Stranded on an island type deal

[CollectorOfMyst]

@The Mad Hatter Well congrats on the lucky day! One thing I can start with is the rumour that the Triangle contains the island of Atlantis, which is also contained in Mayan and Aztec history.

[The Mad Hatter]

@CollectorOfMyst Ah, yes, I am aware of this. My thought was, as mentioned, to include merpeople (or, well, undines) and in a Little Mermaid sort of way have them be the inhabitants of the underwater city.

PS, please excuse me if my sentencing is a bit odd; I'm danish and sometimes the structure just goes haywire.

[CollectorOfMyst]

@The Mad Hatter Meh. As long as it's coherent I'll understand it. I have someone from Belgium in my RP. While I unfortunately speak only English and Google Translate, if I can get your meaning, I'm happy.

[Ryteb Pymeroce]

I was gonna have my character be looking for the lost city of Muntab. Its a fictional place (I think) I made up. Sort of similar to Atlantis, but was swallowed by the Earth instead of the sea. Come for the gold, stay for the Cthullu.

[The Mad Hatter]

Okay, so here are my thoughts on the whole Atlantis thing. It was written quite quickly and with a baby on my lap, so sorry if it's a bit messy.

I want(ed) to go Greek.
So, Atlantis has its name from Ancient Greek, where it means "Isle of Atlas". Atlas was the eldest son of Poseidon and Cleito and was made the king of Atlantis - he is also the titan who was sentenced to hold the sky after siding with the Titans in their war against the Olympians (Greek Gods), but this is not important to the story.
After the Atlanteans lost a war against the Athenians, Atlantis lost its favor with the Gods and the island was pulled into the sea by earthquakes and floods in a single day.

Supposedly, the Atlanteans were superior to the humankind somehow and I do plan to play with that and the myth of Undines together, since they were said to be humanoid, but lacking a soul and the only way for them to gain one, was to marry a human. The offspring of such a union would result in a human with a soul, but also with aquatic features of their Undine parent. Since Atlantis was completely surrounded by water and was the home of Poseidon, God of the Sea, Rivers, Floods, Droughts and Earthquakes, the Undine favored this island as their source of a spouse, making a large portion of the people there the offspring of an Undine/human union and even more of the people second generation of such, still with aquatic features. As such, a very large portion of the people of Atlantis would have been "superior to humankind" by being partly Undine.

Now, I know that some theories claim that the people that survived the sinking of Atlantis would go off and become the Maya and the Aztec - or at least join and influence them, but other than that, I don't know much about any theories in the direction.

So, as for the actual role in the RP:
The northernmost parts of Atlantis was said to be almost entire made up by large mountains (one of which was carved into a palace by Poseidon, with three large moats, growing greater with each, surrounding it, which humans later carved tunnels through and stuff to make it a huge city-like thing). For the sake of the RP and the "Bermuda Triangle" approach, though, these mountsins would need to have been in the southernmost parts of the island instead, which is such a small thing that I can easily see it being plausible. With the mountains in the southernmost part of the (huge) island, the Bermuda Triangle would be where the mountainous area of the island, and thus the city of Atlantis, would have been and the "deserted island" on which our characters will be stranded, will actually be the tip of one of the mountains, which stood tall enough to break through the surface of the sea that swallowed it. There will be several, smaller, islands around ours.

[Mitheral]

I think I am going to back out. Not sounding like my cup of tea.

[The Mad Hatter]

I was gonna have my character be looking for the lost city of Muntab. Its a fictional place (I think) I made up. Sort of similar to Atlantis, but was swallowed by the Earth instead of the sea. Come for the gold, stay for the Cthullu.

@Ryteb Pymeroce

I know I've heard/read "Muntab" before, I just can't put my finger on where...

[The Mad Hatter]

I think I am going to back out. Not sounding like my cup of tea.

@Mitheral

I'm sorry to "hear" that. Sadly, I/we can't please everyone. I'm always a bit sad when people leave, but it was a very basic outline I originally gave and I was expecting for people to drop when it got more specific - wide nets do catch more fish, after all.

Good luck in your future endeavors and all that stuff.

[Ryteb Pymeroce]

It's apparently a Discworld name, though honestly I just decided on Muntab as it sounds exotic.

[CollectorOfMyst]

Well, the net may have gotten tighter, but that just means I've less change of 'escaping'. Every bit of info you've given still sounds good to me!

[The Mad Hatter]

It's apparently a Discworld name, though honestly I just decided on Muntab as it sounds exotic.

@Ryteb Pymeroce

That explains it. I have a sort-of-friend/asshole-I-like-to-insult-who-insults-me-back-in-a-symbiotic-kind-of-relationship that likes stuff like that.

Well, the net may have gotten tighter, but that just means I've less change of 'escaping'. Every bit of info you've given still sounds good to me!

@CollectorOfMyst

Glad to "hear" it. Dedicated players are hard to come by, so I just hope to catch a few.

[Mae]

@The Mad Hatter Honestly the horrrors of my notes consisted of a badly done brainstorming excel sheet, generic first post/info set and fussing about how to streamline certain survival things if I used dice for GM stuff. Looking through the spreadsheet I am pretty embaressed another human might set eyes upon them, but if you might find them useful I can send it over :D

[The Mad Hatter]

@Mae Honestly, I don't have much more than that, either. I just started transcribing my shit stuff into a proper OP yesterday.

If you want to, I'd happily take your notes and steal whatever I can use

.:EDIT:.
Except that I'd never use dice for a forum RP.

[Mae]

@The Mad Hatter I can leave the dice stuff out :D

EDIT: Sending the PM now, please don't kick me for insane useless ramblings <3

[Bishop]

Hello!

The main focus in the first "part" will be survival

Let's say that ideally, everyone posts once a week. After how many weeks would we be able to jump to the second part?

[The Mad Hatter]

Hello!
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Let's say that ideally, everyone posts once a week. After how many weeks would we be able to jump to the second part?

@Bishop

I'd say it depends a lot on both the characters and the players. There might be someone (or several someones) that decided to check out all of those weird things almost immediately,

There won't ever not be these mythical/magical/whatever-you-wanna-call-it elements to the island, but I suppose that to most shipwrecked people, they won't be as interested in finding out what that odd altar at the shore is and means as they would be in finding food, drinkable water and shelter.

[The Mad Hatter]

So, I did make a new Interest Check, but I didn't put as much detail into it as I originally planned. In fact, I chose to leave a bunch of stuff out to be discovered along the way, such as the whole Atlantis bit, so please keep that to yourselves if new players come along

[Tybalt Capulet]

This is like my favorite trope. Can I get in on this, or is it too late?