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art by: TYPK
art by: TYPK
"We were wrong all those years ago. All we sacrificed, all we suffered - all of it in vain. We were so very wrong. Watch now, heroes, as your precious crystal falls to the Darkness. And with it, so shall this world be cast from the Light. Perhaps then may our most grave mistake be corrected."
Flavor, Fluff, and Backstory!
For Real Tho
If the above was just a biiiit too much:
TL;DR
Basically some evil elf dude wanted to kill everybody. That ain't cool. So some giant diamond thing (GDT) said stop it. He said no. So the GDT sent some doods after him. They rocked him like a hurricane, but since he's a baby-back bitch, he flooded the planet. So everybody lives on floating rocks now because magic. Thanks crystal doods. Also its now like fifty years later, and the crystal dood who killed the evil elf dude came back during a kick ass week-long kegger, killed another crystal dood, and now GDT stopped being all blue and shiny and started glowing all purple and fadey. Peeps freaked out, so some new crystal doods show up to kick some ass. You peeps be the new crystal doods and/or their homies.
Also we got flying boats. Because magic.
Good? Moving on.
So, let's address the elephant in the room, eh? This story's gonna draw heavily from the Final Fantasy franchise. What can I say? Been playing XIV again and after a night of drinking, I think I've come up with a half decent plot. I don't plan on retelling any of the main stories from the games here. So none of the canonical characters from any of the games will make appearances here. Going original boyos and girlies. For the most part. Of course, some of the reoccurring elements may show up: summons, spells, chocobos, crystals, so on, so forth. Now, more specifically, this is going to skew more towards the series roots, akin to the likes of FFI-VI + IX.
HOWEVER!
This isn't to say that any prior knowledge of Final Fantasy will be required for participation. For all intents and purposes, this could be just another generic fantasy setting. That just sort of, y'know, winks and nods at Final Fantasy. And writes it heartfelt love letters.
Any and all supplemental material will be posted neatly in an OOC. If anybody gets lost in the jargon, feel free to ask any and all questions.
The Peeps
-The protagonists of this story (i.e. dem PCs) would be those chosen by the Crystal to serve as its new Champions. These individuals would become more powerful, even drawing from the experience of the warriors that served before them. Now, the crystal doesn't exactly filter who it picks for the job. Its Champions can come from all walks of life. They can be children (12+, not down with diaper magic), elders, amateurs, professionals, pirates, knights, or anything in between. If they didn't know how to fight before, a little bit of that crystal mojo will fix 'em right up.
Now, I know some people aren't big on the whole "chosen one" trope. And that's fine. If you'd rather play as one of the Warriors' allies, a hero not chosen by fate, we can make that happen. It's all groovy. We can work something out here, I'm pretty open to ideas.
-The three major races that I've got in mind right now are Humans, Elves, and Dwarves (Humes, Eldians, and Deepkin respectively this go around.) If any of ya'll want more race options, feel free to suggest below.
EDIT: Due to popular request, Final Fantasy Tactics races will be included: Moogles, Nu Mou, Bangaa, and Viera.
-As for a Job System, I'm open to suggestions here. We could either use a job system in which certain archetypes should be followed (FFI FFIII, FFIV, FFV, FFVI~, FFIX, FFX, FFXV~), or go a more freeform system in which everybody can do everything (FFII, FFVII, FFVIII, FFXII, FFXIII). I'm leaning more towards the former, but I could probably swing either way.
EDIT: Right, so the general consensus thus far seems to be FOR the inclusion of a job system. For this, I'll put together a list with descriptions of what the job does and this iteration's lore behind it. The job will be static in this case, so job changing will likely be a no-go. unless there's a super good reason/charrie development?
-Magic will fall into White Magic (curative), Black Magic (destructive), Blue Magic (monster ability mimicry), Summon Magic (Temporary Bad Ass Homies). Gonna avoid Time Magic for the sake of our collective sanity.
-Technology in this universe may be a bit wonky. I'd say a good representation would probably be FF VI if you're familiar with it. If not, it's more or less steampunk or uh...magicpunk? More on the low end of one of those. Most nations still use swords, armor, bows, what not. The deepkin, responsible for innovations such as the airship, have invented a crude sort of firearm. More or less flintlock. It's not in wide use quite yet. The homes and whatnot have energy, but cars aren't a thing. Good ol' chocobo (chicken-ostrich-horse) power.
-More as needed
OKAY! With that, I'm dead tired. Waaay too late for me. Gonna get some sleep. So let's just open the floor with this: Is anybody interested in this? And if so, do we have any comments, questions, concerns, feedback, etc?