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- Timeline -

The history of our History


2016

  • January 1st
    • With the first sunrise of the new year, a wave of violet light sweeps the globe, touching each country as the light of the sun meets the land. It is invisible to cameras and doesn't disturb wildlife - only mankind notices, and they see the purplish light even in their dreams when they're not awake. This event becomes known as the Violet Dawn.
    • Immediately, governments enforce a coerced silence on media corporations and try to stifle the news while their intelligence agencies figure out what exactly happened.
  • January 3rd
    • A significant portion of the world’s population suddenly manifest magical abilities. The vast majority of these tragic individuals are either killed by the uncontrollable manifestation of their vast power, or driven irrevocably and unintelligibly insane - and are subsequently lethally subdued by riot police and government response.
    • Very few of what were eventually called The First Wave were taken alive; those that were, disappeared completely. It is likely that their citizenships were revoked, and that they remained in state custody until their deaths in captivity.
    • It is unknown if any 1st Generation Mages survive in the wild, but estimates are that less than a handful possibly could - and that less than a half could still possibly be serviceably sane. The events of this period will come to be known, one day, as the first World Wide Witchhunt.

2017

  • January 1st
    • It happens again. Like a flashback to a nightmare, the public find themselves once again the subject of a wave of Violet light, washing over them like an occult tide with the rising of the sun. The world watches in horror… and waits in dread.
  • January 3rd
    • The Second Wave awaken, and much like the first one they are either so wildly out of control of their powers that they are killed by them, publicly, or they are mentally destroyed by the weight of their new abilities. The government respond as they did before - with gunfire and Witchhunts. The position of the agencies created to deal with The First Wave is now secure; these are the forefather agencies of the modern institutions dedicated to hunting magicians - and accordingly, the second World Wide Witchhunt commences. A few more magicians from this era survive the bloodshed, but not many. Never many.
  • April 20th
    • The Stafford Act - informally known as the Inquisition act - is passed by the UK parliament and subsequently taken up by the European Parliament as well. It formalises the cancellation of Brexit and the beginning of global intelligence cooperation to counter the Magical Threat. Mages are not quite universally seen as an enemy of civilisation as a whole, yet, but the public are terrified.


2018

  • January 1st-3rd
    • The Third Wave are expected to follow this year’s Violet Dawn by the FOE, and by the wider antimagic intelligence community - but they expected it to be different, more chaotic, more violent. The magicians of the Third Generation are instead like something more subtly deranged, like a failed experiment. For this reason, many of them survive, at least initially. Their hallucinations and delusions will eventually lead most of them to be captured nonetheless, but in the meantime they remain the most survivable Generation yet.
  • February 4th
    • The disparate branches and divisions of existing national intelligence agencies - the FBI Unusual Affairs branch, the CIA’s Extraordinary Intelligence Committee, the NSA’s Paranormal Task Force, MI5’s Crowley Office… - are formally dissolved and recondensed into their own institutions of investigation, by almost unanimous votes in nearly every sovereign nation in the world. This is the birthday of the European Magical Defence Agency, with the birthday of the Federal Occult Enforcement group coming the next day on the 5th of February.
  • September 24th
    • The Magician known as Cam, a talented and reasonably stable individual of the third generation, develops their abilities and is eventually able to identify individuals with latent magical potential. They immediately begin using this ability to try and find themselves some friends.
  • December 25th
    • Cam succeeds in finding seven others who are due to awaken after the next Violet Dawn. Knowing that they will not be able to reveal themselves until they too have self-identified as Magicians, Cam puts measures in place to protect them, and waits for the Sunrise on New Year’s Morning.


2019

  • January 1st-3rd
    • As is now the broadly accepted pattern, on New Year’s morning the world is once again bathed by the Violet Dawn, and once again another fraction of the population is awoken. This year’s magicians are the most stable yet, 90% or so of them remaining both bodily and mentally intact. Intelligence agencies scramble to capture them, using new - if primitive - magic-sensing devices developed covertly using captured mages to test on; they are moderately successful, but for the first time most of the awakened Fourth Generation remain free past the first month mark.
    • Cam is successful in liberating four of the seven - the FOE were already too close to the other three - and bringing them together in Brightwell, Illinois. This is where they will, in the coming weeks, become the founders of the Violet Underground.


2020

  • January 1st
    • The Violet Dawn arrives once more.
  • January 3rd
    • You Awaken as a part of the Fifth Generation.
    • At 03:03AM, on the third minute of the third hour of the third day of the year, you get a text from an unknown number, telling you that FOE will be knocking on your door in fifteen minutes, and that you need to leave your apartment by the back entrance and meet them in a nearby alleyway if you want to live. The text is brief, but apologetic - and you probably don’t have any better options anyway.






Important Information


Hello, dear friends, and welcome to the world of Paradigm Shift. This is a roleplay where your character is a newly awakened magician, with no particular training or extensive background in magic, who is rescued shortly after their awakening by an agent of the Violet Underground and whisked away to safety just barely in the nick of time.

This isn’t an RP about saving the world, and it’s not a game where every plot line will have a happy ending. There will be loss and pain in equal or greater amounts as there will be joy and hope. You will be dealing with forces that were, and are, almost entirely beyond human comprehension - and you will also be dealing with forces created by mankind, too. This will be a story about survival as much as about being the good guy, and I personally have very high hopes for it.

Before we truly begin, however, some ground rules…









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This RP aims to actively work with its player-base to produce a tailored experience to the characters. As such, it works on a mutual trust between the players and GMs to act reasonably and within the limits of the world set before them. In order to encourage communication and mutual content building for the game, the character creation process becomes an application into the RP with the slight chance of rejection.

Please do not be alarmed by this! The way that character creation works is as follows:
  • The player creates their character sheet as per usual. In this example, they have some areas they could improve upon.
  • A GM will formally check their sheet and provide official feedback on the improvements that need to be made before they are accepted.
  • The player submits their improved sheet, whereupon it will either be accepted or declined.

Throughout the entirety of the process, the player is allowed to ask any queries they may have about lore, their application’s shortcomings, or potential ideas and work-arounds. Even though you get two ‘chances’ to formally submit your sheet, you are actively encouraged to ask any questions you have and work with the GMs to produce the best version of your character.

The CS Skeleton is below:





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Hello! Can I hop in? I already have many ideas! Im going to start working on a prototype CS now. Sorry, im just really exited!
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Here is a prototype. Everything in it is subject to change and will probably will need edits.
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You had me at —

Russia didn't change a whole lot apart from the expansion of the role of the FSB and further reductions of privacy rights for civilians.
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Oh people were quicker than I expected! If you are willing to have more people, I would like to join in on the fun and see where this will be going.

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Hey folks, I just wanted to say thank you for the interest you've all shown so far. I'm looking forward a whole damn lot to seeing the finished products of the CSes we already have on the thread, and I'm going to tailor the specifics of the planned plot to our party once they're fully selected.

Speaking of which, I should mention at this point that I do actually have someone who's gonna help with CS feedback and acceptance - namely Stitches, who's already submitted a sheet that I'm going to be reviewing properly hopefully later tonight if I get the time. I'll add this to the OOC later on too, hopefully - just need to get some studying done first.

Again, thanks so much for your enthusiasm, it's so good to have you all here!
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@Bazmund, are you looking for a particular FC style, i.e. real life versus animated?
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@Briza I don't particularly mind and I won't ban anything, but the RP as a whole has the theme of realism and realistic consequences; your characters are magicians, and therefore they're innately powerful and can represent a significant threat to those they stand against - but you're not anime characters at all, and this definitely isn't going to play out like an anime. If you get shot, you get shot - and so on.

To that end, use whatever picture you like, but ideally reflect a real person with it and try to help us imagine your character as a real person.
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Alright folks, we have a discord server. When you join, use the @Baran (Bazmund) line to get my attention and I’ll add you to this RP’s subcategory.

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@duskshine749 Creating sustained physical weapons with Violet magic is going to be incredibly taxing, especially if they can change their form on the fly. I don't think you'll be able to do that and other magic at the same time, at least not without a lot of training. Holograms work too, but in order for them to actually move you need to focus on their actions as much as your own for the illusion to still seem realistic - though it may not need to seem realistic to be effective. Ignoring pain is good, that's a good use of black magic. Blue magic cannot safely teleport you to a place you cannot see and do not have good familiarity with - I'll certainly let you try, but at some point that will end quite badly for Zephyr. As for sharpen senses, the concept is certainly fine but bullet time doesn't exist in this world, so while a moment might last a little longer for him it won't necessarily let him outfight someone who's just better than he is - for example, he might see the blow coming, but if he's been maneuvered into a position where he's at that kind of disadvantage it might just mean he has a subjectively longer period of time where he knows he's about to get hit. Sharpen Senses will let him see details on the fly where anyone else might miss them, it'll help him analyse his opponents if he's fighting, and so on - but it's not necessarily going to be the be-all end-all to melee combat.

Keep in mind as well that simply being able to have a sword and shield on hand doesn't necessarily mean you know how to use them - and that even if you do, most FOE agents just shoot people.

EDIT: I realise that all sounded really critical, sorry about that. I like the concept so far, and I liked Zeph in the previous RP, just to make that clear lol.
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@DinoNuts@Stitches Hey folks, I've spent a while reviewing the sheets and I reckon you're good to move them over to the Char tab. Really good characters, I'm looking forward to your intro posts a lot.
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I can definitely see how Siobhan would be considered overly powerful or lore-breaking. If something's wrong, if she needs to be toned down or her abilities elaborated upon and tweaked, I'll do that in an instant.
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For anyone who has yet to join the discord server:

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Thank you everyone for your sheets and your patience. We've been working on reviews either via discord or through PMs, and it's only taking a little while as we both like to review each sheet and figure out the best feedback for your character.

@duskshine749@WanderingSpirit@Nate1008, how are your sheets going? Remember we're on discord or on here if you need a hand.

@Lady Selune I believe Baz PMed you with the feedback but ofc if you have any more questions feel free to ask.

@silvermist1116 working on your feedback as we speak, would you prefer it in discord or RPerguild PMs?




Concerning the start of the IC, we're pretty much ready to go on our side but we're waiting for enough accepted sheets. Personally I'm looking at 4-5 players, though we're still accepting applications until we reach that mark and then some depending on popularity.
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