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I'd be in favor of one rp that has both worlds viaing for cohabitation or domination with the other. the characters will be the guys in the middle that are working out relationships between the two worlds. They choose to be in favor of or against peaceful relationship, they then act in a way to further their chosen path.

the story events can be used to place characters in one world or another for fulfill specific purposes for their side.

In the middle, the characters will either identify themselves as the antagonists or they will learn to work together to confront the real crisis at hand to save the worlds and create an agreement between the worlds.

Perhaps the magical world is running out of magic and can't sustain itself by itself anymore, or perhaps the real world is beginning to die and sympathetic forces on the others side have seen fit to lend out after thousands of years. An organization or force of malevolence is pushing both worlds to calamity, and the characters have found out and must deal with it or join up with it after they get past the initial investigation and normalizing of the worlds being joined.

Alright so here is explaining my setup plan and idea for this rp.

There will be two different groups one magical and one modern/ slightly futuristic.

I would like 4-5 members for each group but that isn't a full necessity, People cane have multiple characters but at the beginning the secondary characters cannot be a member of a party. So for example a main character is a member of a party then a second is say a gang leader for the Bloods in an area where portal activity seems high and gets involved a lot or something.

Once these portals begin effecting places all over the world the UN is going to meet and create a special organization designed to try and fix these portals. Some of the events have been extremely negative and others have not. This groups end task will be to stop the portals all together, but their first tasks will be identifying the problem and stopping the negative effects, hopefully build on the positive and make allies and share knowledge.

The negative portals will involve the races of the mystical world that are typically not very negotiable, for example Orcs. A portal opens up orc raiding party goes through causes havoc takes stuff and leaves. However positive things have happened from interactions with the other races where they helped bring back people who went through and got lost etc etc etc.

The Magical world has an alliance between the good races Humans elves Dwarves etc. This alliance has nothing to do with the portals being opened or forming and is going to try and virtually have the same concept as the Human side. Stop them and hope for positive reaction from the Earth. Not all their interactions have been positive either. The Evil alliance however Dark elves, Demons, Orcs, etc (not really allied just saying) is using these as they bring great profits. The humans who are not so friendly find things that they can exploit within the magical world. A group of gangsters raided an elven village and took all their women. Elves are after all appealing to males. They would bring a HUGE profit from black market interactions. Other kinds of interactions have also occurred. While the reverse is also true people have been injured given medical aid and returned.

The Magical side crew will be individuals summoned to the convening council that leads the alliance and sent on a fellowship with magical assistance to find the portals and work on events as they come to them. They want to build a positive relation with the other side as well and thus you have the setting.

I was thinking of having Each world in it's own thread cause they might get a little busy especially if it's all in one thread. Ideas on this and feedback would be nice.

Alright people time for me to get the show on the road and actually setup the rp. So get your rpc's ready and your gameplan on the line.

Additionally, the clock could have been moved up a bit to have the 2 worlds already connected and investigating each other, allowing for character interaction and one thread. Rp's, even popular ones, can die if the characters are split apart by distance not quickly covered. Worlds apart would make it that much more likely that characters will be unable to interact with each other even when the characters are available which limits options...thinking out loud mostly, but looking for ways to bring the characters together will be very important.

You are right in that it will build that 'team' concept. It will also create team drama since they have only their selves to interact with. When they teams finally meet, they will have to deal with each other as well as the dynamics of their own team.

However, as it is currently setup, you will need come up with a conflict or opposition of sorts for each thread now. They won't get to meet until the individual threads resolve the current conflict or scenario and are ready to move to a combined/conjoined world thread where the characters will be able to pass back and forth between the two worlds. I encourage you to not split the rp between characters hopping back and forth between 2 threads. It confuses and loses new members that way.

Sounds good. Running 2 separate rp's would be a good way to fill time also. Additionally, it'll get a similar rp story to 2 different settings which some folks may like.

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