A sudden change of species 2.0?

Sovereign · **Reply #80 on:** October 25, 2018, 09:08:44 AM

Again you do the pickings at night when I'm not around!

Anyway, it's not a big deal. I can well take Mama Swimmer.

As for OCs, I have none in mind now but I'll think about them later.

vonboy · **Reply #81 on:** October 25, 2018, 09:19:22 AM

Um, I think we will have the destination they will be heading towards from the start. Otherwise we'd just have them wondering around randomely in the Mysterious Beyond.

Other than that, I think how will get there will be kinda up in the air, and can depend on how the characters develop, and what situations they find themselves in. That's how Rhombus said it, I think. Something along the lines of "I'd like the RP to develop organically as much as it can, instead of having everything planned out beforehand."

And I guess I'll pick Tria, too. I've mostly played Topps in previous RPs, so this'll be a nice change. This time, OwlsCantRead can take a stab at being the racist asshole.

rhombus · **Reply #82 on:** October 29, 2018, 10:08:30 AM

@vonboy @Sneak @DarkWolf91 @Littlefoot505 @jassy @OwlsCantRead @Ducky123 @Sovereign

Excellent! It looks like the major characters and for certain minor characters have been picked out. I also agree with the others that the OCs for sharpteeth and others can be developed later and show up when the gang get into a position where they might pop up. I think that right when the gang leave the valley to go into the Mysterious Beyond might be a good place for all of our OC players to begin presenting where their OCs are at and what they are doing.

So we have two more decisions to make, and then I think we can get started!

1) What should be the mysterious land they are heading to (that they see in their dreams) be?

My proposal is for something like the Lowlands in the Seven Hunters, a rich green area that is bustling with both leaf-eaters and sharpteeth, but I am open to anything. Whatever it is needs to be mysterious though.

2) When should the RP begin? After the fight (so we can see it in flashbacks from each member)? Or before the fight (so that we have to RP the fight out)?

I have no preference either way. We just need to make sure that we present that this was the latest spat in a long series of spats as the gang, though still friends, have begun to drift apart to some extent.

Ducky123 · **Reply #83 on:** October 29, 2018, 02:18:48 PM

I think it'd be fun to really have a go at each other

Sovereign · **Reply #84 on:** October 29, 2018, 04:24:25 PM

I agree that it would be best to begin before the fight as it gives us the opportunity to start the fic on a more dramatic and interesting note. As for the land the Gang will head towards, Lowlands-style would work well but some kind of bog or desert could be cool too.

OwlsCantRead · **Reply #85 on:** October 29, 2018, 06:27:41 PM

I had to debate on this but I think eventually I'll have to go for before the fight, since the ~~epic~~ miserable final brawl will highly likely be referenced throughout the journey, and in the end said journey is able changing the perceptions the gang had before the fight and to be a more simpler time – when they were best friends as kids.

As long as the end destination is not returning to a canon locale like the Land of Mists or Hanging Rock (they can pass by them) I'm perfectly fine with wherever, although it shouldn't be too outlandish. But since this is a rp, I suspect the characters will be making multiple stopovers before the reach their end goal. Lowlands is a pretty good idea.

Imo, the swamp-like area where Littlefoot and Ducky (and Cera?) are hatched in the first film is my take on it, a sort of reverse journey from their original trek to the Valley, but well... that's not too mysterious, is it.

Ducky123 · **Reply #86 on:** October 30, 2018, 10:41:50 AM

I agree, they could be passing all sorts of terrains from rainnforests to deserts and mountainscapes. Some variety surely wuld make it interesting and some practise writing those landscape descriptions can never hurt (I think I'm just getting the hang of it recently)

rhombus · **Reply #87 on:** October 30, 2018, 11:50:47 AM

So it sounds like we have a pretty strong consensus for the dreamed of area to be like the lowlands (but they will be going through a wide range of territory to get there) and for us to actually roleplay the latest fight. Are there any objections then to this summation of the following plan? If there are no objections then I hope to get an initial post ready sometime this weekend and we can finally allow this roleplay to hatch!

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Due to the coming of the Time of Great Growing (the gangs are now the equivalent of preteens) the gang begins to grow apart. Cera begins to once more take on the antics of an arrogant threehorn as she struggles to maintain status in a herd based upon dominance; Littlefoot begins to focus on his duties as a future potential herd leader and considers joining with Bron’s herd; Ducky and Petrie begin to grow apart as Petrie begins to take on the solitary mannerisms of a flyer male and Ducky, being a swimmer, remains of a more family-oriented mindset; and Ruby and Chomper out of necessity begin to plan for their eventual departure from the valley. Chomper’s eventual departure and need to become a ‘true sharptooth’ obviously creates some misgivings between the purple sharptooth and the longneck. This eventually culminates in a fight (which we will begin the RP by playing out) which is hinted at not being an isolated incident.

The night of the latest fight they are all greeted by a weird sleep story that hints at something significant. They see an area of lowlands with a mountain range in the distance - mountains that they do not recognize - and hungry sharpteeth chasing after desperate leaf-eaters. A ghostly voice tells them some variant of “The broken band has been broken by pride, now it shall be united by being broken. Go forth to this broken land… and protect the land you love.” they then wake up thinking that the sleep story is nonsense. That is until they look at their respective bodies…

I think the gang will be discovered in the morning upon waking, but the valley will not chase them as in the previous roleplays as many of them are still leaf-eaters and can explain things before it gets too ugly. I think the ‘valley knowing’ possibility would allow for some interesting interactions before they go forth on their quest. I do not think that their parents will stop such a quest as the freaked out valley would want them gone anyway out of fear that the ‘curse’ or ‘sickness’ might spread. This would also allow Guido (and perhaps a few others) to go with them as the new flyers will need training.

Though they have no guarantees that they will return to their original forms they all have a feeling that once the quest is completed that they can return to what they once were. Dreams, much like the original one, call to them to go to a particular place. All of them hope that they can return to as they once were.

It will be a journey to restore the friendship that was forged once long ago.

Characters with a lot of RP time
Littlefoot (T Rex) - Anagnos
Chomper (longneck) - vonboy
Ducky (flyer) - Impractical Dino
Petrie (swimmer) - Sovereign Temporary holder - jassy
Spike (bellydragger) -OwlsCantRead
Cera (glider) - DarkWolf91
Ruby (threehorn) - rhombus
Guido (still a glider) - jassy

Minor characters
Grandpa Longneck - DarkWolf91
Grandma Longneck - jassy
Topps - OwlsCantRead
Tria - vonboy
Mama Swimmer - Sovereign Temporary holder - Anagnos
Mama Flyer - StardustSoldier Temporary holder - Rhombus

Possible additional minor characters
Shorty
Bron
Ali
Rhett
Chomper's Father - rhombus (if needed)
Chomper's Mother
Ruby's Father - rhombus (if needed)
Ruby's Mother

Sovereign · **Reply #88 on:** October 30, 2018, 04:36:23 PM

Yeah, this plan seems good to me.

DarkWolf91 · **Reply #89 on:** October 31, 2018, 10:02:00 AM

Sounds great

jassy · **Reply #90 on:** October 31, 2018, 02:54:34 PM

Sounds good to me!!

vonboy · **Reply #91 on:** October 31, 2018, 06:26:41 PM

I'm liking this plan. Excited to get started already.

OwlsCantRead · **Reply #92 on:** October 31, 2018, 06:49:16 PM

Yeah, the basic backbone and framework seems pretty firm. I'm all good too!

Ducky123 · **Reply #93 on:** November 02, 2018, 02:55:05 AM

Sucky approved

rhombus · **Reply #94 on:** November 12, 2018, 05:18:45 PM

@vonboy @DarkWolf91 @Littlefoot505 @jassy @OwlsCantRead @Ducky123 @Sovereign

Alright, so who wants to escalate the conflict next?

Ruby is going to hold back for the moment as she is more or less a passive observer to the unfolding drama.

vonboy · **Reply #95 on:** November 13, 2018, 09:37:55 AM

I was thinking of having Chomper try to ram Cera to stop her, but not sure how others would feel of that.

OwlsCantRead · **Reply #96 on:** November 13, 2018, 08:03:03 PM

Most likely Cera will be the next one, not letting Littlefoot's insult fly, though someone stopping her sounds pretty in-character for a couple of the others to do.

Ducky123 · **Reply #97 on:** November 14, 2018, 09:26:08 AM

Spike just casually burps while eating thus distracting the fighters

Ducky doesn't seem to be the one to engage in such a discussion. I could have her try to talk to Littlefoot about the b-word but otherwise I doubt that I'd be able to do much with her in this situation.

Like everyone's posts so far btw good job

DarkWolf91 · **Reply #98 on:** November 14, 2018, 08:34:28 PM

I guess I can escalate it with Cera, and then Chomper steps in?

rhombus · **Reply #99 on:** November 15, 2018, 12:33:24 AM

Quote from: DarkWolf91 on November 14, 2018, 08:34:28 PM

I guess I can escalate it with Cera, and then Chomper steps in?

That sounds pretty in-character to me. And it would nicely lead to a lead in for Chomper's predator nature to come up in the argument.

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