Shoryu

A Different sort of Post-Cataclysmic Earth RP

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These are great interpretations and I appreciate that you shared them with me; I am totally going to incorporate some of these into my character as I personally do not mind taking suggestions from people regarding character building.

Not a critique, but it is merely intriguing that many of the characters suggestions share similar threads such as:

* The ironic (or karmatic) properties of the magic.
* The loss of something the character particularly valued...a key facet of their existence; political power, faith, sanity, wealth, and so on.
* Becoming the personification something the character hated or revealing the true nature of that particular character.
* The changes come with unfortunate negative consequences that must be stopped (or at least forestalled as long as possible).

In this group thus far someone who benefited from and is happy about their changes would be the outsider.

@aladdin_sane

I've noticed that theme XD though unintentional on my part, at least on the thorough scale so far, it is bound to be interesting for story/development.

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Alright, managed to flesh out some of my character's powers as evidenced by my updated sheet...pretty good for a guy bedridden with the flu. Also interest in this has exploded!!!

@aladdin_sane

Love that fleshing out XD and yes it has exploded.

On a side note, and i'm just mentioning these as ideas i've seen, not pushing you to use them, I've seen some interpretations that essentially benefit from feeding on positive emotions, while negative emotions can range from unhealthy to poisonous depending on which one and it's intensity. In such a case, 'in your face' feeding could be detrimental to said Changeling's own health from someone naturally directing their aggressive emotions towards a target.

Another considered the element of 'feeling' the emotions in the air, pretty much the empathy you mentioned, cept with passive feeding and that enough ambient emotions could range from annoying/agitating to unhealthy [probably requiring more positive feeding to counter-act] or of course ranging from calming to 'healthy'.

I've also seen yet another that went into the idea of different hives, or lacking hives because of this setting, different breeds I guess, who naturally lean towards a specific emotional range, while it's not restricting them from others, they get more nourishment and preferencial 'flavor' from certain ranges, like entertainment, types of love, comraderie/adrenaline, and so on.

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Is it too late for this newbie to express interest?

If yes, then :(
If no, then... interest!

@merrrrideth

Iii think that would put us at around 10 then, maybe 11 >3> I think I'll drawn the line at that, but more are welcome to express interest and maybe take places if someone bails ^.^

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I have never felt more traumatized in my life...

I'd rather keep my character female. I was thinking of having a non insane entity living within her as well, just for giggles.

@Voltus_Ventus

Traumatized? Huh, I would think Dwight Likes Sparkles would only be traumatizing to little fillies... Snrk.

And that's fine, just remember, prior to this the world was not magical or anything, it was essentially totally mundane like ours, supposedly... Hrm, so there wouldn't like be an extra entity living in her

That said, a split personality disorder could explain it, and could be 'advanced' by the cataclysm. Weider things will happen, that's for sure.

Eiii how's that OOC comin' along, Shoryu? I'm still thinking on the kind of character I'm going to create!

@Frettzo

It's coming along, I decided to scrap a few processes of it for later times when they'll become more relevant, to save time and probably have it done tommorrow.

So far we have a devil/angel priest, a bug-horse politician, a maybe crazy hair monster horse, aaaand whatever I come up with XD

On a side note, did you know that Demon/daemon when the word was really invented reffered to individuals of impressive power? not 'evil monsters', Devil was actually the original terminology remaining to those types of creatures.

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Yes, I may or may not be a fan of a certain "MINIATURE HORSE CARTOON PROGRAM"

But I digress, my idea was to possibly make a 'Mane-iac'esque character. The only issue is that I have little to no experience roleplaying the female gender, or insane people for that matter.

@Voltus_Ventus

I was actually literally referencing 'this' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0f2TDqUp1U but that's cool too.

And I wouldn't say it's 'that' different, mostly pronoun substitution and occasional feminine related things. Or hell, you could set up some poor dude to get turned into a chick, then it'd fit your inexperience just fine while also torturing the poor guy... you evil bastard. XD

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Hm, I think I'm interested in this...

I see there is a changeling... that gives me ideas.

@Voltus_Ventus

Indeed there is! and it does does it? color me intrigued.
Also: HAH! Unicorn meat... Dare I question if you've watched 'CARTOON HORSE PROGRAM'?

Also, work is progressing! I think I'm going to scrap the 'map' idea until a later point in the RP where the group might actually try to make their own. Also because it's a huge pain in the ass, though I 'might' just be failing at it, to find the geological maps I'm hoping for, without endless streams of names and locations listed on them to get in the way of the geography, and it's wasting a lot more of my time than necessary, thus making excessive delays.

That aside, I should have the OC up sometime tomorrow.I hope everyone is still as excited as ever, and sorry for the time it's taking.

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[WIP; done on phone so forgive spacing and the like. Please review, constructive criticism welcome]

Name: Pierre Athene
Born: 20 February 1977 (age 44)
Residence: Brooklyn, New York
Occupation(s): Entrepreneur, Philanthropist, Lobbyist
Religion: Catholic

Brief History (Pre-Incident): The youngest son of wealthy French immigrants whom fled France in the late 1960's to escape the period of civil unrest incited by ardent leftists Pierre was an anomaly; though he never experienced life in the homeland of his ancestors, Pierre realized he could never fully embrace American culture due to his foreign family and thusly remained an outsider observing the ways of his adoptive homeland. Much to the chagrin of his family Pierre recognized at a young age that he possessed an intrinsic ability to manipulate others into carrying out his bidding and derived great joy in pitting his siblings against each other; this antisocial behavior coupled with his intelligence and unbridled ambition was a constant source of strife between young Pierre and his parents (his father in particular, who was under the impression that Pierre's nature pointed to him being a child of an illicit affair). Pierre grew to resented his parents' bourgeois lifestyle not because he believed in wealth disparity, but because his parents squandered their fortune on worldly pursuits and not on buying political influence; by the time he was eighteen his parents' savings was whittled away and they both would die in severe poverty. Allegedly Pierre was secretly siphoning money from his parents accounts for years, but there is no concrete proof of this only rumors. After graduating from Yale with near perfect marks and a degree in Political Science, Pierre entered the free-market determined to gain both wealth and power; he accomplished this by profiting off of various projects his more technically inclined classmates were working on as...he made millions as an investor and is credited as helping bringing the world into the "internet-age" while the true inventors of these ground breaking technologies were relegated to obscurity. His frequent bipartisan lobbying efforts caused the New York Times to nickname him "the shadow-president"; politically he is known to be non-committal on major issues and able to hide his real intentions. Many speculate his philanthropy is a ruse to garnish public goodwill and his efforts to expand Yellowstone National Park have been lauded in the press as a cheap ploy. He is set to make an address at the aforementioned park in order to bring the expansion issue to the so-called "court of public opinion" as legislation related to the matter has stalled in Congress due to debates over government spending.

Post-Incident: The strange magic that encompasses the earth has transformed Pierre from a politically questionable statesman into a changeling (an insect-like equine) that feeds off of ambient emotions in order avoid starvation and in Pierre's case to also retain his humanoid form; the irony is that his vice of negatively manipulating others emotions to best serve himself has become his curse. A man who once forged a political dynasty from the shadows has become an alien in his own kingdom; once thriving on hate and mistrust, he needs love and compassion to live.

@aladdin_sane

I totally understand the mobile issue, I have a few friends with similar issues to deal with.

I actually like this, though many RPs would bring up the argument of 'what the hell are you thinking trying to get a character in here who's essentially a modern day 'king' with his loads of money and political skills'. Ironically! This RP is perfect for this in a way, all of that power comes a crumblin down and now he's gotta deal with it, and I can totally approve of the ironic 'now you need love to survive' situation.

The only thing I see potentially needing a change might be the birth-date or age [one because of the other possibly], and only because I haven't decided exactly which year to place the RP in and-... wait, I miscalculated, curse you drowsy midnight brain. that'd put us at 2021, which strangely enough I was actually considering to be the year of use for the RP, coincidences are crazy. Granted, a whole new year system will probably come about because of the Cataclysm.

On a side note, even now this roster is shaping up to be all kinds of interesting... a priest, a politician, and the antichrist!... No not actually, I'm joking, but I can guarantee my primary character is going to be skeptical about both of em [though I'm saving fleshing him out for after I get done making the OC] I foresee great things in this RPs future!

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Sometimes an apocalypse doesn't sound too bad.

@Dutchbag

Iiii know the feeling. I'd rather be fighting zombies than assholes who think pieces of green paper give them power over others, and their private armies of way tougher dudes who think the same thing.

although, an apocalypse is technically just a revelation of big secrets. Which to 'them', would be the same thing as a cataclysm, and i bet they'd try to take everyone else down with em.

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FUCK THE CLIMATE AND VOTE DONALD TRUMP

Ayyyy, sounds good.

@Dutchbag

I bet... and don't get me started on a corporate super douche running for president

I'm already knee deep in Corporate world take over conspiracies brought to life... All I can say is, Look up the Trans Pacific Partnership and hope to god it doesn't pass or else anything you do that doesn't make profit for someone will mean you're costing them potential future profits and they can sue you for 'not making them money'. They'll even be able to sue a country for having healthy regulations against their harmful products because it costs them money they haven't even made yet.

Fuck, see? There I go, I better get back to working on this map.

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Depends on where the chunks land. If our yellowstone chunk lands in what now is the Sahara it'll desertify over time, for instance. That's something to look into, I guess!

So the people on the Yellowstone chunk were on it before the blast, I presume?

@Dutchbag

That's the idea, people managing to survive the chunks flying off and being pulled back.

And that might not actually work that way, considering that the sahara would've been launched off with everything else XD We're talkin total planetary 'boom' and 'unboom' here... and it's not as if what pulled it back together has the finnesse, or time, to organize everything back the way it was... Besides, the Sahara's mostly sand, bits of saharan sand probably got scattered across half the hemisphere it's on XD There's also the existence of holes between chunks here and there, new bodies of water happening, so on and so forth.

Lets not forget that Yellow stone is kindof a ginormous fucking volcano too, dormant or not XD