Post by Emrys Nimbus on Feb 17, 2010 12:04:17 GMT -5
Alright guys! Plot One has come along semi-smoothly, and if you've been on a site of mine before, you know that most of the time it has to do with different types of mythology. You also know that most of the time, I write the entire thing with the staff. However! This time we'd like to take a new approach to it, to involve all of the members of San Melina in its creation.
This time we take it to Shinto mythology, and a slightly darker approach. Here's what we got.
Now, some backstory behind this legend. It is almost entirely correct, this story. The first two paragraphs are a summary of Izanami and Izanagi.
I know the concerns of having the school blown to pieces by supernatural forces, and for this portion we switch to an idea from Yukiko Konohana. If you have played the game of Silent Hill, you will know what I talk about, but for those who haven't played it, in Silent Hill there is an Otherworld and a Fog World. The [Fog World] is what you play in normally, a world that is shrouded in thick fog. In fact there is no real difference between the two that can be seen, except in Silent Hill you encounter a monster.
The [Otherworld] is in the game of Silent Hill a twisted reflection of the real world and a far darker and more dangerous place. This is where the psyche of the mind is displayed in Silent Hill.
Now, how we plan to mix this in is to have the residents of San Melina fall into the Fog World gradually. The town will start to get foggier and foggier, and during that time the minions of Izanami will be manifesting themselves to duel the residents.
The losers will be sent to the Shadow Realm in which to stay. At the time of the first player captured, the magical items in which to access the Shadow Realm (of which I will keep their identity a surprise) will be released. These item bearers will be obliged to let the person loose by dueling the minion, however keep within your personality. If your personality was to use it for your own gain, go right ahead and use it for that, I plan to distribute them to different types of people.
As time goes by, the Otherworld will start to appear in play, the realm of Izanami. If there is any destruction of the school to do, please let it be done in this realm, so that when the plot is over the school/town will be 'magically rebuilt'.
This is basically all of the details so far. We as a staff would like to ask you, the player, to input any critique, questions, or suggestions that you can. We want it to feel like it was made by all of us, and I hope that the staff have laid down enough groundwork.
This time we take it to Shinto mythology, and a slightly darker approach. Here's what we got.
Izanami-no-Mikoto was killed and her husband Izanagi-no-Mikoto lamented. He took a journey to Yomi, the land of the dead, to retrieve his beloved wife. When he arrived at Yomi, he found his wife shrouded in shadow, but asked her to return. But Izanami had already eaten of the food of the underworld, and thus was already a rotting corpse.
Izanagi ran in fear from her horrid form and Izanami grew angry that Izanagi would not stay with her. Izanami sent wild shikome (foul women) to hunt down her unfaithful husband and bring him back to the land of the dead. Izanagi managed barely to escape and pushed a boulder in the mouth of Yomotsuhirasaka, the cavern that was the entrance to Yomi. Izanami screamed from behind this barricade and screamed of her vengeance. She said that if Izanagi left her, she would kill 1,000 living souls everyday. He replied by saying he would give life to 1,500, and thus began the legend of Izanami, the mistress of the dead, and Izanagi, the master of the living.
But when an unknown force starts to unleash Izanami from her confinement, a mysterious fog settles in over San Melina, California. Residents start to disappear and no one knows the reason why. A lot of reports state that someone has seen a 'shadow out of the corner of their eye', or maybe something that was in one place that wasn't there at the next glance.
Izanagi ran in fear from her horrid form and Izanami grew angry that Izanagi would not stay with her. Izanami sent wild shikome (foul women) to hunt down her unfaithful husband and bring him back to the land of the dead. Izanagi managed barely to escape and pushed a boulder in the mouth of Yomotsuhirasaka, the cavern that was the entrance to Yomi. Izanami screamed from behind this barricade and screamed of her vengeance. She said that if Izanagi left her, she would kill 1,000 living souls everyday. He replied by saying he would give life to 1,500, and thus began the legend of Izanami, the mistress of the dead, and Izanagi, the master of the living.
But when an unknown force starts to unleash Izanami from her confinement, a mysterious fog settles in over San Melina, California. Residents start to disappear and no one knows the reason why. A lot of reports state that someone has seen a 'shadow out of the corner of their eye', or maybe something that was in one place that wasn't there at the next glance.
Now, some backstory behind this legend. It is almost entirely correct, this story. The first two paragraphs are a summary of Izanami and Izanagi.
I know the concerns of having the school blown to pieces by supernatural forces, and for this portion we switch to an idea from Yukiko Konohana. If you have played the game of Silent Hill, you will know what I talk about, but for those who haven't played it, in Silent Hill there is an Otherworld and a Fog World. The [Fog World] is what you play in normally, a world that is shrouded in thick fog. In fact there is no real difference between the two that can be seen, except in Silent Hill you encounter a monster.
The [Otherworld] is in the game of Silent Hill a twisted reflection of the real world and a far darker and more dangerous place. This is where the psyche of the mind is displayed in Silent Hill.
Now, how we plan to mix this in is to have the residents of San Melina fall into the Fog World gradually. The town will start to get foggier and foggier, and during that time the minions of Izanami will be manifesting themselves to duel the residents.
- NOTE: In the case of non-dueling roleplayers, you will still be attacked, it will just be privately predetermined between the two roleplayers which person will 'lose' the struggle. Make the RP damn good.
The losers will be sent to the Shadow Realm in which to stay. At the time of the first player captured, the magical items in which to access the Shadow Realm (of which I will keep their identity a surprise) will be released. These item bearers will be obliged to let the person loose by dueling the minion, however keep within your personality. If your personality was to use it for your own gain, go right ahead and use it for that, I plan to distribute them to different types of people.
As time goes by, the Otherworld will start to appear in play, the realm of Izanami. If there is any destruction of the school to do, please let it be done in this realm, so that when the plot is over the school/town will be 'magically rebuilt'.
This is basically all of the details so far. We as a staff would like to ask you, the player, to input any critique, questions, or suggestions that you can. We want it to feel like it was made by all of us, and I hope that the staff have laid down enough groundwork.
