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SHINY HAPPY ROLEPLAY PLOT THINGS

If any of these ideas seem familiar, then odds are you've probably seen them before. However, before you scream 'plagiarist!' at me I would like to state that I had a bad habit of compulsively making alts/mules a few years back, and still have a tendency to account hop. Thus the person you roleplayed it with was probably me. Unless the idea's just really generic.

I tried not to throw in all the unnecessary details, but for some of these I have a lot of background info. If you have any questions, ask 'em. I love giving infodumps.

Fantasy

High Fantasy
-Taking place in a specific setting of mine, which has five countries in a state of tension with each other and normally low magic levels. However in one of the countries, a desert land known as Leolanda, the scholars and magicians have noted a sudden increase in magical phenomenon and spells going haywire. The scholars and magicians have thus been busy secretly studying the phenomenons and malfunctioning spells, and sometimes they need test subjects. In this case, they usually either kidnap criminals or the nomads staying in the cities, or buy off kidnapped citizens of Sira (another country) from the river pirates. Your character would be one of the test subjects. My character would be the heir to the Leolanda throne, a Prince considered thoroughly mad, but who actually has his own odd connection to the sudden resurgence of magic in the land.

Modern Day

Teenage Drama
-A group of teenagers with little to nothing in common all end up collaborating on a school newspaper. Say, one wants something to look good on a college app, one was forced to join in the hopes it would somehow help with their delinquency, one actually enjoys writing, one just wants to spread around the gossip, etc. Point is, they're slightly at odds with each other. And then they stumble across a scandal of some sort which seems inconsequential. For example, a rumor of a student selling drugs or something similar. They write up the story and publish it, only to find out that their story is linked to a bigger conspiracy with much more dangerous consequences than they initially thought.

-There is a teenager who is not a particularly huge fan of this one musician popular among their peers. Just how much they dislike this musician is up to you, but they generally go out of their way to avoid his music/images/advertisements/etc. The only issue is that a friend of theirs is a huge fan of this musician, and when he's holding a concert locally that the friend has a backstage pass to, said friend ends up too sick to go. So it's up to the non-fan to go, snap some pictures, ask the musician and the other people playing some questions, and so forth, all to make their friend happy. But then they actually get to meet the musician face to face, and that's when they discover the kicker- said musician is an old childhood friend of the non-fan's who moved away and never bothered contacting them again. Turns out that they'd grown up, changed their name to a stage one, turned into a famous musician/sex symbol and apparently forgot their friend. Needless to say, the non-fan's pretty confused and upset. But the musician's just as conflicted in their own way.

Science Fiction

Soft Sci-Fi
-The roleplay takes place literally only a few years in the future, specifically 2024. Adolescents, or more specifically, those born from 2001-2012 have been gaining psychic powers at an exponential rate. The response was varied, although for the most part it was pretty negative. However, in 2022 there was a goddamn alien invasion by crustacean like creatures with ridiculously advanced technology. Realizing that the psychic teenagers may be the key to saving humanity, the UN formed an experimental initiative where they sent the psychics to a base in northern Russia to be studied, given military training, and to grow in skill with their psychic powers before getting shipped off to various locations to fight off the invading aliens. We'd be playing two of the psychics who got drafted into this initiative.

Miscellaneous