Shattered Lines: The Expansion

[Pockets]

This is a modern day meets fantasy RP. Fantasy creatures, sword and shield, magic and warriors and battles suddenly come head to head with the modern day world with it's tanks, cars, televisions and everything else.

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Long before even the most distant recorded history, the world was a very different place from what is seen today. The creatures of myths and legends freely roamed the land, waring and loving as they would. The Elves kept mostly to their forest homes. The dwarves to the subterranean keeps. The Dragon, the tops of the highest mountains in Loringael.

Other peoples made their home around the world. Including the youngest, yet most rapidly growing in number.

Humans.

Mankind was very young compared to the Elves and the Dwarves yet they bred at an alarming rate. Consuming resources in vast quantities and fighting for land and treasure. Eventually man came to distrust the races he shared his world with and that distrust eventually exploded into war.

The fighting lasted for decades, centuries even. Finally, having seen enough bloodshed, Aegis, The Great Dragon called for a meeting of the most powerful Mages, Wizards and sorcerers of all the magical races.

He informed them that something had to be done. But man could not just be wiped out. For all the other races strengths, the elves long lives, the dwarves great strength and the dragons powerful magic humans had one trait that they all lacked. Mankinds greatest strength lay in their ability to adapt. And that flexibility of thinking would one day be instrumental to the safety of all.

So they did the next best thing. They sealed themselves away. As the spell was cast lines of magic stretched out across the globe and everywhere inside the lines was pulled away to form another world. In so doing as the seals went up the world shrank to roughly 1/5 its actual size and on that smaller chunk of rock, man was left to rebuild.

Man were not the only creatures left outside the wards however. A few beings were trapped in mans world that did not belong. A tribe of the Wild Elves. Half of them hid themselves away, like the others. But the other half married amongst the humans till eventually all visible trace of their elven heritage was lost.

Man was to be sealed off from the world of magic until such a time as they had matured as a race and could exist more peacefully amongst their magically gifted brethren. Such a time has not yet come to pass. However it is too late. The seals, which were never meant to be permanent have weakened beyond their ability to sustain themselves.

On December 21, 2012, the seals began to break.

Your characters start the first morning of The Expansion as Earth begins to grow to resume its original shape. Cities will be torn apart. Power lines, cell phones and general phone communication is lost the world over. Planes are forced to make emergency landings when their destinations are suddenly no longer where they're supposed to be.

Dragons, hipogryphs, harpies, naga and other mythical creatures are seen out in the open and for the first time in thousands of years man is forced face to face with the world they lost.

Characters may be human or any of the classic fantasy races. I'll accept some unusual ones but nothing too crazy. I would like a somewhat even mixture of human and fantasy characters, anyone willing to play more than one character is welcome to do so. I will be throwing in several creatures of my own creation. Some of them may be helpful, others are decidedly not.

PLEASE try to keep up a reasonably steady post rate. Not too slow or too fast. I would really like to get through all three of the rps planned for this story.

Fantasy characters please start with reasonably basic equipment. There will be opportunities to find or purchase armor and weapons of epic strength in game.

Human characters. Please, no one own a gun shop or anything crazy, let's keep it somewhat plausible.

Humans will have some access to weapons and modern tech but keep in mind after the expansion things like cell phones, electricity and so on are almost totally gone. Power lines and oil lines were destroyed so most of the world is without power and all the old streets and freeways have been destroyed. Gas will also be tricky to come by.

Wild Elves- Wild Elves are distantly related to sun elves, wood elves and High Elves. The Wild Elves are just as long lived as their cousins but almost as in tune with nature as humans are. They're known as Wild Elves because as a race they chose to live in the most uninhabitable environments on Loringael. High mountains, deserts,volcanoes, deadly swamps and jungles. They sacrificed much of their affinity for nature to instead harness more purely destructive magics. Each Wild Elf is born with a special affinity to a certain element. Earth, air, fire, water, wood, lightning or metal. They have the ability to summon and control that particular element in various ways as well as great success with magics that use that particular Element. Only one metal user allowed as it is a VERY rare talent.

They range to about average height, 5' 6''-6' and are omnivores eating both plants and meat like humans.

Blood Elves - incredibly rare because their particular magic terrifies the other races, even Aegis the Great Dragon and oldest living thing on Loringael. Blood Elves, as their name suggests, have light red skin, black hair, range about 6' in height or more typically and have the ability to control blood. Their own and others. When cut a Blood Elf can cause their blood to immediately coagulate around the wound, thus limiting any loss of blood. Before battle they will usually prick their fingers and turn that blood into razor sharp claws. As they cut their enemies they use their opponents blood to create larger weapons like swords or axes. The most frightening ability they posses though is what happens if they get a drop of their blood into your body. Once even a single drop has been introduced into the enemies system they then have complete control of your blood from any distance.

They can cause your heart to burst. Or your blood to slowly coagulate. They can kill you slowly or quickly at their whim and there is no true defense.

Blood elves are also carnivores. Typically but not always eating what they hunt raw.

Dragon Kin: basically think a Half Dragon. Humanoid shape, scales, claws and teeth. No actual wings for Kin, sorry flight is still reserved for birds and dragons. Dragon Kin are however very strong and fast as well as possessing some of the same magic as their dragon halves. Most noteably their breath weapon. Color corresponds to weapon type.

Red- fire
Blue- lightning
Gold- lava bombs
Green- acid
Black- poison
Silver- ice

Breath weapons can only be used twice per day. They have a thirty foot by ten foot range except for the golds that spit explosive grenades basically made of molten rock, limit ten per day.

Players may play as a human from outside the barrier. A magical from inside the barrier or a magical from outside. If you were outside though you need to have a good story as to how your people remained hidden. No one may be old enough to have been around before the barrier went up.

Age limits are 300 for elves and 500 for dragon kin. Makes you roughly the equivalent of a mid thirties human.

CS

Name

Race

Gender

Age

Education/skills: (human only)

Weapons/equipment

History

Don't need a college thesis just a quick basic history the rest will be learned in game.

Character interaction is encouraged. Romances are fine as long as they don't take too much away from moving the story along. Please if it goes beyond an R rating take it to PMs.

Rules

Basically im looking for common sense here people.

No God Modding or ridiculous behavior.

Keep things civil and try to remember we are all here to have fun. More than anything that is our main goal.

Please keep a reasonable posting rate. If you can't keep up or can't refrain from running ahead don't bother joining.

If you have to post multiple times in a day to respond to side events between you and another player that is fine but attempt to not push the actual story along so far that others get left behind.

That said there is one final rule that is at the GM's discretion. I call it my Cinder Block Rule. This rule states basically thus, any player viewed to be antagonistic, rude, or generally just being a douche will receive three warnings after your third warning your character will most likely find a random cinder block dropping out of a clear blue sky to crush their skulls and you will be out of the RP.

Thus far I have never had to actually USE the Cinder Block Rule. Please let's keep it that way.

Alright let's get those CS up here and get cracking. :-)

Feel free to ask any questions and I encourage creativity. If you're not sure about something just run it by me and we'll see what we can do.

Bestiary

I have been writing a Bestary. Basically a list of creatures, races and beings that can be found within the world of Loringael. I haven't completed this list yet and some of the creatures mentioned aren't totally fleshed out but it is currently near to 100 strong and is nearly 40 pages long. If people are interested I will be creating a bestiary thread and placing a link here to connect to it. Check back for periodic updates to the bestiary and any questions you may have of the individual creatures I would be happy to expand on.

MOST of those beings are not playable, but if you see one that you REALLY like tell me about it and we will discuss the possibilities.

http://roleplayerguild.com/showthrea...26#post7912726

[Deathblade]

This actually seems really interesting, mixing two different themes is always a welcome change of pace and something I can get behind. Plus the idea is original so that makes is twice as good.

[Orion86]

I am in on this one but then you already knew that didn't you.

[Pockets]

Wow, Orion someone beat you to the punch. I must say I'm disappointed my friend. You weren't feeling well recently though, we'll let it slide this time eh?

Death Blade welcome to the party. Any questions? Race in particular you were curious about or anything? Just lemme know. Ask Orion I'm happy to jabber away at length on these things.

[1DVSguy]

This looks fuggin awesome!
I do have some questions though, would this be like revolution (not sure if you've seen that show, its on nbc) where the human race has been reduced to using swords and muskets? Or would the humans still be using modern tech like assault rifles, tanks, battleships etc?

Would be interested in playing:
-Human
-Lich (If able to play antagonist)
-Or another race that I wish to discuss with you

-DVS

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Oh and how would magic work in this world?

[Affili]

I was just lurking around the forums and came across this... it sounds like it sucks ass.... just kidding. im down!

[Orion86]

Wow, Orion someone beat you to the punch. I must say I'm disappointed my friend. You weren't feeling well recently though, we'll let it slide this time eh?

Lol yeah I woke up and no one had posted but while I was looking Deathblade posted, I hang my head in shame and except my punishment.

[Pockets]

DVS, things will be somewhat revolution-ish. (great show) keep in mind when the world expands outward power lines and fuel lines are torn to pieces. Much of the world does go dark, but some tech is still available. Batteries function. We might come across some cars or something but fuel won't exactly be simple to acquire and so on.

And I gotta nix the Lich that's just a little too much man. Sorry. What's the other race you were interested in?

[Mr Odin]

Alright I am thoroughly hooked on this idea; I even have an idea for a character. I was thinking a human male, of 36 years or so, U.S. Marine reservist, employed by the game commission of whatever locale this starts in. I think it would be a pretty dramatic intro to have him patrolling for poachers and instead running into something that has returned and barely escaping with life and limb.

I’m not trying to over train the character either, I have ample experience with the Marine part since I am one and I am well aware of what really can and cannot be done within the bounds of an average reservists training. Also the Game warden deal is a simple enough explanation for a skill set and gear set that’s not overpowered and helps the character to survive because I doubt your average Joe is going to fair too well with the chaos that would come of this expansion.

Don’t let the lowly member status fool you either, I may not be a part of the 1k club for this site but this is not the only place I’ve had experience with forum style RP stories.

Let me know what you think if you still need another writer.

[Orion86]

I wouldn't worry about your numbers Mr Odin, Pockets gave me a chance in one of his RP's when I started on the site eight months ago and we are still posting in the thread. I can't say about this time round but I know the first time we tried the story we had a soldier involved, it helps to have some combat characters in the beginning.