I'm big fan of roleplay and the roleplay I'm looking for advice on has been going for around 6 years now. It has developed into this massive story with many interesting characters between me and my rp partner and we take turns each going through the plots we have cooked up. I've never really been a writer until this, idk there's just something so special about writing these stories with a partner who is always interested to see what your written while they can interact in the plot with their own characters. It just feels so much better than writing in private to me.
Here is my problem: I have two separate plots I have finished writing, one of which we are in the middle of acting out right now. My partner has only one plot but she has made it clear it is a very long one that she will need at least 5 - 7 turns to complete her plot and she loves writing even more than I do plus I know how much she loves this rp so I would expect her to cook something else up for after at depend on how long it all takes and if we still have time for it. My problem is the plot I'm doing right now will only take this one turn to complete while the other plot will take around 3, giving me 4 turns in total until I am finished. She is kind of hoping that I can come up with something else for afterwards but my mind is blank.
The next plot I have that consists of 3 turns will put a close to the main story I have been building for a good few years now and and I don't really know how to continue from that. I need to write something completely from scratch which brain storming ideas should be the fun part while piecing things together is where i would expect the challenge to be but normal once I have an idea, I can piece things together quite well. I have also been good at retconning things pretty easily when I need to without making things confusing but my trouble is, while I can come up with decent ideas for villains, I struggle to find an interesting motive that makes these villains unique and interesting to learn more about whilst also coming up with a detailed lore that really helps build the story and make the impact of the roleplay itself much stronger.
For anyone interested in sharing some ideas or helping out in any way, here is a brief description of the roleplay and what is currently going on / what is planned.
The roleplay is set in a world that consists of many supernatural beings that have unique powers. Obviously with power comes corruption so my character founded an organisation tasked with taking down any threats that might threaten innocent lives but as to not instill fear amongst the public, the organisation decided to make their presence known so that the public knows the group is someone they can trust.
While a lot of people in this world have powers, there a still a large amount of people who remain regular powerless humans. The story I began writing a few years back introduced people that, long before these supernatural beings existed, could become wizards and witches capable of casting powerful spells but that power was not to be shared with the public as they knew that power could lead to corruption. When these beings with natural power began showing up, the community of wizards and witches were split on the dangers that could arise with it but before anything could be done, they were severely outnumbered. The high status wizards ordered that the others should not try to fight those with natural power as they were outnumbered and doing so would also make them known to the public. Again, their community was split and those who wanted to put an end to these being before things got too out of hand formed their own rebellion, secretly trying to learn darker more powerful spells to fight back against their leaders if they trued to stop them and when they were powerful enough, they would take on these supernatural beings and fight until every last one of them was gone.
The rebellion started way back when this organisation of ours was first being formed, only they had very little to do with it. There were two very powerful beings who had already made quite a name for themselves by fighting threats. These two are Nolan Kamiko and Reika Kamiko. A couple who grew up together with a rich families who also tried to do what they did only they did it better. The two fell in love and started a family before they met one of the head wizards in the judgement system named Apollo Aratana. Apollo was made aware of the Kamiko's status and came to them to warn them about a potential war between their people and his own. He asked them to not act on it as the last thing he wanted to do was be responsible for the death of his own people but he also knew that these people in his own community that wanted this war could not be convinced otherwise so he had no choice but to warn them. There is a lot of backstory written for it but because this is all lore we will skip to the end of it where the rebellion of wizards took out their higher-ups so no one could stop them from starting this war and when it got to this stage, the Kamikos had no other choice but to try and stop them. The Kamikos where incredibly powerful people but they were still severely outnumbered. They just didn't want to bring their own people into this and make the public aware of this war. The Kamikos informed the organisation so that they would be ready if things went south but the organisation was still in it's early stages and barely had many people with true power that could change their odds of winning.
Knowing what must be done, the Kamikos went to where the wizards and witches were hiding to face them before they could bring the war to the public. The Kamikos succeeded in killing everyone in that rebellion but they were hit with spells that were made to kill (like avada kedavra from Harry Potter). By the end of the battle both the Kamikos had fallen, dying as heroes that stopped a war before it even started. Or so they thought.
This is where we get to the plot i have coming up that requires 3 turns. There is a demon, believed to be called "Alastor" (yes I took the name from Hazbin Hotel hush). This demon operates in the shadows, his main goal is unknown but he can also make unbreakable deals with people. The reason behind this power goes back to the rebellion of wizards. The one who led them was actually Apollo's son who was banished by his father for refusing to let these natural beings live in peace. He wanted this war and his father knew it. Apollo believed his son got himself killed by attempting something a small number of wizards, including Apollo himself, knew about. With the right amount of power, some of these spells could be merged with things including people themselves. This knowledge was kept as secret as possible but because of his father's status, Apollo's son was able to discover it and he made a plan to merge one particular spell with himself, the spell of absorption.
The spell of absorption was initially used to absorb other powerful spells that were used with bad intentions but when merging such a spell with a being, what were it's limits? Apollo's son got a large group in the rebellion to strike him with the spell to really increase the strength of the spell but he overshot. When the group hit him with the spell, his entire being was absorbed and everyone else in that who helped him. Because of the disappearance with nothing but their wands left behind, Apollo believe his son and the others to all but dead. What really happened was his son didn't just merge with the spell, he practically became the spell. Every moment, the spell absorbed him until was reduced to nothing but a soul. However, each time this spell was discovered, the spell would absorb all the flesh and blood from anyone nearby so he could get a physical body again. Using this spell he had become, he was able to absorb all other spells and use them like natural powers without the need for a wand making him the most powerful wizard to exist.
This is what turned Apollo's son into "Alastor", using his alias and stone looks to keep his identity a secret while he grows in power until he is capable to end the supernatural human race like he always planned to do. He outsmarts the organisation in every way possible and almost gets what he wants but there was one thing he hadn't accounted for. Lexi Kamiko, daughter of Nolan and Reika, had previously battled one of the last remaining wizards who had hidden during the war and had a similar goal to Alastor and the rebellion but he was only one so he was easily overwhelmed by the organisation's power. However, when fighting Lexi, he hit her with the killing spell. Lexi was powerful enough to withstand the spell but just like with Alastor, the spell merged with her and her body is trying to fight it to keep her alive. Throughout the plot she discovers that she can use this spell herself but using it would mean she was letting it merge with her completely and with make her death inevitable but she knew she had no other choice. With how powerful she already was, fully merging with the killing spell would be strong enough to merge it with Alastor too. While he is capable of absorbing spells, the scale of this spell would be far too big for him to handle and it would put an end to him completely. (There is a lot more detail to this but given how long this already is, I tried to only keep the most important details).
Now with Alastor gone, the strongest wizard is dead and no other wizard would ever achieve what he did meaning that writing a new plot involving wizards would just be underwhelming compare to what that one was so now I need something completely new. A new threat for the organisation that has an interesting and details lore with a being that actually makes the organisation feel threatened but I don't want your usual power hungry villain or world domination villain. I want something new. So please give me your ideas!
