[OOC] 𝙺𝚒𝚗𝚐𝚍𝚘𝚖 𝙳𝚎𝚊𝚝𝚑

[Poet]

Word count is not a competition. Don't feel intimidated. Everyone writes just as much as they feel they need to in order to say what they want.

[MegaOscarPwn]

Wooo, I did a thing.

Hopefully it was good.

I had Death Grips playing on the background, to inspire me :^).

[VeridianSeeker]

Wooo, I did a thing.

Hopefully it was good.

I had Death Grips playing on the background, to inspire me :^).

@MegaOscarPwn

Good? You hope it was good? Really? It was the best one yet! That was so good.

[Fetzen]

Damn it... now that I could post the weather turns bad so rapidly that my head breaks down. Hope to let my freight train character make his appearance as soon as possible though :/

[MegaOscarPwn]

@VeridianSeeker AWWWW SHUT UP YOU'RE JUST MAKING IT UP.

[Dusty]

Damn it... now that I could post the weather turns bad so rapidly that my head breaks down. Hope to let my freight train character make his appearance as soon as possible though :/

@Fetzen

Your head broke down...?

[VeridianSeeker]

Noo it was my favorite one so far. It had so much depth in such a small amount of time, but wasn't overwhelming at all and felt natural. It really established your character and I can't wait to read more. It soaked me in and now I'm invested. Like it felt like the beginning to a novel, established perfectly 10/10.

@MegaOscarPwn

[MegaOscarPwn]

Aw...I mean, I tried to make it as "dense" as possible so it didn't take too many scrolls of the wheel to read and all, and I was a bit afraid to put Carlos (the bastard) in since it wasn't really put in the backstory, but it is good that Fernando now has something to remind him of why he cannot really be lustful anymore.

>Though holy shit the maidens are gonna be tricky to resist.

[Fetzen]

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Your head broke down...?

@Dusty

Only metaphorically, of course. 'Just' a terrible headache and perceived inability to think about anything of significant complexity.

[MegaOscarPwn]

@Fetzen Aw, get better lad.

[Poet]

It seems like some of our other interested players have moved on to other things. Some notified me by PM, and they are welcome to join again at any time. I don't want to be obnoxious and tag people who haven't said much lately, so I won't.

Great introductions and first posts all around.

[VeridianSeeker]

And posted! @poet I hope that display of Hymn was up to code. If not, I can fix it/alter it.

[MegaOscarPwn]

He's a magic boi, I like him...I should probably start updating my vocabulary with more posh and medieval-esque words, since Fernando is supposed to be super-duper rich in that sense.

[TsarDev]

Nikolaus Hausle

_{N I K O L A U S H A U S L E}

Nikolaus was born within the city of Vienna in 1459. His parents moved out to the forested highlands of the Vienna Woods when he was just a toddler, barely learning how to walk at the time. Being raised within the Northeastern Foothills, he learned how to hunt and fish at a young age. He learned skills needed to live within the forests such as archery, skinning, how to hide within the forest, and tracking his prey amongst other things. At his mid-teens, there was a hunting accident that costed his father's life, and severely injured his left knee.
Crawling and limping on his back to the home, he would eventually reach his destination and come home to his mother. With Nikolaus, was his father's corpse whom he had dragged back with a sled. They set out for a nearby town where they had got care for his injuries from a local physician. Though, the care was only enough to treat it temporarily and to numb the pain with poppy seed. It eventually came to where they had to set out to Vienna once more, where he had fallen into bad habits within the next decades of his lives and his mother passed from illness; while he succumbed to addiction, he eventually killed for it, and had to yet again leave the city to the nearby forests.
Yet, out in those forests... he had his fate with steel and blood, falling into the snow. The white around him slowly turned into the crimson mirror, a reflection of a broken huntsman staring back at him when his crystal blue eyes gazed into the red. He drew his last breath, only to eventually reawaken into the purgatory and hell that had fallen upon the world.



Nikolaus found that his addiction and want was great for the 'Milk of The Poppy', practically lusting for it. That lust and gluttony with the substance, would lead to his eventual wrath. Anger. Not only did he kill in order to get more of the opium. But he also killed those who held it out of anger, for creating and causing him to have such a need. For making him 'weak'.

• Past addiction to Opium and can easily fall back into the habit. Temptation.
• Scarred appearance. (Half of his body is burned, creating a rather grotesque and deformed sight. Disgusted, untrusting, and negative reactions from others are quite normal for him.)
• Injured knee. (Caused by the hunting accident that costed his father's life, he has had to adapt due to the mauling of his knee. It limits his maneuvering and speed, such as mantling or sprinting. It is also a rather weak spot for him, taking a hit or two in the knee can severely injure Nikloaus.)
• Past of violence haunts his dreams and waking nightmatres. (He essentially daydreams and has episodes, seeing those who from his past haunting him, and it seems all so very real. Vivid even. To the point where he can't separate nightmare from reality and often not, it will detach him from reality. If a guard from the nightmare stabs him or something similar, he will FEEL it happen, and sometimes his body will have a reaction. Shock of sort, due to his mind not being able to separate reality and fiction.)

• Skilled knowledge in ranged and small arm melee weaponry. (Bows, longbows, and crossbows would account for his knowledge in ranged weaponry. Smaller blades such as swords and daggers account for the melee weaponry. Sometimes the occassional hatchet but most of his skill relies on the ranged.)
• Talented tracker and hunter. (If it leaves a physical mark, print, blood, et cetera--he can track it. He grew up learning how to track and find prey in the woods, along with anyone who may have gotten lost. Most of his skill is in tracking animals, but realistically, it can probably be applied to anything that leaves that physical mark.)

Distribute 25 points. Maximum of a Virtue is 10. All Virtues begin at 0.

• Violence: 5 (+1 from Male)
• Fortitude: 6
• Soul: 2
• Passion: 1
• Perception: 9
• Command: 2

Okay, sorry about the delay. IRL got really hectic there for a while and I just kind of got a break lol. Just posting this for one last review and then I'll stick it into the character tab. I had to make new links for the headers in order to fix it, because they were still broken on your original post, even when you remove the punctuation. @Poet

[Nib]

I will try to get a post up by Friday hopefully. Monday at the latest though.

[Poet]

@VeridianSeekerIt was on point. But I think we will go with a 'chameleon' effect for invisibility hymns, or 'hidden body' as it is called in the Dark Souls games. It's the same effect, but you are slightly visible if someone or something focuses on you enough. So, I'll think on his this will work, exactly. That is, the rules for it.

Can you list make a short, short summary of the 'ingredients' for this ritual and post it here? I know you described it in the post, but you are more or less the creator of it now. And then we'll add everything to the 'Ritualism' section of the OOC.

@TsarDev
Yeah, I don't know what to do about those links. They refuse to function with code tags.

Just remove this from the sheet and you're good to go: Distribute 25 points. Maximum of a Virtue is 10. All Virtues begin at 0.

[Poet]

Update
I'll post small fluff pieces every now and then, or pieces that tell the (or a) story away from the main characters. You don't have to react to these post in-character. Just consider them random 'lore' additions, perhaps, with some images of related or unrelated things.

[MegaOscarPwn]

Should we set up a turn order now that we basically have everyone interested? And whoever joins later, can post after the last one and so on.

[Poet]

@MegaOscarPwnTurn orders are good if everyone in such rotation are active. The second one falters, the whole chain falls apart. I think this is something that we can establish once we've gotten further into the roleplay. We're barely a week old.

[MegaOscarPwn]

Fair enough, I think I'll wait for a couple more posts until I can interact with the maidens inside the shrine, maybe see the Vicar before the other seekers...