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Ok, I'm gonna TRY and make an RP. I've played Final Fantasy and should know how to make stories interesting, but as far as starting one goes.... I'll try.

Mythical RP

Well it was my first one after... *Thinks for a moment*... about a year. Minus the simple ones I know how to make. I just thought I had something there.

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It's been thirty years since the death of Darth Vader, and our hero, Luke Skywalker, has died from an unknown illness. This plague has been slowly spreading about nearly a decade now, and it's origins have been questionable; until one fateful sighting.

A ball had appeared in a deserted portion of dead space at the edge of the galaxy. The ones who had gone to seek it out, had only found that this ball was a giant mass of garbage from a distant planet.

This distant planet had sent the garbage into space, but had failed in shooting it into the sun. After the launch, a satellite had come back from deep space, bringing the wonders of the midochlorian. With these new wonders came the powers of the Force. Nearly all mainstream religions had died off nearly 60 years after the Force had appeared.

With the Force came great good and bad beings. The bad had nearly been completely killed off until a ship had come from seemingly no where. On this ship were the Twi-lek (The blue beings with brain-tails) and their like. The natives gawked at the newcomers, and quickly killed them. It's been twenty years and now this planet, Earth, has finally made it to the distant galaxy of the future after a madman sent away many humans just so he could blow up the planet.

Many human refugees live on many planets, becoming the new Jedi, and the new law. This story takes place 30 years after 'The Return of the Jedi', and as the new illness spreads through the planets, only high midochlorian carriers are able to last longer than others. There are nearly no signs of the illness, just a purple mark over the heart shows it off. It's contagious, and has wiped out nearly all of a couple unnamed species of alien.

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Found this: Star Wars Quiz

It's a cute little quiz I found. It tells you who you should be if you were in the Star Wars universe...

Yup!

Hallo again, guys.

So, I agree that something with a point could be a lot cooler than an open-ended fantasy RP. If you guys would be open to a little bit of research on your own time, I think I could dream up a mythology-based RP. Based probably on Norse mythology, or maybe Greek mythology. I've actually been reading a bunch of mythology (almost exclusively Norse) recently, so I think I could get something decent up and running. If, of course, you're interested.

Postponing Ragnarök

What if there is no such thing as the truth, or at least the truth as you think of it?

What if every lie distorts reality, as it tries to accommodate for what had been said? What if, just as Lenin had said, a lie told often enough becomes truth?

What if every deity ever worshipped was not, simply, an invisible man in the sky, but a living breathing person, capable of emotion and great deeds? What if the deities still live among us?

What if they're married? What if they've had children?

What would you say if I told you that you are the child of a god, like Heracles or Sigfried? What if I wasn't lying?

The Gods are real. They are very real. Every single one of them mingles with people on a daily basis. They live in cities, in rural districts, on islands and in lakeside cabins. They marry and procreate, and grieve as their spouses pass on. Some don't, though. Some are not heterosexual (though Zeus certainly is). These Gods and Goddesses adopt, when the mood suits them. They care for these children as though they were normal parents (except that they need never worry about money for necessities, such as food and housing). To some of their most promising children, adopted or no, they reveal their divine nature and develop a similar nature in their offspring. These divine offspring go on to accomplish great things, with varying degrees of fame.

And then one day the Gods disappeared. Their children came home to empty houses, or, if the God was out on an errand, they simply did not come back. Some divine children contacted the authorities, simply to find out that, legally, their parents did not exist.

And now, things are starting to go wrong. The lightning, which gods like Zeus and Thor had been able to control, was striking sporadically, sometimes out of a clear blue sky. And it was malicious. The ocean, the domain of Poseidon and Susano-o, was sinking boats and drowning beachgoers. Loki's fire, already barely kept in check was raging out of control, consuming firemen and houses as easily as strips of paper. Wars are spiraling out of control without Odin, Hachiman, and Ares to provide decisive victories, and civilians are as often killed as the actual fighters.

Evangelicals say that God, known amongst the divine as Allah or Yaweh, is angry with homosexuality and is punishing us. Perhaps this is true, for speech distorts reality. Scientists blame global warming, and politicians the other parties. New Age hippies call everything evidence of extraterrestrials. Neo-Malthusianists say that the earth was reacting to too many people on its surfaces. As was already stated, these all may be contributing factors to the goings-on, but the primary, deciding reason is that the Gods and Goddesses have disappeared.

The solution is simple and twofold. Someone has to control these things. Someone must tame the lightning, guide the fire, calm the seas, stop the wars. Whether this is to be achieved by finding the Gods and returning them from wherever they have gone (willingly or no) to their rightful spots, or the self-aware Children of the Gods must expand their powers and replace them.

And thence arises the threefold problem of how these Children are to become aware of the nature of the problem, the solution, and the means to achieve the solution.











So yeah. That's about what I've got. I could probably revise it, if needs be, and make it more open-ended or more guided. The one thing that I'd like out of this is that each person do a little research on the gods from which their characters were spawned (or by whom they were adopted), so that you know roughly how to play the character and the legends that guide their parents' nature.

So.

Any ideas on how to make it better?