High Fantasy: The Grey Order is a Play-by-Post Game on Nintendo Nsider 2 Forums created by the user Rhadamanthus. As the name implies, the story is a callback to classic High Fantasy stories. The roleplay is notable for the debut of Rhadamanthus's Player To Master Plot Interface System (PTMPIS), a system in which the players of the RP have some control of the plot by being able to create certain aspects of the setting and mythos of the world their characters inhabit, though the GM still outranks the players in terms of control over the story. It can be found here
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High Fantasy: The Grey Order provides examples of the following Tropes:
- And I Must Scream: The fate of anyone unlucky enough to cross paths with the Tarrasque: being thrown into The Abyss for all eternity.
- The Atoner: Attona, after accidentally nearly killing Edgar pulls a complete Heel–Face Turn and realizes what a psychopathic Jerkass she's been so far.
- Dark Is Not Evil: Dux has been possessed by a demon since birth and is destined to anihilate the entire world...but that doesn't mean he's a bad guy.
- One-Letter Name: G.
- Our Werewolves Are Different: They are wolf/human hybrids with no transformation abilities and human-level intelligence who live in tribes.
- Put on a Bus: Temporarily happened to Dux when the player controlling him was unavailable. As far as examples of this trope go, however, it was actually not that bad. In fact, the player did it in such a way that it seemed like it was just Character Development.
- Shout-Out:
- Pluto is an anthropomorphic version of Edgar Allen Poe's short story, The Black Cat.
- The newest edition to the team, Demi, is a Chocobo.
- Split Personality: Dux with G. Attona, to some extent, with her dark side that's trying to regain control.
- Spock Speak: Partially; the werewolf chieftain, despite his remarkably good usage of English, never uses contractions.
- Start of Darkness: Pluto wasn't always the Ax-Crazy nihilist he is today. It wasn't until he was cursed by Cyrus that he snapped like a twig.
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True Neutral: The Grey Order are a textbook example of this trope: in order to maintain the balance between good and evil in their world, the Grey Order alternates between acts of villainy and heroism. - You All Meet in an Inn: To keep in tune with the story's classic "fantasy" vibe, this is how the characters first meet.
- You Killed My Father: Pluto killed Nexia's father Cyrus years ago, but she doesn't know it yet.
