[OOC] Fractured [ Action | Adventure | Airships ]

[Lucidnonsense]

looks interesting.

[fishguy]

@fishguy We will get along swimmingly hahahaha.

@MalecBanewood

ho ho ho be careful, im a piranha, i bite

[ThirdHourIII]

<Snipped quote by MalecBanewood>

ho ho ho be careful, im a piranha, i bite

@fishguy

Don't threaten them with a good time...

[Torn]

@Jacobite and @Sylph: For your consideration - my adapted character!

Henric Mellowstone

Henric Mellowstone

^{Gentleman pirate with a love of all things technical.}

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Master Henric "Henry" Mellowstone, A.K.A. Tech-rick

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31 years, 17 at sea!

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Yes. I mean, male.

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Gekkō, son of an information peddler and a local "working woman". Has a second home in Hidōshuu, a small smugger's island not far from Tsukuyo.

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Old salt, what can I say? He has along, raven-black hair typically tied back in a ponytail, and takes great care with his appearance - always neatly trimmed mustache and beard. He typically wears a sort of vest or cuirass made from scales of an alloy that is one of his professional secrets. Beside this, he tends to wear sturdy boots and gloves, made from leather and with plenty of hidden pockets for gadgets and small weapons, and sturdy, easy-on-the-eye clothes made from wear-resistant fabric. He also tends to wear a bandolier, as he has both sidearms and long arms he uses in fighting. His belt carries his swords and four duelling pistols, as well as a number of pouches for equipment.

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Henric is, to all intents and purposes, an absolute oddball. Eccentric to the max, this old pirate thirsts for three things in life: Knowlegde, excitement, and the unknown! Okay, there -is- a lot more to him, but on the surface, that's all he shows to those who are not in his closer circles.

In reality, Henric is a very inquisitive man. Despite having zero magical talent, he has a keen interest in the theory, and possible applications of magic in real life. He is also very much a realist - he will not pursue a good cause just because it is good, but will consider how feasible it is. Mostly, this makes Henric an explorer - an explorer of land and sky, an explorer of academia, an experimenter with gadgets and gizmos. He plans to forge his legacy in steel and stone - or whatever fancy material he's destined to invent or discover.

He is not above doing something for personal gain, as his years as a pirate will attest. More often than not, he does something for his own sake. However, fighting the good fight or promoting the good cause is often a challenge, something this perpetually bored man will welcome more often than not. This all makes him a rather unlikely philantropist, but at least he usually gets the job done.

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● Sailing & navigation
● Engineering (particularly metallurgy)
● Well-versed gunslinger

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While Henric is capable of many feats of chemistry and science, acrobatics and combat, Henric has zero magical powers, can barely roast meat on a stick over a fire, and is absolutely terrible at stealth, at least compared to other pirates. He is also not blessed with a particularly hardy constitution or heavy armour, so he won't survive long in a prolonged battle.

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Henric, as stated earlier, was born the son of an information peddler in Gekkō, to a woman in one of the city's places of ill repute. Despite the nature of his conception, Henric knew the love of both parents his entire life, and was quick to pick up on his parent's bartering and information collecting skills. He also grew adept at making these bits of information fall into place in relation to one another, soon learning the art of blackmail as well. He was always bookish, as reading and understanding was paramount to his success in his father's profession, but got bored in his teenage years and decided to take aboard a ship.

For six years he was a swabbie, then a deckhand, then a midshipsman aboard a pirate vessel. There, he learned the ropes of an airship and how to use force to get what he wanted. He'd often claim books taken in a raid as his share of the spoils, always eager to expand his knowledge. However, during his sixth year of pirating, henric grew tired of the gig - he felt it lacked refinement and grandeur - and moved on to other exploits.

He travelled around for a time as a tinkerer, buying broken things, repairing them en route to the next town, and reselling them at a profit before repeating the process. During this time he grew highly adept at working metals, and particularly clockwork and machinery.
This went on for another four years before Henric turned to yet another way to pass his time - pirate hunting.

Yes, Henric went on to shamelessly hunt the very pirates of which he had once named himself a number. He took hire as airship engineer aboard an imperial pirate hunting vessel, and spent five years honing his abilities as a sailor, inventor, and fighter. The crew would occasoinally take smuggling jobs on the side, low-key like, to earn some extra scratch.

Peddling his inventions and providing his services as a tinkerer in various ports eventually earned Henric enough money to buy a ship of his own - a cutter, large enough to serve as a floating, sailing workshop. Captaining this ship for the last two years, Henric has turned a sweet profit, divided and tied up in real estate and various enterprises around the Empire, and beyond.

Recently, however, with the urge to explore the unknown, came a need for sailors of daring, skill, and innovation to overcome the challenges of the hitherto unknown. Henric being Henric, he jumped at the chance to be the airship's resident engineer when invited, docking his ship and preparing immediately, sending his perplexed and overworked apprentices to practise their crafts in the unforgiving world.

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Let's make this short, shall we? Fame, glory, excitement, book publishing rights. Yes, he really expects book publishing rights.

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- 2 cutlasses
- 4 duelling pistols
- Scalemail vest (secret alloy)
- Matchlock rifle
- Canteen
- Light-filter goggles w/ magnifiers (UV, binocular and magnifying glass)
- Rope
- Engineer's multitool
- Lockpicks
- Notebook and pen
- Flare gun, canisters
- Knife (Wristguard sheath)
- Sturdy gloves w/ steel wristguard
- Sturdy boots w/ steel shinguard
- Bandolier with ammo

[Jacobite]

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[MalecBanewood]

@fishguyi can handle it.

@ThirdHourIII That makes me sing Panic at the Disco....

[Counter Coup]

Aside from humans, are there any other known races? Or at least are there any we could choose from?

[Jacobite]

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[Counter Coup]

@Jacobite lol you do have a point.

Anyway, just wanted to flesh out my character concept and get some comments to make sure I'm not doing anything that wrong. I'm going for a middle-aged physician/scholar who focuses on medicinal arts who's regretful of the career path he had went with. Unfortunately, wealth and health didn't go hand in hand. To make up for lost time, he wants to travel on the North Wind to search for materials and ingredients he could use to create novel medicinal products. And maybe, if it exists, the legendary Panacea. He plans to sell everything though.

[Jacobite]

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[Malchivo]

I'm currently watching Fairy Tale with my brother, I'll work on a character after.

@Jacobite while you aren't reviewing characters are you available to answer some questions? And if not when would be a good time?

[Solo]

@Malchivo

There's a Co-GM too! You can probably ask @Sylph if she's around. 8-)

[Malchivo]

@Solo Thank you Solo, I just noticed myself that there was. I glanced everything over rather than read in depth since as mentioned in spending time with my brother.

[Sylph]

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[Malchivo]

@Sylph@Jacobite Well the first and most important question is how long does it take, on average, for an academy trained wizard to become skilled?

[Sylph]

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[Malchivo]

@Sylph That is what I had thought. Typically when an academy is involved the training is years rather than something simple. It doesn't disuade me in the slightest. It would be unwise for a voyage such as this to be undertaken without a mage present.

[Counter Coup]

@Sylph Since questions are being asked, I might as well join in. I was just wondering, is there any known scholarly institutions for those who choose to study non-magical arts? Maybe a guild for alchemy, herbalism, or anything medicinal? Or am I free to just contribute and make my own? Thanks!

[ThirdHourIII]

I'd also like to know what high fantasy renaissance entails for technology level. I'm assuming magic helps a variety of mundane tasks but it seems like mages are quite rare.

@Sylph@Jacobite

[Sylph]

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