Hello. I am new here, if you couldn't tell. Anyway, I had attempted to gather interest in a Deliria game (or d20 Modern, if no one has heard of or cares for the Deliria system) on another website, but since it involved practically NO killing, no one proved very interested in the game. I did get one person telling me that the game would likely draw much more interest over here.
Deliria is a system that lends itself more to free-form RP, but rather that you are telling a fairy tale about your character, a fairy tale set in the modern age. You start out as an every day human, but as the weirdness sets in, you start getting odd little powers here and there, or you may start learning a magical system. For all intents and purposes, you're a "Joe Schmoe", a social security number, an occupant of a point in space, but eventually, you go beyond that...
Anyway, here's the premise I set up for the game:
A few people remember the pictures in the news from thirty... maybe forty years ago. No one remembers when, but it was a time when people were starting to express interest in "Free Love" and all that questioning authority nonsense.
A young girl named Alicia Brewer lived back then. She was five, or six... regardless, she was still very new to this planet. Blond hair, blue eyes, and rosey cheeks. She lived with the model family with a mother and father who loved each other very much. They lived in a quaint, one-story house in the suburbs, the kind with the impeccably clean sidewalks, mowed lawns, and golden retriever puppies running around.
She was the first to have the Disease.
Alicia's parents died in a car accident. They say the disease starts with a tragedy like that. She was quickly shunted off to an orphanage where everyone agreed she would be adopted into a loving family quickly. After all, she was the perfect child.
But she never was adopted.
Alicia began introducing her to imaginary friends. Not just any friends, but friends with complete biographical histories. It all seemed innocent at first, but she began getting more and more demanding that people address them properly. She would rearrange her furniture and blame it on her friends. She would leave food all over the place for her friends. Attempts to break her of her friends never worked. Alicia would warn about their anger, but people would scoff. Then, when the orphanage matron tried to beat Alicia of the friends habits... She was found the next day in her bed, stabbed 101 times with what people thought was a broadsword. No evidence was ever found.
And her madness grew worse.
Alicia would claim to have tea parties with unicorns and fairy queens in the dining hall of the orphanage. These little affairs would grow more and more disturbing to the other children. So, they sent Alicia to a mental hospital. They tried everything, from surgery to electroshock therapy to medicine. Nothing worked. The degeneration on her brain was permanent, at that point. She began claiming that one day "they" will come back and change the world forever. She then began to build a little fort of construction paper in her room. When the last piece of paper was pasted into place... she disappeared.
Or so the rumor goes.
She's probably still in that hospital, living in her little fort decades later. Soon after the story of her illness was made public, parents would come forward, afraid their children would be soon as lost as Alicia Brewer. Scientists and Psychologists came together and indeed proved it was a mental disease, a degeneration of the brain. It starts with a tragedy, followed by hallucinations of mythical creatures. It can affect people at any age, but children were the most common. Luckily, these same scientists and psychologists found that with early diagnosis, medicine, and group therapy, the disease can be reversed, and people have made a full recovery. They've been successful for 20 years that no one thinks about Alicia Brewer's Disease anymore. It's not even worthy to print in the paper.
*=*=*=*
Welcome to St. Prudence, a quaint modern suburb a few miles outside Atlanta, a modern city with all the amenities... a city where a person from anywhere in the world can get lost in the crowds and never be more than just a face...
At St. Prudence Community College, downtown, the student center is open late Thursday nights for the Alicia Brewer's anonymous group. It's made up of people from all walks of life, from the poorest teenager to well-to-dos in mansions. Dr. Uriah Gardner volunteers his time to help the unfortunates, letting them tell their stories and giving aid where needed. Your doctor probably recommended you to come here...
So... why are you here?
_______________________
Anyone interested?
Deliria is a system that lends itself more to free-form RP, but rather that you are telling a fairy tale about your character, a fairy tale set in the modern age. You start out as an every day human, but as the weirdness sets in, you start getting odd little powers here and there, or you may start learning a magical system. For all intents and purposes, you're a "Joe Schmoe", a social security number, an occupant of a point in space, but eventually, you go beyond that...
Anyway, here's the premise I set up for the game:
A few people remember the pictures in the news from thirty... maybe forty years ago. No one remembers when, but it was a time when people were starting to express interest in "Free Love" and all that questioning authority nonsense.
A young girl named Alicia Brewer lived back then. She was five, or six... regardless, she was still very new to this planet. Blond hair, blue eyes, and rosey cheeks. She lived with the model family with a mother and father who loved each other very much. They lived in a quaint, one-story house in the suburbs, the kind with the impeccably clean sidewalks, mowed lawns, and golden retriever puppies running around.
She was the first to have the Disease.
Alicia's parents died in a car accident. They say the disease starts with a tragedy like that. She was quickly shunted off to an orphanage where everyone agreed she would be adopted into a loving family quickly. After all, she was the perfect child.
But she never was adopted.
Alicia began introducing her to imaginary friends. Not just any friends, but friends with complete biographical histories. It all seemed innocent at first, but she began getting more and more demanding that people address them properly. She would rearrange her furniture and blame it on her friends. She would leave food all over the place for her friends. Attempts to break her of her friends never worked. Alicia would warn about their anger, but people would scoff. Then, when the orphanage matron tried to beat Alicia of the friends habits... She was found the next day in her bed, stabbed 101 times with what people thought was a broadsword. No evidence was ever found.
And her madness grew worse.
Alicia would claim to have tea parties with unicorns and fairy queens in the dining hall of the orphanage. These little affairs would grow more and more disturbing to the other children. So, they sent Alicia to a mental hospital. They tried everything, from surgery to electroshock therapy to medicine. Nothing worked. The degeneration on her brain was permanent, at that point. She began claiming that one day "they" will come back and change the world forever. She then began to build a little fort of construction paper in her room. When the last piece of paper was pasted into place... she disappeared.
Or so the rumor goes.
She's probably still in that hospital, living in her little fort decades later. Soon after the story of her illness was made public, parents would come forward, afraid their children would be soon as lost as Alicia Brewer. Scientists and Psychologists came together and indeed proved it was a mental disease, a degeneration of the brain. It starts with a tragedy, followed by hallucinations of mythical creatures. It can affect people at any age, but children were the most common. Luckily, these same scientists and psychologists found that with early diagnosis, medicine, and group therapy, the disease can be reversed, and people have made a full recovery. They've been successful for 20 years that no one thinks about Alicia Brewer's Disease anymore. It's not even worthy to print in the paper.
*=*=*=*
Welcome to St. Prudence, a quaint modern suburb a few miles outside Atlanta, a modern city with all the amenities... a city where a person from anywhere in the world can get lost in the crowds and never be more than just a face...
At St. Prudence Community College, downtown, the student center is open late Thursday nights for the Alicia Brewer's anonymous group. It's made up of people from all walks of life, from the poorest teenager to well-to-dos in mansions. Dr. Uriah Gardner volunteers his time to help the unfortunates, letting them tell their stories and giving aid where needed. Your doctor probably recommended you to come here...
So... why are you here?
_______________________
Anyone interested?
Last edited:
