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Been thinking about doing another RP on the side of things since my RP schedule is becoming more lax and some of the RP’s I was in seemed to teeter out. After some long visual novel playthroughs (Long Live the Queen, A Little Lilly Princess, Date Warp) I decided I wanted to give the slice o’ life category a try – here’s my pitch to anyone who might be interested.









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Avalon Academy is a collaborative story that takes the boarding school setting most often seen in the writings of Frances Hodgson Burnett and turns it on its head by adding medieval fantasy elements and a more insidious backdrop underneath what would otherwise seem to be a simple slice of life tale in a boarding school, which while it has been proven interesting I’d like to do something a little bit different with my own spin of things. The setting itself will be based on one of my pre-designed worlds called Sathis, and while I’ve put a good deal of lore into it as a whole I’ve decided that I could make it more accessible by simplifying it and playing off an era that I never really developed beyond footnotes. The idea is to play princes and princesses sent off to a prestigious academy, not to put people off by pages and page of lore. So with that said, let me describe the general gist of things.

Each player character is a Princess or Prince of one of the many kingdoms underneath The Imperium of Gaealia and has been sent to The Citadel of Avalon to study underneath the best mentors, guardians, and educators that nobility can afford. However, as this is a boarding school this takes said princes and princesses away from their home and for many is seen more of a prison rather than a second home— but for one reason or another, even if these children are not heirs to their respective thrones are where they are now for probably the rest of their youth. Characters can be diverse in personality as their parentage and home life prior could vary. Some Kings are honorable, others deceitful, some kind, some cruel, others absent, others too present. Whichever the case, you got sent away to a glorified academic prison to be raised among your peers and away from your homeland.
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I'm interested to know more about the setting. For instance, what sort of fantasy we're working with. I'm curious about the possibility of being able to play a prince that's not entirely human.
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So just going to quote what I posted in the general interest check I guess. ^^;

Well this sounds interesting, and maybe slice of life would work out better for me at the moment than other stuff so hmmm.

One tiny question though: since one of the tags is "fantasy", are we restricted to being human princes(ses)? Just wondering, I guess. XD
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As per the setting, the empire is composed of the earliest strands of humanity. Elves have only recently migrated to the islands to the north, but there have been some interactions with non-humans but they are seen as rather barbaric (sans the dwarves) nomads. It isn’t likely that elvenblood is really in the mix of things quite yet— I hope that isn’t an issue!
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It helps trim my options a bit at least. XD
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I was honestly wanting to play a vampire prince, as is my wont, but I suppose I can settle for a gloomy gothic prince from the uberwald.
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I was honestly wanting to play a vampire prince, as is my wont, but I suppose I can settle for a gloomy gothic prince from the uberwald.

There’s definitely a region that fits that description— I’ll have all of that detail sorted when I launch the OOC for sure.
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Is magic a thing in this setting?
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Is magic a thing in this setting?

A very new thing for humans, at the least, but yes.
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Hmm, okay.
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Tentatively interested. I'll decide once all the details on magic, the kingdoms and the school are out.

How likely would it be for an tropic island prince or princess to be on the island? Do you have arcs in mind other than the day to day of the students? I know this is a slice of life, but the lives of medieval lords and ladies are usually full of intrigue. Maybe rivalries between the students of warring kingdoms leading to some sort of event at the school like a tournament/game of some sort?
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This. This piques my interest.
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This really piques my interest as well. Been looking for something like this, count me in!
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Tentatively interested. I'll decide once all the details on magic, the kingdoms and the school are out.

How likely would it be for an tropic island prince or princess to be on the island? Do you have arcs in mind other than the day to day of the students? I know this is a slice of life, but the lives of medieval lords and ladies are usually full of intrigue. Maybe rivalries between the students of warring kingdoms leading to some sort of event at the school like a tournament/game of some sort?

A lot of the lands of the sovereignty are fairly temperate, but as you travel southbound you run into several kingdoms that live in the desert and sub-saharan like climates. I really should create a rudimentary map for help in this matter, but it won’t be pretty as I want to get the RP functioning over aesthetically perfect. But I’ll be listing the major kingdoms that serve as the imperium’s vassals. The Kingdoms themselves aren’t exactly warring with each other but it would be no surprise if there were squabbles, rivalries, contests, and so forth that translate to the citadel academy’s environment.
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How much of a hand could we have in shaping the culture and whatnot of these kingdoms?

For my prince, I was thinking of something like a border-kingdom at the eastern edge of the Imperium. A long history of fending off foreign invasions and dealing with influxes of nomads and immigrants.
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Have two ideas I'm stuck between at the moment. ^^;
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How much of a hand could we have in shaping the culture and whatnot of these kingdoms?

For my prince, I was thinking of something like a border-kingdom at the eastern edge of the Imperium. A long history of fending off foreign invasions and dealing with influxes of nomads and immigrants.

Well, I have to try to keep it into continuity, but given these nations are not as large as some of them become in the future there are a lot more of them in this timeline— so kingdom/house creation seems definitely plausible and for a kingdom to fending off orcs, goblins, monsters, gnolls, and cursed beasts is within the framework of the world. As weird as it sounds humanity is pretty unified right now, though things are slightly changing in that regard due to the fact the god who interacted with them has sort of gone silent. Some think Gaea has abandoned them, others think someone has taken her from them, and there are people who think they have betrayed her in some way. The people of the faith in the imperium are at loss because they have not been able to hear her for a few hundred years and things are starting to cause waves.
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