Please, just read it once and then get hooked. Don't let length scare you. Then again, if you're in this guild, length shouldn't scare you.
|++ Introduction ++|
Each year brings a new zodiac. Twelve years cycle through till the animal appears once more. 11 years there are of rest. Twelve years older is the Horse the year the Horse comes again. Twelve years older is the Snake the year the Snake comes again. And so was how it went. The moon always hiding to show a new month and shining bright in the middle. That was how it went, till the moon became dark and stilled. People kept track, and the zodiac still cycled through, but the counting of lunar years slowly faded and the zodiac soon became not a year, but a celestial being to be called upon in hardship. It seemed, however, that the years went on for these zodiac and always would give favor to those born in its time of power. And so, through experimentation, each person would find the one they would pray to, but if they so happened to call upon the 6th from the favoring celestial, it seemed that hardships became unbearable burdons and everything became harder than ever.
This was how life went. This, some believed, was how life always was. They believed the sun to always mark day and the darkness with only stars to be the night. But then the evil that cloaked the moon struck once more. This time it wasn't upon a moon or even a star, which the people had noticed sometimes bursted and disappeared from the sky. This time, the evil struck upon the world itself. And it seemed that this evil found people much easier to manipulate and much more fun to play with. So the evil stayed.
The twelve zodiacs saw this evil, but could not fight it themselves. The could reincarnate themselves, but then the people would be without them. And so each zodiac found their representative: a person born while they were in power and a person that knew well of what zodiac they were. Each of these were given a gift. Sometimes found, sometimes discarded, sometimes passed on until it finally reached their chosen's hand. But sometimes it would wander away from the chosen's hand while other gifts passed on through generations and through the hands of friends. And so in this way, the gifts found their way to various people, none who knew the meaning behind it. Yet it was with the passing of the gift that the celestial ensured the gift would not fall into evil hands when the holder happened to die. And so the death of a holder marked not only their death, but the giving of the gift to another who would be the next holder.
These gifts on earth in the hands of chosen seemed to protect the people and the world from more harm. The evil could not reach them, but what the zodiacs had not realized was with each passing year of idleness, the evil grew stronger and darker and deceivingly smaller. Till finally the evil was small enough and numerous enough to gain access to six of the twelve gifts. And so the protection was cut down by half. The celestials who had tied their protection into the taken gifts weakened, but struggled still to continue. It seemed finally that the zodiacs that remained strong knew that they had to help the fallen even if they weren't the closest friends or even allies.
|++ OOC Beginning ++|
I know. It's a lot to read, but please join. You only need to read it once and then reference back to it when you need to. Join in as many characters you want. I'll do something to the ones no longer avaliable for play. Please note that this role play will start off as a six-character role play but later will turn into a twelve-character role play (if it lasts that long). And even though it is the Chinese zodiac, your character does not have to have
any ties with the Chinese or even Asia if you don't want to. Then again, because this is somewhat into the future, about any genetic mixing is possible, so have fun with all these genetic mix ups.
My posts generally won't be that long ^^; Hopefully you got through that. For those that don't know the Chinese zodiac, the animals are listed below next to the zodiac which comes six years afterwards (and they are least compadable with). The numbers after them are the age(s) the character of that zodiac could be (they can be others, but add/subtract twelve from the highest/lowest age). And if there is no number after it, that means it has been taken.
Mouse (18, 30, 42), Horse
Ox, Goat/Sheep (11, 23, 35)
Tiger, Monkey
Rabbit, Rooster/Chicken
Dragon, Dog
Snake, Boar/Pig (19, 31, 43)[/pre]
The direction of the RP? I
plan on starting with the zodiac celestial contacting their chosen somehow getting them all round up. Then round them off through battling evil till the end of the world to find the other six. Spring those six from evil's hands and swiftly remove themselves from the presence of evil. I may update this part later ^^;. I realize the range of the ages of this RP is huge, but I can't help the zodiac being the way it is.
Something else about the RP? It's a fantasy/sci-fi mix, I would say. Forest on horse back? Maybe. Airplane? Maybe. All depends on how it comes out to begin with.
|++ Information and Vocab (that may be used in RP) ++|
Magic/Technology: This is in the future and so technology is more advanced. There
is magic, but it's a science that isn't fully developed and seems quite random (yes, science). And remember, there's no moon ^^; And you can reference blown up stars if you want to ^^;
The character with the gift has some "stronger" magic and is a great interest to their zodiac celestial. The magic that is boosted by the gift is related to the zodiac animal (ie: horse may be swifter, monkey may climb better, ox stronger, etc).
But, the character may or may not think that these improved areas are due to magic (ie: horse may just think that they started running faster because they trained hard). If you have no idea what "magic" might be added to your character, let me know. I've got a whole list of zodiac stuff hanging on my wall.
Chosen, Holder: refers to the chosen individual of the zodiac celestial
Celestial, Zodiac, Zodiac Celestial: all can be used in reference to the god-like identity "created" by the beliefs of the people. Also, Zodiac might just refer to the animal of that year (make sense? I hope you know what zodiac means ^^)
Gift: this can be just about anything but generally has the shape of the zodiac animal on it somewhere (ie: the dragon may have a dragon bracelet or a dragon-hilt dagger).
Evil: the "evil" has no name and refered to as evil, darkness, etc. This identity may gain a name later on and can be claimed as a character (though probably will not come in till later in the RP).
|++ Profiles ++|
Just to make things a little easier to find, hopefully. This'll give other RPers an idea of how to react to your character (age-wise, y'know?) and also just for a reference list. If you want to add something else, please do, but not required. The four that I've got listed for my character is the bare minimum though. And for your first post, go ahead and type something like that in at the top and then just start RPing. I don't think I have to sift through people here and sort out good and bad ^^; Anyone's welcome to join so long as they put in some effort. And as for profiles, I don't really care much for them. It allows for more detail to be added in the RP itself, so add as little or as much as you want.
Name: Amar Szoke
Player: Shavynel
Age: 21
Zodiac: Rooster/Chicken
Name: Smoky Noodles
Player: lionheartwitty
Age: 22
Zodiac: Monkey
Name: Fujisaki Sumiyo [surname comes first, given name second.]
Player: _jade_em_
Age: 16
Zodiac: Tiger
Name: Mairo Rocco
Player: Twizzler0171
Age: 12
Zodiac: Horse
Name: Elaine Emmanuel
Player: Sir Isaac
Age: 13
Zodiac: snake
Name: Urashima Daisuke
Player: Sora
Age: 20
Zodiac: Dog
Name: Naida Sawyer
Player: aster
Age: 14
Zodiac: dragon
Name: Anka
Player: .:Chronically Depressed:.
Age: 15
Zodiac: Rabbit
Name: Spike Hodgson
Player: halfbakedbliss
Age: 41
Zodiac: Ox
OOC: I'll post the intro once I get a few people interested (who, preferably) have read all the stuff up there... And don't mind posts longer than a sentence long. But just for lionheartwitty... And also feel free to claim more than one.
|++ Extended Profile ++|
Name: Amar Szoke
Age: 21
Zodiac: Rooster/Chicken
Gender: Male
Blurb: Though Amar's name is Indian, he is actually more Hungarian than he is Indian, or any other nationality. His skin is fairly pale and his hair is a dark brown color, as are his eyes. He's got a nose that's fairly unremarkable being neither huge nor small nor flat nor broken. It seems that he is your average human being, but if you look at his eyes, you'll see something very childish gleaming back at you. Why? Because Amar is that way. He rarely is serious about things, but when he does get serious, it's almost impossible to understand anything that's supposed to be funny or get him to be funny.
Why might this be? Because of his past. His parents seemed to be polar opposites, yet seemed to get along perfectly. And so that was the way he turned out. He could switch between happy and serious in a matter of seconds, yet as he grew older, it seemed the switch took much longer.
Now Amar's in college and learning more about whatever he cares to. He's trying to make it to being one of the people researching this new science they called magic.
...and maybe I'll go more in depth when I get back from dinner.
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shavynel on Sat Mar 26, 2005 3:05 am, edited 7 times in total.