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Dungeon Keepers (Interest Check)

Have you ever wanted to be the villain of the roleplay, wield unimaginable power and lead great armies to global domination? Then you've come to the right place.

Set in a small magic-drenched world called Elysium, you play as a member of a race of evil beings called the Dungeon Keepers. You appear in this world, which has never seen the likes of Keepers before, and it's up to you to conquer it. You will have to create a Dungeon, design an army and build up your personal avatar, all of which can be made entirely to your likings. While the humans inhabiting and guarding the land will pose an obstacle to you, your biggest threat will be from other Keepers, as they are not an organised or friendly group.

You, the Keepers, are effectively demigods, although you have to build up your power with your dungeon. You can take just about any form you like, so get creative. Your minions are also created and designed directly by you, so you can be just as creative with them. You have the power to be unique and original in your character.

The setting is fantasy with Renaissance era technology (cannons and muskets).


The Keepers were originally from another world, where they achieved the ultimate goal of triggering the Apocalypse and destroying the world. To escape destruction themselves, they fled through a portal, which led them to this tranquil planet. The Keepers have a long history of killing and enslaving humans as well as battling for power against each other. In this new world the humans have a strong hold on the skills of magic, so they will be a challenge to fight. Typically, the goal of a Keeper is to gains as much power as possible, and they typically do this through conquest of new lands and the Dungeons of other Keepers.


If you're interested, say so below and start brainstorming ideas for who you want to be.

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Another morning, another day ahead, and Zachary had prepared a bag full of supplies and tools to move over to his temporary workshop. However, he had another stop to make first, to do with last night's dream. He packed the book about the Church of Aeros he had just finished into the bag too and set out into the streets, under the cover of the morning shade. Lugging his backpack, he soon arrived at the ruin of the university, where he had been at the time of the cataclysm. The massive bolt of lightning which had struck it along with many other tall buildings left the upper floors as burnt out husks, but some of the lower floors miraculously survived relatively intact. He had avoided taking residence there as many people often passed through the building, but there was one place he did visit often.

Climbing up a few flights of stairs Zachary was in front of a double-door which had been crudely repaired so as to be functional. Faded letters on a sign above the door spelled out 'LIBRARY'. Zachary walked through the doors and entered a very large and dark room. Dark, that is, save for the glow of a single light behind some shelves on the far side of the room. Suddenly, the silhouette of a man moved out from behind the shelf.

"Who goes there?" the figure called out.

"It's Zachary, Leo," Zachary replied.

"Ah, Zachary! If this were a business you'd be my favourite customer. Come in, come in, just let me find the light switch," the man named Leo replied amicably. He returned behind the shelf and a few moments later light cores in the ceiling flickered to life and illuminated the room.

The room indeed was a library. Rows of shelves with books neatly stacked in them filled the room. Smooth metal shelves, rounded painted tables, foam-padded chairs, desktop holopads (albeit without power) and a grey-blue carpet gave a modern feel to it. The room was meticulously clean, save for a large hole in the roof which had been another room until its floor collapsed into the library. You could almost believe the world outside hadn't gone to hell when inside this library.

"I see my lighting still works," Zachary commented. To help Leo out Zachary had fixed up the lighting in the room, allowing the entire place to be illuminated at the flick of a switch. Before that Leo had to make do with a flash-light and lamp. To keep the cores from wearing out he only turns on the lights when needed, but when the lights are on it completes the ambience.

"It sure does. It makes this place so much livelier," Leo said. He emerged from around the corner, and Zachary could see him clearly. He was an aging man, in his late 50s, with a bald patch and greying hair. A decent beard, matching the colouring of the hair on the top of his head, was present on his face. He wore a tweed suit which had remarkably remained intact all this time. Zachary had learned that Leo used to be the Librarian of this place long before the Apocalypse, and still is. The library had been fortunate enough to escape the fire, so as soon as he could Leo had picked up all the fallen books and shelves, sorted them, restored the library and kept it running. He didn't get many visitors, but he liked it that way. Any visitors which come to make trouble face the barrel of Leo's shotgun, but otherwise the man known as the Librarian was quite open to guests.

"As much as I know you like to chat, I also know that you don't come here unless you want a book," Leo said.

Zachary laughed. "Indeed. I've finished this book here." He took off his bag and removed the book from it. "I found it quite intriguing. The parts on kages and ancient cores were particularly relevant."

Leo took the book from him. "I told you that you'd find it interesting." When it came to borrowing books, Leo is quite lax about returning them. He figures that since he has such a high supply and small demand that he can afford to give away a few books, such as engineering reference books to Zachary. He does ask for a donation of food for the service, though, so in accordance with that Zachary also handed over a few serves of rations.

"What do you want now? A couple of back-copies of some engineering magazines? Maybe a nice novel?" Leo asked.

Zachary paused for a moment, trying to find the right word. "Actually, this time I want something on endocrinology."

"That's a strange request coming from you. What sparked you interest in that?"

"Last night I had a dream, sort of. Kaa'is was analysing my body, taking me on a grand tour of all the incredible details. Hormones were a hole in my knowledge, so we decided to do some research."

Concern crept into Leo's face. "You be careful with what your kage tells you, Zachary. I don't know what he's planning in there, but you'd do well not to trust him. But if you insist, you can find such books down there in biology and physiology." He pointed towards a particular aisle of shelves.

"Thank you, Leo. It'll be fine," Zachary replied. He went down the shelves and foraged through the books. After 15 minutes of looking at and flicking through a few textbooks Zachary settled on one and put it in his bag. It weighed as much as a brick, but he had grown accustomed to carrying a heavy pack. With the book in his bag, Zachary headed for the door. "Goodbye Leo," he called out, waving.

"See you later, Zachary," Leo replied, looking up from a book he was reading and giving a quick wave in return.

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I have a question about kages. In our character sheets, we are limited to a primary and a secondary power. Does the same limitation apply for NPCs, or are there NPCs with a crazy variety of powers?

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Some more activity would be nice, especially now when I've got time to post.

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Those are some intriguing events.

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Arriving home, Zachary ate dinner, had a shower, finished reading a small book on the Church of Aeros, then went to bed. After he drifted off to sleep, he began dreaming. But he felt too aware for it to be a dream. In the dream he looked down on a body and could see all its inner workings. The background was black, so the body appeared to be floating there. It was as if he was using his powers of machine reading, but he'd never seen a human body with this much clarity before. The body was sleeping, breathing in and out slowly, the heart pumping at a relaxed pace. Then realisation hit him like a wave- the body was himself.

Don't think too hard. We can only get this resolution when you're sleeping. Conscious thought gets in the way, came the disembodied voice of Kaa'is, which sounded closer than usual.

So Zachary remained quiet yet riveted as he looked on his own body. The view then gently swept down to inspect parts closer. First he saw the heart, pumping along, right side before left, pushing blood towards the lungs and then towards the rest of the body. He looked closer at the blood and was able to see the individual cells. Red blood cells, platelets and various white blood cells, all being washed through the vessels. The view then shifted to his digestive tracts, watching the ground-up military rations he had eaten for dinner be digested in the stomach and passed through to the intestines, where a concoction of enzymes from the pancreas and bile from the gall bladder further digested the food so the nutrients could be absorbed through the wall of the small intestine. Then the view looked to the spine, still ablaze with nerve impulses despite being asleep, and followed the very long axons up to the brain. Looking at the brain as a whole, noting the nerve impulses, was not too dissimilar to an MRI, although Zachary had no qualification to interpret what activity in particular locations means. The view swooped in through the web on nerves, interestingly aligned mostly in a grid, and settled around the centre of the brain, where the hypothalamus was. Looking up close, Zachary could see individual nerve cells, watching ions and electricity rush through the axons, trigger the release of bubbles of neurotransmitter which is received by the dendrites which carry on the signal. In the hypothalamus he could also see nerves which instead of transmitting electrical impulses secreted chemicals into the blood and a gland. This incredible and awe-inspiring look into his own body was a bit of a biology refresher course for him, as he tried remembering all he had learnt in biology back in high school.

It's a shame we don't know more about those hormones, Kaa'is said. Zachary mentally agreed. Such knowledge may come in handy. We should pick up a book on it. Zachary didn't argue.

Finished, the splendid picture turned to black and thought faded away as Zachary fell into a deeper sleep.

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Sounds like an excellent plan. The loose Events systems seems like an excellent thing to keep people moving and involved in an RP where everyone is out on their own with not much to do. And it's not very meta-gaming either as if you keep descriptions vague then it is something that could come to characters by casual observation and rumours.

Sage said BBeast recently pm'd me asking me to give him some things to do. I did, and all of those things were core-story based. Well, all but one, which happened to be the one he chose xD (that one was more for self development).

I plan to do the others, or at least some of the others, later. I'll put them in when suitable. Unless, of course, there was an unwritten clause where I could only chose one.

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It was already afternoon when Zachary arrived back at the heap of carriages he had been at before. The family he had tended to earlier was nowhere to be seen, but the skyway unit had not moved. It was not likely to move, as it is too heavy to be carried with any degree of ease, although a looter could possibly pry out the Cores, only to later find that they didn't do much which would be of use to them. Zachary parked his trolley next to it and headed back up to the heap of crashed carriages. The noon light had faded and the afternoon shadow was setting in. After a couple more hours of looking around he had to use his torch to inspect any promising carriages. Everything he had found so far had been either too big, too damaged or too buried to be of any use to him. But he had kept up hope, as this was a very large pile-up so the odds were with him.

Eventually his patience paid off. In the approaching dusk he spotted a one-man carriage which had been pulled from the wreckage. Excited, Zachary clambered over to it and peered inside, casting his torch's light on the interior. It had been stripped of cores, including from the engine, it had some bending in the chassis and the kinetic manifold was mangled, but this carriage was perfect for his needs. He would need to move it from here to some inside location before he could start working on it, but he could achieve that with some rollers. But that could wait until tomorrow. It was getting dark and labouring outside at night is too risky in the ruins of Sovereign. What he could do is find a safe indoors location nearby, where he could stash the skyway unit for the night and put the carriage in tomorrow.

He clambered back to the ground and walked over to where he left the skyway unit and trolley. He bent his knees down and, getting a firm grip on the heavy unit, he strained both himself and his powers to lift the thing off the ground and into the trolley. He dropped it in with a satisfying clunk, causing the trolley to shudder and roll a short distance. After stretching out his shoulders Zachary pushed the trolley along the street, checking for good places to turn into a garage. He found something that might be suitable- a broken shop. However, when he approached it he heard voices and movement from with-in, so he left it alone and moved on. The next such place he came across sounded empty, so he went in to inspect it, shining his torch inside. It used to be a bakery, by the looks of the shelves, oven and stale bread. He went deeper inside, only to come across a rather terrified looking woman hiding in the back room. Zachary put his hands up to show that he wasn't going to hurt her, then walked back outside.

On his third try he found an uninhabited place. It had been a grocery, from the faded signs and trays with a several pieces of spoilt produce. The smell reminded him of the supermarket, although less intense, and had probably driven away any potential inhabitants. Checked the back room to find it devoid of people, and also large enough to fit a small carriage if he cleared away the shelves. The stench would be an inconvenience, but little more than that. Retrieved his trolley and brought it inside into the back storage room. Satisfied, he left the trolley and skyway unit there and walked back home.

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4 days without a post? We're losing steam, it seems.

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Having made a stop by his base to collect lunch, Zachary walked to the supermarket he had visited yesterday. Munching on the dry yet nutritious military grade rations, he pondered what might happen there. Would the conduit he had encountered before still be there? If so, would that conduit stay away or seek revenge? Last time had been inside at evening, but this time would be outside just after noon. How much of a difference would that make? If things turn sour you could bash its skull in for good this time.

"That place has gone well beyond sour," Zachary joked. This got a laugh out of Kaa'is.

Soon they were there. Out in what had once been a plaza with some carriage parking, Zachary could faintly smell the rotten sludge that was inside the supermarket with its broken-down wall. Looking into the shadows, he caught just a flash of reflected sunlight off a pair of eyes and a hint of movement in the darkness. Zachary drew his wind cannon and held it, not as if he was going to fire it but so it was clearly visible to the beast inside the supermarket. He heard a hiss and a patch of darkness moved deeper into the building.

He won't be bothering us for a while, said Kaa'is.

"Indeed," Zachary replied, grabbing a trolley from the trolley bay and walking off with it back to the carriage heap.