Roleplays
The roleplays are the fuel for an e-fed. Without them, there'd be no match, nor any point to e-fedding. How are they written? Well to start off you need some idea of where they will lead. You can write a one-off roleplay, detailing your character ordering a hamburger at the local McDonald's and leave it at that, or you can do sequential storytelling. Invent a plot, and distribute it over as many roleplays as need be.
But first we will outline the different types of roleplays. There are two common kinds, and both are accepted in the LWF.
Type One: Promotions - Promotions, or promos for short, are shot from the angle of an actual camera. When writing a promotion, you detail how the shots are, and the character is generally talking directly to the camera, whether it be to the viewer or to his opponent or whomever he wishes to address. These are the most common type of roleplay in e-fedding today. They are generally used for a back and forth, where a wrestler makes a comment about his opponent and their upcoming match, and his opponent responds with his own comments, and then they continue back and forth.
Example:
[The camera focuses, shifting slowly across a dimly lit room to focus on the lone figure, standing by the window and looking out reflectively. "The Wrestler" John Smith turns around and looks directly into the camera, his face set as a mask of anger.]
John: Johnny Generic, you think you're so great. Challenging to this match. You insult me, you insult my family, you insult everything that I am. Well I'll tell you what. When Rebellion comes around, you will wish you were never born. I will tear you limb from limb. I will violate every orifice on your body. I will create areas for me to violate. And when I'm done, you will be but a shell of a man!
[John turns around wildly, grabbing a chair and throwing it through the window in a fit of rage as the camera fades to black.]
Now, this is a very short, very generic promo. If you were to write your own, you'd aim for a page or two in length. Also, you would play your character's angle. Generally speaking, when writing a promo you have denoted colors for the text. In this example, any text spoken by "The Wrestler" John Smith would be in red, while if there was another character speaking, they'd be a different color. One thing to remember with promos is that they are usually staged. The wrestler hires a camera crew, or gets someone to hold the camera, and they speak into it.
Type Two: Short Stories - Short story format is exactly that. The roleplay is written as a short story. It can be any length, but generally they are 2-3 pages long. First- and third-person perspectives are allowed, although third is usually the easier to write. A short story format roleplay can tell any event, even if it's private. It could be a day in the life of your wrestler, without there being cameras, or it could outline a meeting with his drug dealer for some steroids. Anything goes, as long as you do not use another wrestler in the roleplay without their permission.
Example:
John Smith looked around through his sunglasses. His mind was racing; anyone there could be on to him. Anyone there could be ready to call the cops at the slightest hint of activity on his part. It was nerve wracking, to say the least. All these suspicious faces. But "The Wrestler" kept telling himself it was only the mindset of the guilty. Because he was about to engage in illegal activity, he saw everyone as a threat. Still, he wished Greg would hurry up and get there.
"The Wrestler" sat by himself in the outdoor section of a small cafe, watching people walk past on the busy street. Why were they meeting here, of all places, with so many people around. It had been on Greg's insistence that they had agreed on this place, he had kept reassuring John that it was safe, that all was good.
John breathed a sigh of relief as Greg arrived, the man quickly spotting the large wrestler and sitting down across from him. John watched him, as he carried no bag with him. The muscular man began to worry.
"You got the stuff?"
Drama, plot, description and so forth are the key items to this type of roleplay. Keep your character as your character, and put him through anything. In his case, John Smith was getting some drugs to help him pommel Johnny Generic in their match. However there is no camera, this is an offscreen situation, so no other wrestler will know what happened unless, with permission for John Smith's handler, they were watching his movements.
Notice, also, another character, Greg. Greg is a drug dealer, not a wrestler. In your roleplays, you can have as many characters as you want, as long as you keep track of them. None of them can have relation to the other wrestlers without previous consent, nor can any of them be characters from other wrestlers roleplays without consent. This is very important; you can't do anything with anyone else's characters without clear permission.
Another note in this section, and that's toward the matches. Just because your character orders a lifetime's supply of steroids and injects it all into himself before the match, does not mean he's going to win. It may be a factor toward his win, if you wrote better quality roleplays than your opponent. A good way to see the difference between quality is to look at the match. If it was a quick and easy victory, the victor wrote far superior roleplays. If it's a close match and comes down to a single mistake on the loser's part, then the roleplays were written at levels close to each other, but one thing or other made them stand out. And if there's a tie, a winner just couldn't be decided. If neither person roleplays, then both will no-show the match.
It's all in the quality of your roleplays.
Finally, if you don't understand how you lost, ask an admin. Or post your roleplay in the Roleplay Clinic. The Roleplay Clinic is there to help make roleplays better, to help people find their weaknesses and their strengths, and to get general critique and opinions from the other members.