Roleplay Index

**Key Terms:**

* PC = Player Character (You)
* NPC = Non-Player Character
* GM = Gamemaster

## **New Roleplays**

* **The Flames of Russia** - 1917, The Russian Empire is in complete collapse as Bolshevik forces rise up throughout the country against Tsar Nicholas II's imperial government. There's a lot of flexibility with this setting, the PC could be an agent of the Russian government, and operative of the Red Army, or perhaps a foreign bystander caught in the middle of the conflict.
* **The Rose Conspiracy** - 1914, WWI has begun and Europe is at war. However all is not what it seems in the North African nation of Morocco. Reports of a mysterious affliction, turning people into violent creatures has been discovered by the British intelligence organisation, 'Parthenon'. The PC is deployed on their first mission with Squad Athena to Morocco, to discover what is causing this to happen, and neutralise it by any means necessary.
* **A Heart of Steel** - 1915, the Great War rages on between the Entente and Central Powers. The PC is a new secret weapon created by the British Inquisition, either a humanoid AI or human raised from birth to be a living weapon. They've known nothing but training and brutal indoctrination. However on their deployment to Istanbul in the Ottoman Empire, something goes wrong, and they lose communications with headquarters. The PC encounters and is forced to collaborate with their rivals at Parthenon, another intelligence organisation.
* **Fear in Tokyo** - 1870, the Meiji Restoration is in full swing in Japan, as the Emperor retakes control of his nation from his Daimyo vassals. However all is not right in new capital of the nation, something stalks the streets at night, draining victims of their blood. There's a high degree of flexibility in this setting for characters.

## **Ongoing Roleplays**

* **The Adventures of Molly Crenshaw** - 1914, Molly Crenshaw, a young woman with the supernatural powers to change her form like elastic, is desperate to fight in the great war. She eventually convinces a recruitment officer to sign her up to a special intelligence service, Parthenon. There she meets Amelia Direheart, the two becoming fast friends, but Molly's future may not be so certain as the war rages on.
* **The Wanderer** - 1917, Miroslav Bystriansky is a young man from Slovakia, conscripted into the Austro-Hungarian army to fight against the Russian army. Rather than face death, Miroslav defects, but soon finds himself a prisoner to the Russians. It's only when Kasia, another captured Slovak, organises an escape with the help of Bolshevik rebels are they able to get out of the clutches of the Tsarist forces. Miro soon finds himself unwillingly in league with the rebel forces of Command Rashnikov, what dangers will he face as the terrible Russian Civil War erupts?
* **A Far-Flung Crusade** - 1900, John Goltz, Damien Whitweather, Nicholas Kober, and Othor Mannerson, a group of private investigators, are enlisted by Parthenon Secretary-General Damietta Direheart to the far eastern land of China, where the Boxer Rebellion is in full swing. Parthenon wants to know the secret of the Boxer's new powers, and believes that Goltz & Co are the best detectives for the job. The mysterious truths that the investigators discover may not be what they thought however, and the trip will change their lives forever.
* **Sigma Rising** - 1900, Alimina Direheart, Alexa Lockhart, Hershey Lothclyde, Lilith Descartes are all members of the newly founded Squad Sigma. Led by Alimina, the group is deployed in China during the Boxer Rebellion to assist the forces of the Eight-Nation Alliance. Through the horrors of war the four become friends, relying on each other and facing dangers they've never before seen.

## **Complete Roleplays**

* **Faepora's Origins** - 1905, during the height of the Russo-Japanese War, a young Deep Naga named 'Faepora' finds herself and her bear companion 'Dog', falling through worlds to Earth. Ending up in the middle of the Battle of the Yalu River, she is saved by Alimina Direheart. The two become friends, and eventually fall in love. Dark forces are however at work, and the Naga's entry into the world has not gone unnoticed. The Lord of Strife, Apargoth, desires the power to shift between worlds, and see's Faepora as the key to that. Teaming up with Squad Epsilon and the Order of the Jackal, Faepora and Alimina take the fight to Apargoth, defeating him and destroying the fortress of Gannacoth.
* **The Montserrat Deception** - 1917, with the Fall of Parthenon, Faepora Direheart, her daughter Alexa Direheart, Aphrodite Holmes, Theodora Park-Lee, and Enya McCloud manage to escape the British Isles to the Atlantic island of Montserrat. Hailed as the last Parthenon stronghold and new headquarters of the organisation, Professor Alice Polyakov has declared herself the new provisional Secretary-General. Although a great many secrets are found to be kept from the survivors, including the dark energies that Professor Polyakov has been experimenting on. The group discovers this and organises an escape from the island, which has now become a gilded cage. In a daring move, they steal a VTOL but are ambushed by Polyakov and her forces, a fight ensues, eventually culminating in the destruction of Aphrodite Holmes (although her robot remains are recovered by the survivors). The group manages to escape the island and flies to Ottawa, Canada, where they meet with new provisional Secretary-General, Damietta Direheart.
* **What Can Come of War?** - 1916, Squad Athena, made up of Luisa Varasso, Tiber Solhymne, and Amelia Direheart, are deployed to the Western Front of the Great War alongside the British Expeditionary Forces. Reports have come in that the German army have a new secret weapon, and it's killing allied soldiers in droves. Rumours have circulated that it attacks entire trenches at night by itself whilst troops are resting, yet nobody has survived to describe who, or what, it is. Eventually, after discovering an abandoned underground Inquisitorial facility, the group encounters Ilver a 'metahuman' fabrication made by the Inquisition. The group soon meets 'Ito', an AI system that runs the facility, and turns out to be insane, having killed the previous occupants. Squad Athena, with Ilver's help, is able to defeat Ito and his hordes of undead creatures.