[OOC] Quills and Swords

[TipsyonTea]

Between the Kingdom of Dawn and a neighbouring village lies a signpost, and a path.
[The Adventurer's Guild]

It's a little off the beaten track, but few in the kingdom could mistake where it lies. A group of adventurers known for their audacity as much as their strength--their oddities as much as their kindnesses.

Members join for many reasons. Renown, profits, or companions to fight with. It's said whatever you're seeking is possible beneath the guild emblem.

Whether you find it is up to you.

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Welcome

This is an open world, adventure style rp. There are a few rules regarding character creation, but race, magic, and the history of the land are free to build upon (within reason).

Currently looking to accept three or so players to start. Decisions will be based off character sheets; not necessarily first come first serve.

@Beetlebug is my collaborator in this, and credit for the affinity symbols go to him.

Rules:
1. RESPECT THE LORE.
- Specifically, the histories and explanations people create throughout the rp.
- Do not change something without first discussing it with them.
2. Do not timeskip quests—though things like walking and sleeping are fine.
3. Main characters are to be a part of the guild or intending to join.
- Cannon fodder enemies are fine.
- Ask if you have an idea for an antagonist.
4. Unless you are Platinum or Mythril rank, you cannot do a quest solo.
5. If your character is discovered to have killed someone without sanction, they will be tried for murder by the kingdom.
- The Adventurer's Guild are responsible for 'upholding the peace' (though they have a reputation for being troublemakers). Any actions that disrupt the general public will damage the guild's reputation.

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The Kingdom of Dawn

Guilds:
The Adventurer's: Best known for wreaking havoc wherever its members try to help. It was founded by the original Guildmaster as a way to avoid restrictions on abilities placed by the royal guard, and has been a thorn in the nobility's side ever since.

Shops: N/A

Other:
The Royal Guard: Serve the rulers of the kingdom, as well as keep peace within the general public. -Dislike the troublemaking Adventurers.

[The One]

@TipsyonTea I have a few ideas. What sort of races are allowed? I am guessing only one character per person? Are lalafell allowed?

[DarkShadowWolf]

I’ll make a character today or tomorrow.

[Headhunter]

Sounds fun. Will there be any more lore entries about the world, kingdom, history, etc.?

[TipsyonTea]

Reminder we're only accepting three people to start; based of character sheet suitability over first come first serve. I'll do my best to have an example sheet up today, though you guys are free to post yours before then.

@The One
Any sort of race. Can be common ones like elves and dwarves, but also original species if you feel so inclined. Obscure mythology is a favourite of Beetle's. It'll be one character to start, though definitely more will be allowed down the track. And depends; what are Lalafell?

@DarkShadowWolf
Awesome!

@Headhunter
Ahahah, Beetlebug is like 90% of my lore impulse control. There's plenty, let me assure you, but we kept it off the intro in favour of letting you guys create your own. More background will be introduced throughout the rp.

[Headhunter]

Lol awesome! I love reading about lore, but that’s kind of you to allow more creative liberties for the participants.

I’ll be brainstorming ideas for a character and wait your example sheet before getting to work on my own.

[Sedjwick]

This sounds like it could be fun. I've made a character. Let me know what you think of him.

Velu Edricsson

Appearance: Just shy of six feet tall with a slender build that is stronger than his appearance would lead you to believe. His skin is fair with a light olive tone to it without any visible blemishes or adornments. His hair is wood brown with a hint of red in it and is kept short and neatly trimmed. His eyes are leaf green and deeply set in his round, youthful face, which he keeps clean-shaven. His ears taper to slight points on the top, not prominent, but enough to be noticeable.
Name: Velu Edricsson
Race: Elf
Class: Red Mage (AKA Battle Mage)
Rank: Copper (New Recruit)
Affinities:
Earth

Water

Attributes:
Strength: Average
Intelligence: High
Agility: Average
Dexterity: Low
Constitution: Low
Resilience: Excellent

Brief Backstory: Velu was born and raised in the forest just outside the capital city of the Kingdom of Dawn. The elves of the forest, while techinically within the bounds of the Kingdom of Dawn, hold no loyalty to the kingdom or its rulers, which tends to lead to trouble when the people of the kingdom come into conflict with the elves of the forest as each will appeal to their own ruler for justice, and each ruler will almost invariably take the side of their own citizen. The enmity between the two kingdoms (for the elves consider themselves to be their own kingdom, though surrounded on all sides by the Kingdom of Dawn) is nearly as great as that which the Royal Guard have for the Adventurer's Guild. Within this climate, Velu tried his best to live as normal a life as possible, and that meant avoiding all contact with the citizens of the Kingdom of Dawn, which year by year seem to be encroaching further into the Elven Forest, be it for hunting or logging or adventure or some other reason. Unfortunately, this led to Velu confining himself to the innermost depths of the forest, which quickly became incredibly boring. Now, having grown tired of his mundane and sequestered life, Velu has left the forest, looking for what he has heard talk of among some of the people that ventured too far into the forest: The Adventurer's Guld, where he hopes to find just that, adventure.
Weapons: a light, but sturdy longsowrd
Abilities: Velu, like many of his brethren, was taught the use of the sword at an early age, due to the ever-present threat of conflict with the outside kingdom and the need many elves felt to defend themselves should this arise. Velu was a competent swordsman who has always trained hard, but his skill has begun to lose its edge from disuse.
Velu is also an accomplished mage. He discovered his talent for magic early on and trained with one of the local magi of the forest. Most elves specialize in magic related to the earth and the life that flows from, and ultimately returns to, it. Velu's affinities lie in the earth and the water that flows through and nourishes it. He uses this magic mainly in helping to prepare land for various types of work or in bringing forth water in times of drought. His ability to use his magic effectively in combat is currently untested. He also longs to learn more practical magic that can be used in combat, either offensively, or defensively - spells to attack, and spells to protect and heal.

@TipsyonTea
P.S. I hope it's alright that I don't have a picture. I find I'm much better at describing what my character looks like than trying to find a picture that looks like my character.

[Rhiven Knight]

I dropped a pm about the idea I had for my ideal character and depending on the response I will write up a sheet. Regardless of the response, I will be posting a character shortly after.

[Sanity43217]

Patches White Paw

Name: Patches White Paw
Race: Felis
Class: Paladin
Rank: Copper (new recruit)
Affinities: Light, Spirit (Body)

Attributes
Strength: Excellent
Intelligence: Low
Agility: High
Dexterity: Low
Constitution: Average
Resilience: Average

Brief Backstory: Patches White Paw is a kind and friendly Paladin, sent on a quest by his Clan Mother. He was tasked with helping end the curse that effects all Felis. You see, many Millenia who, Felis were known for their long live. This was because they in fact had nine. A Felis could live nearly a thousand years. But, for reasons unknown to historians, the Felis were cursed. Each life stripped back to a mere fifteen years. Now only living for a hundred and fifty years, the Felis were forced to adapt.
Now, Millenia after the cursing, Patches is the next in a long line of noble warriors to carry on the quest for returning the lives of Felis.
Only half way through his second life, he has done little of note. He has decided to join the Adventurer’s Guild in search of allies and training.
Weapons: A battered long sword resized for use of the Felis. Work plate armour that belonged to his predecessor.
Abilities: Patches is an accomplished swordsman. Despite his small stature, he is agile enough to level the playing field against opponent of normal height. Coupled with his affinity for Spirit (body), Patches’ fighting style is very similar to Yoda’s in Revenge of the Sith.

[TipsyonTea]

@Headhunter
Looking forward to reading your character sheet.

@Sedjwick
Awesome! Velu looks good. And np, written descriptions are welcome.

@Rhiven Knight
Responded!

@Sanity43217
Aww, Patches is adorable. Tiny paladin!

[Dark Light]

@TipsyonTea

Still a little bit to tidy up.
Can we lower our attributes a step to raise a different one? I’m interested in being more well rounded. Alternatively could we have a different attribute bundle to pick from?

Arden Thorn

Name: Arden Thorn (Arverisden Tharuen -Elven)
Race: Elven
Class: Fire sword
Rank: Silver
Affinities: Fire (red) Spirit (body)

Attributes

Strength: Average
Intelligence: High
Agility: Average
Dexterity: Average
Constitution: Average
Resilience: Average

Brief Backstory: An Elven lord of royal blood. A distant descendant too far removed to be noticed as a candidate for the throne, and too uninterested to care. Many opportunities were thrust upon him, an excellent education, ownership and business paths, political careers, oversite and education. But none of those fed into his great wander lust, his sense of thrill seeking adventure and most importantly, his need for purpose. That need to know he was helping people and making the world a better place.
Weapons: Sword and Golden Armour
Abilities: A skilled swordsman, he was professionally trained. His style is one of skilled calculation over brute force, knowing his limits and studying/reading his opponents he uses momentum and balance to out wit his enemy. His magic, as if personifying his personality, the manifestation of his will and determination, is flames that lick his body and/or weapons. He throws this fire around to gain combat advantage or uses the energy to enhance his speed and strength.

[Headhunter]

Took me awhile to get the hang of formatting... Also got a little too involved in the backstory. So much for brief. I hope this is okay. Still need to find an unmasked/unarmored pic. I’ll update when I make up my mind.

Edit: Added unarmored pic and reduced his rank to Copper.

Mercutio, The Onion Lancer

Name: Mercutio

Race: Dracolvian
Class: Onion Lancer
Rank: Copper
Affinities: Water & Wind

Strength: Average
Intelligence: Low
Agility: High
Dexterity: Excellent
Constitution: Low
Resilience: Average

Brief Backstory:

Secret History

He hails from The Hurricane Hills, a distant peninsula in the southwest that is home to a small Dracolvian community. It is here where the finest Dragoon Lancers are forged by harsh storms and even harsher masters. Becoming a Dragoon Lancer is a high honor in Dracolvian society, but he did not view it as such. To the young lizard, it felt like a regular job forced upon him for the sake of family reputation. So while he developed a natural talent as a Lancer, his jokester attitude showed lack of ambition. The masters did not think fondly of his ideals, and decided to teach him a lesson for desecrating their institution.

The masters sent him out to sea for a ‘special’ mission, and unbeknownst to him, was set for a course towards a violent sea storm. By the grace of the Winged Starlights, he somehow survived. Mercutio was rescued by a ship of self-proclaimed Poet Pirates. However, he sustained a concussion that gravely affected his memory...

Mercutio sailed with the vivacious Poet Pirates for as long as he can remember. Unfortunately, the dracolvian has no recollection of his past. Heavily influenced by the swashbuckling life at sea, he reinvented himself as a spear and net fighting adventurer. His time with the Poet Pirates eventually came to an end when Captain Consonance married a bard he’d secretly been dating. Overwhelmed with love, he decided to live happily ever after with her, disbanding the group, who all decided it was time to go about their separate ways.

Mercutio was sad about this sudden development. He thought their adventures were far from over, but the crew was old and weary. Truthfully speaking, they were looking for any excuse to retire from the pirate lifestyle (they were poets after all) but Mercutio’s story needed to continue. He needed to reclaim his past and find peace from it. Deep down inside he refused to confront this mysterious truth head on, but he obliged anyways.

What else was he going to do?

Mercutio said his goodbyes to the Poet Pirates on Captain Consonance’s wedding night, and set out on the open road the following morning (well, technically, the following evening, after he’d fully recover from partying). Alas, another adventure awaited him, but this time he’d do it alone.

The tasked proved to be difficult.

For starters, the name Mercutio didn’t come up on any dracolvian nesting registry. His non-traditional armor and weapons weren’t of high repute, and was even ridiculed for its comical design. Mercutio became a known laughing stock in the dracolvian communities as the Onion Lancer, a title which he proudly wears for some odd reason. After running into several dead ends, he eventually gave up. Alone and feeling empty inside, Mercutio continued to wander around in solitude. Then, he stumbled upon a beaten path, one that would lead him to a newfound purpose in life: The Adventure Guild.

Weapons: Halcyon’s Trident & The Kraken’s Net.

Abilities: Mercutio has the natural ability of a Lancer, fine-tuned through years of spearfishing and swashbuckling duels. He’s agile in most terrain, and amazingly accurate with the tools he uses. Mercutio credits the Sea Maiden Godling (a sailor’s myth he encountered in a dream before the Poets rescued him) for his affinity with wind and water. Usage of these elements is fairly limited. They allow him to jump high with controlled landings, and he can even speed dash in water, or on its surface, for very short distances.

He’s nowhere close to mastering or understanding these abilities, and often mistakes his attunement to them with his own natural instincts. Therefore, he believes these are inherent abilities, not some ‘hocus pocus haux-us’ as he calls it.

His armor was made by Poet Pirate Anaphora, a dwarf smith who modeled its design after The Legendary Sea Dragon Knight, a mythic hero among island dwarves.

[Headhunter]

Uh sorry, edited his unarmored pic one last time :)

[TipsyonTea]

Okie dokie. Depending on shifts, might have this arvo off (AEST+10). If so Beetle and I will choose who's starting and hopefully get an intro up.

@Dark Light
Sure thing. I picked a set bundle cause it was easier than trying to explain attribute distribution, but if you think a different, but still 'equivalent', set would work that is fine.
This applies to anyone else who wants to shift attribute levels. Like having three low, one average, two excellent. Or five average and one high.
-Hope it makes sense.

@Headhunter
Awesome! That's a wild bio indeed.

[Dark Light]

@TipsyonTea

Thanks, all done now :)
If I raise intelligence to Excellent in game, can I pick up the new flame color? Keen for some ig development and learnings :D

Arden Thorn

Name: Arden Thorn (Arverisden Tharuen -Elven)
Race: Elven
Class: Fire sword
Rank: Silver
Affinities: Fire (red) Spirit (body)

Attributes

Strength: Average
Intelligence: High
Agility: Average
Dexterity: Average
Constitution: Average
Resilience: Average

Brief Backstory: An Elven lord of royal blood. A distant descendant too far removed to be noticed as a candidate for the throne, and too uninterested to care. Many opportunities were thrust upon him, an excellent education, ownership and business paths, political careers, oversite and education. But none of those fed into his great wander lust, his sense of thrill seeking adventure and most importantly, his need for purpose. That need to know he was helping people and making the world a better place.
Not one for rules himself, he was quickly drawn in by the stories and reputation of the Adventurers guild. It sounded like a fun bunch to call family and so, soon after learning of them, he did.
Weapons: Sword and Golden Armour
Abilities: A skilled swordsman, he was professionally trained. His style is one of skilled calculation over brute force, knowing his limits and studying/reading his opponents he uses momentum and balance to out wit his enemy. His magic, as if personifying his personality, the manifestation of his will and determination, is flames that lick his body and/or weapons. He throws this fire around to gain combat advantage or uses the energy to enhance his speed and strength.

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[The One]

@TipsyonTea Basically, a Lalafell is just a small human.



For attributes, what do you consider low, average and high? Are we talking at around 1-10? Or 1-20?

[TipsyonTea]

MY APOLOGIES GUYS. I'M BREAKING MY PROMISE. I'm going to decide characters tomorrow morning.
@Leda @Gilgex @Rhiven Knight Any final character sheets should be put up before 10 am (AEST+10).

@Dark Light
Yep, excellent intelligence allows a character to choose their second type of flame.

@Sanity43217
Had a chance to look at character sheets in more depth. While Patches is cute, the 1000 year lifespan is too much. Rather than the lives being shortened, it would be acceptable that each life is fifteen years, and what the curse took was in fact the other eight lives. Patches removing the curse would then return to the Felis their 135 year lifespan and the ability to rebirth--a miracle granted by the light affinity.

[Beetlebug]

@TipsyonTea Basically, a Lalafell is just a small human.



For attributes, what do you consider low, average and high? Are we talking at around 1-10? Or 1-20?

@The One

Apologies, but why would you want to convert the attribute system to numbers? That seems to over complicate it. Low is low, average is average, high is high and so on, so forth.

[DarkShadowWolf]

Character Template

Appearance:


Name: Xar'on
Race: Orc
Class: Beserker
Rank: Gold
Affinities: Special: Beast Tamer and Spirit: Body

Attributes
Strength: Excellent
Intelligence: Average
Agility: Low
Dexterity: Low
Constitution: Average
Resilience: High

Brief Backstory: Xar'on has always been considered a monster. Orcs are meant to be brutally violent creatures and that is why people attack them without any thought thinking they are just that, monsters. She has had to fight to survive constantly and she has never held back. She has never considered herself 'evil' at most she has only considered herself morally questionable. While she loved battle she grew bored of the same old trend where somebody called her a monster, attacked and then she killed them. Xar'on decided to become an adventurer herself hoping that it would show everyone that she wasn't the monster everyone thought she was. Her goal was to hopefully make friends and have them realise she isn't as bad as everyone may think just because she is an orc.

Weapons: Just a large spiked club.
Abilities: Xar'on has been on her own for most of her life and it is because everyone sees her as a monster that she has had to train and defend herself constantly. Xar'on has never focused on any fancy skills or spells. She has always focused on brute force. She uses her spirit affinity to make her attacks stronger and deadlier. It helps her put more Oomph into her attacks and swings. For her Beast Tamer affinity, she has learned to connect with some of the 'monsters' of their world. She is able to tame large predators such as hunting birds, large felines and boars easily. She struggles to tame smaller animals due to her sheer size. Smaller beasts tend to be more fearful of her. While intelligent beasts know to stay clear of her or are too smart to be tamed.

[The One]

@Beetlebug Oh okay that makes it easy then.

@TipsyonTea So are Lalafell okay?