[OOC] Not Everything is Lost

[Genkai]

This is a DAO RP between me and @El Taco Taco and we'll be using the Dragon Age Origins plot with out own set of colorful characters.

We will begin in the Korcari Wilds with Mela (a Dalish Elf) who had been kidnapped by Flemeth and taken under her wing. She, along with two other new Grey Warden recruits, plus a senior Warden named Ingvar Hjortursen O Stone-Bearhold (an Avvar) have been tasked to find the Treaties as well as retrieve their Darkspawn blood prior to finishing The Joining. Ingvar and the others come across Flemeth and get the needed documents. After returning to Ostagar, only Mela has survived and the two Grey Wardens are tasked with lighting a beacon to signal Loghain down below. The battle goes horribly wrong and when Mela and Ingvar awaken, they discover that Flemeth has saved them. From there, they travel toward Lothering but in doing so, meet a human named Gabe who calls himself Nah. The three continue through Lothering toward Redcliffe where they come across a female (a Rivaini City Elf) who has been helping the poor souls survive the nightly attacks of the undead. The four band together to finally get to the bottom of everything, which means sneaking into the castle.

So that's our rough outline once all four main roles meet up.

From there we'll be able to roam as we like, visiting new locations, getting alliances, helping people, and kicking Darkspawn ass.

[El Taco Taco]

Looks great to me! Super stoked to get this started!

[Genkai]

I'll probably get my sheets up tonight or tomorrow. I have to dog sit for a friend and I had expected to go tomorrow afternoon but I'm being picked up tonight which puts a damper on me staying up late. At any rate, I'm excited to get going as well, it'll be nice to have a good supply of RPs before classes begin.

[El Taco Taco]

I got mega inspired to do some Inquisition styled Tarot card art, so I'm working on those. I'll get CS's up, but it might be a little bit before they have updated art.

[Genkai]

No worries, I got down the basics of mine but will go back and flesh out their history (but not too much, probably just 1-2 paragraphs each) later today and figure out what sort of pictures I'll dig up.

[El Taco Taco]

Since it might be a little while until the art gets finished, here's some quick descriptions.

I use the model Karol Santos as my reference for Gweyr's face. Gweyr's complexion is a little darker, and she's got red hair and elfiness, obvs, but that's p much her face.

And I'm going to use Jason Momoa as Ingvar's face, probably with a bushy beard. Woosh!

[Genkai]

If you're going to use real life appearances, I'll need to go hunt some down too since it's hard for me to visually compare one art form to another, I'll try and edit them into my CS. ^^;

[Genkai]

I know you haven't finished your sheets yet so let me know when you're ready to get rolling or if this isn't going to work out. I'm just trying to figure out the active stuff and things that may be on some kind of hiatus before I go back to school.

[El Taco Taco]

Oh, no, I'm totally going to finish them, I've just been a bit swamped. My husband just went on leave and he's been monopolising my attention. Sorry for the delay!

[Genkai]

That's alright! I have a brother in the service too, so whenever he gets time to come hone, he usually gets most of my attention. I just wanted to know we were still on. ^^;

[El Taco Taco]

Yeah, it's very much a life of 'YOU'RE HERE LET'S DO ALL THESE THINGS'. I have my husband until halfway through October, but he'll be out doing Magic stuff a lot, so I will be able to get some posts done!

I've got Ingvar's little codex thing up--it isn't hella fancy, but it'll do.

All that's left is to start, ahhhhh

I have about 3 starter posts to write right meow--could I ask you to do the honors?

[Genkai]

I'll try and get an intro up today. I no longer have a class on Monday nights so that takes some stress off my shoulders. I'm glad you've got your man for a good amount of time though. ^^

[Genkai]

It's not the best of starters but it's what I could do. ^^;

[El Taco Taco]

It's awesome! I'll get a post up asap c:

[Genkai]

Thanks, I'll get my reply hopefully tomorrow, if not Wed. I've been behind in reading for this one class and it's 500 pages of boring prose so it's been a lot to get through. And yesterday I was busy with birthday celebrations but I should get back to normal soon. ^^; And for my birthday I wound up getting DA2 so I'll be able to play that in the next coming months I hope.

[El Taco Taco]

No worries! Sorry for disappearing--the joy of being sick! I hope school is treating you well. (:

[Genkai]

School is keeping me so busy, I can't imagine adding one another 4 more units come January...so I might not. I have a lot of reading to do which keeps me offline since ya know, if I had stuff to write, I'd be online multitasking. It's really annoying since I'm not a fan of extensive reading and would thus, rather write but at least I'm doing a lot of reading AND writing which would be worse...

I am gonna get you a post today and hopefully someone else. It's kinda nice my RPs are so slow paced but I kinda wish they weren't so I'd get more motivation to log online. At any rate, I hope you're feeling better?

[El Taco Taco]

No worries! Trust me, I understand the struggle of school-life balance. Shit is hard. <3 Take your time!

I'm getting there, slowly but surely. (: I just have to keep trudging along and let my meds get sorted. With any luck, I'll be feeling better within the month.

[Genkai]

I may not even get to that other person's post but I am working on this one because DAO is awesome and I know we had plans and I'd like for us to see them through, delays aside haha. I've got hold of a new day planner and I've been able to structure time better and keep track of the books and quizzes and with NaNoWriMo coming up, I'm making time where I can, it's almost a fun game.

Medication can be tricky so make sure you're safe trying to find what works and doesn't work. Hopefully it doesn't take a month to feel better but you never know, any help helps. ^^

[El Taco Taco]

I LIVE.

I took a totally unannounced hiatus to spend time with my husband, like a jerkbutt! He just left on deployment for most of the year, so I wanted to maximise dat time, and I had to adult like crazy.

BUT I RETURN.

Interested in picking this back up?