[OOC] Fire Emblem - The Reclaimers of Peace

[Experiment 249]

Oh, I finished my second character yesterday. Forgot to mention other than in a small edit to an old post. Jace, Kel's seemingly lost sweet studious and harmless sister

[Cinderella Man]

Taene's been completed.

[Lugubrious]

Both Taena and Jace are accepted, but since we're about to skip to the riverlands, we'll have to encounter them and recruit them rather than starting with them.

[Experiment 249]

Both Taena and Jace are accepted, but since we're about to skip to the riverlands, we'll have to encounter them and recruit them rather than starting with them.

@Lugubrious

That was the plan all along haha

[Xan the G]

I'm genuinely interested to see how you RP an actual Fire Emblem chapter/skirmish. I was wondering if you might simulate maps and have us RP in character as our 'piece' move.

[Crimson Raven]

No, we are going to do this with a more realistic approach.

[Lady Seraphina]

@Cinderella Man Hey I had some questions about your Manakete. Firstly which dragon tribe is he from? The majority of manaketes were wiped out in Marth's time. They were a once in a lifetime sighting 2000 years later when Chrom was alive and this is a good thousand years after that.

Secondly and I suppose this can be put a little bit more up to interpretation but the Dragonstones aren't some mystical device that can turn people of the manakete race into dragons. They're stones that turned the dragon race into Manaketes. A subtle distinction but an important one.

Millennium ago when the dragons ruled the world at the end of there age they were struck by a plague that started turning there own powers against them. They started to go mad and devolve into beasts. The Divine Tribe of Dragons came up with a way to seal there dragon form inside dragonstones to prevent there decline. The earth dragons refused and thus became dangerous and had to be sealed away.

Fast forwarding a couple thousand years. Manaketes in there human form are incredibly infertile. A thousand years could go by between children. When a Manakete does give birth the child's human form is unstable, there powers must be sealed within a dragonstone quickly.

In Fire Emblem: Rekka no Ken, the Ice Dragon siblings Ninian and Nils reveal that the dragonstones are vessels that store the crux of dragons' power, allowing them to maintain a human form.

Without the stones to keep their powers in check manaketes revert back to dragon form. So the stones wouldn't be kept in some secret vault of the tribe. Each manakete would always have one in there possession to ensure that they remained in human form.

[Experiment 249]

@Cinderella Man

I thought your CS sounded cool, and you got accepted anyways so that's neat.

[Lady Seraphina]

@Cinderella Man

I thought your CS sounded cool, and you got accepted anyways so that's neat.

@Experiment 249

There's nothing inherently wrong with his CS. I'm merely asking for clarification on some logistical aspects of his race's lineage.

@Lugubrious Are we going to move along into walking mode in a bit?

[Lugubrious]

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There's nothing inherently wrong with his CS. I'm merely asking for clarification on some logistical aspects of his race's lineage.

@Lugubrious Are we going to move along into walking mode in a bit?

@Prince of Seraphs

I'm almost done with the post right now.

[Lugubrious]

Alright! Here's the deal: Experiment, I want you to come up with the village's layout and enemy placements, which you'll do IC by telling Gaius what Kel saw while scouting. Give us something fun but not too difficult for our first encounter, alright? There will be two enemies of note among the normal bandits: a bandit leader, and none other than the Kindred, Taene. Make sure to describe them.

[Experiment 249]

Alright! Here's the deal: Experiment, I want you to come up with the village's layout and enemy placements, which you'll do IC by telling Gaius what Kel saw while scouting. Give us something fun but not too difficult for our first encounter, alright? There will be two enemies of note among the normal bandits: a bandit leader, and none other than the Kindred, Taene. Make sure to describe them.

@Lugubrious

All those years of designing battle maps in DnD are finally paying off somewhere else! 1 level 1 party of uh... 16 challenge rating 1/2 coming up. Bandits and Taene? Shouldn't be too hard to throw down maybe 2 bandits each each... give them some cover, varying weapon types... God this is like the perfect thing for me.

EDIT: Do I need to get a pic of the map? like a crude map of the place?

[Lugubrious]

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All those years of designing battle maps in DnD are finally paying off somewhere else! 1 level 1 party of uh... 16 challenge rating 1/2 coming up. Bandits and Taene? Shouldn't be too hard to throw down maybe 2 bandits each each... give them some cover, varying weapon types... God this is like the perfect thing for me.

EDIT: Do I need to get a pic of the map? like a crude map of the place?

@Experiment 249

If you like, and if Kel can sketch on wyvern-back.

I'm glad the person I picked for this is happy to be doing so! Lucky day for both of us, eh?

[Experiment 249]

How's that for ya? I'll let you decide what's inside, be it mages or more swordmen, your choice.

[Lugubrious]

How's that for ya? I'll let you decide what's inside, be it mages or more swordmen, your choice.

@Experiment 249

Works for me. Just make sure you go back and iron out and capitalization or spelling typos. And honestly I'd prefer numbers to be spelled out, 'seven' instead of '7'.

[Lady Seraphina]

@Cinderella Man Hey I had some questions about your Manakete. Firstly which dragon tribe is he from? The majority of manaketes were wiped out in Marth's time. They were a once in a lifetime sighting 2000 years later when Chrom was alive and this is a good thousand years after that.

Secondly and I suppose this can be put a little bit more up to interpretation but the Dragonstones aren't some mystical device that can turn people of the manakete race into dragons. They're stones that turned the dragon race into Manaketes. A subtle distinction but an important one.

Millennium ago when the dragons ruled the world at the end of there age they were struck by a plague that started turning there own powers against them. They started to go mad and devolve into beasts. The Divine Tribe of Dragons came up with a way to seal there dragon form inside dragonstones to prevent there decline. The earth dragons refused and thus became dangerous and had to be sealed away.

Fast forwarding a couple thousand years. Manaketes in there human form are incredibly infertile. A thousand years could go by between children. When a Manakete does give birth the child's human form is unstable, there powers must be sealed within a dragonstone quickly.

In Fire Emblem: Rekka no Ken, the Ice Dragon siblings Ninian and Nils reveal that the dragonstones are vessels that store the crux of dragons' power, allowing them to maintain a human form.

Without the stones to keep their powers in check manaketes revert back to dragon form. So the stones wouldn't be kept in some secret vault of the tribe. Each manakete would always have one in there possession to ensure that they remained in human form.

@Cinderella Man ?

[MULTI_MEDIA_MAN]

Almost lost my post for a second.

Heads would've rolled.

[Experiment 249]

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Works for me. Just make sure you go back and iron out and capitalization or spelling typos. And honestly I'd prefer numbers to be spelled out, 'seven' instead of '7'.

@Lugubrious

I got it haha, I was in a rush (had to DM at 5 and it was like 4:45) so it makes sense there were typoes. I'll fix everything!

[MULTI_MEDIA_MAN]

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I got it haha, I was in a rush (had to DM at 5 and it was like 4:45) so it makes sense there were typoes. I'll fix everything!

@Experiment 249

>DM at 5
>DM

So....whatcha DM'ing?

[Experiment 249]

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>DM at 5
>DM

So....whatcha DM'ing?

@MULTI_MEDIA_MAN

DnD 5e capaign with my friends. Two of them were missing so I ran them through the worlds smallest dungeon and one of them doesn't know they're wearing a cursed ring yet, so that'll be fun next session.