Fading of the World OOC (Now with Pictures!)

Fading of the World

Set-up:

The basic set-up is a literature RP. Given the fact you are all mostly veteran sporumites I don't think I have to go into great detail of what a literature RP is. Simply write it like you are writing a book.

Setting:

Our setting is the mystical world of World. For you keen Wanderer watchers, this RP takes place over 100 years after Medea. The world is no longer called Medea, and that name has long since faded from memory. The human race has gone extinct long ago. The World in this RP is made of several continents and islands. Not much has changed technologically in the World. There are still no guns, electronics, or high technology. However, given that that World is not a pangea technology in seafaring has improved and boats, underwater cities protected by magic, and such are now common. However magic is a less prevalent in this world than it was in Medea. For more on magic, keep reading.

The World is ruled by an evil dark wizard name Emperor Moribidus. He controls the world iwith a totalitarian police state. To put it as basically as I can its pretty much like the n@zis. Genocide, secret police, oppression, fear, propaganda, and more grip the world threatening to choke off all freedom once and for all.

Magic:

As in Medea magic exists in the World. However, because of the reign of Emperor Moribidus magic has become highly regulated. The common layperson may know a few simple spells or may know none at all. More powerful mages have taken to hiding. There are still some groups that resist the Emperor by practicing and teaching magic in secret. Public displays of magic are kept at a minimum for fear of being identified and captured by the Emperor's secret police the Black Robes. You may have access to as much magic as you like, but remember to keep the scope of your spells limited. Unlike in Medea where you could cast just about anything, the really grand spells have mostly been lost. Anything big or earth shattering is not permitted (at least early in the RP.) Even the skill of flying/floating has been lost.

Artifacts:

The ability to create magically imbued items called Artifacts has also been lost. The Emperor has strictly regulated magical items requiring citizens to register all magical items with the government. Moribidus confiscated most of the Artifacts in the World and destroyed them. Despite his best efforts some Artifacts are still kept in secret, or their true powers are unrealized by their owners. As a general rule of thumb the magic inside Artifacts is generally stronger than the regular Magic today's magi use. Characters will now be limited to 1 Magical Artifact at the start of the RP. As the RP progresses though opportunities to acquire new Artifacts will present themselves.

Rules:
All basic decency and RPP rules apply as usual
Please read the IC OP namely the Prologue.
Check back for updates
No destroying the World
No killing people's Main Character
No Big Magic
No killing Moribidus (he'll have his time, don't worry)
No killing/releasing the Wanderer (after all he'd just kill Moribidus if you did that)
No one's character may be Human (you may be half-human, though keep in mind the Emperor is ruthlessly rounding up half-humans for mass execution)
Generally, no messing up the main plot.
BIG RULE: Do Not leave posts open ended with characters waiting on other characters. Everyone is allowed to loosely NPC eachother's character in conversation and action to keep the RP moving.

Character sheet:
To join the RP simply fill out the character sheet for your main character. Once your have joined the RP you may make side characters as much as you like without a sheet. Side characters may be killed off by anyone at any time for any reason. You may not kill off other peoples' Main Characters. You only need a Sheet for your Main Character.

Name:
Race: (Remember, No Humans!)
Weapons:
Artifact: (Artifacts are magical items. Specify your magical item here. Remember you may only have 1 at the start of the RP. If your weapon is magical you can list it again here and describe its properties.)
Magic: (tell us what kinds of spells your character knows. Keep it simple, you may learn new magic from other peoples' characters or as the story progresses. You may also choose not to start with magic and either learn it throughout the story or never at all. Simply put "No Magic" if you aren't magic)
Bio: (optional, but everybody seems to enjoy adding a bio anyways.)

Sample Sheet: (My sheet)

Name: Adonis Greenspell
Race: Tuvore (a light green-skinned race that appears to be a hybrid of goblin and elf)
Weapons: An Arcane Staff and a short sword
Artifact: Arcane Staff. The Arcane Staff is an ancient staff dating back to the Medea Era This particular staff has the ability to heal even the most mortal of wounds and even cure the most potent of poisons. All around its a great tool of healing made by the ancient mages of West Medea. It appears to be a normal walking stick and is unregisterred by the Black Robes.
Magic: Adonis is a fairly experienced mage for someone of his time. Without his staff he can do basic household magic like cleaning and cooking. On the grander scale he can talk to animals, make plants grow faster, and duplicate food items.
Bio: Adonis Greenspell is a young Tuvore Mage. Before Emperor Moribidus came to power Adonis had kept his powers a secret and pretended to be a successful farmer. Using the small fortune he made he purchased a few homes in various cities. After the ascension of Moribidus Adonis became an underground teacher of magic. However, with most of his disciples either imprisoned or on the run, Adonis is looking to venture forth once again to find new apprentices to teach and perhaps new spells for himself to use.

Sorry if I am missing anything or if this seems a little bare bones at the moment. I will add more as is needed.

Are we limited to what side we're on, at least at the start? I'm not sure if I want to start off evil or not.

Hmm, you ask a good question. It is okay for you to start out as a servant of Moribidus, but eventually I would like everybody's main character to be against him.

Your question does make me think though, we need some Side Bosses/baddies. I figure just like Side Characters we can all make up some Side underlings and such to serve the Emperor, and be killed by our heroes.

Working on a sheet, slowly...

Lol I hope I am not advancing to far in my monologue for you. Basically Moribidus is a fucker, some peeps called the Resistance hate him, two peeps from the Resistance get whacked by Moribidus' crony a lil froglike fucker called Krokus, and a General Moribidus wanted to have executed is saved by his three valiant knights and is now an outlaw. Oh and Adonis and a totally sexy elf babe are on their way to meet the super secret leader of the Resistance.

Righto. I do know my character will have a semi-distant relationship with my guy from Medea, but I'll figure out what exactly that means later. He'll probably be a licensed thaumaturge or something.

Fåil_Whåle wrote:

Righto. I do know my character will have a semi-distant relationship with my guy from Medea, but I'll figure out what exactly that means later. He'll probably be a licensed thaumaturge or something.

Hmm, if my memory serves me correctly your Medea character was Euxodus I think. The scholarly ancient of his times. I suppose its a nice little hint, but that tome of unreadable magic that Adonis is lugging around is actually a book Euxodus wrote after survivng the pretty much near-apocalypse at the end of the Medea Era becoming one of the few literate people still alive in his time and one of the few survivors of the brutal war before and after the Medea Era. The book will be useful in destroying Moribidus, it must not be destroyed until it can be deciphered by the only mother fucker that can speak its ancient tongue. Too bad he's in a diamond prison inside the most powerful item in the hands of the most powerful villain.

Don't you love this RP its so impossible.

Welcome back, Wanderer.

I'll probably get started on a sheet soon, just as I decide what I want to play.

Holy shit, I wasn't expecting anyone to remember him. Awesome.

I'll post later, but:



Name: Tisias
Race: Half-Strigid (Strigidae, Strigidan) Strigid loosely resemble person-sized owls, of species depending on a number of factors. They normally have full wings with feather-fingers, but being half-lizardman has goofed with his genetics and prevented his wings from fully developing. He is taller and slimmer than a full-strigid, and he has clawed and scaled hands, sharp teeth in his beak, and a more pronounced tail. Tisias himself takes after a Southern White-faced Owl.
Weapons: A ceremonial dagger with a raven's head in the pommel that points straight up and away from the blade, rather than perpendicular to it. Its eyes are ruby, and the raven head is made of black iron. From the head come a series of overlapping and interlacing swirls that fade into steel as they progress up the handle. The entire thing is about ten inches long.
Artifact: The dagger is actually a concealable (and unregistered) wand of unknown-in-IC origins. It belonged to Tisias' grandfather Euxodus, though not even Tisias knows the specifics. It is primarily a focus and an amplifier, but it has some minor functions on its own. Notably, when it stabs something and gets a little magic run through it, it produces a small explosion at the tip. What most of its other functions are, Tisias doesn't know. However, it's nearly impossible to detect on its own.
He also has a registered book of alchemy; it contains very little magic beyond a variety of useful spells and instructions for making potions, poultices, concoctions, and anagathics.
Magic: Some utilitarian spells, like making water, curing poisoning, purification/distillation.
Bio: Tisias' great-grandfather is Euxodus, a mage in the Wanderer's Fortress. Everything stayed within the species until the last generation, where Tisias' mother was forcibly married to a low-ranking lizardman Black Hood, who died under mysterious circumstances when Tisias was seven years old. His mother is now dead, but not before she taught him and passed on some choice artifacts and knowledge. This knowledge does not include specifics about who Euxodus was, only that there was a powerful mage back in Tisias' bloodline.

Tisias works as a licensed alchemist, working with and selling magical and semi-magical ingredients and potions. By night, he studies and practices such magic as he can, predominantly having to figure things out for himself. The alchemy works as a handy cover for his real activities, given that arcane ingredients and energies being focused around his shop is really nothing out of the ordinary for someone in his line of work.

Look familiar?

Name: Abasi Chol’kaju
Race: Canocephalus (basically, a man with the head of a wild dog [and I also noticed that you included something called an Anubite])
Weapons: Abasi has both bow and a mace.

Magic Items: A bronze torc that hugs around his neck. The bronze wire is weaved and is turned into a thick chord, and each end has two human-like faces of men that seem to be screaming in agony. Upon yelling a phrase, his voice turns booming and deafening, however it does not last. It voice is only amplified while yelling the phrase, "Stem van die angs" or, "voice of the pained" in his native tongue. Pronounced, stem - von - dee - ongs. If at point blank, it can shatter ear drums and stagger a person off their feet. If from a distance, it can shock them and give himself time to escape. A useful battle cry or call for reinforcements.

Magic: Abasi knows no magic.

Bio: Abasi originated from a dry land. Almost desert like, however, it was more along the lines of a savanna. He grew up in his native village, naïve as most young people are. However, as he grew he realized how afraid of the outside world he was. He was so protected in his village of hunters. So safe. Yet he heard of thousands of people dying every day for one cause or another. He was afraid he may die early, from a murder or accident. So he wanted to become stronger. He wanted to become a hunter.

As Abasi grew up, he learned his homeland was more dangerous than he originally thought. Poisonous snakes and vicious predators lurked. He learned how to kill them, and kill them fast. Thanks to his trainer Gahiji. He learned the ways of the bow, the ways of the spear, but most importantly, he was fond of the mace. Among very few among his clan, he recognized the crushing power of the mace. It was simple. Simple to make, simple to use, and simple to kill with. It could crush most armor and shatter bones, and yet, it took such an amount of skill and knowledge to use such a weapon effectively. The mace became an effective weapon of his career.

As he entered adulthood, he became an explorer. He traveled the lands everywhere. From all over Medea, to other distant lands. And over his years, he has learned many survival techniques. He soon found himself in company of the Resistance, and since then, found himself in Morbidus' castle, having infiltrated it for the just of their cause. He has seen the overwhelming power of Morbidus, and is thankful he doesn't commonly take a place in his presence as he simply guards the entrance of the castle with a massive minotaur. His objective was to steal anything that was of value, kill as much people as he could while getting out and possibly change the tide of war. However, he has flaws. He is afraid of death. He would sacrifice someone else to save his own skin, and his sense of smell can easily be overpowered. He has a golden brown jackal head with vicious looking hands.

Hey guys you are accepted. Sorry to keep you hanging for a few days my router totally died on me and I had to wait til the end of the week for my paycheck to get a new one. Everything should be good on my end for a while now unless the comptuer decides it wants to piss me off again.

Also to Eochaid, I noticed your guy is half lizardman, if you want to for the sake of plot and purpose we can make the minor character Black Hood Locke the lizardman your father, just maybe you andh im don't know it. I was going to expand his character a bit, and that would certainly make things more interesting.

Hmmm. The way it happened in my head was that it was a forced marriage, so as soon as she could survive without his money, Tisias' mother poisoned his father. But if the father was Locke, then that could work too.


Since you said that, I was briefly debating how it would be if they actually knew, so Tisias could use him as a name-drop, but that would raise a whole bunch of questions... so yeah, your idea.

It's kinda fucked up and dramatic, but considerring they are two different seemingly incompatible races how brutally tragic could it be if Locke raped Tisias' mom and he is the product of the rape, and for more fucked up plotline gold his mom committed suicide from the grief and shit.

Well for fun and I will add to this some more here is a Pronounciation Index in case some of ya'll were confused.

Blue Elf Names:
Kel'Atheal= Kell--Ath-ee-al
Kel'Arboreal= Kell--Arr-borr-ee-al (Kel'Arboreal is the Fox)

Golden Elf Names:
Kathael= Kath-ail
Jasmine= Jazz-minh (this is actually a human name, and human names are naturally common even among non-human races due to their influence throughout history I will refrain from putting the other human named people since you should know them by now.)

Dwarfs:
Murdin= Murr-dinn (pretty obvious dwarf names are)

Cerataur:
Rhythian= Ryth-ee-ann

Taila: (maybe i should do pronounciations of race too, Taila = Tie-lah)
Telador= Tell-a-Door (lol couldn't resist i'm so corny)

Rodian: (Rodian names are always spelled phonetically due to their people's low literacy rate and general lbrain capacity.)
Eeskwire= ee-skwire

Amphid:
Krokus*: Krok-uss
*(Because of Krokus low standing in the court of the king many call him Crokus which is pronounced Croak-uss)

Other:
Moribidus= More-ibb-idd-uss

(I'll come aback and edit this section for sure with names of races and lands, and since both eo and patches are mods if you guys want to feel free and edit this post and add in your chars' pronounciations I am all for it.)

Quick question, now... Would a martial artist-type guy who uses essentially buffing spells be okay? His artifact would most likely be something along those lines as well, so I'm just asking before I commit to something.

Note, this idea has him being very against the Emperor and he would most likely living somewhere off the map.

that's all pretty much cool, but unless you're looking to solo (and that's cool with me too) i'd suggest maybe not being "off the map" but just like living in the woods and shit roaming around vaguely here and there which could give an easy opening for him to join the party of our heroes which is pretty much what is the main objective at the moment.

I like the idea of having am artial artist in there too, that's pwnage!

I would probably get him to that point in my first post, so everything sounds like its fine, right? Excellent. I'll get my sheet in soon, maybe even tomorrow afternoon. That's actually unlikely, so... Tomorrow evening?

ArchDemon wrote:

I would probably get him to that point in my first post, so everything sounds like its fine, right? Excellent. I'll get my sheet in soon, maybe even tomorrow afternoon. That's actually unlikely, so... Tomorrow evening?

Whenever is good, if you feel like posting IC even before your sheet that's cool. The sheet really should just be a fun way to maybe help people understand your character to use them to keep fluidity. Remember you can create as many side characters as your please too. We have actually been talking of propping up some of the side character villains for rivals to beat the snot out of later on. Its really a big collaborative story let's make it epic.

Name: Set Apollyon 
Race: Dark Elf
Weapons: Pfft, who needs weapons when you can use your body as a living weapon?
Artifact: Set wears a plain bronze ring around his left ring finger; this ring is his artifact. Whether it was passed down to him or if he found it, or however he really got it, he will never tell. He doesn't exactly like using its primary power, which allows him to change his physical properties, instead preferring to use it as a focus for his spells. Not to say he doesn't use it at all; he has used it to disguise himself more than he's willing to admit over the years. Unsurprisingly, it is unregistered. 
Magic: Set knows the basic spells you'd expect of one who lives alone for long periods of time- spells for drawing and purifying water, negating poisons, starting fires, and even for flavoring tea. However, his specialty lays in increasing his strength, speed, endurance, and senses; this allows him to stand toe-to-toe with even a group of guards (or mercenaries or what-have-you). Oh right, and he has a minor levitation spell that takes him a grand four inches off any flat surface, but requires great concentration (he likes employing it while meditating).
Bio: (I'll most likely do this at a later time.)


Not a great sheet, and I'll most likely update it when I wake up and realize its stupid.

Accepted of course Arch. I'm even going to make a request since your guy is a martial artist. At some point in the RP you should have him One Inch Punch someone and break their back lol. If you don't know what one inch punch is, look up Bruce Lee One Inch Punch on youtube.

That works. I was actually about to have him find a map that was hidden inside the binding of his alchemy book and go about finding Euxodus' tomb from there, but this also works.

Fåil_Whåle wrote:

That works. I was actually about to have him find a map that was hidden inside the binding of his alchemy book and go about finding Euxodus' tomb from there, but this also works.

Lol well now that Tisias is on the run, maybe you can still use the map. Guess its as good as any time to start treasure hunting when the Black Robes ransack your shop are are trying to detain you to feed you to monster called the Kraken. Also I was hoping my post might begin the subplot of the Locke-Tisias.

I have been mulling in my head two scenarios, and I guess its only right that you pick which one to pursue

scenario 1 is that Locke is an evil bastard, raped Tisias mom thus creating Tisias, andthus when Tisias discovers this truth he will want and get vengeance on his dad.

scenario 2 is that Locke is kinda aa clown and a fool. Hooked up with Tisias mom cause they were both drunk/stupid, fathered Tisias, but because of the disgrace and his duties as a Black Hood abandoned the child, or perhaps the child was kept away from him because Tisias' mom was ashamed to have mated with another race/an imbecile. When Tisias and Locke meet they actualyl get along which makes Locke turn away from the Emperor and join the Resistance leaving Tisias' uncle. and Locke's brother Lythe as your primary rival to tackle father and son team pwnzor style.

I don't really know yet; I think scenario 1 is more consistent with how I picture his mom and more consistent with how you want Locke to be. Maybe Tisias might ultimately decide vengeance isn't the answer and not actually kill Locke, then maybe turn him around, at least partially.

Yea, scenario 1 is simple and a good plot. Also fits with the tone of the story. At the same time I've been thinking that we need a Black Hood/Robe character to turn good for the dynamics of it, and that Locke could fit that bill as well as a comedic relief character.
It is also kinda cool to have the father son duo since we have at least a pair of brothers (Lythe and Locke, Kel'Atheal/Moribidus and Kel'Arboreal/Fox, and a set of sisters Kathael and Moribidus' Unnamed Slave Girl.)
So really the only living father and son combo we have in the story is Locke and Tisias. Will it end in dark tragedy of them killing eachother, or light tragedy of Locke becoming good and being killed by Lythe (which if Tisias doesn't kill him is who I imagine kills Locke before Tisias goes into a rage and beats the piss out him Hamlet style.)

But yes i'll leave that for you to mull over, and we can even plot it more, it hasn't happened yet so who knows where it will go by the time it happens. I did kind of want Locke to be an idiot though for the rich irony of my upcoming post with Krokus being killed and Locke appointed to his position. Krokus despite looking funny, sounding funny, and being made fun of is actually one of the most competant Black Robes having found the real Spear of Racka Fleetfoot, one of two magical teleportation rings from Medea, successfully tracking our Party and nearly catching them in the forest between Typhoon and Timber, and catching and killing a few high ranking Resistance fighters including Murdin and Grayborn. The comedy in this is that his boss doesn't give a shit, is going to kill him, and replace him with a true idiot anyways.

EDIT: In a way you almost have to feel bad for some of the Black Hoods and Robes. Not all of them, but some. Some of them serve Moribidus to the utmost and perform their duties spectacularly, but get tortured and killed as a reward by his hand anyways. Only his most ruthless and evil underlings don't feel his wrath, like Skar, Rhythian, Shaqaa, and Gaunt.