fantasy world rp?

[duskreaper]

I was thinking of doing a fantasy sort of rp that is more of a free style writing format. People are only required to write 2-3 lines per post. I had a bunch of different ideas but I'm really open to any ideas at the moment. Anyone else intended?

[Atmosphere]

This sounds perfect for me right now. I'm up for something creative like a scavenger hunt in and around the typical fantasy city. Or hired to advertise a new business opening with a super low budget -- shouting on street corners, bribing famous people into attending, blue body paint to create gossip, etc, etc. And of course a tight deadline to keep things popping! Mysteries like haunted houses tend to go slower but can be fun. But I'm open to other things, too!

[duskreaper]

care to elaborate more on your ideas?

[Atmosphere]

Oh. Um. They were just ideas. But what the heck. Scavenger hunt. Provided with a list of ordinary, weird, dangerous, and silly objects to acquire before the deadline. Items might be awkward like a weather vane, dangerous like an expensive bottle of fermented Dwarven mine fungus, silly like a peacock feather from a famous exotic dancer, etc. A rival team could add extra spice. Business advertisement is highly creative based on character personalities and the opposing forces such as the local security, rival businesses, oppositional forces like religious cult. This may take too much GM now that I write this. Typical fantasy cities I don't think need much elaboration. I can pull something out in a few if you want. Like um Principality, court full of dandies and their much more dangerous wives, or whatever. Temple to the Goddess of Something on one end of the city and huge bulbous mass of stones the locals call the Prince's Bedroom on the other. Ten minutes or twenty to do it up. My brain oozes this stuff -- it's a defect of character. Is that what you were looking for?

[duskreaper]

I was thinking more along the lines of dragons, sorcerers, and medieval society sort of thing.

[Atmosphere]

That's cool. Like parallel real world medieval? Or some novel or game? I come out of D&D from the pre-white box days, but anything's fine. So, slay the dragon or talk to the dragon? I've done both. BTW there were Principalities in real world and some D&D worlds. And it's easy to toss in mundane and religious magic as part of populating the city. Remember I just pulled that whole city description out of my ass. I can make something to your spec … or better yet be lazy and let you do it ;)

[duskreaper]

Hmm a parallel world might be cool. I have no D&D experience so you will have to help me there lol.

[Atmosphere]

So So So Sorry for the lapse! My MacBook crashed BIG time. A trip to the Mac Miracle Workers and I'm back. Horrible experience! I'm still interested. Let's talk some more.

[duskreaper]

That's OK tech issues happen to the best of us! So can you explain how we go about d&d style? I'm new to it.

[Sharyxe]

I'm interested :)

[Primal Conundrum]

I'm a fan of patchwork cities built in the midst of the ancient ruins of a former civilization. Sure, the inhabited parts of the city are safe, but the other 2/3rds or more of the ruins? Filled with potential dangers and treasure! Some of the areas may have been picked over, but so far nobody has managed to reach any of those floating towers that have been hanging above the city, listing slightly, since it was discovered...

[duskreaper]

I like this idea. So its ancient based city but in a modern time. Will people have powers or anything? I'm into that! Also welcome sharyxe!

[Primal Conundrum]

Oh I didn't mean modern, I still meant a sword-and-sorcery type civilization, just built in the ruins of a much older one, one that possibly reached heights of arcane magic that haven't been seen since that civilization fell. Think of it, gargantuan ruins, collapsed statues, overgrown towers, and through it all signs of new habitation. Some kids run through the ruins, looking almost like Aladdin as they traverse the strange environment. The hollow head of an ancient fallen statue being repurposed as a small shop for trinkets and potions. Rusted sewer covers through which running water can be seen, and sometimes in the night a violent scraping and splashing can be heard, as though some clawed thing was crawling at great speed through the ancient storm drains. A young man, wielding a crudely made sword purchased from a fellow selling weapons from a rug, swallows his fear as he takes his first steps into the deeper city. Will he return with treasures? Stories? Or will he, like so many others before him, vanish into the crumbling ruins and leave not a trace of his passing, his disappearance a mystery that leads others to venture forth in hopes of learning his fate?

[duskreaper]

This is sounding better and better. I would really like the idea of an ancient being residing in the city. Perhaps intombed within within the ruins and if awoke it would lead to chaos.

[Primal Conundrum]

Who's to say there's just one? Ancient creatures, perhaps summoned and bound in circles before the civilization fell, may yet wait entombed in the deeper parts of the city. Perhaps even some of the survivors of those ancients still persist, toiling away at whatever mad works have absorbed them over the past several hundred years.

[duskreaper]

This makes me want to make a character that is currently trapped within the ruins.

[Primal Conundrum]

I'd probably play some semi-feral halfling or something. I have ideas.

[duskreaper]

I think I might make a demonic demi-god... he'd be like the equivalent to a prince of hell sort of idea.

[Maria 127]

oh oh im interested. could i maybe be a wise dragon who lives in the ruins

[Primal Conundrum]

Those both sound... more than a little unbalanced. Besides, dangerous settings aren't fun when you're so powerful that stuff isn't a threat—Indiana Jones would have been boring if he'd just turned and punched the rolling boulder into rubble instead of having to run from it.