New Campfires

[Quaddy]

Not currently. Beast's new (old) campfire means I get to rework an old character to be more fitting of my current writing style. Zachary stays the same, of course, but is maybe a little bit more dangerous.

[Zephyr Shenkiken]

I'm trying to come up with a new campfire but I feel like I need a push and getting people (characters) together to see what I can build.

[Quaddy]

I can always come up with a new character. What's floating around in that head of yours?

[Zephyr Shenkiken]

It's about immortals. A group of people who've been around since the beginning of times. They aren't sure if they're gods or what but they've been around forever as long as that has been so far. Something happens that messes up their memories or something to the point where they know they're immortal but they don't have all their memories.

I don't see them necessarily having like super godly powers or anything at least not right off the bat, but most of their 'powers' come in the form of intelligence, reasoning, and understanding. Like their millions of experiences and thought patterns can come back and seem almost like foresight. I'm not sure of the setting entirely, but I imagined a somewhat medieval time with modern times being in the distant past. Like the ages of the earth had gone through several cycles. I dunno it's still pretty foggy in my brain, but what do you guys think? Seeing anything?

[Quaddy]

Using this as a vehicle to say Happy Chrismahannukwanzaakah to everyone here!

And gimme a couple days to stew on your parameters, Zeph, and I can prolly come up with something.

[Zephyr Shenkiken]

Happy that thing+winter solstice to you too lol and thank you!

[Aldersmaine]

It sounds interesting. You had me at the civilization cycles.

[Mynt]

Yes.

[Quaddy]

Yeah, not coming up with anything on those parameters. I've been playing too much Assassin's Creed lately, so everything is coming up "those who came before". Unless you wanted to go that route: a group of advanced, human-like creatures who create humanity to be their slaves. Humanity combined with a cataclysmic event destroy their society, leaving them effectively extinct. Of course, in A.C., they want human Desmond to stop the next cataclysmic event...but we obviously wouldn't go that route. In this, said cataclysmic event/human uprising would leave them without their powers and without their memories. But this campfire could focus on their finding their memories and powers again. We could either go the bad guy route and write as bad guys, or our characters could decide to abandon their old ways and seek to defend humanity against their own kind, who want to enslave them again.

I also need Matt to add to something...

[Zephyr Shenkiken]

Hmm that's not bad at all. I almost want to go the route that has the immortals in control and have figureheads that seem to be at the top of the food chain while all the real work is done by countless others under the radar. Maybe to mortals it seems like only so many are born every so many moons apart and such but in reality it's nothing that grand. Maybe BEFORE it was all done behind the scenes and our characters did something to bring them to light. For that, perhaps the other immortals (unable to kill them) locked away their memories and sealed their abilities so they wouldn't have access to confidential knowledge. I could see them being monitored closely but in secret and once their memories start to resurface things get scary. People they've known for years turn out to be immortals that are keeping tabs on them and begin to become slightly more aggressive and invasive. Some of our characters could be trying to lead normal lives and actually have things they don't wish to see harmed. I don't want all of us to be typical nihilistic deathless beings. I want us all to have reasons to live and because of that they'll have something a lot of immortals don't. An intense fear of death. They -after all- don't know every secret of the universe and thus don't know if some other outside force could actually kill them or if that method already exists, but even deeper than that an immortal would define death on a different wavelength than a mortal. For mortals death is the end of life. Your heart stops, you cease to think, you cease to be. It's over (barring the afterlife). For an immortal I imagine it'd be something more of the end of your desire to be alive. The permanent loss of hope. I imagine it'd be a constant struggle. How do you keep finding reasons to wake up for eons? Especially for ones like our characters who don't necessarily know for a fact there are others like them out there, and must watch all things around them come to an end?

Also I'm thinking that they have no true memories of the 'modern' era before the current medieval one until they actually get them back. Of course all of this is open to suggestion.

[Zephyr Shenkiken]

Also I'm actively trying not to write for another Tada like character lol.

[Mynt]

My ideas run along the more "faeries are real la la la" and less... that.

[Mynt]

Also all this is sounding a bit like "Lost Odyssey" for the Xbox 360.

[Zephyr Shenkiken]

Hmm, never actually played that. Too bad, it'd help me stay away from imitating it's plot too much but oh well. I'm sure I'll play it eventually.

[Quaddy]

Is it bad that I'm watching a show on Italy and actively watching for buildings I can climb?

Damned Assassin's Creed...

Faeries are fun, too. They exist in Sybeline, Mynt... *wink nudge*

[Zephyr Shenkiken]

So what should I just make a board for this already? Maybe come up with a setting, figure out our characters and then start?

Oh and no, I don't plan on doing a bio block lol

[Mynt]

In Lost Odyssey the main character is an immortal that has lost his memories of where he comes from and why he is immortal. Most of the game is trying to unlock his memories (also there's a side quest to unlock 1000 more >_> ). I think there are four other immortals roaming around the world of mortals too. It's been a while since I've played it. It's pretty good and underrated. But the main character has/had a daughter who grew older, got sick and died. He's got young grandchildren and stuff. One of the other immortals looks like a young twenty-something girl and has a sixty year old son. Clearly they have different problems.

[Zephyr Shenkiken]

Indeed lol. Yeah it looked good, I just hadn't come around to playing it. I still have plenty of stuff I need to finish like Last Remnant, bioshock, and folklore.

Another thing I'm thinking.

Since the ruling immortals obviously have females in their ranks I don't believe the traditional treatment of women in those times will wholly apply here.

Also, I'm still trying to work my character out in my head, but I know I would like to have an immortal who is seeking God in this campfire. By that I mean it's kind of their goal to 'find' him as much sense as that makes with their immortal disposition. I'd like at least one of them to believe in him if that's possible. AND we need a person who basically discovers an ancient 'modern' city ruin and begins to get their memories back. I might do that one just cause I see it in my head. Really though I'm trying to keep the reigns loose on this to see what people come up with.

[Aldersmaine]

then we better get it started eh?

[Zephyr Shenkiken]

Alright, Mortality it is.

[Quaddy]

Might I be a musician? I wouldn't mind being the entity looking for God. I'm not sure she would be a believer in Him in a faithful sort of way, but in a more intellectual capacity...

[Zephyr Shenkiken]

That'll be just fine The campfire is Mortality and has it's own subboard now. I'm gonna build it and send out invites now.

[Mynt]

Anyone feel up to maybe doing a demon hunter kind of campfire with me?

[Zephyr Shenkiken]

I might. You want me to make a board for it or are you still brainstorming?

[Mynt]

So far I'm just gauging interest. And then I'll finalize the ideas (after I'm caught up on adds, of course). I'm just kind of itching to get into something that's more in my comfort zone. n_n;;