Idea Info Name: Life in Della Morte Index: Primary Category: RPG Submitted: 9/7/2003 3:24:49 PM Written By: losstarot

LIFE IN DELLA MORTE (PS! Early work in progress!)

Della Vie

Also called the world of the living. You are born and live here, but when you die you wake up in Della Morte. Set in an alternate world (technology from early 60s and some sci-fi)

Della Morte

The after-death world, also called the world of the dead. All your memories are intact and your body looks somewhat like the one in DV. Except one thing – you cannot age. In theory this MAY be immortality, but you can still die, by all means… but if you do, you will start all over again in DV, which equals game over as you have a new body, name and no memories. As somewhat grey world, it’s a shade world of DV (Della Vie). Almost like a parallel dimension of sorts. A kind of depressive atmosphere, but the inhabitants have accepted their fate.

Concept & Basic play

The story has to be worked on, but let’s say the main person (looks, name, genetical heritage such as “family nose” or specific strengths/weaknesses and basic life experience such as education, wisdom, lifestyle etc) is entirely created by the player. Depending on how the char was made, the start of the game will vary accordingly. A char with student profession may find himself broke but educated, living in a flat in one of the larger cities. When he after a good nights sleep wakes up in the Receiving Office in Della Morte he is of course totally confused. After a lot of RPG-ish stuff (fill in blanks yourself) he learns about the two worlds and is naturally upset when he finds out he died in his sleep. When he learns that he was killed his main goal is trying to figure out who did it. But that ain’t easy when you’re dead…

Anyway, after a while he learns that it IS able to return to Della Vie, but only as –you guessed it- a ghost. Or spirit if you like, whatever term suits you best. In spirit form you can slip trough walls and scare the shit out of people, but only at night. You cannot touch physical things, but you can possess dead bodies/creatures/plants to bring them back to life… Whatever condition they may happen to be in. If the corpse is rotten, the limbs may not work properly, and road kill creatures may have problems moving at all.

Well, I have come up with the basics; the rest is yet to be written down. The murderer, the details, the worlds, characters, changing names (as these are just working titles), battle/enemies (hey, no RPG without it, right?) are all yet to be made.

Imagine the characters of Della Morte drawn and modeled in epic McFarlane style… *drools*