They called it Shatterpoint. The day when the planet split apart. The flying species were spared. We could retreat to the safety of our cloud cities. The land species however, they suffered. Earth Ponies, Unicorns, and Zebras had no where to go. The survivors of the event stayed on the floating chunks of our used-to-be planet and built the Chains, the massive links that held the pieces together. However, tensions rose high. The land species hated the Pegasi and the Griffons for flying up to their cloud sanctuaries and letting them die. The two sides halted all trade and communication between them. Any Earth Pony, Unicorn, or Zebra found using flying equipment, or testing potions and spells to allow them to stand on clouds were sent to a small Land Chunk which held the Cloud Factory, where the captured slaves made the clouds for the weather and towns. Likewise, any Pegasi found by the land species was to be shot down and taken to the workshops, where they tilled the ground for crops, or created and smelted steel and iron for their houses and the Chains. The two sides were always warring and soon, both sides would destroy each other.
Rules:
- Normal RP Rules
- Unicorns, Zebra, and Earth Ponies hate Pegasi and Griffons
- Normally, the Earth Species fire cannonballs at the cloud lands. To retaliate, the Pegasi make the weather rainy almost all the time.
- This RP takes place many years after Shatterpoint.
- Excessive gore/violence and sexual references should be placed in spoilers, with warnings.
(The main cloud cities are Pegasopolis and Las Pegasus, but you can create a new city. Just make sure it has a pun in the name.)
About the World:
(This is information that all characters know)
The World (Overview):
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The world is split into 3 main sections, based on height. The first section is the Cloud Land. This section is where the Flight species live. Next are the Land Chunks, Chains, and Floating Oceans. This is where the Ground Species live and the slave factories are stationed. Finally, there is the Core of the planet.
Cloud Land:
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This land spans over almost the entire planet. This is where the Pegasi and Griffons live. All weather is generated in the cities, but the main weather generated in rain. There are special cloud crops that have been grown to feed the populace.
Land Chunks:
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These are the floating remnants of what used to be Equestria. They contain the settlements of the Earth Ponies, the Unicorns, and the Zebras. Some chunks house the Pegasi/Earth Pony slave factories. Most of them, however, are used for housing or farmland.
The Chains:
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These are the massive Magnezite constructions that hold the Land Chunks together. They were built by the Earth Ponies. They span across the Floating Oceans and keep the Land Chunks from floating into space.
The Floating Oceans:
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These are the remnants of the original Oceans that existed in Equestria. They are nearly unchanged, except that they float above the Planet Core, like the Land Chunks. The Earth Species travel across them on high speed watercraft.
Planet Core:
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Not much is known about the core. Its surface is a deep, dense jungle. It has a large temple, where there is an open tunnel entrance that leads deeper into the Core. Many expeditions have been sent in, but none have returned. There are no long term cities in the jungle, but short term camps are set up from time to time.
Unknown Information:
(This is the information that only you RPers can know.)
Shatterpoint:
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Shatterpoint was caused by a chain of events unfolding. First, by an unknown turn of events, all Alicorns were infected by a dark magic. They were planning to capture and enslave all other races. Twilight Sparkle, by a stroke of imagination, thought to take the Elements of Harmony from the Tree of Harmony and use them to make herself, and the others, even more powerful. They went to the Tree of Harmony and tried to take the Elements. However, the tree felt the presence of dark magic, and tried to protect its self to placing a magical barrier around its self. The Alicorns blasted the Tree with all of the energy they could muster. Soon, the barrier shattered. The energy of the barrier magnified by the dark powers of the Alicorns’ blasted across Equestria. The energy cracked and twisted the land, causing it to break apart. The Tree of Harmony, wishing to protect its self, magically moved it’s self to the inner core of the planet. All of the Alicorns were incinerated in the blast, and the broken Equestria world was formed.
How the Earth Species Survived:
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Honestly, it was mainly luck and skill that protected the ponies. Most ponies were killed by the blasts of magic that shot across the world. Many fell into the core and died of starvation, if not dying of their fall. Most of the survivors were just ponies that had good luck. The Pegasi could fly into their clouds, so they were protected from the event.
Why the Chunks and Oceans Float, Why There Is Air, and Other Physics Related Etc:
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This may sound cliché, but the Tree of Harmony is keeping the planet alive. It is transferring all of its magic into keeping the Land Chunks, Oceans and Air/Atmosphere in the planet, instead of them floating into space. However, the Tree of Harmony is still weak from its battle with the Alicorns. It does not have enough power to pull the planet together and repair it. It can only hold everything together. The Chains are holding the land chunks together and keeping them from floating away from each other in the oceans. The core is much cooler than it was originally. Its outside/surface temperature is 90-93 degrees F. The inside temperature has never been fully calculated, because anypony who enters dies. However, by scientists calculate the inside temperature to be somewhere in the 100s F.
The Flight/Earth Species Feud:
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The Flight and Earth Species have struck at each other since Shatterpoint, but neither side has declared war yet. However, attacks are becoming more frequent and everypony knows that war is just around the corner. Now for the actual attacks. The Pegasi used to create hurricane force winds along with rain, but the wind required Pegasi to create it, and many Pegasi were shot down and captured. To keep their species safe, the Pegasi stopped the gale force winds, but kept the rain clouds. Since that time, there has been a semi-heavy, but steady downpour of rain on the Land Chunks. The Earth Ponies, on the other hand, created and loaded giant cannons and fired cannonballs at the Cloud Lands. Most cannonballs were aimed at places where Earth Pony spies said there were houses or populated areas. Also, both species have performed sieges on the other’s slave factories.
The Chains:
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The Chains are made of Magnezite. This is a now semi-rare mineral that was formed when the molten mantle of the planet and hardened and crystallized by the magical energy of Shatterpoint. As said, the Chains’ main job it to keep the Land Chunks from floating away. However, the Chains are also used as markers that ponies can use when they are travelling from one Land Chunk to the next.
Slave Factories:
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The slave factories are Land Chunks that house captured ponies from each side. The Earth Pony slave factory is where captured Pegasi work tirelessly to create the Chains. The Pegasi normally work in the foundries where they smelt the Magnezite. The Pegasi slave factory is where captured Earth Ponies clean, repair, and power the Rain Factory, where the rain clouds that cloak the Earth Ponies are made. Guards for both factories have long poles with tazers attached to the top to “motivate” the slaves. In each factory, slaves are beaten, whipped and tormented by the guards.
Core:
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The core is the sphere at the center of the planet. It has a jungle biome across the surface, and it is humid and hot. There is a large temple on the surface that contains many secrets. There are magical energies that can cause effects when a pony absorbs them. There are energies that make you stronger, make you faster, heal you, and allow you to fire energy from your hooves. There is also a pathway down to the center of the core, where the Tree of Harmony is. There are many dangers, however, in the temple and down to path to the center.
Here is the Application Form:
Name:
Gender:
Age: (At least 12 Years)
Race: (No Alicorns or Changelings)
Description/Picture:
Special Talent/Cutie Mark: (If Applicable)
Bio: (Make it at least a Paragraph)
Other: (Any other interesting thing about your character)
Here is my Application for reference:
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Name: Light Spectrum
Gender: Mare
Age: 19
Race: Pegasus
Description/Picture: Orange coat, Yellow eyes, Rainbow mane and tail
Special Talent/Cutie Mark: None
Bio: Spectrum was born in Pegasopolis. While she was growing up, Spectrum was a little shy, but was always kind. She would help out anypony, and rarely thought about herself. One could say, that she had a relatively normal life, for a Post-Shatterpoint Pegasus. However, when Spectrum was 10, she was shot down and captured by the Earth Ponies while she was flying around.
She was taken to the slave factories, where she was beaten and worked tirelessly. Since that time, Spectrum slowly learned how to be sneaky and silent. She overcame her shy side, and became a hardworker and a leadership figure. Even with all of her anger at the Earth Species, she still wishes that everypony could get along.
Description/Picture: http://imgur.com/UXlLVQS That minus the vest, and has a bowler hat. Idk why, I like bowler hats. So bowler hat and pretend he does not have the vest
Special Talent/Cutie Mark: He has a star with an atom in the middle of it because of being a scientist, especially being good with astronomy Bio: Star was born in Manehattan, being young at the point of Shatterpoint. Solar Star had still been in school, learning the sciences until the disaster. After the event, being a scientist, he helped research new technology for the Earth Species. He is averagely talented in magic, but usually reverts to science for his power. Although he knew what the alicorns did to the world, he is still fascinated by their power, often praising them of their abilities of before Shatterpoint.
At one time, at his small lab where he worked alone, a pegasi squad invaded. Being not the best at combat, he was captured and brought to a slave factory. He miraculously amused the pegasus leader with his science skills and got a spot to be a "slave" scientist, where he was forced to do research for the pegasi. Although he is still a slave, Star learns that even the ponies he hates can be kind as he is not tormented by the other scientists, and they let him keep his bowler hat. And he is still finding a way to escape.
Other: Because of being raised into a kind, helping family, Star usually speaks in a gentleman manner and does not like the mass killing as much as others. Also, because of being a gentlepony, he wears a bowler hat. Bowler hat.
Name: Icy Sunshine Gender: Stallion Age: 18 Race: Past Unicorn, now Earth Pony Description/Picture: He is now Earth Pony Stallion with a medium frame. His pelt is light blue, and has silver and white short and spiky mane and tail. He has magenta eyes and always covers his forehead with his mane. Special Talent/Cutie Mark: His Cutie Mark is a sun with a smile on it, signifying him giving great joy to all. Bio: Truth be told, he wasn't always like this. He was once a unicorn, all happy and such. As it happened, chaos struck, accidents here and there, and something happened to him. Unknown to who and why, he just felt out of his element and ran to safety. A little trickle of blood ran down his face as he went to save his life, only to be seen that his horn has been cut off. Those years he was normal back at his birthplace, Ponyville, was no more than a memory.
Even though revenge boiled in his blood, he still knows peace will conquer all. Not actually following the rules and sneaking in and out of the slave factories, he watched, plotting something big. War was never the answer... what they lost was Unity... and they need it back whatever it takes. Other: The fact that he was a Unicorn, he knows spells but can't perform because of his lack of horn. In his jacket is a picture of his family he got separated for a long time now, and a necklace of his horn he rarely wears. It's just a reminder of his past. He either wears a cap or just covers his forehead to hide his flat round spot where his horn used to be.
Description/Picture: A grey colored pegasus pony with light blue eyes. His mane and tail are colored black with a white line going through them.
Special Talent/Cutie Mark: A black cloud. He got his cutie mark from manipulating a storm cloud at a young age.
Bio: Stormcloud Starhawk was born in cloudsdale, and was a regular pegasus pony in class. He used to have friends, but got separated from them during the Shatterpoint.
Since then he stayed away from ponies, even from other pegasi, because he was afraid of them telling the Earth Species of him.
His father got sent to a slave factory and got tortured to death. Stormcloud now carries that grim reminder and tries to stay alive.
Other: Stormcloud, in the age of 16, defended himself from some earth pony guards, killing them quickly. He is mostly depressed all the time and avoids ponies, thus making him pretty shy. Other than that, he is kind to those who show him kindness.
Race: Cat with a rocket. Can fly in rocket. Hates unicorns.
Picture:
Talent: Space travel
Bio: Lived on a far away planet. Her life sucked there, so she built a rocket and became an expert of space travel. Shortly after the Shatterpoint, Space spotted the now-deformed planet, landing on a cloud. She'd never expected to be surrounded by confused Pegasi. She explained that she landed there to investigate what happened to the planet, and was later accepted. Once she heard what happened she told all the Pegasi that there was ONE way to reverse this.
By finding new Element bearers, making peace between ponies once again.