Long ago, before the Olympians, there was Lazarus. A man obsessed with immortality, he had searched through all the tomes, all the text, spoken to every scholar but he yielded no results. An outcast, he wandered away from his village on a self imposed exile, vowing to find the secret to immortality. Some thought him dead immediately. Others spoke of a man in black roaming the countryside experimenting on people out late at night.
In truth, he died.
The time is the height of the Olympian's Reign. The Grecian Gods and Goddesses watch over their realm with a careful eye and a steady hand. Led by the powerful Zeus, they are the first line of defense against true evil that would dare strike their land and its people. These powerful gods hold the love and admiration of their subjects as true kings, they are the perfect rulers...on the surface. Each of you have died from the gods' doing, be it not stopping a rampaging hydra from attacking your village, accidentally insulting their honor, or a number of other ways. You've arrived in the Underworld, having waited for five years for the ferryman, hoping to be judged fairly and live out your afterlife in Elysium.
Each of you sit down, not knowing one another, along with a man dressed in all black. In an instant, the ferryman is pushed off the boat and into the river of souls. Unsure of what to do, you watch as the man rows you to a small cave near Tartarus, an impossible dark abyss. Removing his hood, he reveals himself to be Lazarus. Though he truly is dead, you learn that in a quest for immortality, he "flew too close to the sun" and was stricken down by Hades himself. But not before he learned how to bring someone back from the grave. Each of you holding resentment in your hearts for the Olympians, he offers a deal. Join him in an effort to overthrow the Olympians, become the new rulers of the world, and help him find the secret to immortality.
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So I've been toying with this idea for a while. It's a bit of an alternate timeline of ancient Greece and a change to the mythology. I'd love to see a group of people take down powerful gods, fight dangerous creatures, explore all of Greek mythology, and become gods themselves with the help of Lazarus. In the RP you'll start off as just simple people but eventually grow in power, chipping away at the foundations of the Olympians until you are a force to be reckoned with. It's a pretty open campaign, I have key plot points planned out but it'll be mostly collaboration and depend on how you want to go about the task at hand.
If someone would like to Co-GM I'd be happy to see if it could work. I'm just checking to see if there's interest in this, then I'll work on CSs and the OOC and first post.
If you have any questions, feel free to ask me! I'd like for posts to be a mix between Casual and Advanced, though. There will be very few rules (aside from the basics that come with RPing) but a 'true' RP experience where anything can happen.
In truth, he died.
The time is the height of the Olympian's Reign. The Grecian Gods and Goddesses watch over their realm with a careful eye and a steady hand. Led by the powerful Zeus, they are the first line of defense against true evil that would dare strike their land and its people. These powerful gods hold the love and admiration of their subjects as true kings, they are the perfect rulers...on the surface. Each of you have died from the gods' doing, be it not stopping a rampaging hydra from attacking your village, accidentally insulting their honor, or a number of other ways. You've arrived in the Underworld, having waited for five years for the ferryman, hoping to be judged fairly and live out your afterlife in Elysium.
Each of you sit down, not knowing one another, along with a man dressed in all black. In an instant, the ferryman is pushed off the boat and into the river of souls. Unsure of what to do, you watch as the man rows you to a small cave near Tartarus, an impossible dark abyss. Removing his hood, he reveals himself to be Lazarus. Though he truly is dead, you learn that in a quest for immortality, he "flew too close to the sun" and was stricken down by Hades himself. But not before he learned how to bring someone back from the grave. Each of you holding resentment in your hearts for the Olympians, he offers a deal. Join him in an effort to overthrow the Olympians, become the new rulers of the world, and help him find the secret to immortality.
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So I've been toying with this idea for a while. It's a bit of an alternate timeline of ancient Greece and a change to the mythology. I'd love to see a group of people take down powerful gods, fight dangerous creatures, explore all of Greek mythology, and become gods themselves with the help of Lazarus. In the RP you'll start off as just simple people but eventually grow in power, chipping away at the foundations of the Olympians until you are a force to be reckoned with. It's a pretty open campaign, I have key plot points planned out but it'll be mostly collaboration and depend on how you want to go about the task at hand.
If someone would like to Co-GM I'd be happy to see if it could work. I'm just checking to see if there's interest in this, then I'll work on CSs and the OOC and first post.
If you have any questions, feel free to ask me! I'd like for posts to be a mix between Casual and Advanced, though. There will be very few rules (aside from the basics that come with RPing) but a 'true' RP experience where anything can happen.
