[OOC] The Witcher: The Second Conjunction

[VKAllen]

I edited my post slightly to reflect the screaming.

[rivaan]

There we go~

[NecroKnight]

@Jones Sparrow

Here is my char, ready to be judged.

My Char

"We humans are bastards - we dislike and outmost hate those, whom are different than us. But then, what does that make us?"

Name: Yuna - "Blind Maiden"

Age: 130, around 30s

Race: Witcher

School: School of the Manticore

Bio: Yuna grew up in the East, where customs and cultures were much more exotic and alien - that the ones in the North and South. Her journey in the School of the Manticore was similiar to many other Witcher schools. Namely trained in the arts of bladefighting, poison, monster-hunting, tracking and so on. The agenda of the Manticore was however different - namely compared to the other Schools, they placed less emphasize on the monetary and more on the spiritual aspect.

What mattered wasn't doing the job or getting paid - it was the hunt and the satisfaction of slaying the creature. Namely they had been taught to utilize more of their slain prey - beyond a simply trophy or leg - as such, gathering coin wasn't as needed, since they could easily get-by mostly with their hunted creatures.

In addition to everything, Manticore's were taught to be more cunning and less visible than most. Since it was realized long ago - how hostile the commoners or Kings could become against those of non-human appearance. It didn't aid the situation either, of being perceived as cold mercenaries for their future legacies either. Witchers like Yuna, were taught to blend in with the crowd.

Yuna herself took on a meek appearance - as she had sealed her eyes behind linen cloth, that gave her the appearance of a blind woman. This was partly true, as the cloth she used was enchanted by magic - allowing her to see through easily, while keeping the appearance of a blind one. It helped her in many ways - since Witcher eyes were an easy give-away, she could blend in better. Switching between a warrior and a blind traveller whenever needed.

When the Purge happened - Yuna, instead of fighting like many others, simply stepped to the side and walked away. The School of the Manticore had been elusive and mysterious - and there wasn't any need to draw attention to it. Yuna simply left the carnage and headed into the countryside - namely the outskirts, where small villages had been established and farther away from the fighting of men.

Yuna easily lived into her blind traveller persona, as Manticore's were never much for gathering prestige or infamy. Settling down with an older man for about four decades. Yuna' position was calm and a simple life - only broken when her husband had died and a week later the Second Conjunction happened. To which Yuna gathered her equipment and pulled on back her warrior persona - heading back to the North to slay the many new beasts that had come.

Personality: Yuna is much more friendly, than the average Witcher. Compared to the average one, she is much more open, talkative and understanding - being less cold and cynical than the others, with a slight philosophical quirk to her - often times appearing meek and shy, or forward and interactive. She is much more street-wise than many others - able to easily interactive with commoners and how to avoid any confrontations without bloodshed.

Weapons: Silver short-blade, Gwyhyr. Belt of bombs - puffballs and Zerrikanian suns. Several poisoned steel and silver daggers - hidden inside her coat and sleeves.

Family/Relationships: Yuna has had many friends over the years - her friendly and meek persona, being a more easier and relatable personality than that of a cold mercenary. She has atleast one friend, in each city in the North - and one even in Nilfgaard. She had taken several lovers of the years - and during the years of the Purge had even been married for about four decades - before her husband had passed away and she returned to deal with the Second Conjuction.

Other: Likes to be called pretty.

[VKAllen]

@NecroKnight If I may,

One possible way to make the character possible whilst retaining a good level of lore friendliness into the roleplay, you could say that she was trained under the School of the Cat, but found her moral alignments to not align with it. During her travels or when she became a full fledged witcher... She found notes which spoke of Merten and the School of the Manticore. She then sets out on a journey to join them and thus providing you with a possible solution.

[Kenaron]

Hey, for my first IC could I take the ptolight for a little while and be hunting something that leapt into town? Like stilishly falling onto the back of something, and that being the reason of the scream. Or does someone else or @Jones Sparrow have something in mind?

[Jones Sparrow]

@VKAllen@rivaan

It's the mystery of not knowing what the scream was for that will attract everyone! that's why I made it very vague at first XD

Honestly though, I was thinking about having newer creatures, like hybrids of different ones put together and that are smarter than the normal beasts that Witchers are used to. I thought it'd be fun to have everyone kinda struggling to fight these "kinda familiar" creatures, and then have the village kinda blame the Witchers for all of this.

Then, the confused Witchers would start asking questions, Rilden will tell them that this is the threat he was tasked to take up, and ask them to join him...

But with that said, that scream could be one of you guys I guess, but that wasn't the way I was going, but that scream could be a "false alarm" and then those creatures come in and attack...

I know that was a long explanation, but i hope that makes sense XD

@NecroKnight

As for your character, what everyone says is true... Even the part where there is very little known about the School of the Manticore. They might have had female Witchers, there's no real evidence of there not being one XD

So it's accepted!

@Kenaron

I know @ManoftheNorth was also thinking about starting something with that scream. I already discussed the plans for the scream above, so you guys can talk it out and see if you still wanna go with the scream, or whichever! We can all work around either option :D

EDIT: Also, freaking awesome posts so far! It's gonna be fun RP'ing with you guys!

[NecroKnight]

@Jones Sparrow

Yay. I get to troll the commoners and my fellow Witchers. =P

So. How can I start off? Post my character arriving at our location?

[Jones Sparrow]

Yeah. So Rilden (my character) made a fake bounty to attract Witchers and mages and anyone else, so that he could talk to them and try to get their help in the cause that Rilden is kinda forced to be in haha

[NecroKnight]

@Jones Sparrow

Uhmm. So just post arriving in the city?

[rivaan]

@Jones Sparrow Well in Scilla's case she's there jsut cause it's the most convinient medieval alternative of a leatherworking store xD As stated in her post she sees the whole job with the sylvan as pretty suspicious and wants to have nothing with it... at least until certain annoying witcher shows up that she had very brief meeting with on a ship while she was robbign said ship xD

[Jones Sparrow]

@rivaan

True, and if we want to improv other encounters in our posts we can hahaha, it'd be fun to have our characters just kinda get in the way of their objectives from time to time XD

[rivaan]

@Jones Sparrow She's gona be like:
Scilla:*Sees Rilden and recognizes him as he recognizes her* Ohh bloody krakens... *Tries to 180 degrees turns it and run away*

[NecroKnight]

@Jones Sparrow

*notice me*

[Jones Sparrow]

@NecroKnight

IM SO SORRY!!!

But yeah, that's what I said in the previous mention at you XD

[NecroKnight]

@Jones Sparrow

So I can post my character arriving at the village and heading towards the source of the scream?

[Jones Sparrow]

Yeah!! You're good to do whatever you want!

[Kenaron]

Well, then @ManoftheNorth! I choose you!

[VKAllen]

@NecroKnight Would you like to have a relation with my character Ferghus? He is similar in culture and theme.

[ManoftheNorth]

@Kenaron Go ahead and Pm me what you had planned, and I will do the same.

[NecroKnight]

@VKAllen

You mean in a loving relationship? =P?

Or in a simple friendly relationship?

In addition, her personality might differ from Ferghus - but all the more drama the better.