[url=http://www.roleplayerguild.com/topics/85235-the-accomplished/ooc]Here you go you scurvy dogs![/url]

There are usually several basic fantasy RP's going: sword and sorcery type, if you will.

One thing I don't usually see is the characters being those who are at the peak of their power.  The middle aged and satisfied characters who are among the top 10 in their class.  The sort of people who have already gotten the gold, the glory, and the girl.  The ones that people try to get out of retirement to solve their problem.

I think we should do a sword and sorcery type RP focused on these characters.

[hider=Possbile Plot]Firstly, I was planning on the RP being more character based than anything else.  Chances are that our characters would have run into eachother and have previous relations of all sorts.  After about a decade of retirement, how do you handle those?  If your family is threatened, do you betray old comrades?  After all the CS are put in, I will send a PM to each player about their relations with the others based on the character sheets.  You may receive directly contradictory information.

[u]Barebones of the Plot[/u]

[i]Initially, people convinced themselves that this was just an exceptionally cold year.  The snow remained on the ground for three months rather than the normal one.  Still, this must have happened before.  There would be food shortages, but most people should survive.  The blizzards were more of an annoyance than anything.

The tropical regions that were still able to grow food increased their prices dramatically, taking advantage of the decreased supply in the market.  While the lower nobility were suffering, the peasants were hungry.  

However, when three months turned into five and crops could not be sown during any of the months that normally occupy spring, riots began.  Rumors of invasion from the Northern Kings into the Southern Lands were starting to spread.  These rumors were false.  There was no possible way a feudal monarch could afford to launch an invasion and at the same time keep the growing rebellions in their own lands down.  The grain of truth was that those cultures who were used to movement had started planning to, Cheifs and Khans alike starting to head to greener pastures with destruction in their wake.

Six months in, a letter was sent to all the sovereigns and nobles of the continent.  Three great powers had unleashed a combination of divine might and genius magic to place the world under their control.  While previously rivals, they had constructed plans to work together the decade before.  Additionally, they also agreed to offer demands that were 'reasonable' so that there was a chance that the demands would actually be accepted with minimal resistance.  This was done to ensure the possibility of people rebelling in their favor.

Hibernas, Dragon God of Ice
Guildamarch, Amour of a Thousand Winters
Nixla, Witch of Endless Snow

Their demands to lift the spell were as follows:
-1 Percent of fit men and women to be gifted as slaves each year.
-Expansion of personal territory.
-A Tithe as a gift to their new overlords.
-Hostages from every royal family to be kept as assurance of their new subjects loyalty.

Facing growing rebellion, a month later the monarchs of the world begged the heroes and legends that still walked the earth to answer their call for aid.  Unable to afford any major offensive operation, this group would be their only chance at removing this problem and avoiding this settlement.[/i][/hider]
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