Banzai Tracers

Crumbling Kingdoms: A player driven intrigue plot set after the fall of a great empire

Addendum

Here is a claim for the County of Brazen.

County of Brazen

This seemed like a decent sized county. Usually i'd like a large slice of sparsely populated land with many mountains on the coast but this will have to do. Maybe there are some mountains in Brazen?

Places of note:
Town of Salts:
Salts town is a prosperous town of merchants dealing in salt Most of which they produce themselves by heating salt water. The wood and charcoal used comes from Cses a long-time ally. They then transport it by sea to the rest of the land. They famously provide the salt for the Kings table as well as hold a monopoly on the salt for Hyoun and their cavalry. They are a Summerwind clan settlement and use Summerwind merchants exclusively they also do a large amount of ship building and are home to many traditions of shipwright families. The Shipwright families also produce most of the buildings giving them a unique sloping wooden appearance which is good during the winter snow and whipperwinds. It is a common tale that the winter winds in Salts can whip so fast they can cut you on the cheek. Their diet also includes a large amount of seaweed and game birds leading to an unusual culinary culture. Salts is administrated by the central branch of the Summerwind clan. Currently Convels sister administrates it, but she is of equal rank to the elders and grandfathers of House Summerwind. Indeed the Elders of the town also have the ear of the grandfathers and she does a good job of accommodating them both in Witenagemot, in this function she acts as judge and minute taker.

Port Pragma:
At many points in time the Town of Murren has changed hands between the Summerwinds and the Lord of Hyoun. Indeed they are bitter rivals. Murren has a large population of Summerwind clansmen, making about 10% of the population. Murren is something of a crossroads town that connects Hyoumkhill with the rest of Cobsterra. They can leavy large taxes, fines and inducements on Hyoumkhill goods passing through. At present Hyoun controls Murren as given by the Regent, however Murren lacks any connection to the sea, which would grant a huge boon to its finances. Therefore in recent time The Summerwind Counts of Brazen have created a large fortress-port town called Pragma within their territory that is only a few miles from Murren. Thus the trade from Summerwind can reach Hyoumkhill. Pragma is 80% Summerwind by birth. The Counts personal stables are located in Pragma. Horse breeding is quickly becoming more than a passing interest for Covel. Pragma and its fort is operated by Convels cousin. Willis Summerwind.

Other Settlements:
The Summerwinds are close allies with Cses however not many of them journey to live in Cses. They instead inhabit small hamlets all around the coast too small and numerous to plot on a map. Further inland the hamlets are generally prey to bandits and highwaymen so their homes are generally built sturdy out of rocks "small and tall". The extension of territory towards Cobsterra is more of a responsibility than a privilege. It marks that the King has made Summerwind responsible for policing the bandits of almost half the distance towards Cobsterra out of his own pocket. With reference to Cobsterra itself more and more Summerwind clan each year are travelling to the city to sell goods and end up taking up permanent residences.

Marriage Ties:
The Clansmen themselves are free to marry whoever they want. They either marry other Summerwinds or people from nearby towns. Indeed the Clan has always operated a principle that anyone who took up residence in a Summerwind town or hamlet were soon given the last name Summerwind. So their genetic stock is not uniform and is instead measured in branches. Genialogy is often conducted by Clan Remembrancers who record every detail of importance. Summerwind Remembrancers are actually quite elite and are considered gentlemen.

Scions of House Summerwind:
TBD i have to go to work now.

Summerwind Holdings:
TBD.

Crumbling Kingdoms: A player driven intrigue plot set after the fall of a great empire

Character Sheet:

Basic info

Name: Convel Summerwind
Nicknames/Aliases: "that bastard over 'ere frum the house Summmerwind." "Lord Captain Summerwind" "Count Summerwind."
Appearance:

Dark Blackish gambeson with virtical quilting, double breasted tied at the right side with simple brown leather ribbons and holes. Short sleeved. Three quarter length drop ending above the knee. It has small wings which cover the neck but not the jugular.

Dark Blackish-brown leather bracers with iron studs, medium thickness, laced with more ribbon. Indeterminate cashmere/mohair goat fur insulation layer underneath. Cheeky letter knife concealed under right bracer.

A silk wrap sash around his waist of the distinctive Summerwind House livery.

Over the top of the silk sash is his sword belt. Dark Blaskish-brown belt with ornate brass buckle with two belt hole forks. The tongue of the belt is very long and tied back under, over the top and through the rest of the belt in a clan fashion. The sword scabbard is held i place by a standard two points sling made of lighter guage leather belt attached to the main belt.

Standard black leather boots with folded down lip. The lip is held in place by two small buckles which also act as a form of studded armour. The boots are lined with goat fur.

Silk gloves.

Unusual sword design. Dueling Khopesh?
One handed flanged mace.

He keeps his hair long to about the bottom of the neck. His hair is shiny black, youthful and densely thick.

Dark Green sheeps wool cape with foxes winter pelt.

Dark Green sheeps wool breeches tied at the bottom with black goats wool gaters.

Neck-scarf Gaiter made from Blackish goats wool.

Age: 28
Sex: Male

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Skill info

Skills: Choose at least 3 things that your character is trained in or good at. Rate each skill 1 through 3 stars, you have 8 stars to assign. The more stars, the better. Try and give a general explanation of each skill

Strategy: ** (long term goals over short ones)
Trading: ** (can make or break down deals)
Sailing: * (can sail a large ship)
Reflexes: * (fast muscle reflexes)
Oration: * (can communicate clearly to groups)
Reading: * (can read and understand very fast)

Magic Skills: Consult with me in a PM before filling this out

PM Message: Sent / Not Sent

Knowledges: Anything your character is particularly knowledgeable about. You have 4 stars to spend here in the same way as skills

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Teaching: ** (heuristic)
Intelligence Gathering: ** (Scouting, observation, Intrigue??)

Driving info

Goals: To increase the eminence of the Clan Summerwind, both in legal rights and financial power. To create the foremost merchant trader fleet on the seas. So that never again will the Clan be subject to ethnic cleansing as was perpetrated in the past. So that no friend of Clan Summerwind would ever have to fight alone.

Belief/Motto: "Start right, End right."
Drive: Prestige

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Power info

Allegiance Owed:
The King / Queen.
House Pennikis
Upper Council.
Lower Council.

Allegiance Received:
There are 3 other ship Captains that serve for him in exchange for coin. All 3 of them are Summerwinds.
All of Clan Summerwind are beholden to the Chieftain.
Housecarl not yet selected.

Debts Owed:
All who serve upon the ships he controls have a form of sick pay and medical retirement fund. Should they be wounded grievously while at work or at war they receive a payout. The total fund in reserve is about 300 gold pieces.

Debts Received:
Waylon Hill owes him a chicken, but hes never collected out of shame.

Past Commendable Deeds:
Saved a man from drowning once.

Past Condemnable Deeds:
Not much is known, but a man once approached him with some kind of proposition. He killed him without so much as a word.

Secrets:
"I steal books every now and again and have never really felt ashamed of it..."

Titles:
Count of Brazen (County)
Protector of Salts (Town)
Lord Captain of Summmerwind merchant ships.
Lord of Clan Summmerwind.
Freedom of the Town of Salts.

Marriage Ties:
None yet.

Crumbling Kingdoms: A player driven intrigue plot set after the fall of a great empire

Character generation place holder.

[Edit] early details:
Name: Convel Summerwind
Titles: Ship Captain?

Ive grown too tired to proof read my work, i shall wait until tomorrow and per chance a dream will arive and it will be much improved.

Tales from the Roadside: S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Role-play

Sable

Name: Sable
Gender: Male
Age: 28
Description:
Wears a gas mask with x2 reenforced stainless steel braid pipes leading to two seperate gas filters mounted on the back of his neck on kydex and attached with popper fasteners to his clothing. A seperate hose leads to a 1.5L Kevlar Oxygen canister.
For his cloathing he wears a black pilots flight suit as it is Nomex and fire resistant. Underneith he wears Butyl rubber suit bodyglove, which is custom tailored to his hight and size (he hired a tailor to do this). He also covered it with a lead containing polymer that he cludged to deal with high cases of X-ray and Gamma ray radiation. He needs to reapply the polymer every week or so as it rubs off as dust and is also water soluble. He also wears a dentists lead collar and groin protector.
OPS Modular Belt Mount MOLLE Panel Black x2, w/ 2 looped AK mag pouches & 2 pistol pouches.
Cool shirt systems CW-M Cool Water White. Connected to a small external 1.5L camelbak filled with ice water and potassium iodide tablets. Camelbak is filled with ice water. Straw is made to connect with attachment point on gas mask.
Merrel MOAB 2 light boots in black. $172.86

Occupation and skills:
Academic:
BSc (Hons) Criminology (Social And Political Science) at Imperial College London.
Duke of Edenburgh Award (gold)

Hobbies:
Science magazines.
Puzzle games.
Gear-queer.
Non-fiction books.
Turn based strategy war computer games.

Character history:
Sable doesnt talk about his past. Though it is clear he spent allot of time in Britain as he has British accent, though it has a slight American twang that only westerners would notice, and only some of the time. He intends to work for the Valentine Institute as a freelance.

How did he find out about the zone? Hes smart, and researches allot of different subjects. The official term for what he does is Political Risk Analysis and Global Arms Market Analysis, however this is just a side hobby as he is actually trained in detective work. While he was still in college Chernobyl appeared on his radar. At first it was nothing more than a passing interest into the effects of radiation longterm on the ecosystem. It was only later in University that it kept appearing again on his radar. There was military activity in the area which is nothing new, however he had detected a string of cover-ups by Russia dating as early as the 1990s, after the fall of the soviets! Logic dictates that there is nothing of value to cover up so long after the meltdown. So why all the secrecy? After a while he managed to translate some science papers out of Ukrainian on the issue and found unusual phenomena reports and anomalies. Always being interested in science he decided to investigate for himself. He took out a bank loan to do his masters in criminology aswell as a gap year funding. He then promptly went to the Ukraine.

Equipment:
I know im going overboard about the gear. But this is how i have my fun. Also a fun fact is that most of this will not come to more than 8 or 9 thousand dollars. However if you ever find yourself in a nuclear apocolypse, you might want to look up this gear list, its significantly better than the stuff the army uses. The only stuff i actually would say is modern is the fabrics i use. The guns are old AF and are real world second hands not produced anymore. If you dont like the detail i've put in then oh well, i had fun and learnt allot compiling this list. But i'd really like to see how it plays out in the zone.

Rifle:
Second hand SIG 556R 7.62X39 16 inch 30RD BLK - $900
"A brother of the SGI 5k that fires the AK round and uses the same mags."
Meprolight M21 $449. Energetic Armament VOX $600. x3 40rd promags $18x3.
WeaponTech AK47 Enhanced Bolt Hold Open Follower x3 Pack $14.95x3
Side canted optic mount for weaver 2.5 x7 x32 scope 10oz scope $207.51

Rifle:
Second hand Dan Wesson classic commander bobtail 10mm 36.5oz 4" barrel. $1,050.77
Tritium front sight (green).
Chip McCormick POWER MAG (11rd) $30.42
M26 Taser $1,098
Walther PPS 9mm (8rd).

Armour:
DKX Max lvl 3 LIGHTWEIGHT Armor Plate Swimmers cut 10x12 M3 $525 (Rifle)
Kevlar back plate lvl 2 (Pistol and Shrapnel)
Kevlar neck plate gorget lvl 3 (Rifle)
Backbay USA's Ripper Composite System Armor Carrier. Black.

Tools:
Lock picks.
Sog zoom tanto blade folding knife.
Stryker molle kydex holster for 1911. Black
Leatherman juice s2 multitool.
Ogio No Drag Mach 5 Bag w/ added large molle zip pouches riveted to the outside.
Gore tex hood.
tub of Vaseline for sealing cracks in the gas mask.
BDSM Latex Rubber Spray for sealing holes in the Butyl rubber suit.
Quick clot bandages x5 in a plastic Tupperware box.
Anti-rads / potassium iodide.
Epi pens w/ adrenalin.
Morphene syrettes + large supply of 400mg Ibuprophin tablets.
Smart Geiger Mini phone app Geiger counter. x2 (1 on an old phone, 1 on a new phone.)
Industrial grade Geiger counter. x1
Nikon Monarch 7 Binoculars w/ waterproof zip holster.
Pack of lense cloths.

An Error in Morality (A Cyberpunk Story)

[quote=@TolkienBlackGuy]
The intrinsic value of people’s enthusiasm is unshackled by the context of a real or fictional environment. So long as the world accords recognition for applied fulfillment of this enthusiasm it stands that people would not lose touch with their own reality. Reality, being the foundation of an individual's conventional wisdom, is a degree of experience that belongs to that single person. Hence, any such individual reality can be perceived by others as nothing more than mere imagination -- Mamoru Oshii

Incorrect.

Reality is measured by what you cannot do, not what you can.

Warhammer 40k: Beyond Civilisations Grasp... - A Rogue Trader RP (Full, for now)

Darn i wish i'd been here for the recruitment...

Crumbling Kingdoms: A player driven intrigue plot set after the fall of a great empire

Whats the rough time period of the setting?

Bizarre Patrol (Nathan Drake/Dark Universe: The Mummy style Archeology & Monster Hunting)

@TolkienBlackGuy
I also like this sort of thing. Whenever i make a character i generally cannot resist making a team for them, i enjoy making organisations almost as much as playing characters.

I like the option 2 "Eye of Odin" the best as i think it is the one that could conceal the most surprises and will allow allot of writing latitude to make your own universe.

Anyway here is a first draft of some characters that i might use. Think of it as a player resume.



Enter Professor Steven Pair, Professor of European history at Imperial College London. Outwardly, a historian of unremarkable stock, author of two books, both little known: 1.) Study of Aryan resistance movements to Nazism 1919-1945. 2.) Meta-analysis of Psychological Warfare In the Age of Sword. He is also the creator of the Society of Neoteric Historians, an invitation only secret society for those seeking out to experience history as it is being made.

Activities of the society are generally closely guarded secrets, but range from watching as the Brexit Referendum votes were televised in a function room, to being present at the 2002 Million man Hugo Chavez Resignation march in Venezuela. New members are generally proposed by Professor Pair and are then selected by committee of all the previous members. The prerequisites are "A proven love of history, a strong nerve and stiff upper lip." All candidates are thoroughly dox'd before approach, and usually have one of their university assignments or graduate thesis provided by Pair. The organisation is generally apolitical does not seek to preference any ideology for reasons of professional impartiality.

The dues paid to the society are small, generally grossing not much more than a few thousand pounds per year for book keeping. They also keep Ross Brand, an industrial saboteur, on retainer.

The current known members of the group are:
Addison Lewis, of London. BA in Italian History, studied under Pair. Dyslexic.


Jonas van Beyeren, of New York. A soft-spoken American who studied in London. BA in History and European studies. Always impeccably dressed. Excellent memory.


Ross Brand, of London. History largely falsified. Comes highly recommended. Industrial Saboteur / Private Investigator. Occasionally contacted.


Shelley Sanders, of Arizona. World class IPSC and 3 Gun shooter. Hot housed by father. Uses 1911 pistol. Occasionally contacted.


Jake "Satchel" Blaine, of New York. Parkour enthusiast, father was in Delta Force. Recorded document delivery, employed with Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz Law firm. Occasionally contacted.

Naruto - Rise of the Red Cloud

I've been makeing a character for a few days. Ive got his background story and ive started on his jutsu. Though i feel as though he isnt strong enough. I hope i dont get called OP because he really isnt, i'll rank his jutsu fairly low so be sure to check out exactly what level something is before assuming its top level. He uses audio genjutsu and his chakra nature is fire. He also works with a ninnekko!

Naruto - Rise of the Red Cloud - Semi-Sand Box Rp

This sounds awesome, especially the part about determining your own missions. I also want to form my own village. Im interested in creating my own organisation and detailing each facet and department of it (these can be abstracted when not in use). Then determining goals and how to achive those.

I think that its a good move to remove some of the more powerful kekkei genkai, or at the very least ringfence them so that they exist as the top power tier, but arnt available to PCs. I think not having some of them would essentially de-fang the great villages but if they were too widespread then they'd be easy to learn.

Part of what interests me about Naruto is the possibility to create new ninja abilities. I dont know all of them because im still on shuppuden, but im more interested in creating than acquiring like some great eyeball quest. A long time ago i created 3 ninja for a poor village that had differing abilities, they were all really unique and i gave them to a GM i was co-gming with for a rival village squad. If you let me join you might see some of these. I suppose it also helps that i read a few books on ninjas aswell.

One thing i'd like to do in this game is not necessarily being evil, just independent, being calm and relaxed is much more conducive to success... and chakra control. I'll be employing my own philosophies for the organistion. However naturally i'm a team player and will work with my team to keep them happy.