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Welcome to the Golden Boar Tavern, brave hunter!

This establishment is well known for both its mulled berry wine and for being the starting point for many an illustrious adventuring career. Each year, hundreds of able young adventurers and clever wanderers enters these halls in search of fortune and glory that can be seized in the aftermath of a successful Hunt of the many beasts roaming the kingdom of Gruen. That you may be looking to partake in such sport or merely looking for a warm meal matters not in this moment, as you will need to know more before you are allowed into the midst of these beast hunters.

Tonight, the last party of hunters returned victorious from their adventure. As is tradition within the tavern, the next batch of hopeful heroes will only depart in a fortnight, so you must also rest and feast in their honor until then!

The Natural Cycle of a Tale and You


This story is an episodic one, with each episode split into three arcs; Character, Lore and Hunt. Once you have put your name up for a specific cycle after the overall theme is set and the beast to hunt is chosen, you are asked to keep posting until the cycle you signed out for is completed. In the cycle, each arc have a set purpose to advance the characters, plot and world-building in order to make the final hunt as rich in detail and fun to play out as possible.

Arc One: Character is a small event where new characters appears, others departs and where each player have time to grow their own characters by interacting with others or even by means of additional monologues and flashbacks. Usually, this time will have a festive air and a rough theme or set events to help everyone interact with new arrivals.

Arc Two: Lore is centered around the beast to be defeated this cycle, and will involve the effort of every player to outline the legend surrounding the foe to hunt, its current location and the reason it is just now hunted in the first place.

Arc Three: Hunt will be the final arc of a given cycle, and be the hunting and bounty-collecting part of the story, complete with the tying of any unresolved conflict with any departing character. Since I will be maintaining an equal footing and limelight between characters, that will also means plenty of awesome moment for everyone.

So you want to be a hunter?


While the amount of characters in the tavern at a given time is nearly unlimited, the Hunting party itself will be kept to six per cycle for easier handling by yours truly. You can create as many characters as you can handle without much input from me, but the hunters themselves will need to be as equal in both strength and weakness as possible. With that said, there will be a need for discussion and compromise in the OOC thread by us all in order to keep things fair for everybody, and as such the level of ability of each character may change from cycle to cycle to even things out.

Should you wish to submit a hunter, please say so here, along with a small paragraph outlining who you would want to play as and what their attributes would be, that they be skills or character flaws. With that done, we'll wait for the roster of hunters to fill up before wer each write our character sheets.

Note: This is a Medieval Fantasy, so while technology must not be present, both magic and fantastical races have their place... just no 50 feet tall dragons or the like, please!

The Rules


First of all, be cool with each others, follow the rules you are already supposed to know on this site.

Never move or harm another player's character without their permission!

Keep OOC knowledge OOC, and IC conflicts IC.

Post at least two well written (and at least spell-checked) paragraphs per IC post.

Do notice the OOC crowd if something comes up and you have to leave, nobody will bite you for it, promise. :)
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Hello! So excited that this is up! Here's my character outline:

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I'll sign up for this one.

A fair warning though, it has been a while since I last did any group rps in the written sense.
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@Ashura That was very in depth as far as outlines goes. Good job! :o

@Ser Coffee You're welcome to join us, as long as you put a decent amount of effort there should be no problem. :)
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@Minehart
Thanks! I can't wait to see the other characters! O:
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Konrad, a young man in his mid twenties. He's an average looking human standing at a moderate height of six foot eight. There's nothing really special to note about the boy at face value, but his skill with a blade and shield would make him stand out. Konrad's main enemy is his own impetuous nature, wanting to get into the thick of the fight head on to proof himself.

I'll work this out more over the course of the weekend, so keep an eye on this spot.
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(I really love this idea and I'm really excited that I can be a part of it at its starting point ^-^)

Character: Lucas

Description: A man in his teens, with experience that lies mostly in archery and small (but flashy) blades. He sports a full head of hair that goes down to his shoulders, deep green eyes, a somewhat muscular build, and slightly pointed ears. While he may look like nothing much, his speed is not something to be trifled with, and his accuracy with a bow is legendary! A lover of drinks, (although he has a low tolerance), he's gained a great deal of experience with melee combat in many a tavern. A great deal of speculation lies as to where Lucas got his scar - a deep, red slash across the side of his face - but he can't even remember at this point.

Combat Style: Lucas prefers to keep his enemies at a distance, picking them off one by one with his arrows as he darts through cover, and can rarely be seen at the beginning of a fight. Once the fight truly begins, though, he drops all ideas of stealth, jumping out from the bushes and taking care of business with his dual-wielded daggers, utilizing quick thrusts at the most vulnerable places in the enemy's body. Magic is not one of the Ranger's strong suits, but at times of dire need he can summon a quick blast of energy, throwing down everything in a five-meter radius.

Personality: Lucas is anything but a lone wolf. Very sociable, he loves having people want him around. While he tends to be a bit obnoxious, he makes up for it with his clever witticisms and riddles. His mood can be a little volatile. It isn't like him to stay shut out from the party for long periods of time, but when he does it's just best not to question it.

There's really not much else for me to say! As time goes on I would love to get more in-depth with my character and its backstory, but really this is just an introduction of myself to the game. Thanks for making such a cool thing!
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Okay, so how should we get started?
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@ihopethisworks You're welcome!

For now we are currently in a waiting phase, in that I'll wait one more day or so before giving out my own character concept. Once I do that, and we hopefully gain the two last players for a full Hunt party, we'll discuss how competent and powerful the group as a whole will be, at which point I'll give out the official Character sheet for this Cycle.

tl;dr - We're still waiting for more people, but feel free to state how awesome and deadly you want the hunters to be as a whole. (new at the job, veterans, getting a small following, etc...)
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@Minehart Sounds great! I'll get to work on finalizing my character in the meantime :)
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@Minehart I haven't done a good, depth-demanding roleplay in ages, I am quite interested in this, if you don't mind a newcomer that is.
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@Blizz You're more than welcome to join! :)
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I am thinking up a character as well.
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@Minehart thanks for having me

if you'd like, I could help think up a few beasts for the hunts
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Maybe if we bump this a little we could get this started sooner ;)
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Alright we're all on bump duty xD
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I may be interested, but I need to see if some other things will fall through before I commit entirely, sorry.

Also I'm assuming the characters are all supposed to be human in this one?
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So should we just start this or not lmao
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@Minehart You okay?
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