Just as a point of order and of assistance...
I'd recommend (if you desire to make this a serious RP as opposed to a fun RP) that you make an OOC thread for people to submit apps to, discuss the roleplay in OOC terms, and other RP-specific-but-not-IC information can be shared in the Serious OOC board and then have the OC create a new RP thread. Heck, I'd even link the RP thread into the OOC thread when it was up so that everyone knew where it was.