When the interest check didn't have any takers, (and literally every person I personally asked turned me down) I actually lost faith and was willing to say I'd given it my best shot and throw in the towel. I'm too old and I've been out of the game for too long to have unlimited ambition.

I'm glad you want to keep it going, and because you asked, I will. I do have great plans and it would work with or without the Knights.

If I don't have something up by 10pm CST tonight, I'll have something in the morning. Thank you for your continued interest. Means a lot.

Sorry for the wait, I was paralyzed with indecision and unsure how to approach things given the situation. I've gone ahead and posted, leaving the actions of Kolbe's BATTLE BROTHERS uncertain. There are plenty of options open; You guys can find safety in your own way, join Kolbe and the Captain at the standard, or lunge onto a horse as they either gallop by or seek you out since they're assuredly THAT well trained.

Otherwise, we'll assume we've lost each other in the chaos, and you can resurface later -- or not -- in whatever manner works for you.

@Culluket I'd say it was well worth the wait.

@Life in Stasis Great plans require a little bit of endurance and at least half your players posted fairly fast, so you are doing something right, even if you have been out of the loop for a while.
Just bump up that interest check, be patient and let us continue. The only thing you can do wrong right now is giving up too soon.

Means a lot, @JulienJaden, thank you.

I have someone slated to join at the end of February, an old friend and entertaining writer, but I'll keep searching for others.

I slightly altered the skeleton, I hope that's okay. I also added a specific sect of the religion (whichever there is) to become the Monarchists. Doesn't mean much, just that to them their king is also a reincarnation of God on earth. Gives him a reason to scream ''MY GOD'' and mean it when he sees the king after such a long time.

Also gives him reason to believe they're on a holy mission.

Well he certainly is passionate. I wonder what drives his anger. Give him a sense of certainty in an uncertain world, perhaps.

The religion angle is fine with me, as long as you're okay with me treating it as a very radical interpretation of god. The sort of thing people would be leery of engaging him in dialogue about, even if they were loyal to their idea of god and king.

One minor correction I'll make is that the country is actually Vicenna, not Vicennia. Areta and Vicenna were named after Arateaus and Avicenna, doctors from ancient history. It's probably something I'll keep up with if I name any new countries.

It looks good from here, go ahead and add it into the char page.

Got most of the way through a post, but my schedule is tight and I'll have to complete it tonight. It'll perhaps give @Minato Namikaze and @StoneDogg1 one last chance before I essentially kill them in my upcoming post. @Errant Son, you can either retcon yourself in the traveling party (in which case, you'll have been traveling with these men for a couple weeks along a river, getting further and further toward the edge of the country), or you can wait until later and we can arrange a more creative entrance.

The power is YOURS!

@Life in Stasis I would wait a bit, since I want to read up on the rest of the posts. So we could perhaps go for a bit more of a creative entry if I don't read up in time.

Fantastic. I know just how to use you. Gawain will hate it. Absolutely hate it. Hopefully the loss of life will be minimal.

I'll send you a PM, but as I said before I'll be unavailable for several hours starting soon. Because I'll be asleep.

I can already tell you're gonna be a fun GM. Please, torture my characters. I promise I'll do my best to come out on top every damn time.

Fucking foreigners.

I'm hoping Juna is still with us!

There we are, I hope I do not disappoint with my post. If there are any remarks or criticisms, I'd be glad to hear them and then ignore them. (Just kidding. I'm really insecure about my writing, and this is only the second advanced RP I've done ever. So please go easy on me.) If I need to fix or alter anything in my post please let me know, I'd hate to cause a plothole.

I'm hoping Juna is still with us!

Definitely.

@Errant Son Your writing is fine! Don't write to impress anyone, write to satisfy yourself. "Advanced" RP is just a hollow label that indicates you take RP seriously and know how to employ punctuation, in my opinion.

However the problem is that I placed Lothren inside the building that Gawain was imprisoned in. He had asked the others to meet him downstairs (where he was returning to) so I'm concerned that you may have taken events a little far, unless Lothren is just walking back in slow motion and watching Gawain walk around.

Is it possible to cut it short after he kicks the hell out of that mage? When the others arrive, they're sure to find an interesting scene there.

Definitely.

Excellent.

the elf’s eyes widened and suddenly vanished.

I must've mistook the ''suddenly vanishing'' thing for himself vanishing, but I'm guessing his eyes vanished?

EDIT: As in he closed them in the dark so it seemed like he was gone?

My bad. I should have perhaps included Lothren's return at the end of the post. I still can if you prefer.

What happened (as is implied in the middle section of the Mummers post) is Lothren discovered the cell, knocked out the mage, and left. He went upstairs, called out for Juna, and then went to return downstairs. What Gawain does was meant to fit in the brief window that Lothren had gone.

No actual vanishing, just a quick departure. Perhaps bad word choice on my part.

@Life in Stasis nah that's fine, I'll remove the part after he kicks the mage.

EDIT: Should be set straight.

Excellent, thanks!

No problem, I know how annoying it can be on the GM side to get all things like that chronologically right.

Not my best post and I kinda godmodded the three of us back to the house, but it was either that or posting two paragraphs. (And if anybody wishes for me to undo it, I absolutely will.)

That said, unless @Life in Stasis has other plans, I wouldn't mind Annara taking a little bit of punishment from Gawain, @Errant Son, and perhaps giving some back too. What better way to begin a friendship and welcome you to the RP proper than beating the shit out of each other? :P

Ended up taking a nap and I'm running out of time before work. I'll get a post up in the morning.