Dark Medieval Survival, anyone?

[Reveuse]

I want to run a roleplay where no one is safe in a world of plagues and poor living conditions, fighting for a better future or, at least, to be better of than that snobby neighbor. We will start as freshly captured slave boys or girls, forced to back breaking labor and gruesome arena fights by our new masters to settle their differences. Will we faithfully serve in hope of being freed or will you take your destiny into our blood soaked hands?

The setting is not settled yet, as is the plot, but I see this as a roleplay of constant struggle and intrigue where the powerful have it all and the poor are nothing more than meat bags to their whims.

[gowia]

Sounds good, I would be interested.

[brainiac3397]

I like Medieval. I like Dark. Survival is also fun.

So I guess I'm pretty interested!

[Lord Pie]

I'll poke some interest in here - could be good.

Where you thinking about more of a large empire type suppression? Akin to the late roman empire kinda thing?

Or more many medieval kingdoms and things like Europe in the dark ages?

Or fantasy type medieval land?

[Reveuse]

I'm thinking of a large Celtic empire, with Dark Age settings mingled with war and conquest. Having assimilated the remnants of the Romans in this altered timeline, they would have taken a liking to gruesome shows such as arena battles to the death.

[Lord Pie]

Ooh – sounds delicious!

So we can get some nice dark paganism thrown in there then if it’s all Celtic-y!

Also I’m assuming with the darkness and plague and poverty and what not that we can assume that the society is very divided – for example the hierarchy could be something like this:

King/Warlord
King/Warlord’s immediate council & advisors
Noble warrior caste
Warriors
Peasants/Citizens/Mostly everyone else
Slaves & criminals.

Something like that right? Where we are the slavey criminally one? So no rights, no freedom, no nothing?

[Reveuse]

Right :)!

[TheObsidianWolf]

Tentative interest here. I wanna see where this goes.

[TheObsidianWolf]

Tentative interest here. I wanna see where this goes.

[Diakonos]

I'm genuinely interested, sounds like something we could play alot with. When will this RP start up and where?

[Reveuse]

I think there's enough people to start on the OOC now.

You are all free to put your grain of salt and make suggestions while I set it up!

[smile4me]

This interests me. Though it is set closer towards reality, or are there magics involved? Would the fights be similar towards 300 (bada**), or can anyone die at any moment?

[Reveuse]

I like the idea of death and danger looking over our characters' shoulders, actually.

[Diakonos]

The arena fights you're talking about, what if the state is running them for amusement, and they give us a choice to either fight each other for amusement or work under them, after every fight we survive? That would give options for kind of some "traitor" character builds, while others may choose to try and break out to freedom. Of course as a state employee you would still have some kind of leash on you until you proved your worth.