At last, the sequal to the relative success that was Everflame is finally here. After the debacle that was the Wild West RP, I'm glad to go back to doing what I'm good at.
Since there's a lot to go through both for people new to Everflame and for returning players, I've broken it up into segments that will be posted once per day. The last post will tell you how to set up your character. But right now, we have backstory.
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To anyone wanting to join but weren't involved with Everflame 1, here's a quick run down of what you need to know.
It's the far future. The galaxy is all under one banner, with its government and major powers centred on The Capital Sphere. This sphere is a city in space that floats from solar system to solar system. It is a utopia that made incredible leaps in science and sociology. Any planet it approached was magically progressed with greater work rate, lower crime and greater health and well being. What most people didn't know was that it owed this to a small and unusual rock. Those who did know about it called it the Everflame.
In the previous RP, the rock was supposedly stolen by a bounty hunter named Korius. In reality it was Asia kali who took it and led a team to Serra Draconis where a machine spread the everflame's power across the galaxy, giving everyone a feeling of happiness, and making the galaxy a better place. They're pursuers, the Galactic Authority, who failed to stop them, even as their greatest commodore, Afgha Kali, went mental and tried to stop them himself, gave up the chase after two years, as the resulting well-being was accepted as reason enough to forgive Korius and his team. Of course, since the public had no idea that the everflame existed and just think that Korius and Asia were major criminals who had destabilised the capital sphere, the fugitives were forbidden from being seen on any of the central, more affluent planets, restricting them to the border worlds.
At the same time as all of this, a small group of marines were saved from a planet infested with Triffids. They got mixed up in all the madness mentioned above, and it turned out that one of the crewmen that saved them was a mass murderer. However, through a sense of loyalty, they helped almost everyone escape and headed out into the galaxy, being chased by the law. During the escape, some of them died but the leader of the marines called Kate, was injured and left on the GA (Galactic Authority) Flagship. She was medically treated there, and transported to a prison planet where she stayed for ten years, after which she was released.
Everflame 2.0 starts off twenty five years after the theft of the Everflame. Since then, this magical rock has stopped working. Nobody knows why, but across the galaxy, the daily grind is returning to a normal level of happiness and misery in equal measure.
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This next bit is more for the sake of people who were part of the first Everflame RP. These characters probably won't have much impact on events that unfold in this RP, since most of these people are based on the border worlds, while the action should take place on the Capital Sphere. But then you never know what will happen. Maybe they will still be important.
Afgha Kali survived the fight with the bounty hunter Korius, and tracked down his brother, Asia. They now live together with Asia's new family on the border worlds.
Tabby, a young cat who tagged along with Asia during the previous RP, lived with them both for a while, before setting out on the galaxy as a bounty hunter, following in the footsteps of her obsession, Korius.
As for the crew of the Admiration, who saved the triffid marines, the captain, Marcus Dresen is now old and tired, living alone on a border world and waiting to die. Daray Mabaton, the mass murdering Lynx, and husband of Tina, the cat, had died about five years previous and was buried in the Captain’s garden. Tina never really stopped mourning, and so decided to leave, and see what the galaxy could show her. This move was nothing more than a wish for distraction.
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Right, so that's all the information up to the present day. Tomorrow, will have all the juicy info on Everflame 2.0