Alfhedil

The Shattered Realms

Considering I've already mused a bit about my own character, figured I'll mention here as well that I'll be playing one of the resident Realmwalkers, an incredibly eccentric, potentially slightly mad specialist in the study of the Astral Sea and someone to go to when you need to realmwalk to a place without an endpoint, or very specifically don't want to use one.

The Shattered Realms

Ohai

The Road to Sagehood: A Naruto AU

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I was thinking about making one, but I haven't yet. I'll start setting one up today and start adding people once we start approving.

@King Kindred

Yeah, I think a discord might help, though I'll go ahead and send a DM to you for now regarding some concerns. Suppose though for myself and everyone else, some more information on the Hyuuga would be appreciated? That was where I was leaning, a Taijutsu-focused character from the main-branch of the Hyuuga clan.

The Road to Sagehood: A Naruto AU

Contrary to what I said in the interest check, I do actually have some kind of rough idea at the moment. Wasn't there some kind of discord for the RP?

Naruto AU Interest Check

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Mostly a balance thing. I knew I didn't want the massacre to happen in this universe, but just in case the group was kind of big for this I didn't want to make it a Uchiha show. I did think of making one of this version's Hokage a Uchiha but I would've placed him as the Third since I was planning to remove Hiruzen.

So let's say a big shift change is that when Tobirama is a squad's sensei he gets a member of the Uchiha on his team. At the time he still hates them having a very hard time letting go of the past, but with his student he starts seeing a different side to the clan and realizes his brother may not have been wrong after all. So after a rough start he shapes the young Uchiha into a worthwhile and respected shinobi. He then goes on to become the Third Hokage and during his reign the Third Shinobi War happens. Him being Hokage gave the clan a boost in morale so they ended up training harder than normal and more and more wanted to prove just what they could do for their village so against his better judgment a lot of his clan had fought on the front lines and although they were skilled shinobi war is war so lives were claimed.

So at the moment they're not as big a clan as they once were but they are currently still repopulating their ranks and have even taken to marrying outside the clan.

@King Kindred

Yeah nah, that makes sense for how the Uchiha would still stick around and be a pretty decent shift in the Hokages and such, though I think really I just feel like it's an Uchiha Massacre of another kind in a way if you know what I mean. Not that I have a shinobi in the race to begin with, considering my two Naruto characters are a Hyuga and a Senju, that and my backlog is rather intimidating at the moment lmao. That said, the setting has always been of interest, so you know. By all means though, don't take what I say too seriously, just a fan of the series offering some thoughts.

Naruto AU Interest Check

There will be no Uchiha massacre, but they will have dwindled in number after many of them were sent to the front lines during the Third Shinobi War.

@King Kindred

I've personally had an idea floating around for a while now on an AU of the nardo setting, though with some more subtle differences in mind. Any particular reason the Uchiha get wiped out beyond balancing? An idea could be that without Madara the more moderate elements take power within the clan and perhaps even an Uchiha from the era becomes the Second Hokage, thus breaking the idea of lineages at least in Konoha. This could lead them to maintain a large presence as well within the leaf, and a long-standing rivalry with the other founding clans, particularly the Hyuga.

WH40K: Rogue Trader

I'm pretty flexible on that. On most things really.

I like the idea of him as sort of running with the same group for awhile, but if it fits your concept better I'd be fine with him sort of jumping from crew to crew pretty regularly too.

If he's been around for awhile I could have fun with him being sort of a grump, grumbling about how things were better under the previous Rogue Trader if you want to do a bit about Valeria establishing herself, but I could also have fun with him sort of taking the opposite tact. Maybe he didn't like the previous guy because he placed more constraints on Roald.

Or if he's new maybe he's kind of a dick, doubting Valeria's ability due to her youth, or her sex, or just because he hasn't seen her take charge yet. Could have fun with him talking out his ass and getting cracked down on for it.

@BangoSkank

Either way works, Giovanni was her father so there's a bit of inheriting crew in addition to the ship, the house and a gaggle of Sororitas who have a keen interest in keeping things as they are.

For now though for you and anyone else who has an interest, this here is the link to our discord: Link

WH40K: Rogue Trader

Roald Cliffbloom

Name: Roald Cliffbloom
Age: 43
Species : Ratling
Personality:
With his fellow Rogue Traders, whether alone with them or peacefully exploring a town with them, he is loud, crude, coarse, obnoxious, drunken, lecherous, gluttonous, and yet somehow still charming. He takes full advantage of his small nonthreatening stature and large eyes so that even when he presses things too far and gets a well deserved slap or shove the conversations generally keep on. He is easy to talk to, easy not to take seriously, and somehow despite how offensive he can be he rarely actually offends. He wants the things everyone wants, he's just more open about wanting them and generally wants more of them.

One of his goals is to become influential/powerful/wealthy enough to improve his peoples standing in the Empire. After the many slaughters and near genocide at Ornsworld he wants to secure a future for his people and be remembered for doing so. His secondary goal is to get laid, get paid, and repeat that cycle over and over as much as possible until he drops dead. It is often not at all clear which is the priority for Roald.

Physical Description:
Roald is small in stature, not surprising for a Ratling, and hairy, also not surprising. He's tan and oddly fit for a race commonly known for their pot bellies. He has wild overgrown eyebrows and an up turned nose scrunched up with a large forehead. He has thick messy dark brown hair which is gradually going gray and sideburns as well as a neigh permanent five o' clock shadow. His default facial expression is a frown, though it quickly turns transforms into a wry smart ass grin at the slightest hint of double entendre.

Assignment Rating: Omicron
Manifests as nothing more than him being often perceived as a lucky little git. As a Trailblazer he was often out on his own in places where if spotted he would likely quickly become a greasy hairy stain against a wall. Through whatever miracle he often seems to have inexplicable luck and occasionally a sixth sense about exactly when is a good idea to ditch a trail or hide in a crag.

Skills:
Roald is the consummate Trailblazer, having found a role that fits his natural abilities and inclinations rather well.

In town or, during his Auxilia days, around camp he is quite proficient at procuring near anything he or his unit need or want. When he chooses to he can be very outgoing and friendly, while he is almost always obnoxious and coarse. He is fairly good at disarming hostile but not yet violent strangers due to his diminutive size in the hope to gain useful information about nearby likely hostile areas or the location of fun shooty and/or explodey toys to play with.

Aboard the ship he serves as a mechanic. His small size allows him to get around the moving parts more easily and to attend to them from angles that many wouldn't be able to. His curiosity, persistence, and ample application of grease, oil, lubricant, or whatever other fluid he thinks likely to help him solve a problem have served the ship well in keeping things moving. Often times the smell of oil and muffled sound of incoherent swearing echo from the oddest sections of the ship.

Despite his often loud and obnoxious nature among his crewmates when he is on the job he is eerily capable of evading detection and remaining undetected while moving through hostile areas at a relatively high rate of speed. He can swiftly move up the sheerest cliffs and wiggle through the smallest of openings due to his small stature and considerable proportionate strength. Having moved unseen through these areas he is then able to help others navigate their dangers with minimal risk utilizing freshly made trails or old trails freshly uncovered.

When things inevitably wind their way toward some folks he is fond of shooting a lot of folks he doesn't particularly care for he utilizes some of the tech has has managed to "acquire" over the years to harass, distract, and slow down the enemy. Stealth cloaks, combat webbing, ropes, hooks, all manner of traps, and his small size and fondness for finding crevices to stick himself into (hee hee) allow him to create opportunities for himself to engage the enemy when they are at their weakest.

When it comes down to the actual shooting he uses those traps, his small size, his speed, and his accuracy with his Long-Las to confound the enemy and attempt to set them up to be ambushed by his fellow Traders or caught in their own crossfire. He has the uncanny and sometimes downright unsettling ability to set traps up in the most devious of places to inflict grievous wounds and sew discord.

Wargear:

-Vox-Caster
-Monocular Telescope
-Canteen on Belt
-Cameleoline Cloak
-Climbing Gear

-Long-Las Rifle
-Combat Knife (attached to waist)
-Various traps and trap making materials

History:
Roald's professional life began in the Militarum Auxilia. With his fellow Abhumans he served in this specialist division of the Astra Militarum as a member of a crew of Ratlings. He didn't manage to fit in quite as well as he had hoped. While his combat capabilities were exemplary his personality didn't do him many favors. Certain things are expected among a company of Ratlings but even then there are limits. Roald's inability to exist within these bounds led to his exile from the Militarum Auxilia.

He had served well as a Trailblazer. His confidence, restlessness and some tendencies toward solitude made him a perfect fit for the primary responsibilities of the role, and his penchant for explosions and sometimes rather disturbing exuberance when sending rounds into the general cranial vicinity of unsuspecting enemy troops served him well. He'd joined them in enough campaigns and saw them through enough tight spots that when his general debauchery and penchant for "borrowing" stuff from adjacent units and the populace in general got him in trouble he was assigned to stay on Bakka, participating in repairs and maintenance of the Imperial battlefleets docked there.

He figured out fairly quickly that the whole damn place was hot and smokey, the company wasn't much to look at, and there was no one and nothing fun to shoot. Though he enjoyed the work at first the sedate life of a full time mechanic would never fit him and so he sought to join on with the first Rogue Trader to make a stop on Bakka and begin his new life. From his first day in a crew he has rarely wanted for work.

@BangoSkank

Roald is pretty neat, and don't really see enough Ratling characters in my mind. He would probably most likely be seconded to one of the house guard sections on the ship or one of the more free-form combat details. My one question would be how long he's been around on the ship? We're most likely going to be 020.M42, with the last six years or so being under the daughter of the prior Rogue Trader who was a bit of a force of personality all things considered.

But on that note, I am pressing on with at the very least working some details out on the ship, on House Amantea and the Rogue Traders Giovanni Amantea and Valeria Amantea, as well as some things on Valeria's current retinue. I can also provide some links to the discord we are using for planning and talking things out for any interested.

WH40K: Rogue Trader

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It was going to be something fairly sus but not particularly chaosy; he was going to have been experimenting a little too much with intelligence for kastellan robots, machine spirits, brain implants, and other shit that could be classified as abominable intelligence.

@Andreyich

Hey, as long as there's no chaos fuckery I think it will probably be good. Might clash with the resident gremlin magos, but probably fine lol. Though suppose that depends entirely on how long your character would have been on the ship, and who he came onto the ship under. I'll provide more details after I work some more on a loose ooc tonight, but the current Rogue Trader somewhat recently inherited the ship and house.

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I was thinking they died and he had nowhere else to go since I do not know what happens to the team of a Inquisitor when the Inquisitor dies. Might be bad.

@Theyra

Typically as far as I'm aware they would go back into the gen-pop of the Inquisition as I'm fairly certain they keep a lot of staff on hand for the orders militant. Though it would most likely be on the retinue members as individuals as to whether they would continue to serve the orders or to go out into the greater galaxy. So entirely likely they could be picked up by an enterprising Rogue Trader.

Always down for 40k, I know a lot of the ones I've been in end prematurely, so I'm always down for another shot.

@Jamesyco

Another unfortunate thing about the 40K RPs, but hopefully with a more character-focused RP that can be alleviated a little. Also helps that you're already in the discord apparently lmao.

WH40K: Rogue Trader

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The idea was somebody who is running away for a tech heresy he committed, and so would not be eager to fuck with his new benefactor.

@Andreyich

Would very likely depend upon the scale of the tech heresy and just what kind, but considering Rogue Traders often have as much authority as Inquisitors there wouldn't be much issue... Unless we go to a Forge World, and then it's just keep your mechadendrites to yourself lol.

Kinda interested, would probably play a former guardsmen. Though I have a idea, of one guardmen who might had been formerly apart of a Inquisitor's team.

@Theyra

Every Rogue Trader needs to have proper combat teams just in case, I don't see any reason why a guardsman would be an issue unless of course their former employer is a little salty.