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User: | thereadingroom (100849) |
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Name: | The Reading Room RPG | ||||||||||
About: | Long ago and half a world away there were seven brothers and sisters who weren't quite like other people. Archer, Shine, Dillian, Hathaway, Torquil, Erskine and Venturus were magically gifted and, unfortunately for the rest of the planet, in some cases bent on global domination. They were certainly powerful enough to divide and conquer and there is little doubt that one of them would have managed eventually were it not for one small problem: All seven were trapped inside a small English town, well aware that it was one of the family keeping them there. For thirteen years they each tried to uncover who was responsible but in the meantime they made do, dividing the town up amongst them and 'farming' the profits. Archer took finance and power, Shine crime and industry, Dillion law and order, Hathaway roads and records, Torquil sport, religion and music, Erskine water and drains and Venturus, the youngest, homes and education. Each had magical sway over their own domain and each made use of it as they tried to find the 'traitor' amongst them, culminating in the elder three leaving earth against their will in a rocket. How's that for sibling rivalry? Now it should all have ended there but things didn't quite so smoothly. In January 2007 Archer, Shine and Dillian found themselves landing on earth just inside the city boundries of Tampa, FL with absolutely no idea how they'd ended up there. Temporarily amnesiatic they made their way out into the city and began to cause minor havok, magically scrambling just about everything until their siblings arrived to get them under control. As they set about fixing all the things the elder three had put wrong they didn't notice anything strange, nor that Tampa had just a little bit more magic than most places. It wasn't until they tried to leave and couldn't that the seven noticed anything wrong. For reasons no-one presently understands the city won't let them go, which is a *really* bad sign. The kind of sign that gets noted even if the highest circles. The Endless, another gifted set of siblings, thought it would be simple enough to intervene and get things back to how they should be. Each created a 'god' from their own essence and sent them to the city only to find that those gods, like Archer and his family, couldn't leave. A *seriously* bad sign. While the wizard siblings returned to what they know best - farming for profit - the Endless built a library right at the heart of the city, right where the magic interference was strongest. They hadn't failed to notice that Archer and co. *should* be fictious and logic dictated that somewhere in literature they'd find a solution. They collected every myth and story and legend they could and set about getting to the heart of the problem, totally unaware of what that was going to do to the world outside. Because as they slid each book, each broadway soundtrack and each DVD onto the shelves the characters inside each story - for want of a better phrase - escaped. While the words remained on the page the 'soul' became spirit, seeking out the nearest compatible host and merging with them. To all intents and purposes the people in the stories reincarnated themselves, magically altering regular human people. Some came to believe that they had always been aware of a life before their present one, some could pinpoint the age they were when the remembered, and could tell you how long they'd 'been aware'. Most would carry on like nothing happened, oblivious to the fact that any day now they were in for a seriously interesting surprise. What none of them know - not the wizards, nor the Endless, nor the reincarnations - is that this is only the beginning. The fun hasn't even nearly started yet. The game application can be found here | ||||||||||
Maintainers: | 3: | ||||||||||
Members: | 36: _mazikeen_, _x5494_, | ||||||||||
Account type: | Free Patient |