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The Village of Winding is just the latest bit of civilized society to be built upon the Marsh of Dragons. The clean cobbled streets, the whitewashed stone houses and the flowers and tapestries of bright blues and yellows all sit upon the foundation of princes and giants of old. The ruins now are little more than tourist attractions and bedtime stories, destined to be forgotten among more important issues, like new velvet hats and lost pocket watches.

But when the orchards sprouted fruits of strange color, the clockmaker went mad and the cats disappeared, the soothsayers and grandmothers began to whisper: something's not right in Winding.


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Your character resides in Winding or in the surrounding lands within view of the village clock tower. Through exploration and investigation the greater plot will unfold -- but until then, this is simply a slice-of-life RP.

The GM has creative and manipulative control over all things except the characters themselves. Nothing is an exception. Should the player desire a NPC or location or racial history that is off-limits to interference, changes or play by the GM, please consider an alternative.

The posting speed may eventually crawl to an excessively slow pace. One mod post every two weeks may be common, depending on the life of the GM and the lives of the players. Please keep this in mind if you're considering joining.


Characters

Characters may know of the existence of magic through historical records of flora, fauna and minerals with strange properties, as well as the alchemists of old who used to tinker with such things, but magic does not now exist as far as anyone knows.

The technology level is Renaissance-era. Clockwork and Da Vinci-esque contraptions are as common as you like.

Characters do not necessarily have to be entirely human, and creativity is encouraged, but simplicity is key. Keep character sheets and proposed world ideas fresh, clean, colorful, precise, and as unassuming as possible.
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Certainly interested, your ideas are always awesome Mokley- I'm guessing this would be a small group type RP so as not to get overwhelmed with 1x1's? Any ideas on what the world is about beyond "clock-punk"?
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@Polybius Hey dude! Thank you, that means a lot! :D <3

Yes, as opposed to my usual "THERE'S ROOM FOR EVERYONE" mess, the number of players here will have to be strictly limited. Five sounds like the most I could handle at one time without making everyone wait eons for a post, haha. I'd get a co-gm, but I'm a fussy power-crazy loserface who likes being in charge too much. xD

The world will probably be influenced by some combination of these: Hyper Light Drifter, OFF!, Lud-in-the-Mist, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, Inside, Ico/Shadow of Colossus, Mushi-Shi, random Ghibli stuff. We'd go for color and weirdness and thin moral lines, not so much straight-up violence. Maybe attempt to set down a very black and white Good vs Evil plot to start out with, go real Hero's Quest with it, then blur the lines as we go.

That is to say, I have no clue. Here's a cookie for your trouble. :D
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Looks like it could be cool. How much input into the worldbuilding will the players have?
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Looks like it could be cool. How much input into the worldbuilding will the players have?


See now, this is another pickle. Depends on what you mean by input.

Personally I think the most and best input into worldbuilding should be the character's CS. Want your character to have a pet buffalo-falcon that tills fields and breathes fire? Ok sure that exists now. Maybe your grandpa is a secret agent for a mountain monastery of Kangaroo worshipers. Ok sure, but the nature and development of said Kangaroo worshipers, as well as all their NPCs, is mine to decide and control. They may become a part of the plot someday.

I have to be absolutely sure that no one else knows more about the game world than I do, and that I have complete manipulative control over everything but the characters themselves, or else I get nervous about stepping on people's creations. Players may have amazing ideas, but I can't waste time and energy trying to awkwardly screw them into actual gameplay. This is how plots are murdered.

In short, let's just use the KISS method. If it branches out beyond your character's direct experience, feel free to suggest an idea to be mined in the future, but don't get attached to it. :)
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Placing interest here. This seems like a damn cool idea. Hopefully by the time this idea get's realized I'll be back into the swing of posting.
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@Mokley Okay. Sounds good. What kind of races will you be allowing? Just humans? Certain traditional races? Can we go nuts?
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I'm definitely interested. The basic framework is pretty intriguing, and I'd love to know more, or help develop it somehow.
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Tentatively interested. The idea sounds really fun and unique! I'd love to join, so long as my schedule permits it.
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Hey look another Mokley RP.

Sure, if there's still space I'll hop in on this one.
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Thanks you guys! Questions help figure out what's good. :D

@Mokley Okay. Sounds good. What kind of races will you be allowing? Just humans? Certain traditional races? Can we go nuts?


In this case, since each character will be starting out separately, it might be cool to see what kind of weird and crazy races you guys can come up with. In the same vein as the previous question, I'd prefer not to have to tiptoe around other people's cultural and political ideas, but if you wanna be a dog-man with antlers . . . okay!

No superpowers, though. Characters begin without magic and without any special abilities beyond what they can physically do under normal circumstances. Flying is okay if you have wings, telepathy is never okay. Okay? Okay!
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...curse me for sleeping, this looks like a nifty idea, but it seems like five people already expressed interest.

Welp, gonna throw in my interest anyways~
This looks like a really nifty idea.
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Formulating ideas already. Some sort of grotesque clockwork creation that only speaks in rhyme (and can only understand things spoken in rhyme) or a locksmith that finds a set of keys that allow tiny portals to open up to other planes eventually allowing him to cast spells. Or something completely different, we'll see!
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Looks like we've got open slots, if anyone's interested. :)
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Yes!
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Recruiting now! :O
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