@Overlord Thraka oh gotchea sorry bout that and is that what you character looks like or is it the other picture?

It's all good.

Both are commissions I've had done, just by different artists for different reasons. The armored one is what she looks like to y'all currently, the other one I posted before was specifically done to show what she looked like under the helmet.

Hm... seems to be a lot of folk heading for the harbor, I think I'll head elsewhere to mix it up.

I'll have my characters shop around for jobs. Head for one of those recruiters of Lord Ashur, though I'm not sure where they'd find one. Realistically, anyways...
Maybe the market, if it's active. Possibly a tavern, but it's gotta be too early for that. Heading straight towards military posts and barracks to ask about jobs seems odd. Eh, maybe I'll just skimp out on the hows and the wheres.

@ArkmageddonCat

If he chooses to speak to the local lord about recruitment, all you need to do is head to either the garrison and speak to the captain of the guard or the castle and find the seneschal. They’ll measure your worth as a warrior for them albeit in different ways.

Hm... alright. I guess heading to either of those places looking for a job wouldn't be too unusual.

I am sorry to everyone but i will have to leave this rp.

Oops. x(
Err... I already posted my character sheet. Do I have to wait for the GM before I can start posting?.

@ALonelyParrot Uhhh… I'm not sure. Some people do, some don't. There are rules to follow for characters, which I believe are basically summed up in the first post of the IC. There's a more detailed version laying around that I could find.

Other than that I don't know what to tell you...

@ALonelyParrot I think you're good, it's still a jump-in and your character doesn't break the rules.

Well that's just friggen great... I lost the post I was working on. Whatever, I'll just start over on it tomorrow when I can.

@ALonelyParrot

I'm currently the temp GM as the old GM has been MIA for a while, your character looks okay.

Name: Mika Brosca
Age: 77
Race: Dwarf
Bio: Mika is a dishonored dwarf. Her father was once a noble warrior who took a liking to her mother, and during their relationship she bore the man two girls, Mika and her sister Rica. However he wanted a son and soon abandoned the three girls. Mika's mother fell into despair and started drinking heavily while Mika and Rica did their best to try to make ends meet. Rica courted various noble dwarven men hoping to marry someone wealthy enough to take care of her family. Mika however lacked her sister's charisma and charms but did have one advantage: brutal cunning and quick wits. She became a hired thug, shaking down merchants, robbing caravans, and even occasionally assassinating criminal and nobles for coin. The pay wasn't great but it was all that Mika was good at. Soon her sister managed to find a man rich and honorable enough to take in herself and their drunkard of a mother, but at the same time Mika had gotten caught up in a botched assassination. One disaster lead to another, and it eventually ended with Mika killing a powerful crime boss who hired her in the first place, forcing her to fake her own death and run as to protect herself and her family.
Gear: Mika is used to wearing thick leather armor tough enough to stop an axe, though she doesn't really like the heavy metal stuff. Despite being a dwarf she relies a lot on mobility and having more stamina than her opponents. She favors strong short swords she can use to stab in between the weak points of her enemy, and occasionally a hammer or mace to smash what she can't stab. Lastly she has a crossbow which she's been tinkering with. It uses a steel bow instead of a metal one, to give it more power and range. She uses a lever mechanism that allows her to reload faster.

I’ll have a post up soon real life been busy

@Norschtalen

Looks good, welcome to the game.

Yay! Another Dwarf!! I'm not alone anymore! <3

Yup, and another dwarf woman too. We exist! Though if I read things right, I don't think we're going to be in the same town. I'm going to go fight the orcs.

Good for you! I thought about it but I kinda like the idea of kicking butt with a bunch of other girls. Plus it didn't make sense for my character to suddenly be in another place after arriving to learn from the healers in Tamberle.

Hey guys, sorry for the late and short post, life has torn me a new one this week a bit, so I've been super uninspired. Best to just push through though, ay?

Considering that I have found this topic through some familiar faces and it is certainly no typical "Free Roleplay", I might just cast my lot in. Although deliberating as to how to make said character work, if at all, is the only issue. Regardless, this certainly does seem to be a solid work thus far and I could not help but notice it and commend it.

@The Harbinger of Ferocity

Hey hey hey Harbinger. I'm currently the new temp GM as the previous one has been MIA for some strange reason. I trust you'll make an interesting character so just lemme run down some basic info for character creation:

Low Fantasy, so while elves, orcs, dwarves, and other fantasy creatures exist, try not to get too crazy with it. Golems, half-dragons, part demons, etc, will either not exist or at the very least not exist as player characters.

Magic itself is rare to the point that it won't be a player skill. Magic is something that requires decades of research and study just to attune to, let alone to actually learn, practice, and ultimately master. The difference between a magical dilettante and Gandalf is a thin one separated mainly by experience and the exclusivity of the subject matter. There ain't exactly a school for these guys.

As far as a character's personal ability, feel free to be as martially inclined as you'd like, but know that even for a free RP I am going to enforce some semblance of realism to fighting. Your chances to survive against five opponents is very slim, especially if they're even moderately trained militia men if only because they aren't total fools and neither are you a super human warrior. Not every attack will kill, not even blow can be dodged, so it'll behoove you to not just fight well but fight smart, and more importantly have allies.

As for backgrounds it's mostly open with the focus of the RP taking place in the Kingdom of Elrad, which has just fallen into civil war due to an usurper taking the throne. Monsters are coming out of the woodwork, brigands are taking advantage of the chaos to raid and pillage, and the lords have raised their armies to fight off rivals and take over territory. There are other nations which may also take interest, though they haven't made any appearances yet.

I'm guessing Shadowjumping is out of the question?