Ewtron
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| 24 Oct 2011 05:58 PM |
Well, another one of my threads has been taken off BUMP life-support... Le sigh. Make a thread with no violence in the RP nowadays and you can't expect it to last beyond page 10 if you're lucky. Mine died at page 7.
Time to start again. My last thread had no more than three people active at it's decline. I would like to make a thread that once it startd, it could become self-sufficient without it losing focus on the plot or decaying into an immature, violent, plot-jacking mess... which would be hard, I know.
I would like this one set in late 17th century Venice, based on the theme of Masquerade (masked dances), but with a dark undertone. The roleplaying itself is allowed to be as lighthearted and bright as you like, but the plot itself will be dark.
Ideas for the plot would be lovely, and please: Something new! Good vs. Evil has been done to death, resurrected, and done to death once more. |
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| 24 Oct 2011 06:03 PM |
| Bubonic Plague, or "Black Death," would add a nice twist. Everybody turns on eachother, hides out, and mothers abandon daughters, etc. etc. Suspenseful, sad, but with hope. |
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Ewtron
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| 24 Oct 2011 06:08 PM |
Hmm... no, that was more 14th century. 1348 or so is when it hit Italy. I don't think it was encountered in the late 1600's.
I would like it to have an air of opulence and extravagance, like the nobility enjoying themselves when the plot arises. Something would happen, like a supernaural occurence or the like, that would upset everything. |
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| 24 Oct 2011 06:18 PM |
| Supernatural... Like ghosts? Or natural disasters? |
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Ewtron
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| 25 Oct 2011 01:48 PM |
| Like demons and spirits or evil magic. |
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| 25 Oct 2011 01:51 PM |
| What about people unexpectedly dissapearing, but realy being taken by evil magic, who want to take over? |
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Ewtron
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| 25 Oct 2011 01:54 PM |
Or possessed by evil demons who want to manipulate the city through the guises of the nobility? Yes! I like it! How would people eventually learn of the demon's activities? Who would be against them?
Also, how would we get people to RP as average joes? Every time I make a roleplay and say "You can be this, this this or a citizen", nobody ever picks the citizen and they always go for the "good" side of the duality. |
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| 25 Oct 2011 01:56 PM |
| Give civilion a game expeariace like the others, maby make the "This, This" have somthing bad about them. For every up side, add a downside. |
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Ewtron
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| 25 Oct 2011 02:12 PM |
| This would be mainly based around the nobility, since they were always in their own little world. Hmm... There were also a great deal of composers then, so we could have Noble (the generic class), Musician, Noble Warrior, Demon (evil) and Spirit (semi-neutral). |
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| 25 Oct 2011 02:17 PM |
Yeah.. What does the muisician do?
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| 25 Oct 2011 02:24 PM |
| Ah, musicians is a general term. Wouldn't it be more like bards or street-performers at the time? Because music and the arts were dying back then, only a few, if any, were successful at the time. |
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| 25 Oct 2011 02:46 PM |
Also, I know what you get by: If you add something, as in a daemon race, everyone will be that. I, for one, always try to make limits, but find that none join after the limit of that excedes. What I would do, not meantion the fact their's daemons, or only allow admins to be that race. Also, I like being orriginal, so I'd be a cannidate for a normal citizen. I like a non-violent story or roleplay for a change, but I just am into depressing or dark plots, or stories, books, and roleplays as a whole. |
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| 25 Oct 2011 03:05 PM |
| I have some ideas...haven't RPed in a while on the forums...So I would like to see what I could help with or join... |
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| 25 Oct 2011 03:43 PM |
| I agree with Killer. I dislike very..gory, violent threads, since this is a rare occurance in life, atleast in the way that they do it. I'd like a realistic and depressing story. I'd also be a candidate for a normal citizen, since I actually prefer to be an average person in rps. |
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| 25 Oct 2011 03:52 PM |
| I don't mind action, I just really hate all the gore put in. I like descriptive, but it gets to too much. Anyways, I need to know before supplying ideas, what is the setting, or do you know? |
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Ewtron
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| 25 Oct 2011 03:52 PM |
Thank you for all of your posts!
Yes. The demons will be trusted admins only, since they have a great deal of power and persuasiveness in the plot. But who to trust? People don't wear their maturity on their avatar; It's impossible to tell.
It would be mostly non-violent, but with a few duels and brawls here and there to break things up a bit should they get stagnant. The demons rule through something more powerful than violent force: Charisma and intelligence. |
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| 25 Oct 2011 03:54 PM |
| And, yes, I know Itally, I know 1700's, I know all that, but there's more to a setting than that. The general weather, if it's night at first, or day, or cloudy. Things like that. |
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Ewtron
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| 25 Oct 2011 03:55 PM |
| It's not going to be just one day. Weather changes, the sun sets and rises, etc. It's hard to have one fixed time at one fixed location. |
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| 25 Oct 2011 03:58 PM |
| I know that, but the first day. It adds a lot to the story, if the first day is a gloomy day, then it just adds to the sense of misery to the story, even if the next day is sunny, it started out in the rain, with all gray clouds and such. |
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| 25 Oct 2011 06:15 PM |
| It would be a clear, brisk September night. Everything would seem ordinary until the introduction of the plot. |
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| 25 Oct 2011 06:29 PM |
I like the whole idea of this. Could peasants somehow hold a higher social status, as part of the after-effects of the Bubonic Plague?
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Ewtron
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| 26 Oct 2011 03:13 PM |
| This only takes place with the general nobility, and this is over 400 years after the Black Death. We'd have to study up on 1700's Venician culture a tad, though there was a huge divide between the peasants and nobility. |
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| 26 Oct 2011 03:49 PM |
| Don't ask me, I studied English renssaince times, Not Venician, or Italian. Although, aren't they sort of similar? |
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