[b]WE ARE STILL ACCEPTING![/b]

You ran across a letter, it doesn’t really matter how, but you did. A most mysterious letter at that. Perhaps it caught your eye from its home on a bulletin board for your town. Usually it only held the ever so boring news from places beyond your home, but just this once there was something [i]else[/i] hung on it. Maybe a wide man in a fancy suit walked up to you and handed you the letter in a tiny envelope closed with a wax seel. Before walking away without a word. Maybe you came across this odd little paper as you were walking along. Seeing it fly through the wind before your curiosity got the best of you and you snatched it from the sky. No matter the case you found a letter. A letter addressed not to you, but to everyone that saw it.

And what it said was intriguing.

"Hello Sir, Madam, or Other! I am Maithien Garrett! And I would like to propose an adventure.. Now recently I discovered a map. "A map for what?" You ask my friend? Well a treasure map of course! Now where do you come in? I need a crew. But I don't want some hum drum boring crew. I want different, special, incredible, extraordinary, random people! It doesn't matter who you are! I want you to come and sail with me. You may be wondering what you will get in return. I can already assure that I am a wealthy man, so no matter how this quest ends you will be well paid. But if from this quest we find what we are looking for you will receive a large bonus. If you are at all interested in this offer, come meet me at the Umpalias Docks in Riviqin! You will know my ship when you see it. Then again maybe you won't! We'll see I suppose.

Maithien Garrett. Millionaire and Amateur Treasure hunter."

And this is where your Adventure begins.

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Welcome to the realm of Iperolum.

Long ago the people of the world walked along the earth. For centuries they would reap crops from the ground and fruits from the trees. Though there were many different races in this world they co-existed happily. What brought them all together was survival. Iperolum was home to many savage beasts, diseases, and storms. Only working together were the people able to survive.

The people invented. They built many wonderful things! Swords, armor, weapons, medicine, and tools. These creations among others saved many lives! Sadly, once the people discovered that with these items they could survive by their own devices, they disbanded. Now that the people no longer needed each other their long lasting friendships faded. And when there is no room for love towards others, bitterness grows. Relations grew poorer and poorer until the people nearly stopped communicating with each other. Electing to build vast walls to divide instead of bridges to connect.

Decades later a race known as the Dwarves discovered the possibilities of power and energy: Water, steam, heat, wind! With the right modifications they could be used to power their many tools! They created machines. The entire world marveled at the almost magical power that came from this discovery. Races begged the Dwarves for the knowledge of energy, of how to automate these bothersome tasks. And they were happy to share it! The Dwarves were an ancient race, only being surpassed by the Elves. They did not so easily forget the great bond the people shared centuries before. They only wished to rekindle that friendship, perhaps this incredible gift would do so? Once the information was released all of Iperolum began researching new ideas. Trains, cannons and guns, mechanical lighting for homes, they even created machines to help work the many fields that yielded food! But none of that was enough. Even with these grand creations already making life easier many people were sick of being forced to toil in the dirt to survive. They wanted to live without a care, live their lives in comfort without work. And then it came to them. The sky was calm, peaceful, without danger. The birds seemed content living above! So why wouldn't they?

With dreams of living in the sky driving their minds, these many races of the land began reaching skyward, they created vast ships, lifted by the power and might of machines. Their ambitions grew larger and larger until they created their proudest achievement yet, a city in the sky. Riviqin, the first of many. Many began to leave the dirt in favor of the sky. But there was one thing these people did not take into account, they needed resources. Food, metals for repairs and weapons, fleece and wool for their clothes, coal to burn to fuel their many engines. They had none of these things.

Once these revolutionary colonists had had a taste of the endless freedom of the sky they were not eager to leave it to obtain the items vital to their survival. They had tried trading, but seeing as they did not have much to offer besides residence in their starving cities or fuelless skyships it fell through quickly. And the surface dwellers were not keen on giving away their hard earned goods for free. Agitated by their hunger and greed for which they could not have, the colonists banded together for one purpose: War. If they could not peacefully acquire these things, then they would take them by force.

It lasted 4 years, it was bloody, and eventually the colonists won. Though the surface dwellers had control over vast amounts of resources, they were caught unprepared when they were first bombarded by the airships. Because most who had stayed on the ground generally didn't care much for the sky, they didn't bother to put much work into amassing their own fleets of ships. They never thought the colonists would do such a thing in the first place! They caught them by complete surprise, sacking one of the Dwarves’ cities in only two days. Looting to their heart's content!

The Dwarves had begged for assistance with this threat! Their dreams of renewed friendship with the races had blinded them to the threat of war, they had no army! But their pleas fell on deaf ears. The races simply refused to help, the great gifts the Dwarves gave were forgotten. City after city fell to the colonists before there was nothing left to loot from the once kind hearted race. The colonists moved onto the next race, then the next, and the next. Finally when the remaining ground dwellers realized their predicament it was too late to fight back. They surrendered to the colonists, not wishing to have their last few cities razed.

There were few terms to this surrender, but the price was still high. The biggest were most definitely these: The dwellers were forbidden from amassing their own fleets, half of all resources gathered were to be given to the colonists and their cities, and all prisoners taken during the war were made slaves, forced to work the fields the colonists refused. Things had taken a turn for the worst.

Two centuries later, and things have gone unchanged. The colonists, now perhaps better described as the aristocracy, live lavishly in their floating city states. While on the ground those still alive from the war, and those born into it, are slaves. Whoever was fortunate enough to not be forced into labor must scrape by however they can to survive. This bleak time in history is where your adventure takes place. Good luck.

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So originally I was planning on only doing custom races for this, but I got impatient with coming up with ideas. Soooo yeeeah.. You can try doing a custom race I suppose, but there are no guarantees that I will allow it. But I shouldn’t be too strict as long as there aren’t like demons, angels, or like a race with some sort of super power like shooting fire. Also try to keep them humanoid.(Basically no floating brains or stuff.) And you will be okay.

Sidenote: there is no magic. None, never heard of the stuff here in Iperolum. In fact if you started talking about the stuff like it was real people would probably start thinking you were a looney.

There will be timeskips in this Roleplay. (Mainly because there are portions where you will be on a skyship, and I don’t really think it’s possible to properly roleplay weeks of time while confined to that small an area.) What I think I will have happen is after a while of people posting and talking I will make a post basically telling everyone that once they wrap up whatever they’re doing to stop posting until the timeskip. So if say you have been exploring the ship with another crewmate, I will make the post telling you to wrap things up, you will eventually get done exploring the ship,(I don’t plan on totally rushing you, just try not to take a long time.) and once you are done you will simply stop posting until the timeskip. I will post it once everyone has finished doing whatever they were doing. I may let you guys help decide how long each time skip will be.

And finally I am going to be doing something weird with the apps. All that will be posted on the OOC (If I go through with this.) is your Character's Age, Race, Appearance, and Name. That is all everyone but me will see. Now before you post this smaller app. I would want you to PM me the full one. If I accept you then you would post the less descriptive one. The reason I am doing this is so it is sort of an experience when you find something out about someone. So you have to learn about your new crewmates over time. Sooo.. Yeah.

I'm not the best at running these things so try and bear with me as I get the cogs moving if we do this. Also if you have any questions go ahead and ask them!