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Tears of a Phoenix was a Play By Post RPG in the forum of the open-source 3D dungeon-crawling game Egoboo.
The plot revolved around the country of Renegard, where half of the population, including the king, had fallen into a coma, Evil Chancellor Boartz became the new ruler and a quest for the feathers of a phoenix, which allegedly were able to cure the coma disease, was set up.
It can be found here, though a forum update broke the formating of the posts.
The player characters were:
- Katherine, a Bounty Hunter. Disappeared mid-game due to temporary absence of her player.
- Arianna, a former Necromancer, now atoning as a priest and healer.
- Gurtagh, a half-orcish warrior.
- Aranym, an elementalist constantly sliding from a Heroic BSOD to the next.
- Hans, a Pirate. Disappeared in the initial phase of the game, his player returned later with Alyss as a new character.
- Alyss, a young elven girl.
- Action Girl: Katherine.
- Aerith and Bob: See above.
- Annoying Arrows
- Anticlimax Boss: Advisor Boartz wasn't that hard to beat.
- Anti-Hero: Gurtagh.
- Apologetic Attacker: Aranym.
- The Atoner: Arianna.
- Beware the Nice Ones: Arianna and Aranym.
- Break the Cutie: Aranym, again.
- Emotional Bruiser: Gurtagh is very sentimental about his mother.
- Evil Chancellor: Boartz.
- Evil Sorcerer: Arianna, formerly.
- Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!: When Arianna flipped, Aranym tried to invoke this.
- Glass Cannon: Alyss and Aranym.
- Jerkass: Gurtagh.
- Knight in Sour Armor: Arianna and Aranym.
- Half-Human Hybrid: Gurtagh.
- Heroic BSOD: Aranym's status, most of the time.
- Heroic Sacrifice: Zalant, in the end.
- Large Ham: Gurtagh and Aranym.
- MacGuffin: The phoenix feathers, which possibly didn't exist at all.
- The Plague: The coma disease.
- Ragtag Bunch of Misfits
- Reasonable Authority Figure: King Opher and Count Zalant.
- Revolving Door Casting: Only two of the initial characters were involved in the ending. Some characters left or disappeared mid-game, and after the beginning, someone dumped his character and returned with another one.
- Shaming the Mob: Aranym's Moment of Awesome.
- Shield-Bash: Gurtagh has this as a skill.
- Squishy Wizard: Aranym, again. Arianna extremely averts this, taking the additional role of a Meat Shield late in the game.
- Standard Status Effects
- Stone Wall: Gurtagh.
- Stuff Blowing Up: The entire capital explodes in the end.
- The Woobie: Arianna.
- Tome of Eldritch Lore: The Necronomicon, which has a cameo in this Pn P.
- Trauma Conga Line: Aranym's backstory, in Narmish dimensions.
- White Magician Girl: Arianna, a compassionate and responsible atoner with a White Mage skillset.
- What the Hell, Hero?: How some of the protagonists reacted to Gurtagh killing the bandit captive.