What if Aang never ran away....?

[Little Fox]

Fire Lord Sozin has long since noticed the prosperity and peace that has befallen the Fire Nation and swells with pride. He believes that this prosperity and peace should be shared with the rest of the world: By expanding the Fire Nation. Of course, Avatar Roku strongly opposed this idea and refused to help him. Several years later, however, Roku discovered that Sozin had set up colonies in the Earth Kingdom and came to rebuke him, leading Sozin to attack him. The two engaged in a battle, with Roku finally destroying most of the palace and defeating Sozin. Roku spared his life because of their past friendship, but warned him never to move forward with his plans again, or it would result in his permanent end.

Twenty-five years later, Roku's home island was consumed in a volcanic eruption so massive that Sozin could see and feel it from a hundred miles away. The Fire Lord flew in on his dragon to assist his old friend. The two used their bending to try to contain the lava flow, but were hindered by poisonous gases, which eventually overwhelmed Roku, leaving him lying on the ground and begging for his old friend's help. Sozin suddenly realized, however, that Roku's death would allow him to fulfill his plans, and left his old friend to die along with his dragon, Fang.

Twelve years after Roku died, Sozin used the power of a comet to enhance the power of his firebender army and launched a genocidal attack on the Air Nomads in an attempt to kill Aang, the new Avatar, and halt the Avatar Cycle. Aang was not yet aware of his Avatar status and he never ran away. Like the rest of the Airbenders that lived in the temples, he was killed. Fortunately, that was not the end of the Avatar Cycle - Unknown to Sozin, the Avatar must be killed while in the Avatar State.

Without the Avatar around, the Fire Nation paved the way to leading the world into despair, beginning to expand around the world and taking over various places in other Nations. The world had lost hope that the Avatar would ever reincarnate and many had begun to buckle and submit to the whims of the brutal Fire Nation.

But not all of them.

The Order of the White Lotus is an ancient and formerly secret society that transcends the boundaries of the four nations, seeking philosophy, beauty, and truth. They are devoted to the sharing of ancient knowledge across national and political divides. The Order's main purpose is to find each new Avatar, see to his or her training, and provide protection.

Formed centuries ago by the wisest scholars from all over the world, the Order began as a club where these ancient masters could challenge one another on the Pai Sho table. They derived their name from the white lotus tile used in Pai Sho, a key element in their strategy. They communicate membership through the game by placing Pai Sho tiles on the board in a specific manner, forming a bloomed lotus bud with the lotus chip in the center. Now, in the world's most desperate time of need, they seek out the Avatar with the intent of having their apprentices teach and protect the Avatar - The Masters within the Order most are getting ripe in their years and some even hold political stances. If they were to teach the Avatar, they would be spotted immediately.

The Avatar reincarnated in a young Water Tribe girl of the Northern Water Tribe only a few months after the Air Temple Genocide - Kya. After receiving a note from Master Waterbender in the North Pole some twenty years later, the apprentices have gone off to find this Avatar. They will then be tasked with teaching her the ways of each element as they travel, righting the wrongs of the Fire Nation before finally going head-to-head with Fire Lord Azulon, restoring the balance of the Nations.



Cast
¦ Role: Avatar Kya¦ - Reserved
¦ Role: Earthbending Teacher ¦
¦ Role: Firebending Teacher ¦
¦ Role: Airbending Teacher ¦
¦ Role: Weaponsmaster - Nonbender¦
¦ Role: Inventor - Nonbender¦

1:No Canon Characters - Only Original Characters. Be creative when making them! Which means no knock-off canons.


1.5: Be active. If you don't let me know that you're gonna be gone for a while, I'm gonna eradicate your character after 3 days of no activity IC or OoC. If you need to be gone, feel free to let another player take over your character until your return OR use IC to send them on a personal mission.

2.: There are 6 roles available. They are listed under cast. I'm not adding any more and I'm not taking any away. This is meant to be a small group RolePlay. So don't waste your time with an antagonist CS or harassing my inbox with all the reasons why you think there should be antagonist roles available.

3: No shipping on the Out of Character thread. (Its moronic and rides my nerves. =_='')

4: No Dual-Bending! One element per Sensei.

5. No Bloodbending. I see it as Powerplaying and a bit Godmoding no matter how weak it makes your character after use not to mention the fact that only one person knew how to do it before Katara. So. No.

6: Romance is allowed and encouraged. Just no BAM! Love at first sight, let's get married. A crush at first sight is fine.

7: Swearing is allowed. Just don't go overboard.

8: The Cinderblock rule is enforced: If you or your character becomes detrimental to the story or OoC or you become overly inactive, you will be promptly eradicated from the Roleplay. End of Story.

9: GM's Word is LAW.

10: Yes, this is a +mature+ Avatar spin-off, but please don't spend forever posting sex scenes. I don't want you and someone else spamming the IC with your sex. If two characters are about to get intimate, do a collaboration post. If you plan on posting it on the IC thread, limit it to heavy kissing, touching, groping, and the suchlike. If sex becomes imminent, fade to black and feel free to take that part of the scene to a PM while hinting in your next posts at the events.

11: Have fun.

12: Feel free to pitch plot ideas. Go easy on the action. Do not take it upon yourself to make unexpected, unannounced plot twists, nor adding random enemy attacks and whatnot.

13: Don't speed post. If you want to do 1x1 character interaction/dialogue with someone, do a collaboration post. There should be at least one post from the other players between each of your posts. - This is not a race. Give everyone a chance to reply!

13.5: No one or two liners. At least 2+ paragraphs of detail. And make sure to read everyone's post prior to yours and reply to anything that applies to/affects your character. I don't want to get complaints that someone wasn't paying attention. When you post, don't do a group of short sentences.

14: No Mary-Sues or Gary-Stus! Your characters will have some sort of flaws, be it mental, physical, or emotional. Don't make them perfect at everything they attempt. Everyone sucks at something.[/FONT]

For inspiration with your characters:

Fire Nation
Water Tribe
Earth Kingdom
Air Nomads

FAQ

Miss GM! Oh, Miss GM! If Sozin successfully carried out the mass genocide upon the Air Temples and killed all of the Airbenders there, how is there an Airbender and his/her apprentice?
Great question! As stated: Sozin killed the Airbenders that lived in the temples. I leave it to creative minds such as your own to give detail on how there might have been a family of Airbenders that lived away from the Temples and lived elsewhere. Perhaps even with the royal family of Omashu? I don't know. Hell, maybe they escaped. That's your choice.

Miss GM! Oh, Miss GM! How are the apprentices picked?
Well, the Masters would pick their apprentices based on potential to be Masters. The story of how they were picked and where they met is yours to choose.

Well, would they know each other?
They would know each other, but not intensely so, seeing as each Master is from a different Nation. They may have had previous brief meetings. But this journey to the North Pole will be their first time being together as a group.

In the beginning, you say that they'll be heading to the North Pole after receiving notes about Kya. Could you elaborate on that?
What I have in mind is that for the past [insert the amount of years they've been training with their Master here] years, they've been living with their Master, training. Their Masters have been passing on the arts of their trade to these kids and instating them into the Order of the White Lotus. They've been taught since day 1 the values and duties of the White Lotus, instilling them with morals of justice and philosophy. Master Jokka of the Northern Water Tribe will be the one to have discovered Kya and will have sent secret letters to the other four Masters to let them know that the Avatar has finally reincarnated. The Masters would then send their apprentices to the North Pole to meet the Avatar before they would begin their Journey.

One more thing! If Players aren't allowed to create antagonist OCs, then where are we gettin the bad guys? You know a story is no good without bad guys!
I thought you might ask that. I've been in many RolePlays where Players are allowed a single thread among thousands to conduct their entire RolePlay. Within these single threads, I've seen players create antagonists that would do nothing but hinder the character development of all other characters and simply say That's what my character's supposed to do.. I see it as protecting my RolePlay. The antagonists will be GM and Co-GM controlled characters that may also have been created by the players. Yes. The players are allowed give ideas of antagonists and it is the GM and Co-GM's job to bring those to life and give the story more spice.

If you have anymore questions, please ask me and I'll add them to our lovely 'FAQ'.

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[ghostEmperor]

I kinda like this idea. If you could get it up I'd like to reserve the firebending teacher. Yeah, this is really cool.

[Little Fox]

Thanks (: Hopefully I can get writers who won't randomly drop out.

[ghostEmperor]

I know what you mean. It's probably a good thing that you posted it in advanced then.

[Little Fox]

I want this to be more novelesque, I suppose.

[ghostEmperor]

okay, I've just read through it all again and I'm wondering; are we going to play the masters or the apprentices?

[Little Fox]

The characters would be Masters by now. Child prodigies in their "trade", so to speak. They would have been selected by a White Lotus member at a young age to become apprentices. Of course they still might have a few tricks to learn along the way (Metal bending, plant bending, sound bending, etc) But viewed as Master benders among their fellow White Lotus members. They are being sent in place of their Senseis because their Senseis are old and possibly hold a high political/military position or are in hiding. Them disappearing and reappearing with Kya would put them on the radar and cut their connections.

Hope that made sense. I'm drunk.

[Mtntopview]

I'd be interested, but I'm a newb (to this forum) and doubt my own abilities in RP. Although I do have experience win RP,I'm just insecure ...

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Also, posting on threads while drunk is illegal, you could get a caught for PUI/PWI

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[Suspect]

I would love to join this so that I get a chance to roleplay with you again, Lalo.

[Mtntopview]

I love the "what if" theme, I've alwayse been obsessed with these things ... Like "what if the avatar universe had guns?"