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Post  Fragmaster01 Thu Dec 24, 2009 10:30 pm

More spewings of gameworlds; this one showed interest from people, so up here it goes:

Picture a happy fun world, where people are neither happy nor fun, though they try to get along anyway. Unlike our world, their's is a land that subsists off the trappings of other cultures outside their own, for this world is created from the things and people forgotten by our world: dirty socks, ancient religions, and people who really don't know how to ask for directions. While the world is a mismatch of lost cultures, places where the Luminiferous Ether still hasn't been disproven, and complexes run on 1950's scifi movie computers, it is a vibrant land where the forgotten get another chance at life, provided they don't end up forgetting themselves in the process.
The players are new arrivals to this world, themselves having been forgotten by Earth. While the chance to run around and enjoy what could have been on our planet is enjoyable, caution is needed, as the only thing keeping the characters as themselves is their memory of who they are and where they're from, and the more they forget, the more they become as the rest of these forgotten folk.

Setting: Varies. The world the players find themselves in is a mixture of various lost memories of Earth, and thus technology, geography, and even culture depend on where that particular memory came from.

Characters: Players have leeway here, provided it doesn't hang up the party. You don't even have to be a generic person, as imaginary friends and split personalities find their way here as surely as any physical being.
Characters use Memory as their 10-point stat, representing how properly they remember who they are and what they've done. Note that false memories are worse than no memories, and in fact, a person with generic amnesia(not knowing what they've done, but still having an idea of what they are) is only a 5, whereas someone who thinks he's someone completely different would be near the bottom of the scale(a 10 would be someone with a photographic memory). Committing actions against their moral code can also cause Memory to slip if the character cannot reconcile these actions, due to mental trauma and their self image not being true to who they really are.
The lower a player's Memory slips, the more they become akin to their Mask, a forgotten creature or being that represents the character's desires and ideals. A character with a Memory of 5 has the complete physical form of their Mask, while lower causes them to take on the mental attributes and possible exaggerations of their form, while higher lets them keep more of their original form. In reverse, the higher a player's Memory, the more resistant they are to laws and abilities of the world.
Players can choose where their Memory stat starts, between 10(requires the Eidetic Memory merit) and 5, with 7-8 being average.
A player should pick their Mask at character creation, though how much(if at all) it shows depends on their Memory stat. Note that while a Mask is a forgotten creature, there is leeway in what it can be(aka, you could have a Vampire as a Mask, provided it is the old Dracula style, which was forgotten for the modern sex-god style vampire.) Then again, going nuts with the idea is always better, almost no one remembers what an Encantador is, thus it's the perfect reason to pick one.
Spellcasting is simplified in this setting. A player can cast any effect in a school of magic they've learned, within the limits of how many dots you have in that school. A player suffers a -1 the first time they attempt to use an effect, though this goes away after their first success at it. Likewise, a player can still purchase spells, this provides a +1 when using that effect.

Thoughts? Suggestions? Vehement rage and scorn? Well, maybe not the last one, but do shout off what you think, or if you're interested in playing.

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Post  Caput Fri Dec 25, 2009 12:13 am

Yum. Talked through some stuff with frag, have a character. Who else is in?
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