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 Posted: Sun Aug 15, 2010 9:04 pm
There have always been rumors and tales that at a certain time, humanity’s time would come to an end and Armageddon would begin. Usually, these were tall tales or silly myths that frightened people to no end until said date of doom was passed. When passed people would move on, and those silly enough to still believe in dates of doom would look to the next, predict end to humanity.
Sometimes though, coincidences occur. Very bad coincidences that happen at the worst time and especially on the worst date…
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This is the opening premise for this role play idea; I'll write the full plot if it happens that many are interested or if there is a potential chance that the roleplay can get off the ground. No point clogging up the roleplay forums if it won't go off well.
The idea basically is sort of an alternate scenario in where certain leaders who were elected in our time weren't elected here. And because of that, these leaders eventually get more and more violent to the point where on December 12, 2012 the nukes and other bombs fly and humanity is nearly wiped out.
From there, new creature mutate and evolve over time, creating a variety of species that are supposed to live and take over where humanity failed. However, the remaining humans still alive, those who happen to be the many who were certain 2012 was real, fight to stay on Earth to the point that they are determined to wipe out the other races.
Simple to say, this is a role-play set in a very distant future earth with the different races trying to survive and start to clash more and more until it pretty much escalates.
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The races are organized as followed (* means they have been edited):
*Humans: (No need to describe)
*The Gran-Piccolo (Big-Little People): Two kinds of creatures that are perfectly human in appearance. One part of the race (the Gran) is very tall and very strong. They have very bad eyesight. The other part of the race (the Piccolo) are usually quite short but have very good eyesight. They usually work together to survive. They are friendly but weary of other races.
Serpenteo (Snake People): A compliation of reptiles that evolved into looking human with obvious differences (scaly skin [usually colored], forked tongues, slit eyes, clawed feet [since they aren't JUST snakes) they are usually very weary of other races due to being attacked often, but are good at dealing with pain.
*Ironheads: The most violent of all of the races, they are very human in appearance except for the clawed feet and hands they have. They also have thick tails that have metal hooks attached to the ends. Due to being a very xenophobic race, they stick to themselves and rarely bother with other races.
Bête de Marais (Swamp Beast): Creatures with large ears, thin tails that usually has fur at the end, they are a very intelligent race that is also very peaceful. They are the most friendly, but wisely do not bother with humans as they are aware humans would kill them.
The Haai (Shark People): A race of mermaid like people (though the bottom half is more like that of a shark) they have the ability to go onto land and usually try to pass off as human because of this. There are many homes under water but they mostly live on land near oceans. They try to avoid contact with humans but will do it if they have to (thought hey usually try to pass off as human)
Homo Hemipterans (Bug People): Insect like people, there is a massive variety of them, ranging from people who can look human with minor bug-related parts, to looking a lot like a giant insect. They are weary of other races.
*Uccelli della montagna (Mountain Birds): The final race, they are bird like have large wings. They usually live in the mountains, high away from humans. But sometimes they can live near humans. They are neither friendly nor hateful of other races, and will help only those kind to them.
Obviously no one would have to stick to how the race functions (e.g. one can be an ironhead mingling with another race, this is just basic information so you know how certain races may act). If you've noticed the poll above, you'll see that I've changed some a bit to fit the roleplay, and I may change them more if required or suggested.
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That's it. Obviously this is not the refined version; but again I want to see what others think before I start posting the role play. So yes, if anyone could give me some feedback; I'd love it!
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Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2010 4:30 pm
Update: The result for the poll; I'm going to wait for a certain number of votes before I post.
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Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2010 6:23 pm
hmm I'd like to hear more about the plot, or history if any. Previous conflicts and such. It's an interesting idea with all the different races though~
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Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2010 10:05 pm
Alright, I might as well post the original races up first before I post the time-line (I'm working on it Daisho. And I must say it is quite fun too!).
So here is the original races as they were intended to be, you guys can decide whether I should edit the races or keep them as they are:
The Gran-Piccolo (Big-Little People)
• The closest race to being human, they are rather two separate races that combine to survive. The two races are the Gran, and the Piccolo. The Gran are giant creatures that are of the heavy-weight variety. While they have eyes, they are blind and cannot see. The Piccolo are small creatures that are too small and weak to care for themselves. They have great eye sight however, and can see at very long distances. So, because of this, the two races have combined to better their survival. The Gran are the muscle and protection to the Piccolo and the Piccolo help the Gran better survive and understand their surroundings. They are the second friendliest race, though many do hold disdain against humans.
Serpenteo (Snake People)
• A race of snake-like people (though they have been infused with other reptiles). They are renowned for being able to survive over long periods of time without food. Usually varying in color, the Serpenteo are thin creatures with scales, forked tongues, clawed feet and a separate skin color to their underbelly. They are capable of dealing with wounds better than most of the races. They are also the fastest, able to out run creatures. They are also capable of bending into any position and can contort easily, and can swallow large amounts of their food with ease. They are neutral with most races, and can make peace easily. But they are very easy to hold grudges, and are very weary around the other races for fear of being hurt.
Ironheads
• The most non-human race, they are the most primitive and violent. With clawed feet and hands, Ironheads are capable of climbing up trees. They also have tails that have hooked bone at the end, usually covered in melted iron. Given the name Ironheads for donning metal plates over the faces when the basic Ironhead reaches the age of 15, they also have flaps of skin under their arms that allow them to glide. They sleep upside down using their tails to hang from trees or ceilings, and usually come out at night. They are the second most xenophobic race.
Bête de Marais (Swamp Beast)
• The second most human race, they are the smartest of all of the races. Having large, goat-like ears, tails, large rabbit like feet, and a soft fur around their body; they live in swamps. All Bête de Marais can speak French, English, and usually nearly every other language that exists on the planet. They are a very deceiving race, in that the way they talk and act seem to say they are quite stupid. It is unknown as to why they talk this way, but whatever the case is, they seem stupid upon first look, but are quite brilliant. They are the most friendly, but do not bother with others because they live very close with other humans, and have had too many incidents where their kind have been violently attacked for being different.
The Haai (Shark People)
• A race of shark-like people, they live very close to the oceans though they are capable of getting farther from water. The only race which can possibly transform to look human, they tend to try and act as mortal as possible in order to survive and raise their numbers. When they are not blending in to human society, with their false village fronts, they live in the ocean. They are a variant to that of a “mermaid”, only the halves that are fish resemble that of a shark. They also possess the ability to grow more teeth, and much like that o a shark have two rows of teeth. Again, due to the instinct to survive the Haai pretend and act human in order to live, though they do hold a dislike to the humans. They try to not accept the other races as another defense (to avoid having other races live there and see the truth), and are the second most violent.
Homo Hemipterans (Bug People)
• This race of beings is the most varied, since they can range from human-spider hybrids, to human-centipede hybrids, to even human-snail hybrids. This means that in a Homo Hempiteran society, there exist sub categories for their kind. Sadly, this differentiation causes this race to be a little like the humans in being racist and many will shun out others simply over who is a “meat eater” and who is a “vegetarian”. They are the weakest race, and tend to survive off of each other and their surroundings. They are also the most under developed, in that many still act more animalistic and look less human and more the animal they are (as they developed from bugs unlike the others which started from humans). However, it is recently being shown that the human-hybrid population is growing, showing that eventually pure Homo Hemipterans (human/bugs) will dominate over human/bug/bug.
Uccelli della montagna (Mountain Birds)
• Bird like people with feathered wings and sometimes feathery hair; they are a very peculiar race in that their minds have developed far differently than others. The Uccelli della montagna are a race that are different from the others mentally. Many Uccelli have a hard time distinguishing other’s feelings by their facial expression, mostly as they show their feelings though a whole different means (though physical movement over facial expression [e.g. Feathers ruffling to show anger, snuggling against someone to show love). This makes them the hardest to understand for they do not express emotion like the other races. The Uccelli are a very close race though in that once one can actually gain a friendship with an Uccelli, many other Uccelli seem to than hold a tie with said person. They are neutral, and are rare to see as they stay so high in the mountains and so distant from other humans.
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Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2010 10:50 pm
Alright, this is the Time-line for the roleplay (notice that things have been changed a bit). The plot I will write up on more, but the time-line is best suited to explain the setting in detail and the history of it all. The plot should be easily explained like this.
It is very far in the future, and long after World War III humanity has tried going back to rebuilding society. Sadly though there is a bump in their way; in the time it has taken for time to pass, mutations have occurred which have created a variety of different races. Humans fearing these races want nothing more but to annihalate then and take control, while these races want the right to live.
It's a fight for who will stay on earth, and perhaps the races may do more than just try and stop humanity. It may very well result in one race fighting to take control of all of earth.
In other words; all the races are fighting to stay on earth and perhaps be the only race alive, with of course the groups that may want everyone to be together, may only want humanity extinct, or agree that only their race should survive and live on earth.
Now here is the timeline:
* After the Final Hour (A.F.H.)
Before 2012 A.D.:
• Earth and Humanity is going into a downward spiral. Nations are beginning to have more conflicts amongst each other over a variety of issues (e.g. differing beliefs, economy, nations bother other nation’s inner problems) while more governments begin to show signs of corruption. Society in many First world and Second world Nations begin to show signs of a growing number of people accepting simple and quick solutions, as well as lower intelligence, helping fuel further conflicts and unmoral choices.
1:02 am, December 12, 2012 A.D.:
• Five First and Second world nations declare war on some other nations, leading to more nations declaring war on others until eventually World War III begins.
• People believing in 2012 and people feeling that WWIII will escalate begin to create bunkers and underground homes. This grows as more humans join.
• Scientists begin to create advanced chemical warfare to be used against other nations. Some highly advanced nations begin to create advanced weaponry that can travel over water or face a variety of different terrains and conditions
8:20 pm, August 19, 2147 A.D.:
• The fighting climaxes as two nations with chemical missiles launch their weapons at two other nations. This causes two other nations to launch their own missiles at the other nations and any other enemies as well, sparking a chain reaction which escalates into all nations with a missile launching it at as many enemies as they can. The resultant bombardment of missiles causes a large chunk of humanity to die. The day is deemed the Final Hour.
• Those who survive the Final Hour try to live, but the chemical residue left from the chemical bombs and chemical warfare leads to many humans dying of radiation poisoning and other chemical poisons. Those who do survive adapt and eventually are called “Nuclear Survivors”.
• Those who live underground and in bunkers, deemed “Bunker People”, send scouts to see the status of Earth. Seeing that it is currently unsafe to live in, they stay hidden underground and in bunkers.
9:45 am, May 13, 0001 A.F.H. (or 2250 A.D.):
• The Bunker People send out scouts once again to see the status of Earth. Looking around, they notice that life is returning to earth and it is now safe to live on it. Slowly the Bunker People leave their homes and begin to mingle and live amongst the Nuclear Survivors as they work to rebuild humanity slowly.
• It is noticed that offspring of the Nuclear Survivors usually experience mutations or problems (born with missing limbs, health problems or additional body parts) but the Bunker People still live with the Nuclear Survivors and do not see these mutations as a permanent threat.
Unknown time, 0034 A.F.H. – 1094 A.F.H.:
• A common mutation begins to arise in certain areas of human dwellings. Children start to get born with problem such as highly advanced eyesight, poor to blind eyesight, abnormal heights (too small or too tall).
• There are some variations to this mutation, short people who have advanced smell, tall people who have good hearing. These variations are not common though and eventually die away.
• People hear of an entire village in Italy consisting of nothing but gigantic people with bad eyesight and short people with great eyesight working and living together. They are deemed a separate race to humanity about 1060 years after the mutations began when people find more of them and they show signs of no longer mutating. They are called the Gran-Piccolo for the first village found in Italy.
• Bunker People and Nuclear Survivors continue to live side by side with the Gran-Piccolo with no problems except for minor prejudice for the differences.
Unknown time, 0058 A.F.H. – 1155 A.F.H.:
• 24 years after the Gran-Piccolo mutation begin, people are found in other parts of the world near a variety of birds or near mountains to have abnormal growths coming out of their backs. Parents of these children cut the growths off, and they never return. However children of these people who had growths also have the growths.
• The growths begin to get larger as more children are born with them, and parents begin to stop cutting them off when these children show signs of becoming paralyzed or permanently physically disabled when these growths are cut off. Some people begin to show signs of having control of the growth.
• As this evolution occurs, Bunker People (now calling themselves humans) begin to distance themselves from Mutant Humans (people once called Nuclear Survivors). They start to shun the Gran-Piccolo a little more.
• These people begin to show signs of growing wings on the back, with some having feathers and some having leather wings. It takes 1097 years after the mutations began for the people to be seen as a different race and for the race to no longer mutate. They are called the Uccelli della montagna for the first ones to be found in Italy as well.
• Different settlements of different races start to appear now that Humans have started to deny Grand-Piccolo, Mutant Humans and Uccelli from living with them.
Unknown time, 0126 A.F.H. – 2250 A.F.H.:
• Children in swampy areas begin to be born with large years, growths that seem to be tails and larger feet. Some also display a very high intelligence
• These changes begin to grow more prominent as children born from these people have their ears getting bigger, their tails growing larger, and their feet getting bigger too. More children are also born showing signs of being very intelligent.
• When the Humans start shunning people, those with these kinds of mutations begin to separately move away in fear that the humans may grow violent
• As they move away, the race starts showing signs of being capable to live perfectly fine on their own and create a far more advanced society. Many stick to swamps as this is where they have started getting mutated as well as that Humans have started leaving the swamps.
• It takes 2124 years after the mutation began for Humans to see them as a race once they have stopped mutating. They are called the Bête de Marais for the first of them being found in New Orleans and other American Swampy areas where French is spoke.
• At this point Humans have started to entirely shun any race and have even turned to violence to kick out anyone not a human or even rumored to be a Mutant Human. Mutant Humans are also becoming scarce; it is expected that eventually they will cease to exist.
• There have also been sightings of gigantic bug-like creatures that seem to have some human parts to them as well.
Unknown time, 1012 A.F.H. – 3471 A.F.H.:
• Two races begin to slowly appear in two separate areas. Places where Mutant Humans are living near oceans and areas where there are sharks, their children are starting to slowly starting to be born with webbed feet and finned arms. In places where Mutant Humans are living near a wide variety of snakes and reptiles, their children are slowly starting to be born with forked tongues, cold-blooded and somewhat scaly skin.
• As these two races begin to mutate more and more, Humans start finding old remnants of machinery, weapons and written work on how to create them. With more non-human races growing, Humans begin to try and build rebuild these discoveries in order to defend themselves.
• While these two species become more shark-like and more snake-like, people start attacking them when they begin to show signs of having the capability to kill humans easily in hand-to-hand combat
• It takes 2371 years after the snake-like mutations began for humans to deem this as yet another race once the mutations ended. They are called the Haai after people found a bunch of them in the waters near the Netherlands
• It takes 2459 years after the shark-like mutations began for humans to deem this as another race once the mutations ended. They are called the Serpenteo when they were first found in Mexico.
• More sightings of bug-looking creatures have been spotted again, this time looking even more human
Unknown time, 2505 A.F.H. – 3640 A.F.H.:
• Splitting from that race are two sub-species that are somewhat human but somewhat Haai and than somewhat human but somewhat Serpenteo. Neither race accepts them, so they eventually meet and mate. This begins the creation of another race that begins
• Gradually the sub-species begin to disappear as their offspring begin to gain claw like feet and tails with hooked bone at the end. They also become more violent as they continued to breed.
• This species finds a way to melt iron and uses this to attach iron to their tails and to make metal plates to identify which clans they’re part of.
• It takes 1135 years after the mutations began for humans and other races to deem them as a new race on their own once they’ve stopped mutating. They are called Ironheads for the metal helmets they wear.
• The bug sittings have increased more, and now people have found hybrids of bugs that seemed to have evolved to be more human. They can now talk.
• Humans have also kidnapped some Swamp Beasts in order to continue to advance the technology they had found and some groups are starting to arise and attack the other races in order to try and annihilate them. More humans are starting to join with them.
Unknown time, 2317 A.F.H – Currently:
• For some time now all of the races have been spotting bug-looking creatures. Around the time that the Swamp Children had started to evolve, there is a new race being created that is starting from bugs and is slowly evolving into bug/human hybrids.
• There is a variety of them, but most look very bug like
• Many live in areas that are sustainable to their kind of life; they are also separated into categories of being meat-eaters and non-meat-eaters
• They are deemed Homo-Hemipterans by the other races about three years ago and they are still being mutated today
• More human/bug hybrids are being found over bug/human hybrids (difference being that human/bug means more human, bug/human means more bug) and it is expected that over time the human/bug hybrids may be the final evolution for the Homo-Hemipterans.
• By now a majority of humans have started attempting to destroy and kill all other races no human, and a war is starting to come out now, forcing all of the races to fight and even consider annihilating all other races to be able to live on earth and call it their own.
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Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2010 5:15 pm
(NOTE: Edited the poll because I realized being partial idgit I am, I forgot to make it clearer.
I am horrible with polls; so sorry. -.-')
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Posted: Wed Aug 18, 2010 6:17 am
Interesting, it almost has an almost H.G. Wells Time Machine vibe to it...With a bit of Fallout 3...
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Posted: Wed Aug 18, 2010 9:18 am
Thanks. And I like your signature.
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Posted: Thu Aug 19, 2010 1:58 pm
Hmm, I may consider posting the role play and hope for the best...
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Posted: Thu Aug 19, 2010 2:02 pm
Do it. I would be more than willing to join! ^^
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Posted: Thu Aug 19, 2010 2:05 pm
Cool. I believe I will be posting it later or tomorrow, depending on when I get the time (I'm seeing a movie with friends today, and I believe we'll be seeing it late. It's Scott Pilgrim vs. The World biggrin )
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Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2010 11:01 pm
Alrighty, I'm starting to post it up. Will take a bit of time, but it should be up soon.
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beckithewatermage Captain
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Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2010 8:22 am
I really do love this. I can't wait to see it all set up!
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