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Post  Dusk Raven Sun Sep 15, 2013 7:46 pm

It has been nearly a century since the parent gods, Luxa and Eclipsus, departed from this world. Luxa was kind and gentle, but her mate Eclipsus held a darkness within him, and in time his evil threatened their children and the world Luxa had created. It was when Eclipsus unleashed the corrupting Blight upon the world, and corrupted their child Amora into the monstrous Brood Queen, that Luxa sealed herself and Eclipsus away, that the world would be safe from his evil.

Their four remaining young gods – Dia, Noxa, Somnia, and Mutus – have their hands full trying to manage the world and defend it from the Brood Queen. The Queen, for her part, is doing her best to spread the Blight, as well as birthing her own monstrosities to plague the world.

The young races of the world, such as humans, are in a desperate struggle to survive. But they are resourceful and industrious, doing their divine parents proud, and have banded into tribes to defend themselves. With the power of magic they can turn back the tide of the Blight, and when magic falls short, bronze blades and brazen hearts stand ready to defend all they hold dear.

It’s a difficult struggle – for every tribe that survives, another is overrun or corrupted. But hope remains for the young races, for there have emerged powerful individuals, paragons of their kind, who through magic or valor have distinguished themselves as heroes. It’s these heroes who shall bear the task of tipping the balance of the war between good and evil, between purity and corruption, and of leading the young races in the world.


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So, this is my first attempt at GMing, and I plan on keeping things relatively simple. Inspired by a combination of some monster-hunting media and AProcrastinatingWriter’s own attempt at monster hunting, I’ve decided to put this thread up.

This is set during the greater course of a setting of my own, serving as a prequel of sorts. I’ve got a lot of lore in my head (some of it even written up!), but I’ve left that out of the basic post for the purposes of keeping things simple. I will, however, have a post below for all the lore I’ll wind up writing. For the most part, it’ll be flexible, and I’ll let players introduce what elements they want so long as I can make it work.

First off – races. This is a Living Legends game, so we’ll be using the races described in this thread unless anyone has any objections. I’m open to suggestions as well, but these are what I’ve so far been able to come up with for the setting. Do note that a good chunk of the lore for said races hasn't actually happened yet...

Ultimately, however, I aim to make this a mostly combat-oriented campaign, though I hope to have a little bit of player freedom if they want to explore, though I wouldn’t put much faith in my ability to provide much for you to explore. On the bright side, the state of the world means it’s pretty easy to fling foes at you if need be.

…In the meantime, I really wanted to write a dissertation on how magic works in this setting, but since personal flavor is paramount in Pony Tales/Living Legends, I’ll let you guys use whatever magic you like and I’ll figure out a way to work it in… unless you feel like reading a multi-page paper on magic types.

So, any questions?

Our Heroes:

Aparix the Lokira thief
Paladin the Human Gifted Ki-user.
Mitsuna the Therion Channeler.
Rai the Harpy Channeler.

Former Heroes:
Ghost Tracker the Blightscorned tracker
Zakhar Volkov the Nightchild smith
Bellator Rabiosum the Lokira weaponmaster


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Post  Dusk Raven Sun Sep 15, 2013 7:47 pm

Placeholder post for lore!

The Origin of the World:

A (relatively) brief overview of magic:

Deities and Beings of Power:


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Post  Miang Sun Sep 15, 2013 11:23 pm

It seems a shame to go into a bunch of lore when you're aiming for mostly combat.

As for questions, I have a few.

Is this a play by post game? If you're using the Living Legends races do players need to use the same Genetic Engineering options as presented there? Can we use the Living Legends races and make up our own or did you mean one or the other? Can characters be infected with the Blight? If so, what kind of effects would that have? Is this a standard medieval fantasy setting or is the culture/technological level something else?

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Post  Dusk Raven Sun Sep 15, 2013 11:37 pm

Miang wrote:It seems a shame to go into a bunch of lore when you're aiming for mostly combat.
Nothing I do is without context. Still, whether it's mostly combat or not depends on the players.

Is this a play by post game?
Yes.

If you're using the Living Legends races do players need to use the same Genetic Engineering options as presented there? Can we use the Living Legends races and make up our own or did you mean one or the other?
I'm technically using my own races, but players can present a race of their own, but it means more lore for me so they'd better have some lore of their own. Anyway, I'd really like players to use the racial options presented, but people tend to use genetic engineering as a second set of utility talents so I'll let it slide... to an extent.

Can characters be infected with the Blight? If so, what kind of effects would that have?
Characters will not become Blighted unless they either A. Die or B. Feel like playing a Blighted character, which would be... interesting. You see, the Blight creates a duplicate, but opposite personality to the original user... while at the same time keeping the old personality, which is powerless to act but can still talk to, annoy, and torment the dominant personality. Most people infected with the Blight tend to be kinda... insane. If someone could pull that off well, that'd be pretty cool, though.

Is this a standard medieval fantasy setting or is the culture/technological level something else?
It's a fantasy setting, but I'd say the technology level is more bronze age. The world is young, and the tribes haven't had the chance to develop too much technology.
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Post  Caden2112 Mon Sep 16, 2013 12:03 am

Okay, Dusk, now I'm picturing some serial killer getting Blighted and being helpless to watch his new self being the next Superman or something. I -am- interested, I'll need to work on a character though. May make a weapon specialist because I haven't done that before.
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Post  Miang Mon Sep 16, 2013 12:06 am

So does being Blighted cause any physical changes? Or tend to manifest certain kinds of powers?

Also, are we just using the official rules? Or are there any unofficial things you approve of for us to use? (I ask because it seems like there's a lot of neat unofficial stuff.)

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Post  Lapis-Lazily Mon Sep 16, 2013 12:52 am

This is really cool. Gonna make a character for this. I love the world-building. I think I'll play a Nightchild.
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Post  Dusk Raven Mon Sep 16, 2013 12:53 am

Caden2112 wrote:Okay, Dusk, now I'm picturing some serial killer getting Blighted and being helpless to watch his new self being the next Superman or something.
I was hoping somepony would have that idea. There'd be quite an opportunity for character development... as it's when the two personalities agree - and eventually, merge, as happened with Eclipsus - that a Blighted individual becomes really dangerous.

Miang wrote:So does being Blighted cause any physical changes? Or tend to manifest certain kinds of powers?
The Blight's effects on humans include, but are not limited to, darkening and loss of color in the skin, peeling away of skin and fat to reveal muscle underneath, holes in flesh, cracks in the skin around the eyes which seep green light and the eyes themselves seeming to have a green glow within. There may also be far more drastic mutations but these are usually the result of spending a long time being blighted.

As for powers... well, it alters one's life force, so users of Ki will notice a bit of a difference in their powers, but otherwise it doesn't really affect one's abilities, though magical abilities may be a tad more random and destructive.

Also, are we just using the official rules? Or are there any unofficial things you approve of for us to use? (I ask because it seems like there's a lot of neat unofficial stuff.)
I'd like to limit it to official rules unless there's something specific you want to include, in which case I'll have to look it over.
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Post  Lapis-Lazily Mon Sep 16, 2013 1:02 am

Interesting concept, could a former criminal be sentenced to fight monsters in exchange for his crimes, namely murder?
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Post  Dusk Raven Mon Sep 16, 2013 1:11 am

Lapis-Lazily wrote:Interesting concept, could a former criminal be sentenced to fight monsters in exchange for his crimes, namely murder?
Probably. It helps a lot that there's quite a few positions one could be put where one has no choice but to fight or die.

Mind you, some tribes might just exile the individual - after giving him or her a weapon and some supplies, the idea being that they should take down as many monsters as they can. Perhaps some live long enough to find another settlement and leave their past behind.
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Post  AProcrastinatingWriter Mon Sep 16, 2013 1:25 am

You play in my game, I play in yours? Very Happy 
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Post  Dusk Raven Mon Sep 16, 2013 1:28 am

AProcrastinatingWriter wrote:You play in my game, I play in yours? Very Happy 
Sounds good to me! Any thoughts on the setting? I think one difference between ours is that I'll try and focus some on out-of-combat stuff, except I can always throw combat in when I don't know what to do.
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Post  Miang Mon Sep 16, 2013 2:11 am

I want to play but I don't think I want to be playing in games with Lapis-Lazily.

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Post  Lapis-Lazily Mon Sep 16, 2013 2:12 am

Uhm what? Why? What'd I do?

Edit: No seriously, I want to know what i did. I have no intention of being mean to anyone and have no idea why someone wouldn't want me to be in their game. I want a chance to correct whatever I did that you feel wronged you.
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Post  Miang Mon Sep 16, 2013 2:17 am

From what I've seen when I looked through this forum you seem really mean-spirited and rude.

Edit: I didn't mean to say you've wronged me. I've just seen how you treat other people.

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Post  Lapis-Lazily Mon Sep 16, 2013 2:18 am

What? Really? How so? I haven't tried to be that way. The only person I have ever shown any direct signs of rudeness to was Ramsus, and he was really insulting me and I'd had enough of him. I admit what I said was rude, but not completely evil or mean-spirited.
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Post  AProcrastinatingWriter Mon Sep 16, 2013 2:20 am

Lore sounds good to me!

I wonder if you could PM me your...think for a moment and...magical rules, so to speak. I know you said you'd let us work the magic out and see if you could adapt it into your lore, but I think it would be much more interesting for me personally to create a character whose magic works in a pre-exisiting mystical system.
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Post  Miang Mon Sep 16, 2013 2:24 am

I forget where it was but, you were really rude to someone just because they disagree with your opinion about something and claimed they had insulted you when they hadn't done any such thing that I can find. Unless there's some PMs or something I'm missing, though I didn't see anything that implied that. Basically it involved saying that the forum would be better off without someone or something like that. And then that person quit the forum.

Edit: Right, that's who it was.

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Post  Stairc -Dan Felder Mon Sep 16, 2013 2:29 am

Miang wrote:I want to play but I don't think I want to be playing in games with Lapis-Lazily.
Miang, this is a pretty inappropriate statement to make in public. It's okay to express a concern privately to another player, and that's encouraged, but arguing about past issues in a public thread isn't okay and isn't good for the thread.
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Post  Miang Mon Sep 16, 2013 2:41 am

Whoah. Um.... ok? My apologies to Dusk Raven. Just thought it'd be more rude to say something to Dusk Raven behind Lapis-Lazily's back. That kind of thing has always been the bigger problem on forums I've been on and I looked at the rules thread and I didn't think I was doing something against them. I'll send PMs to people in the future. Sorry. pale 

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Post  Stairc -Dan Felder Mon Sep 16, 2013 3:23 am

Quick clarification. Miang wasn't banned because of a minor insult (in fact, Miang handled the correction and apologized gracefully). Miang was banned because all evidence (including log in records) showed that this was actually a second account used by Ramsus and having 2 accounts is against the rules.

Sorry about this guys. Please, go back to enjoying your game.
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Post  Lapis-Lazily Mon Sep 16, 2013 4:05 am

Ok, so unpleasantness aside, I have made a character for this campaign.
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Post  Fury of the Tempest Mon Sep 16, 2013 11:18 am

Ummmm... where can I find the races?

And interesting lore... it certainly brings up a LOT of questions...
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Post  Dusk Raven Mon Sep 16, 2013 11:26 am

Well.

AProcrastinatingWriter wrote:Lore sounds good to me!

I wonder if you could PM me your...think for a moment and...magical rules, so to speak. I know you said you'd let us work the magic out and see if you could adapt it into your lore, but I think it would be much more interesting for me personally to create a character whose magic works in a pre-exisiting mystical system.
I think I'll probably just post it in the second post, that way everyone can see it. Part of the reason I didn't want to post it was because I'd have to write an awful lot of text... but no matter!

Lapis-Lazily wrote:Ok, so unpleasantness aside, I have made a character for this campaign.
Looks good! Does get me thinking about languages in this world, but that's a minor concern of mine. I shall add the sheet up in a jiffy.

Fury of the Tempest wrote:Ummmm... where can I find the races?
Right here: https://ponytales.forumotion.com/t648-dusk-s-ll-racial-musings-thread
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Post  Fury of the Tempest Mon Sep 16, 2013 11:40 am

Thanks.

I think I'm gonna wait for some other character's before making mine though.
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