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The Gathering Revisited

cheeb · 2015-08-05T12:39:02Z

Not related to the Magic: The Gathering card game. It has a similar name, and apparently there are some parallels regarding multiverses, but it's a separate thing. Once upon a time, there was a storybook called YWS: The Gathering . It was about a group of authors taking characters from their own literary works and throwing them into a multiversal collision with no idea what was going on. Despite being poorly planned and poorly organised by its creator, the storybook lasted a whopping seven pages and garnered critical acclaim from almost 1 people. Since then, multiversal relations have ranged from peaceful to nonexistent (which may or may not be thanks to many groups of world - jumping agents ). However, in an obscure corner of the multiverse, an unknown thief has invaded several worlds and from each one taken an item of power. He plans to use the powers of these Artifacts to conquer the multiverse one world at a time. What he didn't count on was the multiverse being thrown into instability: removing an item of such power without providing an equivalent power source or an item of equivalent mass made each world unstable. The worlds began to gravitate towards their Artifacts, seeking to reclaim their missing pieces and re-stabilise. Because the Artifacts were all together on the thief's world, however, the other worlds all moved towards the same point on the space-time continuum and collided, forming a "mish-mash" planet comprised of small portions of each individual universe involved. In the chaos, the Artifacts were scattered across this new world. Realising that the composite world would be populated by citizens of the original universes, many of whom would no doubt come looking for their world's Artifact, the thief sent his minions to spread misinformation, cast suspicion on the heroes themselves and turn them against one another. tl;dr: worlds got all smashed together and people have to fix it with magic or science things but they might have to fight each other first because they're highly suggestible Now you have the opportunity to enter the world of Bellona and join the effort to restore balance to these worlds and to the multiverse. Do you have what it takes? Can you handle the truth? Are you a bad enough dude to rescue the President? The only prerequisite to joining this storybook is that you've posted a fictional piece on YWS, and hence have a character to play as. Never mind that, you can create a character and universe specially for this storybook. Or, if you want, you can still use a character and setting from your previous works. You can treat this storybook as a separate canon if you don’t want your novel contaminated by random crossovers. It doesn't have to be your MC, it can be any character... well, you know. Any character that is featured often or majorly in your story. Not like "Man in Bar #2". Hey, if Man in Bar #2 is an interesting guy, what the heck. Play as him! nothing about the plot or lack thereof in the old Gathering WELL DONE, DUMMY This time, there is some semblance of a plot ! Apparently these are quite important when creating stories. No God characters. And no, you can't be God even if he features in your story. Actually, yeah, this one stays in effect. Otherwise it’s just ridiculous. This is open to anyone who's interested, although I'm looking at a possible maximum of about 15 people. If there's a significantly higher number of people who want in, I think I'll have a solution. Cordial Invitations: Participants of the first Gathering: @Nutty @Squall @Dynamo @Rydia @Griffinkeeper @Alteran not Mattster because he's a loser, @chibibo can take his place Maybe these guys want to come too, if they promise to bring cake they can: @Lumi @Jolt @Rosendorn @StellaThomas @Lauren2010 @Holofernes Are you interested? Do you have questions I haven't covered here? Want to tag someone you think would want to be in on this? Here's what you should do, in alphabetical order: Reply to this thread (At this stage I mainly want to gauge interest and get an idea of who wants to be in this. But if you do happen to have a somewhat solid idea of what your world and character would be (and if you're fairly sure you'd want to participate) feel free to throw your ideas at me. Certainly it'd help me sort out some of the interactions that could take place and some directions in which the plot could go. If you have a universe in mind or idea for one, don't hesitate to start developing it although bear in mind there are a few things each universe will need, which I'll go into in the future.)

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Mon Sep 07, 2015 2:19 pm

cheeb says... · Mon Sep 07, 2015 2:19 pm

Just posting in here right quick to let you all know I haven't forgotten or abandoned this, I've just had a bit going on IRL lately. But I do plan to get this going soon! :smt023

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Wed Oct 28, 2015 4:39 am

cheeb says... · Wed Oct 28, 2015 4:39 am

YO IS ANYONE SUBSCRIBED TO THIS

There's a proper thread for this shizzle now and it's HERE.

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Sun Dec 27, 2015 1:40 am

FallWolf says... · Sun Dec 27, 2015 1:40 am

This story sounds perfect for my world-jumping characters Wink and Jayson => Count me in!

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