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Classes and Roles:

Grif - Warrior, uses hand to hand and axes. His strength is pretty high and can tank some heavy hits while dealing as much damage back.

Simmons - Mage, can use all sorts of magic. Physically nothing special but his magic is something to be feared. Rambles about said magic all the time because he's a nerd.

Donut - Spoony Bard because he is the spooniest of bards, can revive and buff his allies while debuffing enemies. Most of his ‘works’ are innuendos. 

Lopez - Blacksmith/Enchanted suit of armor built by Sarge. Accidentally given a rune that makes him talk in some ancient language. (Spanish)

Sarge - Soldier, can use a variety of weapons including swords, axes and crossbows. Somehow also learned to make a magic shotgun. Somehow.

Tucker - Knight, uses swords. Flirts with the ladies with super corny chivalry lines. Found a mysterious egg down the line that he got by killing some freaky beast. Egg hatches into Junior, who imprints on him.

Church - Mage, uses magic and can summon as well. Blessed/cursed to auto-revive every time he dies. 

Caboose - Healer but he has the strength of a barbarian. Often healing his teammates from injuries he caused them. Has team killed Church the most. 

Tex - Mercenary, can use axes and swords. Essentially ‘perfect’ in all fields of combat aside from magic. 

Carolina - Battle Monk, martial arts and magic. Church gave her a magically created avatar of himself to aid her when she’s away from the group. 

Washington - Rogue, uses knives and relies mostly on stealth and speed. Knows how to kill a man barehanded alone in seven different ways. 

Locus - Also a rogue, though he prefers to use crossbows and regular bows to snipe his enemies. Knows how to apply various poisons to his arrows.

Felix - (Somehow) A paladin, though definitely uses the magic for evil, though he uses his paladin status to gain trust of others.

First concept: Video Game Simulation Gone Wrong.

One idea is that the Reds and Blues are just super bored one day and then somehow meet this video game producer who offers to let them all play test his newest game, which basically goes the Sword Art Online route where they basically enter inside the game. Having nothing better to do, and Grif realizing that playing a video for a 'job' was basically the best thing ever, they agree to do so.

They enter the game but they're all separated and we mostly focus on just Grif or Tucker at the beginning of the game since they’re programmed to be the protagonists, and their quest to find their missing friends. The game they're in is a literal RPG, fantasy elements included aside from a few exceptions. Everything's pretty cool so far, going along just like a regular RPG, they meet up with each other, slay a dark lord, etc. However things begin to act up, the world glitches a little, and the creator tells them that the game was suddenly hacked by a virus, and not only can they no longer quit the game, the virus is going around infecting/corrupting the 'living players' for some reason or another (basically it's a way to make the others fight each other for cool ass rpg boss fights) 

It's all resolved in the end but I just think about it a lot and there's a lot of funny shenanigans involved like the reds and blues snarking about 4th wall jokes, Sarge somehow bringing his shotgun along even tho it's a literal FANTASY game, Caboose finding more ways to glitch the game (for better or worse) Tucker trying to get the creator to install some sort of harem system for the NPCS, Grif trying to bail out on adventuring even though he's the labeled 'hero/protag' for the game, etc.

Shenanigans that can happen:

-NUMEROUS 4th wall breaking jokes.

-Grif being the laziest protagonist and having to be dragged to fulfill quests and missions.

-Tucker being the other protagonist but he’s too busy trying to flirt with every female NPC in sight. Also pesters the creator to add in dating sim elements.

-Church still getting killed a lot in game. Has to be revived every other campaign.

-Sarge somehow goes against the law of video games and having his shotgun even in the fantasy world.

-Caboose bugging the shit out of the game, both hindering and helping his friends while doing so. So far he’s no clipped into the floor a total of 100 times. 

-Donut abusing his bard status by singing dirty songs or songs from musicals to rejuvenate his allies.

-Carolina initially being a princess who has to be ‘rescued’ but bails herself out because fuck the damsel in distress shit.

-Simmons’ knowledge of DnD often saves the group, much to everyone’s chagrin. 

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Second concept: Actual RPG/Fantasy AU

The second idea is more of a traditional RPG idea where it's more or less a fantasy AU just with the Reds and Blues and Freelancers. Still a major WIP. 

-The Director was a kind hearted king who ruled over his country with a firm but caring fist. However his wife Allison was one day assassinated while visiting another country, causing the Director great grief. However, as heartbroken and angry as he was, he couldn't bring himself to declare war on the other country, despite wanting to. As a result, he performs this ritual which separates his humanity, emotions, and even memories from his logical mind, which in turn creates Alpha Church, who is cast off far from the kingdom. The Director then declares war with multiple countries, all while having his holy knights (freelancers) on his side.

-Church is found by Caboose and Tucker, and has no memory of who he is/was and is taken in by the two because Caboose was ecstatic at the idea of having a new friend. Having nothing better to do, Church decides to begrudgingly become a knight himself, mainly because Caboose begged him.

-Later on during the plot he begins to regain his memories, basically making him into Epsilon Church, and that's when he decides to find the Director and put an end to his war stemmed from grief.

-Meanwhile, with the Reds, Sarge is the captain of his own mini squadron of knights, all of which who are so unskilled, and flat out hopeless in being actual knights, are sent out of the kingdom for some ‘secret mission’ issued by the king himself (not Church/Director)

-The Blues are more or less in the same boat as above, being such failures as knights they’re sent away to basically never come back fdsjhgfsgdh.

-A potential plot twist is that Allison was not killed during the assassination attempt, but too lost her memory and was found by somebody and rescued. She becomes a mercenary to make money and try to figure out her past, and is later on ironically recruited to become a member of the holy knights working under the Director. Even when meeting him, she doesn't recall who he is due to his complete 180 in personality, and since he cast away his 'human self' he doesn't remember her either, only the grief and pain of having lost her.

-Carolina is the princess of the kingdom, and originally not allowed to fight under her father, but after his emotions are casted off, and she persists in the matter, he makes her the captain of the holy guard.

-Washington is the latest holy guard recruit, and while he used to dream of being a knight, working under the Director’s murderous hand makes him feel conflicted about whether or not he’s doing the right thing. Eventually betrays the knights and is exiled.