Exposition
What is an office? Is it a collection of workers? Is it the work ethic inside of the building? Is it the building itself? Well, yes it’s the building. I mean, without the building our office wouldn’t be much of an office. But why do we love an office? Simple. We love the people inside of it. We may hate our jobs but the people inside of here help give us some escape from our crippling depression caused by our corporate overlords.
We are Roy-Winston Cardboard. A sales company that sells cardboard and flat rate shipping boxes to shipping companies. We work 9 AM to 5 PM, then we all go home and either get piss drunk or sleep the night away. No one wants to think about work the next day, some people just want it to happen to get it over with. That’s why we must have the people inside of the office. They give us some hope of enjoyment in our jobs that a simple business slave job couldn’t give us.
Our specific branch is placed out in the boonies of Canton, Ohio. We were formed in July of 1968 to combat the spreading of department stores that sold cardboard storage boxes for a much lower price in bulk. We ended up becoming one of the only branches of cardboard sellers inside of our region, and we’re thankful to that end. Nothing could feel better than overpowering the market. That is, until some department store rolls over and decides that our rates are way too high and that they could put us out of business in one swoop.
We have many branches of work here. We have a sales department, an accounting department, an HR and PR department, and finally a manager. Most people are focused inside of the sales department, and about half of those people inside of the accounting department. No one likes being an accountant. No one. Our manager's name is Megan Robinson. She was hired as a manager here 3 years ago after being in sales for around 15 years. No doubt she had to do shit tons of kissing up to just get the thought of being elected up there. Either that or she black mailed corporate which she is infamous for doing inside of this office. She's a notorious prankster if that's what you want to call it. She's terrible at her jokes and usually they don't impress anyone but herself. Welcome to our wonderful office, everyone.
OOC Exposition
Welcome one and all to an IWV Sandbox Roleplay! Here we have a roleplay based on the American TV mockumentary named The Office. It’s basically a bunch of 15 fools who all work white collar in a sales company for paper. The name of the office is Dunder Mifflin Incorporated. Now if you want any more information and background on the show, you know that search engine you got here on? Use that to find out more. If you can’t then… well… whoops?
There are a few roles you must have your characters work in the RP. There are many options, but most will either be in sales or in accounting. Most of the other roles are 1 person only. There are also minor character roles that play a smaller role in the RP but are still somewhat required for the RP to work the way you want it to. You could think of them as NPCs.
Why the office you may be thinking? Well, honestly it’s mostly because I’ve been binge-watching the show for the past few days and I wanted something close to it in RP format. It’s a very interesting and unique concept (the tv show, not this RP. This RP is copying the tv show so it’s not very unique…) that I think could be very fun with a sandbox RP. This will not be played as a mockumentary as the original show was. Instead, it will be played in the usual 3rd person RP format (you can RP in the first person, just make sure you specify who you're RPing as on the top of your post) where you have your characters think things that you want to say to someone but at the same time don't want to say.
Think of the arcs that we could assemble! Does the company get overrun by a competitor? Do they have to merge? What new people could come with these mergings? Think of the awkward love triangles we could create! So much opportunity and all you have to do is type a paragraph once or twice a day.
Rules
1. Thou shalt have no other OP before me (Don't godmode.)
2. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor (Don't attention whore)
3. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor (Don't flame)
4. Thou shall respect thine OP and Co-OP (Respect the OP and Co-OP/s)
5. Don't defy the laws of physics. Don't do it. Don't teleport. Teleporting is bad. I can make an entire paragraph out of making a sandwich, you can make a paragraph out of waking up and doing your morning routine.
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