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Post by The Evil Overlordess on Dec 18, 2006 19:14:21 GMT -5
Right, so I've been alluding vaguely for a week or so about an idea I have for a semi-serious, coherent BWE RP. I've finally managed to get it all written up, so take a gander and indicate some level of interest (or disinterest), yo!
Ze Index:
Post the Second: History of (this) World
Post the Third: Recent History What Will Affect You
Post the Fourth: Short Thing What Describes the Situation
Post the Fifth: Rules, Limitations, and Other Crap.
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Post by The Evil Overlordess on Dec 18, 2006 19:15:41 GMT -5
Schism: A Semi-Serious Empire RP
The World Background: [/b]
The Bubblewrapian Empire is a vast tract of land, located somewhere off the edge of the map and somehow in the back rooms of old record shops and somehow in the middle of your laundry chute. It’s Narnia, it’s the Land of Oz, it’s Bleeding Kansas, it’s the dark parts of Wonderland that even Alice wouldn’t be stupid enough to blunder her way into.
Most of the people whole live in the Empire dwell in the relatively-normal cities and live out their lives as peacefully as they can in a place where bubblewrap grows like dandelions do and where peanut butter seeps from the ground. They chose obliviousness.
The Evil Overlordess’s inner court consists of about a dozen people. Almost all of these people-- the closest thing to an aristocracy that the BWE can claim-- blundered into the Empire from the Outside World. Even in a place where ‘being hit by a falling muffin’ is covered under most health insurance policies, they found themselves to be, essentially, too weird. Weirdness is a necessary trait to be a leader in the BWE-- only the chaotic can impose order upon... well, chaos. It’s regretfully redundant but true.
Though the members of the inner court hold lands and control the people who happen to live in their fiefdoms, they tend to chill, as a rule, in the compound known as the Citadel. There are cookies there, for one thing, and one’s always in the center of whatever’s going on.
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Post by The Evil Overlordess on Dec 18, 2006 19:16:04 GMT -5
The More Recent History:
Bob the Great Kipper, the ageless sage who set up a Small Shack of Wisdom in the far-away hills, has long been a popular oracle and advisor to the BWE’s inner court. The Overlordess herself often makes the long pilgrimage to Bob’s shack to get his opinion on troubling matters.
On one such trip, after the citizens of the city had been muttering discontentedly all week about the new tax on weasel exports (not that the BWE exports a lot of weasels, the citizens just dislike taxes), the Overlordess happened to ask the Kipper, “Oh Bob, I’ll never fall from power, right? The citizens love me, right? I mean, you can’t go without an Overlordess in an Empire... you just can’t...”
Bob listened gravely to this and said something like, “All rulers fall, Overlordess. You too shall fall, no matter how your popularity ratings dip or soar, and no matter how many weasels you tax or fail to tax.”
Quoth the Overlordess, “bugger that for a lark! That’s the crapest prediction I’ve ever heard!”
“It’s still true,” protested the Kipper.
The Overlordess thought on this for a long time, and then proceeded to light the Kipper’s shack on fire.
The next day, signs appeared in the capital city, all denouncing Bob the Great Kipper as untrustworthy, scheming, conniving, and untrue. These signs were signed by the Overlordess. A manhunt, or kipper-hunt, in this case, was organized, but before the scouts even set out, Bob had fled his home.
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Post by The Evil Overlordess on Dec 18, 2006 19:38:14 GMT -5
The Set-Up:
The Evil Overlordess, upon receiving a prediction she didn’t like, has exiled Bob the Great Kipper and promises to exile anyone who is found helping him or asking him for a prediction. Charles the Glorious Dandelion, TEO insists, is the One and Only True BWE Predictor and Prophet, and she’ll fight anyone who says otherwise.
Though most of the inner court pretends to be Loyal Dandelinites, there are Kipperian Sympathizers in their midst. Bob is on the run and desperate to stay in the Empire. Will his sympathizers get rooted out for being traitors, or will Bob regain his position as Best Predictor in the Land? Will TEO’s Macbeth-like prediction become fulfilled? Will we ever discover who keeps putting oatmeal raisin in the chocolate chip cookie canister?
We shan’t know unless you play!
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Post by The Evil Overlordess on Dec 18, 2006 19:39:18 GMT -5
The Limitations (Of Course) and Rules:
-Characters can’t raise armies of non-player characters. This game isn’t a ‘let’s go out to the plains and duke it out with l33t canons, beyotch!’ game. It’s a ‘heeey, no, that’s nice, I’m totally on your side and not planning to assassinate you at all!’ game. Ideally, NPCs shouldn’t have large roles in the plot at all.
-You can only control your own character. Write for no one else.
-Novel-style. It just looks better.
-Your character’s persona can differ from the one you normally play on the sillier bits of the message board, but you’re only allowed one character, and they must be consistent. (If you do this, fill out some sort of history or profile, yo.) Or, if you like, you can play the same person as always.
-No magic, plot holes, chaos vortices, or the like. Depend on your good writing skills, not on randomness! Random objects can exist, they just have no special qualities.
-Let at least one person post before you post again.
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Post by Quites on Dec 18, 2006 20:02:45 GMT -5
Looks pretty good. Hope it works out. I'll play.
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Post by Robyn on Dec 20, 2006 11:00:05 GMT -5
*shrugs* Aw why not. I'm in too.
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Post by Jette Vonavisca on Dec 21, 2006 23:07:42 GMT -5
I'm game!
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Post by The Evil Overlordess on Dec 22, 2006 20:39:32 GMT -5
Seems like we have at least four people interested. Hurrah! Any other takers?
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Post by Canela on Dec 22, 2006 22:59:37 GMT -5
I'll play. Granted, I may be busy and not able to post much after the start of the new year, but count me in if I'm able.
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