In a world where people with magical abilities are hunted and killed, a small group of mages struggles to survive and make a decent living. Started by Dr. Gate at the VGMusic forums on Tuesday, July 13, 2004, and finished on Monday, October 24, 2004, this RP is a continuation of Escaflowne Adept's Reign of Mages series.

 

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Some general information regarding Magical Twist: A Forgotten Past

This role-play was started by Dr. Gate. The story is a fantasy.

This role-play was started on

Tuesday, July 13, 2004

This role-play was finished on

Monday, October 24, 2004

This role-play was 326 posts long. The story is 106,233 words long.
This story took 104 days to complete. On average, this role-play received 3.14 posts per day. 

    Here we have comments from the people who wrote the story, as well as how much they wrote of it. They are listed in order of contribution percentage. Warning, there are spoilers here!

Name Comment
Dr. Gate

    Well, the whole thing in general wasn't put together by me all too well. I didn't plan a lot of things, and in the end we wasted half of the RP doing nothing plot-significant. The end also had to be provoked by an RPer other than myself, which was also sad. If I could redo it, I'd probably... uh, not do that. I'd make sure there was at least semi-always stuff for us to do, instead of wasting so many posts on what could have been even better but turned out to be mediocre. 
    My plot devices were also.... sub-par, if I remember right. I really could have worked them better to make the story more immersive. But instead, I got lazy, and tried to do the whole "open RP" thing that doesn't work all too often. 
    I was pretty satisfied with Alex, but I'm going to have to do more with him in Fading Destinies if I'm going to just.. I can't describe it, its like ... I don't know. 
    The most fun I had was honestly when we were wasting time in the Mansion. Although that doesn't forgive the fact we wasted so much time. 

 

    Dr. Gate started Magical Twist: A Forgotten Past, and was thus the first person to join. He wrote 23.60% of the story, doing so in sixty-four posts.

Ricky

    This was the first RP I ever joined, and I enjoyed it a lot. It slowed down quite a bit though during the later half of the story- we had been in one spot for too long, and some of us began having time issues with school, which didn't help. All in all, though, this RP was very enjoyable, and I made a few long-time friends because of it.

 

    Ricky was the eighth, and last, person to join the RP. He wrote 18.03% of the story, doing so in fifty-one posts.

Escaflowne Adept

    Gawd right now I'm so hard-pressed for comments... for the most part, this RP went smoothly, although it got a little slow near the end. Still, Alan is a character I really want to continue to develop, seeing as he's just so different compared to my normal fare. He's moody, and even with his fantastical oddities, quite down to earth and much more like a real person. Also, it was quite a deviation from my normal, godmoddish characters. Hira had some Mary Sue moments, though. Also, PERVY RAENIUN!! Still, I hope Fading Destinies keeps that particular edge going that the rest of the series lacks (well, until I release my newest project once Soul Twist II ends ).

 

    Escaflowne Adept was the fourth person to join Magical Twist: A Forgotten Past. She wrote 16.92% of the story, doing so in forty-one posts. She now goes by the username Atomic Toucan.

Elec

    I really enjoyed participating in this RP as it was fairly unique. I believe that this was one of the few RPs with futuristic settings I actually enjoyed. I think I liked it in part because it still had the same feel as the traditional fantasy RP only with a futuristic setting.

 

    Elec was the second person to join the RP. She wrote 14.19% of the story, doing so in seventy-four posts.

runedot

    This RP, during its rather long course, took some interesting, and some frustrating turns. It was a very fun RP at times, while at other times I wanted to choke the life out-... let's just leave it at that. 
    Unfortunately, about mid-way through it, I was forced out due to real life circumstances (exam period), and upon return, was unable to... return. 
    As such, I was absent for the vast part of the latter part of the RP, and consequently, I also don't fully know what happens... 
    How cruel fate can be...

 

    runedot was the third person to join Magical Twist: A Forgotten Past. He wrote 12.45% of the story, doing so in thirty-four posts.

ShadowSword

    Ah, this indeed was a great one. Yet another point in the "Beowulf Chronicles", as it fleshed out more and more on Josh, Maya, Vicious and the other characters. This one also had its great moments, such as the "base camp" at the old lady's big house and the moments of confusion between posters who happened to be posting at the same time. If my memory serves me, Ring of Duels was also being written at the same time, and me and Gate joked about how his story stole Ring of Duels' thunder. Ah, good times. I hope to participate in more RPs of its caliber.

 

    ShadowSword was the seventh person to join the RP. He wrote 7.67% of the story, doing so in thirty-three posts.

Maniacal Gruntling

    Well, there isn't much to say here. It's a bloody sweet RP. As usual, my efforts were incredibly lame, but everyone else wrote cool stuff. Oh yes, they did.

 

    Maniacal Gruntling was the fifth person to join Magical Twist: A Forgotten Past. He wrote 3.62% of the story, doing so in eighteen posts. He now goes by the shortened username MG.

Zerodius     Zerodius was unavailable for comment. He was the sixth person to join the RP, and wrote 3.48% of the story, doing so in eleven posts. He now goes by the username Captain Obvious.

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    Here we have fun facts about the role-play.

        · When he created this RP, Dr. Gate was going by the name Mattwh6483. He had it changed sometime in September 2004 when a swarm of "Matt" nicks suddenly joined the VGMusic forum.
        · A sequel is being made for this RP, entitled Magical Twist: Fading Destinies.

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