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Castle in the Mist

You wake up in some strange room, no idea where you are, why you are, or even who you are; Your outfit is very bland, gray pants that fit comfortably, they don't seem very strong but for now will do, a shirt, the same shade and material, it buttons up in the front and is cuffed at the wrist; Under it a white teeshirt, heavy duty, the breast pocket monogrammed with your name, the only thing you know about yourself, stitched to your shirt; Shoes are the only thing you are missing, though you may find some in the castle around you. Near you in the room is an object that doesn't fit with everything else, whether it just doesn't belong, or it isn't perfectly placed, however it is you know this item is important and you should bring it with you.

Should you explore the area you would find yourself in a large, fully furnished but otherwise empty castle, outside all the windows and balconies, and even the front door, is a shear drop into an all encompassing white fog. There seems to be no land holding up this building yet it is obviously not falling. It is a truly massive estate, you could wander for days and not pass the same room twice; In some areas the rooms have been taken over by the fog, something deep inside you says not to go in these areas.

You are not alone, though some of your house mates will make you wish you were; They have the exact same conditions, same clothes except the monogram.

the plot is to find out what is going on, if you can. More later.

The castle is ancient but well kept, covers of dust are rare at best and more often because of destruction in the area than time. It is huge, not just a fortress at the middle of a town, the kind of castle a great king would have built as a monument to the greatness of his people, massive to all dimensions stone construction will allow. Seen from above it is like a bird, a long oval as the court yard, large enough to fit a large village comfortably; To ether side jut out long wings, they are solid and as tall as the walls of the oval and sweeping towards the rear of the castle, sliming towards the end; In the front, between the wings, an almost cathedral like structure is placed, it guards the gates and houses the machines of war, the primary structure is square, almost twice as tall as the walls, but many of the upper levels are open to the air and stocked with massive crossbows as well as strange flying machines that look more likely to fall apart than float; A wide spiral stair case goes from above the entrance tunnel to the top most floor, on the front two corners large turrets tower insanely above everything, their peaks lost in the mist, inside each a thin staircase winds around the inside with no guard rail between your next step and falling to the ground so far below.

The wall itself is thick enough to have two rooms and a central corridor between the inside and the outside walls, these rooms range from storage to armories, to elaborate living quarters.

To help understand where people are in the castle something like this will be used, put at the bottom right hand corner of every post



and example:


Should it be that you don't know where you are this shall be done


why have castle as the main area? because the town inside the castle is separate and has it's own areas

The Titans

Before God or Lucifer, heaven or hell, and even before earth, when all that was was Limbo, four 'aspects' condensed from the energies of the void, the Titans, Earth, Fire, Light, and Life, after a time their drift through the void grew boring and they pooled their energies to form a world, Earth, only by chance did it gain the same name as the Titan. For a time the Titans roamed the earth, eventually man kind was born and for a time the Titans were thought of as gods, but man moved on to newer things, and the Titans lost their home on Earth to new gods inadvertently created by the minds of humans; The Titans returned to Limbo with out argument.

Their form is fairly simple, generally humanoid but not actually limited to that form in any way, just lost this train of thought, so anyways, the Titans are like the guardians or watchers of the castle, they don't like to get involved but with the Manipulator such a threat they might.

Right now I'm not making anything new, just trying to get back into the old things that already started, and keep up my new RP Saint Huevos, a revisioning of one of my first freeworld RPs, noobtropolis .

So last night I was trying to sleep and something happened on TV and I was inspired with a new story, Eight Shy.

In Eight Shy there is a legend that says long ago the world was ruled by fifty demons, 40 minor demons and 10 demon kings, at some point the humans rose against the demons and in a great war killed a bunch of them, all except 8, but those 8 disappeared and were assumed dead, now it's 1982, and some of the surviving demon kings are getting tired of living like humans, others are perfectly content. I don't have much this far but I do know one of the kings has taken up a life as mythology professor at some major college in america, this is where most of the human characters come from.

The Crystals of Gnācia

I'm having trouble writing it as it would be like I do for most so here's the idea, Gnācia, henceforth written as Gnacia is a country, kingdom of sorts, old european fantasy style with horses and farmers and whatnot was might be a better word. In the beginning of the story the king is going through his rituals and whatnot, some big important religious night is coming up and the whole country is in celebration, and then the king gets killed. Normally that would be it, the next in line would take command and most people wouldn't know the difference, but instead the crap hit the fan, the king exploded or something like it, maybe he projected energy into the sky and it shot off all over the place, however it looked these crystals were strewn over the whole kingdom. These crystals are like little magical batteries, each charged with their own magical abilities, and this is not a land that is used to having magic, there are some mages in the royal court but they like to keep quiet so as to seem more mystical, helps keep themselves in power.

Suddenly every tom d**k and harry in the world can pick up a crystal in the forest and try to take over the world. Which is pretty much what happened. Groups of people from all over formed armies powered by hundreds of crystals and moved on each other in a battle for control, and with the royals still trying too the whole country fell to pieces, towns were left on their own, communication pathways broke down, and it's only a week in, some places don't even know what's happening yet.

One such place is the town of Oiroch near the southern mountains, this is where the game starts. Not many crystals landed that far south, so they only saw the lights of it, it wasn't harvest season so they weren't doing much business with other towns, the traders were oddly absent but nobody thought anything of it. Then a stranger was found stumbling through the forest, wounded, disoriented, scared, and carrying a bag of crystals.

It starts out with the local conflict, who to trust, what's to be done, some of the kids (17-25yrs) steal the crystals and mess around with them a little, eventually they get caught and eventually the decision is made to send a party out to see what's going on, and then the adventure begins, they get involved in fights and battles and maybe save the kingdom

I'm trying to work out a superhero RP, I've got lots of characters set out but no real plot

what I do have for plot is this; there's a great power, locked away for centuries on end, guarded by a cult like brotherhood of damned souls, promised the release of Eden if they protect it till the end of days. Regardless the power is too great for it's seal and small amounts leak through, attracting life to the area around it and eventually a great city is built to honor it unknowingly

While the brotherhood sits in wait for the day they're called to battle, darkness lurks, planning their fall. Our story starts on a day where one such figure steps out of the shadow... only it's night so they're really stepping from one to the next... anyways, a great and long battle commences, the brotherhood pushed to it's limits, the dark figure pushing to within inches of breaching the seal, so close that energy rippled back from the assault and flooded the city.

By itself this energy was harmless, passing through the streets and buildings undeterred and undetected to fade into the background of the world with time; but for a few special individuals this energy wave was all that was needed to awaken their latent powers

so that's what I've got story wise, not really much of one but I imagine it would go on to these people discovering their powers and doing stuff with them, then what remains of the brotherhood trying to recruit some to help defend the seal until it and they can fully recover

Character wise most are built on 'cool sounding powers'

as the primary evil dude we have unnamed guy #1; he's spent the better part of his life (late twenties to mid thirties) paralyzed from the neck down after being struck by a genetic disease in his teens. Fortunately for him he's a genius and quickly became rich on technology, unfortunately for the world he's a greedy b*****d who blames it for his condition. Just prior to the wave he was testing a cybernetic neural replacement that could potentially let him walk again, and though there were unexpected factors it would; it would also fuse with his body. The resulting being was a force to be reckoned with, even before he reverse engineered himself and used the knowledge to construct a small army of both artificial creatures and other awakened citizens of the city enslaved by a virus like parasite developed later in the story.

Probably not an evil person, and probably male, late teens, angsty (not an orphan); snuck out for the night to hang out with one of those bad crowds and try to be cool, the whatever he was at got broken up and he was left stranded, alone, in a very bad part of town. He's a bit of a skater, a bit of a gamer, not much of a geek, a bit shy around others if he doesn't really know them and such. His power is the ability to momentarily convert his bodymass and clothes (for decency) into energy, different then but not unlike the energy wave, and moving it through space over short distances; and that's not all, the energy can be formed into blade like planes as it moves, cutting through nearly anything; the problem with that is it cuts by mutual annihilation, since he's in the form of energy at the time it's not destroying anything specific but over time it wears him down just like intense physical activity, unless he pushes too hard or far

this energy isn't specific to any power and with time and training one could potentially learn to use them all, but every person is born with and develops certain talents and weaknesses that define what they can grasp initially with anything they endeavor to do

You need to focus, yo. Anyway, Good luck. But you aren't back yet, and that was two days ago. So something must have happened, no? Anyway, good luck again, Happy V-Day. Latta.