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The Anti-Christ, The False Prophet, And The Dragon. . .

Elements of the Christian Apocalypse. But. . . in Zoroastrianism, one day, an evil wizard will rule the world with the protection of a dragon. (Azhi Dahaka, I think). . . All that disobey the wizard receive his curse or the minions from Dahaka's belly. The year was 2006, the world experienced Economic hardship, terrorism had been causing havoc throughout the world, as it still does. People's eyes lingered on the tiny location in Israel/Palestine, as it had for decades, this time, even closer. Through the shadows, sorcerous incantations were spoken where Mankind's most heinous desires found delight. There was a man, his name unknown as of yet, and his feet moved like lightning of the Lord, to deal with one of the men in dark robes, drinking blood from a demonic chalice, running over with the life of young children.

The man's eyes betrayed agony. . . "My son and daughter! They are with Christ now! You! Warlock! Meet your dragon's fangs!" The man, who spoke in an upper class English accent fired his heavy one handed gun, a .45 pistol at the cultist's head, splattering the skull. He turned to face the other blood drinking bastards, firing, doing likewise to their bodies. He mourned over the corpses of his son, David, and his daughter, Stephanie. The Light shined down from Heaven. . . "You sacrificed your children so the world would live. Their end was to begin now, but you chose to preserve the Ark of God from the workers of iniquity. For this act of Love toward God, the world has another generation. Fifty years to prepare for the end. More will turn toward the Light, and more will be saved because of you. You, though a lowly mortal, are now sanctified as a blessed champion of justice."

Charles had to choose towards preventing the Ark of God from falling into the Devil's hands, or preventing the sacrifice of his two children. If the enemy received the Ark, they could have made the falling of the End Times even worse than was intended by God. The sinking of the entire United Kingdom, Ireland and British Isles. It would have meant the deaths of millions of people. Fifty years passed, Charles has told his story to the few who would listen.

The year is 2063, AD. It's Time. There was a one eyed man, with his right eye taken out, speaking to the camera. His body rejected any method restoring eye sight in the right socket, this man was effectionately known as Owen Abrahamson, a joke which became more of a real name for him over the years, out of the Pagan god, Odin's name. He was known as a charismatic, intelligent man, and was well-contacted in the world of both religion and politics throughout the literal world, Earth. He was in charge of the Ecumenical Council of the U.N. Standing beside him were two other figures. One of them, an Italian Pontiff, Pope Elimas, further gave a nod to the Ecumenical Council, though he insisted on Catholicism receiving certain perks, both for reasonable, and clandestine reasons, over other religions. The third man, always smiling, was known as a peace maker between these three friends. An Iranian man, Khalid Shamoun, who represented minorities all over the Middle East and immediately surrounding areas, as well as Pakistan and India. To some extent, even China, since he helped to quiet the Jihadist rebellion, preventing a PR nightmare with the People's Republic of China.

They had just finished another rousing speech, united the world's religion's and nation states together, nearly severing any separation from World Government entirely.

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Who digs this as a Casual or Advanced Interest Check? More importantly, is it okay with the Terms of Service?
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It's... "N'yeah" is the word?

I don't know about it. On the surface it seems and feels like a clobbering together of everything in some sort of salad. But instead of mixing yams withe ground beef and hoping it's a feasible death it's like drying to force Harry Potter to work with Life of Brian. Maybe in some way it might work, but you got to be as good with literary acrobatics as a drunken boxer is with balance. If the right people got together then maybe it could be something like a Percy Jackson story. But I really doubt it.

Beyond that, it's an apocalypse RP. And onto that it's dealing with the religious models of the apocalypse. Which isn't bad imo, but one detail is sort of ignored: everything will work out. With the anti-christ coming then the Catholics would be well in their ways that Jesus would return and defeat the devil once and for all and everyone will live happily ever after; unless they were cunts. Similar rule applies for the Zoroastrians, something'll happen that'll be the trigger for hope their savior would come, world fills with fire, sins are burned away, and everyone lives happily ever after in a perfect world with no mountains in the basking light of Ahura Mazda. Even Norse mythology doesn't end the world.

Religious apocalypses are sort of set in how they're going to end so I can't see the panic perspective as might arise in a nuclear or plague apocalypse because no one knows how that's going to turn out. But we then come to the issue then that they've just been done enough to be standard fair.

The Apocalypse genre IS a free chance to play all the crazy cards. But there is such a thing as too much.
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The idea is that the "Dragon" and the "Wizard" turn against the Anti-Christ. The Pontiff, in turn, is more like Saruman.

It's sort of like:
The Devil: (Satan, Lucifer, using Owen Abrahamson as a vessel/evil Prophet)
Anti-Christ Owen Abrahamson (Sauron)
Pontiff Elimas (False Prophet-Saruman)
*By the way, what happens in the beginning of the Role Play to the Church under Pontiff Elimas is predictably bad, so not much of a spoiler.
Khalid Shamoun (Evil Archmage)
The Dragon (Azhi Dahaka) Allied with Khalid Shamoun

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This may seem rude, but I assure you it's meant with a warm intent. If this idea doesn't work out for you, you may be interested in joining us.

It's a historical fantasy epic. You may like it.
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The idea sounds like a made-for-tv B movie. Which isn't by any means bad in itself, Quintin Tarentino has made a career off of emulating grindhouse B movies for years, but if you go forward with this plan it wouldn't be a bad idea to recognize and own its hamminess somewhat. Go with it. Fill the RP with corny monologues and bizarre action and it could work so long as you get the right people. There is a lot to be said about trying out different styles of writing, especially since most RP's tend to fall into either "Hollywood gritty", or "Anime soap opera" styles
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My main concern that I would have entering this is the possible racism that would arise considering you are adding elements of real religion into this. You, yourself may have an open mind into what these people are like, but others may not and could use this as a slander opportunity.

Only stating this because I know a few people that would love to see certain religions including their people, represented by extremist, burn. You'd want to be VERY careful with how this all goes together and choose the right people.
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