[quote=@Gisk]
Ah man. I love this a lot. I'm watching, but cautious. 

What sort of posting pace do you expect?
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[quote=@Polybius]
 I should note that I will be doing a fair bit of worldbuilding and providing a handful of NPCs to interact with, but beyond that I wish this roleplay to have the spirit of cooperative writing rather than strictly GM & Player. 
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As often as you can? I don't know-I'm not specifically looking for 'players', just some like-minded dudes that want to write stories in the same universe. There is no main linear plot, just the over-arching theme of an Empire in decline due to decadence. Hope this answers your question... 

[@Elgappa][@rush99999]

Here's a sample race to further set the tone of the setting. 

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[color=red][b]Phageons[/b] [/color]
[sub]([i]Sanguiaphagia Dominus[/i])[/sub]

[center][i]"Who would have thought the mere by-product of an archaic bio-engineering protocol would evolve into their own species?"[/i][/center]

[indent]A race of humanoids that act as diplomats, spies, ambassadors, assassins and negotiators at every level of the bureaucratic hierarchy. They possess immensely powerful psychic abilities, and a preternatural insight bordering on precognition, skills that have made them indispensable to the empire despite their monstrous appearance and barbaric customs. They are greatly mistrusted, feared and hated by the common citizen of the Empire.

They are also effectively immortal.

In the earliest eras of the Empires founding, the scientist-sorcerers of the day still fiddled with the preposterous notions of immortality, and after countless centuries of tinkering and meddling with the nature of nature itself, they created the phageons. Hailed as a scientific leap forward in the realm of empathic research, yet discarded for their biological limitations, the phageon project was halted almost immediately after it began (probably due to a reshuffling of resources to fight one of the countless wars of the early eras of Empire). However, an isolated colony of the species survived the immolation of the purge-squads and so began a self-imposed path of evolution that continues to this day.

Whatever door to immortality was unlocked within the phageons biology also holds the species downfall. Without the continuous consumption of blood, a phageons biological functions begin to deteriorate rapidly. Some phageon approach this problem clinically, through complicated blood transfusion operations while others prefer a more...primal approach to their disposition. Ancient folklore has turned the layman and ignoramus against them, the common folk insisting they are demons or monsters. To them, the Phageon are simply 'darklings', (a colloquial term meaning demon or monster), a creature to be mistrusted, hunted, or even killed. 

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