[PBEM News] Acatia, a Final Fantasy AU RPG From: popesilas@hotmail-dot-com.no-spam.invalid (ngten1144) Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 17:05:13 +0000 WANTED: * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * -Princesses, magicians, jesters, politicians, alchemists, and so on- The basics: Name- Acatia System- Play-by-post on "Greatestjournal" Suggested age- 18+ The premise- Acatia is an RPG set in the Final Fantasy world, AU style. All the characters and locations are original work. Exceptions are few and generally have a very clear purpose in the game. Gameplay is completed through message boards, and will include all the video game classics: dungeons, combat, magic, heroism and love. The "level up" system will be accomplished through a directed, real-time game schedule. Acatia is planned for a span of 9 to 12 months, so a character who joined at the very beginning can expect to be about half as powerful as his in-game potential by 4.5 months. How is the game played? Approved characters create a unique, in-character journal for this community. With this, they post into the community forum in a storybook-style writing system, broken up into "scenes" of varying lengths. Each character (using his unique, in-character journal) adds/friends the communities and moderators, plus every other player in the game. Thus when a fellow player posts a story piece, all the other players can read it in the right chronological context. This game is not exactly freeform. Character applications are tedious, strenous and grueling- only the best will enter here. There will be no "my character is randomly wandering through a forest, who wants to RP??" here- a clearly defined character plot is required, and those which have a great deal of relevance to the main story of the game are highly encouraged. The plot will be directed to discourage "floating" or "wandering", but character dynamic and interaction will be as free as the character's discussion. The mods' intent is not to control, but to present a storyline for characters to play in. Our influences will be anything found in the beautiful, heartwrenching work of Squaresoft and SquareEnix. We're looking for bards like Edward, mages like Vivi, fighters like Sora and healers like Rena. Acatia needs mayors, priests, pirates, ambassadors and thieves. Acatia needs monsters. But, because this is an AU RPG, we're not looking specifically for Edward, Vivi, Sora and Rena. We encourage you to make up a character as wildly colorful and believable as those, but don't want to see carbon copies of the copyrighted characters we've all come to love. Keep in mind as you brainstorm your own little world that the following is an accurate but incomplete list of games created by the Square legacy:The Final Fantasy Series Parasite Eve Super Mario RPG Secret of Evermore The Final Fantasy Tactics Series Brave Fencer Musashi The Xenogears Series Threads of Fate Kingdom Hearts Chrono Trigger Secret of Mana The SaGa Series The Breath of Fire Series...mature, talented players needed for influential roles. Instructions for requesting to join the game- Contact Silas at popesilas@hotmail.com with questions, or apply at the game website. If you need help creating a journal or with the journal technicalities, we're more than willing to help. URL- http://www.greatestjournal.com/userinfo.bml?user=acatia Extra stuff, personal info: The two mods have run a total of 4 PBeMs together, lasting 3, 2, 10 and 12 months long. Individually, we've each run less successful ones on our own. Apparently working together just works for us. We're really excited to begin this one, and have plans for a long-term game with a very talented player base. If you've ever liked a Square game, you'll probably enjoy playing in this magical world. -- posted from PBEM News - PBEM listings and announcements Reply to this post at http://www.rpglibrary.org/news/ Up