Paranormal investigation / Urban fantasy!

[Naril]

Hi!

Well, let's try this again, shall we? :3

I have some ideas in mind for a story-driven, character-focused urban fantasy centred around the employees of a paranormal investigation agency. Something with a little bit of flavour of The Dresden Files or maybe even League of Extraordinary Gentlemen - plenty of mystery, danger, intrigue, and the occasional bare-knuckle knock-down drag-out fight. There will be lots of story, and the gameplay will not be a "bring your own adventure" sandbox, although the actions of the characters will certainly weigh on the story. I'm flexible. :3

Just as some highlights as to the general tone -

- Your characters will be mature, reasonably stable, adults. Psychopaths, loners, emotionally deadened soldiers, and blood-crazed murderers will almost certainly not be accepted.

- Nobody is at war with anybody else, at least as far as the story goes. This is not humans vs. ghosts, or vampires vs. faery creatures, or weretuna vs. undead zombie fishermen. There might be a couple zombies, though. Maybe.

- The overall tone is going to be fairly serious - not Batman-level "darkness-no-parents," all the same. Bring a sense of humour.

- The characters will not be first-come first-served. You'll have to audition, as it were, and I'll help. :3

- I'm expecting a smallish cast (Likely no more than six people).

- While your character doesn't have to be human, you have to super duper impress me to write a supernatural creature, mythic monster, or similar. :3

- Most of the story is going to revolve around clues that unravel a reasonably complex plot, not demonstrating how many guns you can fire at once.

I rather hope that hasn't driven off all the interest. Still, let me know if you want to hear more in the form of an OOC thread! :3

Cheers!

[Mixtape Ghost N]

Interrrrrrrrested

[SonofJET]

Definitely interested. I haven't participated in a non-tabletop game for a while now, and I've been aching to stretch my creative writing muscles a bit.

What sort of shared backstory would there be in terms of getting the team together? Were the characters recruited all at once specifically to fill a team roster, placed together after some aptitude training, or will everything take place in the course of the roleplay?

Also, does the zombie fiction trope (eg. no zombie lore/fiction in a zombie movie) apply to paranormal entities in this game?

[Naril]

Mm. Lovely to see some interest. :3

In terms of a shared backstory, I don't want to place an absolute on that beyond a very simple starting point - your characters all work for the investigation firm (Name to be revealed in an OOC, if we get there), and you've worked together for some little while. You don't have to all like one another all that well - I don't expect everyone to be standing around singing kum-bah-yah, of course. :3 Still, you need to at least be on the same side - which is the nominally good-guy, story-protagonist side. :3

As far as lore goes, this trends more the other way - in general, the spooky stories in the world have their basis in truth. Somewhere out there, there's a creature that inspired myths of selkies. In the mists at the edge of civilization, you'll find the basis for Jenny Greenteeth. Japanese obake very likely terrorize people, and somewhere, someone's covered up a story of a Rakshasa or a Naagloshii.

Gods and godlike beings are a different story - there may be something behind those stories, but the "state of knowledge," such as the characters and the world have, suggest that they're very likely flights of fancy.

Hope that helps! :3

[Redrum]

Highly interested. Looking forward to the OOC.

[vietmyke]

You've got me hooked, haven't been this interested in an RP in quite a bit. :o

[Naril]

Well, I'm surprised and pleased! :3 I'll have an OOC up tomorrow, it's bedtime for me quite soon.

[Dead Cruiser]

Certainly interested in this. I've been on the lookout for an RP like this for quite some time, as there is a character concept that I very much want to make use of.

[Habibi359]

Interested. Very, very interested.

[Naril]

Well, the OOC is up!

roleplayerguild.com/topics/84746-pries..

The OOC is slightly rough right now, but all the important information should be there. I'll refine things a little as we go on, but I'm going to be busy for the next few hours and I wanted to give you all something to chew on. <3

[shaitarn]

Would it be alright for me to throw a character into this?

[vietmyke]

I'll get a character up after work! I already have an idea in the works

[Naril]

@shaitarn - Go ahead and read the OOC; like I said, this isn't first-come first-served. Write a character if you want to, and I'll be happy to read the sheet.