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Bronze Castle's Spikes



The crumbling castle, ancient though it was, still stood tall in the wild forest that surrounds it. Though its original occupants and splendour has long past, the newly crowned King has claimed it, the banner of gold spiked horseshoe over a field of red flying high on its ramparts. Though still not numerous enough to occupy the entire Castle, the combined tribes that live here make up enough that it became a town of its own. With villages reaching out and forming a tradeline to it, the Castle could be said to be a growing town.

With a town and population this big however, came danger. Barely anyone knows about the continent or area the Castle was located in, and with the Castles connecting to multiple villages with routes that needed protection, the people who were able to use Spikes, or the Spikers seemed a godsent. But for some, they were a harbinger of something much larger to come...

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You are a Spiker, a person who wields one of the Spikes. The King Meltriz has already ordered the construction of a central pub for requests and jobs to be posted, the first of its kind in the Bronze Castle. Though royal decree only suggested the Spikers be registered and find work from those posted, the nature of the 'Kingdom' and its location meant you either worked or die starving. And Spiker postings already give so much more money than the usual postings.

**Rules**
1. All rules of the guild applies
2. Just don't be a dick
3. Final decisions by GMs are final, to prevent fruitless circular arguments about outcomes in rp.

Setting Information.
Current Known Locations



Currency

The coinages of the Bronze Castle from lowest to highest are the copper coins, to the brass coins, to the Dour Dwarf's gold coin. A single gold coin is worth 100 brass coins, one brass equals 100 coppers. Each coin has a hole in the middle, where a small string could be passed through to tie up larger amounts of coins. 3 coppers is enough for a pint of beer, and 5 usually buys a pint and some snacks with the beer. A new tunic costs 15 to 30 coppers, while a brand new common bronze sword costs an upwards of 3 brass. Gold coins are rare and usually only carried by those traders willing to make the dangerous trek to the Dour Dwarfs mountain to sell copper and alum.

Equipments

Armor and weapons made of metal are predominantly bronze, or sometimes brass on the cheaper end. Iron and consequently steel is harder to find, and reserved only for the best or those with a huge coffer. Higher end bronze equipment can be just as hard as steel once properly treated and beaten, but the cost also proportionally increases.

Magic

Magic in this world isn't the casual fireball throwing even novices can do, it involves a monolithic amount of will to bend the world to your whims, and even then it requires time, reagents, and catalysts to achieve world bending effects. Practical magics are more often than not things like rain dances, bone readings, and creation of potions. Most magic require a lot of time and effort to conjure up, like the fairies singing to a plant over the course of weeks to shape into a home, the dwarfs smithing of runes that require pure magic to be poured into it while hammering it continuously, etc.

Current Available Races.

The people that make up the Bronze Castle's population are varied, but are decidedly what most people in other more known continents would call monsters. There are 'civilized' races like the humans, elves and dwarves but they are decidedly the rarest. The most common tribe seen would be the goblins, making up the bulk of the population, followed by the kobolds at a close second. Variations or other monster types can also be applied as long as you pass it through me first.





Spikes

Spikes are any object designed to pierce into the body to grant its ability. Spikes range from ear piercings, nose rings, a simple object that needs to be held in the mouth while using it, to actual spikes that pierces your head clean through. With longer use, one may even be able to use it better and discover new abilities. Some may only give these abilities in exchange for something else, like feeding on one's blood constantly, or sacrificing an eye. While Spikes sound very enticing, the truth was many who tried putting on a Spike will not be able to even activate it, or even notice its a magical device. The rarer cases can get more extreme, with some outright imploding the moment they try to put on a Spike.

Character Sheet
Remember to send your Spike themes, abilities and description in first for approval before making the entire sheet, just to avoid further inconveniences if your Spike isn't approved. Alternative, you can send in a CS for me to assign a random Spike.
OOC will come up soon.
Yo real question tho. Do spikes also have to have spikey hair? Is that, like, a dress code?


pls

Also, if we do get enough people ooc will probably go up near the end of the year.
[Ranger]Ari Reina Caladis(Theresa)



Almost as soon as Lugh went down, Ari turned tails immediately.

She had neither skill, technique, nor strength to take them now currently, and she had no interest in going to the void again. Well she got further than she did last time, so that was something to be excited about. Perhaps she could take all the bronze stuff later on too.

But where did she have to run to?

Going back into where they came from would probably just drown her again, so the only other obvious choice was.... The palace, far from this area. Perhaps she can find somewhere to hide first too or get into it somehow, if the door was locked or barred. Going to try the door first to be safe; she had read far too much stuff where the door wasn't even locked as the protag tried to puzzle their way around it.
@GreenGoat Do I have to be an Elf?


No. As of the time of writing, you can either be one of the several monster tribes, a lost human, a demon or fairy. Other monsters maaaaayyy be acceptable depending on how I feel about it.

What are the races you can play?
What are the limitations of the magic involved and is there a specific story behind the Spikes that we are to discover or is it already widely known?
How about the history of the Town, what was there before this newly appointed king?
How are the relations between these tribes, are there specific things we have to keep in mind, such as fueds or underlying hatreds/dislike?
What is our goal?


Races we can play are answered above but basically only the usual buncha monsters. Don't be pulling out some weird creature from the very depths of the warp that makes it hard to interact with one another ;w;

Magic is more wresting control of the world around you, and thus are unsuited for immediate things like being in combat and wanting to destroy that odd bandit over there. There are other types of magic, like rune engravings, and some monster races can influence the world around them easier like fairies over plant life, but none are the immediate spell slinging fireball magic. With the exception of the Spikes, which only grant magic according to its concept. If in actual war however, the nature of the conflict allows the time required to wrest magical destruction upon the enemy, like a flood to wash away troops, a burning wind or even a thunderstorm. Though that is rare, because once two wizards battle, its more a battle of wills, each trying to wrest control from one another.

More practical magic include rain dances, reading bones and ashes, and making salves from plants.

The Spikes are a big unknown, with only the knowledge that they're old.

The Bronze Castle is just recently occupied by the current King a few months back, so called Bronze Castle because it sits on a motherlode of copper, alum, and tin, which the previous ancient occupants had made use of from the decaying bronze equipments when it was first discovered. As to what was there before it was occupied, it was abandoned for what seemed to be millenias at least, from the crumbling wall and trees that grow from it. The newly appointed King herself doesn't know much about the place, since she herself is an outsider to the area.

I'll write up more about this in the OOC, but the tribes sole tying link is their trust in the King. There are no feuds because they've not actually met each other much until the King brought them together. The underlying dislike usually stems from their nature not being compatible with the other tribes. The minotaurs are usually baffled by the goblins heartiness when flinging themselves into the unknown, lamias value their privacy and thus are utterly uncomfortable by the kobolds incessant need to show affection, etc.

Our goal is to complete 'quests' given from the King, with most being from the citizenship themselves that needs solving, and some more dangerous 'quests' reserved for the more able. There might be other conflicts in the meanwhile for more revelation of what the Spikes are as well as other things.

I will expand on everything more once I get enough interest for an OOC too.

The dark forest still loomed beyond the Bronze Castle's walls, both a source of worry and reassurance for the citizens of the Bronze Castle. Meltriz Reruel Du Meruel, newly crowned King by the Castle's citizens, looked over the rough handwriting on the papers before her. She had made huge leaps in united several tribes of people, but there were still unknown dangers out there. One of her reports from the goblin enforcers mentions the discovery, or rather the rediscovery of Spikes, strange artifacts that grants its users abilities beyond magic's reproduction, but always limited to its concept. Even with the highly unknown nature of these Spikes, the users of it was something she desperately needed. Able, powerful hands able to tame this place. With that, she sent out a decree to her trusted lieutenants; gather these Spiked people, and find those willing to work for the good of the Kingdom.


"So... you're going to put them to work?"
"They will have to. Or they will perish."


~Summary of what the rp will be~
The Bronze Castle is more accurately a single town kingdom, found recently by the elf Reruel by uniting several tribes of monsters and occupying an ancient crumbling castle. The story will focus mostly on the Spikers, users of the titular Spikes, as they solve problems for the Castle, be it big or small. Spikes are artifacts pierced into one's flesh to gain its ability around its concept, ranging from small earrings and nose piercings, to actual spikes that needs to be piercing the heart.

Setting will be mostly fantasy, with magic being immense world moving things or subtle woven miracles requiring intense will, time and/or concentration rather than things to be slung around. Humans are exceedingly rare, at least in the Bronze Castle's location, where the united monster tribes are more numerous, with perhaps minor smatterings of other types of intelligent monsters around. What humans there are are almost always lost people brought here by some means or another. There might be more adult themes, considering demons exists, as well as other more horrific murderous monsters.

tldr; basically adventurers but youre in the only known place of civilization and youre trying not to die.

Any takers/questions?
[Ranger]Ari Reina Caladis(Theresa)



"Tch!"

Of course it wouldn't be that easy. The mangas and animes she's seen makes it look so easy to slice apart things with speed. She'd have to beef up her strength just to achieve that like that pink ronin who could slice apart a statue with a blunt blade. How could he achieve such a thing with technique alone?

Technique?

"This is why you don't minmax, basic stupid catgirl!"

Ari had not slowed down even as her attack didnt break through the banner, speeding past as she retracted her blade. Now that Lugh was rushing towards the banner statue, she hissed in air as she pivoted, bringing the sickle's blade around in a deadly crescent, trying to keep the other statues from approaching her, but mostly aiming towards the banner statue's legs.

"I've no idea what that myeans!"

Technique. That's what she was missing. Breathing forms or a style. Being a castle toppler like Lugh would only temporarily solve her problem. Surely if she had some fighting forms like that pink samurai, or the kid with an oni sister, she could cut through even steel.

Even if she were to fall now, at least she will leave with that knowledge.
[Ranger]Ari Reina Caladis(Theresa)



"Hmm, fine. I'll let you borrow it for the moment." She wasn't too displeased, still staring at the weird sickle, or kama as it would be called here. It felt... fleshy? Like the chitinous squishy feeling of an actual black centipede, the 'blade' made of what seemed to be centipede legs, dark and bright orange in places, spreading when she gripped it to form an oddly hard sharp membranous blade between them. It was definitely what Ari would describe as 'cool as heck'

Ari felt the sudden thrum of power as she got a class, making every single bit of her body vibrate like a string on a guitar.

"Whoah what happened?"

Looking through her status, she noticed the unspent points, and allocated them immediately. Of course, she had a specific idea of what she wanted already, and hesitated not one bit in any of the allocations. There was now no stopping the excited girl from zipping about the stone, unable to contain her excitement.

"Hey! Hey, Lew! Help me with something?"

Perhaps now would be the time for that little errand for Fat Truck?
Ari Reina Caladis(Theresa)
-Taking Ranger Class-




Scratching her head, she looked glumly at the list of jobs on the stone. Ari didn't really want to get one that she didn't feel like playing, but apparently she was supposed to have one.

"Ah this ranger thing has stealth in it huh? I'll pick that one then." Looking past the list, it was also stated to have traps in it. A good start she suppose. Ninja was supposed to be stealthy, strong, fast and able to make their own gears. For now, she would have to see what she can do first. Traps would really help a lot. Getting stronger would be great, as well as gathering some poison now that she had a taste of the stronger creatures to be found. She read somewhere that very brightly colored creatures were the ones to look for for poison. All these knives would be great poisoned. As well as her twin kodachi.

Twin kodachi?

"Oh, that's right. Lew? What happened to my other sword?"
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