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So I'm normally not too big on series-based roleplays. However, I've got an entire roleplay in my files - all written out and ready to go - for the Black Jewels Trilogy by Anne Bishop.

Have you read this? You should read this. Right now. No, seriously, right now. Go find it. I'll wait here.*

*Not recommended for the emotionally/mentally immature or anyone under thirteen. Contains a ******** of dark themes.

The world is complex and beautiful and I really enjoy it - but those same things make it really hard to describe, so in order to set it up here, I would need some assurance that some people have actually read the books.

So for now, this one is a maybe.

So I'm not usually huge on these either. BUT.

I want to recreate an old 1x1 that I had with a friend who hasn't been online in some time.

It's basically about assassins. Yes, I know, ORIGINAL. But it was fun. There are two guilds who are in competition with one another, since they are the best two. In each guild, there's one assassin that outshines the rest. These two have a rivalry second only to the one between the guild leaders.

There's a third guild that used to be the best of the best, but it had sunk into obscurity (for reasons we'd explore in the RP). It's coming back now, and it wants to get rid of the little upstarts that dared to try and take its place.

So that's the basic layout. >.> If you're interested, lemme know.

I have the vaguest beginnings of an idea for this. Something about psychic children and a 'boarding school' that's really more like a jail. They're told they're going there to learn how to control their powers, but they're really just being taken there to hide them from the 'normal' people who think that psychic powers don't exist. The 'classes' they take actually hinder rather than help their powers; why teach the kids how to use the powers better when what they're trying to do is get rid of them?

When the kids 'graduate', they're separated into two groups. Those who have had their powers hindered so much that they are basically normal people are allowed to return to society after having two procedures done: a highly experimental drug is given to them to cloud their memories of their childhood and school years, and they are surgically sterilized. They're returned to the 'real world' with a flickering and uncertain memory, and no possibility of ever creating more children like them.

Those who have managed to hang onto their powers? They're taken to the 'nurse's office' and they're quietly euthanized. "For the sake of humanity," it's claimed.

Needs some more work, but I think this could be kind of cool in a WTF SILENT WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU sort of way.

So I have an idea for this one that's vaguely based on Children of the Corn. :3 The short story, of course. Not the movie.

So. In a slightly alternate universe, the humans of one small country have been very, very bad boys and girls. They haven't been performing the proper rites and sacrifices to their heathen gods. Said heathen gods are pissed, and they show it - flooding, plagues, crops failing. They demand that if humans want to save themselves, they must sacrifice their future. Their children.

Some of the adults obey. Some refuse. But the children have been paying close attention, and they decide that they want to live. So instead, they make their own offerings and sacrifices - and fairly soon, this sacrificial war between parents and children wipes out the adult populations of most large villages. Those that haven't been destroyed go into hiding or flee across borders to safety.

The gods are amused by this, but their words have not been correctly heeded. Therefore, they decide to force the bloodshed to continue - the children must destroy all of their past. All adults currently living. They must keep adults out of their country, whatever the cost. And when they reach adult age, well...

No adults means no adults.

:3 Thoughts?

You were right. It totally is 'kinda both but kinda not'.

I thoroughly enjoy the psychic-quash roleplay idea. I think it's something that we can seriously make twisted and horrifying. You might wanna make that a horror-mystery roleplay as well.

New stuff put up in the Horror/Mystery section and the Fantasy section. biggrin