The Dark Masters Proposal
Mar 27, 2016 3:44:36 GMT
Post by psychemon on Mar 27, 2016 3:44:36 GMT
Below you can find my rejected proposal to the mods. Enjoy.
For some time, the Digital World has been at relatively at peace. The old threats faded and the world surged with those humans colloquially known as ‘DigiDestined.’ The world, still so very wild, began to feel familiar, comfortable to these humans. These children. But it was not their world. It never had been. It belonged to the Digimon. And once, so long ago the time had faded from history to legend, it had belonged to four of the strongest, fiercest, and some say evillest Digimon to exist. It is said they ruled the world from a towering mountain, each commanding a domain and his own army. They were tyrants and fiends of the worst order and if the stories of them that remain are true then it is well and good they are forgotten to history.
Or… perhaps not. Something, someone is stirring within the Digital World. It remembers the stories that maybe were history, once. It remembers, and it has waited so very long. Now, it is stirring and it seeks one thing: power. To accomplish this, it will gather four beings of ill intent. It will gather their strength and together… they will rule.
RISE OF THE DARK MASTERS
Dear Collective Admin Team of DFRP,
We’ve all met, but for the sake of reminders I’m Rob. Robrich8705 on the Cbox. I play Ren Campbell, Lopmon, Shichiro Inoue and Pyschemon. I’ve been working on a proposal I wanted to share with you to offer the community here a little something to chew on. See, the thing I keep coming back to is that the DigiDestined kids in the shows always had a big bad of some kind to motivate them. A large portion of the reason I created Astamon was to help fill that role for anyone willing- not to terrorize people, but to offer them antagonist to strive and eventually succeed against. My plan started with the intention that he would serve a darker off-screen master, whom he received a measure of power from along with his Champion Armor, Baalmon. Eventually I began to look at having him facilitate that master’s “rebirth” with another player taking on that role in some capacity. And from here a larger idea began to form, which I will lay out for you in several phases.
‘The Rise of the Dark Masters’ is intended to be an unobtrusive subplot within the site to provide a body of antagonists for the players to work against. It is intended as an ongoing plot featuring a number of missions for players to participate in in order to generate posts and bits as well as engage them in a more cohesive way. It takes inspiration from the Adventure 01 arc from which it takes its name, which the implication that some group along those lines exist as fables within our universe. Whether they were ever actually true or not is open for debate.
PHASE 1: The Dark Menace
“Rise of the Dark Masters” would begin with a post on the team boards explaining the needs for the event. Players would be invited to PM a short concept for a ‘Dark Master’ character to me. These would be summaries, elevator pitches if you will of a villainous character as a potential recruit to the Dark Masters. After a short period open for submissions, I will review the submissions with Bonetrousled and we will pick three. Those three players will be notified and offered positions as Dark Masters. The Dark Masters will be built as characters but operate as semi-NPCs, following all the same guidelines for character creation and requiring approval from either Timmir, Panz or Nova.
PHASE 2: The Dark Masters Awaken
Phase two would see the three volunteer Dark Masters recruited in-character by Psychemon. He would also effect the rebirth of his own master around this time, a Parasimon character being created by Bonetrousled. Parasimon is the secret mastermind of this plot, as it claims to be a formerly deposed Dark Master. It managed to retain just enough of its power when reverted to a digiegg that it could reach out to others of like nature. This is how Psychemon came to work for it, and he will eventually bring Parasimon back. Parasimon is the true fourth Dark Master, while Psychemon is simply his public face and loyal servant. Publically, to the site, Parasimon’s character will NOT be a Dark Master though he may be associated with them.
Upon recruiting each of the three into the new Dark Masters, Psychemon will grant them a measure of power secretly given from his master. I am requesting that each of the five characters in this plot (Psychemon, Parasimon, up to 3 others) would be granted an Ultimate-equivalent post count to jumpstart this plot and allow them to function as reasonable villains. They would of course be under a standard gentlemen’s agreement to do no permanent, lasting harm to the site environs without first consulting staff. Same goes for permanent consequences on characters. The goal is to provide an antagonist, not brutalize our community. The five characters would be permanently prohibited from transferring posts out of the character to ensure the post-count advance would be utilized in the faith with which it was provided.
PHASE 3: Return of the Dark Masters
Here comes the payoff for that faith and postcount. The Dark Masters as part of their role would create and participate in a number of missions and threads to take place within Phase 3 and beyond. These missions would pit varying groups of the Masters’ growing following and the Masters themselves in some cases against volunteer players in competing objectives designed for the ultimate reward to the players. The goal won’t be PvP here, but providing a worthy challenge for them to overcome and an engaging story. The Dark Masters would commit to running at minimum the following Mission concepts, and more:
And finally, once each Dark Master has gained at least a single tier of power:
PHASE 4: Attack of the Dark Masters
In Phase 4 the Dark Masters’ actions have gained them at least one additional tier of power, each. Now with the strength they need there will be 2-4 missions dedicated to various schemes distracting or diverting the players while they gather data from various locations to raise Spiral Mountain. Spiral Mountain will not be the size of the digital world, but simply a large mountain made of the twisted data of four areas with some kind of palace on top. Once their collection missions are complete, the Masters will come together and raise Spiral Mountain and make their lair there.
The goal is to provide an ongoing threat to fight against, a regular antagonist that is growing in power and becoming ever more threatening, until things finally come to a head and culminates with missions to eliminate each of the Dark Masters in turn and wipe their evil influence from the world- for now. How things end up playing out, well. That will be up to the players in our community. I hope you will agree a modest investment of posts will allow me, with Bonetrousled as my mod advisor, to offer some plot to the community in an engaging, entertaining way that doesn’t unnecessarily burden the overworked admin staff. Please consider my proposal; I will very much be looking forward to hearing from you. I hope to proceed at the earliest convenience.
Thanks for taking the time to read this, guys. Please PM me here or on the CBox with any questions you may have.
Rob
For some time, the Digital World has been at relatively at peace. The old threats faded and the world surged with those humans colloquially known as ‘DigiDestined.’ The world, still so very wild, began to feel familiar, comfortable to these humans. These children. But it was not their world. It never had been. It belonged to the Digimon. And once, so long ago the time had faded from history to legend, it had belonged to four of the strongest, fiercest, and some say evillest Digimon to exist. It is said they ruled the world from a towering mountain, each commanding a domain and his own army. They were tyrants and fiends of the worst order and if the stories of them that remain are true then it is well and good they are forgotten to history.
Or… perhaps not. Something, someone is stirring within the Digital World. It remembers the stories that maybe were history, once. It remembers, and it has waited so very long. Now, it is stirring and it seeks one thing: power. To accomplish this, it will gather four beings of ill intent. It will gather their strength and together… they will rule.
RISE OF THE DARK MASTERS
Dear Collective Admin Team of DFRP,
We’ve all met, but for the sake of reminders I’m Rob. Robrich8705 on the Cbox. I play Ren Campbell, Lopmon, Shichiro Inoue and Pyschemon. I’ve been working on a proposal I wanted to share with you to offer the community here a little something to chew on. See, the thing I keep coming back to is that the DigiDestined kids in the shows always had a big bad of some kind to motivate them. A large portion of the reason I created Astamon was to help fill that role for anyone willing- not to terrorize people, but to offer them antagonist to strive and eventually succeed against. My plan started with the intention that he would serve a darker off-screen master, whom he received a measure of power from along with his Champion Armor, Baalmon. Eventually I began to look at having him facilitate that master’s “rebirth” with another player taking on that role in some capacity. And from here a larger idea began to form, which I will lay out for you in several phases.
‘The Rise of the Dark Masters’ is intended to be an unobtrusive subplot within the site to provide a body of antagonists for the players to work against. It is intended as an ongoing plot featuring a number of missions for players to participate in in order to generate posts and bits as well as engage them in a more cohesive way. It takes inspiration from the Adventure 01 arc from which it takes its name, which the implication that some group along those lines exist as fables within our universe. Whether they were ever actually true or not is open for debate.
PHASE 1: The Dark Menace
“Rise of the Dark Masters” would begin with a post on the team boards explaining the needs for the event. Players would be invited to PM a short concept for a ‘Dark Master’ character to me. These would be summaries, elevator pitches if you will of a villainous character as a potential recruit to the Dark Masters. After a short period open for submissions, I will review the submissions with Bonetrousled and we will pick three. Those three players will be notified and offered positions as Dark Masters. The Dark Masters will be built as characters but operate as semi-NPCs, following all the same guidelines for character creation and requiring approval from either Timmir, Panz or Nova.
PHASE 2: The Dark Masters Awaken
Phase two would see the three volunteer Dark Masters recruited in-character by Psychemon. He would also effect the rebirth of his own master around this time, a Parasimon character being created by Bonetrousled. Parasimon is the secret mastermind of this plot, as it claims to be a formerly deposed Dark Master. It managed to retain just enough of its power when reverted to a digiegg that it could reach out to others of like nature. This is how Psychemon came to work for it, and he will eventually bring Parasimon back. Parasimon is the true fourth Dark Master, while Psychemon is simply his public face and loyal servant. Publically, to the site, Parasimon’s character will NOT be a Dark Master though he may be associated with them.
Upon recruiting each of the three into the new Dark Masters, Psychemon will grant them a measure of power secretly given from his master. I am requesting that each of the five characters in this plot (Psychemon, Parasimon, up to 3 others) would be granted an Ultimate-equivalent post count to jumpstart this plot and allow them to function as reasonable villains. They would of course be under a standard gentlemen’s agreement to do no permanent, lasting harm to the site environs without first consulting staff. Same goes for permanent consequences on characters. The goal is to provide an antagonist, not brutalize our community. The five characters would be permanently prohibited from transferring posts out of the character to ensure the post-count advance would be utilized in the faith with which it was provided.
PHASE 3: Return of the Dark Masters
Here comes the payoff for that faith and postcount. The Dark Masters as part of their role would create and participate in a number of missions and threads to take place within Phase 3 and beyond. These missions would pit varying groups of the Masters’ growing following and the Masters themselves in some cases against volunteer players in competing objectives designed for the ultimate reward to the players. The goal won’t be PvP here, but providing a worthy challenge for them to overcome and an engaging story. The Dark Masters would commit to running at minimum the following Mission concepts, and more:
- Eldoradimon’s Riches: There’s something the Dark Masters want on the massive, walking city. Will they be able to steal it?
- Liberate the Slaves: Dark Masters need servants to worship and work for them, and many have been conscripted into their ranks. Go free a village or something!
- Temptation: The Dark Masters seek to lure a powerful ally to their side. Stop them!
- I will commit to more missions to be designed at a later date, as many as I am reasonably able.
And finally, once each Dark Master has gained at least a single tier of power:
PHASE 4: Attack of the Dark Masters
In Phase 4 the Dark Masters’ actions have gained them at least one additional tier of power, each. Now with the strength they need there will be 2-4 missions dedicated to various schemes distracting or diverting the players while they gather data from various locations to raise Spiral Mountain. Spiral Mountain will not be the size of the digital world, but simply a large mountain made of the twisted data of four areas with some kind of palace on top. Once their collection missions are complete, the Masters will come together and raise Spiral Mountain and make their lair there.
The goal is to provide an ongoing threat to fight against, a regular antagonist that is growing in power and becoming ever more threatening, until things finally come to a head and culminates with missions to eliminate each of the Dark Masters in turn and wipe their evil influence from the world- for now. How things end up playing out, well. That will be up to the players in our community. I hope you will agree a modest investment of posts will allow me, with Bonetrousled as my mod advisor, to offer some plot to the community in an engaging, entertaining way that doesn’t unnecessarily burden the overworked admin staff. Please consider my proposal; I will very much be looking forward to hearing from you. I hope to proceed at the earliest convenience.
Thanks for taking the time to read this, guys. Please PM me here or on the CBox with any questions you may have.
Rob