[OOC] Aesithas (D&D 5e Homebrew) - On Hiatus

[Fading Memory]

A Tralaya Swarm depicted by the AI

An individual Tralaya depicted by the AI

Sorry if this is 'spamming', but I figure you guys would appreciate seeing some of these interpretations of my scrawlings. All of these pictures are being added to the relevant 0th post locations on the OOC

[Vertigo]

Yeah go for it! what Familiar you planning on using? :)

@Fading Memory

Was thinking a black cat, cliché as it is!

And love the tralaya depictions B)

[XxFellsingxX]

A Tralaya Swarm depicted by the AI

An individual Tralaya depicted by the AI

Sorry if this is 'spamming', but I figure you guys would appreciate seeing some of these interpretations of my scrawlings. All of these pictures are being added to the relevant 0th post locations on the OOC

@Fading Memory

Oh no, it's fine! It's actually really nice to see what the Tralaya look like, as even though you said they were birds, the fact you called the 'swarms' made me keep on visualizing them as insects. Now I know exactly what we were fighting, and they look very cool xD

[Fading Memory]

yeah, if it helps, think of them as angry, saw-beaked, 'poison spraying', ravens.

[Neianna86]

Well well that's a scary image all right. ;)

[Fading Memory]

alrighty everyone has levelled up! If the party is ready to move forward, just let me know and I'll transition to the next scenes 'on the road'. I'm awaiting intended destination and 'travel speed', as well as if folks need anything else from the scenes we've started.

[XxFellsingxX]

alrighty everyone has levelled up! If the party is ready to move forward, just let me know and I'll transition to the next scenes 'on the road'. I'm awaiting intended destination and 'travel speed', as well as if folks need anything else from the scenes we've started.

@Fading Memory

Wait, I do plan to post Vigil's response. Sorry, been juggling a bunch of stuff ^^;

Also, when you say we levelled up, are you saying we're all level 5 now? I'm a little confused.

[XxFellsingxX]

Alright, posted. Sorry if it's a bit shorter than usual.

[Fading Memory]

I was checking everyone’s sheets; the last person who was still level three finally hit level 4 properly. That is all I meant.

[XxFellsingxX]

I was checking everyone’s sheets; the last person who was still level three finally hit level 4 properly. That is all I meant.

@Fading Memory

Alright. I was just making sure, because I did think it would be a bit odd if we suddenly hit Level 5 during our downtime xP

[Guardian Angel Haruki]

I’ll try and get a post up today after work. Sorry for the silence on my part. RL’s been busy. ^^”

[Fading Memory]

It’s all good. I said from the start I wasn’t in a race; folks staying active is all I need, not a certain pace.

[Fading Memory]

As an aside, I have flipped the RP status from Full to Apply. While we’re still in the opening arc I am glad to accept a sixth person still, so if you guys know anyone/Dark is still lurking, I am available for discussion and inclusion at any time.

[Lucius Cypher]

Got an idea for a character, likely will make em a human barbarian. Question though, for character creation I assume standard rules for items and such? Or do we get any extra items? I understand that I'll be coming in after everyone has already gone through some stuff, so I imagine that they are a bit ahead of me in terms of equipment and probably aren't expected to provide me any items.

[Lucius Cypher]

Posted my CS. I changed the game proficiency from the Noble background to an instrument.

Here's my stat roll too:
11 14 13 11 16 11

Not the best stats, but not the worse either. Kinda wished that I could play around with the stats better, humans were never meant to be generalists, but I'll just have to make up for the lack of talent with better skills.

[Fading Memory]

@Lucius Cypher

If Francesca accepts The Quest, she gets 100 gold. Don't expect much money to be coming down the line, the realms are destitute, but Mildred is trying to give people the means to start a journey. This applies to @Vertigo as well, just in case I forgot to establish that.

As for the character sheet...

I can go with the idea there used to be a wild tribe of warriors who joined with Braedan during the reunification of Aesithas and were given a position in Dale society, that works fine. For the purposes of general setting cohesion, that would formally make Francesca's people one of the Banners to the Royal Family; similar to Alyson of Waltone, or Castle Boville The First Fort. This would make them minor nobility in their own right, though the thousand years of slow degradation and the mysterious/forgotten nature of the realm does make the idea of a 'barbarian tribe put in charge of a piece of the realm' very interesting!- and Francesca may not even be close to or familiar with them besides in passing from her travels! Which would also be fitting to the setting and her background as someone raised in the Dale as opposed to that ancestral home. It gives me some control and ability to use that for story or hook purposes down the line if we go with this, so unless you have an issue with this I think this would be a good interpretation to have on it. Her Knighthood is independent of a familial tie, but she knows she has extended family in charge of a holdfast in Aesithas somewhere.

Ser Astrea Archon, knight of the realm. I can work with this. Charioteer fits the Dale landscape, but I will admit I hadn't considered it before. No changes needed here, just me having to consider the military of the realm for the fiftieth time since I began writing the adventure.

Earned her Knighthood during the Rebellion against Mildred The Unready. This works fine.

Approved!

[Lucius Cypher]

Glad to see you like her backstory! Personally I've always been a fan of seeing humanity's difference when you got actual fantastic races to compete against. I imagine one of the reasons for the Varangian current decline isn't necessarily out of decedence, but warfare: without a king to unite them and point them towards an enemy, the Varangian have been warring with their rival tribes and may be even considering invading other nations in order to amass more wealth and resources.

It hasn't been easy if course, but their overall goal certainly conflicts with the interests of the Dale and threatens other nations, only kept in check by the violent nature of their native homelands keeping them from growing too powerful. But with the weaken authority of the royal family enabling chais to seep in, things could take a turn for the worse if the Varangian actually manage to unite their homelands and sought scouting out their next area of conquest.

It would certainly put Francesca in between two worlds. On one hand she's proud of her warrior heritage of the Varangian but as such people are, unsurprisingly, violent and prone to attacking their neighbors. On the other she was born and raised in the Dale and has learned culture and lived there her whole life, but it's on a steep decline and needs strong leadership right now. And that's not even including how she sees the other nations and their potential to save or threaten her people.

You got a good thing going here and I'm interested in seeing how it all unravels. In any case, I'll read up on the IC and figure out where to insert myself.

[Fading Memory]

All solid ideas. I’ll keep them in consideration as I stew them into the pot. The big thing is ‘There Be Dragons’ is the map; so at this point I’m dropping ‘Varangian Peoples’ somewhere ‘to the North of the Dale’ and letting the fog fall back over the map.

[Lucius Cypher]

Works for me. I like to think the mysterious and unknown nature of their homelands is why the Varangian as a whole are both strong but paranoid warriors: they have had to fight many strange things and strange people and thus are used to axe first, ask questions later.

[Lucius Cypher]

Btw you mentioned the econ being a bit jank, so how much would equipment be? I think I'll have Fran buy some gear during the down time so just wanted to know what's available. Things in particular she wants to buy:

Some medium armor (either breastplate or even half-plate)
A drum
Healers kit
A horse (riding horse or war horse if possible)
Traveling supplies
Any potential upgrades to her weapons.