Enders of Fate (dark RP enclosed, and I mean DARK)

[Sinistare]

So, if there's one thing I hate about most RP's, it's that the characters controlled by the Rp'ers tend to either be good or neutral, and besides one or two RP'er controlled antagonists, for the most part no one really plays evil characters. Well, I intend to test the darker side of our consciousnesses and sub-consciousnesses.

Basically, the RP will follow a group of young to middle aged adults/adolescents that for one reason or another, truly hate the world. I don't mean in the sense of "everything sucks" but "I want to see this world end, and I want to be responsible for that end."

From here, the characters of this RP will be brought together by unknown means, and then will be granted special abilities by extraordinary circumstances (there might be a sentient evil being responsible for this, I'm not saying for now, but maybe (this is code for I haven't worked it out that far yet lol)). Once these powers have been obtained and the characters have learned to use them to some extent, that where the RP will take a much more open ended turn. What happens when you give nihilistic and destructive minds that want nothing more than to cause chaos and end the world itself, the ability to fulfill that desire?

Of course, it would be slightly repetitive to simply just have the characters going around destroying the world, but there must of course be enemies, or if we look at it logically, heroes, also gifted by some extraordinary means with abilities to combat the abilities of the evil ones.

To sum up this RP quickly, basically a bunch of people that truly want to end the world get the power to do so, and then have to fight against the government, people, and even others with abilities but have the desire to save the world. In other worlds, you guys are gonna be playing bad guys.

And this won't be a simple RP. Remember how I said this was gonna be dark, well it's gonna be really dark. Death, murder, genocide, mutilation, rape, all forms of humanity at it's most desperate, deprived, raw state of evil nature and primal instincts will be in full view for those participating and/or just watching this RP trudge along. Remember, you guys are gonna be truly evil, so you have to be willing to kill, maim, etc. I don't mean to be graphic, but this is basically the apocalypse created through direct means of twisted humans. This isn't a happy RP. This is all about just letting the evil out for a little bit, and that's it.

So, if that last bit didn't scare you off, then lets move on to the rules of the RP.

-Posting: This is advanced, I shouldn't need to explain this. Either you write at an advance level and participate if interested, or you don't write at this level and don't participate.

-Posting Schedule/whatever: I used rounds of sorts. I'll start a post, wait 4-5 days for everyone else to post. If everyone posts before the 4-5 day period is up, we just move on to the next round. If someone doesn't post within the 4-5 day period without notifying me, we skip their post and they get a warning. If they miss 2 in a row, they're dropped from the RP. If they don't miss 2 in a row but get 3 strikes within a month, they are dropped. The strikes reset at the beginning of a new month. If you notify me that you have to miss a round, we won't count it against you, everyone gets 1 freebie per month with notification of their absence.

-CS Applications: I don't do thing on a first come first serve basis. I like a 5 day application period for people to work and turn in characters, and then I will choose a limited amount of people based on the CS's that I determined are the "best" for the rp.

That's pretty much it. If I haven't deterred you with my massive wall of text and rules (and very graphic description of what the RP will be like) then please let me know here on the int check. Once we get at least 4 people interested I'll start up an OOC

[Terminal]

Interested.

Expect a character sheet later today.

[Headphones]

Heeeeh, interesting. I haven't seen one of these before and I must say the idea tickles my curiosity. All seems well, however, I do have an inquiry or two.

What I am interested in and looking for are truly serious role-plays. This idea looks like a good way to let off some steam and present some philosophical ideas, however, I've already passed the phase of "this world is horrible", "society's awful" and all that jazz during the beginning of the teenage years, thus if this is going to be some role-play where characters destroy the world just because of their drama queen life stories, you can count me out. When we say evil, I'm actually looking for evil, not some childish excuse for a villain.

This all being said and clear, what will the exact setting of the story be? Will our characters meet up by accident or will they be a formed group when we begin? What about the progression? Will we have missions or something similar? I'd like to hear more about the base of the story before deciding whether or not to work on an application.

EDIT: I actually had a re-read for a moment. Do realize that some of the things you are suggesting go against the rules of this role-play site? You did mention that we can't get graphic, but rape and mutilation? Seriously? I thought this was naive when I first read it, which was the reason I explained that I'm looking for something serious, but I suppose I'd better ask the question directly. Is this truly going to be a mature role-play (mature = a debate, discussion and/or portrayal of different ideologies on right and wrong, evil and the world) or is it simply a "we're evil because we just have/want to be evil"? If it's the latter, then I'm wasting my time here.

[Sinistare]

I realize that what I wrote was worded pretty poorly. Of course we're going to address such topics in forms of character development. I mean, rape is a terrible thing, but the reason I wrote it down was really in case someone wants to use the idea of having a traumatic experience such as rape be part of the fuel for their character's true nihilistic and destructive tendencies that lead them to becoming a part of this evil group. This is not "ugh the world sucks I hate everything yada yada lets fuck shit up."

This is going to be a mature (and by mature I mean dark and towards the worse end of humanity) RP that follows a small group of people that for some reason or another, have been broken down by society and are given the means to destroy the society. As I stated earlier, whether they be traumatic incidences that lead to this behavior, or they're just psychopaths that want nothing more than to see the world burn, that is up to the player to write their character. I don't want this to be "I want to be evil so lets be evil" but that's really up to everyone who participates in this RP. If you want something deep, you and the others will have to create well rounded characters that are believable as to why they would want to destroy the world when given the opportunity.

As for progression, we're going to start the RP right before the event giving our individuals their powers. After that, probably another 2 or 3 rounds of posting will focus on each character interacting with the others as well as developing their abilities. From there, it's gonna to be somewhat up to the RP'ers involved how they go about business. It'll be up to you guys whether you want to do structured missions attacking different areas, or just causing random destruction as you see fit. However, once we get to a certain point, of course there will be actions taken by outside forces to try and stop you, and as the scale of your destruction steadily increases, so shall the scale of the means in which to attempt to stop your group increase.

It's a somewhat structured RP in that I know how I want to start it, and I know at which points I want to throw in more plot development and other such devices, but the means by which you move from each point to the next will rely entirely on the RP'er input.

[Headphones]

I see. So this is not simply a vent of negative emotion coming from a naive writer. You have me convinced that this is not something childish and foolish. If I may, I would like to ask a few more questions.

The fact that you state in your reply that we will be destroying society fortunately answers the question I had intentionally left out for later. We will not be raging war against life itself, but simply against society. This brings back fond memories of the anime I once watched - "Code Geass". A lovely story it was.

The mention of areas has me thinking you have already settled on a model of the world we will be placed in. The idea of randomly raging about while using powers sounds rather foolish, since it is obvious that too much attention will be caught and the enemy would have more time to gather forces, due to the fact that we would become visible early on. If I truly decide on joining, I would most likely attempt to take the role of a strategist, so to speak. What era will our characters be placed in? A modern one, far back in the past or fast forward into the future? Could you tell me a bit about the world the characters will be set in? It will be necessary for the creation of a history, after all.

[ramblingbard]

I am definitely interested in this, but I have a question.

I know you have said several times wanting to see the world burn, but what about the villains that wish for world domination/supreme ruler types? I ask because I have a plethora of villainous characters that could work here, however some of them are willing to spend no expense reducing the world to ash if that is what it takes to control it.

I will admit that I have not participated in any advanced threads on this site, but I am an aspiring novelist, so I definitely would love to give it a shot - especially a thread like this.

[Sinistare]

@Headphones: I did base some of this off of code geass to be fair. It's probably something I'd recommend to anyone for a good Machiavellian style of destroying rule. Now when I say society, there will be a good amount of death involved. You can't destroy society without breaking a few eggs. Anyways, as for the era. I'm thinking a slightly futuristic setting. Nothing to advance, but I think having basically just enhanced modern technology (like maybe touch screens and stuff being on almost everything like just tapping on a touch screen menu to decide your meal and such) and then small robots. Like, robots that can serve food, clean houses efficiently, etc. Also, I'm glad to see someone willing to take the strategist role to help guide the characters along :)

@ramblingbard: This isn't a role play about people wanting to take over the world and I would prefer every character to simply want to destroy society and it's rules and such. These people don't want to rule, they are broken down by society and wish to simply destroy as a sort of "vengeance" for putting them into such positions.

[Headphones]

Sinistare, you say all of our characters should destroy society, yet what do you suppose should follow or will something follow in the first place? Is that the core question of the story? Sure, we will destroy the structure and kill human beings, yet as long as the species exists, society will rise up again. In what shape and form it will be is another question and I do believe that one of those "take over the world" characters Ramblingbard was talking about could come in at that moment. Or is the group's goal the true annihilation of humanity? In that case, they would have to suicide in the end, would they not?

And who will play the "good heroes"? We will need them to exist for balance's sake, after all.

[ramblingbard]

All right, I assumed that was the case but I wanted to verify for my own clarification. I still have a bunch of characters that are "destroy society" based. I have one final question now, and that is would it be okay if - when you post up the character sheets - I submit two or three for you to choose from? I think that might work out best than myself trying to decide since you have already stated that you will be picking 'the best choices for the RP' anyways.

[Sinistare]

I can't say much on the topic of what follows because I do have a plan for that. The Enders of Fate don't exist to fix society, they simply exist to destroy it. Of course humanity won't fall, but there's a system in place and the Enders of Fate have their one role in this system. Of course I have a lot of plot points that dive deeper into this, but for now that's all I'm leaving you with. If I say anymore, then I'll be in the middle of major spoilers so I'm not going to say. All you need to know is that your characters are just there to destroy the current society and that's their initial role.

As for the heroes, I will be taking control of them, maybe have someone else that I want as a CO-gm of sorts help me control them.

[Terminal]

So far what you two are discussing seems to be the destruction of humanity, which is sort of perplexing given the premise of wanting to destroy the world. By definition, if there is still a third planet orbiting around Sol inside the boundaries of the asteroid belt, the Earth has not been destroyed!

This thread seems to be suffering from a deficiency of geocide. I shall begin rectifying this immediately.

[Sinistare]

lol, alright, I'm clearing everything up right now. This RP focuses on a group of people designated to destroy the current society with special abilities they'll be granted as they see fit. When I say society, I mean the government, systems/cities of humanity, and a good portion of the population itself are the targets of our group. There lies a purpose in this, but I won't say what the purpose is cause that's spoilers.

[Headphones]

And I am thankful for that clarification, because, while I do find the destabilization of society interesting, I don't want to destroy the planet.

In the end, my mind it still not settled, but it is quite late at night. Allow me to sleep on it. I will see what I make of it in the morning.

[Beebee2121]

I'm interested in this and it looks like a lot of good questions have been asked so far. I agree with most of them. I also figure a lot of my questions will be answered when the OOC thread comes up, so I'll hold off until then. Except for one thing.

I was wondering if our characters would be starting out as a team working together to bring about the fall of society or if it was up to the characters to team up or if some were allowed to have their own separate operation. In short, I guess I'm trying to ask if there's room for defiance within this group. So, would they know each other prior to the start of the thread or are they just meeting each other?

Something tells me I'm asking for spoilers.

[Sinistare]

No these aren't really spoiler questions so I'll be happy to answer them. Unless you want your character to specifically know another character (which is between the two RP'ers in control of each character to work that out) then everyone will be somewhat strangers to one another. While not knowing each other personally, they seem to have a sense of one another as they pass through the central city they all will live in. It's like they can almost sense the despair and brokenness of the other future Enders, but they are not acquainted.

As for defiance within the group, kind of? See, a major thing I like to do in all of my RP's is have each of the RP'er controlled characters get a personal arc within the story. Something that shines light on their background, and develops them more to the group as a whole, and maybe strengthen the bonds they share with others. So if people wish to have a separate operation be involved in their personal story arc then I'd be cool with that :)

[Beebee2121]

Okay, great. I can jam with that. Bard and I have been RP buddies for a while and we've done that sort of thing many times before. I just wanted to make sure it was kosher if that's what ends up happening. But, of course, I'm open to collaborating with other authors *hint hint*, if it works out with our characters.

I like where you're going with this. I've never really been in an RP with multiple players that's had the kind of control you're describing. This gives me more to think of on my character. I'll let you know if he or she ends up with their own operation. Thanks for your answer.

[Dead Cruiser]

Would we have any input regarding our abilities? I have an idea that would only quite work using a specific power.

[Sinistare]

Once I have an OOC and CS format set up I intend to let everyone create their ability as they see fit, and then of course I'll give my constructive criticism and wait for the application period to end before making any final decisions.

[ASmallTheropod]

I'm very up for playing a genocidal monster. For what it's worth, I'm much more interested in portraying the kind of monster who's completely nice and genial on the surface but just so happens to want to kill everyone and then himself in that order, rather than a Cobra Commander "eeeeevil" mwahahahaha the world is mine type of monster.

[Terminal]

You're ALL underachievers. I'm sticking with the Earth Shattering Kaboom. :I

It's a thankless job, but somebody's got to do it!