[align=center][size=20pt]There Will Come a Day[/size]
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A day when everything the world thought it knew will change.
Preface & Plot
My grandmother knew more than most would dream. She told me stories of fantastical things. When I was sixteen, she told me of the end. “The Barriers which separates the physical world and the spirit worlds, the Barriers which keeps spirits and the dead as only thought to us, is collapsing in on itself. Very soon it will be non-existent. When this happens, all energy, all spirits, both living and not, will become physical. Our spirits would become as I am to you, and you are to me: tangible. We will assume the form of our most recent past life, and all those preceding it shall return as well. However wonderful this may sound, the dead shall return as well. I do not mean to say that they will rise from the ground as zombies, green and half decomposed, but they will be as they were in life, and though they will look so, are anything but. They are only shadows, as their souls have moved on, and their spirits with them. Somehow, they will be set apart. I do not know yet how to make the distinction, but we will find out all too soon. All that is left is an empty body, anger, and hunger for what they had in life. No body is complete without a soul, and no soul complete without a spirit. Upon their returning, their only goal and purpose will be to steal the spirits of the living. Taking someone’s spirit does not kill them, but it is taking half of that person’s very essence, half their being. No, it does not kill them, but I have seen some who have suffered the loss of their spirit: it leaves them a blithering wreck. Most don’t last more than a few days before ending their own life. As I am telling you of this, it is now your responsibility to enlighten who you can of their spirits, teach them to fight and defend themselves. Find everyone you can who understands what is to come. Gather them, teach them as I have taught you, protect the ignorant, and above all, guard your spirits as they have guarded you.”
Our story begins shortly before this day. It is as any other, a kind day near the end of spring: warm, sunny, and bright. But on the eve of summer, the skies darken at the dawn of the new age. An age of fear, of enlightenment, of walking death. At their coming, many will rejoice in the finding of their spirit, at the seeming return of their deceased loved ones. Half of this joy will turn to terror. For those so knowledgeable, their job is to ban together and right the unbalance in the world.
On the Barriers
Of the Spirit World
The Barrier which separates the physical and spirit worlds is comparable to a veil. It is thin and malleable, and allows for communication between the two sides. This is what allows for interaction with our spirits. We can see and hear them, but they are ultimately intangible.
Of the Dead World
The Barrier which separates the physical and dead worlds is more like a wall. It is solid and designed to inhibit communication between sides. Not all who die immediately join this realm; only those who will no longer reincarnate go to the other side of this Barrier. Once there, all that is left is their memories of their most recent life.[color]
On Spirits
A person’s spirit is most often paired to them because they were someone important to that person in one or more of their past lives and simply followed them into the next. If this is not the case, then they are matched by personalities. One completes the other in every sense of the term. Either way, at the birth of the physical half of the pair, the connection is formed, though most are not aware of it until much later on in life, if ever. By the time the link between the two is found, their consciouses are so closely intertwined it is often difficult to separate the thoughts of one from the other. Of those who do meet their spirits, some are found through contact through dreams, or are introduced via a third party. Spirits are only visible to the person they are connected to, and to be seen by others requires both the consent of the spirit and the heightened concentration of the person wanting to see them.
Spirits are connected to a soul by their psyches, not physically. The death of one will not cause the death of another, but it will leave the living half a mental wreck, often leading to shock, followed by suicide.
On the Dead
The deceased, those who will no longer reincarnate, are merely imprints of their memories of their most recent life. They remember nothing of any life before that one. They remember the wholeness they felt when attached to their spirits in life, and crave that above all else. Upon their return, it is the only thing they seek, and they care not for the lives they destroy in the process. If a hole is broken in the Barrier, their ghosts can slip through. In this state, their presence can be felt, but they have no energy of their own, and therefore cannot be sensed or manipulated that way.
On Energy
Energy is the life force with flows through all living beings, physical and spirit. It is a metaphysical finger print left behind by everything that touches anything. It can be felt in the air, in a room, on a chair or couch, anywhere someone experienced strong emotions. Emotions characterize the energy which is exude by a person, and to the trained eye and mind, is identifiable by speed, color, and flow pattern. To the average person, it can be felt by the overall feeling they get being near it. Many people experience this in places where intense emotions have been felt and left their imprint: hospitals, cemeteries, amusement parks, beautiful cities or natural wonders. Energy can be manipulated to be a certain emotion, guided to flow in or around a certain person or object. It can be used to heal emotional and some physical wounds. In some cases, it can even be used to communicate, but only on the most basic of levels.
Without energy, life does not exist. As souls and spirits have their own unique energy pattern, and the longer one is alive, the more they acquire. Over many lifetimes, some can accumulate vast oceans of energy. For those lesser in years or lives, certain objects can serve as an energy reserve to be used at a later time. Often these are rings or necklaces, usually containing a small stone. The purer the stone, gems in particular, the more energy it will retain and for longer.
On Past Lives
There is much that cannot be explained because it simply cannot be seen, but that is not to say it is not real. Much of the myth and lore found across the world, that which science and the general society has come to accept as nothing more than fiction and fairy tales, is true, with only the distortion of perspective. It is entirely possible that in someone’s past lives, providing they had any, they were one of these so-called mythical species. Likewise, their most recent past life could have died the day before their current was conceived, or their past could have lived and infinite number of years ago. This leaves open the possibilities of the entire history of the world and every species to have graced its earth.
(Literally anything, just use your imagination)
Abilities
Abilities have much to do with who and what you were in a past life. Abilities have to do with what you work with. Feeders work with the manipulation of energy but cannot forcibly take energy from others and have a limited supply of their own. Healers, well, heal, but what a wound does not simply disappear, it is taken on, and whatever you heal shows up in the same place and severity on yourself, only that it heals much faster. Oracles can see the past and/or future, but often have little control over what they see. In addition, there are subtler abilities, like communication with plants and animals beyond the norm, the use of magic as with fairies and witches, and many others. For the ones with slower and subtler workings, after the end of the Barriers, these abilities are more pronounced. Feeders, while before, the energy was mostly invisible, can now control much more condensed energy in the form of light or fire. The magic used by witches would have otherwise been much slower, is likewise accelerated. (Everyone picks one rank, and you can have as little as no abilities and be purely a warrior of weapon, or have as many as two abilities)
(If you think of any not listed here, and I sincerely hope you do, and you’re not sure if it’s a good one for the thread, PM and ask first. You have nearly a complete creative license here, so most anything will be okay, I just want to make sure it’s not too outlandish)
Where We Begin
Though the city is large, there's plenty of nature to be had quite near at hand. It's late June in Portland, Oregon. Spring is drawing to its close, and summer is dawning, just as the way people across the earth view their world is about to come to a new season as well.
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Kick Start
So we will all start out in this city, as it is large enough that this many enlightened people in one area would not be strange. We start the day before the fall of the Barriers, and you can pick if you know anyone else on the thread. If you need a reference point, Adria and Reid go to Portland Community College. Bring your character in however you'd like. It's a normal as ever day, and there will be a time skip soon to the morning, and that's where the fun begins.
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