[OOC] Night of the Marked

[Lucius Cypher]

Your still open to ideas of cults and worshipers of the night though, right? Yes such thoughts are heresy to most of the Vale inhabitants, but short if having a secret service dedicated to hunting down anyone who thinks "Maybe I could become one", I'm sure there are pockets of people who try to understand the creatures if the night, for whatever reason.

[Zeroth]

Your still open to ideas of cults and worshipers of the night though, right? Yes such thoughts are heresy to most of the Vale inhabitants, but short if having a secret service dedicated to hunting down anyone who thinks "Maybe I could become one", I'm sure there are pockets of people who try to understand the creatures if the night, for whatever reason.

@Lucius Cypher

As player characters? It would take some convincing, as such characters would likely end up in direct opposition with other players, and this isn't really designed with PvP in mind. But just as a facet of the world, sure. If you're familiar with the Warhammer Fantasy setting, think of it like Chaos, and how pervasive and twisted it is as an influence--yet there are still people who worship it and become warped as a result. Or the Darkfriends of the Wheel of Time. (Though, once again, those are High Fantasy of a sort and not on the same scale as this RP.)

There are those who have "good reason" to understand the Nightkin, however. For instance, the Church would probably be the source of any information regarding their natures and how to defeat them, and studying such works might be seen as "getting yourself in deep water," because of the proximity to the ideas of the Night, but wouldn't be cause to label someone as a Night-friend.

[Lucius Cypher]

Cool, cool. You know that I won't be a cultists myself, future players might be, but I did have a plan with my nightkin involving cultists and them kidnapping women and people who have been marked.

Another question, do our brands bleed when night in come close to us, like a Brand if Sacrifice from Berserk? I think that's be cool, but totes up to you.

[Zeroth]

Cool, cool. You know that I won't be a cultists myself, future players might be, but I did have a plan with my nightkin involving cultists and them kidnapping women and people who have been marked.

Another question, do our brands bleed when night in come close to us, like a Brand if Sacrifice from Berserk? I think that's be cool, but totes up to you.

@Lucius Cypher

At the expense of being too-on-the-nose with the comparison, that sounds like it would probably be okay. Rather than just bleeding, though, it might be more interesting if the type of pain differs between people and even depending on the Nightkin that branded them. My character Arden, for example, might feel the ghostly brush of lips on his skin and a deep throbbing in his heart, while someone who was marked by a werewolf or something might feel the hair on the back of their neck rising with a painful, almost electrical tingling. I'll leave it up to the players, if they think it would make things more interesting.

I don't think such a feeling would trigger unless a Nightkin is very, very close, though. Otherwise you could just use it like a radar to track down your target monster.

[Lucius Cypher]

Fair enough. I know for my guy he essentially gets an unwanted erection, what with the nature of the succubus and to make sexual interactions for my character problematic. Why boners for everyone!

[Halvtand]

Fair enough. I know for my guy he essentially gets an unwanted erection, what with the nature of the succubus and to make sexual interactions for my character problematic. Why boners for everyone!

@Lucius Cypher

Dude, that's your mom.

[Lucius Cypher]

Ya know, that's a distinct possibility. I mean the succubus does get preggers, and she's been fucking Malkai's ancestors for generations. But best not to think too much about the possible implications of her "children".

[Halvtand]

Ya know, that's a distinct possibility. I mean the succubus does get preggers, and she's been fucking Malkai's ancestors for generations. But best not to think too much about the possible implications of her "children".

@Lucius Cypher

It's a bloody miracle that your character has more teeth than toes :P
I can't wait until some other character finds out that your character is born of a demon. The manure will hit the windmill...

[Lucius Cypher]

No no, Malkai's mother and father was human. But there may be a possibility that one if his ancestors were born from the succubus...

[Halvtand]

...
I like my version better :P

[Zeroth]

@knighthawk@Javi Wash@Sophrus@Dynamo Frokane@Lauder@FantasyChic

Sorry if I'm bugging anybody, but how are characters coming? Is there anything I could do to help the process?

[Sophrus]

@Zeroth
I just woke up I'll be working on the CS Soon, I will have it up sometime tonight.

[FantasyChic]

I've just been working. Should have one up either tomorrow or Sunday

[Lauder]

@Zeroth

I should be able to finish up tomorrow, Monday at the latest

[Zeroth]

For those of you who have ideas for other locations or bits of lore and things like that, does anyone have any ideas they would like to put on the map? Because this is driven by the players' stories, most of the locations and things that are currently on the map are just there to give us some background and some prompts if necessary--I don't have any dungeon crawls, for example, planned out. So if you would like you could even come up with something involving the locations that are already there.

[Lauder]

Name: Ahori Valkairus
Age, Gender: 27, Female

Appearance:

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Personality:
Ahori is a rather cheerful lass, almost too cheerful as most people would put it in most cases. She seems to have an extremely optimistic attitude about her despite that fact of what is happening. Though, all the happiness that she has seems to be a mask to hide how she truely feels about everything in general. This is her flaw: she will lie so that nobody is to worry about her, wanting simply to be left alone. Though her mask is also one of her greatest assets as she will not falter when things seem to be unfavorable, instead seeking to push on. That being said, she is also a very cold person as she does not seem to care much about the lives of others unless are to do something to gain her friendship and trust. Ahori is the type to avoid confrontation if she can, being afraid of breaking down in front of people. When it comes to helping people, she does purely to get rewards from it so that way she does not have to be considered poor, plus she is a bit greedy when it comes to money.

Backstory:
Ahori had been born under a house of fallen nobles, ones who have lost all honor to their family for an unknown reason to her. This had lead to her family being very angry towards one another and her, thus causing her coping mechanism to come into play at an early age. No matter what, she had a positive outlook on the future despite knowing full well that it may not happen anytime soon. However, do to the violence that her family had towards one another she had to mature faster than most kids would want to.

At the age of ten, she had already made a name for herself as a petty thief who stole bread, coin, and various other valuables that people had. This had not gone over well with her family in the slightest and it lead to many severe punishments. On a near day to day basis, she was locked within her room and not allowed to have dinner. This only reinforced her will to go and steal in order to survive in her own household. Ahori then took up a different interest in her life, dancing, while not a true job she could make bits of money off of performances. While at first she was not the best, she quickly grew in her talents as she wanted to further develop this. By fifteen, she was considered a master at her art, though still not the best that could be found in the city. Another plus is that she incorporated her dancing into her theivery so that she would not get in as much trouble in a fight.

Continuing her career was her top priority and when she hit the age of twenty-six it became even more important as she had actually started to make a good income, bringing her family together once more. However, there was one thing that began to haunt her at night, a small imp who continously followed her though no one but her could see it. It beckoned her to join it for a lifetime of power and infamy, but she refused and it had respected her choice. Though, every night it would come to her and ask to for her to join it and every night she refused. Except one night, Ahori had questioned it instead, asking why it had been doing this. It had answered that it merely wished to inhabit a new body so that it could gain power that no mortal could comprehend. After that, something began burning her stomach, a mark had appeared. When she asked why, it answered with "So I don't lose you. You will become my host even in death. I chose you so because of your skills. You are able to dance, literally, dance around attacks. If you wish to live a normal life then kill me, but know that I am always watching." With that her vendetta began.

Ahori became consumed with trying to find the imp and kill it. She drove away her friends, family, even her audeience. Her fame began to dwindle within a year, but she refused to give in and began a wider hunt for the imp, only catching glimpses of it or hearing it speak to her.

Equipment:
-Rucksack
-Iron Dagger
-A loaf of bread

Theme: Os Trabocos - Amarcatu

Other:
N/A

[Zeroth]

@Lauder

Can you clarify what the Imp hopes to achieve, this "power beyond mortal comprehension" it wants to possess her body to obtain? If it's a spoiler that you'd rather keep secret, feel free to PM me about it.

[Lauder]

Mainly the imp just wishes to have her body, the whole "power" thing is very much a lie. The most that would happen is her becoming a host to the being that would thus inhabit her until she died.

[Zeroth]

@Lauder
Alright. Everything else seems to be in order, so you can add her to the characters tab.

[Halvtand]

So, I've skimmed through the characters we have for the moment and something hit me.
It's not really that easy to find specific info about the monster that has marked our characters. May I suggest that we get a new category at the bottom (or somewhere) where we write down stuff about it? It could be really useful once we start playing and need to access info about these things, reading through the whole backstory takes too long (lazy-ass me).