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Arhra
11-20-2011, 01:39 AM
Hello everybody. I'm thinking of running a game again and would like to see what people are interested in doing. I have four options I'm considering so please take a look.


Demons, Samurai and Peaches, oh my!

More than a little inspired by Raiden's Soldiers of Light games of many moons ago. A motley group of adventurous sorts running around feudal Japan to save the land, and a band of demons and evil minded sorts out to stop them.

You see, a century ago a demon caused havoc by sneaking into heaven, gorging on the celestial peaches and burning down the peach grove. The gods cast him down from the heavens and dropped a mountain on him, as gods do.

The problem is those peaches are needed to sustain the gods' immortal existence, so things have steadily gotten worse since then. The plan is to collect various items that will allow the heroes to get to the buried demon king and remove the peach stones lodged in his gut to restore the heavens and bring in a new age of prosperity.


Project CITYFIGHT

You must defeat an entire city to win the game.

Something of a sequel to Project MOONBATTLE.

This is not a terribly serious game. It's set in a dream-like world filled with gods and spirits and the unquiet ghost of Alice In Wonderland, where anyone can be a hero.

Trains, spiders, snakes, demons, doctors, princesses, teachers, policemen, angels.

You will have to defeat (and possibly fight) all of them.


The Secrecy Ruse Was A Distraction

Shadowy government agencies have been in a secret war for decades with alien infiltrators.

You are the aliens.


Eclipse Phase

Eclipse Phase is essentially higher tech cyberpunk in space. I will be running it mainly freeform because the chargen is a nightmare.

Years in the past (but not too many), the world ended. It was the classic story. Man builds computer. Computer becomes self aware. Computer hates man. Computer wages war of extermination (?) with man. Man dies. Man flees to space. Computer disappears. Alien mindvirus is possibly behind it all.

In the aftermath of the TITANs, humanity was left to rebuild. This involves a lot of cloning/building robots and loading the stored backups of dead people into cyborgs/robots/computers/roborgs. Mars is semi-terraformed and humanity's spread across the Solar System. Earth is a quarantine zone.

In this particular game, the players will be working in the exciting field of asset retrieval. And by 'asset' I mean 'a thing that exists' and by 'retrieval' I mean 'taking it away from someone else'.

Bard The 5th LW
11-21-2011, 09:07 PM
Cityfight and Eclipse Phase seem pretty interesting to me.

phil_
11-21-2011, 09:52 PM
Just popping in to say that, as appealing as an Arhra RP is, I'm trying to not fail my classes this semester, so I'll have to pass.

CABAL49
11-22-2011, 04:17 AM
I could honestly go for any of those. But just to cast a vote, Eclipse Phase. I am a space geek first.

Overcast
11-22-2011, 08:14 AM
In order to pull in the opposite direction, but maintain a possible majority, Go go Cityfight!

Steel Shadow
11-22-2011, 08:43 AM
I'll throw a vote in for DS-P, m'self. Heroes v. Demons? Sign me up!

Astral Harmony
11-22-2011, 09:35 AM
I like the idea of Project CITYFIGHT, although all of them sound fun.

Arhra
11-23-2011, 07:20 AM
Welp, looks like CITYFIGHT and Eclipse Phase are the top contenders but I have discovered I am going to be swamped until this Wednesday.

But should definitely have a thread up after then.

Overcast
11-24-2011, 06:55 AM
As a slight note, I also know Ruse, despite having so little details would have been awesome. But I wanted to compete against Eclipse Phase since I've been trying that one too often recently.

Geminex
11-24-2011, 10:55 AM
I'd join Eclipse Phase. Still got a character I'd like to try. : p

Krylo
11-24-2011, 11:02 AM
Doubt I'd enjoy City Fight without PF, and anything based on Warriors of Light that doesn't involve Koyuki just seems wrong somehow. Can not glean enough information from Secrecy McSecrets to make a decision one way or the other. Guess that leaves EP as the RP I'd be most likely to enjoy without absent forum members.

Arhra
11-25-2011, 07:47 AM
In Ruse, all six (playable) alien races actually come from within the Solar System! In case you're wondering why they're so interested in Earth, welp, have you ever looked at the other planets in the Solar System?

No-one's mastered FTL travel you see (except the Greys).

So Mercurials, Venusians, Martians, asteroid bees and Neptunian hybrids.

The basic idea is an unstable multi-racial alliance pursuing nefarious covert agendas against humanity (and each other) that constantly threatens to degenerate into Paranoia-esque slapstick.

Anyway, out of Eclipse Phase and CITYFIGHT, I think I might try the latter first, since it's easy to set up and purposefully engineered for about a three month life span, while Eclipse Phase will need considerably more groundwork to be laid.