The Sea's Song

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The Sea's Song

The Sea's Song

September’s (very late) CBversary RP!!

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Cambria is a flourishing port city, full of life, laughter, and magic. For a city built from the ashes of a war only months ago, it is remarkable how much it’s grown and developed. And it’s also remarkable how quickly it’s grown, though no one questions the magic. 

 

Your characters were children when the city rose. And they are barely grown when the city falls. 

 

An inescapable darkness has risen. Every action has an equal and opposite reaction, an idea unheeded by the founders of Cambria. Too much magic calls forth too much darkness. But what’s done is done, and their only hope now is to journey beyond the land across the perilous sea, in an attempt to save the people they have doomed. 

 

The journey is not for the faint of heart. 

 

The Lottery is the last thing they give you, a system enchanted to find the bravest, the strongest, the smartest, only the best to sail across the Deep and find salvation. 

 

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Rules and Information that you will NEED to know (PLEASE READ THEM ALL): 

  • There are 14 spots. Reservations are accepted, but you MUST post your charrie within a week of you reserving that spot or I’ll give it to someone else
  • This will start after I have at least 7 characters
  • I’d love a cast of both males and females, which brings up an important point 
  • CHARACTERS!!!! I would love if we had a ton of diversity, so I’m accepting literally anything, especially POC (People of Color) and LGBTQ+ (@ADMINS, sorry, just wanted to make sure you saw this if you’re not allowing this, please delete the part where it says LGBTQ+, so no one gets confused, thanks!!) NOTE: I will be looking over your characters and okaying them. 
  • The time period is a fantasy-medival, think Throne of Glass, Six of Crows, A Darker Shade of Magic, or if you have no idea what I’m talking about, just think of Pirates of the Caribbean or something in terms of clothing and technology 
  • NO OP CHARACTERS PLEASE, THANK YOU!
  • Password: marshmallow fluff
  • A note on magic: If you choose to give your characters magic, it does not mean that they can summon winds, control the ocean, or anything big like that. The magic in this world comes from a sort of stronghold thingy, so it can be mined, but not everyone is compatible with the magic, meaning that it is very picky and may possibly reject your character 
  • I might be a tad bit harsh on your character, but remember, it’ll help with your character building!
  • Aaaaand I think that’s it, I hope you read it, and without further ado. . .     

 

 

 

CHARRIE SHEETS! Please fill them in all the way, if you have any questions, feel free to ask! 

 

Full Name (Friendly reminder, ethnic names, like Finnish or Armenian are cool!): 

Age (13-22, please!):

Birthdate: 

Gender:

Height: 

Weight: 

Appearance (It’s important to note here that not everyone is skinny, tall, blonde-haired, and blue-eyed, not that there’s anything wrong with being any of those things. Please include hair color, length, texture, eye color, skin color, nose shape, lip size and color, as well as anything else like beauty marks, scars, or freckles): 

Default expression: 

Personality: 

Strengths (as in personality):

Weaknesses (as in personality): 

Greatest Motivation:

Greatest Flaw:

Greatest Fear:

One Word to Sum them up:

Hogwarts House(s): 

Social Status: 

Magic Wielder?: 

Preferred Weapon: 

Password (and if you’re wondering what the heck this is, you probably haven’t read the rules. Read the rules, then come back to this part.): 

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And that’s it! Have fun! I’ll post my character when this shows up! 

 

submitted by September
(June 18, 2017 - 6:45 pm)

No worries! We're all still at the festival, then we'll be referring to earlier plot change (the assassaination thingy) 

submitted by @Kitten (Sept)
(August 29, 2017 - 11:53 am)
submitted by a TOPper, age Topteen, On TOP of the world
(September 5, 2017 - 5:12 pm)

TOP TOP TOP TOP TOP TOP TOP TOP TOP TOP TOP TOP TOP TOP TOP TOPTOPTOP!!!

Clarification question: has the assassination already happened, does the festival get news of it happening elsewhere (probably in the monastery), or does it happen in public at the festival?

submitted by CuriTOP
(September 6, 2017 - 12:01 pm)

It happens in public :)

submitted by September @Y'all
(September 7, 2017 - 10:07 pm)

Ooh, awesome. That means one of our charries might see it. >:D Mwa ha ha... 

Who's the assasin, anyway? Some unknown creature on the side of the Darkness? Some person possessed by the darkness? Or is there a conspiricy? 

submitted by Jarvis, age ???
(September 8, 2017 - 6:02 am)

Alrighty. I'm tired of all this waiting around.

Let's see here! Who's left: Curio seems to be agressively topping this thread (WOW Curio- how did you front-page it with just one post??? Those are some mad skills), September is replying to everyone who posts here, that's good...., Kitten appears to be still on board, Applejaguar posted a little while....I mean, a month....ago, idk if she's still here, Killim's about the same as Applejaguar, though I see her post a lot on the CB in general, and....yeah. That's about it in the last month.

So, I guess there are only three charries left here for sure (assuming I can work past my procrastination issues): Ilia, Initias, and Asimi. 

BUT WHATEVER! THREE PEOPLE CAN STILL SAVE A SINKING SHIP! (no pun intended) 

So. Here's my interpretation of the current plot: 

The Equinox Festival is in full swing, honoring Nysa, Goddess of Change. Though nobody knows it yet, the head mages (Curio called them the Magistrae) are about to be assasinated, and as a result of this assasination, the Choosing will be formed as a last-minute ceremony to create a group of the bravest, smartest, and most valuable to journey across the sea and chase back the Darkness. (Side note- perhaps this journey was intended to be for the Magistrae, but because they were assasinated, someone had to form a group to go in their stead. Maybe there's one mage who survives the mass assasination, and she thinks of the Choosing at the last minute and reveals it to the public at the festival.) Anyways, our charries that remain will be the Chosen ones, and will board a ship to go who-knows-where (we had some ideas early on in this thread about where the plot could go after that, which I can try to summarize if this thread get's revived). 

So, as far as Asimi goes, I'm going to try and post one more post from his POV ('cause he's currently stuck at the bottom of the ocean, and that's a problem) before posting about him at the festival. When I post about him at the festival, he might see Ilia and Initias just as faces in the croud, but will meet them later after the actual ceremony. @September and Curio, are you ok with this and with my summary of the plot?

So, are we going to make a heroic effort and bring this RP back from the dead?  

submitted by Jarvis, age ???
(September 7, 2017 - 5:36 pm)

. . . And Owly is lurking in the thread and reading everything that's being posted, trying to work up the willpower to write another RP post.

submitted by St.Owl, age Recarnated, Everywhere
(September 8, 2017 - 4:54 pm)
submitted by You can do it, Owly!, Port of Cambria
(September 11, 2017 - 4:50 pm)

The rustle of pages and the smell of ink, mixed with the scratch of quills on paper....it fills you with DETERMINATION.

submitted by StoryTOPper, age TotallyNot, AnUndertaleReference
(September 7, 2017 - 8:15 pm)

*ACT --> *The Sea's Song ... --> *Reply to Question

That sounds great for a plotline- I was actually running on the assumption that it would be in public! No, I don't know how I topped that- I suspect the combination of me and StoryTOPper in quick succession was what did the trick, but the Cricket top algorithm shall always be a mystery...

School is back in session for me, though, which cuts my writing time incredibly. I'm still watching this, I hope I can post sometime in the near future, but it's not a certainty. I might have to learn to write really short posts - that's never been my forte, ha ha.

Thread! You cannot give up just yet! Stay determined!

submitted by Curio @September, age Also not, an Undertale reference
(September 8, 2017 - 10:26 pm)

Merlin's beard, this is still going on? I thought it died a month ago! I'm so sorry, I'll catch up, I'm in school right now.

"Be yourself; Everyone else is already taken." --Oscar Wilde

submitted by Mei-xue (May-shreh), Fairyland
(September 8, 2017 - 8:45 am)

I am still here, but my writing time is small due to school and trying to keep my ski lodge alive. So I will post a little if I can figure out what about. This RP is really complicated (which is good, I think).

submitted by Kitten
(September 9, 2017 - 1:53 pm)

I'M STILL HERE, SORRY!

Should we start posting about the assassination? 

submitted by Applejaguar, New York
(September 10, 2017 - 4:35 pm)

Sure, if you'd like! I'm just waiting for a few more festival POVs to roll in :) 

WE'RE BACK IN BUSINESSSSSS!  

submitted by September, age 14!!!!!!!!
(September 19, 2017 - 7:05 pm)

Am currently swamped by homework. Will post Asimi's POV hopefully tomorrow or Wednesday. 

TOP this thread!! 

submitted by Jarvis, age ???, Port of Cambria
(September 11, 2017 - 4:49 pm)