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Trails and Tribulations Interest Thread

Duckquackmuse
13-12-2006, 22:21
This is set in the era of the Witch-hunts in America, late 1600s and 1950s. Each person will belong to two worlds, the past of the time when the Puritans began to colonise America and then again in the 1950s when the American government started looking for and punishing Communists in the country.

I hope to explore some of the parrells between each era, there are different factions and groups in both times (especially in the late 1600s Witch hunts) each wanting to persucute different people etc, I'm sure I don't need to explain this to you. You will of course see exactly where my inspiration has come from, The Crucible by Arthur Miller. However I don't wish to go near that plot line, and hopefully jazz it up a bit by adding in a more modern parallel.

I'm looking for dedicated RPers, the story will probably go on a while, and ones that are keen and know a little of the subject matter. If you don't, don't feel imposed upon, simply go and look it up. I would also be interested in having long, descriptive posts, with well thought-out plots and so on. Feel free to have more than one character, however bare in mind your characters will have a 1950 times paralell. The 1950s time character does not have to make the same descions as the 1600s one, or indeed live the same kind of life. Use the two lives to explore different options etc. Infact I don't mind if they aren't even the same sex, background, or disposition. Its just so the 1600s and the 1950s have the same amount of interest and characters.

Here are some ideas for you to be chewing on, bare in mind your character doesn't have to be definatly from any of these factions but these are some I can think of right now.
Factions:
Government
Innocent Witches
Church
Higher Church (ie had more Authority)
Learned (those who could see madness in the hysteria)
Wives
Older People
Farmers
Office Workers/owners
Hysterical Masses. (maybe you could act some out just for comiedic value.)

Is anyone interested? This RP doesn't have to move extremely fast, so if you are already involved in a few, as long as you make well timed, valued posts (ie with a bit of meat in them) then you don't have to be refreshing your back every twenty seconds to make sure you don't miss a single bite. And hey feel free to practice those novel writing skills, it would be great if we could make this thread something to be proud of, that would and could be read as a book.
Duckquackmuse
13-12-2006, 22:45
Bump [I'm getting that bad feeling that this has been done..]
Duckquackmuse
14-12-2006, 20:19
Bump