[PBEM News] Cause & Effect: A Fey/Sidhe RPG

From: webmaster@artisticchardon-dot-com.no-spam.invalid (artisticchardon)

Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2006 03:05:17 +0000

Cause & Effect is based on Laurell K Hamilton's Merry Gentry
series, using original characters and an original plot. It is open to
people who are not familar with the book series as long as they have
read and understood the information on the website.

Please see the website for all information and to join -
http://fae.artisticchardon.com

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Plot:

When the fey were allowed to settle in America, they were forced to
agree to certain limitations as well as peace between the courts.
Many fey lost much of their power, as well as their true names and
they were no longer gods. The peace between the Seelie and Unseelie
Court did happen to a certain extent. The brutal wars and slaughters
stopped, but peace never came. Even now in present day those that
wander outside their own Sithen are asking for trouble.
Assasinations, duels, rapes and political battles have not stopped.
Those that were exiled from the Seelie Court also seek revenge now
that they belong to the Unseelie Court.

Some of the Sidhe nobles have grown bored, and the younger fey born
after the great wars are outside the rivalry. There are still a great
many Sidhe of both Courts that have not forgotten past grievances and
the Sidhe do not visit the other court. There is peace between the
Goblins the Unseelie Court, and their alliance is firm. Each Court
also retains it's own court of demi-fey.

The fey have diplomatic immunity and as long as their battles happen
on their land, the humans are none the wiser. It is getting
increasingly harder to retain good public relations with the human
press, for both Courts. The Queen of the Seelie Court and King of the
Unseelie Court are aware that one small slip in front of the humans
would cause them unwanted trouble.

And so the discussions began, an uneasy alliance to be struck to save
all of fey from being cast out of the last country that welcomes them
without forcing them to give up their culture. In the end the Queen
and King came to an agreement; The Queen's youngest daughter
(Princess Bryanna) would marry the King's only son. With her eldest
daughter married and with a child, the Queen does not fear the
Unseelie Prince gaining access to the Unseelie throne.

The Queen has selected seven Guards to ensure Princess Bryanna's
safety while she remains in the Unseelie Court. It has been left
unsaid that the Seelie Nobles will never welcome the Princess or her
Guards back to the Seelie Court. The Unseelie Court welcomes anyone,
the Seelie Court does not, they fear the Unseelie Court.

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Other Information:

The RPG has just opened and so a lot of important characters are
avaliable to be played. Please see this page for more details:
http://fae.artisticchardon.com/accept.html

The RPG will begin with the Queen informing her youngest daughter of
the alliance and her engagement to the Unseelie Prince. The selection
of Guards sent with Princess Bryanna will include the Captain, two
Guards that are her friends/allies, two neutral Guards and two Guards
that do not like her. All of them will be aware that they are leaving
the Seelie Court forever.

To begin the RPG we do need a lot of people involved in the plot, and
as the RPG grows there will be more room for people to create
sub-plots within each Court. The Nobles and Guards will be from a
variety of political positions; some will try to stop the Princess
even reaching the Unseelie Court, and there are bound to be some
assassination attempts.
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