✮The Orpheads✮ (
theorpheads) wrote2012-05-13 07:30 pm
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✮THE PREMISE✮
“Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music”
~Sergei Rachmaninov
There are always stories of those who visit the Land of the Dead, though they have faded to myth. These few learned the secrets of the Underworld from Death Himself, learned how to enter and speak to the Spirits with their music, trained at the hands of Orpheus. They became the Orpheads: the mediums by which the dead began to speak, the messengers of spirits.
One loved a mortal girl, and Death wanted her. Using his hold on life, Death stole her, pulling her down into his realm. For weeks, the Orphead mourned, unable even to speak with her as Death had hidden her soul. But the Orphead had learned a great secret from the souls of the dead: how to remove one of them from the Underworld, When he could bear it no longer, he slipped inside and stole her spirit back, escaping into the mortal world. But they were unable to hide forever. In revenge, Death tracked them down and killed them both.
But the damage was done and the floodgates were open. The other Orpheads had learned the secret ways and they too began removing more souls wrongly claimed by Death. As soon as Death could find them, he reclaimed their spirits, but it wasn’t enough. The other Orpheads took back their loved ones claimed early, their family, their friends. Eventually, as punishment for Death’s crimes, they began taking any spirit willing to go with them. But with Death following close behind all of them, it was all hopeless unless they could hide.
Thus the Orpheads came together and created the Krimmenos—the repository of saved souls. A place hidden from Death, and home to all of the souls they have returned to life. There is, however, only one stipulation: they cannot leave, or Death will find them again.
This is not Elysium, little spirit, though we tried to make a haven. Welcome to the Krimmenos.
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The Krimmenos is a community-based pan-fandom RP based on the Greek myth of Orpheus. Characters arrive as newly-revived spirits immediately following their death in their own world, though they don't remember it. These spirits are caught in the middle of a battle between their hosts--the Orpheads--and Death Himself.
Players will participate in various plots ranging from humor to horror and there will be opportunities for player-suggested events and plots with active NPCs running things behind the scenes and interacting with players.
Characters arrive with a communication device and will work together to figure out the puzzle of the Krimmenos and the mysterious Orpheads who control it.
~Sergei Rachmaninov
There are always stories of those who visit the Land of the Dead, though they have faded to myth. These few learned the secrets of the Underworld from Death Himself, learned how to enter and speak to the Spirits with their music, trained at the hands of Orpheus. They became the Orpheads: the mediums by which the dead began to speak, the messengers of spirits.
One loved a mortal girl, and Death wanted her. Using his hold on life, Death stole her, pulling her down into his realm. For weeks, the Orphead mourned, unable even to speak with her as Death had hidden her soul. But the Orphead had learned a great secret from the souls of the dead: how to remove one of them from the Underworld, When he could bear it no longer, he slipped inside and stole her spirit back, escaping into the mortal world. But they were unable to hide forever. In revenge, Death tracked them down and killed them both.
But the damage was done and the floodgates were open. The other Orpheads had learned the secret ways and they too began removing more souls wrongly claimed by Death. As soon as Death could find them, he reclaimed their spirits, but it wasn’t enough. The other Orpheads took back their loved ones claimed early, their family, their friends. Eventually, as punishment for Death’s crimes, they began taking any spirit willing to go with them. But with Death following close behind all of them, it was all hopeless unless they could hide.
Thus the Orpheads came together and created the Krimmenos—the repository of saved souls. A place hidden from Death, and home to all of the souls they have returned to life. There is, however, only one stipulation: they cannot leave, or Death will find them again.
This is not Elysium, little spirit, though we tried to make a haven. Welcome to the Krimmenos.
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The Krimmenos is a community-based pan-fandom RP based on the Greek myth of Orpheus. Characters arrive as newly-revived spirits immediately following their death in their own world, though they don't remember it. These spirits are caught in the middle of a battle between their hosts--the Orpheads--and Death Himself.
Players will participate in various plots ranging from humor to horror and there will be opportunities for player-suggested events and plots with active NPCs running things behind the scenes and interacting with players.
Characters arrive with a communication device and will work together to figure out the puzzle of the Krimmenos and the mysterious Orpheads who control it.