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Themes: Metafiction, Science Fantasy, Magic Realism, Alternate Universe


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Official Theme Song: Our Own Little World by Celldweller
Roleplay Status: Active, Accepting New Players


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CosmoNET is a roleplay with merged elements of science fiction and fantasy, mostly highlighting the fantasy. Designed to be both an action thriller and psychological thriller at different points of the roleplay, the entire environment of this world can change as the characters venture back and forth between their every day lives and their fantastical adventures on the CosmoNET where they develop unique powers alongside other avatars and the world around them is often showed to them in ways paralleling an MMORPG. The elements of science and fantasy are often interchangeable here where neither mystic monk and the want-to-be Ley Master can exist side-by-side with neither having a true advantage over the other. The overall purpose of the roleplay is for their Ley Master and trainer, PhyKnight, to prepare them for the war against the inner council and they will find out that the plot of this game is a lot thicker than they realized.

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CosmoNET is a roleplay centered around an alternate universe and features core themes of Science Fantasy and Magic Realism. Earth itself in this universe is even less significant than a grain of sand in the largest of deserts. So insignificant, in fact, that the plot of this roleplay will never even near Earth. Despite that, the characters of this roleplay will still hail from Earth and will ultimately travel the entire cosmos using what is called the CosmoNET. Entering the theme of Science Fantasy, the CosmoNET is a unimaginably immense network of Ley that scours the entire cosmos and connects even the most distant planets to the nexus of all existence found at the very center of the cosmos. Ley itself is a sub-atomic particle with varying mass, density and characteristics that allow it to take the place of an electron, neutron, proton, photon and every sub-atomic particle that make up those aforementioned ones as well as can act as either a wave or particle, thus can allowing it to even transition itself to raw kinetic energy. Ley exists in several forms, with enough varying characteristics that the sum of knowledge from every living Ley Master would create a tome thicker than every chemistry textbook known. The basis, however, is that there are two main forms of ley: negative and positive.

Earth falls on a negative ley line, thus every character in this roleplay will use negative ley, at least at first. This does not mean Ley will always take the place of an electron as the 'charge' of ley is not inherently the same as other forms of matter or energy. The only true inherent nature of Ley is that it tends to coalesce, thus resulting in the nexus being a large, neutral sphere of Ley so dense no known user can access it with such great force of attraction on all other Ley that it has forced the entire cosmos to rotate around it. It is believed that the energy of the core is far greater than that of the entire rest of the cosmos and it is known that despite its relatively neutral charge, there are places where it is solely positive. The model of the CosmoNET universe is vaguely similar to an atom. In fact, the CosmoNET has 'shells' as distance from the core grows greater. The first shell, also known as the inner worlds, has the greatest concentration of Ley and is mostly positive. The last two shells are exponentially bigger with almost the same amount of ley spread out over a far larger area, so much that in the last shell Ley is so thin that it is negligible.

Earth is located in an outer shell so far out that locating it is almost impossible. The only reason it was found, in fact, was that its life proved to have the potential to, with help, link up with the Ley lines that ran through it and create an avatar of their very soul somewhere as far away as the middle shell. This potential is the leading cause of plot in this roleplay as characters are being chosen based on the strength of the finite amounts of ley found within their living being, also called their spark of life. Those with slightly stronger sparks of a younger age are given the opportunity to 'access the CosmoNET' and ultimately be trained as soldiers for a war, although this training is in guise initially as a type of game paralleling the fantastical MMORPG's found here on Earth. The goal of their recruiter, known as PhyKnight, is to train them to help fight in the war against the inner council, which is a corrupt set of individuals whom themselves fight for control over the inner shell. Thus, in essence, the goal of the CosmoNET is to bring rebellion into war.


Introduction


What if you were awoken from a surreal dream with an offer that seemed both crazy and amazing?

What if you were given the opportunity of a lifetime, except you had a thousand reasons to doubt it?

What if you awoke in a cold sweat just a moment before your alarm blared, left without any assurance until the next night?

If it was all caused by an azure-armored knight interrupting your sweet dream or saving you from your horrific nightmares...

...would you go with him?




That is exactly the question CosmoNET asks. This is the prompt, or at least a generalization of it, that each character will be given when they are met by the PhyKnight. With that type of greeting, what will you decide?
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Hidden 10 yrs ago Post by Krauxis
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I'm sitting at my hotel for work now. Looks like I'll have internet all week (so it's better than last week >.>)

Expect something from me some time tomorrow.

Edit: As far as contact info, my skype name is Ghurdrich. Just message me with your username here and you'll be accepted. I'm usually in EST but I travel around a lot for work, so I could be plus or minus two or three hours from that at any given time.
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Alright, I have my CS mostly finished, I just have a quick structural question to clear up before I post.

How would you like "Avatar Ability" to be listed? You mentioned that we should start off as weak and get stronger with time, sure, and that the abilities should follow a certain theme. But for the sake of the CS, should we just post our 'theme' and what it might entail, or would you prefer a list of (at least most of) the individual things we can do? For instance, if my character controls fire (like the example you posted previously) would I just post "Controls fire" or do you want a list of "Can create a small handheld fire, can shrink or grow a fire independent of fuel, can touch and walk through fire" sort of thing?

Also what if we wanted to go with the idea that our power as our character knows it is not quite correct? (Like if instead of controlling fire, you actually control the agitation of molecules, and thus temperature.) Should we list the actual correct power, or the power as our character knows it? Obviously our characters will only be acting within their own understanding, but if we grow into our 'correct' ability, would you want that correct ability to be posted straight out at the beginning? This is a situation you mentioned before that I'm pretty interested in.
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I actually created a partial outline for a possible character of mine. He's a WIP, but his Avatar Ability is finished. I went into more detail than necessary as I felt an example should. I do work today, but I hope he serves as an effective example.
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I'm very intrigued by this roleplay, and I'll see about a CS in a couple days. I already have an idea for a theme, but I would love to hear your opinion. I enjoy creating things and find myself fascinated with cause-and-effect abilities so was considering the theme 'The Builder'. What would start out as an understanding of components making up game items and minor Causality Perception (limited to seeing only a few steps ahead), these abilities would eventually increase to reversing cause-and-effect to instantly make game items (ex: trees, walls, weapons), and a more improved Causality Perception (more steps, feeling it like a sixth sense instead of relying on vision.) That's merely the umbrella, of course.
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I don't honestly understand this ability completely, but I want to clarify that this isn't actually a virtual world. I somewhat feel like that ability relies highly on the aspect of this roleplay being such.
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My bad, I was under the impression it was. If it is, in fact, one's soul being transported through space to another planet while they sleep, then I'll have to change my ideas. How does it work then, if weeks can pass by in avatar form on one planet while only a night's sleep passes on earth? ^^;
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All those questions will be explained. In short, you aren't initially going to another world.
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Character sheet going to be up tonight or tommorow.
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To anyone who feels this is going a bit slow, here's an update: I'm working on an introduction post between Krauxis and I, and I'm working hand in hand with everyone who has a CS that's not accepted yet in an attempt to get them into the roleplay.
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If anybody's concerned about delays, y'all can blame me :p My laptop's wireless card seems to have developed acute dysentery so I can't hardly get online to collab like I'd like to. Hopefully you guys can be patient with me for just a bit longer D:
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I've posted the first portion of our collab and made it the introduction so that everyone can use it as an example. IC is open and you can use our introduction post as a template. If you like, you can even do it in twos if we ever get enough people for such. However you choose to do it is up to you, just follow the general guidelines.
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...Did I kills it?
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I was waiting for you to return. I can always re-recruit.
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I'm working on my intro post, it's taking awhile due to work, overtime, and other such delays. Sorry guys, I hope to have it up by the weekend. My posts won't consistently take this long, I promise.
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Bump.
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Well, this looks interesting. Room for one more?
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Room for plenty, miss Green. :D
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Despite plentiful interest, my classes are starting and no one really followed through in a timely manner. I'm putting this roleplay down for a while.
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Its hardly possible for me to post alone lol.
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