for my area. If I'm not CRAZY active during November, it's because I'm already struggling to make word count on my novel project, but I'll be back! I did completely vanish last year once school started, but at least I'm graduated now...wheeze...

I'm excited Somerset is back because I've met some really lovely, friendly, and talented people here! I can't wait to write with you all!

[rotwhyler]

aw i love reading about all you guys, it's so nice to meet you all! <3

okay so WHATS THE HAPS i'm rottie and i'm kinda just this big dork who shoulda been a 90s goth but instead i'm a huge edgelord. 

i'm 18 years old, going on 19 on december 31st, and i live in ohio! my usual saturday night consists of making crop circles in our vast fields of corn, resurrecting road kill, communicating with the strictly occult, and feeding zombies off the freeway. i collect dead things and dabble in the bass and ukulele, and my secret dream is to be in an all-girl metal band. i get way too excited about absolutely everything and sometimes i just have to TALK IN CAPS !! music is v important to me and i love making playlists so talk to me abt that maybe!! i will make u a playlist if u give me a random playlist title it'll be fun my taste in music is vast as hell. i have an aesthetic that i worked v hard on, it involves a lot of zombie dogs and sharp things and dark imagery and im proud of it 8) i also use a lot of emojis.

my biggest passion is horror! horror movies, horror games, all that jazz, i'm obsessed! please hmu and talk to me about spooky stuff if you want to, i would looooove that! alongside everything scary, i'm very passionate about true crime, and wish to be a forensics scientist later on in life. currently, i'm dropped out of highschool for personal reasons having to do with mental health, but i'm working on my GED and when i'm finally really genuinely ready i would LOVE to go to college! but for now that's unfortunately not a possibility. my dream college is University of North Carolina, i've been to that campus and it's honestly wonderful. i've got 4 dogs and 2 cats, and i really want to own some giant hissing cockroaches and some rats that's like the dream.

thank you for reading and i hope we get to rp together!! <3 <3

[Ember]

JOINS THE PARTY LATE but yes, hello! :D I am so happy to see old and new faces around here, and it's been a pleasure reading about you guys and getting to know you. I hope we have the chance to thread together!

Feel free to call me Ember (or Jill). I'm 23, currently a student in college, and I live in the southern US. Aside from obsessing over wolves like someone who hasn't ever outgrown her 14-year-old weeaboo stage (okay, y'know, maybe I actually haven't), I tend to spend my free time roleplaying, drawing, animating, and generally goofing off. I'd say my life is pretty boring but chill, but who knows! Maybe someone else thinks differently.

I've got a super wonderful boyfriend, an awesome (elderly) black lab/shepherd mix, and a small, close-knit group of friends with whom I love playing video games and generally geeking out over anime. Been really into Legend of Zelda and My Hero Academia as of late!

So yeah! If you ever wanna chat, feel free to shout at me in the cbox or send me a PM. I occasionally struggle with anxiety, depression, and general brain-weirdness, so if I'm ever a bit quiet or slow to respond to threads, it isn't anything personal. :) Feel free to give me a nudge if that's the case!