I recently found a book called "How Little Grey Rabbit Got Back Her Tail," which is an old 1930s book in the Beatrix Potter style and from that, i started to get a series of dreams about a manor filled with animals. The head of the house was a Falcon who was more like a king than anything else; he even had an advisor who was a kestrel. He would regularly have noblemen friends over, and even had some who lived there permanently. They were generally all foxes and would come over to eat drink and play games. There was tv, with the news being presented by a frog. The foxes would often go out to hunt other animals, often homeless ones. Nobody could stand against it since that's just the way things went; you cant stand against nature. There were rules in place, such as not being able to hunt families. This particular role was broken by one of the tenants of the manor, though he only realised his mistake when he heard a leveret (a baby hare) crying out. He took the child in, presenting him to the falcon to decide what to do with him. In the end it was decided that the fox would raise the leveret, and the head maid acted as nanny. So far in his development, the hare was rather mentally obtuse, often coming out with dreamlike sentences and odd remarks. Whenever he moved, he did it quickly with flair but between movements, he almost floated on the spot; his head bouncing around on his neck as though it were not properly fastened. The maids and butlers were all rabbits and they would sometimes go out to forage for vegetables for the chefs to cook. These chefs were all wolves who would go out hunting for meat if the foxes hadnt already done so.
There was a gamekeeper with his own little house out in the great garden of the manor. He was a badger who needed glasses, and has a friend who's an owl. He sometimes brings him in to help out. There are other owls, like a barn owl noble. The first owl is often jealous of the barn owl for looking so good.
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Anyway, I am planning this to be either a collection of short stories focusing on different characters in this manor, or to be a roleplay. Obviously the animals wouldn't matter in the roleplay anymore because people would just be whoever they wanted to be. That said, if it does become a roleplay, it will be driven by personalities and light drama rather than action sequences and massive explosions, or great tales of dark evils.
Topic: Falcon Manor (Possible short stories/roleplay) (Read 1271 times)