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Spiritum Aeternum; or The Ramshackle Monster Hunters

I replied to interest check, I didn't realise the game had already started. Are you still accepting new characters?

Spiritum Aeternum; or The Ramshackle Monster Hunters

Sorry for the double post but I've got a character sheet pretty much put together. This is the first draft so I may revisit certain parts and change it up.

Marco de Meneses

Name: Marco de Meneses

Age: 26

Gender: Male

Birthplace: Ericeira

Religious Affiliation: Catholic, though prone to hedonistic indulgences

Secular Affiliation: Kingdom of Portugal

Level of education: High, Marco had tutors for most of his young life. He was educated in both Lisbon and London.

Social status: Nobleman

Occupation: Infantry captain.

Appearance: Marco is tall, around 6' in height, with black hair and dark eyes. He is clean shaven and tries to present as clean and elegant when possible, however being a soldier by trade he doesn't shy away from getting dirty. He has been lucky that he has no significant visible scars on his body, the only major scar he has is on his upper chest, caused by a musket ball.

Personality: Although noble by birth, Marco is not pompous and do not look down on people from lower social classes. He has spent a lot of time with soldiers under his command and has an affinity for people of the lower classes as well as being able to socialise or deal with those from his own class. Generally, Marco can find common ground with people he meets and tries to deal with people fairly. He is usually fairly affable, if he is crossed or anyone he cares about are in threat he fights ferociously. He is also a lover of pleasure, whether it be drinking with comrades or loving beautiful women, when his duty is done Marco will seek to indulge himself.

Skill set: Marco is a natural leader and leads from the front, he does not ask anyone to do something he would not do himself. He is experienced in combat and battle, having spent his adult life in an army at war. Marco is a skilled swordsman, horse rider and is skilled in using a pistol, he learned these skills both from his upbringing and through life experience. Marco has spent time among the nobility of both Portugal and England and knows how royal courts work and understands the intrigue that is present in any court.

Languages: Portuguese, English, French and some Spanish.

Bio: Marco was born as the third son of Fernando de Meneses, 2nd Count of Ericeira, he was raised in the coastal village until his 6th birthday when he was sent to Lisbon, where his father spent much of his time, in order to be educated. He was taught many of the classic arts as well as practical pursuits such as fencing and horseback riding. Although he was not always a patient student of academia he very much enjoyed his martial education and his father, who was a military man, encouraged him to begin training to join the army.

When he turned 12 he was sent to England to further his education in London, he was fostered by some distant relatives. He was educated at Oxford University for a number of years until his 15th birthday when he was sent back to Lisbon and joined the Portuguese army. He accompanied his father on border skirmishes with the Spanish forces. It was in these skirmishes he learned the trade of a soldier and he knew early on that this was the life that he wanted.

Marco grew quickly among the rough, tough soldiers under his father's command and they all liked him due to his eagerness to join them in battle. When he turned 18 he was allowed his own small command and continued in the border skirmishes where he truly learned the art of leading men in combat. In the following years when larger scale battles became more common, Marco was allowed less freedom as the commands were given to men with better family connections or more experience.

It was not until his relative António Luís de Meneses, 1st Marquis of Marialva, faced the Spanish in the Battle of Ameixial that Marco was again allowed a command of his own. He was given command of a force of Scottish and Irish mercenaries and he led them in the battle. He distinguished himself and impressed any of his fellow officers, both Portuguese and the foreign officers that had been hired. He continued leading a mercenary force for the following campaign and was given a promotion to capitão (captain) shortly before being wounded by a musket ball that struck him in the shoulder. He was sent back to Lisbon and was then moved on to Sintra where his cousin was staying, he took residence there while he recovered. He had almost entirely healed when the dragon appeared and burned the town to the ground; he had managed to escape its wrath by seeking refuge in the castle.

Spiritum Aeternum; or The Ramshackle Monster Hunters

I would definitely be interested in this. I'll get to work on a CS, I'm thinking a nobleman character. Maybe a naval officer of some kind.

Lord of the Rings

So I've had an idea knocking around in my head for a while for a Lord of the Rings plot that I would like to try in a one on one roleplay. I'd prefer a female partner playing a female character as I would like there to be romance/sexual themes. So here's the general idea. This would be set after the Lord of the Rings story. Sauron is defeated in the west and his servants are driven away or killed, everyone believes that peace will last forever without the dark lord. Well, when the Istari (wizards) were sent to Middle Earth to help the free people stop Sauron there were five of them. Saruman, Gandalf and Radagast all stayed in the west while the two blue wizards, Pallando and Alatar, went into the east. Not much is heard from them after this but they are supposed to be helping the people of the distant East in stopping Sauron. So back to our setting, about a generation after Sauron's defeat and the world has been at peace for some time. Out of the East come rumours of a new dark presence. As it turns out the two blue wizards were corrupted, much in the way Saruman was, and now that Sauron is out of the picture they have set themselves up as the new dark lords and have gathered their forces together and have attacked the west. Our characters will be people who are fighting against this invasion. I'm going to be playing two characters and I would like my partner to play one but I'm open to them playing more than one as needed or desired. Basically one of my character's will be an elf, who is in a romantic relationship with your character who is also an elf. My other character will be a human who comes into the scene through friendship with my elf character but who comes to love he female elf and they basically have a secret relationship. All this will be happening to the backdrop of this invasion and ensuing war. I don't want to get bogged down with rules etc here but a few things that I feel I have to say, please be able to write a few paragraphs per post with decent spelling, grammar etc. Also you have to contribute to the story, I get really fed up with people who just react to things I've posted but don't move the story along, it's boring. Anyway, if you're interested drop me a PM rather than posting here as I'm more likely to notice it there. Thanks for looking.

Such Haukes, Such Hounds

I'm interested in this. A quick off the top of my head character idea is a nephew of the king who is in his early to mid 20s who is the second son of the king's brother, there is no real possibility of him inheriting any titles so he's spent his life so far flitting around. He's done a bit of everything, he was first sent to be a scholar but got bored with acadamia, then to a monastery but his hedonistic lifestyle conflicted with this, maybe he spent time with a band of mercenaries in the wild borderlands until he finally ended up at the king's court at the behest of his father who wanted him to settle down into some more permanent role as part of the king's royal guard or something along those lines. He's a bit of a womaniser, drinker and all round hedonist.

Those are just my first thoughts on the character so please do make any suggestions you need to if you feel it won't fit with the group/setting.

STAR WARS: The Legendary Bantha Fodders! [High Casual]

Yes, sorry! I've been run off my feet the last few days as well. I'll definitely get a post up in the next few days, whenever I can get a minute to sit down and write it.

STAR WARS: The Legendary Bantha Fodders! [High Casual]

Haha, I'm looking forward to getting this story started. It looks like it'll be a good laugh. I can see Reeko flirting with the ladies with absolutely no success before trying to cheat in a game if sabacc and almost getting jettisoned from his own ship.

Maybe Onru and Reeko could have known eachother when they were kids, they're close in age and both grew up on Tatooine afterall.

I would be interested in leading an episode sometime in the future, it would be an interesting change of pace.

STAR WARS: The Legendary Bantha Fodders! [High Casual]

Hey all, sorry about the delay. I've been incredibly busy with work etc, here my character now though.

I'm GMT as well, by the way!

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Appearance:


Name: Reeko Solman

Age: 25

Race: Human (Born in Bestine)

Skills: Piloting, Reeko has managed to become a talented pilot and can pull of fairly complex manoeuvres (mainly to save his own skin), he can pilot most light and medium ships. Physically fit, can run very quickly. Good at lying and cheating, can usually talk his way out of trouble and convince others that he’s something he isn’t. Thievery, Reeko has stolen many things in his life and has a knack for getting away with it.

Equipment: Blaster pistol, blaster carbine and various tools and other gadgets in his utility belt (e.g. smoke grenades and flashbangs).

“The Viper”, a light freighter Reeko won in a game of Sabacc in which he cheated. He gave it the name of a type of snake he had been told about by an off-world merchant as he had been told they were fierce and he thought it sounded better than “The Magdalene” as it had been called previously. It is barely spaceworthy and threatens to fall to pieces every time it leave or enters an atmosphere or tries to land. It was previously a trade vessel turned smuggler ship, the smuggler fell on hard times and the condition of the ship suffered as a result. Reeko has barely been able to keep it running since the day he won it.

The Viper

History: Reeko was born in Bestine, his father was a small time merchant with a stall in one of the bazaars in the city. He had four brothers, three older and one younger, and all wanted to follow in their father’s footsteps and be merchants. That was not what Reeko wanted however, he wanted to be a hero like the ones in the stories that were told in hushed voices about the Rebel Alliance and the ragtag men and women who overthrew an evil empire. From a young age Reeko would often be in trouble for trying to do heroic deeds which usually ended in either damaged property or him getting beaten up by other kids. His parents despaired at his wild streak, they wanted him to settle down and behave like his brothers but nothing they did seemed to make a difference. Eventually he was sent to work on his uncle’s (father’s brother) moisture farm near Mos Eisley, his parents thought the hard work would help discipline him and set him straight.

The only thing that the relocation did was introduce him to the cesspit that was Mos Eisley. Reeko fell in with a group of street kids in Mos Eisley and began taking part in petty criminal activities, all the while acting as if he was a revolutionary fighter, making a stand against the evil empire and their agents. In reality he was just another street rat who stole from merchant stalls when the owners were distracted. As he grew up the criminal activities he took part in matured as well, theft turned to robbery and his dreams of being a hero began to wane, he was more interested in being a famous outlaw now. Unfortunately for him he came to a realisation when he became involved in his first serious violent confrontation, he was a coward. He hated fights and he managed to hide himself away until it was over, only making an appearance after hostilities were over to join in the glory of the victors.

When Reeko turned 18 he witnessed a bounty hunter capturing a man in one of Mos Eisley’s notorious cantinas. He was so impressed by the man that he dropped his ambitions of being a famous outlaw and instead decided he was going to be a famous bounty hunter. He teamed up with a few other would-be bounty hunters and signed on to capture a bandit and killer who had fled into the desert and set up a lair in a cave. The young men all went out together full of bravado and confidence but when the found the man it turned out that they were in over their heads, the bandit was a seasoned killer and they had no idea what they were doing. As the others died around him, Reeko hid behind a rocky outcrop in terror. He knew he would have to do something but he was barely able to prevent himself from soiling his trousers. Eventually he closed his eyes tight and stuck his carbine over the rock and opened fire wildly, in a stroke of pure luck one of the shots managed to catch a thermal detonator at the belt of one of his dead colleagues. The resulting explosion caused the cave to collapse and one of the falling rocks knocked the bandit out cold. After several minutes Reeko eventually managed to open his eyes and peer out at the collapsed cave and the unconscious man, he didn’t waste any time and tied the man up tightly and left the rest of his colleagues behind to cash the bounty in on his own.

Reeko carried out a number of other jobs on Tatooine, usually with groups of other new bounty hunters who he would eventually betray or abandon to reap the entire reward himself. Eventually he decided to take a break from bounty hunting in case people started to wonder why he was always going out in groups and returning on his own so he decided to try his hand at Sabacc, he quickly learned how to cheat and moved from cantina to cantina to get as much as he could. Eventually he won a battered old freighter ship, he intended to put together some money to repair some of the vital components and then sell it for an inflated price to one of the ignorant moisture farmers or miners. He took on one more bounty hunting job, this time it was put out by Mahuva the Hutt and offered a good amount for some traitor that had conned the Hutt out of money, the best part was that the Hutt was offering an advance of the reward to any men who signed up with his own men as part of a posse of sorts. Signing up with them Reeko intended to use his usual tactics, hide and let the others do the work after which he would betray them and take the whole bounty for himself. Unfortunately this time the bounty overpowered the men he was with and he was left alone, when he realised his situation he immediately surrendered to the man and begged for his life. The traitor found him so pathetic that he spared his life and basically told him to get out of his sight, Reeko was happy to oblige.

Mahuva the Hutt was furious and demanded that Reeko return the advance he had been given, unfortunately Reeko had already spent it on his dilapidated freighter ship. Making his excuses to the Hutt he went to his ship and escaped off planet, leaving his debt behind. He spent the next few years conning and cheating his way across the galaxy, unfortunately eventually his past came back to haunt him. A Hutt debt collector managed to ambush him in Cloud City on Bespin and took him and his ship back to Tatooine where his debt still waited for him, now with a large amount of interest. Having no credits to his name he was forced at gunpoint to sign on as a worker and general thug for Mahuva the Hutt in order to work off his debt.

Misc: Reeko is unbelievably lucky, he always unwittingly manages to find his way out of even the most ridiculously dangerous situations.

Star Wars Comedy Adventure Pairing [high casual]

Oh yeah, the ship is going to be a pile of junk but my character will talk it up so much that everyone would think he was talking about the pride of the Imperial fleet.

I'd definitely recommend Guardians of the Galaxy, it's similar to this roleplay idea in the way that the characters seem to not really know what they're doing most of the time and just end up in totally insane situations.

Star Wars Comedy Adventure Pairing [high casual]

I really like what I'm seeing so far, this sounds like it'll be a good laugh. Sort of like Gaurdians of the Galaxy but Star Wars.

I'm fine with my character being the pilot/having a ship. At the start of the story his ship could be impounded by someone he owes money to and maybe they have to steal it back to get off planet. My character might neglect to inform anyone that it's impounded until after they hire him to be their pilot.