More details on starting the RPG (original) (raw)

valancystar and I have already tried to think of some situation, that would be good to start the RPG with. This would also be a good thing to know when everyone starts to write his character descriptions, so one can figure out, where the persons are standing at that time.
First we were thinking about a big public event where many different people could have a reason to be there, but actually we don't need that, as most of the characters we have at this moment somehow belong to the imperial households so, we'll just need something where the members of the imperial families are concerned.

The special event that we thought of was the mysterious death of king Ludwig II of Bavaria. As Ludwig was quite a controversial person and the circumstances of his death remain mostly unknown until today - leaving space for at least as many speculations as Rudolf 's death some years later and no-one was indifferent to those events.
This occurred in June 1886 - so this is about the point, where we are going to start.
Here is a link to an English Wikipedia-article about Ludwig II, his life and his death. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_II_of_Bavaria

Please tell us, what you think. I hope that is interesting enough to give everyone an ispired point to start with, and that the need for background-info won't block anyone's creativity. Actually the Wikipedia-article already tells a lot and not to forget, we still also have our imagination ;-)

As already mentioned the next step for everyone will be to write a character-description. Maybe it is a good idea if every character is posted as a septerate thread - so we can discuss them by commenting. We will also make a Link that leads to all the descriptions for making it easier to find them later. Please write "character descriptions" into the tag-line. This will make it easier to find them again, when linking them.
I'll post my Rudolf description as soon as I have it ready.

I hope I did not forget to mention anything - somehow I think I have been too long in the sun today ...
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