Line #19 Roleplay/Dragonblood


1	Felix Sanders and his friends were [[OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent Ordinary High School Stundents]] who lived in and around New York City. August 1st was Felix's birthday and he and his 4 best friends were running around town, buying gifts, going places, and generally goofing off. However, the group gets lost somehow and stumbles across an old cornerstore with a mysterious shopkeeper. Therein, they purchase 5 vials of what is called "Dragon's Blood" and are told to drink it. Wary, they leave the store to find themselves on a recognizable street in the city and head home, putting the thoughts of the store and the purchase in the back of their minds. After a crazy birthday party, the group meets in Felix's backyard to drink the blood, feeling that they should do so. Besides, [[TemptingFate what's the worst that could happen?]]
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3	Upon drinking the blood, the kids are (painfully) transformed into living, breathing Dragons and their lives shattered. With help from the sorcerer, Ash, they travel the world beneath our world, Arcadia, to live their new lives.
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5	Dragonblood is a fantasy epic RP [=GMed=] by @/{{Renagade}} that has been running since January, 2011. Respectable for being an RP that has lasted, as of date, more than half a year and containing a dedicated cast of players, this RP might be one of the very few out there that actually reaches a conclusion. As far as we're concerned, it has definitely continued far enough to warrant it's own trope page.
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8	!!This Roleplay contains examples of...
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10	%% * {{Arcadia}}
11	* BeneathTheEarth: Arcadia is essentially ''Literature/JourneyToTheCenterOfTheEarth'' turned up to eleven with a [[JustForFun/XMeetsY dash of]] Literature/ArtemisFowl thrown in.
12	* BigApplesauce: The story starts in New York City.
13	* BirthdayBeginning: It was Felix's birthday when the RP started.
14	* BlessedWithSuck: Okay, Arcadia's nice. But there's always the chance you'll go there and get transformed into a [[GripingAboutGremlins gremlin]] or some hideous mythological monstrosity and never so much as ''glimpse'' the world above again. However...
15	* CursedWithAwesome: There's plenty of other, ''awesome'' things you can become. For instance, oh, ''dragons.'' Then there's the gorgeous [[OurElvesAreDifferent elves]] and [[OurFairiesAreDifferent faeries]], [[FaunsAndSatyrs satyrs]], [[OurCentaursAreDifferent centaurs]], etc. Losing your humanity isn't all ''that'' bad.
16	* DarkIsNotEvil: Demons in general are stated, according to Ash, to be not so much evil but instead just selfish and out for themselves. They will certainly take your soul if offered, but most aren't out to end the world.
17	* TheFairFolk: Elves and faeries can swing from being sweet and kindly to wicked and alien.
18	* FantasyKitchenSink: Arcadia breaths this trope. There's Camelot, Yggdrasil, Oberon, Phoenixes, Bahamut, Magic...if it stems from mythology or common fantasy fables, it exists ''somewhere'' in Arcadia!
19	* FisherKingdom: Arcadia is type 2. If you're a human from the surface who had discovered Arcadia, you won't be staying a "true" human for very long. Even the act of getting the Arcadian Brand on you semi-robs you of your humanity, as the brand gives you access to magic.
20	* LaserGuidedAmnesia: The main method in which Arcadia is kept secret from the surface is usually through mind-wiping spells.
21	* MagicPants: Shapeshifters can learn to "bind" their clothes to them, allowing their clothes to disappear and reappear between forms.
22	* MagicallyBindingContract: The Secret-Keeper's Oath, which brands you with a large "A" somewhere on your body, usually the forearm, and lets other secret-keepers know that you're safe from the aforementioned LaserGuidedAmnesia.
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24	* {{Metamorphosis}}: The kids' change into dragons is complete and irreversible, and while they can assume a human shape, maintaining it is not easy and cases of extreme stress or emotion can force them back into their draconic form.
25	* OurDragonsAreDifferent: They rule Arcadia and if humans drink their blood, they turn into dragons themselves!
26	* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: We got the popular kid at school and his girlfriend, an autistic kid, a brainy kid, and a strange girl on one end. And a half-turned demon, a phoenix child, fairy princess, and smug sorcerer on the other end.
27	* SceneryPorn: Ren can get ''very'' detailed with the definitions of the vistas.
28	* SupernaturalAngst: All of the dragon kids, at some point, had to really come to terms with becoming Dragons and leaving their old lives behind, along with some people just dealing with having to live in Arcadia.

Context Roleplay / Dragonblood