Line #42 Roleplay/Ryslig


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6	You [[WakingUpElsewhere awaken]] on a hard, uncomfortable bed in a crude hospital room. A single dim lightbulb with a pull-string switch flickers above you. Your clothes are soaking wet, and you're covered in scratches and bruises - thankfully, all minor enough to heal on their own, although you can't shake the feeling that ''something'' is wrong with you.
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8	The doctor will tell you you were pulled out of the water by a fisherman on the docks at sunset, just like the rest of them. You're in the port town of Vandare, he'll explain further. You'll be asked if you know where that is, and if you remember how you got here. Your answer will be no - just like the rest of them.
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10	When you are released from the hospital, the townsfolk will look at you with a mixture of fear and pity. Almost anyone will help you if you ask, but some will gently encourage you to try and find shelter elsewhere. If you're lucky, you'll run into someone like you who can explain what has happened. If you're unlucky, you'll run into someone like you who is [[HorrorHunger already too far gone]]...
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12	Welcome to Ryslig Peninsula.
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14	Ryslig is a panfandom [[JournalRoleplay journal roleplay]] with the basic premise that characters arrive and slowly begin [[ViralTransformation transforming into monsters]]. There are also a couple of [[DivineConflict meddling gods]], a number of {{Muggle}} natives with varying levels of haplessness, a mysterious horse-headed guy in the woods, and an [[OminousFog ominous]] [[FogOfDoom recurring fog]]. Can be found [[http://ryslig.dreamwidth.org/profile here]].
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16	Tropes relating to specific characters can be found [[Characters/{{Ryslig}} here]].
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19	!!This game provides examples of:
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21	* AbusiveParents: Dr. Liewen is heavily implied to have created the Fourth God by experimenting on his own son, and he ''did'' turn him into a LivingBattery for the network.
22	%%* AndThenJohnWasAZombie
23	* BattleAmongstTheFlames: The conclusion of the Rotan event involved captured monsters and their rescuers battling their way out while the entire town went up in flames.
24	* BroughtDownToNormal: A temporary case. Characters come in with any supernatural powers gone, but they gain new ones as they transform into monsters.
25	* BurnTheUndead: Waldgeist are particularly vulnerable to fire.
26	* ChillOfUndeath: Some waldgeist have a touch cold enough to cause frostbite.
27	* ClosedCircle: It is currently impossible for the [=PC=]s to leave the peninsula. Unknown to them, this is because there may be ''nothing beyond''.
28	* CompellingVoice: Some vampires, gargoyles and manticores can hypnotize victims with their voice.
29	* DeathIsCheap: Dead [=PC=]s come back during the next fog, though if this happens too often [[CameBackWrong they start losing their memory.]]
30	* DevilButNoGod: The benevolent day and night gods worshiped by the locals purportedly don't exist. The fog god, their devil figure, ''does'', and his rival isn't much better.
31	* DoomedProtagonist: All the player characters so far ''will'' change after roughly a month in Ryslig, and there's nothing they can do about it yet.
32	* DeityOfHumanOrigin: The other/fourth god was once known as Elias Liewen. Somehow, about 30 years ago, he obtained half the fog god's power and ascended to godhood himself.
33	* FogOfDoom: There's the usual fog, which comes several times a month and is often a catalyst for monster transformations. Then there's the [[http://ryslig.dreamwidth.org/90643.html parasite fog]]...
34	* GlowingEyelightsOfUndeath: Shades have glowing, white eyes.
35	* HorrorHunger: All monsters eventually need to feed on humans, or they will go mad.
36	%%* HumanityEnsues: For any non-human character. Very temporarily.
37	* ImAHumanitarian: Most monster types, except for the ones that consume human souls or energy instead.
38	* LivingBattery: Originally, the fourth god was trapped powering the network. Now it's his father.
39	%%* LivingShadow: Shades.
40	* MindControlMusic: Minotaurs, harpies and merfolk can lure their victims with a soothing song.
41	* OurDragonsAreDifferent: Gargoyles in Ryslig are actually a mix of gargoyle and dragon, with scales and fire-based magic.
42	* OurMonstersAreDifferent: Characters are assigned one of twenty-three monster types after entering the game, and the players are given fairly free reign to customize them (so yes, AllTrollsAreDifferent.)
43	* OurSirensAreDifferent: [[SirensAreMermaids Merfolk]] can be this; in a nod to the classical siren, harpies have MindControlMusic as an optional ability as well.
44	%%* ProHumanTranshuman: A number of characters.
45	%%* ResistTheBeast: Also a number of characters.
46	* RockMonster: Trolls, to varying degrees. ''Not'' gargoyles, on the other hand, as they are only rock in their inanimate statue form (if even then- they can be any material).
47	* RunningGag: Thanks to one of the Test Drive prompts, it's well known that most newcomers will invariably get lost in Lager Woods.
48	%%* SpacetimeEater: [[http://rsdos.dreamwidth.org/35647.html?thread=3339583#cmt3339583 Allegedly]], the fog god.
49	* TakenForGranite: Or silver, or [=LEGO=]s... Gargoyles are nocturnal by necessity, as they turn back to their statue form in sunlight.
50	* TranslatorMicrobes: For as-yet-unknown reasons, all characters understand each other just fine.
51	%%* UndeathlyPallor: Most (it's an optional change) vampires.
52	* UnscaledMerfolk: Merpeople can be part amphibian or cephalopod instead of fish, at the player's discretion.
53	* VampiricDraining: Faeries, goblins, merpeople, and kelpies all need to feed on human energy - through faerie rings, spells, and drowning, respectively. (Vampires, of course, feed on blood.)
54	%%* VampireRefugee
55	* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Several monster types can change into an ordinary animal at will; shades can morph their shadow form in various ways as well as turning back into a solid human.
56	%%* WasOnceAMan: All the player characters once their transformations come in.
57	* WeakenedByTheLight: Vampires, shades, and trolls are all weakened or harmed by sunlight in one way or another.
58	%%* WhatHaveIBecome: A typical response of the newly transformed.
59	* YourSoulIsMine: Demons and shades must consume souls.
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