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November 14th, 2010


[info]musingsmods in [info]oldschoolrp

Musings


Musings

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A FICTIONAL ESSENCES GAME
WorldTakenHeldWantedRulesApply


Musings has always existed, a world alongside our world.

In Musings, people live the way we do, eat the same food we do, love the same way we do, and work the same minimum wage jobs we do. The differences? They all have their roots in fictional characters, and they are immortal.

Though they are not the characters themselves, they carry in them the essences of characters from fiction. The sources that they spring from do not exist for them, but they are based on fiction we are familiar with all the same - though no one has ever read a Batman comic, there is a rich young man who uses his money to fight the forces of evil that destroyed his life. Though Moby Dick was never written, a sailor still stalks the bars of a town on the sea, watching, waiting.

Now, a portal has opened between the world of Musings and the mortal world, and the Creations (as they call themselves) have begun crossing over in droves. Now, they have abilities that they did not have in their own world, abilities that they can choose to do with what they will. There is no great prescribed fate for these echoes of fiction, only the destinies they choose to weave for themselves - living and losing on the shores of a new world.

Most Wanted: Fiyero (Wicked), Night Owl II (Watchmen), Dracula (Dracula), The Doctor (Doctor Who), Lex Luthor (Superman), Ophelia (Hamlet).

[info]justforeverme in [info]oldschoolrp

~EIDOLON CITY~

Welcome to a world built from ideas and imagination

What do you want from a game?
Do you like things simple, or complex?
Would you prefer to deal on one level, or work towards a larger end?


Eidolon City is a game with a difference. It is a game which works on a number of levels, with elements which you can pick and choose.

Maybe for you, Eidolon City is just a city. A noir world of the 30s and 40s where rival mafias war for control, where the nights are dark and dangerous. Where bright lights make the rich and beautiful glitter and gleam, but cast dark shadows to hide the shady, the homeless, the forgotten dregs of society. There in Eidolon City, characters live out their lives never realising that maybe there is more, that they are not actually what they seem. And some of them may never, in fact, find out the truth.

Or maybe, for you, you want to know what's behind that curtain. Get involved with the origins of it all. Investigate the mysterious village, the theatre, the colleseum - all of which stand on the outskirts of the city, so very out of place, but seemingly accepted by all of the city inhabitants as a normal part of life. But yet, life there is different, odd things seem to happen if you go there. People change.

Because Eidolon City is nothing like what it seems. Underneath it all, it is a world constructed from dreams. Nothing is real, nothing is true. And some of the citizens of Eidolon City are actually its creators. And they have other lives. Because they are dreaming, dreaming of this world whilst in reality they lie in comas, throughout the world. And maybe, eventually, one day they will wake up - if they can find their way out. The escape routes are there, if they find them. If they can realise the truth.

If they even want to.

But what would they be leaving behind? Because this world is there, and they have lives. And not everyone can wake up - because some of the people there are not dreamers at all. Some of the people are figments of the collective dream and imagination, needed aspects of the world, taken from ideas and concepts, characters and mythology. There would be so much to leave behind.


So, what do you want from a game?
The simple, or the more complex - it works both ways.


THIS IS EIDOLON CITY

AN ORIGINAL NOIR GAME

EIDOLON CITY | BEGINNER'S GUIDE | FAQs
PREMISE | SETTING | RULES | APPLICATION | CHARACTER TYPES
PLAYER NEEDS | CITY NEEDS | SUGGESTED CHARACTERS | PREMADES