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OOC Interest thread: Elves in my backyard?

Nova Hope
20-05-2005, 15:58
Well with the prevalence of non-human nations skittering about I think I need an RP to bring my people’s perception about them to ahead.

(Context Info)

Some parts of Nova Hope proper are under special arrangements to be governed my the federal government in conjunction with the Polis. This has meant the land stayed relatively unused as the orders of government disagreed with each other.

Lately the federal government has become preoccupied and needed to curry favor with the Polis. So they removed some of the controls on the land. This allowed for mining and forestry companies to begin surveying the area.


What I would like to do is find a small nation of elves living inside my own borders. It will be kept hush hush at first, as the companies who find it know that they will never get to get at the veins of resources if this erupts. So the companies proceed with extraction and the elves go nuts.

What I need is a few people to RP foreign companies who happened to win the bid. (The land we are talking about contains a pristine old growth rainforest and underneath there is a massive vein of diamonds. The diamonds will only be discovered until just into the RP, the government does not know about them.)

I also need some foreign eco groups as Nova Hope has a terrible environmental record and no one takes domestic ‘green parties’ seriously.

Once this situation boils over I need some eleven nations to side with the elves. I also need some human nations who have experience with elves to advise the Noviet government.

The government is preoccupied with several other matters and will not be able to respond in force. So this RP will hopefully be a bit more subtle then the quashing of a people.

(Note I’m heading down to Boston this weekend and won’t be able to get back to any of you until Monday. Exceptions being this little bit before I leave.)
The Resurgent Dream
20-05-2005, 16:20
You need eleven nations siding with the elves? :p

Anyway, I'll do it.
Nova Hope
20-05-2005, 16:57
You need eleven nations siding with the elves? :p

Anyway, I'll do it.

You're an eleven nation or a troll nation? Just checking as a very brief skim over your history has left me confused.

FYI these are magic wielding low tech elves. Weapon wise their use of magic makes up for it but they don’t use anything more advanced then the European dark ages. (some exception may apply)

Now I will zip my lip as I don’t want to explain too much before the beginning.
Nova Hope
20-05-2005, 18:16
I’m packing for my trip now so I will see what’s going on when I get back. I will then put up the intro post sometime next week. I hope to see a lot of interest by the time I get back, see you all then.
The Ctan
20-05-2005, 23:21
We will see.
Tsaraine
21-05-2005, 13:45
Are you sure you want to use elves? Having been so popular in the past, elves are something of a cliché these days (and because opressing them was so popular in the past, people tend to be less entertained by it).

Personally, I'd suggest finding some interesting race from mythology and adapting that to fit - go through a good book of world mythology and look for good material. Non-European mythologies are particularly good for this, as they haven't been mined by aspiring fantasy writers of the past forty years.
Nova Hope
23-05-2005, 15:30
This is so very true but I could not think of a mythological race that had a great enough popularity on the forums to illicit moral support from their ‘cousins’ afar.