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Universal Apple RP
Hi fellow CBers! I expect you are wondering what a Universal Apple is.
Well. I will tell you of course! A Universal Apple is a supernatural apple that does different things depending on what universe it currently resides in. The one thing it never does is be edible. But it looks like a perfectly normal apple, except when its abilities are not being exploited.
So I came up with this concept and thought, let's do an RP from it! But I will impose some rules...
These are all based on the fact that a lot of RPs have very busy plots crowded with an overload of characters and settings, not to mention the RPers having very little idea how to get all of it to make sense. So...
1. No more than three main protagonists. All other side protagonists must be comic relief or intended to play a minor role in the plot, or be part of a subplot (but that subplot must be reasonable and not crowd the main narrative, and we don't really want more than one such subplot). Please announce your intention of how your character will fit into the story when you create him or her.
2. One main villain, and one assistant/henchman/henchwoman to the villain. Did you see The Amazing Spider-Man 2? Did you notice that it had three villains? Did you notice that there was a lot going on? If the answer is yes, you understand the reasoning here quite well.
3. Just two or three main settings. Again, we don't want a lot going on, and we don't want to create a million settings so we are forced to jump all over the place wondering what to do.
4. MOST IMPORTANT RULE: We will develop this RP before writing it. We will form a basic idea of who the characters are, what the conflict is, and where the story will go. We will find a way for everybody who joins to play a part. And we will not begin writing the story until after that is all figured out.
5. And finally: the heartbreaker. Sorry... but if you see this RP and we're in the middle of it, you can't join halfway through. No exceptions. You can read it and comment on how we're doing, but you may not join officially and write in a new character halfway through the story. So if you intend to join this RP, you should do it before we begin writing.
There we go. Please join!!
submitted by Joe the Stickfiddler, age 14, Apple Vortex
(June 13, 2014 - 5:27 pm)
(June 13, 2014 - 5:27 pm)
I will post a character tomorrow. I have just arrived back from Iowa.
(June 17, 2014 - 7:35 pm)
(June 18, 2014 - 8:33 am)
I was actually thinking the villain could be the president of the UUAUP. But you could revise Remedy and make her a secretary to the president or something.
(June 18, 2014 - 4:22 pm)
Weeeeeell I'm NOT going to rewrite her whole profile again. But I will revise here, and just write the revisions below:
So she DID get the universal apple from her universe and univers jumped or whatever, but landed (since you can land literally anywhere in the multi-verse) in the UUAUP president's mansion as he was heading off to bed. Seeing how she had a universal apple, he quickly took it from her, hid it, and hired her as his secretary. (I'm going to assume here that the president already has his own small collection of universal apples that he's not telling anyone about...? If so, that's where Remedy's apple went.) Although Remedy plays the part of a clueless secretary, she's actually plotting against the president so she can find her apple, reveal how evil he truely is (something a CLUELESS secretary wouldn't notice, but a not so clueless one would) and get revenge on the kingdom from her universe that she was a servant at yadayadayada. The thing is, the more she finds out about the president's true intentions, the more she finds herself agreeing with them and supporting him not as an act but out of her own ideals.
If that works. I can change it again.
(June 18, 2014 - 5:25 pm)
Actually... I don't think he should have a collection. The Universal Apple is supposed to be special, so I think to make it more so the Apples should be rare, or there should only be one. Plus if the president already has a collection of Apples, why is he getting more people to find another one? It could be that she lost the Apple, and he thinks she knows where it is but she doesn't or something.
(June 18, 2014 - 7:44 pm)
Yeah, well, it was just an assumption. If he was making people get apples, they would assume he didn't have any of his own, and if someone DID find one (sort of like Remedy) he would take it from them and make sure they didn't say anything about it. I understand the apples are suppose to be rare, but with the amount of universes there are, hundreds of thousands of immense universes, I still think that the probablity someone like the president, who is very powerful with lots of connections, would have a couple of the apples wouldn't be unlikely. But, you know, we can just say that when Remedy's apple helped her get out of her universe, she lost it before she found the president. Then he wouldn't have much of a reason to hire her as a secretary, but oh well.
(June 20, 2014 - 4:50 pm)
Hey! Okay, so I can change whatever but what if I was like a minor character in Beth's world? Here's what I thinking...
Name: Gail Delilah Peters
Age: 24
Universe: Beth's? Like, if you end up there to try to stop the war. Any place with some big conflict, probably, although I could change her.
Appearance: Tall and strong. Really short black hair with a faded strip of dyed electric blue. Big blue eyes. A few battle scars: one on her thigh, her hand, and one long one, a slash across her face. Dresses in military uniform--aka ratty clothes with armor over them, dark metal with stripes of blue and purple. Her face is hard and she almost never smiles. Her hands are calloused. Her eyes are pretty, but barely hint to anything within her beyond cold.
Personality: Cold, doesn't get attached to people. She gives out insults like halloween candy and compliments like any-other-day-of-the-year candy. She's extremely protective of the young or weak soldiers. She's kind and holds high morals, but doesn't show it and seems to have forgotten them. She's always been stoic, but only now is she lonely. If she let's you in, you're very special. And lucky.
Job: Sargeant. She runs a platoon of underpowered soldiers. Her job? Take out the enemy. Her plan? Stay the heck away from conflict and keep her crew alive, all while training them and not letting them think for one second they're safe or avoiding anything.
Mission: Get her life back. Watch the war end and emerge without casualties, to a real life, a family, maybe a home in the country where she grew up. Ahe wants to find her family - and herself.
Backstory: She grew up in a nice house in the country. When she was old enough, and the war got bad enough, she joined the army, hoping to keep her family and younger siblings out. She heard they left home while she was fighting, but doesn't know if they are alive. She had to face many uncomfortable things while fighting. She had to kill people, do things she never planned on. She soon discovered she had a talent - and distaste - for war. She learned how to gamble, intimidate, fight, and keep up with the other soldiers, the older ones, and the ones with more training. She made friends with some of the others in her troop. She was known as being tough, but also teasing and funny. During a particularly bad battle she watched most of them fall. Whe was promoted for her bravery and goven her own troop. She became what's known as a coward: someone who won't face the battles, someone who cares more for lives than her country. She's heard of the Apple - she has a dream of using it to jump ship and get her gang and her to safety in some other cushy dimension. She knows it won't happen. The Apple's an old wives-tale, and even if it is real she'd never see it. Besides, this is war.
As someone who hates overly angsty characters, a surprising amount of mine end up like this :/ Okay, tell me if I should change something!
(June 19, 2014 - 12:45 am)
Sounds great. From what I picked up. I only skimmed it, for now, I am kinda busy. Which is my explanation for allowing this to fall down from inactivity. Will be back for longer later!!!
(June 23, 2014 - 4:57 pm)
(June 19, 2014 - 1:01 pm)
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Lonnie
(June 24, 2014 - 11:59 am)
Maybe we ought to keep up the RP during our IC...
(June 25, 2014 - 3:20 pm)
@JtSf: I'm thinking maybe you should kick off the RP.
(June 25, 2014 - 3:45 pm)
(June 25, 2014 - 3:33 pm)
Well, we need to plan out a beginning, middle, climax, and happy ending. So...
Beginning: Gavin and Beth are commissioned and sent off to find the Universal Apple bye their governments in their own separate universes. They go off.
Middle: Somewhere along the way Gavin and Beth cross paths, work together to find the apple, and after a series of other events which are yet to be worked out they eventually locate the Apple. But then they discover what the UUAUP really wants with it and that they are evil.
Climax: other stuff happens, Gavin and Beth go back to the UUAUP, there is some kind of confrontation with the president and everything, stuff happens
Happy ending: Somehow, good prevails, the President is defeated/killed/sacked/whatever, and all Universes achieve peace and it's great.
We need to flesh this out. Most important detail: what does the UUAUP really want with the Universal Apple? Why is it bad? What else is going on, who else is involved, where and how do these things happen, etc.
(June 26, 2014 - 12:54 pm)
That all sounds good to me. I was wondering if Remedy perhaps joins us, maybe undercover or not telling us she's with UUAUP?
Everything else totally works for me. I'm game.
Why does the UUAUP want the Universal Apple... *inadvertently screams out WORLD DOMINATION!* Well, I guess it would be Universal Domination. But anyways, that's automatically where my mind goes. Could that be why they want the Apple? Perhaps the Apple gives literal powers, or infinite knowledge, or something like that? Perhaps you find out the UUAUP has branches in every universe? (Or was that already the plan?) I'm going to assume we learn about the Apple as we travel from universe to universe. Perhaps talking to people and stuff. Perhaps UUAUP also sends people to try and stop us?
These are all suggestions. You're perfectly allowed to say it's all rot and throw it out.
(June 26, 2014 - 9:48 pm)