Infernal Intervention Squadron
Out of the roughly 8 billion people on the planet, only about 10% are aware of the supernatural plane around them. Gods, fairies, mythical beasts, djinn, spirits, and all the creatures in between are- if you're in the right social circles or climbing the right ladders- actively a part of mortal day-to-day life, and where our souls go upon death is one of a motley number of afterlives, each governed by their own hierarchical systems. And out of all the afterlives and all the spirits, Hell and its ranking demons are the ones raking in the big bucks. Business at the Home of the Sinners has been booming and its infernal denizens have been amassing power and spiritual flak for years. However, all that power in one spot leaves a dangerous precedent, and pantheons, traitorous demon clans, and power hungry human factions across both worlds have their eyes on that much power and are willing and potentially capable of bringing it about. Demons, too, have their eyes on a plan to take their business cross-dimensional, and lay down a complete supremacy over Earth.
Neither, of course, is permitted to happen, which is why a team must be assembled.
A team of halflings that straddle the line between human and inhuman: half-demon, half-god, half-fairy, half-monster, the details are mostly irrelevant. The necessary requirements are a mixed parentage and a willingness to do hard work maintaining the balance between both worlds. You most likely have a set of skills, abilities, and a knowledge of some form of the arcane that will aid in protecting the sanctity and stability of the Other Side and Earth.
You will be placed into a special team known as the Infernal Intervention Squad, a team agreed upon by the leaders of twelve Earth nations, rulers of the Heavenly Host, the ruling class of Hell, and the leaders of fifteen pantheons. The job is funded and paid for through a joint task effort by all available parties, and the assignments involve keeping the peace, preventing catastrophes, stopping inter-dimensional war, and imprisoning or destroying masterminds of any origin who wish to bring about destruction or conquest against any other group.
The assignments are almost always high-priority affairs, and we need half-demons who are capable in combat, investigation, communications, exploration, and subjects on the arcane. Having inherited supernatural powers is not a requirement but will be taken highly into consideration. The assignments handed out will often put your team in favor with one faction, clan, family, or group, and while you are on that assignment you will be pitted against high ranking demons and gods alike, and many of them are adept and experienced in their abilities. The job is dangerous, but the reward is safety and security and enough compensation that you will never want for food or shelter or money again. So do you take the job?
The RP would be somewhere between a small group and a large group, I would say between six and eight people ideally but I would be willing to go below or a couple above that. The characters in the RP, due to their diplomatic status between the natural and supernatural world, would be half breed people, such as half-demon and half-god to name the top examples. The character would need to know their parentage and upbringing (the parent's name preferred and the more detailed you want to make the backstory the better), two dedicated supernatural abilities (both specific enough to not be OP in terms of limits on functionality and would be one combat-oriented and one investigative or practically oriented ability respectively), arcane study (rune reading, potion making, summoning, folklore, spirit warding, whatever information you could apply and bring to the team), preferred build (investigative, combat, civil, or support), and a description.
Once all that's in place and the team's at least partially put together, the assignments will begin to come in. The assignments are story arcs within themselves, each one containing a healthy mix of investigation, world building, explorable branches, and fights. There can be as much down time as needed between arcs, and while certain story arcs are essentially pre-mapped based off of old ideas, the assignments taken are entirely up to you. Characters' backstories and plotlines will, on request, be interwoven into the story at large and may affect the overall direction the story goes in. Assignments, too, will all have certain unique aspects to them and require different levels of expertise. Some may be almost all intimidation and combat, while others include escorting important people, gathering information, sabotaging a growing war party, pulling off an infiltration or heist, or even just rescue operations from supernatural catastrophes.
I'm just putting this up to see what people think about the setting, thoughts on how well the gameplay ideas would work with it, suggest any changes, and just to see if anyone would be willing to play this. I'm trying to go for something somewhat more streamlined than the last RP I tried to do a while back, Beyond the City Walls, mostly due to the sheer openness of the narrative. So yeah if anyone would be interested in being part of this RP please let me know!
