[OOC] DAWN OF NETOZOA - Players Needed. Come check out this tribal survivalist magical alternative world -

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Dawn of the Netozoa

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Pictured: Nithla growing old as the moons rises, protecting his young from the new beasts of Karako. Unknown tribal myth retelling.

"The Nuritopa who were charged with the love of the mother, the ambition of nithla and the beating desires of karako(planet) and thus started the new pantheon. Of these there were many, raging in the hundreds and thousands with a great number of differences.

Some skin were black, or red, others were tall or short and their faces were long like tree trunks or as coiled as pumpkins. They had wings and horns, claws and fangs, stripes and plain and they all had a duty onto them for which they took great pride. Their purpose, their Nauvto - Soul Charge - and took to the lands making many wonders and nurturing the new breed of men they made."

The last kept records of the Myth of Mankind Creation

It is the age of the moon, and has been since the elder told of their day and the elder of that elder told of theirs. In this age, the world Karako is harsh and with little gentleness for the live upon him. Many marks and creations map the lands from here to the great horizons and beyond as works of the divines from the lowest of the highest of the Naritopas. With the remains of these humanoid deities and the wild personality of Karako many beasts and predators of all designs stalk the land, hostile and cruel to enchanting and whimsical.

It is here that your camp is forced to try and survive against the oncoming challenges of the world. Your parents nomadic journey has ended and with their bodies depleted, their old age long set in after spending their youth setting up the most basics of your camp. It is up to you and your kin to ensure the survival, continuance and honoring of their risks and sacrifices. Will your lone camp whisk away into the darkness of Karako constant moonlight, only to have its ruins revealed in its brisk moments of sunlight? Or will you manage to thrive and even build upon what you were given? Will you live on in near total ignorance, now lost of your history and understanding of the world, or will you manage to pierce the inky enigma of why things the way they are after all?

It's up to you.

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EXPECTATIONS/ RULES

Max posting amount will be on average 2 paragraphs. Going over this is fine once in a while but if you go severely over consistently you may be warned, as this is meant to be semi-casual in nature.

Posting will be more than 2 lines as a hard rule. This means you are expected to produce a small paragraph at least - 3 to 4 lines -

Expect and accept that your character may die, or may be killed by other characters upon entering.

Playing as a Naritopa is possible, but won't occur for a good while and even then. There will only be so many slots open.

Post in a timely manner. No one likes to be rushed, but the RP benefit from moving things forward than waiting for when you have the power to create the perfect post. This goes for me too. If you are stuck and not sure what to do, don't feel ashamed with asking me or even other players for help.

Mythology Known

Karako

It is known that Karako is the world and all the life that dwells within it, even to an extent, humanity itself. Karako has turned their back on not only life but humanity especially. It is known that once the sun only ever shined, there was no moon, and that the heat was only ever kind. That animals treated predating on one another with the seriousness of a game and that strife was not known as it is known now.

Karako is a memory of a religion, with even the proper rituals dying out as many tribes become embittered to the harsh world he gives them now. When he does appear recently, he can be just as callous and cruel as he is kind and abundant, supplying vast orchard of fruit to materializing new predators from his gullets to hunt down camps to their last.

Nithla

Nithla was the first and only true human. He knew not age, aches, sickness or weakness. He was born a perfect human and given a great and boundless ambition to hunt and grow. He is the creator of the spear, the rope, the campfire and arts of foraging. But he died in some sort of tragedy, he had no female counterpart so how humanity continued after his death is a mystery. Despite this, Nithla appears as a divine and is the connection between humanity and the higher world. It is Nithla who normally called upon to appeal to the divine on mankinds behalf.

Nithla explanation for lack of a female counter part, or the tragedy that killed him are many depending on each tribe. There is no conclusive understanding of what the facts are. Some say he could turn into both, some say he had a female counterpart but for some reason she stopped appearing or had a falling out with Nithla. What the truth is, no one knows.

Clan Of Man

It is widely accepted that there was once a singular clan for humanity which spanned into the thousands and had greater abundance and technology than today. Items and ruins can be found of these places, normally housing armors and blades up to the medieval era. How these items were made is totally unknown and the true capital of this prior kingdom is lost to all. Such finds are extremely rare and valued as symbols of power and wealth among the remaining meager tribes.

Nuritopa

These are divine humans referred to in the quote at the start. This quote is one of the only surviving bits of the past creation myth. They typically walk among the earth but have the power to dematerialize and talk to mankind via rituals, visions, dreams and feelings. They can be niche in their task to immense and cruel and it's not unheard of for a tribe to have one as a leader, although such tribes are typically more akin to slaves than worshippers. There were once many, many Nuritopa but now there are hardly ever to bound found physically moving about and such beings do not take to giving truth freely.

Because so many have disappeared or don't contact their worshippers anymore, there are many icons and religions that have twisted or simply made up figures to be worshipped, believing them to be Nuritopa when in fact they are fantasies.

KNOWN NAMES

Without knowing the names or nature of the divine, you can't properly call upon them or address them for worship and help. Without these names, you rely totally on them reaching out to you. While other entities of the divine rings will, from time to time make their natures or actions evident. In order to evoke them to ask for favors, blessings and accords you will need to have a certain level of knowledge.

Despite how small your tribe is, some names are still known.

MONONO: SMASHER OF SKULLS

A giant titan with the hands made up of alligator heads. His face is ever stern and made up of various stones and metal smashed together. He is in favor of wrestling, hand based weaponry and unarmed combat and looks down upon anything else. He holds grudges with very little leeway for mercy and dish out harsh punishment.

He approves of strangulated animals and humans as sacrifices and upon the most favored teaches the art of hand based skills, with it the ancient myths being those especially loved by him will gain the power to change their hands to beasts heads as well.

Some of Monono's teaching

"Say, onto all those that dare speak against me, that violence is the way of protest and abuse the way of authority. Those that do not move by words will be moved by hand and my hands are of the things of misery"

"And, to your children, beat them with only what they can take. So when they come to me as adults, they are prepared for the lessons I will give them. And if they cannot be beaten, prepare them as any other creature for what they are. The rabbit should learn to run from danger, the wolf should learn to call upon the pack, the lion should learn to be the predator"

"Of those that steal. Give them to me. Wrap your hands tightly as I would and give of them to me as sacrifice. That is the redemption and the punishment, for clenched hands that defy hard work"

TARUAKAK, TARUAURKAL!

A divine snake that that circles the sun. It flies in a ring and is made of pure light and fire. The creatures features are not very well known, although its depicted normally with a giant happy, large fang grin that are curly like the sun rays and flames. In its paws it carries great chains of which are chained to wayward flame like entities. He is the steward of the suns gifts and enemy of the clouds.

Taruakaka is known to give gifts to those he especially likes of fire manipulation, or even protection against great flames. Of those who he comes to love, he ensures that the cloud don't block the sun and helps Karako dispel the moon more often.

Some of Taruakak's Teaching

"warmth is within.

By my words I teach you to release them.

Celebrate when things are fine and thank onto those still with you.

Love freely and welcome the burns of heart ache.

Dance close to the flames when things are dark.

Hold onto those that still blaze when you are cold.

For like fire, we are brief, and any flame alone for too long is extinguished.

But love and sharing will ensure warmth spreads forever"

"Of those that think themselves unworthy of tending the flame of home.

Stand under the sun when it appears and see if it judges you unworthy.

Trust what you feel on your skin, and onto that. Take it as blessing.

After that. You will see it time to go forth and do honor with your own embers upon your father and mother."

These two divines are the only entities your tribe as any consistent knowledge of. Worship of them is not sanction by the whole and up to you. More will come as you learn and meet them. Tapada, the tribal Naritopa is in character sheet form in the character section.

points

1:You get points for posting consistently every day or two.

2: Joining a role that hasn't been filled yet. Roles are

WARRIOR SCOUT LEADER SCHOLAR FARMER SPIRITUAL

Roles are more social/ logistical places you have in society and don't dictate entirely what your character can or may be able to do. But your role should imply on some level that you do it, and your job is important in the camp. So, a farmer will have to RP as they have at least some level of obligation to some sort of food production in their days and them not being around to do it for long periods of time may have consequences in RP later on. Roles in this sense are nets: if you RP as a COOK you'd still be a FARMER, role wise.

3: Roles also give points if they are IN DEMAND. In demand goes up every once in a while in response to events, needs or story lines. Such as a war with another tribe making warriors in demands. In this case, players will get points for joining up for these roles even if the group has more than enough warriors to be balanced and survive.

4: Building relationships with other characters. Players are strongly encouraged to formulate bonds BEFORE the RP starts. The more relationships you have at start that allows your character to formulate an actual opinion on them the more points rewarded. After the creation process, points are also awarded for rivalries, romances and different, more notable dynamics between players. Especially players your character may of not interacted with a lot prior.

5: Doing plots. If I throw a hook to check the ruins, you don't have to take the hook. But you will be passing up points by doing so.

6: Events: Occasionally things will occur in the world that the players have a set amount of time to do.

7: Dreads and Dreams: Each character should have 3 dreads and 3 dreams relating to their character story/ past/ future in some way. Completing a dread or a dream grants one time points on their completion.

Example of a dread: killing the tiger that killed your father.

Example of a Dream: Finding treasure to set you for life.

Spells

Spells are abilities that players gain over time that offer immense effect at the cost of POINTS. Using spells actively takes away the points you earn towards new roles or leveling up. In exchange, a spell can offer near mythical results when used. Spells in this sense can include active magic and more subtle signs of magic, like a warrior cutting down a tree in a single swipe.

Men and Women

Men and women have large magical differences in the world of Karako. It is considered to be an over all mystery where women actually came from, with many tribes inventing or piecing together entirely new mythos on what women exactly are. Even the most elder who retain fragments more of the original truth of creation admit to not knowing exactly where they came from or what they are, although despite this are a part of humanity and not considered outside or a downgrade of it at all. Although, this varies from tribe to tribe. As does the treatment of men with new tribal practices and beliefs.

Regardless: Men are notably stronger than women and have a greater physical presence in the world. They get sick less and get a bonus point to stamina and HEALTH. Men also tend understand physical tools faster and are more favored by Nithla.

Women, however, tend to have more vivid visions and an easier time obtaining and using more blatantly magical spells. They get 3 points back on each spell, so long as it dosen't reduce the spell cost below 1. Women feel off when a tantrum by karako is about to occur.

Health and Stamina

STAMINA

Stamina is your capacity to fight in a literal and abstract sense against an immediate threat. When your stamina reaches 0 you are defeated and start to take health damage from whatever is attacking you. If you take no damage, you are still defeated and need to recover.

If you are fighting other tribes or even other RP'ers, both of your stamina is going down per post. With your own post acting as when your own stamina point is deducted. You regain a stamina point every real life day.

You get 6 points.

You have one stamina. You can put points into stamina but unspent points go towards your score.

Every ALLY player with you in that fight, adds as a plus 1 to your stamina - and you to theirs - Stamina may increase or decrease due to context. Such as certain items increasing stamina when worn or used, or being injured or sick nerfing your stamina until it no longer applies.

Resting at camp restores 4 points of stamina every day instead. You can't go over your max amount via resting.

HEALTH

Health is affected when your stamina is reduced to 0, by specific spells, events or specific creature attacks.

You may put points into health as well.

Losing health grants a quick 2 points of stamina from adrenaline to either fight or flee - or well...try too - Lost health manifests in serious scars or deformities from combat: such as lost limbs, sensitive organs, health issues that are visible on your character. Each point of lost health reduces the CAP of your stamina by 1 points.

You never regain health without outside - divine or magical - aid. When your health is 0 your character dies.

You start off with 1 health.

If your character is a man, you get 2 stamina and 2 health as your baseline instead.

Leveling

Points don't only go to your chance as a Narutopa but also represent an invisible line for character growth. When you meet the points for a character to level up, new plot points and focus will be put on you by me, as DM. This can include divine visions, random bouts of fortune, a task or a event that involves your character in some way. Just to be clear, these will still happen based on story or random events, the points just ensure that things are fair.

Think of it like this. I see cases where players join, then find themselves neglected or unable to get into the "group" This is a guarantee from me that if you put in the time and activity, then eventually I will directly turn my gaze upon as GM and give you a plot line tethered to you. You get what you put in, sort of deal.

the camp

Your camp is the meeting place of your tribe, the place where you kin sleep, new members are born and come of age and the one place of any true security within the ever dramatic world of Karako. The nature of your camp at the moment is meagre and existed for three generations, including you. In terms of mechanics your camp is where things outside of hooks and adventures take place.

Your camp consists of a few dozen straw huts, with a chieftains hut, a large bonfire at the center of town and a small wooden building made up of tied together logs and a straw roof where rituals and religious matters are attended to. In its current state, your camp is of little use outside of shielding your heads and providing a meeting place, but new options and tasks you can choose to do as an ACTION will come into effect as the camp grows or is added upon.

The camp has a progress meter determined by me. When that progress bar is reached, the camp will grow and erect some more buildings and things to do passively. However, players can contribute or aid the camp in gaining new resource, practices or knowledge which all add to the camps growth both in a linear sense - deciding as players to build a fence and spending time RP'ing that, will give the town a fence - but also additional benefits to its passive growth. The towns gets point to growth for every player that joins and everyone that has a role that needs to be filled. If the town starts to drop below a number it needs to thrive, or drops roles it needs to survive. It will start get less progress, should things get REALLY bad then the camp will actually start to degrade and decay.

While the camp, at start, is fixed. Players can try and migrate to a new area to host their society at, if they so wish. But do not expect such a feat to be easy to pull off or convince the village to do.

camp map

Of your culture, your faiths, your camp. You are free. But the map is held by a iron clad tradition and won't change. Mostly so it won't get confusing with new symbols.

On this map, which is the only one you currently have, given to you by your founders. Is the centre area of "crude legless stick figures" is your home camp.

Next to that camp is a forest with a two headed snake. This is the HISSING WOODS.

BELOW your camp is a river. With many fish in it.

to the LEFT of your camp is a great titan among mountains. This is MASTERS ROCK.

ABOVE your camp is BLACK BRIDGE. A giant canyon into pure darkness is here with a singular rope bridge over it. On the other side is a hunting/ scout lodge.

BEYOND the forest in the corner of the map is LIGHTS WRATH. Which is a place of much fire and danger.

This is only the starting area, your world will grow as you explore and go further.

LEGEND:

If a singular large creature is on a area. That means a singular known predator or breed of more dangerous predators lurk there.

If many animals are in a map. It means the place is abundant with that animal, be it resource or predator.

If the area has a SQUARE with smudges and dots in it. That is a signifier of death and each smudge how many have died there from the maps creation days so far.

IF a giant figure holding a spear is in the image somehow, this signifies the presence of believed divinity in some form. If the divine is near lightning, it signals potential danger from them.

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Character Sheet

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[color=PICK A COLOR][h1] replace this with name [/h1][/color]
[b] Male or Female here [/b]

[h2][color= farmer/green warrior/red scout/blue spiritual/azure leader/gold scholar/gray] ROLE = place your chosen role here [/color][/h2]

Naming conventions can be anything. No solid structure for what name are has been made. So you can be radakilo. Or you can be "Chase-Sun" or even something more sentence like, such as "Washes Clothes in Blood" or "Four Whispers, One shout"

[color=yourcolorhere][h1] TITLES [/h1][/color]

Write any titles your character may have under here. Normally you gain a title in society for acts of infamy or fame, but also according to tasks and work. A farmer may have a title such as "Soil Soother" or a warrior getting his title for his first kill. You will gain multiple titles as the game goes on. Example titles: "Filthy Soul" "Kind of Kin" "The Gentle Spear"

[color=colorhere][h2] Heritage [/h2][/color]

Put your family heritage here. This mean what were your parents name, what were their positions, were they known for anything. Say this in your characters voice "My father was a thief and his name was tiapo, of him he was from jakol who were a great warrior. My mother was of the diviners line and she took on her duties from the elder and grandmother of me, deranda"

You can go back up to 3 generations. But how far - or if not back at all - depends on your character.

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HEALTH POINTS: You have 6 points to spend on health or stamina. Unspent points are deposited into your point score for leveling up and other rewards.

You start off 1 in each as a women and 2 as a man as baseline.

STAMINA POINTS

[color=here][h2] APPEARENCE [/h2] [/color] A paragraph long - at least - appearance of your character and a general descriptor of them. This means how bad their posture may be, how tall they are, what is the look in their eyes.

[color=here][h2] PERSONALITY [/h2]/color] Write here - as in not in between the code - a description of your character disposition and mindset.

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[color=gold][h1] DREAMS [/h1][/color]

[h2] ONE [/h2]

[h2] TWO [/h2]

[h2] THREE [/h2]

Under each of these titles, place a characters dream. A dream is something your character aspires to do and is a self appointed goal for them to achieve. It should be something important, and will take effort or luck for them to achieve. This can range from rather mundane such as "Open up a shop" to fantastical "Learn how to change into a beast" you get POINTS for achieving your dreams. Some example of dreams for inspiration: "Getting revenge on the monster that killed my friend" - "Becoming the general of the warriors of our camp" - "Getting married" - "getting into a relationship with a specific character" - "Catching a fish as big as I am"

[color=orangered][h1] DREADS [/h1][/color]

[h2] ONE [/h2]

[h2] TWO [/h2]

[h2] THREE [/h2]

Like dreams, dreads are a series of events or goals that you will points for, however. They are opposite of dreams and something your character desperately wants to avoid. Regardless, your character will come to meet their dreads in one form or another as the RP goes on. As fate will afflict them in some form or another given enough time. Dreads can be complex or simple, to "I am a warrior, and never want to be infirmed and crippled. Without my strength, I am nothing" to "Having to visit my fathers gravestone"

[color=here][h1] RELATIONSHIPS [/h1][/color]

This is where your characters opinion on others go. This should include a status and a in character opinion under their name with their character color.

example

[color=red][h2] JOSH RANGTIN [/h2][/color]

"He likes the dark, he slinks into the shadows away from the camp. I wish he would stay there, but given time he returns to make a mess"

[b]RIVAL[/b]

You should do this for each character currently in the RP when you make your character, then update it as new characters come in. This is important because even if you don't have much to say about a character from their perspective, it gives a notion on a meta level on how others can interact with you, it also lets others know they are not being faded out. Which, if you know what I mean, you know what I mean. We've all been there in an RP group.

Forming relationships with people gets me to consider giving points the most. And you should, ideally, try to form something of substance - thats mean: you can be friends but of a deeper opinion than "he me friend, yeah" from your character about them in ooc if you can. Although there will be no punishment for NOT doing so.

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Just a heads up that I still got to post the known Naritopa character sheet of the camp, kindred. But I'm gonna do that after a break. My brain is skillet fried over here with this heat wave.

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@Lu

I'll read this soon, kin. Kind of knocked the fuck out, right now. Hard day. We're gonna wait and see if we can attract some more RP'ers but if worst comes to worst. We'll have to try and just make it work with just us. Maybe if we start rolling the stone uphill, other,motherfrucking, passing protons will think it's a cool idea to join too over time. If like 2 weeks pass and we're still barren. We'll just reconfigure it to like a set story one on one story in this verse.

[Lu]

@ScreenAcne
All good! Make sure to make room for rest :)

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@Lu

Accepted, kindred. Excuse the wait. Looks like the line isn't exactly growing larger.

I'll bump the prior interest check, make a human character as well and ad it on the side bar one time. See if that gets anyone tomorrow night. If not, then we'll have to start it with just us I guess and hope others feel inclined to join the fun as time goes on.

[Theyra]

Sorry for not posting a cs, I have just been preoccupied and will get a cs up sometime this week.

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@Theyra

Sweet sentences, kindred. All good, looking forward to it.

[ScreenAcne]

Hm. Not a lot of activity, kindred. I posted a character sheet for my human side, kindred. I'll advertise some more and wait one more day. If we don't get anymore interest after that. I'll start writing up a intro post.

@Lu

@Theyra

Don't worry if you ain't joined yet when I do make the intro post, kindred. It will be still be early days and all the rules before we start will basically still apply.

[Theyra]

Nakai

Nakai

Male

ROLE = Spiritual

TITLES

Speaker of Spirits

Heritage

I do not know my parents, the tribe says that my parents came to the village one day and dropped me off with the tribe before vanishing into the wilds. They only spoke what my name was and that they would return one day. Leaving me with a necklace with the skull of an unknown animal attached to it. It is the only thing they left for me.

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HEALTH POINTS: 5

STAMINA POINTS: 5

APPEARENCE

Standing at 5'6 and having a normal posture and having an above average build. Normally, Nakai, while in his shaman attire, and apart of his headdress, he wears the skull of a large bird that is decorated with red markings and colorful feathers and wears the bottom of the jaw below his chin. Along with red markings on his face like the ones on the skull. Under the skull and headdress Nakai has short black hair and has green eyes. Plus, he is always wearing a necklace with the skull of a unknown animal around his neck at all times.

PERSONALITY

Nakai is a curious person, always seeking to learn and understand new things in order to help with being a shaman. A role that he takes seriously as he talks to the spirits and ensures that they bless the tribe and do not harm or bring bad luck to them. Otherwise, he is a lonely person who seeks to find someone who is like him or at least tolerates him, as he can be a rather eccentric person. Still, he does find comfort when talking to spirits and is willing to help the tribe who took him in with anything that he can to help.

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DREAMS

ONE

Discovering who his parents are

TWO

Get married

THREE

Gain the favor of a major spirit

DREADS

ONE

Dying before I can find my parents

TWO

Failing the tribe

THREE

Losing his connection to the spirits

RELATIONSHIPS

N/A

[ScreenAcne]

@Theyra

Approved, kindred.

[Lu]

@ScreenAcne, what's your feelings on us role-playing more than one character? Okay or would you rather us focus on one character a time?

[ScreenAcne]

@Lu

Hm, I think we should stick to one, character, kindred. Both for focus but also to not numb the sting of possible death. But don't worry if there is less of us, it just means that some alteration to the altercations and, motherfucking, power dive into events will have to be a bit narrower than I envisioned them.

[Lu]

@ScreenAcne, okay, sounds good!

[ScreenAcne]

@Theyra@Lu

Kindred. I'm going to try and set up some sentence servings for us tonight. I'm sort of,motherfucking, digitally displaced right now so don't hold your breath. But even if it dosen't appear, rest assured it's being cooked if nothing else.

Meanwhile. Why do you tango some tales together. If you got any questions for each other or for me, jsut throw 'em and I'll fill you in any lore in the world or the camp itself if it helps. The more entangled we are, the more plots we got to chase with each other.

[ScreenAcne]

It begins!

Shit, I haven't, motherfucking, posted in an forum RP for years. Felt my fingers release moths and dust as I did it, kindred!

[Lu]

@ScreenAcne @Theyra

I'm giving everyone I'm currently role-playing with a heads up that my posts may become somewhat erratic for the near future due to personal shit. I'm still bopping around and will do my best to post as I find time and precious motivation.

Thanks for understanding!

[ScreenAcne]

@Theyra

@Lu

Hey, kindred. I'm going to post after tomorrow to keep things going. Don't sweat if it you haven't posted, theyra. It's only the introduction phase right now, but if you post before then, then cool beans. Not to, motherfucknig, whip your wobbler or anything. Just a heads up.

[Theyra]

Okay, good to know. I will get a post up this week.

[ScreenAcne]

@Theyra

Heads up, kin. Posting.

edit: just wanted to give you a heads up incase you were writing.

[Theyra]

Thanks for the heads up, and I have finally posted.