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premise : you wake up strapped in a chair, a man takes some of your blood, you sign a contract and become a hunter of the dream; your task, to end the scourge of beasts.

i was thinking that the dream could be a hub/home base for player characters to return to and where they can receive quests from the doll ( npc! ) and project themselves into old yharnham.

the game would be horror/action/mystery ( what caused the scourge of beasts in the first place? ) and would have a definite end when the mystery was solved.

... or i was thinking that it could be a completely au game, where player characters would be au’d into old yharnham ( the bloodborne past ) when the scourge is just coming about.

a bit of a plot summary leading up to the plague of beasts : there are tombs below yharnham, that once housed an entire civilization made up of pthumerians which were basically human-like creatures. alongside the pthumerians lived the ‘great ones’ which were advanced ( honestly cthulu like ) being which were powerful, had greater knowledge, and blood that functioned as a cure-all. the only thing that the great ones could not do was reproduce, so they had the tamarians bear their children forming a blood contract between the two. eventually most of the great ones asccended ( to a higher plane of existence, the nightmare realm ) leaving the tamarians behind to go blood-mad and be ravaged by the plague of beasts.

eventually the tombs were found by scholars, who discovered the blood.

game start : the healing church that worships the old blood and great ones rolls into yharnham, selling the blood as a cure all, and also bringing along the plague of beasts.

players can au their characters into HUNTERS that belong to the hunter’s workshop, an organization that is designed to get rid of beasts. the organization is secret, and works at night. or members of the CHOIR that seek to commune with the great ones, a scholar of THE SCHOOL OF MENSIS, who seek understanding of the great ones. or a CIVILIAN who lives in yharnham when the healing church comes in.

plot events could be : some kind of blood-festival in the city, members of the healing church convincing people to take the blood, the start of the scourge of beasts, the body of great one is found etc.

i feel like this would need a ton more work, but i’ve always liked fully au games.

I absolutely love the full AU idea but I don't know that it would get a lot of traction with people who don't know the game. As long as you're okay with a small-ish group of characters I would def recommend that option, because as neat as the canon setting is, it wouldn't be a whole lot different from some already existing jamjars except for characters dying horribly all the time.

I'd app to this in a heartbeat though. I've got a character who I could def see going Gascoigne over time, and building the beastliness up until his hunter friends have to take him out would be so good.

i think a small-ish group of characters would be preferable actually! this would be my first time modding anything, so i don’t want to overreach, and i think that having each player-character play a significant role in moving the plot would be fun— and that would be harder with too many to keep track of.

a character going full-gascoigne would be fun honestly!! it could even be a player-event where his cr have to hunt him down. thanks for the input!

Oh damn, I've been missing smaller plot-intensive games too, so that just makes it even better. Looking forward to seeing more on this sometime if you do run with it, anon!

yyyyyeeeeesssss i'd be all over the full au option. my psl buddy and i love messing around in that setting and i've been itching for a cosmic horror game.

i think you'd probably need to simplify the setting a little, though, just because the original game is so complicated and so heavy on symbolism and obscure references. canon-based au games are daunting for people who aren't intimately familiar with the canon, and bloodborne is notoriously difficult to play. even a bloodborne-inspired semi-original setting would be pretty cool.

i think i’m leaning more towards the full au option at this point, and simplifying the setting is a good idea! i know i… get a little overwhelmed when trying to read through walls of text, which i think would be necessary to shove in all the bloodborne lore + references + info. and i definitely don’t want it to seem like you had to have played the bloodborne game to feel comfortable playing in the rp-game setting.

i’m glad that you ( and your buddy possibly! ) seem interested, and if i go with a semi-original setting i’ll definitely keep in the cosmic horror… and victorian-esque setting for you know aesthetic purposes.

oh sweeeet. au games are so rare in dwrp, but for a setting as detailed and convoluted as bloodborne, i think it's better for characters to be fully immersed.

i'm definitely interested, and so is my friend... she's kind of obsessed with the lore and theories haha. i'm just a filthy casual who watches youtube videos because the game is too hard and scary to play. keep us updated!

I legit had a game started with this exact premise down to the different factions holy shit

great minds think alike?? it's nice to see there are more fans!

I'd kill for a bloodborne game

Please don't ruin something beloved by doing this. The DS and BB RPers already do it enough.

the fuck, anon? how is this "ruining" anything?

bitter betty hates fun, probably.

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