Universal Apple R

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Universal Apple R

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)

Remedy joins them, finds out they're trying to stop the president and stuff, and efficiantly stops them from doing so by any means! EVIL CONQUERS AND THE MULTI-VERSE FALLS INTO A TIME OF DEPRESION, DESPAIR, AND CRUELTY! BWAHAHAHAHAHAhahaha.... haha... ha...

So that's out. 

submitted by Theo W., Dark, Dreary Places
(June 27, 2014 - 9:45 am)

BWAHAHAHAHA I'VE HAD AN IDEA OF WHY THE PRESIDENT ACTUALLY HIRES REMEMDY AS HIS SECRETARY THAT NO ONE IS GOING TO LIKE!

Remedy eats the apple.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

"What Theo doesn't the apple NEVER look edible?"

Oh yeah. Right. Well then. Thanks, Remedy, for breaking the rules AGAIN.

 

What I'm confused with right now is the whole UUAUP evil, or is just the president? I thought it was something like this:

Character: President

Location: The place the UUAUP is.

Obstacle: People who want to stop him, pressumably Gavin and Beth

Goal: Control the multi-verse with the universal apple (?)

But is it actually like this:

C: The UUAUP

L: The place the UUAUP is

O: People who find out their plans and wish to stop them

G: World domination? Universe domination? Multi-verse domination? Perhaps actually multiverse PEACE?

I don't know. Just thowing things out there. 

submitted by Theo W., Dark, Dreary Places
(June 27, 2014 - 9:40 am)

What if there are several Universal Apples, and each one controls its own universe or different aspects of the universes and the multiverse? Then the President controlling the multiverse with them would make sense. But perhaps this is classified and the public at large believes there is only one apple and that it holds the key to multiverse-wide peace?

submitted by Joe the Stickfiddler, age 15, Control Vortex
(June 27, 2014 - 2:34 pm)

That sounds good. It makes the most sense.

 

Walton's Mountain! Good night, BHR!

Good night, Admin!

submitted by Blonde Heroines Rule, age unknown, Walton's Mountain
(June 27, 2014 - 10:15 pm)

@ Admin: That's my favorite part of the show!

Me, too. After a long, tiring day, the last thing they think of is each other!

Admin

submitted by Blonde Heroines Rule, age ageless, Walton's Mountain
(July 1, 2014 - 9:05 pm)

I like that idea! Here's my little (?) piece on how Khathan might join up with the rest:

It was because of a pocket gopher which was not, in fact, dead that the Apple was found at all.

The gopher was not dead because Khathan Everflight, apprentice hunter to Jusonyr Birdcall, had been too low and clumsy on her flying approach yet again, gotten one hind paw tangled in an errant blade of tall grass, and allowed the gopher to escape down its hole.

Jusonyr, who preferred to be called "Jo" for reasons unknown to anyone else, was watching, of course. She was perched on a limb halfway up a nearby fir tree, shaking her steel gray head as she surveyed the scene of the debacle. Khathan was just now flying slowly for the tree, tail between her trailing hind legs. As she lighted down on a lower branch, looking as if she wanted to disappear, Jo fixed Khathan in her piercing black gaze. "Khathan. Everflight. What, pray tell, is the meaning of this? ANOTHER failed catch?! This makes four hunting expeditions ruined in as many days! The pack is losing valuable time and energy on these treks to one meadow or another with you, only to have you waste the whole affair! Four times, Khathan. Four. How, exactly, do you explain this?!" The mentor ended on a roar that set the entire tree to quivering and startled a small bird out of the grass. Khathan, still (just barely) on the branch and massaging her right shoulder, which had been the first part of her to hit the ground, was trying to look as invisible as possible. 

And then the idea hit her. What if she flew, just flew away? She knew from experience that nobody, not even Jo, could catch her in the open sky. She would be branded a coward who shirked her duty by the rest of the pack. But at this point, she didn't care. She wasn't much of a help to anyone nowadays; Jo had made that perfectly clear. So instead of answering the question, Khathan suddenly went rigid, staring hard at a point behind her teacher. "Um...Mentor Birdcall? Don't mean to be rude, but...WHAT IN THE NAME OF THE MOUNTAINS IS THAT?!" Sure enough, Jo whipped around to look, and in that instant, Khathan lifted into flight. She was flapping her wings as hard as she possibly could. She needed to gain speed, altitude, and a head start on her teacher, whose enraged bellows she heard from behind. Forutnately, the slope of a nearby peak afforded her an updraft. Khathan sailed up it, easily pulling away from Jo and into the open sky.

Several minutes later, Khathan needed a break. Sure, her title was Everflight for a reason, but even she couldn't fly that fast for long! She spiraled down to an unfamiliar meadow. It was small but flowery, and full of fallen rocks from a ledge far, far above. It was next to one of these rocks that Khathan found the Apple. Sniffing around for something she might be able to catch and eat, Khathan uncovered from underneath some pebbles a very peculiar stone. She turned it over gingerly with one paw. It was made of the same speckled granite as the surrounding landscape, but polished so highly that Khathan could see a distorted reflection of her own bluish muzzle in its surface. Its shape was peculiar too. It looked like a fruit that the gatherers brought back from their rare trips to the lowlands. What was it called? An apple? Yes, that sounded right. But why would a such a stone apple be here, in this remote alpine meadow, just sitting here under some scree?

Khathan was so puzzled by this mystery that she sat on her haunches in the grass, staring at the apple and thinking as hard as she could. Maybe it was because of this total absorption in the conundrum that she didn't notice the air subtly changing. It was becoming more humid, more still, and in some way heavier. Had Khathan bothered to taste the air, she would have smelt the earthy scent of rain. Had she looked up at the sky, she would have seen the wispy clouds above the ledge turn from white to gray to ominous black. As it so happened, she was just concluding that the apple was simply there and there could be no other explanation when the first drop hit her right in the nose. Then another on her left wing. And another. And another. Within seconds, those first raindrops had turned to a drizzle. A few seconds more, and it was a shower. Then an all-out downpour! Rain was coming down in sheets of water, stinging Khathan's eyes and soaking her instantly. Running on instinct, she bolted for the ledge. It was meager protection in such a violent storm, but at least it might draw off lightning. . . .

And then the air started to hum. Despite being thoroughly drenched, the fur around Khathan's ankles stood on end. she knew enough to wrap her paws around her head and roll, desperately, for the raock face that supported the ledge. The meadow blazed white, and in that infinitesimal moment of false daylight, Khathan saw the apple, silhouetted in stark black against a column of pure energy. A shockwave of sound exploded outward . . . and Khathan, momentarily deafened, could do nothing but gaze at what could only be described as a phenomenon. The column of lightning was still there, except now it glowed electric blue. The apple was floating, almost serenely, in the center of it. It appeared white-hot, charged with all the power of the lightning strike.

And then the apple began to spin, imperceptibly at first, and then faster and faster. The column of blue light rotated too, and Khathan got the distinct feeling that she was losing a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. On an impulse, she suddenly uncurled and ran straight for the column. It gave off a whirring, hissing sound. All she had to do was touch it, step into it, let it take her away. . . .

The last thing Khathan felt before the Apple whisked her away and she blacked out was the sensation of her paw brushing impossibly smooth stone, and a jolt shuddering through every particle of her being that she could still sometimes feel for years afterward.

So, in summary, Khathan fails yet again at hunting, runs away from her teacher, finds a Universal Apple, gets caught in a storm, and is transported away from her universe by the Apple after it gets struck by lightning. It's probably up to the other RP members and Joe the Stickfiddler to decide where she ends up. Sorry it's so interminably long!!        

 

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