This is an RP idea that I considered making into a fan-fic but decided that it might be better as a more interactive thing.
With Serris' permission, I'm putting together a portrayal of Land Before Time: Twilight Valley in a futuristic setting involving technology, urban metropolises, and conflicting ideologies.
This RP will be very open - what's going to happen is world events are going to proceed in a planned manner (ie Attacks, Food Crisis, and Promotions/Deaths of heroes) while the members of the RP define the storyline that occurs while events conspire in the background.
This doesn't mean character's actions will be unimportant, but what it does mean is that the scale of the conflict is much greater then a few small engagements or other doings.
You may play a character of any dinosaur race (no humans), but keep in mind that the world is divided into two main factions:
The VDA, or the Valley Defense AllianceThe main leaf-eater nation whose goal is to protect their holdings and ensure the prosperity of their societies. Life under VDA rule is one of freedom and prosperity, but is also defined by racial divisions, particularly in the VDA Military Arm - called the VDF (Valley Defense Forces). All recuits into the VDF are sorted and assigned duties based on their race - this is non-negoitable. The VDA stigma is "Every Race has it's Place".
As a part of the VDA you can be:
Civilian - of any leaf-eater or omnivore race
Soldier - of any leaf-eater or omnivore race (if you choose this you must conform to VDF regulations and practises - in otherwords expect to be assigned a role by the military)
Civilian - sharptooth resident or defector (expect some abuse from mistrust)
-Note- If you want to a member of the Gang of Five, you must ask first.
VDF Soldiers are assigned these duties based on their race:
Fastrunners - Infantry divisions and Light Vehicles
Spiketails - Heavy Weapons and Field Artillery
Threehorns - Armour Division
Swimmers - Medical Battalion
Flyers - Airforce and Bomber Squadrons
Longnecks - Experimental Weapons and Research
Claw:Sharptooth cities are ruled by a single tyrannical ruler, who decides who receives what food and who deserves to eat on any particular day. Every city like this has a sub-network where the leaf-eaters are kept, completely ignorant of their impending fate until they are selected for “consumption” by the managing AI. The leaf-eaters who do are understandably never seen again. Even using these harvesting practises every sharptooth cannot be fed, so the ruling powers are forced to attack and assimilate other leaf-eater groups to keep their populations in check – both through war dead (less mouths to feed) and through the harvesting of the corpses of the conquered. The worst of the war-like sharptooth nations is known as Claw, which holds its capital at a place known by its old name as Claw Valley.
Claw is a vicious and brutal society, where only those who are valuable to the nation are fed while the others are left to scrounge for scraps on the streets.
Characters who are part of Claw can be:
Civilian sharptooth or omnivore
Soldier sharptooth or omnivore (less rigid then the VDF, but still defined slightly by race)
Leaf-eater defector (note you must be of value to Claw, or you will be eaten!)
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Alright here are a few ground rules (trust me they are few):
1. VDA and Claw characters must hate/kill each other on sight - unless VDA and Claw have signed a peace agreement or alliance (pff it would take an alien invasion for something like that to ever happen...)
2. Sharptooth defectors are generally looked down upon in the VDA, but they can still prove themselves. Don't feel I'm targetting you if the characters of the world aren't treating you right.
3. Leaf-eater defectors in Claw have it even worse - be useful or be dead. Even then, there are sharpteeth who would kill to get a piece of your hide. Watch yourself on the streets.
Other then that feel free to let your wildest desires come true - but don't be surprised if bombs suddenly start dropping!
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If your interested in joining this RP, express it and post a character profile! I will decide after a week or so if it's worth carrying through.
