The One Called X
Enlightened Squid
Pull up a chair and get yourself somethin' to drink, this might take a while. TL
R version is at the bottom of the ramblings. 
So basically I started RPing when I was fourteen, on the Neopets RP boards, and I had this idea for an RP that I wanted to do. It was pretty near and dear to my little adolescent heart, and I started it up multiple times- it never lasted long, since the Neopets boards are basically the absolute worst possible format for long-term RPing. Anyway, I pretty much wound up losing interest in the whole business... until last January, when I had a sudden urge to role-play and discovered this site! With detailed RPs that last longer than two hours! And world building! And talented writers! And soon I started wanting a little RP to call my own, and I remembered my little idea. And I added to it, and fleshed it out into something viable.
Trouble is, it's turned into a bloody monstrosity that my fourteen-year-old self would never have conceived of. I'm looking at needing a minimum of eight player characters and two separate IC threads (possibly three); plus a ton of backstory and lore. It'll take some commitment on my part to put down everything I've got in my head and polish it to a reasonable degree, so before I even start I want to make sure I have at least some interest.
TLR pls to read summary of idea and my concerns and tell me if you're interested and/or give suggestions or comments or critique? Kthxbai.
THE IDEA:
It started a long time ago. Nobody's quite sure when or where. All they knew was that into each generation, there were born five special people. They were chosen- we know not by who or what- to bear the power of an element. Earth, air, fire water. These were simple. When one Earthbearer died, another was awakened. The same for air, fire, and water. But the fifth element... that one was special.
Darkness is the absence of light- or is light the absence of dark? It matters not. The fifth Bearer was either light or dark. If a Lightbearer died, a Darkbearer would wake. When a Darkbearer died, a Lightbearer woke. So it was for a long, long time; and for a long, long time there was peace, and joy, and safety.
And then.
It isn't known whether it was a Bearer of Light or Darkness. It is only known that there were born twins; and that they were both awakened, and that they bore both Light and Darkness.
Both could use either element, but the boy favored the dark and the girl favored the light. She was cheerful, open, kind; a good leader to the other Bearers and a good advisor to her country's king. He was cold, ruthless, cunning; merciless on the battlefield and frighteningly charismatic off of it. But he loved his sister dearly.
He loved his sister, perhaps, as a brother never should.
She fell in love, one day. The young man isn't remembered. It is only remembered that he was the first to fall to him; and that the Bearers followed; and that the twins simply vanished.
There were no Bearers after that; not for a very, very long time.
It's the modern day now. Winter break, almost, in a tidy little college town. A young woman has been having strange, strange dreams- sometimes of a man; sometimes of a woman who begs her not to listen to him. One day, she finds a small, exquisitely beautiful black stone- and is inexorably drawn to four others, who are also having strange, ghostly dreams. These five are drawn forward, into a strange new world, a quest; and the only surety is that their lives will never again be the same.
THE CONCERNS:
1. It's gonna be detailed, and I can get picky about that. I don't mind the occasional mess-up, but I'm still a stickler for quality. Also, people have to be willing to commit to posting once a week or more. Every single character slot is vital for the story to move forward, so if somebody stops posting it would be bad and I would cry; which nobody wants because I look scary when I do that.
2. It's gonna be a bit on the dark side. Not, like, sooooooper dark and depressing- I definitely want to preserve a core of optimism and Triumphant Good- but the villain is a Bad Bad Man who does Bad Bad Things and is also very creepifying and kinda badtouchy. It's obviously gonna remain within PG-13 levels of thematicness/violence/etc., and most of the creepy is gonna be restricted to characters I control, but I'm kinda scared of scaring people off; because the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
3. Am I overcomplicating this? Because as it stands now, there are going to be either two or three IC threads. One will be for our hapless modern-day newbies, the other will be for the dead Bearers who are currently occupying a dreamworld from which they are attempting to contact our protagonists and offer them guidance. If there's a third, it will be because I decided to offer a few seats for "lieutenants" of the bad guy (an idea which I greatly enjoy, because it will give me more opportunities to write him and writing evil is fun) and they need a place to plot and pet cats menacingly. I'm pretty sure I can handle it- but again, they'll be somewhat intertwined and I don't want to put people off because it seems overly complex.
4. It's gonna take a little while to assemble the damn thing. Not sure how long, as I've never created an RP before, but I'mma have to figure out BBcode and whatnot. I'm relatively confident that I can have it up in a week or so... but I'm scared that by the time I do everyone will lose interest in my idea.
That's... just about everything, methinks. So. Questions? Comments? Concerns? Carrots?
R version is at the bottom of the ramblings. So basically I started RPing when I was fourteen, on the Neopets RP boards, and I had this idea for an RP that I wanted to do. It was pretty near and dear to my little adolescent heart, and I started it up multiple times- it never lasted long, since the Neopets boards are basically the absolute worst possible format for long-term RPing. Anyway, I pretty much wound up losing interest in the whole business... until last January, when I had a sudden urge to role-play and discovered this site! With detailed RPs that last longer than two hours! And world building! And talented writers! And soon I started wanting a little RP to call my own, and I remembered my little idea. And I added to it, and fleshed it out into something viable.
Trouble is, it's turned into a bloody monstrosity that my fourteen-year-old self would never have conceived of. I'm looking at needing a minimum of eight player characters and two separate IC threads (possibly three); plus a ton of backstory and lore. It'll take some commitment on my part to put down everything I've got in my head and polish it to a reasonable degree, so before I even start I want to make sure I have at least some interest.
TL
R pls to read summary of idea and my concerns and tell me if you're interested and/or give suggestions or comments or critique? Kthxbai.THE IDEA:
It started a long time ago. Nobody's quite sure when or where. All they knew was that into each generation, there were born five special people. They were chosen- we know not by who or what- to bear the power of an element. Earth, air, fire water. These were simple. When one Earthbearer died, another was awakened. The same for air, fire, and water. But the fifth element... that one was special.
Darkness is the absence of light- or is light the absence of dark? It matters not. The fifth Bearer was either light or dark. If a Lightbearer died, a Darkbearer would wake. When a Darkbearer died, a Lightbearer woke. So it was for a long, long time; and for a long, long time there was peace, and joy, and safety.
And then.
It isn't known whether it was a Bearer of Light or Darkness. It is only known that there were born twins; and that they were both awakened, and that they bore both Light and Darkness.
Both could use either element, but the boy favored the dark and the girl favored the light. She was cheerful, open, kind; a good leader to the other Bearers and a good advisor to her country's king. He was cold, ruthless, cunning; merciless on the battlefield and frighteningly charismatic off of it. But he loved his sister dearly.
He loved his sister, perhaps, as a brother never should.
She fell in love, one day. The young man isn't remembered. It is only remembered that he was the first to fall to him; and that the Bearers followed; and that the twins simply vanished.
There were no Bearers after that; not for a very, very long time.
It's the modern day now. Winter break, almost, in a tidy little college town. A young woman has been having strange, strange dreams- sometimes of a man; sometimes of a woman who begs her not to listen to him. One day, she finds a small, exquisitely beautiful black stone- and is inexorably drawn to four others, who are also having strange, ghostly dreams. These five are drawn forward, into a strange new world, a quest; and the only surety is that their lives will never again be the same.
THE CONCERNS:
1. It's gonna be detailed, and I can get picky about that. I don't mind the occasional mess-up, but I'm still a stickler for quality. Also, people have to be willing to commit to posting once a week or more. Every single character slot is vital for the story to move forward, so if somebody stops posting it would be bad and I would cry; which nobody wants because I look scary when I do that.
2. It's gonna be a bit on the dark side. Not, like, sooooooper dark and depressing- I definitely want to preserve a core of optimism and Triumphant Good- but the villain is a Bad Bad Man who does Bad Bad Things and is also very creepifying and kinda badtouchy. It's obviously gonna remain within PG-13 levels of thematicness/violence/etc., and most of the creepy is gonna be restricted to characters I control, but I'm kinda scared of scaring people off; because the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
3. Am I overcomplicating this? Because as it stands now, there are going to be either two or three IC threads. One will be for our hapless modern-day newbies, the other will be for the dead Bearers who are currently occupying a dreamworld from which they are attempting to contact our protagonists and offer them guidance. If there's a third, it will be because I decided to offer a few seats for "lieutenants" of the bad guy (an idea which I greatly enjoy, because it will give me more opportunities to write him and writing evil is fun) and they need a place to plot and pet cats menacingly. I'm pretty sure I can handle it- but again, they'll be somewhat intertwined and I don't want to put people off because it seems overly complex.
4. It's gonna take a little while to assemble the damn thing. Not sure how long, as I've never created an RP before, but I'mma have to figure out BBcode and whatnot. I'm relatively confident that I can have it up in a week or so... but I'm scared that by the time I do everyone will lose interest in my idea.
That's... just about everything, methinks. So. Questions? Comments? Concerns? Carrots?
That is so me when I see a bad rp idea xD
