Ceta de Cloyes

Waterworld

I think we should start in the docks right off the bat, around where everyone's ships are tied off. Anyone who doesn't have a ship can be there looking to trade with the ships for fish or scavenged stuff or whatever it is people want. We can kinda be already aware of each other in that vague way that skittish neighbors are? Like oh, that's Iris, her boat is tied to the same jetty as mine, I've seen her sewing or weaving or something.

Then, depending on what direction we want to go, we can overhear rumors from npc passersby; someone found new ruins to scavenge, a rich trader ship sank, the Musaeum had been spotted, etc. etc.

Waterworld

Let’s drum up some plot yeah? I know this has the slice of life tag but can’t hurt to look at the bigger picture a bit. It looks like so far we’ve got two chars looking for the Musaeum, which may or may not turn up. Said characters also have their own personal antagonists to contend with, and their own connections in different communities. They have their own boats to call home, their own supplies, their own professions to make a living with. Someone else has been checked in, whatever that means, but I haven’t seen what they’ve got down.

So it looks to me we’re likely to go one of two ways; we’ve got the skill and supply to become mobile right away, which having our group fly somewhat solo could be interesting, or we could end up playing school on the Musaeum lmao, again that could be cool too even if it’s just because I want to see a taste of what Iris’ waterworld utopia looks like. Oh or we could get sucked into Sigarmyth itself, though neither of the two current characters strike me as being in a sedentary mood right now. Honestly I’m game for whatever at this point, I laid out my character so that options are abundant, maximum flexibility.

Striking out on our own, I don’t think we’ll have enough characters to say we have our own drifting town, but a little fleet of allied go-getters sounds nice. We could chase down some treasure, scavenge a drowned city, find new lands- I really like the idea of finding some kind of floating island. I learned somewhere that wildlife from mainland South America was sometimes washed up on the Galapagos carried by chunks of floating land that broke off from earthquakes or floods or something, which is admittedly shaky as far as proof of concepts go, but floating islands man. Accidentally discovering a wild new island, floating or otherwise, all for ourselves is very appealing to me :)

On the other hand getting into the heart of the water world’s scholastic community also sounds good, more chill for sure but still good. I think I’d enjoy a relaxed setting focused on learning about the world from a new perspective, healing from the turbulent lives the characters are coming from, and bonding together where we have time to focus on the interactions themselves instead of tackling a hostile environment.

I’m not as interested as much in getting pulled into Sigarmyth’s sphere, but I can’t quite put my finger on why. I think it’s because it feels like a distraction rather than either an escapist detour or pressing our goals. The city feels like a pit stop, not progress or subversion yknow? My mind can definitely be changed on that though, I see there’s been a lot of thought put into this location especially and if there’s great enough incentive for the characters I’m all for diving in.

About the personal vendettas though, I know in Iris’ backstory it’s mentioned that she might want to hunt down the Leviathan, and Zash has history with the White Wind, but while Iris could go all avenging angel I don’t think either of them are the type to just decide to go on a manhunt - unless something stressful and traumatizing crops up that reopens old grievances anyway.

Waterworld

Name: Zashahim Gemelgaid

Age: 24

Race: Syborn

Occupation: Engineer

Personality: Zash is a generous and sincere soul, with a somewhat unapproachable mien. He means well, but is shyly awkward and envious of others, especially of the ease with which they interact, frequently marring his outward expressions with frustration and discontent. He has a dry wit and can be described as mild mannered, as well as descreet and careful, never causing offense or attracting much attention. Earnestly supportive and observant, Zash is a good friend to have with his easygoing lifestyle and enthusiastic positivity.

Religion: Kitalohiya, or just Kital, is a loosely structured belief system centered on the core concepts of self-invention and an evolving world. The religion is a blend of spiritual and technical, faith and fact. Priests are called savants, beneath them are students, taught one-on-one in the style of a master and an apprentice, though sometimes a savant will have more than one student. Students become adepts before savants, defined as knowledgeable but untested.

Skills:
- Fluent in Komunaj, Tralian, and Esperanto.
- Swimming, free diving.
- Waterworld life skills.
- Proficient ability in carpentry, pottery, and metallurgy.
- Proficient understanding of mathematics, biology, and engineering.

Weapons: Zash has a collection of sharp and pointy bits from his various attempts at weaponsmithing, and aside from a sturdy harpoon most are short swords with asymmetric blades, but his weapon of choice is a crossbow made for him by his former teacher.

Items:
- Adept's Toolbox,
+ Miscellaneous Tools.
+ Electric blowtorch.
+ Grappling hook.
+ Wires, nails, screws.
+ Batteries.
- Portable solar charger.
- Loose linen clothing, leather boots, woolen coat.
- Dive kit,
+ Diving mask, scuba fins, air bladder.
- Multicolored plastic hammock.
- Orange bonsai tree.
- Seven peables on an anklet.

Boat/Home:

Art by Arash Razavi

Description:
- 173 cm, 5'8 ft.
- 73 kg, 161 lbs.
- Black hair, naturally curly but usually slicked back.
- Athletic build, light brown skin tone.
- Bar code tattoo on the right side of his neck.
- Loose clothes in light colors.
- Various wire bracelets, cord necklaces.

Background: Zash's mother, Rama, was born in Tamzin. She grew up there with seven siblings and no parents, but she was intelligent and clever. When her family lost everything in a fire, she made a plan to leave it all behind and forge a new life for herself. Her first stop was Bogorta chasing rumors of the Domini, and there she found a Scholar of the Musaeum who was hoping to meet up with the Syans. She told him of her wish and he took her on as a student, and together they found passage to Kilimazia where the Syans was meant to dock next. It was a few years before the Dominus ship came, but by then she had refined her plan to be foolproof.

Zash spent his first year of life aboard the Syans, but his mother wasn't fit to join them and soon they sent the two back into the world. They took his fingerprints and recorded his information in case they heard from him again, and upon his mother's request they granted him an identification card. Later she would arrange to have the ID's bar code tattooed on the right side of his neck, a mark of pride that her child was special. It was all part of his mother's plan; to acquire a child that would be healthy and smart, and then use that promised potential to secure a place on a less restricted Dominus. Rama, Zash, and Dean, their Scholar friend, left to seek out the next step in their voyage; the Jackal.

Let off at Sigarmyth, they settled in to wait for the ship's arrival. Dean took over a local school, tutoring both Zash and his mother on the side, while Rama became a sort of handywoman, fixing and repairing everything from furniture to air tanks to jewelry. The Jackal came when Zash was four, he and Rama said their farewells and bartered their way aboard. In exchange for a place on the Dominus ship itself she would trade the honey preserves she'd been saving, and her Syborn son would become an apprentice to someone of rank and status. It was not as smooth a deal as she had thought it would be, the Dominus ships were exclusive for a reason, but she made it work. For a while.

Zash found himself apprenticed to Rado Bladić, a savant of Kitalohiya, a technologists' religion. For fifteen years they made their living on the Jackal. Rama's plan had worked, for the most part; her son was a talented and integral member of a Dominus' community, and the more he improved and the more they invested in him, the more irreplaceable they both became. Until Chulyin of Unala arrived and brought with them news from Tamzin; Rama was the last of her siblings, her nephew Taanir was newly orphaned only months ago, with a much younger sister to take care of. Rama was not exactly living it up in the lap of luxury, but her home was safe, secure, stable, all the things she'd dreamed of and dared to hope for when growing up, but there was one thing she overlooked; she was a mother now. She always knew she'd grow attached to her son, even when she was just coming up with her grand plan, but she never expected how much it would affect her.

To her own surprise and dismay, Rama gave it all up to return to the dinky shithole of her birth to comfort and care for a family that didn't know her. Zash agreed to join her, having finished his apprenticeship and halfway to savant himself, but promised Rado he'd return. They boarded Chulyin of Unala's boat, a small steam bus, and cast off for home. Unfortunately for them, Unala was a codename that stood for West Wind, a clan of pirate mercenaries. Chulyin waited until they were well out of sight of the Jackal before making their move; mother and son woke to find themselves in chains, because you see, Chulyin had not lied to them, Taanir and his sister Jada really were newly orphaned kin of theirs, but Taanir was about to become the Governor. West Wind had dealings with his competition, and while they'd not known Zash and Rama even existed, Chulyin wasn't about to let the opportunity pass.

Their captivity lasted only three days before Zash unscrewed the bindings and cut the pirate down from behind. They nearly returned to the Jackal then and there, but decided to forge on and warn their lost family of the West Wind's alliance with their competition. A whirlwind adventure then ensued, complete with drama, politics, revelations, a fair bit of murder, and even a dash of romance. Rama reunited with Dean, the Scholar she'd left behind in Bogorta, as well as met and all but adopted her sister's children. Taanir became the Governor with a landslide victory after his opponent was revealed to have consorted with pirates, and Jada was saved from the fate of slavery. Zash kept Chulyin's steam bus, and spent the next few years helping secure his family and practicing his skills.

In time though, Zash followed in his mother's footsteps and made a grand plan of his own; the Musaeum was rumored to be headed for Sigarmyth, and when it got there he would be waiting.

Waterworld

Name: Zashahim Gemelgaid

Age: 24

Race: Syborn

Occupation: Engineer

Personality: Zash is a generous and sincere soul, with a somewhat unapproachable mien. He means well, but is shyly awkward and envious of others, especially of the ease with which they interact, frequently marring his outward expressions with frustration and discontent. He has a dry wit and can be described as mild mannered, as well as descreet and careful, never causing offense or attracting much attention. Earnestly supportive and observant, Zash is a good friend to have with his easygoing lifestyle and enthusiastic positivity.

Religion: Kitalohiya, or just Kital, is a loosely structured belief system centered on the core concepts of self-invention and an evolving world. The religion is a blend of spiritual and technical, faith and fact. Priests are called savants, beneath them are students, taught one-on-one in the style of a master and an apprentice, though sometimes a savant will have more than one student. Students become adepts before savants, defined as knowledgeable but untested.

Skills:
- Fluent in Komunaj, Tralian, and Esperanto.
- Swimming, free diving.
- Waterworld life skills.
- Proficient ability in carpentry, pottery, and metallurgy.
- Proficient understanding of mathematics, biology, and engineering.

Weapons: Zash has a collection of sharp and pointy bits from his various attempts at weaponsmithing, and aside from a sturdy harpoon most are short swords with asymmetric blades, but his weapon of choice is a crossbow made for him by his former teacher.

Items:
- Adept's Toolbox,
+ Miscellaneous Tools.
+ Electric blowtorch.
+ Grappling hook.
+ Wires, nails, screws.
+ Batteries.
- Portable solar charger.
- Loose linen clothing, leather boots, woolen coat.
- Dive kit,
+ Diving mask, scuba fins, air bladder.
- Multicolored plastic hammock.
- Orange bonsai tree.
- Seven peables on an anklet.

Boat/Home:

Art by Arash Razavi

Description:
- 173 cm, 5'8 ft.
- 73 kg, 161 lbs.
- Black hair, naturally curly but usually slicked back.
- Athletic build, light brown skin tone.
- Bar code tattoo on the right side of his neck.
- Loose clothes in light colors.
- Various wire bracelets, cord necklaces.

Background: Zash's mother, Rama, was born in Tamzin. She grew up there with seven siblings and no parents, but she was intelligent and clever. When her family lost everything in a fire, she made a plan to leave it all behind and forge a new life for herself. Her first stop was Bogorta chasing rumors of the Domini, and there she found a Scholar of the Musaeum who was hoping to meet up with the Syans. She told him of her wish and he took her on as a student, and together they found passage to Kilimazia where the Syans was meant to dock next. It was a few years before the Dominus ship came, but by then she had refined her plan to be foolproof.

Zash spent his first year of life aboard the Syans, but his mother wasn't fit to join them and soon they sent the two back into the world. They took his fingerprints and recorded his information in case they heard from him again, and upon his mother's request they granted him an identification card. Later she would arrange to have the ID's bar code tattooed on the right side of his neck, a mark of pride that her child was special. It was all part of his mother's plan; to acquire a child that would be healthy and smart, and then use that promised potential to secure a place on a less restricted Dominus. Rama, Zash, and Dean, their Scholar friend, left to seek out the next step in their voyage; the Jackal.

Let off at Sigarmyth, they settled in to wait for the ship's arrival. Dean took over a local school, tutoring both Zash and his mother on the side, while Rama became a sort of handywoman, fixing and repairing everything from furniture to air tanks to jewelry. The Jackal came when Zash was four, he and Rama said their farewells and bartered their way aboard. In exchange for a place on the Dominus ship itself she would trade the honey preserves she'd been saving, and her Syborn son would become an apprentice to someone of rank and status. It was not as smooth a deal as she had thought it would be, the Dominus ships were exclusive for a reason, but she made it work. For a while.

Zash found himself apprenticed to Rado Bladić, a savant of Kitalohiya, a technologists' religion. For fifteen years they made their living on the Jackal. Rama's plan had worked, for the most part; her son was a talented and integral member of a Dominus' community, and the more he improved and the more they invested in him, the more irreplaceable they both became. Until Chulyin of Unala arrived and brought with them news from Tamzin; Rama was the last of her siblings, her nephew Taanir was newly orphaned only months ago, with a much younger sister to take care of. Rama was not exactly living it up in the lap of luxury, but her home was safe, secure, stable, all the things she'd dreamed of and dared to hope for when growing up, but there was one thing she overlooked; she was a mother now. She always knew she'd grow attached to her son, even when she was just coming up with her grand plan, but she never expected how much it would affect her.

To her own surprise and dismay, Rama gave it all up to return to the dinky shithole of her birth to comfort and care for a family that didn't know her. Zash agreed to join her, having finished his apprenticeship and halfway to savant himself, but promised Rado he'd return. They boarded Chulyin of Unala's boat, a small steam bus, and cast off for home. Unfortunately for them, Unala was a codename that stood for West Wind, a clan of pirate mercenaries. Chulyin waited until they were well out of sight of the Jackal before making their move; mother and son woke to find themselves in chains, because you see, Chulyin had not lied to them, Taanir and his sister Jada really were newly orphaned kin of theirs, but Taanir was about to become the Governor. West Wind had dealings with his competition, and while they'd not known Zash and Rama even existed, Chulyin wasn't about to let the opportunity pass.

Their captivity lasted only three days before Zash unscrewed the bindings and cut the pirate down from behind. They nearly returned to the Jackal then and there, but decided to forge on and warn their lost family of the West Wind's alliance with their competition. A whirlwind adventure then ensued, complete with drama, politics, revelations, a fair bit of murder, and even a dash of romance. Rama reunited with Dean, the Scholar she'd left behind in Bogorta, as well as met and all but adopted her sister's children. Taanir became the Governor with a landslide victory after his opponent was revealed to have consorted with pirates, and Jada was saved from the fate of slavery. Zash kept Chulyin's steam bus, and spent the next few years helping secure his family and practicing his skills.

In time though, Zash followed in his mother's footsteps and made a grand plan of his own; the Musaeum was rumored to be headed for Sigarmyth, and when it got there he would be waiting.

Waterworld

Yeah I'm halfway through a character sheet, have been for a bit lmao, but I've spent like the last three days trying to wrap my head around the mechanics of this world. I want to make a sort of tinker-type character, smithing and scavenging, that type of thing, and a tiny smidge of electricity too, batteries or radios, but it's been an exercise in patience to navigate.

My thoughts here are like... wood rots and decays and wont last, and without huge landmasses covered in forests wood is going to be a premium good, but loads of metals could be scavenged and made to float, and people have to build their boats out of something right? But what kind of tools would a waterworld engineer/technician carry? How could someone be mobile when the old styles of doing things require large af forges and shizz, so I've been researching primitive blow torches and how to charge batteries, and I'm like this close to saying fuck it and rolling a bard instead- which would suck because I've put a lot of effort and thought into the backstory, the inventory, the skill set, everything, I even made a psudo-religion!

Star Wars - Knights of the Last Republic

I was thinking of playing Petro from the animated Clone Wars series. He's a Jedi youngling, but has a lightsaber and a fair amount of experience due to several complications during the Clone Wars while trying to complete his groups Gathering. I think it'd be interesting to try and wrangle someone into being his master and using his appearance as a harmless child to the group's advantage.

Star Wars - Knights of the Last Republic

Would we be allowed canon characters?

Long Beach, A City In Need

Good news; I fixed my internet! Bad news, I decided I don't really want to join in anymore. Sorry guys, I know thats flaky af but thems the brakes ;(

Long Beach, A City In Need

I plugged a space heater into the outlet extension the other day and it broke EVERYTHING. My internet is refusing to cooperate, my modem has like an anxiety attack every time I try to restart it. >_> I am working on it guys o7.

Long Beach, A City In Need

Mica

Name: Mica Tano

Alias: Atlas

Gender: Male

Age: 18

Looks:

Occupation: Waiter / "Associate"

Personality: Outwardly placid, Mica appears to be an unassuming and easy-going sort. His friends and co-workers know him to be diligent, sometimes even a bit forceful in holding everyone around him to a higher standard, not tolerating laziness or ignorance, but on the whole a quiet and well-to-do sort, if not particularly interesting. Some are allowed to see deeper into his character, where he is more obviously idealistic and daring, with a sarcastic and crass sense of humor.

Backstory: Born and raised a Gorgon, Mica is not quite heir-apparent of the emergent crime family, but as the eldest son of the current boss he's not far off from it. As a child he got an eyeful of the many activities his family got up to, everything from drugs and booze to sex and violence. Understandably it was difficult for him to properly understand how off-center his upbringing was, but in time he gained the perspective he needed to finally put a name to all the unpleasant feelings he had whenever he was confronted with the knowledge that one day he would be dragged down to the same level as his father. Mica faced a moral quandary, and soon a difficult choice will present itself; would he serve his family, or would he save them?

Skills/Weapons: Mica was on his high school's baseball team, developing a bit of a mean swing, and making him a swift sprinter when necessary, but recently his father demanded he pick up something a bit more offensively useful, and so he began boxing at Ironstone's, a gym operated by the Gorgon's. More relevant, Mica had been dutifully trained and instructed in the proper care and usage of firearms, and frequents a private shooting range.

Other: The Giorginos were a moderately prolific Mafia family based in Long Beach in the 60s, but were shut down and imprisoned later in the decade. Pernelle Tano united the left-over petty gangs and reformed the syndicate in the 90s under its current name. Most of the new blood came from her delinquent high school clique, but she was killed at the turn of the decade and succeeded by her eldest son, Jasper Tano. Jasper, Mica's father, hugely expanded the family into the affluent force it is today, buying off officers and establishing connections with cartels and gangs across the country. His efforts are a large part of what shaped the lawless elements of the city into the volatile hive it is today, opening doors even for those thugs and thieves not on his payroll.

Mica himself is not so sweet and naive that he wants to dismantle the entire criminal machine and 'save the day' as it were, but the blatant evil that takes place under his own roof sickens him, and he dreams of pruning their more wicked edges and pointing them in more Robin Hood-esque directions. There are frequently rich and powerful people far more deserving of their fate than the everyday man of the struggling working class, especially in Long Beach.

Amber

Name: Amber Sabel

Alias: Sahara

Gender: Female

Age: 19

Looks:

Occupation: Waitress / "Associate"

Personality: Stubborn and adventurous, Amber is aggressively welcoming and overbearingly friendly. Though, there is a certain unforgiving steel in her heart, and while on the whole she's compassionate and accommodating there's no doubting her ruthless spine. She holds grudges with the best of them for all that she's soft and kind on the surface.

Backstory: Amber's family was part of the Gorgons long before she herself was born, a fact that frightened her mother away to live instead with her husband out of the country. Her life was more difficult because of it, with little support or opportunity available to them, and so no one was there to notice when things took a darker, more violent turn in their own home. Armed with a nail gun, Amber stopper her father in his tracks with a well aimed shot pinning his hand to the wall. To protect her daughter, her mother finally gave in and called for help from their more criminal family members back in Long Beach. Having grown up outside the syndicate and only later being exposed to this sort of life Amber had a lot of trouble adjusting.

Skills/Weapons: Amber began taking boxing classes at Ironstone's when she became an associate of the Gorgons, and has likewise been quickly brought up to speed by her uncle at a shooting range on how to handle a gun.

Other: Amber became Mica's greatest friend and confidant after her arrival, her perspective and morals reflecting his own in a place and time where neither were appreciated or respected. He accidentally convinced her to officially join the Gorgons, something she had been reluctant to do, but after having met him and realized he was slowly being smothered by his own family she took it upon herself to help and protect him, and in turn he promised to do the same for her.