Tears of a Phoenix

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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.

Tropes used in Tears of a Phoenix include:

• 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.