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Familiar Faces: A Play by Post Solarpunk Mystery!
Hello everyone! I am seeking (ideally) 5 to 6 players to join my FATE campaign set in the world of Annesai, my solarpunk world that I've been building for years.
If you're interested in building a character with deep lore and backstories, solving several intertwining story-wide mysteries, and feeling like you're in a huge sandbox, this is the game for you! In Annesai, magic use is forbidden because of its perceived danger. The city of Franzin destroyed itself with it, and as a result people use it secretly and cautiously. The natural lifespan of the country's citizens is 150. People stick around for a long time, and they remember how things used to be.
This will be a very roleplay heavy campaign. FATE mechanics like aspects and stunts will be used, but mostly for character driven actions and solving plot lines. Actual "combat" will be incredibly rare. This will also be entirely play by post, with the hopes that each player will post at least twice per day to keep things moving. Story beats will come from me, but players will have time to respond how they'd like. I am a first time GM, so patience is appreciated as I figure out what this all looks like! I have a Discord server with world information and character building questions all ready to go. If you have questions about the world/story or think you'd like to join, please fill out the form and then DM me!
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The mood in Annesai has been... tense. The country seems to be trying to find its footing in a time where a lot of things are going on at once.
In the underground city of Gyuna, citizens have started to notice people with animal like features slinking around the darker parts of the city. Body mods aren't uncommon, like wings tails and horns, but these people are different. They stay as secluded as they possibly can. They look like they're in pain. They look grotesque. Too many are starting to be spotted too often for this to be a simple body mod trend gone wrong. When the Kingsmen started finding people dead from these deformities, they called more forces into the underground, putting everyone on edge.
Up in artistic city Purret, the Children of Voltrix have begun recruiting members into their Church more aggressively. They've been holding more open houses, sending higher up members into businesses to leave their new pamphlets when they've never allowed people to leave before, even gotten the High Society Six School of the Arts to start filming a documentary on them. The leader Olix has made an announcement that she will personally pay the fare for anyone who wants to travel from outside Purret to join the CoV. They're gaining more members than ever, and people who are losing friends and loved ones to her cause are starting to worry. After all, nobody even knows what they /do/ in there.
And now things have started to come to a head - because the entire country is pretty sure the King is dead. This isn't even horrible news to most of Annesai's citizens, but it's led to confusion and concern. With King Phillip dead, his son Ellion will take the throne... and nobody knows a single thing about him. The general opinion in the royal city of Walnuri is that King Phillip simply waited too long to have an heir.
His estranged brother, Alexander, has three children. His eldest Peony has just turned 31 and is only now starting to be referred to in the news as a "young woman" rather than a teenager. His second eldest Zachariah is only 15, and nowhere close to being taken seriously. Phillip, in no real rush, waited until he was 80 before he had a child, and his wife died from childbirth complications. Too old and "busy" to truly raise his new son alone, Ellion was thrust into the arms of countless nannies and old male teachers, none of whom he took to.
In our present day, nobody knows anything about Ellion at all except that he's incredibly shy. Interviews - if he agrees to them - are only published in papers and articles. Its incredibly rare to hear his voice. Nobody knows his opinion on magic, on the situation in the ruined Franzin or seedy Gyuna, nothing.
To be honest, nobody really cared. Walnuri citizens thought he was cute and would grow into his title, and everybody else decided they would pay attention to him when he was old enough to grow out of his meekness and address the nation without prompting from his father. After all, the King was only just in his hundreds and in seemingly good health. Ellion wouldn't take the throne for at least 20 more years, when he was old enough to take it seriously.
But now the King is dead, and his son, at only 22, is taking control of Annesai.