Kingsgate House is a literate historical roleplay based on an Edwardian country house, the family who owns it, and the servants who keep its cogs turning. In a time of whimsy, aristocracy and propriety, life is quaint and beautiful for those born to riches and privilege, but bitter and unrelenting for those born to serve them. The great manors in the English countryside are outward displays of wealth and house the most affluent of families, yet their cogs are only kept turning by the legions of household staff who are every bit as alive as their masters. The century is young here at Kingsgate, and you are welcome to see where it takes you...
SETTING
It is Week Two of December 1906, and Kingsgate is feeling the chill. Be careful not to slip on the ice outside. The pond in the woods has frozen over and the village children have been playing on it. Lady Elizabeth's birthday is coming up next week and some of the many esteemed guests who shall be attending are already heading to Kingsgate for an extended stay.
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NEWS
Sorry everyone, I guess it's time to pack up the shop on this one - it was just too difficult to get active interest in such a niche RP site. It was a fun experiment though, and I'm glad for the RP we got to have. Much love <3
29/03/2013 - Time skip! Week Two has begun in Kingsgate and the guests for Elizabeth's party are all arriving soon. With not long to go before the big day, we still need fine young ladies and gentlemen to attend the extravagant feast.
18/03/2013 - March is here and so is the first site plot, which you can read about here! Do take a look, and submit your characters to play key roles!
27/02/2013 - Things are ticking along, and we'll soon have enough characters to get started on some site events, like Elizabeth's birthday. Get your characters created and join in the fun!
18/02/2013 - We've got a nice little group of characters now! Still looking for lots of Penroses, including the Earl himself, so check out the wanted characters page and the Plotting Board to see if there's anything you feel up to making. :]
07/02/2013 - Welcome to new members, and thanks for sticking with us to the old. I hope you're all going to make new characters and fill out our site. Apologies if things seem slow; education demands are rather unforgiving!
30/12/2012 - Hope everyone's enjoying the festive season; roleplay is starting, although we still need oodles of new characters! Get creating :]
23/12/2012 - Characters are being created as we all prepare to start the RP!
18/12/2012 - Kingsgate is still pretty much brand new, but the doors are now open so get creating :] Some info threads may be unfinished and a few new boards may pop up in the next few days, but essentially everything is ready to go! We need many characters to create a bustling house, and that includes Lord and Lady Carmarthen, three of their four children and a whole staff team, plus villagers and friends of the Penroses! Wow!
In 1906, the beautiful country manor named Kingsgate House is a social centre for the Edwardian upper class. The Penroses have run it for generations and are well-established among the aristocrats of England. Lord Carmarthen's father died twenty years ago and since then things have been peaceful in the idyll of aristocratic life, the master living comfortably with his wife and their four children, Elizabeth, Kate, Edward and Annie.
But with Elizabeth and Kate reaching adulthood and the marriage scene, life is about to fill with propitious politics and a flurry of suitors which will only be topped when Edward too comes of age. And are the Lord and Lady really as happy in their marriage as they seem? What of the staff, who keep the house tiding over, but are involved in their own fierce system of power and politics? Life is never as simple as it first seems.
Hello! I'm Morrigan, and I'm the head admin on this site (oh all right, the only admin, for the moment anyway). I set this site up because I've always wanted to roleplay period drama style, but have never found a site that's quite fitting to my tastes. My roleplay background is pretty different to this site, having gone through various animal and anime sites, although in recent months I've not done much in the way of roleplaying. I started when I was 14, so it's been a few years on and off, which is modest compared to a lot of child-veterans out there!
I'm British, so you'll have to excuse me if I'm on a different time zone to many of you and appear online only at odd times. I'm at university studying History, so maybe no surprises why I'm so into things like the Edwardians ^.^ However, my current periods of study have been early medieval Britain (Anglo-Saxons and all that jazz) and Reformation Europe, so I'm certainly no 20th century expert.
I can be pretty nitpicky when I'm looking over bios, so I do apologise if I seem unduly harsh at any point. I do try and remember that grammar and spelling are not exactly matters of life and death, but sometimes you may see me on the rampage with my red pen. Nonetheless, I hope you all have a great time creating characters and roleplaying on this site! And feel free to add your own self-proclaiming piece here, if you so wish. :]
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Last Edit: Feb 17, 2013 6:45:49 GMT -5 by Morrigan
Well, me being the site stalker I am happened to fall upon this thread and I decided I had to be polite and introduce myself as well! I’m Grace, and I am a freshman in high school. Yeah, I know, I’m small… Still, I am capable of being a history freak and that’s what I am. I don’t actually know too much about the early 1900s, though as my school year goes on, I think we might cover it soon enough. I definitely like the way it’s aristocratic, but not like crazy aristocratic that it’s super unfair. Feudalism just ain’t fair. And though you have the rich and poor here, it’s not like the old medieval days where you have to rp sweaty, dirty knights. xD
Nevertheless, I am going to continue without ranting off about the past. Really, I don’t usually head toward the historical rpgs, but this one just looked too interesting. I like to play the equestrian academy sites, just cause I’m a horse freak as well. Horses are my number one passion, though I don’t own any, I ride. If you see my character being all equestrian, that is because of this. xD My second passion is le chocolat and French. I love the language, and I use it a lot. I am a 100% chocolate girl. (That’s right I’m made out of chocolate) XD No, just kidding. Though, with the amount I eat, I bet I am. Also, Morrigan, being British sounds awesome. I wish I had a foreign accent.
Anyway, I’ve been roleplaying since I was eight. (Yeah, I was a BA) I’ve only really taken a few breaks in between, though I can never escape the world of RPGs. It’s just too enticing. I love to write and want to do something along the lines of literature when I grow up, but I really have no idea what. Either way, I can be a grammar Nazi when I’m not lazy, but the majority of the time, I am a bit lazy. This is all my brain is really coming up with in terms of an introduction, though I’m sure you’ll get to know me as the days pass. I’m very excited to role-play with everyone and get started.
So. Lets get to know eachother! For starters, I'm Soulless. But please, call me Soul, Soulio, or Soulzie. I don't particularly care. Come up with your own if you want! And You're name? Ah. I see. What a shame its not as good as mine. What do I like to do in my spare time, you ask? Well. I like to read, sing loudly at the top of my lungs, play dress up, chase baby grasshoppers, and have a good ol' time on this here interweb site thinga-ma-jig on my fliptop mobile computing device. I am a c-box lurker. What does that mean? Look under your bed. Do you see me? Yeah. Thats what I am. I'm the bogey man. I stalk the c-box, posting random crap and turning otherwise normal conversations into something completely not normal.
I'm that one person, who likes to put off posting until the last possible moment. That moment being when one of my darling friends decides to put a noose around my neck for not posting on time. I have a thing for romance. I eat it, breathe it, drink it, and live it. And most plots I get into involve some form of romance, from flirting to full on, "I love you, be mine" floating hearts and glitter and all that cheesy crap.
Wanna know some more about me? My name is- Soul. My Age is- I was going to say something witty, but I can't think of anything. I'm 17, going on 18 soon. My Gender- Obviously female. My Favorite Roleplay site- Warriors Forest though i'm hoping with all my heart that i love it here. My Pets- Two cats. Tera and Beefy. Four Dogs. Scoot, Scout, Sadie, Shay My favorite books- Harry Potter My favorite music- Country. My Hometown- Depends. Hometown as in, where I was born? Or where I spent the most time? My homestate- Texas. Geeze. Why do you ask so many questions? Wanna add me on FB or youtube or twitter or tumblr? Send me a quick pm! Wanna join in on a thread/start a thread with me? |: Stalk me in the c-box, or send a pm. Wanna be my friend? Do it. I dare you. Do you even lift?
If you truly want to know more, just toss me a quick PM!
--Ily<3
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Last Edit: Feb 9, 2013 2:28:15 GMT -5 by --Soulio.
Well hello there :3 I'm Mist! As you all can see. xD;
Er, let's see here... I'm American, technically speaking, but I like to pretend I'm a Brit (and I'd much rather be, thank you very much). I tend to be wordy and rather archaic when I write, so I apologize ahead of time (though my usually spastic or otherwise overly friendly characters would suggest otherwise as far as dialogue goes). As far as writing or roleplaying goes, I tend to try out all different kinds (for the most part). I love writing in this era, though. And I really enjoy Harry Potter roleplays as well- I always play Luna because I find her to be such a lovely character~ <3
Hm. Oh, I'm a junior in high school currently and I'd like to go to school for theatre/drama. I love to act! I'm also a big fan of language, in general- I speak Japanese at an intermediate level, but it's quite time consuming to learn all that kanji as far as reading goes, and all kinds of nouns as far as speaking goes, so I still have quite a bit to learn before I'd call myself fluent. :3
Despite my age I know practically nothing about today's media. I rarely watch television (other than, of course, Downton) and even though I spend most of my time on the internet, I'm still pretty clueless if you're to talk about anything that's from today other than Downton Abbey or Harry Potter. In addition to those two things (the latter of which I've been a fan since it came out when I was much younger, and I'm afraid to say I'm a walking encyclopedia of) I'm also a huge fan of Tolkien's works, including but not limited to LotR and The Hobbit. Peter Jackson is a moviemaking god.
Oh and I love Batman. He's the greatest superhero of all time. Just to throw that out there.
Yes, my writing is sometimes archaic, but I'm the opposite in entirety. I really like to pretend that I'm from the early 1900s, but that's what acting's for. Anyhoo... sorry for the rant, I tend to do that a lot. Er... any questions, feel free to PM me or something. Lovely to meet you all ~! :3
Hey everyone, I'm Makuyi (MA-Q-E) or Cat or Whitey. Take your pick! Anyways, Soul suggested this lovely little site to me, and I'm happy to be here.
I'm currently a senior in high school, and I will be headed to college this fall. Awesome, right? I live in Colorado with an amazing family that unofficially adopted me last year in March.
I have been role-playing for about eight years now, and I used to own several sites of my own. My longest lasting, Keep Walking, recently closed down, so I've been looking for a great site to role-play on. Luckily, this one fit the bill. ^^
Anyways, I'm looking forward to getting to know all of you and getting a chance to get back into role-playing.
P.S: I love Mist because she loves Batman. +10 Awesome points to anyone else who does!
I'm a Junior in college, 19 and working to be an FBI agent. I'm a dude (I clarify because Gwen is a unisex name ahaha) I live in the united states, like most people, with my mum and my overly fat beagle. I've been on only three other roleplay sites and I started two years ago *u * but I'm fond of them, and this time period. War times are actually more my kind of historical thing I'm interested in, but nowadays I'm extending my interests elsewhere into the victorian/edwardian eras and the 20s and so on and so forth. History in general is interesting to me.
I'm actually here because of Keke <3 she's one of my best friends and recommended this rp to me so I wanted to give it a shot even though I'm notorious for getting shy and sticking to myself for random periods of time, so please excuse that. I'm also notorious for making my posts and my general apps for my characters pretty. Overly pretty. I don't know why, I just learned to do that I guess.
I'm only currently used to playing about three or four of my characters so I'm working on expanding myself a little. I'm excited to get to know all of you and start roleplaying (I'm a sucker for smiley faces by the way but never in posts)
I'm rambling! (I do that a lot.) So, C: that's a bit about me. Yay!
I just realized that I forgot to do this. XD Silly me. Anyway, my name is Keke. I'm currently in college going for my second degree. First one was an associates in general studies this time around I'm going for early childhood education. I want to be an elementary school teacher, pretty much the younger the better for me. I love children. I'm also working just under full time.
I have been role playing off and on for six or seven years but have become much more active in the last couple of years. I'm obsessed with palm trees and argyle. lol Uh...yeah that's all I can think of at the moment. If you wanna know more just PM me, I like talking to new people.
Hello everyone.. I am Rayne and I have been roleplaying off and on for the past seven years. I am 22 years old and I work as a full-time travel agent selling cruises. I am not in college at the moment but I do have my AS in chemistry. I love to learn but I don't have the attention span to sit and be taught so I am only focusing on my job right now. I'm not quite sure what I want to grow up to be, but I love to travel and get to know people.
I am looking to become more active now that I have recently resurrected my laptop (it has been out of commission for the past couple of months). I will have two sites that I will be bringing back up to speed, one a wolf rp and and a small-town racing rp. I am very eclectic and very flexible in the genres I roleplay so I pretty much have done everything at least once. I think the genres that I like the least are the ones based off books/movies/tv series. I like things that have a bit more originality and room for plot twists, character craziness and the like.
I am a bit of a HUGE drama whore. I love anything that involves violence, love, lust, revenge, tragedy, and scheming. Things that happen that are unexpected are like my crack and I am so addicted to surprise and cliff hangers. Mystery is also soo much fun.
Anywho, I am always around so feel free to PM me or hit me up via any of the ways listed in my profile.
I guess it's my turn. The name is Ember, going on thirty, and I live in the states. I am a fitness junkie, a theater lover, a pretty good cook, and insomniac.
I've been playing RP off and on for the last fifteen or so years, have run a few of my own boards, and have almost exclusively played Harry Potter themed games.
I love reading and writing, with two books (200+ pages each) in the works that I don't know what I will do with when finished. I'd like to think that I will have the courage to submit them to be published one day. I love to act/sing/dance, am passionate about movies and filmmaking, music and anything that touches the soul in a like manner.
I am super happy to be here and adore Edwardian society! You can find me running around and advertising the board wherever I can, I am just happy to help spread the word of this awesome site! Nice to meet you all.
Hey, you lot!! I'm actually a chick, American (heck yeah! lol). I am 23, I recently graduated from a fine institution of higher education with my BA in Linguistics, so if you ever want to make an English teacher cry, hit me up and I'll draw you some syntax trees showing the grammaticality of some things/hit you with some knowledge (or not) lol. I was also close to a BHS in Speech Pathology, minor in ESPANISH. Uhh.... I've played some other rp games, and my favorite thing to do is really just character developement, so my people kind of just wander around and do the stuff Look forward to doing some IC interaction
Woo. -sneaks in- Hi there! I guess I should fill you all in as well.
I'm Stern, German living in lovely California, 16, dual-enrolled as a junior in high school and a G.E. class-taker at our local college... Um... Not much really interesting about me. I love travelling and outdoorsy-type-stuff, hiking, backpacking, camping, the lot. I also swim competitively (At least soon, competitions start in a few months... I am in training!), and this will be my tenth and final season on the team. I'm working towards becoming a veterinarian, with undetermined speciality currently, although I'm leaning towards large animal. Come next semester, I will be doing an internship with animals, although we don't have interviews for the positions until later, so I can't tell you if I'm going with the ranch or the shelter. (I dislike the internship provider we had for small animal work)
I've been RPing for... Almost three years now, I think. Mostly cat/dog/lupine stuff, but I am an admin on an equine boarding school that's been my constant rock for the past year and a half. This is my first time on a RP like this, but when I saw it, I was really interested in the plot, and I wanted to branch out a little bit. :- ) So please, feel free to correct me if I make mistakes, anything whatsoever, I'm trying to expand.
To contact me, you can PM me, you can leave me a message on Chatango (Punktestern), you can ask if you want to Skype with me. -shrugs-
Oh, and if you have questions, feel free to ask. ;- )
I haven't roleplayed in a while and have recently joined three roleplay sites. Most of my roleplaying experience has been with animals, but I've decided to branch out and try something new! I love the idea of this site, and it's nice to see site descriptions that don't sound pompous for once, haha P:
The last time I roleplayed actively would have been in either 2008 or 2009, and I have been playing sims primarily between then and now. But I love writing so I decided to return to the roleplay scene!
As for history, I love history! Although I am a first year science student P: (I'm hoping to major in agricultural science or do veterinary medicine) My interests in history are very much personal (although I almost did it as a breadth subject) and I am most interested in ancient civilisations and the medieval period.
Oh yeah and I live in Australia! G'day
Last Edit: Apr 5, 2013 7:10:44 GMT -5 by slimestone