[OOC] The Kingdom of Belvoir - Hunter's Guild (Taking Applications)

[LordLinguinie]

Actually, the wyrms are more of the giant desert worm monsters, i.e. Tremors

example

[Excal]

Well *&@!

[LordLinguinie]

You guys will mostly be fighting the cultists, but that's much farther down the line, so don't even trip dawg, you'll all probably be dead before then ;)

[Zelosse]

Got wrapped up in some rl business so i havent had a chance to do anything. Ill try to post in a bit

[Migyudon]

Alrighty~ I've acquainted myself enough to give a rocky-rough draft of my character. This will note all of the pertinent information you will need to know about her, and then I'll add more info once I get your input regarding her.

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"Silica"

Hunter’s Name:
Age: 25
Appearance: She likes to wear minimal protective clothing, as armor will only hinder her both in swiftness and in sense: her two important assets. Any more than her pauldrons and greaves could prove to be noisy.

Armored Look

Weapon of choice: Bow and Arrow
Armor of choice: Pauldrons, Greaves and Chestplate. Everything else is leather or cotton
Strengths/Abilities:

1.)Tracking: Can use the environment to find runaways, or locate monsters (tree bark scratches, pieces of cloth, blood trail.) Without sight, she more heavily relies on her other heightened senses. Mostly her hearing. She cannot see a sword coming at her, but the twang from its sheath could easily give it away. She can also somewhat distinguish smells, although regular human capacity would still call it sub-par to tracking dogs.
2.)Hunter's Training: She has extensive experience as a hunter/tracker. Since sensing the environment for giveaways and clues often relied on hearing sounds and examining clues left behind (touching, smelling, tasting), she can still completely apply her training. Part of this training is to live off the land, so she can not only hunt monsters but also scour for food and water.
3.)Trapping: As a disabled hunter, she relies on traps and the like more heavily. Her tactics rely on disabling the other's senses to give her the advantage. She is known to hunt her targets at night.
4.)Nerves: Part of being a tracker is to calm oneself. She exhibits steel senses, both in action and patience. If she could, she would wait for her target to come to her, or fall into her traps. Suffice to say: Silica is not meant for a fair one-to-one, although she could hold her own if needed.
Weaknesses/Hindrances:

1.) Blindness: She cannot see. This in itself is already a major disability, and she tries to make up for it with her other senses. Due to a hunting accident in the past, she has lost her eyesight permanently. The condition of her eyes, defined as a "cold, glassy stare" had earned her the moniker of "Silica"
2.) Frailty: Silica is.. a woman. Despite her senses and wit, her physique is not much to behold. In a fight for strength, she will almost always lose-- however a woman aiming a bow at your chest is still something to fear.
3.) Endurance: Her stamina allows for quick bursts of energy, more so if it's a long walk-- but don't expect her to run a mile and a half continuously.
4.) Swordplay: She is meant for a bow, not a sword. Silica fights with a dagger up close; her frame does not allow her to wield anything bigger than a short sword.
Personality:
History: Silica was not born blind. She hails from a family of hunters. Her father, and mentor, decided that his life would not permit to wait out Silica's hunter training. Where their line of hunters traditionally is raised at age 15, she instead started at 10. Due to this, she was trained to track and hunt instead of the formal bow training first-- she would have to learn that at 15 like all the other hunters in their line.

By age 15, she had been an adept trapsman and tracker, easily outperforming even some professionals. Children learn quickly, and master even quicker. The knots and mechanisms of a proper snare was like a language to her, fluently written by her hands and exclaimed by the creatures that she captures. Her skill would only improve through the years.

Her favourite snare was of her own invention: Fowler, she would call it. The trap was meant to immobilize creatures by spraying them with hogweed essence, an irritant that would render the skin to feel burning. Mostly, her targets would be sprayed at the side, making them itch at first. (The motion made them look like a chicken flapping its wings, which is why the trap is called fowler) She also keeps a remedy with her to 'cure' the irritant before it completely burns through the skin. Silica never used this trap without being nearby-- as the consequences would be dire.

After learning to trap, she then starts her training as a bowman, now having the baseline build for a short hunting bow. Five years later, she 'graduates' as a hunter, tuned to a bow, and even more mastered at tracking/ trapping.

At 20, and on her thirteenth hunt, she was tasked to locate a runaway prisoner. Silica did not intend to hurt the prisoner at all. Her task was to track and bring him to custody, so that's what she aimed to do. However, a scuffle ensues as she was tying the man for round up, having her fall into one of her traps. It would have been safe, if it hadn't been for her falling face first into a fowler trap. She scrambled to get the remedy and quickly have the irritant off her-- but the damage has been done.

She opens her eyes and sees nothing. She tried putting the remedy directly into her sockets-- still nothing. It was then she realized just how catastrophic this trap may be. It was humiliating to fall for one's one trap, but it's completely different to be permanently disabled by it. Silica became an object of ire for some time.

Her skin would heal from the burns, but her eyesight never came back. It took her another three years to regain a fraction of the prowess she had attained as a fully-capable tracker, and another two years to hone the skills unhindered by her disability.

Now, she's ready to face the world again-- as a full-merit hunter.

[Zelosse]

A trapper? Thats my territory D:

Shes gun take muh jurb

[Migyudon]

@Zelosse Consider her more of a tracker!

I just needed a proper context to set in the Fowler plot point. I wont play her as a wait and see kind of character I assure you ;)

Pun intended.

[Zelosse]

.... you're alright.

[Nymeria]

@Migyudon That sounds good to me! I like the diversity we have on this group of characters. Go ahead and post in the character tab and you can start posting whenever. Although everyone is on an island right now but you can find a way to get your character there if you want.

[Excal]

@Zelosse Wait did you catch the monster attack that happened or youre saying Davos is waiting with Donnel for their critter to pounce.

[Zelosse]

@Excal he doesn't care that people are diein

[Migyudon]

@Nymeria I'm planning to just make an intro for now, show just what she's capable of doing on her own. ;)

Just a little teaser to entice you all <3

[Excal]

@Zelosse No I meant, cause the four creatures are up to us to use in our posts as we want, which critter you got. Theres one on the west beach, think the captain is there, two on the center beach, thats my char and Jericho far as I know, and one on the east beach, currently Iva, Donnel, and the girl in the rocks, plus you now.

So yall are gonna rp killing that one and I'm waiting to see what squeaky does before I kill a critter or will Davos react to either of the two on the center beach.

[Zelosse]

@Excal I'm gonna let Lucius wheel Davos into the current moment.

[Excal]

Awesome so we got Libe with Ani and Jericho now. Gonna wait for Jericho to post, but I kinda wanna have Ani kill the second critter to show off, but, nah, Ani will have her time.

Also:

She was trying to rally the other hunters, but even her own men seemed uninterested in her commands.

What what, her men are listening to her, its just the random brigands XD.

[SirSqueakalot91]

Sorry, got really busy last night at work. I’ll get a post up in the next few moments. Sorry again.

[Migyudon]

@Nymeria@LordLinguinie For sake of power levels, how many trained soldiers would you say it would take to hunt an ogre?

[Excal]

@SirSqueakalot91 Omfg I love it! Pfffahah. Whacks the fish with the gun XD and the trident!

@Zelosse Gavlon wheel, Gavlon deal ;).

Edit: I'll post in a bit.

2nd edit: Post up! And, yes, Ani is a dramatic show off.

Drama queen: Intoxicated by her newfound popularity, she never misses a chance to show off her "virtues", earning the resentment of many.

[LordLinguinie]

@Nymeria@LordLinguinie For sake of power levels, how many trained soldiers would you say it would take to hunt an ogre?

@Migyudon

We'll say it's dependant on the age and size of the ogre. The older the ogre, the larger and more difficult it becomes to kill. Infants are born bigger than most human children, and will surpass a full grown human in size before It's first birthday. It's all circumstantial, though maneuverability is key in being able to kill them.

[Migyudon]

@LordLinguinie thanks. That's all i need to know. I'll post intro soon~