Harbertia wrote:Utceforp wrote:What if you have an idea for an RP you really want to make and can't stop thinking about, but you also have had zero energy to write anything for the last month or so?
Kind of in a similiar place here- wanting to mention an idea I have but only having a setting and no real concept regarding what to do with the setting. In your case I propose letting us know what you have in mind as you'll get the energy sometime and perhaps others will help with that. It'll help you avoid what I'm in- writing a post regarding my idea and then deleting the draft :/ so... yeah you mindsawell let us know what's nagging your mind so you don't start thinking about and say 'wow I should have posted something about this earlier' when you do get the energy.
The islands of the Spine of Myrex are home to two species, the native Horned Ones and later human colonists. To their west on the mainland are the Sages. Xanthix, the most important god/culture hero of the Horned Ones, has descended from the heavens. Seething with rage, he claimed that the Sages and their chief god Eri are planning to attack the Spine, and that the Horned Ones must prepare for war. This claim proved correct when an army of Sages assisted by unnatural monsters attacked the city of Iphignos and burned it to the ground. Outraged, the many petty rulers of the Spine (including the former ruler of Iphignos.) swore to follow Xanthix and help him avenge this crime.
Xanthix, as the god of the earth and the metals found therein, has provided his people with knowledge of advanced technology to even the odds of the war. (In response to Eri (a fertility god) giving the Sages advanced biotechnology.) Adoption of these technologies is haphazard and imperfect due to the short timeframe in which they were introduced, resulting in a strange mishmash of Bronze Age and sci-fi technologies, where you might find the pilot of a levitating car switching to autopilot so he can throw a spear at an enemy, and enormous highly-advanced war machines are built by hand by skilled craftsmen rather than on an assembly line.
The war between the Sages and the Horned Ones and their human allies has raged for almost ninety years now, and has thusfar been a stalemate, as neither faction has managed to advance further than the beaches of their enemy's homeland. Xanthix, now the
de facto ruler of a united Spine of Myrex, seeks to change this. He has ordered his most trusted general, Perix of Andernos, to assemble a group of soldiers to travel deep into the heart of the Sagely lands to the city of Tel Ascis. It is speculated that the aim of this mission is to kill Eri and end the war, but neither Xanthix nor Perix has confirmed this. RPers would take the role of a soldier on this mission.
I originally envisioned this RP as being "giant magitech
Talos-esque mechas vs. giant magibiotech monsters inspired equally by mythological creatures and modern kaiju", but while I like that idea I worry that it might be received as overly juvenile, so I'd be willing to change that to normal-sized magitech soldiers versus normal-sized monsters. The meat of the RP would not just be fighting through the Sagely lands to complete the mission, but also figuring out the various mysteries of the setting, such as why the Sages declared war, and what the team will need to do when they reach Tel Ascis. The RP would be set in the early history of a world I've been building onto as a hobby for years now, so there's plenty of lore to use as fodder for adventures. (Other races, monsters other than the Sagely bioweapons, various inscrutable deities, etc.) RPers would be able to RP as both humans and Horned Ones.