[OOC] Game of Thrones : The Pact of Ice and Fire (Always Open)

[Abefroeman]

@AtomicNut@kingkonrad Here is a link to the Pirate Pad, if you want to joins in. piratepad.net/YPCTIlus6X

[FourtyTwo]

@Abefroeman

Ding, I'm in if you want now in about five minutes :)

It might become part of my post or yours, your call- probably the latter, as I'll soon cook something up.

[MrDidact]

@Abefroeman Since the Boars were so far North, they would have been the first to have been hit by the Walkers. Returning all the way during the chaos would have been a foolhardy notion at best. It makes more sense for some of the Boars to have went south but returned out of a distrust for the "kneelers" or perhaps they joined up with other chieftains like the Weeper.

I will also say that while not as bad as it used to be, there are still packs of Wights roaming BTW and other beasties are about now. And I was working on my own King Beyond the Wall type character who could be something of a rival to this clan. All in all, it's shaping up well though.

[MrDidact]

@Abefroeman Also, great post, but I will point out that the attackers haven't yet breached the Red Keep proper. The fighting is mainly focused at the walls and in the courtyard, with one clandestine team that we know of breaching Aemon's chambers.

[Abefroeman]

@Abefroeman Also, great post, but I will point out that the attackers haven't yet breached the Red Keep proper. The fighting is mainly focused at the walls and in the courtyard, with one clandestine team that we know of breaching Aemon's chambers.

@MrDidact

I will rectify this discrepancy with all due haste your grace. I will also fix the inconsistencies with the Shivering Boar Clan. If time permits, I will also finish the mini character sheets for the band of seven.

[bloonewb]

If its alright with you, I think I'm going to create a second character.

[MrDidact]

@Abefroeman No need to stand on formality man.

@bloonewb Sure, what's your idea?

[Celeste]

Just ocurred to me that we don't seem to have any Dornish characters. I'm thinking about maybe doing something about that. x3

Also, new post. ^^

[MrDidact]

@Celeste Dorne is awesome, what's your idea for a character?

Great post too.

[bloonewb]

@MrDidact I'm debating between an honorable northern cavalryman who's actually a bastard of Ramsay Bolton (to be a foil for William) and Ser Erin "the Brown", a kingsguard who shit himself in his first battle and hasn't lived down his reputation. Any preferences?

[Abefroeman]

@Abefroeman No need to stand on formality man.

@bloonewb Sure, what's your idea?

@MrDidact

My snarky response to your call for less formality

Post has been rectified, your grace. I hope it is to your liking and standards of disciprine. Jokes aside, I enjoyed rewriting it and I thank you for pointing it out to me. I felt like a monkey's uncle. Also, wasn't able to get to the edits for the Boars or my Band of Seven. Baby was awake and was too cute not to interact with.

[Celeste]

@MrDidact No idea yet.

And thanks! ^^

[Greenie]

I'll be starting my post soon, hopefully. v.v sorry for the delay... Been kinda tired, stressed etc

[MrDidact]

@bloonewb I like the first idea, provides a lot of cool opportunities for character interaction and story progression. Would he be a known bastard?

@Abefroeman Haha, fine speak as you wish ser. The post is top-notch, no problems whatsoever. No worries on finishing the sheets right now. Hmm, some of the Band seem in a bad spot. Perhaps a certain Princess can alleviate their ails.

@Celeste House Martell doesn't have anyone in it right now, besides Viserys' NPC wife.

@Greenie No worries, post when you're ready.

[NecroKnight]

@kingkonrad

Up for a collab, with Ellion and Miri fighting the shark-man?

[Greenie]

What happens when you hang around sick coughing kids all day?

You end up getting sick :'D My tiredness makes sense now.

Still I think I'll start up my post tonight or tomorrow. Wish me luck ^_^

[Abefroeman]

What happens when you hang around sick coughing kids all day?

You end up getting sick :'D My tiredness makes sense now.

Still I think I'll start up my post tonight or tomorrow. Wish me luck ^_^

@Greenie

Yey!!!! Welcome to the club. Well, thankfully my little minion has yet to get sick, but still, I know the dreaded curse of sick little minions spreading the diseases to the elder cultists. Get well soon, and look forward to your post comrade.

[bloonewb]

Here he is, the other last Bolton! The details in this I think were a little rough, but the basic premise is there at least.

Name: Arak Snow

Age: 19

Appearance: Arak stands at 5'6" tall, which he tries to hide by being on horseback as much as possible. He is full faced, bulky with muscle from his long years of intense training, and is incredibly darkly tanned for a Northman due to his tendency to prefer the sunny outside. However, the Boltons have left him with one gift of blood. His irises are the milky pale of his father, Ramsay Bolton.

Role: Northern Cavalryman in the North

Equipment: A trusty, slightly rusty spear and a buckler.

Skills: Arak is nearly unparalleled in fighting with lance and spear on horseback (yet very little else), and has a penchant for brutal surprise tactics. He also has the accurate and perceptive eyes of the Boltons, almost instinctively knowing where it hurts most to drive a spear.

Biography: During Ramsay's paramountcy in the North, he sowed his seeds far and wide, occasionally himself invoking the ancient Right of First Night. One such woman he lay with was a handmaiden in Winterfell, and on that night Arak was conceived. In his early years, he never had the luxurious life of a lord. His mother barely scraped by for herself, without the complication of a large child with an equally large appetite. Arak knew this wouldn't do, and at the tender age of 12 decided to help support the family by joining the Winterfell garrison after the Stark reconquest. He begged the garrison captain to sign him on immediately, and he, being an incredible softheart with rather poor common sense, reluctantly agreed. He was put to training immediately, which he took to with gusto, often rising hours before the instructor. There, he learned the value of honor and duty, and found in himself the potential to do great good for the kingdom.

His training paid off, and he became a part of the Northern Cavalry the moment he reached adulthood. Mysteriously, a little later he made contact with a mysterious patron that only communicated by mail. Arak never met the patron, and the letters sent to him were never signed, but the two of them quickly picked up a sort of rapport, with Arak sending his replies to a backstreet alley in the poor quarter of the castle town and receiving a reply a few days later along with a few gold dragons.

Arak tried to keep his ancestry a secret. His mother was honest about where he came from, and it wouldn't do to be attached to the most dishonorable name in the paramountcy. One day, after an especially hard day of drilling, a messenger came specifically for him. For some reason, Bran Stark wished to speak to him. He claiming he knew who his father was and offered to help keep the secret. Bran said that he threatened and bribed those who figured out his parentage to keep the matter quiet, and even once offered to make adopt Arak as a Stark. Arak refused, but never forgot the generousness of his liege, and swore to himself that he would protect the Starks with his life, even if they never know of it.

Arak to this day is tough, honorable, and loyal to the death. He does not fear battle, and almost seems to revel in combat. He keeps his promises, and his spirit has brought back fellows from a rout multiple times. He reveres the Stark family, and tries his best to imitate the late Ned Stark (whom he read about in a few historical documents), who he holds in such high esteem that his comrades joke that his faith isn't to the Old Gods, it's to Ned. Ambitions he has little, but one of his dreams is to finally meet his mysterious patron, and perhaps become an honorary Stark.

Notes:

[AtomicNut]

What happens when you hang around sick coughing kids all day?

You end up getting sick :'D My tiredness makes sense now.

Still I think I'll start up my post tonight or tomorrow. Wish me luck ^_^

@Greenie

having a lot of work but i will try to help.

[MrDidact]

@Greenie Hope you feel better soon!

@bloonewb You have a good base here, but I think you need to flesh out his personality and motivations a bit more and you should be fine.