I don't really have a good narrative introduction.... mostly I just really, really love medieval/Shakespearean type fay and I need my fix because, frankly, my fantasy larp ain't doing it for me right now lmao. What I'm thinking is something fairly sandbox; it takes place in a fantasy space roughly analogous to medieval Europe (or perhaps could even by a fictional location somewhere in medieval Europe, or a place where the real world meets the fay realm), where fay, satyr, nymphs, and similar magical creatures live and generally antagonize each other and the humans that venture into the area. Right now, I'm particularly thinking of perhaps a small "family" of fay that take a particular pleasure in confusing and misleading mortals, getting them lost in the forest and into weird adventures, before leading them back to the trail and having them question their sanity. However, there could be a number of other characters in the forest too, if a great number of people are interested.
While it would be very open in what, specifically, you could do and make your characters like, I would like to draw fairly heavily from medieval European folklore. So, you would want to fit your character directly into a specific category of creature, as opposed to an amalgamation of lore, and preferably a medieval rather than contemporary version of it (so fay would be more like something from A Midsummer Night's Dream [thus the title] than Tinkerbell).
I would like people to also be willing to play NPCs/extraneous characters (such as human travelers or villagers living nearby, non-humanoid magical creatures like unicorns or dragons, etc.) to give the fairy characters something to mess with or fight against. We could certainly come up with more in-depth plots from time to time to bring characters together- maybe some sort of heroic quest, or danger to their forest, or whatever- but the main idea is just to have fair folk doing generally mischievous things. It will hopefully be a fairly laid-back roleplay that's easy to jump in and out of when you have time, considering there shouldn't really be one overarching goal or storyline- you can just pop in for a few scenes when you're feeling up to it, and then your fay can sleep in a hollow log until you feel like coming back around, or whatever.
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While it would be very open in what, specifically, you could do and make your characters like, I would like to draw fairly heavily from medieval European folklore. So, you would want to fit your character directly into a specific category of creature, as opposed to an amalgamation of lore, and preferably a medieval rather than contemporary version of it (so fay would be more like something from A Midsummer Night's Dream [thus the title] than Tinkerbell).
I would like people to also be willing to play NPCs/extraneous characters (such as human travelers or villagers living nearby, non-humanoid magical creatures like unicorns or dragons, etc.) to give the fairy characters something to mess with or fight against. We could certainly come up with more in-depth plots from time to time to bring characters together- maybe some sort of heroic quest, or danger to their forest, or whatever- but the main idea is just to have fair folk doing generally mischievous things. It will hopefully be a fairly laid-back roleplay that's easy to jump in and out of when you have time, considering there shouldn't really be one overarching goal or storyline- you can just pop in for a few scenes when you're feeling up to it, and then your fay can sleep in a hollow log until you feel like coming back around, or whatever.
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