Loony BoB
07-28-2004, 03:46 PM
Maybe playing hide-and-seek in the woods wasn't such a good idea after all. Daniel was most definitely lost. He'd been looking for his friends for about half an hour now, and they were nowhere to be seen. He was starting to get a little nervous. <i>Maybe they've ditched me.</i> Memories of his early teenage years flooded his mind. He winced and shook his head. "Stuart!" His voice rang through the trees, brightly coloured birds taking to the air in alarm. <i>Wow</i>, he thought, <i>I've never seen birds like that before...</i> It was then that Daniel heard it. Sort of a grunt or a snort... he looked around. There was a shuffling in some nearby bushes. <i>Wait. When was I near any bushes? I don't remember bushes that large i-</i> "AUGH!" Daniel ran. The creature was right behind him. He didn't look back to get a decent glimpse of it. "Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeelp!" He squealed, flailing his arms around him, looking like a bair of headless chickens on steroids were attached to his torso.
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzt.
The sound ran awfully close to his ear. Daniel knew the sound well and the fact that he didn't feel any pain reassured him that he wasn't hit. "God dammit, you bastards!" He yelled as he rang. "Kill the hog, not me!" He could hear the warthog scrambling behind him. It didn't seem to want to give up.
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzt.
It gave up. Daniel tumbled to the ground, rolling over the foliage and suddenly the sun was beating down on him. He squinted his eyes, picked himself up and dusted himself off. Turned around. "Thanks, I... I..." Stood confused. "Who are you?" The tall, slim men walked towards him and stopped about twenty feet away, discussing between themselves quietly.
"Daniel!" Daniel flicked his head to the direction of the sound. It was Stuart and Mary. "I don't know where anyone is... but... uh, yeah. We don't know where anyone is. We don't know where we are. Look around. Mountains. When were we near the mountains?" Stuart was pointing behind Daniel. Surely enough, there stood the beginning of a huge mountain range. "Oh, and of course. These men are Elves, Daniel. Elves. Just like in the stories. They say they don't know how they got here either..." The Elves had what Daniel thought was warthog with them. Now that he looked again, it was something different. Not like anything he'd seen before.
An Elf stood up and walked over to Daniel, nodding and then speaking... English! "I am Legolam." He said. His expression told Daniel that he didn't really know what else to say. Neither did Daniel.
"Daniel?" Mary's voice, this time. Daniel looked back over to his two friends. "We don't think we're home anymore."
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Yes, that was totally lame for a starting story, but it gives you an idea of what's going on. This is the basic thing I wrote earlier, for a more overall factual point of view:
Various groups of people throughout multiple worlds have all been brought together in a magical world. One by one, they walked through forests, through doors, and appeared on a completely new planet. Just like that. Some say it was a God, or multiple Gods, some say it was magic, some say they're dreaming, but either way, they're all there now... anarchy reigned momentarily, but then slowly leaders became known, lifting those around them. Villages were built, civilisations materialised. There were dictatorships, democracies, even monarchies carrying on from previous worlds, holding to tradition effectively (and some not so effectively). Realising that this was their world now, they started anew. Soon enough, people were moving around the world, hearing of the far off lands where they wished to go. And now the leaders had seperated to their own areas with their followers, building their nations up around them. Maps were drawn, borders recognised (by most!) and now here we are. Welcome to your new world.
Keep in mind that this is not so much an RP board so much as an interactive world that you can become a part of. Maybe after a while we might consider an actual story-style RP story or something, but that's not really in our heads at the moment at all. I just put in that story-esque thing so you can get an idea of just how people 'discovered' the world. This guy would have moved to the world when he winced and shook his head - just a moment passes, Daniel opens his eyes and the whole world changed around him. And then he gets chased by a small Balraj and screams like a girl.
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzt.
The sound ran awfully close to his ear. Daniel knew the sound well and the fact that he didn't feel any pain reassured him that he wasn't hit. "God dammit, you bastards!" He yelled as he rang. "Kill the hog, not me!" He could hear the warthog scrambling behind him. It didn't seem to want to give up.
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzt.
It gave up. Daniel tumbled to the ground, rolling over the foliage and suddenly the sun was beating down on him. He squinted his eyes, picked himself up and dusted himself off. Turned around. "Thanks, I... I..." Stood confused. "Who are you?" The tall, slim men walked towards him and stopped about twenty feet away, discussing between themselves quietly.
"Daniel!" Daniel flicked his head to the direction of the sound. It was Stuart and Mary. "I don't know where anyone is... but... uh, yeah. We don't know where anyone is. We don't know where we are. Look around. Mountains. When were we near the mountains?" Stuart was pointing behind Daniel. Surely enough, there stood the beginning of a huge mountain range. "Oh, and of course. These men are Elves, Daniel. Elves. Just like in the stories. They say they don't know how they got here either..." The Elves had what Daniel thought was warthog with them. Now that he looked again, it was something different. Not like anything he'd seen before.
An Elf stood up and walked over to Daniel, nodding and then speaking... English! "I am Legolam." He said. His expression told Daniel that he didn't really know what else to say. Neither did Daniel.
"Daniel?" Mary's voice, this time. Daniel looked back over to his two friends. "We don't think we're home anymore."
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Yes, that was totally lame for a starting story, but it gives you an idea of what's going on. This is the basic thing I wrote earlier, for a more overall factual point of view:
Various groups of people throughout multiple worlds have all been brought together in a magical world. One by one, they walked through forests, through doors, and appeared on a completely new planet. Just like that. Some say it was a God, or multiple Gods, some say it was magic, some say they're dreaming, but either way, they're all there now... anarchy reigned momentarily, but then slowly leaders became known, lifting those around them. Villages were built, civilisations materialised. There were dictatorships, democracies, even monarchies carrying on from previous worlds, holding to tradition effectively (and some not so effectively). Realising that this was their world now, they started anew. Soon enough, people were moving around the world, hearing of the far off lands where they wished to go. And now the leaders had seperated to their own areas with their followers, building their nations up around them. Maps were drawn, borders recognised (by most!) and now here we are. Welcome to your new world.
Keep in mind that this is not so much an RP board so much as an interactive world that you can become a part of. Maybe after a while we might consider an actual story-style RP story or something, but that's not really in our heads at the moment at all. I just put in that story-esque thing so you can get an idea of just how people 'discovered' the world. This guy would have moved to the world when he winced and shook his head - just a moment passes, Daniel opens his eyes and the whole world changed around him. And then he gets chased by a small Balraj and screams like a girl.