Thread: Aces & Eights Imaginarium!

The Werepocalypse This is our world after the End of Days but a very particular End of Days. Sometime soon a disease makes it's way into the world. Most die within days of contracting it in a very Masque of the Red Death fashion. Some survive but they are feral. Animalistic and strong like PCP addicts. It takes months before they learn the worst thing about the disease. Some don't die. They don't become feral. It turns them into shapeshifting monsters. The old myths of the werewolf and the bearsark come to life in a thousand bloodthirsty forms. At first they couldn't determine why one died, another went feral, and another became a monster but eventually they learned. The violent at heart went feral and murderers became monsters. This was the death knell of the old world. Brother turn against brother out of fear that one might be a monster or to ensure that if they would become a monster if the disease came to them. Paranoia and lust for power and violence ruled the day. In time new powers came to be. The most potent of the monsters became lords of their own domains. Giving protection in return for service or worship and worse. Some bred with men and created monstrous abhumans. Snake people and bird headed hunters and black eyed shark people that bred true. The world became a very different place. A little bit Lunar Exalted and a little bit Fury Road. Now this is just a setting. It's just one I find interesting with a lot of potential for different kinds of stories. If you have an idea for it send it my way and we'll talk. Now I do have one basic idea for it. The Snake God Post Apocalyptic Sword Sorcery. Pairings M for whatever. Shapeshifters Scalykind involved. Extreme for dark themes, violence, black magic, and potential sexual content inappropriate for anything less. Nagrenda has existed since the fall. A great serpent who has survived by cunning and charm and predatory skill. He was one of the first to declare himself a god and call worshippers to him. One of the first to breed the abhuman Serpentfolk. A great snake god ruling from his temple in the jungle but that was years ago. A great battle with another god silenced his reign. He disappeared and his people scattered into the jungle. Some say he died that day along with the challenger. Some say he fled the lands of his defeat. His people say he sleeps and waits for his time to come again. But all say that the Snake God's temple is a place of magic and wealth. The kind of place legends are made of. Now you set foot there whether looking for treasure or to learn about history or even to take shelter on the road but whatever the reason you find that the Snake God is very much alive and you just woke him. Magic the Gathering The Multiverse - endless planes like sand on a beach. Moved by the tide and winds of universal laws. Shifted by the magics of planeswalkers. Bursting into life and suffering their final days. Every world unique. Each with it's own stories, it's own inhabitants, and it's own monsters. Each separated from each other by the gulfs of the Blind Infinities. But you can reach across them. You are a planeswalker. You were one of the innumerable sentient peoples of the Multiverse but inside you lurked the Spark. In a moment of stress it ignited and handed you the key to great power. Destined now to have your name spoken in reverent tones or terrified whispers. Reborn now in a universe of ancient magics, arcane artifacts, monsters, and gods. I have played MtG for 20 years and I love the card game but I'm a fluff man at heart. And the universe behind Magic? Pretty fucking interesting. Endless possibilities on where to come from, who to be, where to go, what to do... The only thing it doesn't do is science fiction and I'm okay with that. Sci-fi isn't my thing most days anyway. So basically what I want to do is craft the tale of two planeswalkers. Your character and mine. Everything about the story is up for discussion besides that basic premise. Race, gender, pairings, planes, goals, story arc... everything. I just want a story set in this universe using these ideas. I have no real preferences on what you play or what I play but I will show some inspirational images and list things I really would like to play with from the lore. Just remember that none of these lists are complete. If you have an idea or a question feel free to ask. The same goes for my OO's and Roleplay Preferences. Also if you aren't super familiar with the world but like the core concepts that's cool. I have more than enough knowledge and wiki links! for the both of us. Lore - Phyrexians. I love the idea of a creeping plague that mixes man and machine from a world of metal jungles where oils rains. They have a great mixture of hidden subtle enemy until the time for subtlety has passed and then they become a war machine. - Eldrazi. Monstrous world eating Lovecraftian monstrosities. 'Nuff said. - Dementia Casters. Summoning up the very substance of your fears wearing the faces and forms of everything you have ever killed? That's badass. Lots of good story potential there. - NecromancySangromancyHexmage. Just fullbore dark magic. Raising the dead, ripping the blood from your opponent's veins, and cursing them into a hellish half life.- PyromancyEmbermages. I really like fire. It should probably be listed in my OO's. - Vampires. MtG vampires have awesome fluff and lore. Much more vicious than what you see in other works these days. - Angels. MtG angels are likewise equally badass