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Synodiporia Valor: The Ten of Swords
( You feel as though you've stepped through a door. )
WHAT IS SYNODIPORA VALOR?
Synodiporia Valor is a tabletop game in Valor: Heroic Roleplaying that's a sort of "what-if" future of the Dreamwidth-based panfandom roleplaying game Synodiporia. In it, your character will become a Traveller - a volunteer celebrant in a ritual tournament, undertaking missions that will empower the liminal and immortal tarot Arcana; each player will join a team based on the Minor Arcana of Swords, Wands, Discs and Cups.
The winners will gain the power of The World, and use it to save the Hanged Man from falling to the corruption of the Lovecraftian beings known as the Dread Ancient Ones - for in a world with a corrupted Hanged Man, there can be no true rest, no healing from dreams or sleep. Gods know that the Minor Arcana - the Travellers who won the World out from under the noses of the Major Arcana - wouldn't try to invoke Synodiporia unless it was absolutely necessary.
WHAT CHARACTERS CAN I PLAY?
You can play any character who would reasonably have the martial techniques and adventurous, courageous spirit of a Valor character, from any imaginable setting. Both OCs and adaptations of characters from published media will be considered; however, take them from a canonpoint where it's reasonable for them to be first level characters.
All PCs have willingly chosen to volunteer for the ritual - the Minor Arcana were drafted, not recruited, and they've vowed that no one else should suffer the same indignities they did at the hands of the Majors. This means that your character must be the kind of person that would sign up for a mission to save the world - or at least, for a mission to gain The World.
Your characters in particular are, as the sort of people who make good Valor PCs, destined to be on Team Swords. This is not known IC'ly, but is rather a matter of your characters skills and temperament.
Also, it would be personally helpful to me if one character was an amnesiac, who I will give to someone else to build.
JAUNTS, INFILTRATORS, PLOT ROLES, AND INVESTIGATORS
Each adventure will be a Jaunt to another world - where some of your characters may become Infiltrators, AUs of their characters as they would be if they were from that world. I'll give a list of possible plot roles for each Jaunt, each with unique powers and secret agendas, and roughly half of the group will Infiltrate as these plot roles while the rest stay as Investigators, trying to deduce the nature of a story they should bring to a conclusion befitting of the suits of Swords, Wands, Discs or Cups.
ICly, it is known that you might Infiltrate, but the characters to not know in advance who will or in what role. OOCly, I'll inform you before each adventure begins.
Because of the necessity of having Infiltrations and Plot Roles for the feel of Synodiporia, I will be requesting at least 6 and up to 10 players. A normal Valor party is between 3-5, and this will give me enough variety so that everyone gets a round in the AU Machine.
WHEN WILL WE RUN?
Late August to early September of 2021. We'll work out availability closer to that time, but list some days and times you think you'll have available.
WHAT DO YOU NEED FROM ME?
The following:
Your Name. Anything I can call you.
Where I can reach you. Preferably Plurk or Discord - I have a Discord channel for Synodiporia Valor set up - but email or Dreamwidth journals are fine too. Heck, list all of these.
Days and times you think you might be available. This is probably up in the air but I want SOME idea to plan around.
Who you might want to play. Remember: these can be any OC or fandom character who would work as a Lv 1 Valor character and who would volunteer for the Synodiporia ritual, for either altruistic or selfish reasons.
What Major Arcana you think those characters would be suited to, as a secret tool that will help me later.
Anything else you'd like me to know.
( You feel as though you've stepped through a door. )
WHAT IS SYNODIPORA VALOR?
Synodiporia Valor is a tabletop game in Valor: Heroic Roleplaying that's a sort of "what-if" future of the Dreamwidth-based panfandom roleplaying game Synodiporia. In it, your character will become a Traveller - a volunteer celebrant in a ritual tournament, undertaking missions that will empower the liminal and immortal tarot Arcana; each player will join a team based on the Minor Arcana of Swords, Wands, Discs and Cups.
The winners will gain the power of The World, and use it to save the Hanged Man from falling to the corruption of the Lovecraftian beings known as the Dread Ancient Ones - for in a world with a corrupted Hanged Man, there can be no true rest, no healing from dreams or sleep. Gods know that the Minor Arcana - the Travellers who won the World out from under the noses of the Major Arcana - wouldn't try to invoke Synodiporia unless it was absolutely necessary.
WHAT CHARACTERS CAN I PLAY?
You can play any character who would reasonably have the martial techniques and adventurous, courageous spirit of a Valor character, from any imaginable setting. Both OCs and adaptations of characters from published media will be considered; however, take them from a canonpoint where it's reasonable for them to be first level characters.
All PCs have willingly chosen to volunteer for the ritual - the Minor Arcana were drafted, not recruited, and they've vowed that no one else should suffer the same indignities they did at the hands of the Majors. This means that your character must be the kind of person that would sign up for a mission to save the world - or at least, for a mission to gain The World.
Your characters in particular are, as the sort of people who make good Valor PCs, destined to be on Team Swords. This is not known IC'ly, but is rather a matter of your characters skills and temperament.
Also, it would be personally helpful to me if one character was an amnesiac, who I will give to someone else to build.
JAUNTS, INFILTRATORS, PLOT ROLES, AND INVESTIGATORS
Each adventure will be a Jaunt to another world - where some of your characters may become Infiltrators, AUs of their characters as they would be if they were from that world. I'll give a list of possible plot roles for each Jaunt, each with unique powers and secret agendas, and roughly half of the group will Infiltrate as these plot roles while the rest stay as Investigators, trying to deduce the nature of a story they should bring to a conclusion befitting of the suits of Swords, Wands, Discs or Cups.
ICly, it is known that you might Infiltrate, but the characters to not know in advance who will or in what role. OOCly, I'll inform you before each adventure begins.
Because of the necessity of having Infiltrations and Plot Roles for the feel of Synodiporia, I will be requesting at least 6 and up to 10 players. A normal Valor party is between 3-5, and this will give me enough variety so that everyone gets a round in the AU Machine.
WHEN WILL WE RUN?
Late August to early September of 2021. We'll work out availability closer to that time, but list some days and times you think you'll have available.
WHAT DO YOU NEED FROM ME?
The following:
Your Name. Anything I can call you.
Where I can reach you. Preferably Plurk or Discord - I have a Discord channel for Synodiporia Valor set up - but email or Dreamwidth journals are fine too. Heck, list all of these.
Days and times you think you might be available. This is probably up in the air but I want SOME idea to plan around.
Who you might want to play. Remember: these can be any OC or fandom character who would work as a Lv 1 Valor character and who would volunteer for the Synodiporia ritual, for either altruistic or selfish reasons.
What Major Arcana you think those characters would be suited to, as a secret tool that will help me later.
Anything else you'd like me to know.
