Once upon a time, in a faraway land, there was a quaint little village called Bacon. Few go there by choice, and most stay by necessity. All kinds of people live there - stranded Travelers from Another World, mages booted out of the guild, criminals fleeing a checkered past, and even a displaced noble or two. Whatever your reasons, you're here, smack in the middle of a high medieval fantasy world with a small plot of land to call your own.
Our village is in the nation of Draygan, which occupies most of the southern half of the continent. Just west of the village is Diamont, a border town frequented every six months by raids, riots, and royalty, usually in that order. Said border lies to the north, where the vicious orcs of Fellmore prowl. Off in the distance to the south stands Midhaven Tower, a mysterious, monolithic, sky-scraping monstrosity of a structure built by the Ancients to protect the land from "evil." Whatever it's doing, it's not helping you survive the brutal Fellmoran winters, summer orc raids, or spring tax collections.
Technology is fairly basic in this region of the country. Most of your water comes from a well, and bowel relief goes in an outhouse. Some tools are enchanted, though most of those come from the occasional traveling merchant. Diamont is a little better, with underground plumbing, a sewer system, and a functional police force, though that newfangled electricity is still just a Capital City thing. If you want your village to have those nice things, you'll have to build them yourself.
To create a villager, you will need:
1. Name - who this person is. Surnames are derived from ancestral place of origin or job description.
2. Description - must be human for lore reasons, but you're otherwise free to be whatever. While you have the potential to live for 1000 years (with signs of age kicking in at around 800-900), accidents of life tend to keep the average lifespan to around 100 or so. The legal age of adulthood is 20 in this country.
3. Weakness - an active and apparent struggle for this character
4. Need - an essential quality or problem to be solved
5. Desire - what this character desperately wants but doesn't really need, their ultimate goal in this story
6. Enemy - a person, idea, or group that opposes the character, an external motivator
7. Passion - what sets them off or excites them, an internal motivator
8. Links - what PCs or NPCs you have some sort of relationship with (e.g. friend, rival, lover, relative, employer, etc.)
There's a whole packload of lore and side content to explore, so whether you want to live a quiet life in the village or save the whole world, I've got story material waiting for you. Though, the world's adventure lore is currently more fleshed out than its slice-of-life lore, so I'll be continually working on stuff as we go to give you a better slice-of-life experience.
For RP guidelines, I expect at least 1 post once a week. While there are no paragraph limits per se, I do expect each post to be well thought-out (hence the Advanced placement). Even a one-liner is fine so long as it's an epic one-liner. The usual behavioral rules apply: no god-moding, metagaming, explicit sexual content, etc. Feel free to take control of the setting (within reason) for content creation. My working policy for this RP is that it's better to ask forgiveness than permission, so create to your heart's content. If I need to change this policy for any reason, I'll let you know.
Now, who wants some fantasy slice of life?
Our village is in the nation of Draygan, which occupies most of the southern half of the continent. Just west of the village is Diamont, a border town frequented every six months by raids, riots, and royalty, usually in that order. Said border lies to the north, where the vicious orcs of Fellmore prowl. Off in the distance to the south stands Midhaven Tower, a mysterious, monolithic, sky-scraping monstrosity of a structure built by the Ancients to protect the land from "evil." Whatever it's doing, it's not helping you survive the brutal Fellmoran winters, summer orc raids, or spring tax collections.
Technology is fairly basic in this region of the country. Most of your water comes from a well, and bowel relief goes in an outhouse. Some tools are enchanted, though most of those come from the occasional traveling merchant. Diamont is a little better, with underground plumbing, a sewer system, and a functional police force, though that newfangled electricity is still just a Capital City thing. If you want your village to have those nice things, you'll have to build them yourself.
To create a villager, you will need:
1. Name - who this person is. Surnames are derived from ancestral place of origin or job description.
2. Description - must be human for lore reasons, but you're otherwise free to be whatever. While you have the potential to live for 1000 years (with signs of age kicking in at around 800-900), accidents of life tend to keep the average lifespan to around 100 or so. The legal age of adulthood is 20 in this country.
3. Weakness - an active and apparent struggle for this character
4. Need - an essential quality or problem to be solved
5. Desire - what this character desperately wants but doesn't really need, their ultimate goal in this story
6. Enemy - a person, idea, or group that opposes the character, an external motivator
7. Passion - what sets them off or excites them, an internal motivator
8. Links - what PCs or NPCs you have some sort of relationship with (e.g. friend, rival, lover, relative, employer, etc.)
There's a whole packload of lore and side content to explore, so whether you want to live a quiet life in the village or save the whole world, I've got story material waiting for you. Though, the world's adventure lore is currently more fleshed out than its slice-of-life lore, so I'll be continually working on stuff as we go to give you a better slice-of-life experience.
For RP guidelines, I expect at least 1 post once a week. While there are no paragraph limits per se, I do expect each post to be well thought-out (hence the Advanced placement). Even a one-liner is fine so long as it's an epic one-liner. The usual behavioral rules apply: no god-moding, metagaming, explicit sexual content, etc. Feel free to take control of the setting (within reason) for content creation. My working policy for this RP is that it's better to ask forgiveness than permission, so create to your heart's content. If I need to change this policy for any reason, I'll let you know.
Now, who wants some fantasy slice of life?