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==='''Pitch'''===
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'''Initial Pitch'''
  
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My pitch is for that most enjoyable and exciting of super-human origins: mutation!
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I want to create a super-human phenomenon that occurs with a small percentage young people. Perhaps this seems similar to certain other mediums, but know that this mutation comes not from science, but from magic. People will be randomly transforming into creatures of folklore, and the world in general is left to deal with that.
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Basically, I want to create a super-human phenomenon that occurs with a small percentage young people. Perhaps this seems similar to certain other mediums, but know that this mutation comes not from science, but from magic. People will be randomly transforming into creatures of folklore, and the world in general is left to deal with that.
 
  
 
I will be working with themes of persecution and alienation, and I will be drawing from European folklore and legends.
 
I will be working with themes of persecution and alienation, and I will be drawing from European folklore and legends.
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==='''Pick 1: The Changeling Advent'''===
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==='''The Changeling Advent'''===
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Suddenly, our changeling children start developing magical powers and showing their faerie heritage.
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[[About The Changeling Advent (Tobyverse)|About The Changeling Advent]]
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[[Rules for Changelings (Tobyverse)|Rules for Changelings]]
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==='''Dr. Kadabra'''===
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Dr. Alberto Kadbras, pre-Advent Changeling, former sellout, now a philanthropist.
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[[Dr. Kadabra's Story (Tobyverse)|Dr. Kadabra's Story]]
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"Now, I'm not going to mince words here. I know there is quite a bit of controversy over the origin of these...Changelings. We have heard everything from demonic possession to genetic mutation to alien abductions, but really, that isn't important. The question that the American people, and likely the people of the rest of the world want to know is simple...are they a danger?"
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==='''Bishop Crow'''===
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-excerpt from the debate on Proposition 81, Kansas
 
  
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A 400-year-old Changeling, he has figured out that the way for humans and Changelings to live in peace is to kill all the humans, and gathered an organization to help him do that.
  
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Long ago, there were legends of false children. They were said to be the result of faerie abduction, a twisted, monstrous copy left behind in place of a real child. They were wicked abominations, horrible empty things that desired nothing more than the misery and pain of all of those around them. They were know as Changelings.
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[[Bishop Crow's Story (Tobyverse)|Bishop Crow's Story]]
  
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The fact that this legend was quite a bit off has not done much to help the Changelings of the modern day.
 
  
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The ancient faeries, the Fair Folk, did indeed once walk among us. They were the strange and twisted lords of beauty and madness, beings of pure, chaotic magical energy. Some lived in our world as lords and gods, while some skulked the shadows and took the role of our nightmares. All enjoyed our company...or perhaps servitude. When one is in the company of one of the Fair Folk, one tends to bleed into the other rather quickly. In any case, they took human lover/consorts/slaves, and bore and sired a race of halfbreed children. These children were the true Changelings, or Elderblood, or whatever the PC term is now. In any case, they were no more evil than any human being...which is to say that they could be quite wicked indeed.
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==='''Razor Jenny'''===
  
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But as time passed, the Fair Folk left our world. Why? This, in itself, is a great mystery. Perhaps they were driven out. Perhaps they did not like the idea of living in a world where their power would not be supreme. Maybe they got lost or board, their mercurial natures driving them away. Whatever the cause, they vanished. Their changeling descendants remained for some time, but their numbers began to dwindle as the old faerie blood began to grow thin. In fact, at the dusk of the twentieth century, only a handful of people were true changelings, and it seemed clear that their final chapter was being written.
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Transformed as part of the Changeling Advent, Jenny rejects the authority of both Dr. Kadabra and Bishop Crow to determine what 'her people' should do. Sse is intent on making a utopia, far from interfering humans.
  
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Then something impossible happened. It was called the Changeling Advent.
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[[Razor Jenny's Story (Tobyverse)|Razor Jenny's Story]]
  
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No one know exactly what happened, or when it happened, but for some strange and unknown reason, the amount of faerie blood necessary to be considered a Changeling plummeted. Around the world, thousands of parents saw their children become monsters, and no one ever was told why. This, of course, fostered quite a bit of fear and paranoia. Anyone could become a changeling, and no one could tell until it happened.
 
  
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The mass of negative emotions directed at the Changelings is often manipulated. Amoral politicians have one campaigns riding on the fear of the transformation. Radical and bloodthirsty hate groups have formed. And the Changelings themselves? Many have been filled with anger, giving birth to several changeling gangs, death cults, and terrorist cells.
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==='''Salvation City's Underworld'''===
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A city under a city, built as a nuclear shelter.  After being flooded with Expanse energies, the people remaining above exiled their Changelings to the Underworld to die.  Instead, they flourished.
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[[About Underworld (Tobyverse)|About Underworld]]
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[[Locations In Underworld (Tobyverse)|Locations In Underworld]]
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==='''The Mighty Pan'''===
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He was a rising musician when the Advent occurred, giving him horns, cloven feet, and a terribly dangerous power. A Satyr, he has a frightening power over music. First, random improbable things happen, strange things that cannot be explained. And two, when he plays, he can subconsciously manipulate the emotions of anyone listening to him.
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[[The Mighty Pan's Story (Tobyverse)|The Mighty Pan's Story]]
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[[A Moment With The Mighty Pan (Tobyverse)|A Moment With The Mighty Pan]]
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==='''Ironblood'''===
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Lucas Draques, or Luke to his friends, is a troll. He about seven feet tall, with blue skin, horns, and a tiny blond soul patch on his chin. Famous for growing to giant size and climbing the tallest building in Empire City on his Awakening.
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[[Ironblood's Story (Tobyverse)|Ironblood's Story]]
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==='''Belladonna'''===
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Nancy Donnel was one of Kadabra's first personal students.  When she Awakened, she defended herself against a mod by turning her small Virginia town into a forest, people and all.
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[[Belladonna's Story (Tobyverse)|Belladonna's Story]]
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==='''Eldar'''===
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Morris is an early post-Advent Changeling.  He was captured, brainwashed, and trained by STEEL to use his better-than-human physical attributes as an assassin. Deprogrammed and freed by Dr. Kadabra when they sought to use Morris against him.
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[[Eldar's Story (Tobyverse)|Eldar's Story]]
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==='''The Kadbras Foundation'''===
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The world-sweeping organization that is run by Dr. Alberto Kadbras, or Dr. Kadabra; a philanthropic organization, designed to aid Changelings who have lost everything. Also a team  of Changelings with extraordinary gifts, who work with Dr, Kadabra.
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[[About The Kadbras Foundation (Tobyverse)|About The Kadbras Foundation]]
  
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[[Rules for Changelings (Tobyverse)|Rules for Changelings]]
 
  
  
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[[The Tobyverse Draft]]
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[[The Tobyverse Players]]
  
 
[[Tobyverse]]
 
[[Tobyverse]]

Latest revision as of 21:14, 30 November 2011

Initial Pitch

I want to create a super-human phenomenon that occurs with a small percentage young people. Perhaps this seems similar to certain other mediums, but know that this mutation comes not from science, but from magic. People will be randomly transforming into creatures of folklore, and the world in general is left to deal with that.

I will be working with themes of persecution and alienation, and I will be drawing from European folklore and legends.

In all likelihood, I may create a few superheroes along this line as well. Perhaps a team, but I have not decided. I have the idea of a superhero magician, but that is still developing...


The Changeling Advent[edit]

Suddenly, our changeling children start developing magical powers and showing their faerie heritage.

About The Changeling Advent

Rules for Changelings


Dr. Kadabra[edit]

Dr. Alberto Kadbras, pre-Advent Changeling, former sellout, now a philanthropist.

Dr. Kadabra's Story


Bishop Crow[edit]

A 400-year-old Changeling, he has figured out that the way for humans and Changelings to live in peace is to kill all the humans, and gathered an organization to help him do that.

Bishop Crow's Story


Razor Jenny[edit]

Transformed as part of the Changeling Advent, Jenny rejects the authority of both Dr. Kadabra and Bishop Crow to determine what 'her people' should do. Sse is intent on making a utopia, far from interfering humans.

Razor Jenny's Story


Salvation City's Underworld[edit]

A city under a city, built as a nuclear shelter. After being flooded with Expanse energies, the people remaining above exiled their Changelings to the Underworld to die. Instead, they flourished.

About Underworld

Locations In Underworld


The Mighty Pan[edit]

He was a rising musician when the Advent occurred, giving him horns, cloven feet, and a terribly dangerous power. A Satyr, he has a frightening power over music. First, random improbable things happen, strange things that cannot be explained. And two, when he plays, he can subconsciously manipulate the emotions of anyone listening to him.

The Mighty Pan's Story

A Moment With The Mighty Pan


Ironblood[edit]

Lucas Draques, or Luke to his friends, is a troll. He about seven feet tall, with blue skin, horns, and a tiny blond soul patch on his chin. Famous for growing to giant size and climbing the tallest building in Empire City on his Awakening.

Ironblood's Story


Belladonna[edit]

Nancy Donnel was one of Kadabra's first personal students. When she Awakened, she defended herself against a mod by turning her small Virginia town into a forest, people and all.

Belladonna's Story


Eldar[edit]

Morris is an early post-Advent Changeling. He was captured, brainwashed, and trained by STEEL to use his better-than-human physical attributes as an assassin. Deprogrammed and freed by Dr. Kadabra when they sought to use Morris against him.

Eldar's Story


The Kadbras Foundation[edit]

The world-sweeping organization that is run by Dr. Alberto Kadbras, or Dr. Kadabra; a philanthropic organization, designed to aid Changelings who have lost everything. Also a team of Changelings with extraordinary gifts, who work with Dr, Kadabra.

About The Kadbras Foundation


The Tobyverse Players

Tobyverse

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