Enkerzed
Dusty Wanderer
Our world is dying.
Poisoned by the shattered fragment of an alien planet,
We have become afflicted.
Beset on all sides by plague winds and phantoms.
Our world cries for help...
And we will answer the call.
Through demons ethereal and corporeal,
With blade, bullet and blessing,
We will rend our way into the eye of the storm
And cut out the evil that has taken root
At the heart of our world.
Not all of us will survive this journey...
But for the fallen and the living,
We will press on until the bitter end.
For we are Templar.
If you've seen Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, you've probably already guessed what this rp's about. If not, it basically goes like this: the world spirit, aka its 'Gaia', is under attack by another world's Gaia which came riding in on a shattered piece of planet as a result of war and reasons. So now the world's being haunted by phantoms (alien ghost offshoot's from the alien Gaia) that can kill people just by touching them, forcing the remainder of humanity to live in barrier cities where the alien ghosts can't get at em and that's pretty much this rp up until that point.
Here's my twist on all that:
- Phantoms can possess as well as kill living beings, turning them into mutated demons (think Dead Space necromorphs). Now I was pretty specific with my wording there, they can turning the living but not the dead, so if you're already a corpse, you're safe. Uh, from turning into a mutant demon that is.
- These barrier cities are being protected by the world's Gaia itself, which is also doing battle with the alien Gaia at the same time. With its power split between protection and fighting against the foreign spirit, it's not looking so good. Which is why we have...
- Templars. Endowed with a portion of the world's spirit, these Templars are chosen by Gaia to travel to the source of the phantoms so they may become a poison pill to it as it has to the world. Able to resist and destroy phantoms, Templars have little to fear from them. Their main hurdles will most likely be those that have already been possessed by the phantoms, so whether it's by blade or bullet or explosives, the bodies of those possessed must be destroyed before their phantoms can be banished.
- At this point, you may be wondering 'why not just nuke the source of all the phantoms into oblivion?' Because that'd risk destroying our world, obviously. That and nukes would certainly take care of the physical problem, but they wouldn't be able to do a thing about removing the alien Gaia that's infecting our own, so it's all up to our Templars.
- Can you have alien characters? No. No you may not. This is a humancentric rp and setting. I'm sorry, I know it seems a bit lame, but that's just how I prefer it.
And that's about it so far. You like?
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