What would you do if you recieved an E-mail, text, pm, comment, or whatever, that told you:
"Your world is due for a change.
Share this message with 10 other people if you want the change to favor you.
Or you can ignore this and just live with whatever get dumped in your lap.
Hurry, Time is running out, it doesn't count if you run out of people who haven't heard!
Will be in the 10 Percent?"
Most people would just ignore it, some would take it seriously, or just be curious and go through with it anyway, but the majority would likely be along the lines of:
"Pff, it's just a chain letter, what kind of idiot would 'believe' this crap? It's even more ambiguous than the usual virus spreading bullshit!"
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Now imagine if you woke up one morning to find out that it hadn't quite been such 'bull-shit', what would you do then? when you awaken with hooves, or claws, or wings? or god forbid, Tentacles...
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It's a very simple Premise, only the bare bones really, I want a player driven story as opposed to a pre-defined experience with everyone just along for the ride.
The Beginning itself will depend entirely on the characters that are supplied for the RP, depending on places they live, how far from eachother that puts them [Ideally having at least a few in the same city/state would be best for starting off], how well they do or don't know eachother, and probably some OOC chatter before hand.
From there, it all depends on the choices the characters make IC.
On that note, some ideas while in this Interest check phase wouldn't hurt, suggestions on what kindof character someone might have an idea to play, where they might live, things like that... If nobody suggests a city, or several, I'll most likely either default to the cliche new york, or maybe roulette a list of cities to pick one.
Now to clarify, yes, this starts off as human, some might start the RP just waking up completely something else, some might be suffering more gradual processes of change, and other's might still 'be' human for a good while, or may even stay one throughout if they choose, nothin wrong with that.
as for 'what', well, the possibilities are quite broad, however there is something to note, some things are only 'possible' for someone who played along with the email trap, and thus will be in quite limited quantity.
This includes things like Alicorns [yes, the pony kind], Dragons, Various Alien species, higher profile game or movie species, and so on, and you 'can' be legitimately turned 'into' a character [Physically]. Given the variety available, it'll be a case to case basis, judged by those participating [not just me] whether or not it fits the 'low or high' category. The unrestricted species possibilities are just as comically broad as ever though, and options are available for standard, anthro, and cross-breed versions [within reason!]
An important note for all - We all suffer from the same Ignorance of how to use our new bodies and their capabilities, there will be no 'instinctual well of knowledge that lets someone suddenly blow up buildings'. With that ignorance, even something like Alicorn's can't be over-powered, if anything they suffer from it three fold with such variety available and no experience using any of it.
However, natural physical strengths are still a thing [essentially an Alicorn would just be a really tall Earth pony until they take the time to figure out wings and magic and such XD and any dragons would start small], however this also means anything that is inherently biologically OP is not allowed [i.e., no Mountain sized dragons, no mysteriously untouchable ghost monsters, and sure as hell no 'supermen/saiyans/star-children']