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Jan 14, 2008 18:20

The game idea for the proposal I have to do this week.

Odessa - f, main character, knight, 26
Tomas - m, main character, ranger, 22
Reign - m, main character, mage, 31
Penny - f, main character, healer, 14
Sheila Ann - f, main character, gunner, 19
Luck - m, main character, bard, 47
Barnaul - m, main character, thief, 29

Kingdom 1 is at war with kingdom 2 because kingdom 2 has discovered gunpowder and started making guns.

Odessa is a knight from kingdom 1 sent to infiltrate kingdom 2 to try and destroy their supply of gunpowder. She’s assigned a ranger, Tomas, to help her get there. Along the way they are waylaid by bandits, led by Penny. Penny hears what they are trying to do, and as a lot of her bandits are getting killed by guns, she decides to join the party. After reaching kingdom 2 they come across Reign, a deposed high magician of kingdom 2’s court. The reason why he was kicked out is unclear, but he wishes to take revenge so he too joins your party. You reach the capital, but someone knew you were coming and everyone is arrested and thrown into a jail that’s situated on an island off the coast of kingdom 2. In prison you meet Sheila Ann. She was once a loyal servant of kingdom 2, but she came across a secret that, if revealed, could end the war between the two countries. To exact her revenge she wishes to tell the king of kingdom 1 this secret, so joins your party. You escape from the island, but you’re stuck on how to get across to the mainland. After finally making your way down to the shore, you run into Luck and Barnaul, two highwaymen who agree to take you across to kingdom 2. In exchange, they wish to travel with you for a while, as they are highly wanted men in kingdom 2. You agree and they also join the party. You make your way back to kingdom 1 to report the little you know, Sheila Ann’s secret, and to escort Luck and Barnaul to safety. Along the way you are ambushed by troops from kingdom 2. You flee, and Luck stays behind to stall them and ends up getting killed. You make it to the capital of kingdom 1, however, and get an audience with the king. Sheila Ann reveals her secret - that the king of kingdom 2 is really the king’s long thought dead brother. He doesn’t know this, though, as his advisors have kept it a secret from him. The king sends you back to kingdom 2 to rescue his brother and destroy the gunpowder, with the promise that if Penny helps she’ll be given a royal pardon. Barnaul expresses his desire to stay with your party, as he wants to take revenge on those who killed Luck. As the troops from kingdom 2 is searching for you, you are sent to see an old inventor, who has made the world’s only airship, in order to borrow it to get across the border. When you reach there, the inventor recognizes Reign as the man who created gunpowder. The rest of the party turns on him for this, but Odessa believes in him and decides to give him a second chance. The group is forced to split up and go out and get the parts to fix up the airship, as it has sat in disrepair for many years. After they finish they reconvene at the inventor’s house. He fixes the airship and they’re on their way to kingdom 2. However, before they can leave they find out that kingdom 2 has sent a large battalion of troops towards the capital. You can either go save the king, or go fight with the troops. If you fight with the troops, the king dies and his son takes over, but a lot of the troops are saved. If you save the king, a lot of the troops die and the king’s son dies in the second attack that happens later. After either scenario, you’re on your way to kingdom 2 in the airship. You manage to reach the capital, but your airship gets blown out of the sky by a new weapon, the rocket. You party is split again and you must play through all three scenarios to get everyone to the capital. Once inside, you make your way to the castle, fighting through a bunch of troops, as well as the captain of the contingent who killed Luck. Upon reaching the castle, you find the king. Sheila Ann tells him that he’s really the brother of the other king, and just as soon as he’s ready to declare that the war is over, his head advisor kills him. You must then fight the zombified body of the king, and afterwards you have to fight the advisor, who is a powerful mage and Reign’s old teacher. Right before he dies he reveals that the true king was Reign, but he was afraid Reign would be hurt so he kidnapped the king when he was a baby and switched them out. Reign grew up as the advisor’s apprentice, and the king grew up in the wrong royal family. Reign immediately steps up to the throne and declares that the war is over.

A few months later, Reign is officially crowned as king. Odessa has been pardoned from her post as a knight of kingdom 1 and seems to be Reign’s new advisor. Penny is back with her group of bandits, who are now living the simple life and trying to rebuild kingdom 1. Tomas is with her, and he promises to marry her when she grows up. Sheila Ann’s endings can differ upon whether or not you saved the king. If you did, she is living with the inventor of the airship, having become his apprentice. If you didn’t, she is shown marrying the king’s son, who has been crowned king himself. Barnaul is shown at Luck’s grave. He has become a bard, like Luck was, and is traveling around spreading the story of the party’s adventure together.

Critiques would be lovely.

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