|
|
Post by Shadaras on Jun 25, 2008 14:45:36 GMT -5
Look, if you'd rather the plot be something other than the current idea, make something yourself, or at least give enough of an idea so that others can build off of it. I'm perfectly willing to help anyone devolop a plot idea, if they have one, and I'm sure others are, too. Yes, my plot idea is sort of based off of what happened in the roleplay. It was an idea that worked for me and my character. No, it doesn't work for everyone. No, it isn't completely hole-proof, as Elycien's question about the mercs pointed out. But it's idea, and it works well enough to build a roleplay off of. And that was all I was going for. You can do the same, I'm sure.
And really, I think that I can fit Hades into almost any plot that involves either the mercs or Fenrix. xD ..doesn't really matter which. So feel free to post your own ideas. I could even come up with another one, if enough people don't want one that's based off of Takehiko.
|
|
|
|
Post by PFA on Jun 25, 2008 14:56:10 GMT -5
Alright... ideas. Um... someone offers the mercs a job, but it's actually a trap of some sort (for example, we could go off Arista's idea and say it's a haunted house). The mercs get overloaded with jobs and have to decide which ones take priority. The mercs are getting no jobs and have to start looking for ways to make money. Someone threatens to blow up the HQ. The mercs have to go out and do some job (one of the previously listed ones perhaps), but have to be wary of a nasty virus that's going around. Yeah, I'm just throwing out random ideas here. XD; Anyone's free to build off of any of them if any of them sound interesting enough.
|
|
|
|
Post by Cyborg on Jun 25, 2008 14:58:05 GMT -5
See Shade and others I have already been controlling the three characters, and I am having no troubles. I like Shade's idea, but then I also feel it's once again mainly about Fenrix and Takehiko.
|
|
|
|
Post by Vyt: Down, but Not Out on Jun 25, 2008 15:25:17 GMT -5
See Shade and others I have already been controlling the three characters, and I am having no troubles. I like Shade's idea, but then I also feel it's once again mainly about Fenrix and Takehiko. You can control hundreds of characters and have no problems at all, but that can only happen if you're alone. Multi-character roleplaying can actually degrade to godmoding if done crudely, so if you still think you can handle three characters, I suggest you'd better prepare some very lengthy posts. |
|
|
|
Post by Bacon on Jun 25, 2008 15:44:38 GMT -5
Plot ideas:
Clint goes off alone to hunt down Takehiko, and everyone else tries to stop him to keep him from getting killed.
Some group takes all the Mercs hostage, and they have to figure out how to defeat their captors and what they want.
Didn't Fenrix mention a council of vampires in some of her posts? Hades and Fenrix go off to the vampire council thing to discuss Takehiko. Meanwhile, somebody(possibly Takehiko) is attacking Fenrix's fortress and the Mercs and Fenrix's army have to defend it.
|
|
Arista~
Full-Timeser
^#5
I <3 pickles.
Posts: 762
|
Post by Arista~ on Jun 25, 2008 15:51:15 GMT -5
Arista, you can always try and contact someone through PM if you needed help getting into the RP. To be honest, I never had a clue that you were having such problems, considering that you even suggested a backstory that linked your character and mine before I even could think of one. I had thought of that, but couldn't figure out who to PM. ^_^ That small plot showed itself a little in the beginning, then reappeared in the end, but then it kind of died along with the roleplay. (Is the roleplay just going to sit there until we start another one, or what? I'm just curious.) |
|
|
|
Post by Bacon on Jun 25, 2008 16:03:03 GMT -5
(Is the roleplay just going to sit there until we start another one, or what? I'm just curious.) Probably. That's about how most RPs in my experience have ended. Just a dead stop. |
|
Arista~
Full-Timeser
^#5
I <3 pickles.
Posts: 762
|
Post by Arista~ on Jun 25, 2008 16:16:22 GMT -5
(Is the roleplay just going to sit there until we start another one, or what? I'm just curious.) Probably. That's about how most RPs in my experience have ended. Just a dead stop. Works for me. I have no objections for just a sudden stop. |
|
|
|
Post by Deleted on Jun 25, 2008 20:47:39 GMT -5
Plot ideas: Clint goes off alone to hunt down Takehiko, and everyone else tries to stop him to keep him from getting killed. Some group takes all the Mercs hostage, and they have to figure out how to defeat their captors and what they want. Didn't Fenrix mention a council of vampires in some of her posts? Hades and Fenrix go off to the vampire council thing to discuss Takehiko. Meanwhile, somebody(possibly Takehiko) is attacking Fenrix's fortress and the Mercs and Fenrix's army have to defend it. Y'know, it would be real nice if someone else had vampire characters too, that way I'm not always talking to myself.  Surely you can come up with characters for the council? That might be another good thing to get some of the people who haven't posted lately. They could help lots. <3 I don't want to make this roleplay just about Hades and Fenrix (As apparantly the last one did, oh well. ^__^)) Anyways, I'll go along with just about anything. I'll be busy for the next two/three weeks with County Fair and CIY. |
|
|
|
Post by Bacon on Jun 25, 2008 21:46:28 GMT -5
I can do a supporting vampire or two. GW has given me the experience I think I needed to feel capable to do that kind of supporting character.
I personally don't mind if the Mercs have a different plot as Fenrix and Hades. It's kind of like Lord of the Rings The Two Towers, where every two or three characters are somewhere completely different from everybody else, yet it's all the same story. Does that make sense?
|
|
|
|
Post by Shadaras on Jun 25, 2008 21:57:12 GMT -5
I can do a supporting vampire or two. GW has given me the experience I think I needed to feel capable to do that kind of supporting character. I personally don't mind if the Mercs have a different plot as Fenrix and Hades. It's kind of like Lord of the Rings The Two Towers, where every two or three characters are somewhere completely different from everybody else, yet it's all the same story. Does that make sense? Interweaving story lines? Heh. I just thought up a crazy idea. Fenrix and her people are searching for Takehiko. The Mercs have gone back to their base, waiting for another job. And they get an offer, from a deposed nobleman. He wants their help in retaking his estates. This nobleman, of course, is Takehiko. He doesn't show it, of course. And this is his way of getting revenge. He has his second in command ((want to call him a twic (2IC) so badly..)) meet with the merc representative instead of him, with all the information neccessary to fool them. The mercs show up, Takehiko's minions lead them towards Fenrix's castle, Takehiko following along in some sort of disguise. During this, Fenrix's people find someone they think might be Takehiko. This nobleman that never leaves his house, you see, and has a very similar story. When they hear that he's recruited some mercenaries to help him take his estates back, they get worried. And when they show up on the castle doorstep, why, isn't that odd? ..and then Takehiko reveals himself and it all goes into a dramatic battle of some sort or another. Just another wierd/random idea. |
|
|
|
Post by Bacon on Jun 25, 2008 22:44:15 GMT -5
 I'm not sure Takehiko would hire the Mercenaries in the first place, no matter how disguised he was. Although... If I can alter your newest suggested plot a bit, Shade... Fenrix and Hades leave for Vampire Council. Meanwhile, Twic hires the Mercenaries and tells them a group of Takehiko's followers are meeting soon, this of course being a lie. Twic provides transportation and the Mercenaries arrive at Vampire Council long before Hades and Fenrix. There's a big battle, Hades and Fenrix come and try to make sense of the mayhem, and Takehiko starts laying seige to Fenrix's fortress. |
|
|
|
Post by Scar on Jun 26, 2008 9:10:37 GMT -5
Can someone fill me in on what's going on again? A little summary for the newbie who skipped most of the RP here ^_^;
|
|
|
|
Post by Shadaras on Jun 26, 2008 10:43:26 GMT -5
I'm not sure Takehiko would hire the Mercenaries in the first place, no matter how disguised he was. Although... If I can alter your newest suggested plot a bit, Shade... Fenrix and Hades leave for Vampire Council. Meanwhile, Twic hires the Mercenaries and tells them a group of Takehiko's followers are meeting soon, this of course being a lie. Twic provides transportation and the Mercenaries arrive at Vampire Council long before Hades and Fenrix. There's a big battle, Hades and Fenrix come and try to make sense of the mayhem, and Takehiko starts laying seige to Fenrix's fortress. Assuming he had a large enough force, I think he would, if it meant leading the mercs into a trap. Why would they leave for that? That's a question for Fen, really, but still. Why would they believe the twic? They have no reason to. If he gave them proof, then yeah, I suppose they'd follow him. Why.. such a wonderful question. But really, why would the mercs get to the vampire council before Fenrix and Hades? A big battle between what? The vamps and the mercs? Interesting idea, but how would it start? |
|
|
|
Post by Shadaras on Jun 26, 2008 11:02:29 GMT -5
Can someone fill me in on what's going on again? A little summary for the newbie who skipped most of the RP here ^_^; Um. Let's see. Note: I'm doing this off of memory, without going back to read the roleplay in question. Sorry if it's a bit off. In the beginning of the roleplay, which you were a part of but I'm going to summarize anyway, the main event was Cyborg coming through the forest, where Elycien found him. Fenrix was following him in preparation for an assassanation. But when she tried to assassanate him, it failed, but the sound brought others running. They all returned to the Merc HQ, somehow trusting both Cyborg and Fenrix, as well as other newcomers who showed up.
Alerid comes back from checking out Takehiko as a prospective employer, and I think this lead to a discussion between him and Fenrix about Takehiko, but anyway. The mercs left to go see Takehiko for themselves. On the way to his fortress, they got attacked by Tank and some tanks. During this battle, Clint showed up. I think this was when Cyborg turned traitor, too. At the end of the battle, Tank was knocked out by Fenrix, and the Mercs, plus Clint, minus Cyborg, made their way to the nearest inn.
At this inn, there was much discussion about Takehiko. The first night, there wasn't too much, but Hades began questioning Fenrix about vampires, first downstairs when everyone was talking, and then, later, when everyone else was in bed, he made his way to Fenrix's room, questioned her some more, and got turned into a vampire himself.
The next morning, Midknight shows up, saying that he's Cyborg's brother and he wants to bring him to justice, or something of the sort. The mercs, having been betrayed once already, are suspicious. But when shadowy troops attack the inn, Elycien tells Midknight that this is his chance to prove his loyalty. The mercs kill all of the troops, except for the leader, Dum Tuall, who says he is a living, magical, bomb. If he dies, everything goes boom.
After deciding that Dum Tuall won't kill them, and after Fenrix takes Hades hunting, everyone gathers in the common room of the inn, where a woman comes in, telling Elycien that Takehiko has Alerid captured. This woman, part of Takehiko's forces, escapes, Elycien breaks down, and it is decided that everyone is to go to Takehiko's fortress so that they can try and get Alerid back.
They leave for that, get to Takehiko's fortress, where the slaves let them in. Vyt fell ill, sort of, and Arista stayed behind with him. The rest of the mercs went to go rescue Alerid, following one of the kids. Fenrix, however, split off from the main group, Hades following. The mercs got Alerid just fine, started heading back to the slaves.
Fenrix and Hades, on the other hand, ended up fighting Takehiko himself, once he sent Tank off to kill the mercs. The end result of that fight (the Fenrix-Hades vs. Takehiko one) was that Hades was severely burned for about the third time, but that he'd held Takehiko off until reinforcements (the rest of the mercs) arrived, having defeated Tank. Takehiko then escaped. The end.
I left out most of the Hades/Fenrix subplot, by the way. And probably some other details. But that's the gist of it. And it is long, so it is spoilered. |
|
Surely you can come up with characters for the council? That might be another good thing to get some of the people who haven't posted lately. They could help lots. <3
I'm not sure Takehiko would hire the Mercenaries in the first place, no matter how disguised he was. Although...
