CaptainManbeard

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I'm envisioning an alternate Earth where magical beings known as feyfolk exist. In this world, southern Germany is replaced by the English-speaking kingdom of Aedyria, where slavery of feyfolk has been deeply woven into the society for centuries. Laborers, town guards, sexual consorts, den mothers, etc. -- different types of feyfolk serve different purposes. One law that seems prominent in older, traditionalist towns and villages is that slaves must be fully nude at all times and are legally prohibited from spurning advances by humans, unless their owner has specifically commanded them to remain chaste.

King James VII was a tyrant like the rulers who came before him, but after his untimely death, his young son, Prince Abraham, inherits the throne. The new king immediately tears a schism within the country by announcing a gradual process to outlaw slavery, and many of the older, traditionalist noble families rally behind his uncle, Lord Finis, who makes the claim Abraham is too young and inexperienced to rule and that his policies will permanently harm their kingdom. This begins planting the seeds for an eventual civil war.

But for our characters, this political unrest is in the background, in the distance, at least in the beginning. We live in the small town of Rothenburg, far away from the capital city. You can play slaves or townspeople, fulfilling whatever role you'd like. Feel free to use your imagination to craft feyfolk, whether they are catgirls, bunnygirls, monstergirls, or whatever. Our story will start in Rothenburg, but eventually when the conflict reaches our little town many of us become refugees, perhaps trying to get our feyfolk allies across the southern border into Switzerland, where slavery has been outlawed for years. Unfortunately the border is being guarded by men loyal to Finis, so our group has to take a detour through the Swiss Alps which pits us against dragons, trolls, and bandits. I've added the 18+ tag because of the mature themes and the strong possibility for smutty side stories played out in PM.

I'm looking forward to seeing everyone's character ideas :D.

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So what kind a music does everyone like to listen to? Cry Thunder by DragonForce has been my favorite song and go-to geek hype music for like eight years, lol.

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Okay, I made some light changes to have Donny still on the other side of the park with the Maximoff twins. Feel free to post now, everyone. I think we're in a good place to move forward now.

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Oh myyy!

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As for the agents, S.H.I.E.L.D. will definitely have a visible presence, but it's going to endlessly annoy the FBI trying to do their job. Up until this point, S.H.I.E.L.D. has been glorified as a conspiracy theorist's wet dream, with the more street-wise FBI saying stuff like, "What, they called in S.H.I.E.L.D.? Oh great, aren't they those psychos always chasing UFOs and Bigfoot?" Since the world has been largely "normal" prior to the Terrigen Crisis, S.H.I.E.L.D. has not yet evolved into the enormous agency it is in canon. In this version, it stands for Special Hazard Investigation, Enforcement, & Logistics Division. They basically gather intel on anything deemed to be a "Special Hazard," dating back to the days of the SSR (Strategic Scientific Reserve) in the 1940s. The sudden emergence of over a hundred mutants is going to immensely expand S.H.I.E.L.D. and it's operations, with President Takei signing an Executive Order to triple the size of the agency to deal with the new influx of Special Hazards.

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So depending on what Rennie wants, the only real change I'll need to make to my post is removing the impression that Donny, Owen, Waylon, and Petra walked over towards the interns. Maybe the four of them could just go to the hospital and that's where they meet Samira later, like you said. I'll wait for Rennie's input on that before I move forward with it, and then we can go from there.

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So I think the best way to get back on the right track is for each of you post your thoughts on the situation, where you feel I went wrong in the IC, and what you would like to see moving forward. That will help me steer us back in a good direction.

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Sorry all, I was trying to work on the updated post today I was pretty tired from work the night before and was having issues focusing. I keep writing parts and then backspacing and trying something different, wanting to come up with something that everyone will be happy with. I have work the next few nights as well, so the final rewrite may not come until my days off. I'll keep you all updated.

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Okay, so I've been mulling over ways to rework my post, and I think the villain section is fine since that takes place separately. In the first part, I'm thinking of rolling back the arrival of the emergency services and the feds and removing the reference to Luke and Donny going towards Caty and David. Instead of moving the overall narrative at a faster pace, I'll slow it down to give the characters more time to interact in their three current smaller groups. The emergency services will still show up since 911 is being flooded, but I'll hold off on the news cameras and feds coming until a future post. To prevent myself from pushing us forward too fast again, I will no longer be writing the really long posts like I have. I will restrict myself to two or three paragraphs per character and leave it at that. I won't introduce new major plot elements until we've exhausted all possible small talk/individual character interactions so that no one feels cheated or rushed.

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I've added this above my post:

This post is being reworked and the events detailed below are not final. Please refrain from replying until the all clear has been given in the OOC.

I won't have time to work on it tonight because I'll be at work, but I'll get the rewrite done tomorrow morning if I can and get it posted. I'm really sorry, everyone. It wasn't my intention to force anyone's character into something they weren't comfortable with.