Snapshots of the lives of the people involved in Adabian football and those associated with them
If you’re reading this, welcome to A Dance with Football, a series which is centered on people who – as players or staff – are part of the Adab national football team as well as those who know them well. I wrote the first twelve chapters in 2018, during my first serious run in NS Sports, before taking a break from NationStates the next year – which I originally thought would be a permanent retirement – to prepare for university and only coming back in 2021, hence the thirteen-year break between chapters 12 and 13.
I had not originally planned to compile all the chapters, spread across the multiple tournaments I had RPed in, into a single thread. What made me decide to do this is that, as of this writing, I’m already RPing for the Independent Associations Championship 13 and I’ve also signed up for the World Cup, the U18 World Cup, the U21 World Cup, and the Olympics, and thus for the first time I faced the possibility of my storyline continuing across multiple events at the same time. Another reason is that I may sometimes decide to write an additional chapter even after I’ve been eliminated from the corresponding event to advance or wrap up a particular plot point, and I do not want to further clog up the roleplay thread when nothing that I write will help me advance to the next round.
My creating this thread is intended to allow readers (if there are any) to follow the storyline without having to shift between different threads, should they want to do so. I should note that I do not consider myself a writer; I just happen to write sometimes (I’m a law student, in this field you kinda have to be able to write). This is just something that I do for fun (and to gain RP bonus lol).
All chapters will be posted both here and on their respective event threads, aside from the aforementioned additional chapters which will only be posted here.
The full list of chapters is available here and will continue to be updated there. The links there will take you to their respective event threads and I intend for them to remain so. I highly encourage you, if you have the time, to read all the other RPs there. NS Sports is filled with many excellent RPers and I’m sure they would appreciate it if you would just take your time to read all the things that they’ve written.
A list of major/prominent characters in this storyline can be found here by scrolling down to the “Football” section.
Finally, in creating this series and this thread, there are too many people for me to thank and I cannot possibly mention them all in this thread, but I am particularly indebted to:
- Sir Alex Ferguson and Manchester United for igniting my love of football.
- The NationStates community in general for regularly producing high-quality prose.
- And finally to two NSers in particular, Quebec and Shingoryeo and Tumbra, who have been a source of inspiration to me in compiling my chapters in a single thread. Their own series – The Wanderer’s Guide to Somewhere and defender meets midfielder, respectively – are absolutely worth a read, so go read them.
If you have any questions, feel free to TG me or contact me on Discord if you’re on the same server as me. I’ll try to reply as soon as possible.