Hello everyone!  It's been quite a while since I've started an RP, but lately I've had a few different ideas for stories running through my head that I felt I should put out there to see if anyone's interested in them.  So, without further ado, here they are. :3

[hider=Idea 1 - Magic Guild RP]As the hider tag would imply, in this roleplay, our characters would be new members of a magic guild.  The story would follow our characters as they take on jobs and learn more about their own magic and what it means to be a mage.  As for how magic would work in this world, I'm thinking that it would be divided into schools (like Skyrim or D&D) but without the need for keeping track of spells.  Our characters (and NPCs) would then have affinities for particular schools of magic that enable them to use that kind of magic.  As an example, a character with an affinity for fire magic would be able to manipulate fire freely but would have a hard time healing a wound.  They could maybe do it if they knew how, but it would be a lot harder and less efficient than it would be for someone with an affinity for healing magic.

Going with the high fantasy setting, I'm also planning on incorporating a number of different races that people can choose from for their characters like elves, humans, dwarves, etc.  While the list of races is probably going to be pretty standard, I'm open to suggestions for races that you might like to see included, even if they're something that you came up with yourself! :D  Due to the nature of the setting, the story for this RP would probably be more free form at first, though I do have some inklings of the plots that I would like to introduce if we get there.[/hider]

[hider=Idea 2 - Paranatural Fan RP, Sort of]This idea is mostly based off the world of the [url=http://www.paranatural.net/comic/chapter-1]Paranatural webcomic[/url] by Zack Morrison.  For those of you who have never heard of Paranatural before, some background is in order.

[hider=Background]The world of Paranatural is one wherein spirits, ghosts, and paranormal activity are commonplace.  The only people who can see spirits and ghosts, however, are those that possess spectral energy (think ectoplasm) and are therefore known as [i]spectrals[/i].  People can become spectrals by having a near-death experience, being exposed to spectral energy for a prolonged period of time, or having a diet that is obnoxiously high in citrus.  It is also worth noting that spectral energy comes in different colors depending on how a person became a spectral or their personality.  A spectral can learn to manipulate their spectral energy for a variety of purposes, with the most common being those involved in fighting malevolent spirits.  Spectral energy is limited to affecting spectral entities or objects.  Because this spectral energy infuses the body of a spectral, they count as a spectral entity.

Spirits are beings made of spectral energy that come in a wide variety of shapes and sizes with an equally diverse number of abilities.  Spirits that are fatally wounded also have the ability to escape into an object or person.  An object thus possessed becomes a [i]tool[/i], while a person becomes a [i]medium[/i].  If successful, the spirit will eventually recover by consuming spectral energy. In the case of a spirit possessing a non-spectral person or an object that person owns, that person will eventually become a spectral and will have a spectral energy color that matches the spirit.  Spirits inside of tools will also try and lure in spectrals that have the same spectral energy color that they do.  Spectrals using a tool or that are possessed can make use of the spirit's abilities for as long as they are together.  This includes the ability to enter the spirit's "world," which is a sort of shared mindscape where the spectral and spirit can communicate.

Ghosts are, as you might expect, the remains of human beings that have passed away but still find themselves bound to the mortal plane.  Like spirits, ghosts are also made up of spectral energy, which makes them tempting prey for hungry spirits.  Because ghosts are made up entirely of spectral energy, they would be entirely absorbed by the spirit inside of a tool if they attempted to use it.  Some particularly powerful ghosts are also able to manipulate objects and are thus known as poltergeists.  Ghosts also can't manipulate spectral energy like living humans can and their abilities are also often locked to a specific purpose that is at least tangentially related to the way in which they died.  Particularly violent deaths can prolong the length of time that a ghost can last, but eventually all ghosts fade as their spectral energy diffuses.[/hider]

For this story, I was thinking that it would take place in a different location and involve none of the canon characters.  I was also thinking that the story could be vaguely Gravity Falls-ish in the sense that our characters are trying to uncover a mystery that plagues their town.  This would probably mean that most of our characters end up becoming spectrals at around the same time, thus resulting in no one really knowing what's going on with the "sudden" appearance of paranormal activity all round them.  This would also allow our characters to grow into their abilities in a very superhero story kind of way, which I think would be fun.  As a sort of disclaimer, I'm not intending for this story to be super dark or anything, but it also probably won't be quite as whimsical as the actual Paranatural comic either.[/hider]

Please let me know if either of these ideas appeal to you!  I'd actually be more than happy to run both of them if they get enough interest! :D  As always, feel free to ask me questions or make any suggestions!