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~Happily Ever After~
~New Dales Radio~ Going good? Going great? Going grand? Hope its the best day you ever have. Until tomorrow, that is. Aha ha! And me? Well, you know you me New Dales I’m happiest with you. Nowhere else in all this broken world I’d rather be. Honestly, could you picture me anywhere else but here in the station sharing the morning with all my gruesome cuties? I didn’t think so. So let’s start off our day of days with a bit of advice from those nice folk over in the Church. The good word is that they’ve spotted out a storm of the magical variety blowing in. Now, before you get yourself all twisted with worry let me tell you that it won’t be hitting us here in the city. No, no this one is heading for our friends in the north sticks. So if you happen to be heading that way in the next couple days I’d say you cancel and stay home where it’s safe. However, if you happen to be one of my listeners from out there though I hope you have somewhere to dig in and wait it out because I’d sure hate to have something happen to you. Moving on we got ourselves a bit sadness here. You all remember Johnny? Well, if you don’t shame on you because he’s been a good friend to New Dales for a long time now not to mention a personal buddy of yours truly. Johnny is a bit of an adventurer whose done a lot of good for a lot of people but he’s had a few rough years now that haven’t done this mind any favors. Ever since his wife gone off and ran away with the molemen he’s been slipping a bit and telling a whole lot of tall tales. Just last month he was in here telling me about the marshmallow kingdom. Well you can believe I sat him down and told him it straight. Told him, Johnny there aint no kingdom of fluffy white people. Well, that didn’t stop our wayward friend from going off to find them. Johnny does that from time to time and we love him eccentrics and all. This time though a patrol out looking for supplies in ruins out east happened on his lucky helmet filled with white goo and blood. You know me friendos. I’m a realistic kind of guy and I don’t expect nothing good from this but I’ll say if there is anyone I know that can surprise me it’d be Johnny. So if you happen to find yourself with some good thoughts to spare maybe you might send em his way. Now onto some better news, our mutual friend ol’ Walley McCorn is back in town with a whole new hoard of goodies. Alright, I know some of you out there have had trouble with our spelunking friend in the past and don’t think I don’t know most of it is warranted. The boy is good at what he does though and when it comes to trading is as honest as you can hope. So be good now and let us trade in peace. Ya hear? So let’s leave that alone for now and talk about the weather. It is coming to be that time of year again and you know what that means…
~Premise~ The world has gone mad but whether you revel it in it or rise above it is up to you.
~Abernathy's Need to Know Topics~ ~The Apocalypse~ Fires burned on for days after the big day. Then you had the dark times when the sun was blotted out by a wall of clouds filled with all kinds of nasty stuff. If that wasn’t bad enough you had the arrival magic that just stormed across the ashes changing every little thing. Between all that you can hardly blame the geography for being so different nowadays. Doubt it’s even recognizable. Course that was so long ago we can barely guess at a timeline. Whole things more myth than history by this point. ~Magic~ You keeping up? That power saturated the world like a nutrient you dig? Places heavy with it tend to have their own rules that break everything we understand and when that concentration goes mobile we make sure to do our best to stay out of its way. It does a lot of weird shit that we can’t explain so its just better to leave it alone. Not everyone does though. Mages. They can tap into that power and harness that impossible shit. Now, they say its like a science with a predictable cause and effect but I don’t get it. Others say the ability to use it is a mutation but I don’t know nothin about that either. I stay out of it. What I do know is that pretty much every mage has their own way of doing it and they keep the how under wraps. Most take only a handful of apprentices in their lifetime which helps keep their number thankfully low. ~Curse Marks~ Can’t call ‘em boring though. ~New Dales~ Long ago, there was a man named Dale who found the ruins of an ancient city and made it his home. People from far and wide would come in time to live within his city and together they reclaimed the heart of the ruins. New Dales is not that land. New Dales is the city that came after a magical plague swept through his city and turned them all into mutants unable to stand the light of day and forced them all underground never to be seen again. Opportunistic raiders pillaged the abandoned city of Dales. New Dales is what came next after more opportunistic settlers moved in on the ruins of the ruins of Dales. They fixed up the place and even expanded and made sure to take measures against future magic related catastrophes. The city became a bustling hub of trade as well as a bastion of safety and order in an otherwise cruel and lawless world. The city filled rapidly and with each year found the need to expand through the reclamation of the ruins of the city they lived within. ~Church of Knowledge~ The Light Below did share with them the light of knowing and with it they broke the chains of ignorance and began the long road of reclamation. He had given freely of his light but was not the lesser for it. He was the light and he was spread across the world for all who were willing to accept it. Church are nice enough folk who go about teaching people all that they managed to preserve from the old times. They’ve gone and venerated scientists and authors of the like of the past and consider them saints and the like. Their priests can get pretty preachy but on the whole they are pretty alright folks until you get into the upper tiers. That’s when you start running into the weird ones. I do mean weird too. Its the basic priests that do the teaching but if they get promoted from that by passing a test they pick a sect and...well you’ll understand if you meet em. ~~~~~~~ Pythagoreans - These guys spend their whole lives thinking about numbers and equations. Think they can use that mumbo jumbo to predict stuff. They are not ones for social graces and aren’t the best at dealing with people. Copernicans - Their focus on celestial bodies if famous as well as their cringey attempts to hit on the opposite sex with zodiac talk. Teslites - These are the builders and inventors of the church. They are also probably the coolest of the sects and the most socially active. Take that as you will. Lavoisierans - Some call them alchemists while they call themselves chemists but both are about as right as the other. They spend their days playing with beakers creating and curing unspeakable things with a smile. They are kind of creepy but you can’t deny that don’t cut a dashing figure in those coats of theirs. Heisenbergians - These guys do the hard science. The stuff thats liable to get us all killed some day. Still, they are pretty stand up guys so long as they aren’t working on the science to blow up the world. Wallachian - Creepy. That’s the word. They mess around with the body a bit more than anyone would like and have a habit of creating monsters. Well, maybe not monsters because they don’t always attack anyone but they are certainly ugly. Heracliteans - These are priests obssessed with the words and music that call upon darker emotions. They tend to go on at length about their theories on human nature that are usually as unsettling as they are inappropriate for childrens birthday parties. Democrateans - The Democrateans are the opposite of their contemparories in that they focus on the more optimistic and upbeat works of literature and music. Painfully so at times. ~Inquisition~ Just got to take the good with the bad I suppose. ~Wizard Union~ Probably.
~Character Sheet~ [Appearance] Theme: Something fitting for your character. Yes it is required. Name: What’s your character's name and any aliases they might have. Gender: Be creative. Age: Standard age range applies unless you support it in your bio. Bio: Talk about your history. You are all in New Dales now but you don’t necessarily have to have been there all your life. Feel free to make up locations if you need to. I won’t tell you what kind of characters to make but keep in mind the kind of rp this is and the tone it has. You don’t have to conform to it but if you try to make something too serious you may find it hard to relate to the setting. Mutations: It is not abnormal for someone to have a physical mutation. If you have one list it here in as much detail as you feel necessary. If you don’t have one feel free to just cut this out. Magic: Mages are rare but they exist. List your style here along with the kind of magic you use which should include the theory behind it as well as how you invoke it. There are many ways to cast spells so don’t worry about the details. If you don’t use magic feel free to cut this out. Note- When mages cast spells while using technological attacks in concert with one another their magic is weakened. There are a number of theories for this but the fact is that it happens and should be taken into account. Talents: These are skills unrelated to magic of mutations or curse marks. If you are good with a weapon put that here. If you have a background in a science put that here. Anything your character can do that is worth noting put here. Include as many and as much detail as you feel is required. Curse: If you want a curse ask for one before you make your character. There will be no rerolls and if you ask for it you will have to accept it. Don’t worry, they are not going to make you useless. If anything you will be more interesting. If you don’t want one feel free to cut out this section. Inventory: Anything on your character that is worth mentioning.
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