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I have wanted to do an RP like this for a while, so I thought why not now. To break the idea down to a sentence: Have nations react to the outbreak of an agricultural fungus pest. The Pest starts when several Trade Ships from and stopping in the San Leon, pick up the spores through infected crops (of course this origin remains unknown before someone figures this out). From there the Trade ships could carry the plague to any corner of the world. Reactions could stretch from simple precautionary measures like trade restrictions and intensive testing at the border in order not to bring spores into your nation, all the way to setting up teams of scientists, to find the origin and creating a cure, as well as having food shortages due to destroyed crops. The effect the pest has on your nation is totally up to you!
1. Spread starts when Trade Ships from San Leon pick up the fungus and carry it to *several participating nations including Uprea*
2. Fungus spreads fast and begins to destroy crops in an even quicker manner. Any Measures to contain the fungus, like quarantine and strategic field burning, fail.
At this stage the RP is very variable. In my mind I would have a few nations (or even all participating nations) form a team of scientists trying to find the origin as well as a cure. RP Events could include (the test and fail of a potential cure, proposing new measures to contain it, difficult lab work, connecting the dots to find out that it originated from San Leon, sending a team to San Leon to find out more,...etc.)
Meanwhile every nation itself, would be fighting against the fungus on its own turf. This could be expressed in the form of news posts, TWItter posts, etc. This could be done alone but also in a collaborative manner, with two or three nations helping out one another.
In the end, I think the creation of a cure, after learning more about the fungus in San Leon, will bring the RP to a close.
So to sum up the current RP possibilities I came up with:
- the IC spread of the fungus (for example the POV of a trade ship crew bringing in infected crops)
- Finding out about the fungus in your country
- Putting measures in place
- Researching the fungus
- Collaborating with other nations on the topic of the pest
- Finding a cure for the pest
- Struggling with the effects of the plague (food shortages, fear from the general population, etc.)
The Fungus could be topic in any posting throughout the TWI RP World, from News Post, Forum Post in a future IC Thread of "In the Dark", TWItter Post, etc. Ideally however the future IC Threat would be used to make the RP more intricate, by describing the situation from a POV View of a fictive person.
If you are interested, simply write your thoughts on this in the forum thread here. As said before the RP is currently very much in the works and I want as many people to have a possibility to put in their own thoughts, as possible!