Best Wishes

Scenario

 * There is a kingdom high, high in the sky
 * At the heart of this kingdom is the Wishing Star, an item of limitless energy
 * One fateful day, a mysterious man wearing a cloak and wielding a staff invaded the land and wreaked havoc upon it
 * Using black magic, he shattered the Wishing Star, captured the Wish Kingdom's citizens, and trapped them within the walls of its castle
 * Only one person managed to get away: the Prince
 * In a desperate attempt to escape, he leapt off the kingdom and fell to the world below
 * It is now up to him to gather the scattered fragments of the Wishing Star and save his home

Miscellaneous lore details

 * On the surface world, the Wish Kingdom is largely a myth to most, the type of thing you would read to a child as a bedtime story
 * In the very distant past, the people of the kingdom did live among those of the surface, and would even share the power of their Wishing Star with them
 * They decided to seclude themselves to the sky because there were so many who wanted to use the Star for reasons they deemed "impure"
 * This story persisted throughout generations of the Wish Kingdom, and has colored the people's perception of the surface: those of the lower world are all selfish and cruel
 * Why did the magician take over the Wish Kingdom? I'll come up with it later. It'll probably be something sad

Gameplay

 * It is an RPG

Characters

 * The Prince
 * My original personality for him was relentlessly positive and optimistic, but that's kind of boring
 * He was raised to believe that lower world people are all Bad, so maybe his Character Arc(TM) is gradually overcoming that prejudice ?
 * Writes about everything he experiences in a journal, which acts as an in-game log of characetrs, locations, items, etc. that updates whenever the party rests at an inn
 * Oh yeah, I don't have a name for him yet. I'm open to suggestions


 * Thistle
 * Race: Dryad (little creechers spiritually linked to nature)
 * The Prince's first partner
 * Timid and introverted, a bit of a doormat


 * Leah
 * Race: Siren (freaky-looking humanoid fish people that live very deep in the ocean)
 * Her actual name is unpronounceable in the surface's common language
 * She is standoffish and snooty

Worlds
names are placeholders
 * Forest
 * Partner: Thistle
 * The Prince falls into this area after jumping (he landed in a lake so he's fine)
 * The primary race here is the dryads, but recently spiders have taken up residence as well
 * There is a struggle for territory going on between the two groups...
 * ...but it's very one-sided; the dryads are pushovers
 * Main mission is to get the Spider Queen to stop bullying the dryads
 * No Star Piece, it's sort of a "prologue" area
 * ??? (Hub?)
 * Partner: ???
 * Partner: ???
 * Partner: ???
 * Grimmore
 * Partner: ???
 * Partner: ???
 * Abyssal Trench
 * Partner: Leah
 * No partner
 * Wish Kingdom (Chapter 8)
 * Abyssal Trench
 * Partner: Leah
 * No partner
 * Wish Kingdom (Chapter 8)
 * Wish Kingdom (Chapter 8)