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The Court of The Red King



Wizards // The Lord of The Rings // Final Fantasy // Flash Gordon
That's right nerd. Final Fantasy is part of the inspirations, despite not being a 70's pulp story. What gives? Let me explain, italicized voice. Final Fantasy, in all of its incarnations, has always had a pretty firm environmentalist message shared by Wizards and a lot of the fantasy-scifi half of the pulp genre. This story shares those messages. Final Fantasy also has a more lighthearted, but still similar setting -- Magic and machinery exist alongside one another.

Our story takes place on a nameless planet, which just so happens to be Earth, several million years after a nuclear holocaust killed most life on the planet. The still-irradiated stretches of the globe known as the Badlands have spawned mutated humans such as the Orcs, Wolfmen, and The Illithid. Additionally, many residents of The Badlands have begun reclaiming and repairing ancient remnants of technology. One such figure is Ziltoid The Omniscient, an Illithid king who has set out to revive humanity's most powerful supercomputer.

Our heroes will be a ragtag cast selected for unknown reasons by The Red King, the mysterious and illusive leader of The Fair Folk. The world will feature Elves and robots, dire-beast mounts and reclaimed hoverbikes, and so on. Our characters will come from different backgrounds across the world, having been selected to destroy the last remaining component of the supercomputer, and be known as "The Court of The Red King". If you couldn't already tell, this will not be the first prog rock joke.

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Hey- super interested in option 2.
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Option 2

It's a good mix of cheese
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I'm interested, particularly if we'll be aping the style of the genre.
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Due to the 2/3 vote, Option B it is. Currently working on some worldbuilding stuff, glad to see all this interest. Any ideas as to what kinda characters you folks are interested in playing yet?
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Due to the 2/3 vote, Option B it is. Currently working on some worldbuilding stuff, glad to see all this interest. Any ideas as to what kinda characters you folks are interested in playing yet?


Slightly unhinged robot gunslinger, of course, maybe remote controlled by someone in a bunker somewhere.
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I was thinking a dude with a prosthetic hand that turns into a magical engraved sword.

Or another sword dude in a cowboy type outfit that wields lightsabers made from his magical energy.

Oh wait fuck I thought option B was the fantasy/sci-fi mashup or did you change the post to reflect the chosen option?
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I'd love to get in on some post apocalyptic pulp fantasy scifi goodness.
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Oh wait fuck I thought option B was the fantasy/sci-fi mashup or did you change the post to reflect the chosen option?


Correct. Fantasy/Sci-Fi Mashup wins.
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I'll be able to add some stuff I've thought up when I get home. Till then, if you guys have any ideas for magic systems/not-evil races, now is the time to send them to me, as I am currently working on The Fair Folk.
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How about terrestrial octopus people or something like that.

And while I'm at the subject of aquatic things how about an Atlantis type area to poke around in?
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Looks real cool. I'm down.
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if you guys have any ideas for magic systems/not-evil races, now is the time to send them to me,


Giant, domesticated tarantulas: There was a time when you wouldn't think of keeping company with, let alone giving scratches to and sharing a bed with a wolf and yet, here we are.

Phorusrhacidae, or Terror Birds: I don't know; man sized, meat eating, flightless birds just feels right for this sort of setting. I may want to ride one or ceremonially kill it and use its bones and feathers as decorative flair.

Cactus People: Wasteland Ents made of succulents and or weeds. Largely useless as they are preoccupied with a widely different approach towards both morality and time management, they none the less maintain a monopoly on the region's environmental economy, dictating the ebb and flow of natural resources.

Sentient Ruins: Giant Mech / Transformer style bases / cities that maneuver around the continent occasionally seeding self sustaining technology in the form of factories, infrastructure, weapons, and robots that further perpetuate a particular technological and political agenda.
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Minor update with way more to come tomorrow. Usually I say "I've got so many ideas but not enough time" to postpone addressing that I have no ideas, but this time I actually do have a lot of ideas and little time.

Expect more Luddism than you can shake a stick at in the coming OOC!
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Yup, ok, just thought I'd get in here and say that I'm definitely interested.
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IT LIVES.
it's a super WIP, but, IT LIVES. Until then, if any of you have some free time, I'd be down to have a Co-GM since I anticipate a lot of worldbuilding to add on.
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@Flagg@NowIGiveUp@Boss Fight@Jerkchicken@deadpoet@Jozarin
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Tomorrow after 8pm EST I will have stuff for you. Fuckin' work, amirite? Getting in the way of working out my hockey mask rocking lawful neutral serial killer cleric who wields a chainsword in the name of the greater good through eugenics.
By the way, you name dropped terrorbirds; let's make this happen.
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This is too good to let die. Nothing to add at the moment. May edit in some things shortly.
As for my character:

A non-descript lad of meager proportion-basically a weakly but possessing the detached cybernetic arm/appendage of (perhaps his father?) a powerful man long dead. The arm is the boys main weapon, capable of projecting some sort of diabolic sorcerery. Basically a giant boom-stick. I don't know I just love the image of a scrappy boy travelling the badlands in rags holding (basically Iron Mans arm) a severed arm that happens to be his only means of survival.

or:

Seleucus The Liar, a card-sharping shotgun wielding fornicator, womanizer, thief and vagabond wanted in most of Terra, but well versed in the flora & fauna of the Badlands. Writing a dozen books, mostly about his own greatly embellished exploits, but also a few manuals on how to survive the irradiated zone. Rides a hover-steed that is on its last leg, well informed of often by the sarcastic AI personality it contains. Seleucus no doubt stole the thing.


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@Polybius Your character ideas have given this RP a dose of penicillin. So, I guess this is a diabetic RP.
I like both of the choices equally, so my only suggestion is to merge them. Kind of half Luke and half Han, y'know? Anyway, up to you, figured I'd bump this to poke those interested so they know I haven't forgotten this. More OOC stuff soon to come!
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