Tooniversal Studios - Toons: Prologue Adventure!

[Michale CS]

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There are many worlds that are part of what is collectively known as the Tooniverse. This is just one of them.
Ever since the arrival of the Animators to the Tooniverse, things have changed. A lot. Disparate characters from across the Tooniverse encounter each other for whatever amusement, whim or purpose the Animators have in store for our Animated players in their stories.

Many Toons put forth that it is the Animators that are limited. Animators are far weaker than the Animated when they are in the Tooniverse, in much the same way the Animated are essentially just annoyances to the Animators and the other "real" people outside of the Tooniverse.

Many of the Animated are unaware of the Animators or the Tooniverse as a whole. That is not the case for the protagonists of our story, or of any story told by Tooniversal Studios. They are painfully aware that it was an Animator who dreamed up the concept of them. Thankfully, it has not been shown that the Animators can take away the spark of life as easily as they give it (which, if you ask an Animator, isn't all that easy).

They also know that they are "Main Characters" and thus very unlikely to perish in their adventures - unless it is a much-dreaded Plot Point. These things, often spewed forth by machines only Main Characters can see called Plot Devices (which to the characters look like Rube Goldberg and HP Lovecraft collaborated on a machine design), are the most feared things of all to the Animated. Nothing can harm a Plot Device, and one its gears begin grinding, nothing can stop it from reaching its conclusion, for good or ill.

The world pictured above is known as Aeryth ( pronounced 'earth' ), and our progagonists find themselves in an inn with an amazing restaurant and bar, presumably just in from whatever disparate adventures they had prior to their arrival... to the town of Amberton, in the Human Kingdom - called the Commonwealth - bordered by the Orc Empire of Grazz on the north, the Elf Kingdom (with a nigh impossible to pronounce name) to the south, the Dwarven Kingdom of Iron Holm to the east, and the Misty Sea to the West.

Whatever world our protagonists were in before is a distant memory... they remember their world of origin, but it is only in their mind as a reminder of who they are. None of them are from Aeryth, because, you see, Aeryth is new. A new world written by the Senior Animator.

The inn is full of people, mostly humans, but some other races - except the hated Orcs - are present as well. A bard performs on stage, and there is a "job board" in one corner with various postings pleading for adventurers to help... And of course the obligatory "shady corner" with a strange hooded man sitting alone...