What Is Gateway

So what exactly IS Gateway?
Gateway is a text-based RPG (role-playing game) that began as a single thread on a popular Toontown fansite/forum. Loosely based off The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis and The Circle Trilogy by Ted Dekker, Gateway details the adventures of heroes and villains from two completely opposite worlds--a science-fiction universe called Oltair, and a fantasy fiction realm known as Olmarin. The stories center around characters known as "Gateways," who serve as links between the two connected worlds.

RPG? So this is a game? For what console? I've never heard of it before!
Don't let the abbreviation fool you; Gateway is not a video game. This is a different kind of RPG. Rather than being a console game that allows you to play a character and guide them through a pre-determined storyarc (e.g. Kingdom Hearts, The Legend of Zelda, etc.), this kind of RPG is a forum- and community-based interactive story. Members who join the forum create characters whose actions they write out. Their characters can then interact with other members' characters, and, guided by the administrator of the forum, all these "mini stories" create the always-changing story of Gateway. It's like writing a gigantic story with a whole bunch of people, with each person writing only about their own character. That means that you never quite know where Gateway will end up!

So how did this whole thing get started?
The originator, Keibear (or Lady Ruffntumble or Rynfyre), designed Gateway as an ambitious single-thread roleplay. However, due to space constraints and growing interest in the project, Keibear discovered she was able to move the thread onto a forum of its own. Now Gateway is a multi-thread forum of a few core members just itching to really take off.

Sounds interesting. I'd like to learn more.
Take a look around the Wiki or hop directly on the Gateway home site to find out more!

For more information on the Gateway storyline, click here.

For more information on Gateway's characters, click here.

To contact Keibear, leave her a message here.