You wander, your mind not quite there. Your thoughts are scattered; you can’t seem to recall anything.
A young girl passes by you, young, cheerful, carefree. She waves at you with a bright smile on her face. You wave back absentmindedly. Giggling, the girl flew away.
… Flew?
With a sudden feeling of alarm, you turn around. The girl was indeed flying, with a tail remniscent of a ghost tail, anything showing that it was part of her hidden by her dress. With a start, you realize that you are wearing the exact same dress, a blue-greenish shade just shy of white.
Bending what you had believed to be your knees the entire time, you find yourself face-to face with a tail of your own.
It all comes rushing back to you. The honking of cars, crossing the street, abruptly feeling a wave of absolute paincrashing into you from the side.
You’re dead.
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A young girl passes by you, young, cheerful, carefree. She waves at you with a bright smile on her face. You wave back absentmindedly. Giggling, the girl flew away.
… Flew?
With a sudden feeling of alarm, you turn around. The girl was indeed flying, with a tail remniscent of a ghost tail, anything showing that it was part of her hidden by her dress. With a start, you realize that you are wearing the exact same dress, a blue-greenish shade just shy of white.
Bending what you had believed to be your knees the entire time, you find yourself face-to face with a tail of your own.
It all comes rushing back to you. The honking of cars, crossing the street, abruptly feeling a wave of absolute paincrashing into you from the side.
You’re dead.
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Welcome one, welcome all, to an idea that I hope will last, Travels of the Afterlife.
The thing this idea sprang up from is right here.
No, I am not ending GotE, unless people lose interest in it. I have seen people start up multiple roleplays and handle them all (this one person in particular who somehow is juggling seven) and so I shall now see how this goes.
OOC thread here: http://escaperestart.com/forum/threads/travels-of-the-afterlife-discussion.18462/
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Set-Up
So first off, you're dead. Right off the bat. You can show how they died, perhaps, but that'll be the last time you see them alive beyond flashbacks that people will most definitely use to flesh out their character's histories. The next thing you know, you've woken up in a strange, blue-greenish place filled with mist in a daze; some snap out of it quickly, some a little longer, and some never. This place is known to many as The Mist of Awakenings, for all who die wake up there.
The main goal for all characters is to find peace in the afterlife. It's definitely a hard thing to accept that you're dead, for some. Do you worry about how your friends and family are coping? You can't accept this sort of situation after all the shit in your life? What should you do now? Your character has to find a way to accept their situation.
On top of the main goal, I plan for there to be multiple arcs for the story to keep going, the current arc being the Fallen Father arc- which will be explained in a short summary after this. Any suggested ideas for an arc (or the roleplay in general) will be taken into consideration, even if it ends up altering the rules of this universe.
And the third one... The afterlife is endless. While you'll know you've seen all that there is to be seen once you find yourself face-to-face with blank empty space, the afterlife is constantly expanding for all the departed souls. There are currently five places that definitely exists at the moment, but aything beyond that is up to your imagination. Do you feel adventurous enough to see what lies beyond?
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The Afterlife's Mechanics
There's certainly a lot of things to it. I'd explain what I think (it implements some ideas from Danny Phantom, and some of my own) but I'd like to see what you end up doing before I add in mine via the roleplay. Let's test the mechanics through our writing again, shall we?
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Character Creation
It works the same way it does for GotE; there's no form to fill. You just write in an introduction for your character, and you're done, though there are some specific guidelines about them you have to follow.
For one thing, whether they were an alien from outer space or was specifically aiming for the afterlife with a portal, they're dead the moment they manage to get there, no exceptions. If you ever manage to get into the world of the living again (and it actually can happen, which will be addressed in another arc) you'll still be a ghost- unless I change my mind and add in reincarnation or something, you have no way of coming back to life. You cannot be a halfa. You cannot be visiting through spiritual means. You're dead.
Another thing is that everyone wakes up in the same place; The Mist of Awakenings. There are only three kinds of garments they might wear then, regardless of what they were wearing when they died; a dress, a hospital gown, and a plain, loose garment with long sleeves and reaches just over where your ankles should be. They are all in the same blue-green shade described in the introductory story. You may choose any of them, regardless of gender, perhaps just to see how your male character reacts to wearing girl's clothing. Yes, you eventually can change your clothes, the quickest being if you head east where you'll meet with someone.
Speaking of that 'someone', this time you can roleplay more than one character. Only two of them, however, are allowed to be roleplayed all the time; the rest are just NPCs that you have to get my permission for, and can only be used when the situation calls it necessary (passing by their place, heading to their place to get something, etc). Playing as an arc villain counts as this.
And when it comes to the two characters, they are not allowed to have had prior interaction between them before they died- which essentially means that if you want twins or friends or something along those lines, you still have to discuss it with someone else. This also applies to Rosa and Ella- the two girls in the concept art that I will be roleplaying as aside from the arc villain.
As an additional rule, anyone who wishes to roleplay as a certain NPC themselves- whether as an NPC or a full-on character- must get permission from the one currently playing that role. And if you wish to make an NPC as a full-on character, but already have two characters of your own, you must either make one of them an NPC or allow someone else to roleplay as them instead.
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Fallen Father
A vengeant ghost is running rampant across the afterlife, uprooting the promised peace souls had looked forward to. A state of unrest arises; what's gotten the guy into a frizzle?
A vengeant ghost is running rampant across the afterlife, uprooting the promised peace souls had looked forward to. A state of unrest arises; what's gotten the guy into a frizzle?
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Characters
Format: [Roleplayer] - [Character Name] ([Age of Death], [Year of Death])
Format: [Roleplayer] - [Character Name] ([Age of Death], [Year of Death])
Faliara - Rosa (15 years old, 2015) and Ella (? years old, died ????)
Timdood3 - Cameron (26 years old, died 2015)
Toiletprincess - Lili (18 years old, died 1918)
Catcocomics - C-057 (? months old, died 2015)
Timdood3 - Cameron (26 years old, died 2015)
Toiletprincess - Lili (18 years old, died 1918)
Catcocomics - C-057 (? months old, died 2015)
-Faliara
- Klaris (60-70 years old, died 2000)
- Ellan (Supposedly 17 years old, died ????)
- ??? (?? years old, died ????)
None yet.
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Map
Labeled version here:http://faliara.deviantart.com/art/Map-of-The-Afterlife-1-labeled-525703289
Unlabeled version here: http://faliara.deviantart.com/art/Map-of-the-Afterlife-1-unlabeled-525703548?ga_submit_new=10%3A1428545790&ga_type=edit&ga_changes=1&ga_recent=1
Labeled version here:http://faliara.deviantart.com/art/Map-of-The-Afterlife-1-labeled-525703289
Unlabeled version here: http://faliara.deviantart.com/art/Map-of-the-Afterlife-1-unlabeled-525703548?ga_submit_new=10%3A1428545790&ga_type=edit&ga_changes=1&ga_recent=1
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Right now, I cannot think of anything else that might be important. Perhaps I'll recall in the morning. For now, though, I'll be making a map. I do request that everyone head to the same direction (east), though you don't have to ^_^"
I'll be making recaps every 10 pages or so and hope I don't lose track of them. Any changes to the roleplay may be edited in here, so keep an eye on this post!
Adieu for now!
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