Forsythe

Marooned (Original universe fantasy)

Pantheon

Hiraga, Guardian of the Realm

The guardian of the world. If the world fares well, she weakens and falls asleep during a golden age. If the world suffers, she wakes and gains power, up to a point where she can decide to end the world and recreate it. She is the creator of the dragons, and her followers - druids - can call upon her to manipulate nature. To her followers she offers reincarnation after death, although not necessarily as the same species.

Damaesk, Divine Crafter

The divine crafter, and the creator of the dwarves. He is the patron of all artisans, having no formal church, but still having a great following of any skilled worker. As one who stands for creation, he is opposed to the users of Foul magic and warmongers. He has however no qualms with crafters felling entire forests to make new things, something that at times puts him in Hiraga’s crosshairs. His followers, if they were not swindling and conducted themselves well as workers, are accepted into his divine workshop to practice their crafts in peace with unlimited resources until the soul decides to return to the world to learn a new craft.

Werwirren, Lord of War

The warrior god and patron of rulers. He inspires his followers to take what they need rather than make it, putting him at odds with Damaesk. His role in creating large scale conflicts and destruction also earns him Hiraga’s ire. His believers, if they did well as warriors or leaders, are taken into his hall, where the world’s largest wargames are conducted in turn with the world’s largest feasts. The souls accepted to Werwirren’s halls do not reincarnate, but they can be given a temporary body of a mythological beast by the god of war to be sent to aid the living in their wars. It was a war he fought with Damaesk that created the Fairies and Demons.

Epistemus, Keeper of the Past

The divine historian and philosopher, who records everything that happened in the world. He can give counsel to mortals and his fellow gods alike due to his infinite knowledge, and is often relied on to pass judgement in the most difficult of cases. The souls of his followers are welcome in his library, where they can study or help him in recording history and knowledge. These souls do not reincarnate, but if they choose to, they can return to the mortal world where their presence gives inspiration and bright ideas to those around them, based on the knowledge of the dead soul. He created the Elves and Humans.

The Forgotten

A much unknown and long unseen deity who dominated existence before Hiraga awoke and created the basis of the World. Most often associated with the night sky, he is worshipped by the elven sailors and occult groups. It is also believed that he gives place to souls rejected by the other gods as stars on the night sky.

Marooned (Original universe fantasy)

Marooned lorebook

The World

Pantheon
Inhabitants
Geography
History of the world
Magic
Technology

Institutions
Alchemist's guild

Game area

Explored areas

Player characters
Tala Halfelven
Reah Silveraxe

NPCs

Marooned (Original universe fantasy)

Marooned

Game overview

Marooned is a classic fantasy set in original world. The game is intended to be post-by-post, with some tabletop mechanics in the background handled by the GMs. Unlike most guild RPs, Marooned has a map with locations that have prepared scenarios that will be ran by the GMs for the players to interact with. The scenarios have progressive difficulty and are built with multiple possible endings to the game.

That said, the game is built to last a relatively short time in hope to avoid dying and dropouts, leaving plenty of possible sequels based on which ending is reached if the player base remains interested.

The setting

The characters tab will be organized as a wiki of sorts, with the 0th post acting as a table of contents. Visit the characters tab for more info about the setting of the game.

Characters

Please submit your character applications into the OOC. GMs will transfer approved characters into the Characters tab in order to maintain their inventory records.

Template

[b][u]Name:[/u][/b] The name of your character

[b][u]Alias:[/u][/b] Optional. The alias or aliases of your character, for example how they are known in languages of different races.

[b][u]Race:[/u][/b] Pick form the list of playable races, or, if you wish to play a different race, run it by the GMs first before investing too much effort. Most custom races should be falling into the demigod category though for story related reasons.

[b][u]Gender:[/u][/b]

[b][u]Age:[/u][/b]

[b][u]Occupation:[/u][/b] Who is your character (Soldier, alchemist, merchant, mage...)?

[b][u]Appearance:[/u][/b] If you feel the need to use an image, stick to photorealistic or normal illustrations, we would like to avoid manga here.

[b][u]Personality:[/u][/b] Optional. If you do not list this for yourself, do take care for your character to be consistent.

[b][u]History:[/u][/b] At least a brief overview of events that significantly shaped your character's life so far.

[b][u]Inventory:[/u][/b] What of your character’s stuff survived the wreck (Attire/armor, weapons, runes...)?

[b][u]Traits:[/u][/b] Given by your character's race, or a combination for halfbreeds. One positive trait, one negative trait, one economical trait.

[b][u]Talents:[/u][/b] What’s your character good (or utterly incompetent) at (fighting, crafting, medicine, bartering...)?

Traits cheatsheet

• Demons
  
  • Demonic constitution: Demons are hardy beings empowered by magic, many even possessing natural armor on their bodies.
  • Low stamina: Accustomed to life deep within the Abyss, the surface air is too thin, making them run out of breath faster than usual.
  • Foul magic experts: As heavy users of foul magic, Demons are apt at creating foul runestones, which are highly valued to all other races other than fairies.
• Dwarves
  
  • Darksight: Accustomed to life in dim light, Dwarven eyes can see in low-light conditions, although their vision in the dark is blurry and monochromatic.
  • Size: Dwarves are, unsurprisingly, small. This has several drawbacks, from short reach in combat to long treks quickly tiring them out.
  • Materialism: Dwarves possess a natural instinctive knowledge of where to find and how to use various materials.
• Elves
  
  • Eyesight: Elven eyes see far and sharp, as long as there is enough light to go around.
  • Bad reputation: Elves are universally disliked, even by other Elves, hampering their bartering charms.
  • Herblore: Elves possess instinctive knowledge of herbs, where to find them and how to use them.
• Fairies
  
  • Expert mages: Fairies are universally regarded as the best mages in the Realm, better even than their brothers, the Demons.
  • Frail: Fairies are physically weak and frail, forcing them to rely on external protection or agility in combat.
  • Fairy dust: Pollen collected on fairy wings is changed into a high value magical commodity.
• Humans
  
  • High stamina: With the exception of Demons within the Abyss, Humans will keep going where others would have to stop to take a breath.
  • Inexperienced mages: Human mages are generally considered inferior to even Dwarven ones, though there are exceptions to the rule.
  • Good reputation: Humans are well-regarded by all except Elves, as Humans almost drove them from Altheim.

Rules

1) Scenarios have a post order, so let us know in advance if you'll be unavailable for a time.

2) If you have to leave mid-scenario, your character temporarily falls under GM control. Outside of scenarios, your character will be considered sitting at camp or something to that effect. If you know ahead you'll be gone, you can ask whoever to take over for you.

3) Only one appeal against a GM's word, then the issue is considered settled.

4) Rules may be subject to change. We'll notify you in the OOC and highlight the new/changed rules in the 0th post.

Mechanics

Map

The game area is set on a map that will be revealed as the characters explore and travel. If the characters split up, GMs will create personalised maps for each unless they decide to share with the other characters in-game.

Scenarios

Scenarios are special parts of the game map that have special story, rewards and NPCs that will provide advantages to those that find them. Some scenarios will be repeatable to facilitate resource gathering and opportunities for the characters to sharpen their abilities.

Day-night cycle and posting order

In non-scenario zones, players may post in any order and for however long they see fit. These zones (taverns etc.) will be open for the entire day to post if the character chooses not to move somewhere else or enter a scenario. There is no posting order in these zones.

In scenario zones, there may be only a set amount of time to complete it before nightfall, when character will be forced to abandon it and return to a safe zone unless they acquired supplies and tools that will allow them to continue into the night or at least safely wait out into the next day. In scenario zones, there will be a set posting order - each character participating in the scenario will get one post, followed by a GM post evaluating the character's actions and providing information for the next turn.

The length of the game day will be decided by the GMs based on the scenario and current player disposition, regarding vacations, the upcoming christmas etc.

Post template - listing locations will help GMs not forget anybody :D

Character' name

Location: Location/Scenario name

Main body of the post

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[center][h3]Character' name[/h3][b][i]Location:[/i][/b] Location/Scenario name[/center]
Main body of the post

NPCs

In certain areas of the map, NPCs may be encountered to assign additional quests, trade items and services or provide advice and aid to the player characters. The characters’ actions will have an impact on their reputation with them, which will affect the services offered to the given character and may even open up a different ending.

Crafting

The characters can find different materials in scenarios and trade them between each other and with NPCs. There is a recipe system created for the game, and players can invent them in two ways - experimenting with the materials, or asking a GM for the end result to be provided a list of components. Consult the characters tab for more information.

Magic

Basic magic, available to every character, works by combining runes to get the desired effect. Much like crafting, you may ask a GM for the runes required for a spell or a list of runes known by your character to create the desired spell yourself, or simply attempt to activate a random sequence of runes to see what happens. Advanced magic, available to well-practiced mages, does not rely on runes to cast. Consult the characters tab for more information.

Races

Each of the playable races - Demons, Dwarves, Elves, Fairies and Humans - has traits that impact your character’s abilities, working to your advantage or disadvantage in situations from combat to exploration to interacting with other characters. Consult the characters tab for more information.

There are other races wandering the world, that will be subject to individual scrutiny by the GMs should you wish to play them.

Marooned (Original universe fantasy)

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Marooned (Original universe fantasy) (OOC up)

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Marooned (Original universe fantasy) (OOC up)

Marooned

@Forsythe - @Starlance

OOC is up!

It is the seagulls that wake you up. The cheeky birds sound like they are laughing at you and your misfortune. The air around is salty and you feel you are drenched to the bone. Opening your eyes, you see a storm breaking up in the skies above. Looking around, you gather you are on a beach, and if the wreck of the ship nearby is any indication, you have not arrived to your destination. You wonder if you are the only one the sea spat out alive.

Searching around, you only find the items you had on you the other day. For a second you eyeball the remains of the ship and wonder if more of your stuff may have survived the ship shattering on the nearby cliff, before a column of smoke rising from the cliffs above catches your eye.

What will you do?

Game overview

Marooned is a classic fantasy set in original world. The game is intended to be post-by-post, with some tabletop mechanics in the background handled by the GMs. Unlike most guild RPs, Marooned has a map with locations that have prepared scenarios that will be ran by the GMs for the players to interact with. The scenarios have progressive difficulty and are built with multiple possible endings to the game.

That said, the game is built to last a relatively short time in hope to avoid dying and dropouts, leaving plenty of possible sequels based on which ending is reached if the player base remains interested.

Mechanics

Map

The game area is set on a map that will be revealed as the characters explore and travel. If the characters split up, GMs will create personalised maps for each unless they decide to share with the other characters in-game.

Scenarios

Scenarios are special parts of the game map that have special story, rewards and NPCs that will provide advantages to those that find them. Some scenarios will be repeatable to facilitate resource gathering and opportunities for the characters to sharpen their abilities.

NPCs

In certain areas of the map, NPCs may be encountered to assign additional quests, trade items and services or provide advice and aid to the player characters. The characters’ actions will have an impact on their reputation with them, which will affect the services offered to the given character and may even open up a different ending.

Crafting

The characters can find different materials in scenarios and trade them between each other and with NPCs. There is a recipe system created for the game, and players can invent them in two ways - experimenting with the materials, or asking a GM for the end result to be provided a list of components.

Magic

Basic magic, available to every character, works by combining runes to get the desired effect. Much like crafting, you may ask a GM for the runes required for a spell or a list of runes known by your character to create the desired spell yourself, or simply attempt to activate a random sequence of runes to see what happens. Advanced magic, available to well-practiced mages, does not rely on runes to cast.

Races

Each of the playable races - Demons, Dwarves, Elves, Fairies and Humans - has traits that impact your character’s abilities, working to your advantage or disadvantage in situations from combat to exploration to interacting with other characters.

There are other races wandering the world, that will be subject to individual scrutiny by the GMs should you wish to play them.

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Freya

Freya

“Ykcul tog tsuj uoy, diputs llits s’ti, skrow ti tub diputs s’ti fi!”

Race: Asgard
Gender: Female
Age: Too many to count, too many for her to care
Nationality: Vanir
Title/Function: Science and Engineering specialist

Appearance:

Like most Asgard, and one of the oldest, Fraya suffers from the same genetic degradation, and thus it is very hard to distinguish her from the other members of her species. She is on the short side, barely reaching over the waist of an average human.

Her face is a bit more angular, almost starved looking, with prominent bones and generally triangular shape.

She bears the standard implants of the Vanir race, one over an eye and one on the chest. Alongside that, she has a burn scar on her left arm, a remnant of a wound that didn’t warrant the cloning of a new body.

History:

At one point masquerading as a norse goddess of love, beauty, fertility and war, and the one who was able to re-weave the fates, she took more active role interfering with humanity from the start, just barely avoiding having the wrath of the council fall on her head.

When not messing with the development of human history, Frya operated in a science capacity for the Asgardian navy, eventually finding herself with a beliskner class of her own, modified to conduct deep-space scientific operations, which she promptly used to carry defectors along with the other Vanir ships to Pegasus.

Once there, she briefly worked with the Lanteans on the Arcturus project, before leaving for the fear of her own safety over the hazards the Lantean commander of the outpost was willing to take. She spent the rest of the war on her ship, until she was eventually hunted down and shot down over a gateless planet.

Lucky to have survived, Freya converted part of her crashed ship to a survival base. With the galaxy still scourged by the wraith and no means to provide sustenance, she chose to enter stasis, only waking up to conduct maintenance, and once every few centuries to check whether the wraith returned to sleep, and broadcasting a distress call with limited reach in hopes of a rescue.

Her labor finally bore fruit, when she was picked up by Atlantis reconnaissance team 9 that happened to arrive by the system’s space gate. Having been out of contact with the rest of the Vanir for so long and after her health stabilized during a short stay on Atlantis, she agreed to go to Earth to aid SGC with her knowledge rather than return to the Vanir, in exchange for being allowed to conduct a non-damaging genetic research with volunteers.

Her efforts were eventually rendered obsolete with the return of Ran, and while she waits for the result of that particular attempt to save her race, she offered her services on the UK’s science ship, something she has great deal of experience with.

Personality:

Like a lot of Asgard and scientists in particular, she initially looked at humanity with a degree of disdain not matched since Hermiod. After her trip to Atlantis though and finding it hard to argue with the results the Tau’Ri got while the Aesir were locked in a losing battle with a bunch of machines, she started treating them on more equal ground.

Freya eventually came to admire the human talent for what she calls ‘cost effective’ problem solving, as wella s the general ability to think out of the box, finding out that she can actually learn from them in this field, which lead her to interact with the humans more to study how they think. Hence, she is perfectly fine engaging even in idle chat, albeit she might not be particularly amused by it.

In a combat capacity, Freya is one of the worst offenders against the Geneva conventions, spending no time to deploy the most horrible weapons if it gets the job done with minimal casualties on her side. Like most of the Vanir, she is capable of fighting on her own feet as well, using an exo-suit.

Equipment:

Freya has a customized exo-suit developed during her stay shot down in Pegasus. Unlike the standard Vanir suit, it relies on heavier armor rather than various shielding systems. It also has massive sensor and scouting capabilities and an on-board scaled-down Asgard computer core, making Freya able to engage in heavy electronic warfare on the ground. It comes equipped with palm.mounted outlets for high voltage arc generators serving as short range and melee weapons, and shoulder mounted pods with weapons akin to the kull warrior plasma repeaters for mid to short range engagements.

Trivia:

Voice actor: Moira Quirk
Theme: Portal 2 OST - Reconstructing science

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Can I have a Vanir crew member? I didn't (still) get around to the Atlantis books, I dunno how cold the relations are :S

Stargate Tempest - Maiden Voyage

I wanna, badly, but ugh, time constrains and XCOM2 on discount on Steam xD I'll let you know by Sunday and I might be packing another person with me.

Heroes of Beacon - the Next Chapter

Diamond – Incompatible opinions

“Trust? That went out the window fourteen years ago.” Diamond said, wanting to go with a snarky snort, but in the end, she sounded beaten and sour about it. “I don’t expect any and give little, never implicitly anyway. If I did, I’d have ended up dead or on a whorehouse or something like that a long time ago.”

Then she looked up in the teacher’s eyes. “Trust? Among hunters? Few days ago, I saw a huntress turned grimm worshipper gut one of the number of people I can count on the fingers of one crippled hand that I actually care about, and could, perhaps, after some time working together, ‘trust’. If someone who trained to protect people from the Grimm and was allowed to pass can fall into.. into… wanting to be one with them?! Then who can you trust?” She complained, frustrated and still a bit distressed by the memory. On one hand they are trying to feed her this teamwork, gettogether propaganda, on the other they sent her into 100% situations thus far where she got stabbed in the back. Bullshit detected!

“Rewind again, a week ago, we were set up by a racist maniac and almost buried all evidence of his atrocities, believing he was sending us to relieve the area of grimm. From what I’ve seen this far, this job requires you to look over your shoulder, read between the lines, observe every detail and question everything than working for the mob.”

She smiled inside when it came to detention. Free classes. As if she ever left for anything but a drink, something she could do without. Girl, you have no life! Perhaps no smuggling drinks into the dorm for a while. “I’ll be there. And you’re welcome to pick my head any day, but first I’ll want to know whom you’re allowed to tell how much of what I tell you.” She said, not wanting to go into any details before she knew the shrink won’t tell on her. Better get kicked out and take a chance with the dirty money than jailed, and the rest of the faculty need to be none the wiser.

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