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Premise and information
May. 9th, 2012 01:36 pmCharacters in this game have been approached by a Valkyrie, a woman with wings, armor, and a spear. She showed them a shimmering portal and explained that she has been sent to warn them. She comes from a world wracked by war between two mighty forces. On one side, the heavenly kingdom of Qin and their orbital cities, on the other the mysterious Fae Courts and their sprawling underground cities. Somewhere between them, the last free humans huddle in the city of Midgard, ruled by Thor and a handful of other self-proclaimed dieties of destroyed pantheons.
Qin and the Fae would be willing to leave Midgard alone. It's fairly minor in the grand scheme of things except for one thing: The Bifrost. This enormous machine, if you can master it's use, can create portals to anywhere in the world or even to other dimensions. Thor is using it to gather an army of heroes from across space and time to defend Midgard, but anyone who found it could use it to mount invasions of less advanced dimensions and turn them into outposts of a multidimensional empire. Everyone is given the option to stay at home or to go and fight. Those who go will not be able to return until the fight is over, but will be rewarded richly for their efforts.
Everyone who accepts is taken to Midgard, given a comfortable place to live and money to spend. Communication is done either in person or by way of special PDAs. PDAs look like leatherbound journals. Each page is a super thin, flexible computer screen that can be set to show a variety of information, such as maps of the city, research notes, lists of your friends, movies, music, games, whatever. It's basically a laptop with pages.
The important thing to remember about this setting is that it is not a fantasy setting, it is a sci-fi setting. Gods and Demi-gods are super advanced cyborgs or AIs, divine wrath is orbital strikes, the Bifrost is a quantum teleporter, the capital of Qin is a domed city on the moon, and so on and so on. Any actual magic in this setting is brought by people from other dimensions, who can use their powers as per normal.
Qin and the Fae would be willing to leave Midgard alone. It's fairly minor in the grand scheme of things except for one thing: The Bifrost. This enormous machine, if you can master it's use, can create portals to anywhere in the world or even to other dimensions. Thor is using it to gather an army of heroes from across space and time to defend Midgard, but anyone who found it could use it to mount invasions of less advanced dimensions and turn them into outposts of a multidimensional empire. Everyone is given the option to stay at home or to go and fight. Those who go will not be able to return until the fight is over, but will be rewarded richly for their efforts.
Everyone who accepts is taken to Midgard, given a comfortable place to live and money to spend. Communication is done either in person or by way of special PDAs. PDAs look like leatherbound journals. Each page is a super thin, flexible computer screen that can be set to show a variety of information, such as maps of the city, research notes, lists of your friends, movies, music, games, whatever. It's basically a laptop with pages.
The important thing to remember about this setting is that it is not a fantasy setting, it is a sci-fi setting. Gods and Demi-gods are super advanced cyborgs or AIs, divine wrath is orbital strikes, the Bifrost is a quantum teleporter, the capital of Qin is a domed city on the moon, and so on and so on. Any actual magic in this setting is brought by people from other dimensions, who can use their powers as per normal.
