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Urban-Fantasy | Horror | Character Driven | Pretentious-Themes | Existential Anguish | Lonliness


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Welcome to Recollections: The Othergrounds. The second spin-off (and sort of sequel) to Vivid Recollections and the third RP in the Recollections Universe. It takes place in a new timeline after the destruction of the world eating monstrosity known as the Glutton was defeated and magic was suddenly returned to the universe. This creates a wide range of different ramifications as new beings and problems turn the system upside down. In The Othergrounds, random teenagers and other children are suddenly teleported to an empty city. The city has cars, food, and everything they would need to survive... except no life other than them. Some take it as paradise, others wonder if it's hell for their actions. However, they quickly find out the place is no normal city as the stakes get higher and higher and they desperately try to find a way out.

This story will be an urban-fantasy story that will cast a certain light on "magic" while leaving it ambiguous whether or not it's truly magic or not. The storyline will have elements of superpowers, horror, and more. The primary thematic of this RP will be Lonliness, Strangers, and Healing. The characters should be damaged or lonely indivuals that have nobody to reach to but the other people in the Othergrounds as they come to terms with their various issues. The cast should have problems but be realistic about it. Like Vivid Recollections, it's secondary themes will be Memory and Emotion.

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The story centers around the Extra-Normal, an umbrella term for strange and magical beings that are derived from a mysterious magical spectrum of light. These beings are either humans that have an emotional connection to light that they derive magic from, have opened their mind to the universe to gain powers, is a being formed out of belief or are a remnant of the past, or have been cursed by the other beings. Each of the Extra-Normal has abilities of some sort that are inherent to them all.

Known as Extra-Normal Abilities; these beings have a wide array of abilities that come naturally to them. The first of these abilities is the power to see the unseeable or the opening of the "third eye". Anything Extra-Normal or related is completely invisible to those without it and the most basic Extra-Normal ability is the power to perceive it. They can see flames that would otherwise be invisible and monsters that shouldn't be seen. Of course, certain abilities trump this extra sense. Certain Extra-Normal beings have unlocked the potential for reading "Aura". They are all connected to the world on a completely different level than anyone else, and can thus, perceive through their mind. However, what exactly they can sense is dependant on their personality, as, like their abstraction, reflects the user. Such as a kind person may be able to see the Auras of people in pain or are injured, or a greedy person may be able to sense money in the vicinity. Through this aura reading ability, the Extra-Normal beings can sense that object or person through walls, and over long distances. Some Aura reading is capable of gathering specific information. Though, some aura sensing requires activation. No one aura reading ability is the same (There are even some aberrations within aura reading).

Another ability inherent to the extra-normal is the ability to see into the past as if they were there. Triggered by being in a certain place, encountering a relevant person or object, or being in a moment of stress, an extra-normal being may receive a flashback into the past. Better known as Retrocognition, the Awakened will be a third party in this flashback and will be able to move around in a limited capacity as they watch the scene unfold. After the memory has faded, the Extra-Normal being will be thrust back into the real world with a minimal amount of time passed. Also, an Extra-Normal being may experience these moments while sleeping.

However, these all are just sub-abilities. Every true extra-normal being has an ability known as an Abstraction that is unique to them. Depending on their type it's either linked to their emotions and personality, the emotions passed down to them, belief, or an oddity among the classifications. However, there's an invisible barrier that exists between all of the Extra-Normal which protects them from being directly affected by each other's abilities. This is known as an Emotional-Field. It also lessens the blows behind each of their abilities - which means an Awakened with super strength can't one-shot everyone, a pyromancer cannot fry another one, a mind-controller cannot effectively mind controlling another. However, this depends on the ability and while a majority of abstractions are affected by the Emotional-Field certain abilities bypass it completely. It's case by case.


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Paradise... a place that is strange beyond all strangeness. The city Paradise is only named by the signs and the pamphlets and media that have its name on it. However, what's strange is that the name "Paradise" seems to be added on top of other cities pamphlets and signs haphazardly. The city of Paradise is expansive, endless even. One could keep walking and more and more of the city keeps coming. However, what's strange is that the layout of the city seemingly changes depending on who is there. It'll become a familiar reflection of places the people there have been before - mainly their birth town or even other locations that are special to them. The town of Paradise is, generally, a sprawling city... that can change into a small town in desert-Nevada in an instant. What's strange is that the city of Paradise is completely... empty. Paradise has everything a person needs to survive - food, water, shelter, electricity - everything you'd expect to see in a regular city. Except minus the people that live in it, but the few people that do live in Paradise can sustain themselves for all eternity. Thus, the city of Paradise can be considered, well, a paradise.

However, inside of the city of Paradise lurks a hidden danger that betrays its name.


MYSTERIES/HIDDEN DANGERS



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Will hopefully crank out a sheet sometime this weekend, dependent upon how busy I am.
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Will hopefully crank out a sheet sometime this weekend, dependent upon how busy I am.


What this dude said.
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I added a section to the stranger sheet known as

AT A QUICK GLANCE


Basically it's where we add quick details about the characters people would be able to discern from, well, a quick glance.
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For Adept and future Adept players, here's something important I added

One way for an Adept to discover their ability is to get taught how to do it from another Adept. The main way they can discover their abstraction is known as a Kindling-Event, basically a vision of the past or future. If they undergo an event in which they experience a strong emotion that corresponds with their color (Say a person with Blue lux feeling sorrow, a green Lux feeling joy, and so on) they will receive one of two visions. One of the main visions they'll receive is one of the people who passed down the connection telling them of their heritage and their abilities and how to utilize it. This person can be anyone in their bloodline and can be more than one person talking to them, as the Lux is passed down from one person to the next like a chain. The only stipulation is that the person is always deceased, as they will be speaking to the phantasm of that person. The other, rarer and vaguer is a vision of the future (or possibly, of another version of themselves) casting and using Lux.
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However, everything changed when the Glutton attacked


Getting Fire Nation vibes.
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I added a little blurb on Paradise.
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@Ghost Note When you say Paradise City changes according to the people there, do you mean that if it changes to your hometown others will also see your hometown? Or do you mean if you see your hometown other's won't see it?
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do you mean that if it changes to your hometown others will also see your hometown?


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So the IC is up. I decided to be brief buuuuut I want everyone to place their characters in a similar area - the abandoned street that the girl with blue streaks in her hair is on. If somebody needs any help or elaboration I'll be glad to provide, but mostly everyone should find themselves randomly in the town.
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also i decided to drop the other two characters in favor of the girl with blue streaks in her hair
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May get a post up tomorrow
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I love these posts so far.
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