[OOC] The Necromancer's Curse

[Muttonhawk]

Hello? Anybody still around?

[Aurus]

Still here, still planning on putting the IC up later today/tonight. Muttonhawk your character is fine, just put it in the actual character section.

[Muttonhawk]

Cool beans! I was just waiting for your approval.

[Aurus]

So I put up an attempt at an IC (first post is not my strongest area xD).

Asteran is the current 'Capital'. It hosts the headquarters of almost all the human factions and has the largest variety in races. If you leave the tavern area, you are free to develop the town however you wish, just no spawning undead in it.

[Tricheus]

I'm assuming that the expedition will leave 'tomorrow' morning?

[Aurus]

Yeah, once things cool down and everyone gets around to posting I'll skip us over to the test site.

Thinking of upgrading Karu from NPC to PC, so I'll write up a quick CS for him when I get a chance.

[Aurus]

@knighthawk
Noticed you updated your character, everything seems fine, feel free to jump in whenever.

@Everyone
If you don't mind, I forgot to put an age category on the CS, just stick it in with a quick edit if you don't already have it somewhere.

[Muttonhawk]

Age is now in my cs.

In other news, everyone is sitting apart! Looks like the nerd is going to have to be the one who brings the party together again if people are so inclined.

[OwO]

I just realized that only Aurus knows about the CENTAURS CENTAURS CENTAURS.

So, uh. Flavour text.

Centaur Lore

The noble Centaurs of the Stomping Isles. They were known for being fierce warriors, unstoppable onslaughts of death and war. They used to be conquerors, nomads, even warlords. That time had passed long before the Necromancer's rule.

The Centaurs follow the queen, and her Matriarch tribe. For the longest time, their leading tribe were the Brae-Wardens. They were the conquerers. They expanded the empire from their small island into the continent. They were unstoppable; all would crumble under the rule of the Centaurs.

One day, all of the Centaurs simply withdrew from the continents. It was a strange occurrence. The unstoppable riders of war suddenly withdrawing.

What happened before the withdrawal was a 10 year civil war between the previous tribe, the Brae-Wardens, and the current tribe, the Landkeeps. After years and years of fighting, the Landkeeps came out on top, and they seized control. The ways of war were gone, and so the Centaurs went into hiding.

Hundreds of years later, the peaceful Centaurs' islands were invaded by the dead. With them, they brought pestilence and a necromancer. The necromancer had cast something on the island. It removed what little magic they had. Their kind was cursed. The Centaurs were doomed. After months of trying to survive, the Centaurs finally decided on their final moments. They would send out 10 healthy Centaurs to the continent, and then they would use the natural magic fonts on the isles, and they tore it asunder. The entire island was destroyed. Nothing remained except for the 10 Centaurs, who escaped to the continent.

[Muttonhawk]

Oh, there are only ten of them? Hmm, I guess my character was a bit too blase.

Also, @Aurus, I just realised I made a temporal goof.

I just reread the background story and realised that the curse started thirty years ago, while my character is twenty nine years old. This means that he would have had to be -1 year old by the time all his creations fell apart. With your go-ahead, I'd like to rectify this situation in one of the following ways:

1. Make my character older, which is a bit annoying because I don't think his fitness suits a fifty five year old.

2. Same as 1, but with his necromantic dabbling granting him the youth until his aging resumed when the curse rolled up.

There's also the option of winding back present IC time to around a decade or so after the curse struck, but I think that would be asking too much as that effects everyone.

[OwO]

Oh, there are only ten of them? Hmm, I guess my character was a bit too blase.

@Muttonhawk

Centaurs are still really well known for, well, existing and being horsemen.

They're a race that most people know of, but rather rare.

[Aurus]

The second option is fine, I want to keep the curse at 30 years so that we have a generation that grew up with the curse their entire lives.

[Muttonhawk]

Cool, cheers

[Muttonhawk]

Hellooooo?

[xCRAZYxFACEx]

Still here. Waiting on a reply, so don't worry lol

[Tricheus]

yeah, same here

[Wraithblade6]

Looking for character approval.

[OwO]

Sorry, I had a tonne of work to do. I should be back, now.

[Wraithblade6]

Is anyone around? I thought perhaps I could introduce my character right away in the tavern or i could wait for you all to get on the road to the secret testing ground. Ideas? Sound interesting?

[Tricheus]

If your character gets ok'd then I think introducing in the tavern works