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Today I officially de-fridged the death of a female character who was fridged for RP drama almost 20 years ago. Hopefully it makes sense in the story and comes across as a way better story beat.
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Today I officially de-fridged the death of a female character who was fridged for RP drama almost 20 years ago. Hopefully it makes sense in the story and comes across as a way better story beat.
4 yrs ago
Jokes on everyone I just look like a sad Travis Touchdown who has really really loud shits
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You status bar people sure are a contentious bunch
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Adding to that, unless you are exhibiting life threatening symptoms (unable to breathe, etc) go to a rapid test site in your area than going to the ER. Local ERs are swamped and overwhelmed here.
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As someone who has been stabbed in the past knives are not kinky
@DruSM157 Questions: Is Aether restricted to Sun and Moon, wind and water respectively?
The Aetheric Engine. How exactly does it work? I don't need a scientific explaination for this magical object, but I'd just like to know how exactly it aids the ships in this world.
Adding onto that: Ships. How advanced in seafaring tech are we talking here?
Also, <Snipped quote by DruSM157>
I await confirmation on waifu. It will determine whether or not I run goil or boi
Yes,magic is strictly between the sun and moon. I want to keep the magic system simple and difficult to abuse. Mind you, wind and water have multiple applications.
Most ships that sail the seas have sails and an aether engine, these engines provide momentum up water boundries, protect the ships from beasts and can even hide the ship if its being stalked.
The engines are powered by aetherite, crystals found in the water that have strong aether in them. Aetherite can be used to power ships and create aether-forged weapons.
Wow! I’m floored and humbled by all of this interest already. I’ll try and get a cs skeleton out soon, and I’m willing to build on any questions or answer anything about the world and lore from questions anyone has.
Also if there are no mermaid waifus I'm starting a mutiny first chance I get
I'll have to consult with the world codex about cute mermaid girls. I'm going to go with a maaaaybe since this setting is more anime than grungy Kevin Costner.
(Also, you just HAD to skip over me sandbagging that movie, didn't you)
A long, long time ago, mankind lived on the land. Man built great cities which climbed to the heavens. Man was beholden to the earth and sky, but they could not control the mother sea. Man grew greedy, and coveted more and more, until he was finally punished for his greed. The mother sea took the land and sky from man, and brought all life back to her bosom. The technology and power mankind held before was lost, but mankind survived. People were forced to live in harmony with mother ocean, and while many built villages on the small islands remaining, some took out and built great floating cities.
The Imperial City of Galma is one such place. In 1652 AF, Crown Emperor Gaius Starwind set the world ablaze with adventure, promising untold imperial riches to those who could find the lost city of Gaea, the old capital city of mankind, long lost and buried under mother ocean’s waves.
Hello! Welcome to In Search of Gaea! This rp is based off of many fantasy stories and games that deal with a more beautiful post-apocolypse: the waterworld theme! Of course, we won't have any Kevin Costner walking around with gills or any Dennis Hoppers with eyepatches in this RP. I mean...maybe. But this is more inspired by JRPGs and anime than by famous Hollywood flops. Go ahead and click on the hider to get an info dump on the world and how it works!
The World This is the world of Aruth, a world almost entirely submerged in an endless ocean, named by the people “The Mother Ocean” for all life came from her and all life shall eventually return to her. People live in either small villages, large man-made floating cities, or constantly traveling in their ships across the endless Mother Ocean. One major difference of the Mother Ocean is of her “Water Boundaries” which divide much of the world. Different sections of the Mother Ocean are blocked off by giant waterfalls, and are impossible unless the proper routes are followed or if you find an Aether Canal, which can rise or lower your ship into the new waters.
Flora and fauna have changed with the world as well. Floating forests, new creatures and giant beasts all roam this changed world alongside humanity.
While “countries” are few and far between due to the lack of enough land to connect people together, several governing bodies are recognized through the world. These bodies are separated by the Water Boundaries that divide the Mother Ocean into seven “Seas”
The South Sea A large archipelago of small islands in the southern seas of the Mother Ocean. This tropical area is home to many small villages, farms and small barge colonies. The Free Islands are in the most shallow part of the Mother Ocean, and the safest waters in the Mother Ocean. Each island village is run by a chief, and all the chiefs on the South Islands meet at the Chief-Moot every full moon to discuss politics in the islands.
The Imperial Sea The most populated seas, commanded by the Crown Emperor Gaius Starwind, these seas are a huge military might in the Mother Ocean. The capital city is Galma, an incredible man-made floating city that is said to be built upon a great ancient city. The empire is constantly warring with the other seas, always vying for more power.
The Frozen Sea The frozen northlands, these seas are home to a giant glacial continent where many people live. These waters are known for their extreme dangers, both from beasts and the climate, and many well respected Divers have hailed from the Frozen Capital of Windkeep.
The Dragon Sea A dangerous sea of storms and monsters to the far east, those who hail from the small islands of the Dragon Sea are well known artisans, warriors and merchants. The capital city is Xian, home of an imperial dynasty amid a thin archipelago of islands.
The Sea of Stars The westernmost sea, this sea is home to ancient floating shell colonies where people float on the backs of giant ancient creatures. Legends state that it is from these cephalopods that mankind learned how to wield the magic of the aether.
The Lost Sea The tallest sea in the Mother Ocean and one covered in thick, deadly fog. Many adventurers do not return from the lost sea, though old divers tell of ancient treasures and rich cities that lie hidden under its deadly waters.
The Sea of Ancients The second highest sea and one home to researchers of ancient machina, the Sea of Ancients is a dangerous but lucrative place and the home of the Diver’s Guild, the foremost adventurer’s guild in the Mother Ocean.
Aether In the time after the Mother Ocean took back the world, people learned a new power connected to this changed world: Aether. Those who wield aether are either tied to the Sun, using magic based on the ocean winds, or to the Moon, using the magic of the seas themselves. Aether is also used in forging Aetheric Weapons, which have elemental properties and are useful fighting some of the deadlier monsters of the deep. Many ships have an Aether Engine, which is all but required in the deepest waters to keep moving in places with no wind, but also to protect the ship from giant beasts.
Using Aether can be a valuable tool. For example, Moon Aethers can use water to heal wounds, wind aether users can use the winds to cleave through enemies. But these powers are limited, due to the human body being a fragile thing. Aether is limited, and the more a person uses their power, the weaker they grow. Use it too much, and you could become comatose.
Divers Divers are the adventurers of the world. Divers travel in parties via ships, helping others, searching for treasure, and the greatest Divers search for the lost city of Gaea, the ancient capital. The Diver’s Guild is in the city of Forres, in the Sea of Ancients, though smaller Diver’s Guilds are found throughout the seven seas. The Guild Master of the Divers is a famous adventurer known as Jerrah Shieldshell, a powerful warrior and wielder of Aether.
I hope that my info dump helped! If you're interested, go ahead and drop a post! If you have questions, and I expect there to be a lot, go ahead and ask! I'm always happy to help ease out the wrinkles of world-building and make this a more understandable world. Just consider this: characters on ships sailing the seas, searching for ancient artifacts, learning magic and battling huge and sometimes horrifying sea monsters. The landscapes, the places we visit, will be alien, awe-inspiring or nightmare inducing. And that's half the fun!
I'm trying to consider how I'd qualify how many weapons were on this specific character. In roleplays with more action/combat stuff, i've had all kinds, from characters who wielded a small number of weapons or were forced to use a single weapon (which is interesting in it's own right, as you have to consider how they'd strategize in situations where a single sword has a bad match-up) and I've had one particular character who was a jack of all trades fighter. I believe he had 7 weapons all at once, but he was a special case; Bloodborne had just been released and I was interested in how "trick weapons" worked. He had a hatchet which could become a halberd for instance when he attached it to a spear. So ultimately he had more "combinations" than an actual arsenal of weapons.
I had one character who basically had access to a "hammerspace" of sorts as well, but he only had 5 or 6 weapons he actually used over time.
It would be interesting to see a character so kitted out with weapons that they are heavily encumbered at all times, however.
September 15, 1995. Above Isla Nublar, 120 miles west of Costa Rica.
“Jules-”
He felt the air nearly suck out of his lungs as the aircraft rocked, shook and began to crack in the tail end--the same end where he and Juliet were sitting. Metal began to creak and tear as the dark ocean of night exploded among the lights of the plane going out. Daniel tried to scream but the only sound he was able to make was drowned out by the roar of wind and the crash of metal into trees.
Before the plane broke apart, the captain had attempted a landing it seemed, getting them at a low enough altitude that instead of becoming bloody grease stains on the ground, tall trees caught them amid their descent, slowing their fall and surprisingly leaving the few passengers that the plane held alive. Birds erupted from the treetops and after the horrific sound of metal and splintering wood, the forest grew silent, almost eerily so. Deep in the distance, beyond what the passengers could hear now, a soft rumble began to shake the jungle floor.
Not that Daniel knew. The moment when the wind began to whip him, he lost consciousness, and only now, an unknown time later (thanks to not being a normal person with a watch) he found himself waking through a continuous drip, drip, drip on his forehead.
Rain.
The tail of the aircraft was hanging precariously at a low angle, held aloft by branches of a tree. But not just any tree, this one seemed humongous, something you would find in a fantasy novel about traveling back in time than something you saw in Woodward Park.
“Urrrgghhh,” the deep voice on the main in the flowery shirt broke the silence. It was enough to know that they were alive. “The fuck happened?” The man groaned in a thick southern accent. Daniel couldn’t place it. Coastal Texas perhaps?
“We...crashed,” Daniel said, having to gasp for air between each word. His heart beat with the speed of a hummingbird’s wing, and he looked over to see Jules still alive as well. Thank Christ. “But we’re still alive.” Daniel tried to squint his eyes to see exactly where they were. A moment ago all he remembered was the ocean. Were they in Costa Rica? Or maybe Panama. Rescue teams would find them soon enough...right? His mind traveled back to the film he had seen a few years before. Alive.
“Jules,” Daniel muttered, touching the photojournalists’ arm. “Are you okay?”
September 15, 1995. Pacific Ocean, 115 miles west of Costa Rica.
It’s only been three. Daniel sighed at the thought that yes, his mental clock was just off kilter from being stuck in a flying sardine can. “I’m just ready to rest my feet on solid ground for a few minutes.” He just wanted to be back in his small apartment in the states. He thought working for one of the biggest science magazines in publication would have been more lucrative than what he was being paid. Sure he got to see the world, but he was living out of basically three cardboard boxes in a very unfurnished studio apartment in New York. It was no different than 1989 in Montana, actually.
He’d spent the greater part of the summer running errands for his professor. They’d spent weeks working on a dig site in northern Montana. They’d even run across Jack Horner, and he spent nearly 30 minutes balancing a cardboard box full of materials listening to his professor and Dr. Horner talk on and on about their craft and new technologies being pioneered. His professor, Dr. Grant, had not been too enthralled about such things. He was old school in the worst sense, and he was not the kind of guy to be kind to his students.
On balmy night in mid July, Daniel had sat on a bare stone, looking upwards at the sky. His professor had startled him. “You considering changing your major to astronomy?”
“What? No sir. I just…” Alan was gruff. He had a gentle aura the more you got to know him, but he could catch you unaware and off guard easily. “It’s just something I love about these digs. Getting out of the city, away from the world. Just the team, the rocks and the bones.”
Grant chuckled and patted Daniel on the shoulder, sitting down next to him. “You’ve been working under me for two months and I think that’s the first thing you’ve told me that wasn’t related to our work here.” He got quiet for a moment. “What do you want to do with paleontology?”
“I-” Daniel sat there, dumbfounded for a moment.
“Some just end up working for museums, curating the findings of others. Some write books about their own theories for the K/T extinction. And others dig. You already know what kind I am.”
“I’m not really sure exactly what I want to do with it. I just… enjoy it. Studying these creatures that existed millions of years between us. It’s amazing to just imagine what they could have actually been like.”
“That’s our job.” The older man, already nearing his forties removed the hat from his head and placed it into his lap. “Just don’t expect to get rich or famous from it. If you’re not willing to sacrifice for it, you’re better off finding something else to do with your life. After all, there’s only so many bones for us to dig up out there.”
The conversation changed him, but not in the way Dr. Grant had probably intended. He realized that ultimately, paleontology had a finite end, and with technology increasing and more protected sites being placed around the room, the areas to dig were shrinking and fast. He changed his major to Geology in the fall and ended up jumping on with New Scientist when he finished school. And it had led him here, in a small box. Only this time, he didn’t have the beauty of the night sky to stare up to at night.
“Ladies and gentlemen,” the buzzing sound of the airplane’s intercom shook Daniel out of his daydream, “we’re in the middle of a pretty bad storm right now. For your safety, I suggest everyone buckle your seats as it might get a little bump-” an explosion rocked the plane and Daniel in his seat. Lightning had struck the plane, but where? And how? Fear, and the need to understand took over and Daniel unlatched the cloth cover for his window and saw his worst fear: the left wing of the plane was now emblazoned in fire. Even worse, he looked out to a sea of black. No land, no roads, no nothing. Right now they should be near Panama, but...all he saw was endless ocean. “This…” Daniel moaned in a deep fearful gasp, “This can’t be happening!”
A timeline to refer to any "canon" events in the JP universe. Because for some reason I am insane and wanted to have a working timeline of events.
1981-1982: While running the "Animal Kingdom" safari park with Robert Muldoon, John Hammond begins laying the groundwork for a new theme park; something the world has never seen before.
1982-The island Isla Sorna is leased from the Costa Rican Government to the InGen companies. The lease is for 99 years. Several genetic research facilities are built on this island.
1982-1984: Geneticist Dr. Henry Wu is hired and begins to experiment on filling gaps in genomes with other kinds of DNA, finally finding that certain kind of frogs and other animals work.
1983: Construction of a theme park begins in San Diego.
1985: The San Diego theme park plans are canceled, and InGen leases the island of Isla Sorna from the Costa Rican government. The company begins constructing the theme park on this island.
1986: The first dinosaur is cloned. The species? Velociraptor.
1987: Indigenous peoples on the Isla Nublar island are forcibly deported by InGen personnel.
1993: Construction of the theme park on Isla Nublar is completed. The park is given the name: Jurassic Park. Several staff deaths prompt investors to threaten to pull out of the project, leading to John Hammond to contact several figures as an endorsement team.
Friday, June 11 1993 The endorsement team: Alan Grant, Ellie Sadler and Ian Malcolm (alongside Hammond's grandchildren Tim and Lex Murphy) arrive on Isla Nublar. A large costal storm ends up hitting the island, forcing the evacuation of non-essential personnel. The park's main computer programmer, Dennis Nedry, acts alongside InGen's rival company BioSyn to steal embryos. He takes many park systems offline, but he is killed and the embryos are destroyed before he can meet with his contact. Dinosaurs, including the Tyranasaurous Rex and Velicoraptors, escape during the storm, causing multiple deaths of park staff.
Saturday, June 12, 1993 John Hammond and the endorsement team are evacuated from the island. InGen staff are sent in to evacuate any remaining island staff.
Late 1993-1994: Ian Malcolm violates a non-disclosure agreement with InGen by speaking publically about the tragedy at Isla Nublar. His name is dragged through the mud, and his arguments are discredited.
Hurricane Clarissa strikes Isla Sorna, known by InGen as SiteB, and InGen staff are evacuated after releasing the dinosaurs.
November 1994: Henry Wu returns to Isla Nublar to oversee dinosaur breeding and survival.
1995: Henry Wu writes his book The Next Step: An Evolution of God's Cooncepts, revealing his desire for further genetic modification towards a new species.
December 1996: A British family enjoys a yacht vacation on the coast of Site B. Their daughter is mauled by Compsognathus. This spurs InGen to remove John Hammond as CEO of InGen, and his nephew Peter Ludlow is given the position.
In September 1995, a small business jetplane leaving Lima, Peru goes off course from it's original Costa Rican destination and crashed onto Isla Nublar. Even with their lysine deficiency, the creatures on the island have survived without human intervention.
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