If you love original ideas and your old characters, maybe give this game a look?
Apparently I can't get a hider to work here so if you would like to for now you may skip down to the next section titled "How This Game Would Work".
Lore
Galileo, the great arcane, has grown weary of the lack of challenges the universe and its many dimensions have for him, for his powers are great and no other seems to hold even the dimmest of candles to his prowess. In fact, it was this dullness that gnawed at him now that had caused him to begin traveling between dimensions in the first place: boredom. The sickness of being simply and barely content weighed on him so, driving him mad – even more so than when he gained these powers to begin with….
It had been several eras before, the actual time period depending on what universe you hailed from. Galileo had stumbled upon powers, skills, traits, and abilities he had not deserved, but took them anyway and immediately abandoned and forgot his former life and identity, now claiming himself to be a God of sorts. Searching his mind, racking his brain, he sought and sought for a way to dull the apathy eating away at his eternal soul… until….
“Yes, yes... of course…. I’m not the only piece, am I? This isn’t even the only board, so why am I confined to the entertainment only I as a player can provide?!” Even in his realm, the idea of separate dimensions had been tossed around from theorist to scientist to arcane alike, yet none of them held that which Galileo possessed…. The power of a God, and the boredom and carelessness of a child. It mattered naught what abilities those in his own realm were limited to if he could manage to travel to others and hopefully find other powerful beings to observe or toy with. And without even the slightest hesitation or interest in earning the title of being the first of his realm to achieve this feat, Galileo swiftly developed a technique for traveling over, under, through and between the many borders separating the universes and dimensions, immediately jumping from one to the other in search of his entertainment.
As you might guess, this also did not serve to satisfy him for very long. Although their seemed to be endless universes and world’s within them to explore, exploration was not what the arcane sought. Those universes also held beings of great stature, which excited Galileo, but their seemed to be something still missing. It was a great deal of time before Galileo admitted to himself that he wasn’t enough the intellectual to solve the curious case that was the illness of his contentment, and so he began seeking ideas in the minds of others; who else had access to a better focus group than someone who could travel between worlds? It was quite a long journey of knowledge gathering and discarding before Galileo found himself on a planet known as Earth in a simple yet expanding universe, exchanging pleasantries with a Mr. Edward Alexander Crowley. The languages of the world took our arcane no time at all to learn, but their conversation was brief because, suddenly, time itself seemed to stop as the answer became clear to Galileo. He left Mr. Crowley with only the following words while Galileo’s hand rested on his shoulder: “Remember this day, Sir Crowley, because with your help and by the power of knowledge, I, in life, have conquered all universes!” The phrase was uttered moments before the arcane slipped through the dimension’s borders once more, leaving Crowley looking to be a madman. Unfortunately for that world’s prime inhabitants known as humans, the phrase was extremely valuable in knowledge and power, but it wouldn’t be discovered for quite some years that this phrase did not properly translate.
The answer blessed upon our dear time-skipper and world-skimmer that day, dear readers, was of course The Summoner’s Labyrinth.
Of all the amazing specimen he had encountered in the many places he had come across, why hadn’t he thought of such a thing before? He had met them, yes, but the problem lied in that THEY had not met EACH other! They were separated, forced apart by the laws of existence and confined to their own realms and times, but how fortunate of them to be discovered by the great Galileo, and how thankful they’d be to be blessed with his focus once more. Thankful right away? Probably not, but come due time and they’d all be bowing down to him, thanking him for this opportunity to dance with him this eternal dance of solace forever, never to be bored again.
And so, with all of his might and the remainder of himself, Galileo did as he imagined all dimensions were created and intertwined himself with existence and the multiverse itself to create a realm, a universe, a dimension separate of the others, yet one governed by similar laws – one created by him to house he and those worthy for eternity and further after the exam is finished and the first game is played, which just so happens to be a maze full of the inhabitants of other worlds Galileo has encountered during his journey through space, time, and the multiverse that Galileo has deemed able to survive here. However, he has deemed a secondary prize to his eternal company: a wish of their own, no matter how many victors there may be.
How This Game Would Work
After Galileo (The Summoner, his story is found in the "Lore" section above) creates his own realm, he uses his arcane abilities to summon the great specimen of his recollection from all corners of the multiverse. These specimen will be controlled by you, the players, if you haven't already guessed. They will be entities that he has encountered in the past (or even in their present or future, given his ability to transport between time and dimension) and he has deemed worthy of his eternal company. You will be playing a previous character you have made and used in a separate RP and that character will be brought to this universe by Galileo the Summoner himself to "play" in his maze. These characters should be diverse and come from as many worlds, fandoms, ideas, races, etcetera as you can manage (or as you want), though I imagine most if not all will be humanoid or very close considering the average character is such, which is perfectly okay and how the game plays out in my mind anyway. The character will be bringing their entire character sheets with them, plus a CS of my own to add on to it to make sure all our bases are covered. This may sound uneven depending on what character you decide to bring, but don't worry about that; I have that covered and will address it shortly.
You may be asking "how could it be a maze if we're all playing only through text?" Well, most of that is my own surprise, but to answer most of that question, we'll all be playing in separate messages, while the OOC and IC will still exist for their normal purposes. The IC will mainly be used for Galileo's announcements and happenings in the labyrinth that everyone will be experiencing (he will be acting as sort of a "GM" in a tabletop game), and things like that, while the OOC remains the same as any game's. The labyrinth, however, is all too real, and I will have a map of it and be following your positions with a neat little program called ScreenMonkey (a godsend program for tabletop players, in my opinion). Thanks to this websites group messaging system, when players are in parties we will all be able to communicate in the same message thread. Some players may even start out in parties, especially if you'd prefer to.
However, the same goes for party meet-ups and clashes: when two or more parties end up in the same location at the same time, they will all be lumped together in a new message thread to keep track of what is going on. After the parties have separated, the message thread will be reused for other party meet-ups and clashes (if it sounds confusing, it's really not, just hard to give idea without example).
Things to Know/Notes
The Labyrinth itself will have its many rules and tricks, but I don't want to bog down the interest check with those, I'd just like to see if this idea holds any water in it's current form and to get as many on board as quickly as possible. PLEASE tell me some people are interested?
The game is still currently accepting. If you would like to apply, make sure you've read all of the above and read all of my posts in this thread until my post about character creation, which you should then follow the instructions for.
Apparently I can't get a hider to work here so if you would like to for now you may skip down to the next section titled "How This Game Would Work".
Galileo, the great arcane, has grown weary of the lack of challenges the universe and its many dimensions have for him, for his powers are great and no other seems to hold even the dimmest of candles to his prowess. In fact, it was this dullness that gnawed at him now that had caused him to begin traveling between dimensions in the first place: boredom. The sickness of being simply and barely content weighed on him so, driving him mad – even more so than when he gained these powers to begin with….
It had been several eras before, the actual time period depending on what universe you hailed from. Galileo had stumbled upon powers, skills, traits, and abilities he had not deserved, but took them anyway and immediately abandoned and forgot his former life and identity, now claiming himself to be a God of sorts. Searching his mind, racking his brain, he sought and sought for a way to dull the apathy eating away at his eternal soul… until….
“Yes, yes... of course…. I’m not the only piece, am I? This isn’t even the only board, so why am I confined to the entertainment only I as a player can provide?!” Even in his realm, the idea of separate dimensions had been tossed around from theorist to scientist to arcane alike, yet none of them held that which Galileo possessed…. The power of a God, and the boredom and carelessness of a child. It mattered naught what abilities those in his own realm were limited to if he could manage to travel to others and hopefully find other powerful beings to observe or toy with. And without even the slightest hesitation or interest in earning the title of being the first of his realm to achieve this feat, Galileo swiftly developed a technique for traveling over, under, through and between the many borders separating the universes and dimensions, immediately jumping from one to the other in search of his entertainment.
As you might guess, this also did not serve to satisfy him for very long. Although their seemed to be endless universes and world’s within them to explore, exploration was not what the arcane sought. Those universes also held beings of great stature, which excited Galileo, but their seemed to be something still missing. It was a great deal of time before Galileo admitted to himself that he wasn’t enough the intellectual to solve the curious case that was the illness of his contentment, and so he began seeking ideas in the minds of others; who else had access to a better focus group than someone who could travel between worlds? It was quite a long journey of knowledge gathering and discarding before Galileo found himself on a planet known as Earth in a simple yet expanding universe, exchanging pleasantries with a Mr. Edward Alexander Crowley. The languages of the world took our arcane no time at all to learn, but their conversation was brief because, suddenly, time itself seemed to stop as the answer became clear to Galileo. He left Mr. Crowley with only the following words while Galileo’s hand rested on his shoulder: “Remember this day, Sir Crowley, because with your help and by the power of knowledge, I, in life, have conquered all universes!” The phrase was uttered moments before the arcane slipped through the dimension’s borders once more, leaving Crowley looking to be a madman. Unfortunately for that world’s prime inhabitants known as humans, the phrase was extremely valuable in knowledge and power, but it wouldn’t be discovered for quite some years that this phrase did not properly translate.
The answer blessed upon our dear time-skipper and world-skimmer that day, dear readers, was of course The Summoner’s Labyrinth.
Of all the amazing specimen he had encountered in the many places he had come across, why hadn’t he thought of such a thing before? He had met them, yes, but the problem lied in that THEY had not met EACH other! They were separated, forced apart by the laws of existence and confined to their own realms and times, but how fortunate of them to be discovered by the great Galileo, and how thankful they’d be to be blessed with his focus once more. Thankful right away? Probably not, but come due time and they’d all be bowing down to him, thanking him for this opportunity to dance with him this eternal dance of solace forever, never to be bored again.
And so, with all of his might and the remainder of himself, Galileo did as he imagined all dimensions were created and intertwined himself with existence and the multiverse itself to create a realm, a universe, a dimension separate of the others, yet one governed by similar laws – one created by him to house he and those worthy for eternity and further after the exam is finished and the first game is played, which just so happens to be a maze full of the inhabitants of other worlds Galileo has encountered during his journey through space, time, and the multiverse that Galileo has deemed able to survive here. However, he has deemed a secondary prize to his eternal company: a wish of their own, no matter how many victors there may be.
After Galileo (The Summoner, his story is found in the "Lore" section above) creates his own realm, he uses his arcane abilities to summon the great specimen of his recollection from all corners of the multiverse. These specimen will be controlled by you, the players, if you haven't already guessed. They will be entities that he has encountered in the past (or even in their present or future, given his ability to transport between time and dimension) and he has deemed worthy of his eternal company. You will be playing a previous character you have made and used in a separate RP and that character will be brought to this universe by Galileo the Summoner himself to "play" in his maze. These characters should be diverse and come from as many worlds, fandoms, ideas, races, etcetera as you can manage (or as you want), though I imagine most if not all will be humanoid or very close considering the average character is such, which is perfectly okay and how the game plays out in my mind anyway. The character will be bringing their entire character sheets with them, plus a CS of my own to add on to it to make sure all our bases are covered. This may sound uneven depending on what character you decide to bring, but don't worry about that; I have that covered and will address it shortly.
You may be asking "how could it be a maze if we're all playing only through text?" Well, most of that is my own surprise, but to answer most of that question, we'll all be playing in separate messages, while the OOC and IC will still exist for their normal purposes. The IC will mainly be used for Galileo's announcements and happenings in the labyrinth that everyone will be experiencing (he will be acting as sort of a "GM" in a tabletop game), and things like that, while the OOC remains the same as any game's. The labyrinth, however, is all too real, and I will have a map of it and be following your positions with a neat little program called ScreenMonkey (a godsend program for tabletop players, in my opinion). Thanks to this websites group messaging system, when players are in parties we will all be able to communicate in the same message thread. Some players may even start out in parties, especially if you'd prefer to.
However, the same goes for party meet-ups and clashes: when two or more parties end up in the same location at the same time, they will all be lumped together in a new message thread to keep track of what is going on. After the parties have separated, the message thread will be reused for other party meet-ups and clashes (if it sounds confusing, it's really not, just hard to give idea without example).
- The characters outside of this world will all be considered powerful by their own world's standards (or not powerful if you choose to bring one as such), but while in Galileo's dimension, all of your power will be equated to an extent. E.g., if you choose to bring in character with a weapon forged by a God, that God has no influence here and you now simply have an above-average weapon, while on the other hand if you come in with a minor superpower you may have it leveled up a few notches to stay on par with the others. However, if you choose to play a complete underdog (such as a human or child with no apparent offerings to the group), I will not continue to spare you forever.
- Characters will be modified in other ways to fit the universe as well if necessary. E.g., you character has a curse that slowly turns them into a beast unless they perform a certain ritual every so often. In this world, they would not need they ritual, but together we'd choose how far along the curse is and it's effects on the character.
- The Labyrinth is of course laden with a great many of things, be it monsters, towers, traps, gauntlets, weapons, illusions, housing, portals, and so on. You're not only expected to encounter each other, so don't expect an arena game.
- Unfortunately, this will come down to a completely battle-oriented RP if you all don't produce your own RP moments because I have no control over that, so please do your part and make due with whatever drama you can muster, ranging from romance to harassment. Considering parts of the maze will actually have incorporated towns and townsfolk, it may not be that hard.
- We will not be playing a constant "we go left... we go right... we go right again... now left..." type of game. A labyrinth or maze does not necessarily have to look like a bunch of lines leading in different directions contained in a box. While I describe settings to you, it will seem as though you are in your own separate RPs (especially those with parties) for a lot of the time, which is part of what is to be intended to be fun in this game.
- To be in the game, you must be prepared for your character to die, though it's unlikely I'd do it without warning you. I've yet to do that to a player ever.
- I'm rather certain I'll make the decision to add players in later if I feel we need them, but it's not like your characters would know the difference anyway, and possibly not even you. Just warning you ahead of time.
- A big part of this game will be built off of references from many, many things, so enjoy that if you get them (there are a couple or so in the lore already).
- I'm online pretty much constantly, but that doesn't mean I expect you to be, although I might tell some groups to slow down or speed up on posting due to progress of other parties.
The Labyrinth itself will have its many rules and tricks, but I don't want to bog down the interest check with those, I'd just like to see if this idea holds any water in it's current form and to get as many on board as quickly as possible. PLEASE tell me some people are interested?
The game is still currently accepting. If you would like to apply, make sure you've read all of the above and read all of my posts in this thread until my post about character creation, which you should then follow the instructions for.
