TL;DR version, basically your character has just arrived in this ocean side town by the name of Oars Rest, and is here to explore this new continent for whatever reason. I'd recommend reading it, or at least skimming it to get a general feel of the Baumn Empire and Caededril Republic, but it's not required since over all, it's not important. Just some setting and backgrounds your free to use to build your character.

Now, more importantly, I'm looking for a smallish group of around five, maybe six people for this RP. I might be willing to GM two different groups of adventurers if I can get a co-GM and there's enough interest for it.

If the title wasn't any indication, this is gonna be a bit of a dungeon crawler RP similar to Etrian Odyssey (I hope) and well...any other dungeon crawler like it. I'll be the guy throwing monsters/obstacles/NPC's at you, and You'll be dying horribly starting out as someone who just arrived in Oar's Rest for whatever reason you come up with for you character. It can be anything at all, as long as it works for the setting and as long as it ends with them seeking adventure and exploring this new land.

I should note that Oars Rest is only your starting point, and once you leave and 'clear' your first dungeon, it's also unlikely you'll be returning anytime soon unless your character calls it quits. Don't worry, its not the only civilized place on this continent - just the only known one to your characters at the moment.

The RP is going to focus a lot on character interaction & Development, Adventure, and Combat. There will be down time of course, for characters to rest and properly recuperate and for some good character interaction to develop.



Magic indeed exists in Edea and Ailon, and comes in many different forms. Most often, in the Baumn empire it's used for more militaristic purposes. They teach combat magic to complement their soldiers on the field. Caededril, uses their for more commercial purposes. Often reinforcing their weapons and armor to increase their soldiers effectiveness through indirect means if it comes to fighting.

That said, there are many forms of magic known in the world. Feel free to make your own, so long as it's properly balanced.

As far as enchanting something goes, it's basically giving an item permanent magical abilities. Most items can hold one or two enchantments at most, though, and its difficult to stack a second one on something that's already enchanted.
Examples are:
"Adds fire effects to weapon by heating the blade"
"Increases the strength of the user"
"Increases Durability"



Huh? You want...more? Well, then...why don't you make it yourself? The continent of Ailon is vast and large, and the Baumn Empire and Caededril Republic are only two tiny empires in the grand scheme of things. Much of the continent from their borders still house small city-states as well as countless tribes of people. Who knows? Maybe there's another empire or something out there, just a few kilometers away from their borders that recently cropped up during their recent war.

As far as races go, they are as numerous as stars in the sky, though humans are the most populous of people. Feel free to go crazy with the races - within reason - just run it by me first.

Point is, I'm not going to create a bunch of hard lore here - I'm going to leave that up to you guys when you make your characters. As long as it's reasonable, just run it by me and I'll let you have whatever you want so long as it's not some sort of OP thing and it makes sense.



1. I will be keeping a strict posting schedule. As in, I want at least one post every two days. This is a rule I am going to heavily enforce and keep track of. If the timer above your last post reaches two days, then you'll receive a warning and your character will be on auto pilot so things don't get slowed down until you return. Two offenses of this, result in immediate ban from the RP. If you must be absent for some reason, tell me. I'm not going to kick you for some emergency or other reason.

2. I am the GM. You may call me Overlord Rune. My word is also law here. Any disputes OOCly will be settled by me and me alone if you can't settle it yourselves. I will try and be fair, but do try not to escalate something to the point where I have to intervene.

3. This, admittedly isn't going to be the most realistic of RP's. As in, there will likely at some point be big-ass anime fights with explosions and stuff like that. However, if your character gets injured, I expect that to factor into their actions and such in some way. No walking away from getting stabbed in the heart, kiddos without some really, really, good and heavy healing magic.

4. Any sexy stuff needs to fade to black. Or take it to the PMs. I don't care what you all do in your free time~

5. REMEMBER. One post every two days! I am going to be strictly enforcing this rule no matter what. I don't care how much someone complains. I am also going to try my best to keep to this rule. I won't expect posts during major holidays or if something major comes up, but otherwise you should try and keep to the rule.

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That's it really! I'll answer any questions or anything you guys have. I'll throw up a CS once we get enough people and an OOC ready to go.

Obs in.

...goddamn it you're fast, Pyro.

Certainly interested.
I may have a question about a character 'race', but its not too important right now.

Certainly interested.
I may have a question about a character 'race', but its not too important right now.

Well, thanks for your interest!~

If you want to go ahead and ask feel free too, or PM me so we can talk specifics if its something that could take awhile~

Interested.

I'd be interested

This has my interest!

Oh my~

Look at all this interest! :D

I'll throw up an OOC and a CS tomorrow, since we now have enough for this to get started.

Well, I might be interested, if there is still a slot, of course.

I'll bite.

I'm assuming that the dungeons are going to be more 'traditional' dungeons that can be cleared in a couple of floors, compared to the central Yggdrasil Project dungeons in Etrian Odyssey, with their world-ending threats lurking at the end of the labyrinth?

Interested, I'll keep checking in on this

I'll bite.

I'm assuming that the dungeons are going to be more 'traditional' dungeons that can be cleared in a couple of floors, compared to the central Yggdrasil Project dungeons in Etrian Odyssey, with their world-ending threats lurking at the end of the labyrinth?

To start with, yes, they're gonna be able to be cleared within a couple of 'floors'. I should state that most 'dungeons' aren't really dungeons, but more of just an area in the world the party has to go through. Say, a large cave system that takes around a few hours to walk through depending on how much the party decides to explore and how many encounters they have. They may later encounter a traditional 'dungeon' with floors, but it won't be until after they've traveled inland a bit.

Also, the further inland the adventurers get, there's a good chance they might stumble upon some creature or another that could be classified as 'world ending' - it depends really. I'll have to keep the baddies and creatures an appropriate level so the characters can always have a bit of a challenge as they grow more powerful as well. Can't just have them one-shotting everything. That's no fun~

Though, I suppose I could make the areas more dungeon like, with floors and such. I just haven't thought about it really. I'm a bit unsure how that would really work in this setting, though, but I could probably come up with something if its what everyone would want. I'm certainly open to ideas.

@Rune_Alchemist You could do it sort of Diablo style? A clear path to a "boss fight" of sorts with tasks, mini bosses, loot, and creatures blocking the way with room to explore. I mean you could always add more depth to that as you can simply write it in, but that's just my suggestion if you don't want all dungeons~

Well, that's sort of what I'm going with at the moment, I think.

I'm basically going to be describing locations, and possibly give hints as to what your character could do. (such as explore the area, look for an alternate route aside from the obvious one, etc. Or whatever else you want.)

Your characters are going to enter those locations, and explore a bit. And depending on what those characters of yours do, I'll decide just what should happen. They might get lucky and find some valuable gem or some other thing. Maybe a powerful looking long sword or something. They might stumble upon a tribe of hungry Kobolds. Or, they might even stumble upon an NPC or two that might give them a 'quest' or something, and either hinder or help them on their exploration.

Rest assured though, that most areas are probably going to have a 'boss' fight, if you will. Now, depending on what the adventurers do, they may miss the encounter entirely, but I'm going to make that slightly difficult to happen~

And of course, there are many ways your characters could go about doing things. That tribe of Kobolds? Maybe you somehow make peace with them, and are able to resupply a bit and gather intelligence and information about the surrounding cavern, and maybe a hint to where some relic or artifact is that exists in the cave.

At least, this is my general plan for now at least~

So I'm gonna guess you play DnD? Because it sounds a lot like it, and I love DnD. But I'm assuming, you know, less dice rolling.

I have in fact, never actually played DnD in my life.

I understand the concept of course, but I can't stand Dice Rolls.

Last time I did something with dice rolls, I rolled like five bad rolls in a row, I raged, flipped a table, and have been the King of the Seven Salty Seas ever since whenever someone mentions any sort of dice rolling xD

"The King of the seven salty seas" lol. I laughed out loud for that actually, so it's a true lol. But sorry for mistaking you, I didn't mean to bring up a troubled dice rolling past! I know, bad rolls can be harsh. But when you roll natural 20's a few times and get criticals, slaughtering the boss in one hit... The DM certainly gets mad also.

But sounds good! I am patiently awaiting the start!

Yea, Rune cringes really hard I bring anything up remotely related to dice rolls, so don't expect much of that. XD Also, Damn, so many people so fast XD. Looks like you made a popular one, Rune! XD

If there's still open slots id be interested