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Goblins of the Wilds

And now comes one of the harder parts of a new RP.

Waiting for everyone to come and post.

Goblins of the Wilds

Several young goblins hovered outside the main door into the hillside forge. And several more by one of the windows nearby. A young girl peeking into the window whispers, "Is he at it again?" As if to answer her one of the boys nods. Punctuated by the resounding clang of a hammer on steel. Many of the young globlins maybe 2 years old all told gasp at the sparks kicking off the piece of iron that the old dark haired goblin within the forge works at. One of the girls gasping. It's not the hot metal she's watching but the ripple of the old goblins muscles. She and maybe a few others watch as Koglan Ironweaver, one of the tribes smiths, works at a length of iron.

One of the boys leans over the sill and whispers, "What do you think he's working on this time? It's not the sword like two days ago. I think that's the one in the corner there." Another boy whispers, "It's too big for a sword, and not thick enough for armor. Think it's an..." They go quiet and quickly hide as the weathered face of the goblin, streaked with sweat suddenly turns, his scarred face peering at the door and windows. Koglan grunting and hissing softly, he's not a surly sort, but he is known to be a little gruff every now and then. Again he goes back to work. The thunder of his hammer before he lifts the piece of iron up and back onto the fire.

The young goblins return to watching. One of the boys leaning forward, "I wonder if I could do that someday. Koglan needs an apprentice someday...and none of his kids wanted to be a smith." A roar booms from inside the hill forge as Koglan works the billows heating the metal up again. The young male goblin gasps, "The flames...look at them...you can feel the heat from here!" Lost in the flames he's not prepared to duck back when Koglan turns, and with two scarred hands drags several of the girls and boys into the forge through the window, "If you're just going to babble then get in here and watch closer!" The old goblin growls seating the three he managed to catch, two boys and a girl, down on a stone bench near the wall of the forge. He looks at the doors and windows, "If you've not got lessons with the shaman or your mothers then get in here and sit and watch. Maybe you'll learn something!" He returns to the forge, and pulls again, the children coming to sit down gasp in awe as the flames and heat in the forge rises. From the outside the top of the hill shimmering and spitting sparks into the air.

The old Goblin pulls the iron piece from the fire again and starts to thunder his hammer against it again, calling to the children, "I make an axe today. And maybe tomorrow. I intend to gift it to the young chieftain at some point. It's no master work, but perhaps he'll take well to a gift." His hammer falls again as he shapes the metal, "I am called Ironweaver for a reason. I read the shape of the metal, and bring it to the surface." He brings his hammer down, "Blow by blow." He shifts the metal flipping it and thundering his hammer again several times, "Moment by moment..." He looks at it then returns the axe head to the fire, "I bring out what the metal was meant to be." He points to a side of the forge, "There, a shaft of oak. Strong wood. Well grained. And hefty. Once the axe head is shaped, I'll shape the haft. Chisel and blade to whittle out the shape of the haft." he pulls the rope for the billows again, shoulders, back and arms rippling, "This is the work of a weapons and armor smith. Maybe one of you will get the urge to try it. And I may teach you." Some of the boys look interested. A few of the young girls, on their way to maturity have eyes only for the rippling muscle of the old goblin.

The old smith grins at them all, "Who knows in the end." He turns and pulls the billows again, sparks and flames rising high. Thse young goblins would stay for a few hours later to watch Koglan work. The old smith would gladly show them how he works the entire time. Hoping one of them girl or boy would catch the urge to learn how to weave iron like he did.

Goblins of the Wilds

Ah ha.

Okay I just wanted to have an idea of where we might be going. To get it in m y head what may happen and then have a more solid idea of what I might be able to do in the RP in relation to everyone else.

Goblins of the Wilds

@Aristocles@WritingWolf

You know Writing has a point. What is our plotline? What are we getting up too? I don't know if I saw anything in the opening post or not.

Goblins of the Wilds

I made him a little on the older side. Late teens as I figured it'd take awhile and an older Goblin would be more likely to be a Smith in the tribe.

Goblins of the Wilds

Name: Koglan Ironweaver

Age: 17

Gender: Male

Appearance: Standing just a little over 3 feet tall, maybe 3 inches more. This is Koglan Ironweaver, a tuft of red hair at the back of his head he braids daily to keep it out of his way the rest of his head he shaves bald weekly. His skin is a healthy brown, his shoulders, arms, and chest are heavily muscled from the hours and hours he spends daily, weekly and all through the months pounding and heated steel in his forge, and working at in the heat of his shop. His hands are ever scarred from the times he's struck himself with his hammer, or cut while using awl, chisel or shears. He has a mean white scar that trails down from just beside his right eye and down to his right jawline, from one of the few times he was on the battle field when he was much younger. Keen grey eyes flecked with gold look out at the world. And finally often seen wearing a smiths apron and underwear, and little else, but if he needs to make himself presentable he'll don a pair of leather gloves and a dark blue robe with a pair of crossed hammers embroidered onto the right shoulder.

Abilities: Master Level (for a Goblin) Weaponsmith, journeyman level (again for a goblin) Armorer, previous experience as a warrior in his younger years.

Clothing: A Goblin Smiths Master robe that blue robe with the crossed hammers on it. And a pair of underwear made from deer hides he stitched together.

Equipment: Weapon crafting tools (Smiths Hammer, tongs, anvil etc.) A fully functioning Forge set deep into the side of a hill near to the tribe town. Armorer tools (Doming hammer, chisels, awls etc). A smithing apron made of thick and strong leather.

Goblins of the Wilds

@AristoclesI've got a character in the works. Changed my rough character sheet into th eone you've put up there Aristocles.

Hope it meets your requirements. I believe it should be up by now. I may have changed it just a tad. But I believe everything is there in the character section.

Goblins of the Wilds

Okay so I don't see a character sheet, or have a clear idea of naming conventions, so until I am proven wrong I'll use Warhammer Fantasy naming styles, and make up a rudimentary char sheet. Let me know if I should change anything please.

Critical Shell - A Mecha Roleplay

@Gigan If you haven't played any of the Armored Core games Gigan, those heavy Mechwarrior/Battletech mechs which are clunky and slow, would have an Armored Core NEXT boost circles around them faster then they could fire their weapons.

It'd be funny to see, but so sad afterwards.

Senhara said awhile ago that this RP is based around the AC idea of quick, fast moving NEXTs/Frames. A poor Battletech mech would be little more then fodder. Something a nation or a faction would put in front of them to potentially slow down a Frame for a brief amount of time.

AC based Frames would be slimmed down, light, flight capable mechs. Have maybe between 3 and 6 weapons tops. Sure there are heavier quadrepedal Frames, but they are still pretty darn fast. Quad Frames would be artillery and super heavy weapon Frames I imagine. That's how they were in Armored Core. The light bipedal Frames would carry shoulder mounted grenade launchers or light cannons. And light rocket launchers and tank grade assault rifle like weapons in their hands.

I apologize if it sounds like I'm giving a lecture or something like that. There is a huge difference between the Armored Core, Battle Tech and even the Gundam Franchises. So there has to be some explanation here.

Critical Shell - A Mecha Roleplay

@Senhara Both? Like we know some of them, but not so much for others or maybe the specs are wrong because of a refit or something? I guess you could call it option 3. Make the characters think they know what they're doing and then surprise them anyway.

@Cultural Titan

I like the idea Cultural has going here really. That it all boils down to information not being quite right you know? Or information is out of date.