[OOC] Numenera: Stars of Glass

[Mortalya]

Welcome all to Numenera: Stars of Glass! Submit characters and ask questions here. All characters must be approved before entering play. If you are unfamiliar with the setting this thread will help or feel free to come to me with any questions.

RULES

• Standard Guild rules apply.
• Writing minimum of two paragraphs per post.
• Sexual and/or gruesome themes and imagery are not prohibited as long as no one is made uncomfortable.
• Characters must be at least somewhat humanoid. Between 3 and 9 feet. (Additional limbs are acceptable)
• Characters should be experienced and decently competent in their skill set. However, they are not gods.
• Characters should be no more powerful than a veteran hero or adventurer. You may be impressive, strong enough to tip a carriage with strain, or adept enough to manipulate gravity in your close proximity.
• Backstory has almost no limitations. As long as it makes sense for you to be involved in the story.
• You need not ask to submit a character. Go ahead!

Blank Character Sheet

Name:

Age:

Sex:

Type:

Descriptor:

Focus:
Explain Focus:

"I am a(n) Descriptor Type who Focus."

Appearance:

Backstory:

Character Sheet Key

Name: (Give your name)

Age: (Give your age)

Sex: (Give your sex)

Type: (Choose a Type.)

Glaive

Glaives are the elite warriors of the Ninth World, using weapons and armor to fight their enemies. Hunters, guardians, and soldiers could be glaives. Sometimes scouts, warlords, bandits, and even athletes are glaives.

Nano

Nanos are sometimes called mages, wizards, sorcerers, or witches by the people of the Ninth World. Nanosorcerer is also a common term, with their abilities referred to as nano-sorcery. Some claim to be the representatives of gods or other supernatural agencies. Whatever they’re called, nanos master the mysteries of the past to the degree that they seem to perform miracles. They tap into the numenera to alter reality or learn things that they couldn’t otherwise know.

Jack

Jacks are intrepid explorers and adventurers. They are jacks of all trades—hence the name—although the word also hearkens back to fables involving a wily, resourceful hero who always seems to be named Jack. Used as a verb, “to jack” means to steal, to deceive, or
to get out of a tight scrape through ingenuity or luck.

Clint

“Glint” is a term used in the Ninth World to describe anyone who’s good with people. This might be a positive thing: a diplomat, salesperson, performer, or charmer. Or it could carry a somewhat more negative connotation: a con artist, swindler, or charlatan.

Seeker

Seekers are explorers. When someone travels to an ancient ruin to recover a cache of numenera devices, that someone is very often a Seeker. In a world where most people spend their lives in a village not knowing what lies beyond the nearby hill or on the other side of the river, Seekers travel, explore, and discover.

~ Numenera Core Rulebook & Character Options 2

Descriptor: (Pick a one-word adjective that describes your character. examples: strong, charming, hideous, funny, sadistic, wealthy, etc.)

Focus: (Pick a verb that describes your character's abilities. This may be more than one word. examples: controls gravity, commands beasts, fights honorably, steals, etc.
Explain Focus: (What are your abilities that make your focus?)

"I am a(n) Descriptor Type who Focus."
(Fill in the blanks example: "I am a charming clint who seduces women." "I am an insectoid nano who reads minds." etc.)

Appearance: (Give what you look like)

Backstory: (Who are you?)

[Gisk]

Hm, I have a couple of ideas, I kind of want to see what other people come up with before I make one, so I can pick the idea that will fill a niche rather than make repeats.

EDIT so I don't flood the thread double posting. Can you tell us a little bit about the town of Omar, so we can come up with a reason our characters might be there?

[Gisk]

Name: Monarch-12

Age: 13 years awake, unknown when they were constructed.

Sex: none

Type: Glaive

Descriptor: Golem

Focus: Endure

Explain Focus: Mon’s android body is harder to break than squishy humans, and their internal power source never seems to run dry. They can take hit after hit, and never tire or slow down.

"I am a golem glaive who endures.”

Appearance

Face:

Clothes:

Backstory: The Monarch - 12 was created for a long forgotten purpose, by a long forgotten people. They were jacked by a numenera hunter, and sold to an affluent family, who kept them as a manservant. Having no active memories, Monarch learned all they know from them, including language and attitude.

A violent revolution freed them involuntarily, and monarch had wandered the earth ever since. They fell quite naturally into the trade of hunting numenera, but despite their freedom, they have never quite shaken the attitude of subservience that they picked up.

[Mortalya]

@Gisk Approved! This is great. Unique and fits beautifully into the setting.

[Gisk]

Oh, thanks, I'm relieved, actually. I'm new to the source material, so I'm glad I managed to capture it okay.

Is it allowed to already have some numenera/artifacts? I know we're supposed to be hunters for them. Any limitations on what they might be if we do?

Will we be making them up as we go, or will you tell us what/if we find things?

[Mortalya]

@Gisk Having numenera on you is allowed. The nature of what they do is up to you, as long as they aren't 'overpowered'. Even then, you can have a very powerful numenera device that only works once.

What do you want your numenera to be?

Note: In universe numenera that only work once are called cyphers; numenera that work multiple times are called artifacts; and numenera that do something weird and are practically useless are called oddities.
(Just in case it comes up)

[ColouredCyan]

Interested! Let me know what you think.

The Good Doctor CS

Name: Dr. Ashley "The Good Doctor" Jung
Age: 25
Sex: Male
Type: Seeker
Descriptor: Ruthless
Focus: Physical Perfection
Explain Focus: Ashley is a ruthless, knowledgeable doctor, particularly in the intergration of creature parts into human biology, and seeks new wonderful creatures to study and test in patients.

Appearance:
Draped in a long, elegant white labcoat which swishes resolutely as the good Doctor strides. Underneath Ashley usually wears a plain, professional shirt and a novelty tie to suit the occasion, to put his patients at ease. Sensible slacks held up with an unremarkable belt and very sensible shoes for trudging round the dark streets of Earth.

Natural golden blonde curly hair tied up in two messy buns with a tidied but still untidy fringe and long bangs. Healthy tan complexion from enjoying the outdoors a little more than most. Intelligent, dangerous look in dark, bespectacled eyes. At 5'8", a bit of a shorty, but still stands tall. Left forearm is fairly, but not greatly, inscribed with various low level white magic cantrips, all correctly annotated.The right arm has weird musculature but on closer inspection is very cleverly shaped mass of folded, twisting tentacles. Narrow shoulders perfectly contrast Ashley's impressively well developed chest and wide set hips.

History:
Typically one gives up practising medicine after loosing an arm, however Ashley was not so deterred. Civil War raged in a distant land, the rebels loosing heavily to the gold backed mercenaries of the Aristocracy. Their petty politics however did not interest Ashley, he was interested in something far simpler. War meant casualties, casualties meant bodies and bodies meant practice. In exchange for practice he would give the rebel doctors what they direly needed, education. It took years and the lives of many brave men to perfect his technique, but perfect it he did. The monster used was a vile abomination, but affixed correctly to an amputee greatly improved their quality of life and, according to the rebel leader, could give their lives again for the people of Drachma. Ashley didn't care much, he had a functioning arm back, multiple arms even, and was already too busy wondering what else he'd need to know how to replace or improve.

[Insert Alias]

I'm new to Rp's is my character adequate?

[Ardent Debater]

@Mortalya

Elijah Verum, Harbinger of the Cleansing Flame

Name: Elijah Verum, Harbinger of the Cleansing Flame

Age: He's in his mid-forties, though the years haven't yet taken their toll.

Sex: Male

Type: Glaive

Descriptor: Fanatical

Focus: Frenzied Assault
Explain Focus: He works himself up into a frenzy during battle, ignoring pain and fatigue, and enhancing his strength far beyond normal limits, though he lacks restraint, finesse, and precision.

"I am a Fanatical Glaive who unleashes a Frenzied Assault."

Appearance: He's a muscular, thickset, and imposing man, his completely bald body is covered in burn-marks, jagged scars, and intricate tattoos, most of them relating to the sun, heat, or fire in some fashion. He is barefoot, clad in poorly-stitched robes, and wears a golden sun on a chain around his neck. He wields a two-handed greatsword and a rather large knife is sheathed on his belt.

Backstory: Elijah is a humble man, who has seen the Light of Sol, and seeks to bring His Justice to the monsters and marauders of the world, and to smite all those who seek to bring about the Eternal Darkness. Over the years, his Holy journey has led him to many places, alongside many people, and as of late, to a small town called Omar.

[Mortalya]

@Ardent Debater Approved! No group is complete without someone who rages.

[Mortalya]

@ColouredCyan Approved! A doctor that is not a nano! I like it!

@Insert Alias Also approved! Character submissions go in OOC, then Characters once they're approved. (No worries though, all is well.)

[Ardent Debater]

@Mortalya Great, I can hardly wait to get started.

[ColouredCyan]

@Mortalya I'll take 2 random Numenera for now, however I have an idea for a Numenera that my Seeker could seek for (whether or not she finds it doesn't matter much). A plain sowing needle with a magic golden thread that joins objects that have been sown together seamlessly when the thread is cut. Obviously designed for creating high quality garments in an era of great excess, Ashley considers this a waste of its potential.

Are you inventing our random choices or are we expected to come up with somethings? I hope that you are so I can experience the true wonder of your character's shop, but understand if you aren't.

[Mortalya]

@ColouredCyan The random numenera will be 'chosen' by me. I do really like the needle idea! It's cool and a good arch.

[Gisk]

Play by post being weird the way it is, I left in a place where Elijah could be speaking. I can edit the post if necessary, but I figured that given the chance he would probably talk about his god.

[Ardent Debater]

@Gisk Many thanks, that he would.

[Peaceless]

Heyo. This is interesting.

Here is my application:

Engine

Name: Engine
Age: 50ish
Sex: Construct

Type: Jack
Descriptor: Curious
Focus: Builds Wondrous Devices

"I am a Curious Jack who Builds Wondrous Devices."

Engine is able to use most of what she finds to cobble together various techno-magical solutions to her problems. Some of these solutions make sense, others seem to work via some hidden will. Much like herself.

The more complicated the solution, the more time and various exotic parts it requires.

Appearance:

Image

Engine appears to be a living pile of driftwood and stone that somehow resembles a humanoid and moves by itself. Her ability to animate matter and technology hints at the fact her existence isn't limited to the physical components of her body. Despite her crude appearance, Engine's movements are fluid and graceful, as her various parts dance together to her will.

Backstory:
Despite being a force of pure multidimensional chaos, it is rare for the Iron Wind to create life where there is none. Nevertheless, a pile of wood woke some years ago, and began drifting, searching for sense and purpose. It studied animals at first, then human settlements, and was lucky to be discovered by scouts when it had already learned to control at least some of their language. At this point, by some strange unconscious process, it had come to resemble them.

Once deemed safe, the creature looked for immediate purpose within the settlement. Its sustenance was raw matter, and the quality of its physical form determined by its quality. It thus only made sense for it to find work with craftsmen, and sometimes alchemists. And for the longest time, it - she settled down, given the name of Engine by the older, smarter children.

But no one can avoid wanderlust forever, in the 9th world.

[Peaceless]

@Mortalya Did I murder this RP?