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RPS: Burn, baby, burn...

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Once there was a wise and kind king, who ruled his subjects well and obeyed his gods to every detail, and in returned received loyal, happy subjects, and a loving wife who lived with him many long years and bore him a beautiful daughter. But his wife died of a terrible illness that took her in the night, and he was left to raise his daughter alone. But then one day, a messenger from the gods came to him and made a dreadful announcement…

His daughter's life would be taken at the youthful age of fifteen, as a test to prove he was a good king, loyal to the gods. The king never questioned the gods before, but wanted to know why his daughter would have to die for him to prove himself, for he had proved himself all his life to the gods without hesitation!

That's when he realized it. The gods saw mortals as nothing but toys to test and play with to their own amusement. But what could he do? His daughter died just as it had been said, and who could have enough power to defy the gods? The king fell into a terrible melancholy, and his people were sad because he was sad. And many years later, a nymph, a mystical creature in touch with all things mysterious, arrived in the kingdom and heard of the king's lament. So she went to the palace, and, having as much hate for the gods as he much now did, offered him a way to take revenge. He agreed, and she gave him three instructions.

First; steal some hellfire from the underworld, second; steal holy fire from the gods, and third; make a man's fire. The nymph then said she would return in ten years time to do the rest. The king at first thought these insane tasks, but he none-the-less went to complete them. He found an ally in a banshee who had been chained, alive to her dead lover's corpse in the underworld and left there to become a cursed spirit. She hated the gods for doing this to her, and gave him the underworld hellfire that he needed. Another ally he found in a gryphon, which flew into the heavens and brought him back holy fire as reward for saving his brood.

And finally it was time for the nymph to return. As instructed he created a small fire and waited for her, and when she did return, she took all three flames and combined them into one ball of raging, powerful fire. The nymph then gave her final instruction, to wait one more year for an eclipse that would happen on this same day, and then, she said her farewells. The nymph flew into the heart of the sun, where she planted the flame, and then died.

The king waited a whole year, and on the day of the eclipse, a ball of fire rained down from the sky, and when it struck the earth, left behind a fiery red jewel the size of a ripe pomegranate. The king wouldn't find it out right away, but that jewel contained an incredible power that would rival the gods almost twentyfold!

Centuries after the old gods were finally chased into hiding from the world, the jewel was passed on from ruler to ruler, and each who possessed it became some of the most well known and powerful rulers of all time; Ramses II, Augustus Caesar, Arthur Pendragon, Phillip II of Spain, Queen Elizabeth I, but eventually it disappeared entirely, though the legends of its incredible power were passed on from generation to generation.

Legend also says that the jewel was last seen in the possession of the last Czar of Russia, the Romanov, and is said to have been buried somewhere beneath his family's tomb. And that is where a group of explorers set out to find the jewel. The tomb was dark, but several holes in the ceiling provided some light for the explorers as they walked with flashlights. And up at the top of a strange, pyramid like alter, resting underneath the dust, but glowing like a raging fire.

"Well, there it is."

"So go and get it."

"If we climb that thing we could crush it, its old…"

As their companions argued, one of the intruders walked to the base of the pyramid and gently ran a finger over the ridges of the carvings, and found that it was actually another jewel, covered in dust, and as they rubbed at it more, it fell away and back into the pyramid, and the jewel glowed even brighter, cracks appearing on the surface, and then the entire pyramid started to lower, one by one, until finally it fell to the last level with a loud and powerful WHAM!

Dust flew into the air and each of the intruders fell backwards from the loud wind and shock of the noise… and then, out of the blackness, came a loud and tremendous… yawn.

"Oh boy what a rest… Say, where am I? Nicholas? Alexei, Marie, are you there? Anyone? Hello?"

"Who's there?" asked…
An RPS that was great idea that just popped into my head. You can use any number of characters you want, so have fun.

RULES:
1. Let me know if any characters are new.
2. Absolutely NO sexual communication in the Role Play! (Strong flirting is okay, but NO sex!)
3. Pay special attention to this rule. A lot of times when I Role Playing with someone, and they are using a villain, they will often leave my characters in a hopeless situation that I can’t get out of. So ALWAYS leave a window open so the Role Play can continue fairly for both of us!
4. Have fun!
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a young gril about 14 walk in to a drak room. she has short brown hair, gold eyes, and silver wolf ears and tail. "hello is anybody here"