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Everbrook: A Teenage Mystery RP

I’m alive, just not wanting to badger people during a busy time of the year haha

The Searchers: The Sword of Kings

It's awesome seeing sheets already being made for the RP! I'm very excited to see how many people are interested in the story. I went ahead and made my GM-PC sheet, so folks could see how I tend to format my character sheets and also have a rough estimate on what I'm looking for in terms of style and length.

Alan Marlowe

Name

Alan Marlowe

Age

29

Personality Traits

Alan is a consistently sardonic character, a complainer, and a bit of a whiner in tough situations. He likes to act like he knows everything going on, and attempts to assert control on any situation, only to have it yanked out from under his feet. He's not a weasel per se, but instead a deeply insecure man who has let his self-doubt cloud his judgment. Beyond his prickly personality, Alan has a strong sense of honor and duty and believes in doing what is right. He just wants to be the one calling the shots when they save the world, instead of following the orders of someone far more capable than himself.

Backstory

Alan was born in the Northeastern United States to a scholarly family. His father was a linguist, and his grandfather was an archeologist who specialized in the study of Anglo-Saxon and Western European ruins and history. One major obsession his grandfather held was the sheer belief that the Arthurian cycle was not a myth and that there was proof of the Holy Grail and Excalibur. These wild assertations painted his grandfather as a kook, and while he held his position as an Ivy League professor for many years, it was during the 1980s the old man was finally forced out into retirement. Alan grew up hearing his grandfather's theories, much to his parent's chagrin.

Alan would go on to study language and literature in college and would go on to complete graduate school as well. He's spent the past five years traveling the world and researching his findings, mostly dealing with artifacts from the Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain. He remains very secretive of the groups he's worked with since, implying that he's had to deal with the dangerous sorts of employers that don't take kindly to others knowing what they're searching for. Getting a more legitimate job for the Avalon trip is both a chance to prove his worth as with his knowledge, as well as discover if his grandfather's theories were true.

Other Info

• Self-Defense Pistol: A pistol with a 10 round magazine, chambered in 9-millimeter ammunition. The weapon has below-average stopping power but is small enough to be carried comfortably and reliable enough in a pinch. Alan carries no extra ammunition or extra magazines, meaning reloading the weapon can be arduously slow.
• Grandfather's Notebook: A ragged notebook that contains various theories on the history of King Arthur, his court, and the artifacts of the time, as well as detailing various theories on what happened to the various artifacts over the centuries.
• Photographic Memory: Alan's biggest skill is that he possesses a photographic memory. He's able to recall minute details after only looking at something for a short amount of time. He's also capable of detailed recreations of items from memory.

@Qitcat As far as the party size goes, I want around 4-5 characters in total. As far as the timeline goes, when I see how many people have an interest and how much time they'll need to devise their sheets, I'll probably put a deadline out for having a finished sheet.

The Searchers: The Sword of Kings Interest Check

Yes, still looking! OOC is up as well! Glad to see you guys are interested!

The Searchers: The Sword of Kings Interest Check

Hate to double post, but I've been working on the OOC to a point that I'm proud of it and that desire to keep momentum going is nonstop.

Here's the OOC!

The Searchers: The Sword of Kings

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An adventure roleplay in the vein of Uncharted, Tomb Raider, Indiana Jones and the Librarian. The roleplay follows a small group of knowledge seekers, adventurers, grave robbers and the foolish as they search for the lost treasures of Avalon, including the legendary sword Excalibur. Their adventure begins in the United Kingdom but will extend across the world from the deserts of Syria to the Chateaus of France and ancient coastal castles in Portugal and the Mediterranian. Alliances will shift, friendships will be made and broken, and the balance of the world will be put into question as the heroes fight against and are tempted by an evil group aiming to use the ancient treasure for their own means.

After all, who doesn't want to be a Nathan Drake or Laura Croft?

The setting begins in modern times, somewhere in the 2010s-2020s. I'm not too much of a stickler on the "present year" since so much setup has gone more in the "what-if" historical piece of the roleplay. The roleplay begins in the United Kingdom with a research expedition that claims to have found the island of Avalon and a set of ruins that may hold treasures dating back to the 6th century. What follows is a globe-trotting adventure to the deserts of Syria, the Chateaus of France, castles of Portugal, and the jungles of South America, all in a race to find the legendary sword which may give the power to defeat any army.

While any Drew roleplay is focused first on character, action, and adventure rank extremely high on this roleplay as well. Gunfights, chases, dangerous climbs, ancient traps, and more await the team, as does betrayal, capture, death, and destruction. If you've ever watched a film based on the adventure genre or played an adventure game like Uncharted, you know that there are lots of near-fatal moments, crazy jumps, and constant spikes in action and exploration, something I hope to have in this RP. Fair warning about politics as well, the villains of the RP will be a mix of hired mercenaries, enemy treasure hunters, and a secretive group of neo-fascists. Literally modern-day Indiana Joneses battling modern-day Nazis.

Your character has been chosen for this expedition to Avalon for a reason. Perhaps you're a security expert, a wily thief well known for breaking into any cage, a brilliant academic who speaks twenty languages...your character has some sort of hook on why they have joined the team. The group should all bring different strengths and weaknesses for the group, after all, even Indiana Jones had allies assisting him in his adventure. No Short Rounds this time though, unless you can create a darn good reason why a teenager is working alongside rough and tumble archeologists, linguists, soldiers, thieves, and con-men.

The other big focus I want the characters to have revolves around a Character Flaw. Every character will need to have some form of character flaw that they battle throughout the adventure. It could be an Obsession with finding the treasure, and they would be willing to put the others in danger to get their hands on it. It could be Greed for more money, something that would force them to reach for gold coins on a weight-trap or sell out their allies for a quick buck. Whatever this flaw is, it is secret to all the other characters and will be secret to all the other players as well. I will okay your flaw via PM as to keep it hidden from the rest of the cast.

Character Sheet

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A quick 1-2 paragraphs about your life and how you’ve come to this point.
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The Searchers: The Sword of Kings Interest Check

I’ll continue to lurk.

Say what kinda time period were you thinking? We shooting Nazi’s with bolt actions or Pirates with AKs?

@Tsar Gatto

It’ll be modern day with some throwbacks to the Indiana Jones stuff. There won’t be many pirates to fight though. I’ll hold off on the big villain reveal.

The Searchers: The Sword of Kings Interest Check

The Searchers: The Sword of Kings Interest Check

@Hero

I’m so used to you doing party dog this is new!!!

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Wait does this mean I am cursed by proxy? Do I have the Ink RP curse? Did I open a forbidden sarcophagus and get pharoh-cursed?

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Sure. I'll do a thing.

@Inkarnate

perfect, I can leave you in charge of all major decisions while I focus on just the story. :D