[OOC] Legend of the Silver Legion (A Fantasy RP)

[Darkspleen]

Sad to see you go, but thanks for the heads up.

[MonkeyBusiness]

@Darkspleen I will be bowing out as well. Work load just got to much for me to handle.

[El Noche]

@Darkspleen - I shall bow out as well. Just got promoted to a new position at work, and it's taking a lot more of my time than I thought it would.

[Darkspleen]

Understandable. Congrats on the promo.

[Willy Vereb]

@DarkspleenCan we get an update on who's active and who isn't on this game?
Also sory for the delay my NS is still not in a format I want to show it but I can keep the deadline.

[Slamurai]

@DarkspleenCan we get an update on who's active and who isn't on this game?
Also sory for the delay my NS is still not in a format I want to show it but I can keep the deadline.

@Willy Vereb

To my knowledge: Spleen, Gold, Sigma, Ekreture, Oraculum, Serp, possibly Monkey pants, and myself. The rest have announced dropping out or don't frequent the the Chatzy or the thread anymore.

[Goldeagle1221]

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To my knowledge: Spleen, Gold, Sigma, Ekreture, Oraculum, Serp, possibly Monkey pants, and myself. The rest have announced dropping out or don't frequent the the Chatzy or the thread anymore.

@Aristo

Things are kinda... Iffy if you ask me.

[Darkspleen]

My apologies. I meant to update a few things earlier, but ended up being quite busy yesterday. Here's the current map: I've marked dropped players' territories as "unclaimed" so that new potential players can take them.



Current players are: Aristo, Goldeagle, Monkeypants, Oraculum, Ekreture, Sigma, Turbo (he hasn't made a sheet yet but is in the process of doing so), Volus, Terminal (who needs to post by Monday), and Isotope (who also needs to post by Monday).

So at this point I am reopening the RP to anyone else that is interested.

[Willy Vereb]

My apologies. I meant to update a few things earlier, but ended up being quite busy yesterday. Here's the current map: I've marked dropped players' territories as "unclaimed" so that new potential players can take them.



Current players are: Aristo, Goldeagle, Monkeypants, Oraculum, Ekreture, Sigma, Turbo (he hasn't made a sheet yet but is in the process of doing so), Volus, Terminal (who needs to post by Monday), and Isotope (who also needs to post by Monday).

So at this point I am reopening the RP to anyone else that is interested.

@Darkspleen

Wow, all my neighbors.
It seems nobody likes me.

[Darkspleen]

The west died.

[Oraculum]

@Darkspleen

I think Eisen is unclaimed as well.

[Darkspleen]

You are correct. I missed that one.

[Willy Vereb]

Getting late here so I just tell you that there probably going to be a bit of delay in my NS.
It's 3AM here so I'll postpone that till tomorrow.
Hope to gain your understanding.

[Darkspleen]

Ok. Thanks for communicating your intent.

[Sigma]

Got another post up! Rather on the small-side though.

[Terminal]

@Darkspleen

Checking in here. Been busy elsewhere in the Guild. I have also been working on the promised post, but a need to rewrite it entirely arose due to the flurry of drops, and I have not had much time to attend the Chatzy as of late.

I have *a* post ready, but I am having something of an existential crisis predicated on the fact that four of the five nations I had significant historical interactions with/shaped a great deal of my current history/nation details effectively no longer exist. I can technically make do, but the material I have prepared is very bare-boned.

I can post what I have anyway, but it is very bare boned - and even then, it still makes several very distinct assumptions of historical fiction fact that might preclude people interested in the new territories from taking certain routes, or would force me to get busy with a large amount of retroactive editing. To wit,

1. I have a Great Wall along my Northern Border. If we assume another power took over /after/ the Ogryn incursion this is not as big of an issue, but it would also not be unreasonable to assume somebody would want full claim to the whole historical span of that region.

2. There was, until very recently, a Drakkon Invasion Force on my doorstep poised within the now defunct Xi'An dynasty. Around 70% of the content of my post deals with that specifically, so whoever is interested in that region would have to be ok with having Drakkon armies in their territory, along with the campaign of harassment I have been throwing their way historically.

Those are the two big points. There are smaller details of similar concern, but those are the messy retroactive plot causticity hurdles to potentially overcome.

How should I proceed?

[Darkspleen]

@Terminal Rewrite what you need to for the post to make sense, but let's get something up by Wednesday at the absolute latest. I'll be poking at the interest check tomorrow to see if I can wrangle up anyone to join in the West. That said I can't really guarantee anything in relation to any history that they'll want to have, though I will push for things that make sense given pre-existing countries in the area.

So I guess the short version is: Don't mention those two points too much in your post if you can get away with it.

[Sigma]

Next post is coming up soonish I hope. If not, possibly the next day.

[Goldeagle1221]

The Myth of the Thorned King

In the age of myth, before the birth of the nation of Hyrkos, there was a vast spread of a certain culture lost to time. Many leaders lead different clans and tribes of these people and one in particular was a kind lady, admired as a queen among her people. She was young but capable and loved her people as her own children, so much so that her innocent kindness caught the attention of a stray hunter one day.

Drawn by her compassion he spared his game and spent the night in her rose gardens in mirth and joy, discussing how they each saw the world. This went on for many weeks, the hunter would abandon his kill, and find solace in her rose gardens and within her voice, but his own tribe grew restless. They accused her of sorcery, claiming she had corrupted the mind of the young hunter. The hunter ignored his family and continued seeing her, although they had formed a secret code of when and where to greet each other to avoid the eyes of those filled with hatred: she would pluck a rose from her gardens and leave it in the meeting spot, usual around one of his hunting routes, to which he would then follow the pedals to his beloved.

The tensions between tribes grew and one day he found the rose laid upon the autumn leaves, it’s flower cut off and only the thorns to remain. His heart pounded and he followed the pedals with haste, only to find his lover kidnapped. He ran to her people and organized a raid. Together with her people he abandoned his own to rescue her, and after a long and bloody fight, he managed to escape with her in his arms, however she was not well. Broken hearted at the loss of her people she was destined to die that night. She shared her last words and final kiss with her lover, leaving with him only the wish that he take her mantle and protect her people for all of time in her place as she was prepared to do. They sealed their pact as she handed him the lost flower to the thorny stem he had kept from the mutilated rose. The thorns pricked his thumb and he watched a droplet of blood form as the life faded from the eyes of his beloved, and their seal was pressed in both of their blood. This is the birth of the Thorned King.

Out of love it is rumored he is granted immortality, as with each death of his, a child is found, and the child is found to be his, motherless yet bearing all of his memories and emotions. For thousands of years this recurred, with each death of the Thorned King, a new one, same as the last appeared as a child, only to grow old and be replaced. Truly he keeps his pact with his beloved, although this is all myth now and who is to say what lies behind the dark robes and metal mask of the Thorned King? What lies under the great crown of thorns, or past the breastplate he so often wears, is it truly the broken heart of the hunter? Or a fable to justify thousands of years of immortal rule? Either way, this is the tale of the Great Thorned King.