Rise (roleplay)



Rise was created by Hawk of Saber Scorpion's Lair, a small and obscure Forum dedicated to Lego discussion. It's premise is somewhat difficult to describe, being a strange anagram of many, many various genres, to describe it in the most basic of terms, is that in the far far future, HMVs of various factions battle each other for control of the universe. Aliens are involved. Crazy hijinks ensue.

And then it got a sequel.

It's (relative) popularity skyrocketed, spawning Spinoffs and Fanfics. The Rise Universe was no longer merely the work of a single creator, but now a shared community of the players creation. It went on to have more and more background, creating an interesting universe that expanding beyond the wildest dreams of it's maker.

And now it's on TV Tropes.

Rise contains examples of

 * A Friend in Need:
 * A Mech by Any Other Name: In this case H.M.Vs, standing for Humanoid Mechanized Vehicles.
 * Beauty Is Never Tarnished: Averted to death. Severe injuries are the norm.
 * Big Badass Wolf: The Canis.
 * Bottle Fairy: Haruka Yoshimitsu
 * Butt Monkey: Haken never ever gets any respect. Ever.
 * Fred also gets this treatment a lot. The guy never gets a break.
 * Cloning Blues: Ghost Rider (No, not that Ghost Rider). It's become a bit of a Running Gag.
 * Crapsack World: Mjolnir is really not a very pleasant place to live in. The majority is ruled by an authoritarian Empire, with a paranoid racist old man for a King, whose advisers are literally just waiting for him to drop off. The Hydra League shoots anyone with a hint of Imperial ties. The Reclaimers are extremely ticked off at the human's occupation of their former homes, and have made deals with the Mi-Go, in exchange for their support. Really, chances are if you're not a mercenary or independent, you're guilty of something.
 * To smaller example, the Hell is pretty much that. Prisoners live on themselves and recreated societies within its hull. Some live by the blood while others act a little more civilized. There are also kids growing up in there.
 * Crazy Enough to Work: Most of their plans.
 * Special mention goes to Abraham
 * Dude Looks Like a Lady: Haken
 * Eldritch Abominations: ...Where do we start? The Mi-Go alone make 90% of it.
 * The space whales can be considered such. They travel unharmed through black holes and eat anything that happens to be close to them.
 * Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": Several prisoners in the Hell. For example, Heimdall is the guard of the Warriors' compound. One of the popular tropes of Madness From Hell.
 * Follow the Leader: The first Fanfic was first posted toward the end of the second main Roleplay. It quickly sparked interests in others who did the same.
 * Hero of Another Story: Practically the entire main cast's been one at some time or another. Special mention to Abraham Keyes, who's been through an entire civil war and has seen his entire planet die.
 * Humongous Mecha: And how. Rise uses pretty much every single Mecha trope under the sun, from stock Gumdamesque machines, to walking tanks, to outright alien designs.
 * The Jotun and the Demented make the largest HMVs look like toys in contrast. And just for your information, one of the largest is 53 feet. That's almost a five story building.
 * It Got Worse: So many times.
 * Loads and Loads of Characters: And that's not even getting to the spinoffs. Or NPCs for that matter.
 * Misfit Mobilization Moment:
 * Meta Mecha: Both the Jotun and the Demented are this to the Templar and the Madness, respectively.
 * Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot: Tzeenosaurs are cybernetically augmented sentient dinosaurs, which were also from Earth. And it's just one example.
 * One Degree of Separation: Madness From Hell has several characters which are related in many ways to the main characters.
 * One-Man Army: The Spec Ops of the Empire are believed (and strongly implied) to be this. Also The Jotun, piloted by Karl Vladick of the Paladins, was built for this purpose, and lived up to it.
 * Pandaing to the Audience: Terrence, Axel's Red Panda. Don't ask how Red Pandas have apparently survived to the next millennium.
 * Recycled in Space: Name it. Name anything and it's there.
 * Rich Bitch: Kanade.
 * Rule of Cool: The universe is built around it.
 * Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale: Mostly Subverted. There are few indications of distance between planets, time is mostly used instead. The creator prefered this way, otherwise it would limit creativity to numbers.
 * The fact that it only took slightly more then a century to colonize and conquer the entire Galaxy is a bit odd, though.
 * Space Cowboy: Axel is a somewhat more literal example then most, much to his father's chagrin.
 * Ghost Rider is also described as a cowboy, but to lesser extent.
 * Starfish Aliens: A majority of Mjolnir's alien species.
 * Stripperiffic: A given, with it's anime roots, but special mention goes to Haruka.
 * The Alcatraz: The Hell. Being near the core of the galaxy, lost in the void and surrounded by space whales will do that.
 * The Alcoholic: The entire cast indulges in vast amounts of drinking
 * The Wiki Rule: It has one, too.
 * The Worf Effect: Tzeenosaurs are already falling into it.
 * Tsundere: Princess Kanade is firmly entrenched in the Tsuntsun side. She almost never leaves it.
 * Walking Tank: Clyde's mech.
 * War Is Hell: While the main Role Play is more about skirmishes, stories like Fall Of The South make it very clear that Humanity is still fighting very dirty.
 * What Measure Is a Non-Human?: The less humanoid are the aliens (both facialy and physically), the more the Empire tried to eradicates them.