What do we have to work with?

Yeah, I definitely agree, Starry. (Good luck on your assignments as well!)

WOW! We are just brainstorming like mad here! Go us!! I love that too, Hope! The guardians would be awesome test-givers. Lol. Also, brilliant about there being 5 keys with the 6th planet being the one the tomb is on. Starting out of Vaelzar is fine with me. How about one of our characters hunts treasure or has a career in which they openly seek out new technology and magic, and they have heard legends about this sacred tomb. Perhaps that person convinces the rest of us to accompany them in this quest for ultimate knowledge and power. Who knows! Just offering more ideas.

Yes, I am with you there Hope.

How about this for a draft:

We start on Vaelzar as a group of explorers studying ancient ruins and accidentally stumble upon the entrance to the tomb and after studying some murals discover that it requires a combination of keys to open up the temple and reveal whatever lies within. Perhaps there is a reference to five keys and one character can put two and two together, or rather five and five, and discover that there must be a key on each of the other planets. So, being the curious explorers that we are we set off on an expedition to find the keys!

Comments and constructive criticism please?

I like that idea very much!!

Perhaps each person has one thing they excel in that will eventually become useful later on for like the "tests" or to just get around or something?

I was also wondering, since we are starting on Vaelzar, do all our characters have to be Provectus related? Because if we all have the same abilites as them then wouldn't it kind of defeat the purprose of the Provectus having an advantage with their enchanments. UNLESS, you wanted to go the route of which guardian protecting the key, is a guardian placed by that specific planet. That way, only the tomb will have a Provectus enchanment on it.

I dunno, am I making sense?

That sounds cool. So the tomb then is located on Vaelzar? So we start and end there - that's actually a really good idea that they teach you in school -- It's called a Book Ending Device, and it works really well. I like that!

I'm not sure if we're all going to be explorers though. The two characters that I have right now aren't. One is an Enchanter and the other is an Astrophysicist. Don't get me wrong, the Enchanter could be very interested in finding the keys to unlock the tomb, since she's very big into magic and discovering more powerful magic. Perhaps we all could hold different occupations, but they all would have an interest in opening the tomb for one reason or another. (My second character is a Provectus though, so he wouldn't want it opened lol! He could be someone though who, at the end, tries to stop everyone.)

@ Syren: Thanks.
Sounds good so far, can't think of anything to add to it. That idea sounds interesting and Lorna, I guess she justs gets dragged into it because she's a mechanic and signed up for some sort of work deal and just gets dragged into it.

Hope wrote:I was also wondering, since we are starting on Vaelzar, do all our characters have to be Provectus related? Because if we all have the same abilites as them then wouldn't it kind of defeat the purprose of the Provectus having an advantage with their enchanments. UNLESS, you wanted to go the route of which guardian protecting the key, is a guardian placed by that specific planet. That way, only the tomb will have a Provectus enchanment on it.

Well, since the Provectus hid this tomb and its keys, they obviously wouldn't want anyone other than their own kind opening it.

I imagine the more advanced races in the universe often times travel to different planets for trade, recreation, business, and so forth, so it wouldn't be odd for other species to be found on Vaelzar other than the Provectus. The Provectus though could have easily enchanted all the keys on the other planets and have set a Divine Being from that specific planet to be the guardian of it.

I quite like the idea that there is a trade between some of the planets. Would Bellua have the technology for this ? Or maybe there is just some general trade network between planets where needed jobs are advertised?

starrypawz wrote:@ Syren: Thanks.
Sounds good so far, can't think of anything to add to it. That idea sounds interesting and Lorna, I guess she justs gets dragged into it because she's a mechanic and signed up for some sort of work deal and just gets dragged into it.

That sounds like it could work. It'd be really useful to have a mechanic around when traveling in a ship. No matter how advanced your technology is, this can still go wrong, not to mention machinery gets old and needs tune-ups. :]

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starrypawz wrote:@ Syren: Thanks.
Sounds good so far, can't think of anything to add to it. That idea sounds interesting and Lorna, I guess she justs gets dragged into it because she's a mechanic and signed up for some sort of work deal and just gets dragged into it.

That sounds like it could work. It'd be really useful to have a mechanic around when traveling in a ship. No matter how advanced your technology is, this can still go wrong, not to mention machinery gets old and needs tune-ups. :]

Great this could create some fun in the plot probably along the lines of the classic 'Wait, this isn't part of my contract...' style lines. XD

starrypawz wrote:I quite like the idea that there is a trade between some of the planets. Would Bellua have the technology for this ? Or maybe there is just some general trade network between planets where needed jobs are advertised?

Oh definitely, Bellua would have the technology. I think pretty much every planet we have would, except perhaps the Migrus' planet. (They just steal from other planets anyway.) Earth could even be a source for trade, though the way things have been looking (see the Background on EthereaLights), it probably is taking place underground, in secret, with our governments.

Yep, that sounds good to me!

starrypawz wrote:

Syren Song wrote:

starrypawz wrote:@ Syren: Thanks.
Sounds good so far, can't think of anything to add to it. That idea sounds interesting and Lorna, I guess she justs gets dragged into it because she's a mechanic and signed up for some sort of work deal and just gets dragged into it.

That sounds like it could work. It'd be really useful to have a mechanic around when traveling in a ship. No matter how advanced your technology is, this can still go wrong, not to mention machinery gets old and needs tune-ups. :]

Great this could create some fun in the plot probably along the lines of the classic 'Wait, this isn't part of my contract...' style lines. XD

Lol! I could definitely see that too hehe.

Syren Song wrote:

starrypawz wrote:I quite like the idea that there is a trade between some of the planets. Would Bellua have the technology for this ? Or maybe there is just some general trade network between planets where needed jobs are advertised?

Oh definitely, Bellua would have the technology. I think pretty much every planet we have would, except perhaps the Migrus' planet. (They just steal from other planets anyway.) Earth could even be a source for trade, though the way things have been looking (see the Background on EthereaLights), it probably is taking place underground, in secret, with our governments.

Yep, that sounds good to me!

Ah cool, and the underground trade idea sounds pretty nifty too. Maybe it's not just trade maybe it's a whole organization (maybe a bit French Resistance style) that's not just trade but maybe trying to get other races into and living in Earth... wait I thinks I've just created another potential plot. XD

I have to disappear for a bit dog needs walking, gotta go to the shops and all the snazz so I'll be back later.

starrypawz wrote:

Syren Song wrote:

starrypawz wrote:I quite like the idea that there is a trade between some of the planets. Would Bellua have the technology for this ? Or maybe there is just some general trade network between planets where needed jobs are advertised?

Oh definitely, Bellua would have the technology. I think pretty much every planet we have would, except perhaps the Migrus' planet. (They just steal from other planets anyway.) Earth could even be a source for trade, though the way things have been looking (see the Background on EthereaLights), it probably is taking place underground, in secret, with our governments.

Yep, that sounds good to me!

Ah cool, and the underground trade idea sounds pretty nifty too. Maybe it's not just trade maybe it's a whole organization (maybe a bit French Resistance style) that's not just trade but maybe trying to get other races into and living in Earth... wait I thinks I've just created another potential plot. XD

I have to disappear for a bit dog needs walking, gotta go to the shops and all the snazz so I'll be back later.

Yesss, that is actually something that I had in mind. Perhaps there are other species and races living here on Earth that we don't know about yet. Perhaps, one of our characters could have been one of the ones to have visited Earth as an extraterrestrial and thus knows inside information from the government. That way, maybe they'll have a rough idea of where the key could be that's on the planet. Hmm.

Alrighty! I need to start getting ready for the day myself.

Well, I think I finished with my second character, the Provectus. I'd like to make one more though, so I can have my Allurel and them interact together for this role play (since my Provectus won't come in until the very end).

Still, I need to work on finishing all the descriptions for the planets, since we'll be visiting each for our role play. However, we're only visiting one planet per chapter of this role play, right? So, at least in that respect, I won't have to get all of them done right at the same time.

I'll help you with those planets while your gone then!