[OOC] Dungeon Clearer! The Wonderful World of an Adventurer

[Raineh Daze]

@Derg2 Please remember your password.

[Derg2]

let's not get ahead of ourselves

[Genon]

Dammit, I seem to have completely missed the sign-up period. Oh, well. I've learned not to get salty about these kinds of things. Next time, I guess.

[VitaVitaAR]

@ghastlyInc: Accepted.

[Genon]

@VitaVitaAR

Wait, if you just accepted someone, does that mean the game is still accepting after all, or am I reading this wrong?

[VitaVitaAR]

@Genon: There was a space that opened. ^^;

[Genon]

@VitaVitaAR

Oh, okay. Well, I'll leave you alone I guess. Or make a character for the waitlist, I don't know.

EDIT: Though if you do end up making one, may I please have access to the Discord server?

[Lunarlord34]

I never had my question answered, so here's what I call a crap excuse for a CS.

WIP

Age: 19

Gender: Female

Race: Human

Rank: 5 of Sword

Appearance:
Anemone shows little care for his appearance, often being seen sporting wild bouts of bedhead or covered in dirt from sleeping on the ground. She has a somewhat slim build, standing at 5'4 and weighing in at 140lbs, her magic making up for her lack of muscle.

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Personality:
Anemone is a lazy, unmotivated person who doesn't seem to care or feel much about anything or anyone besides herself. This isn't even due to her upbringing, it's just how she has always been. She never learned to manage money and thus has a horrible habit of splurging it all in one go, and is shown to get quite addicted to gambling which has lead to a lot of debts.

Due to her laziness, she has difficulties controlling her vast and powerful magic once it's unleashed. It's not uncommon for her to zip straight past a target, miss entirely or commit friendly fire. The biggest way to fire up her motivation to do anything is to remind her of how much money she is in debt, otherwise, she is prone to lounging around and rarely going on quests. She will eventually get going by herself, but it is far quicker this way.

She also prefers to either use all her magic in one front-on attack at full power or using it to zip around the battlefield in more a skirmisher role. Darting in, attacking, darting out.

Brief Backstory:
Anemone was born to a wealthy family of knights, her mother a more than a competent mage. The first and only born to her family name, she was raised with all the training and etiquette that accompanied her station....except she cared for none of it. At all. She made a habit of skipping out on lessons, though she did take some interest in some of the weapon training she was instructed in it wasn't long before she would become tired of the training half-way through the lesson and try to leave. She cared so little for it, she and her father were almost constantly arguing about it.

Instead, she preferred to nap in the shade under a nearby tree. Or just lounge around doing nothing, for you see she was unmotivated and would rather be doing sweet nothing, be peaceful rather than all these 3000 things her mother and father wished her to learn, to know, to become. As she got older, the worse she got at attending lessons. At a point, her father physically dragged her to lessons and would constantly yell at her to actually put in some effort. Naturally, this just made her less inclined to go along with this nonsense.

So after one heated argument, she packed her bags and ran away from home. It wasn't long before she got herself into trouble, however, as she had little to no idea how money worked. She had paid no attention to it because she hadn't needed to know before you know? So she was swindled out of her cash, and soon debts started piling up as she took large risks in gambling. Which would've been fine...if she was actually any good at it of course. So soon on the run from not only her own family but also the various loan sharks and the like after her, she eventually joined the Guild to try and pay some of these debts off. And you know, actually, put some of the skills she learned to something resembling use.

Equipment:
Fulgar: What she has named her three-pronged thingy. It allows her to channel electricity along it to empower her strikes and electrocute her foes.

Armour: What she has in the image. Idk why it's only like half-armor, anime logic.

Ordinary bow, sword, and some arrows.

Skills:
Weapon training: As part of Anemone's childhood growing up, she was trained to be at least competent with most weapons. Though she favors the sword, three-pronged trident/pike and longbow, she is best with the middle.

Hand-to-hand combat: She has received some training in this as well, though she loathes using these skills as it's far too much effort and if it comes to it will probably not even bother.

Lightning Magic: While she learned how to use weapons, she also simultaneously learned how to supplement those skills with lightning magic. Using it to charge her body, she can move faster, strike harder and even unload the electricity built up in her body into her targets or launch 'thunderbolts' from afar. Her magic, however, works much like a battery, so if hit by electric or lightning-based magic she will absorb it but can be overloaded. It also means that if she runs low on charge, she can suffer from lethargy. To charge, she normally has to stay still for long periods of time, so with her habit of wasting it all in one attack it can lead to some very awkward situations.

[Raineh Daze]

Magic... wouldn't work as a battery. And anyone will run out of mana is they expend everything.

Anyway, no bios are being accepted tonight as I'm currently focused on a world map. Hurrah, maps!

On the discord thing, generally I'm not a fan of having small groups where almost everyone is a total stranger, and it seems particularly redundant with having an OOC and PMs.

[Lunarlord34]

Hmm, will tweak the magic then when I get the chance. Have to get to work soon so will change it up a little when I get back.

[Heartfillia]

@Raineh Daze but that's why you make a discord so we CAN getti know each other silly. But I see where you're coming from. I personally like it because it's way easier for me to be in contact cause I don't get notifications for posts or pms on the guild.

But I can deal with that. Can't wait for the map thowoohoo!!!!!

[Raineh Daze]

And here we are, a world map:

Map

It's a really big image so it's nice it scales to fit.

[Heartfillia]

@Raineh DazeWow that's really goood!

[Raineh Daze]

I used this site. Still took a while though since it's still a specialised painting tool more or less. xD

[HereComesTheSnow]

Alright, time to update some profile text

[Heartfillia]

@Raineh Daze yeah I knew right away, that was what I've used before and was going to use when I offered to make one for you guys. Still way better than what I could have done.

[Raineh Daze]

It should be noted this world map is more a general view of climate and the largest geographical features (it's more of a political view), so the specifics for a given country will need to wait for a relevant map (of which only Estival and Thaln are likely for now).

Thaln for one is probably pretty river heavy and definitely has a lot more woodland than noted. Just not quite like... "here's a few hundred miles of thick forest".

[Vec]

So, can we get a little more details about how magic works in this world? Can non-religious people cast healing magic or is it exclusive to priests? Are there different schools of magic we should be aware of? Essentially, how much can we get away with?

[Raineh Daze]

Healing magic isn't exclusive to the religious at all; it's just a particular branch of things to learn. Its closest related other branch is necromancy (which is amusingly similar to I think AD&D), particularly the more benign side of things.

As for schools, do you mean as in "here is where you would learn magic" or breaking it down into e.g. evocation/abjuration etc? In the latter case it's more a matter of most mages (and certainly most mages both young enough and willing to adventure or fight and not be reclusive academics) predominantly mastering one area, much like how most warriors do not master every weapon and martial art that they come across.

Working on a map of Estival specifically now.

[Vec]

Yes, I was asking about the different categories that magic can be divided into (i.e. "schools" of magic). I am asking cause I had some ideas regarding magic and alchemy that I wanted to try in this RP.