As the old lustrum winds away the eyes of creation once more fall upon those worthy few with the mettle to take up our challenge. This: the Planesway Invitational; grandest spectacle on the greatest stage, racing or otherwise. The road they traveled ran a sickle's edge that cut wheat from chaff and creme from crop, those that conquered the King's Crown for the first time truly among their peers.

Guess you could say they really 'rule', eh Don?

I didn't.

Just 'Throne'n' it out there buddy. Welcome back folks to our coverage of the sixth quinquennial Planesway Invitational, I'm Vyk Vidare and that was a mouthful. With me is co-host and former champ 'Donny the Don' Donnundur--

Don't give me nicknames

Ten-four Don. Things are set to kick off in a big way here at the starting line but first let's hear what Gleek Mismar has to say about our finalists. Gleek?

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This will be a fantasy themed, no-holds-bared, high-octane racing RP. Players would take on the role of the titular Sorceracers (sorcerers that race) and vie for first place in the coveted Planesway Invitational--a race that threads its way through several hostile planes of existence. Competitors are free to form up at the starting line in whatever they like: GoGolems, steam rods, LOCO-motives, you name it, no rules save 'finish first' to adhere to. Essentially it's combat racing.

Contestants are vetted from all corners of the multi-verse; having each earned the right to race by winning their region's 'King's Crown"-- a grueling long distance rally raid. Yet 'winning' the King's Crown means different things to different people, some worlds hold a good, clean race where a champion emerges based on skill, others devolve into a running destruction derby that ends long before the finish line. Either way the players secured themselves a chance at the most coveted title in all of racing.

Throughout the RP racer position will be determined by a simple, fair system. I think of a number between 1-10 and players guess it, then get shuffled along based on how close they were. I highly encourage you all to come up with interesting reasons why you'd drop a spot/gain a lead and likewise suggest collaboration.

CS's will be a little different than you're used to. While yes, they will have the standard:

Name:
Age:
Species:
Gender:

The bulk of information will be contained in a vignette. In other words what you race, why you race and past highlights are presented as if 'broadcast' to the billions of viewers watching at home via an announcer that's likely never met you. Expect this to be heavily influenced by any sponsors you might have and boil your character down to a marketable quantity (A racing persona if you will) If anything is egregiously false you DON'T have to inform you fellow RPers, since short of personal history they'd only know you by reputation--merely send me a PM that contains the bare bones truth. Be creative and have fun with it. Do an interview, plug your own product line or run a rivalry promo against another racer, whatever feels right.

And before anyone asks haste scrolls take the place of 'nitro boosts' popularized in movies and television, and--by rule of cool--they're not read, but burned to release their magic.

Again, you've got complete freedom in what you race. Really, sky's the limit. Literally. Racers can fly, swim, hover, hop or teleport to their heart's content. Fire harpoons at your competitors, take shortcuts, breath fire. Whatever gets you to the finish-line. Go full blown mad max or whacky racers.

Yaaaaay! How did I not see this earlier?

Glad to have the enthusiasm Stein. Since you're here I'll run by some roles I'd like filled (but are by no means mandatory) by interested players.

1) The Crowd Favorite - The racer everyone's got money riding on. Could be last years champion, could be a rookie on a hot streak. Either way this sorceracer is good and knows it.

2) The Underdog - Second-runner-up in one of the King's Crowns this racer owes their place in the Planesway Invitational to a last minute drop out. Could be that the original racer didn't have the nerve, could be they met with a tragic accident. Either way the odds are against them.

3) The Fixer - Not everyone races to win, and sometimes there's more riding on a bet than money. This soreracer is either crooked or coerced, but either way is planing on throwing the race. The object would be hold first place during the last leg of the race, then make out like a bandit by taking a dive down to last.

Also, a bit on the race from the IntCheck:

The race will transition from track to track via lacunae (singular: lacuna) Not so much gateways as proper gaps between one plane and the next. Hard to miss since the rest of a plane will just be 'missing' around these anomalies. The 'starting line' is actually a straight vertical drop into one such Lacuna, after which racers will find themselves steering down an steep, volcanic slope in the elemental plain of fire. All while outrunning the scheduled eruption.

Whoa. Now this sounds like an awesome game. Is there a deadline for participants? Cause I am thinking of joining in.

The only deadline for racers is that they needed to get a CS up before the race starts. After that I'll only be accepting Wreckers. More or less ambushers intent on rigging the outcome. Like assassins in sports cars. They're not as good as those that actually end up in the Planesway invitational though, so it's more or less a role of 'die spectacularly'

The only deadline for racers is that they needed to get a CS up before the race starts. After that I'll only be accepting Wreckers. More or less ambushers intent on rigging the outcome. Like assassins in sports cars. They're not as good as those that actually end up in the Planesway invitational though, so it's more or less a role of 'die spectacularly'

Have you announced a deadline for racers. When do you hope to have the race begin?

No worries there. I won't be announcing a deadline until enough people actually start putting together CSs. Once they start cropping up I'll throw up a date to keep interest from waning.

I'm going to see if I can get a few friends in on this. Because honestly, this sounds too wonderful.

Figured I'd flesh out some lore about how the race is being spectated:

The entire event is being observed remotely through scores upon scores of Oglies (Singular Ogly) nasty, gnatsy little things absolutely manic for voyeurism. Resembling nothing so much as flying, mirrored polyps with a single eyelike aperture they're keen to bumble from one vantage point to the next, harrying the competitors and liberally spattering themselves across windshields.

The images they capture are broadcast--Emphasis being on the word cast--by way of Droads, a circle of mages that practice droadism. While the process (they assure) is prohibitively complex it looks an awful lot like smacking a brass box with hammers to the lay observer.

Next the sights and sounds they've been sending out are received and interpreted via Simulacreation sets: arcane devices where lumps of living clay are subjugated and compelled to act out Droadcasts. Essentially these are spherical glass enclosures with a flat base for stability, available in sizes ranging from as small as snow globes to cinema scale stage pieces. How skillfully they mimic scheduled Droadcasting is usually determined by intelligence and magnitude, with smaller, cheaper sets often 'forgetting' small details like which finger a ring was supposed to be on from scene to scene. Comically all but the best display audio with a quality best described as: Your mother reading bedtime stories in a silly voice. Alternatively known as SCs, Crums, and Idiot Balls they're not without their quirks, getting bad moods instead of bad reception. (Just like TVs though, banging on them hard enough seems to work.)

If you want anything like security cameras or communication displays on your vehicles I'm fine with just saying, (as sorceracers) you can psuedodroad with minimal effort. You can even have a set of SC goggles if you want, which are exactly as stylish as replacing the lenses on

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Just to clear things up after getting the PM Resonance. You only need to send me a message about a CS if anything in the vignette isn't true. So far I like the direction you're going with Callen Grimm, but would ask that you flesh it out a bit more. Remember, this is being represented over a visual medium, so it's fine to throw in 'shots' of the racer himself and the vehicle. Maybe cut to feed of the accident that injured his brother, that sort of thing.

Essentially I chose to go the Promo route as a way to feel out how players are going to be posting before accepting them into the RP. So I'm looking to walk away from reading one knowing:

*What a character looks like
*Ditto for their ride
*Why their racing
*A bit about their career and personal history

Clips from past races, candid looks at their civilian life, interviews, ads and live feed are all more than acceptable. Try to construct something other players can walk away from reading with a clear-cut mental image of who and what's going to be waiting at the starting line.