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DawnsLight
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100 years from our present level of advancement, God once more sends a global flood to cleanse it of sin, ending life on Earth as we know it. The population is greatly reduced, cities sunk and lost, the face of the planet changed entirely. People make due as best they can, until a mysterious and deadly virus known was the Vitusdance appears and ravages the remaining population, killing all the adults on the planet. Anyone who has already gone through puberty is dead, leaving only children to fend for themselves and rebuild society. From this rises the Angelitic Church, led by the glorious Pontifex Maximus Petrus Secondus, the child Pope who sits on the throne of what is for all intents and purposes the center of civilization, Roma Aeturna, formerly Vatican City and Rome.
Under the rule of the Pontifex, the Angelitic Church spreads throughout the land and civilization flourishes. There are still heretic holdouts against the Church; junklords who insist upon the sin of using and studying antediluvian technology. They are dealt with harshly.
There are also other threats; gigantic beasts called Dreamseed wreak havoc and Infernos scorch the land, creating impassable territories known as The Brandlands around what is left of Europe, cutting it off from the rest of the world.
But God saw that The Lord of Flies plagued the lands of the Angelitic Church, and so He sent to them His Engel in their time of need.
There are six Orders of Engel: Michaelitin, Remielitin, Raphaelitin, Gabrielitin, Urielitin, and Sarielitin. Each have different powers or miracles called "Potestates" that are unique to their order. All Engel are children. They are sent to Earth from Heaven resembling young children and are Purified and sent back to Heaven when they are older and the corruption of the physical plane is too much for them. When they are very young, Engel recieve training in their respective Himmels- giant towers that house them and are hubs of the Church- in order to learn how to use their Potestates and fight the Dreamseed.
When the Engel complete their training they are taken to Roma Aeturna to form fellowships with the other orders and receive blessing from the Pontifex before going out into the world to do the Lord's work.
This is a post-apocalyptic sci-fi RPG with horror elements and some pretty wicked plot twists, and a lot of potential for in-depth character growth. You play as Engel, (unless for some reason you decide you don't want to. Why wouldn't you want to?) and so your characters basically grow up together. There's drama, there's possible romance, there's a lot of psychology and self-discovery!
So, all that said (and there's still so much more to say!), does anyone have any thoughts on this? I would very much like to start something but a) I'm new to the forum thing and I'm not exactly sure how to run a game this way and b) I don't know how this might translate from the tabletop to the forum. Ideas and mentorship would be greatly appreciated! Please let me know if anyone would be interested in something like this?
Under the rule of the Pontifex, the Angelitic Church spreads throughout the land and civilization flourishes. There are still heretic holdouts against the Church; junklords who insist upon the sin of using and studying antediluvian technology. They are dealt with harshly.
There are also other threats; gigantic beasts called Dreamseed wreak havoc and Infernos scorch the land, creating impassable territories known as The Brandlands around what is left of Europe, cutting it off from the rest of the world.
But God saw that The Lord of Flies plagued the lands of the Angelitic Church, and so He sent to them His Engel in their time of need.
There are six Orders of Engel: Michaelitin, Remielitin, Raphaelitin, Gabrielitin, Urielitin, and Sarielitin. Each have different powers or miracles called "Potestates" that are unique to their order. All Engel are children. They are sent to Earth from Heaven resembling young children and are Purified and sent back to Heaven when they are older and the corruption of the physical plane is too much for them. When they are very young, Engel recieve training in their respective Himmels- giant towers that house them and are hubs of the Church- in order to learn how to use their Potestates and fight the Dreamseed.
When the Engel complete their training they are taken to Roma Aeturna to form fellowships with the other orders and receive blessing from the Pontifex before going out into the world to do the Lord's work.
This is a post-apocalyptic sci-fi RPG with horror elements and some pretty wicked plot twists, and a lot of potential for in-depth character growth. You play as Engel, (unless for some reason you decide you don't want to. Why wouldn't you want to?) and so your characters basically grow up together. There's drama, there's possible romance, there's a lot of psychology and self-discovery!
So, all that said (and there's still so much more to say!), does anyone have any thoughts on this? I would very much like to start something but a) I'm new to the forum thing and I'm not exactly sure how to run a game this way and b) I don't know how this might translate from the tabletop to the forum. Ideas and mentorship would be greatly appreciated! Please let me know if anyone would be interested in something like this?