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Red Dragon Bone Guild

Red Dragon Bone Guild

Marstenna was once a normal world filled with magic and life, until it happened. It happened without warning and violently, this surge of magical energy that poured out in torrential force creating a violent maelstrom of chaos that swallowed up lands. Accompanied by a thick fog the land and inhabitants would get warped. Reality would cease to make sense and all sorts of calamity manifested itself. This was called “The Great Tempest”

All seemed lost, but then a group of mages noticing the calm in the skies above put forth a wild plan. Using a combination of magics they would rip as many habituated lands into the sky as a last-ditch effort. Many were lost but the people had survived. Fast forward a handful of generations later, the calamity known as “The Great Tempest” subsidized as suddenly as it appeared. The people now have their eyes turned to future and the ground below. Restoration and resettlement are the words on people’s minds today as people begin settling down into the surface.

This is where you come in, as part of The Red Dragon Bone Guild you will play part in aiding this process as part of the world’s premier adventuring organization, The Red Dragon Bone Guild. Whether your specialty is magic, fighting, or tinkering with the technology to provide the best gear to your fellow members, remember that you are all in this together.
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World Info

The world as you know is divided into two half the aerial archipelagos of sky islands lifted into the sky with powerful magics and the surface world. There are also a handful of races that managed to survive the apocalypse.

places

Within the realm of the sky you have a bunch of floating islands with most of them being part of some entity’s territory. Airship travel is the most common way to get where you want especially if you’re traveling out of a certain territory although land traveling is still done within more local ranges.

Anyway, here are some of the locales of note within the aerial world:

The Kingdom of Ziegler
Once a large wealthy kingdom on the surface, it now is quite smaller although it still has a fair bit clout in this new world. Ziegler’s own magic users were able to raise quite a fair bit amount of the capital city with all its various important buildings and it used its great wealth to get a lot of territory raised from the surface added to its collective territory for housing and food purposes. The current ruler is Prince Quaylo Varntrier who has taken over for his father as he has gotten old and has shifted his interest in papercraft over ruling. Ziegler has its own mage academy that maintains one of the few remaining archives of old world knowledge. It also has its own inter-territorial transportation system involving magical rails. The capital city area also contains an intact temple of The Holy Blue Moon which is one of the persisting religions of the world.

Itonia
This chain of islands is most famous for its high concentration of magic users. During the cataclysm it arose from being a camp of working mages and also a lot of refugees that were displaced seeking shelter. Over the years it then developed into a thriving settlement. The mage organization while having some sway, is a bit divorced from the day to day as they’re focused more on running the famous Magi College which was established by the original magicians that were involved in the process of raising the first set of islands. The College’s research prowess is second to none and they’ve been leaders in the development of magitech. Over the course of time many graduates from this college have made their way to the Guild or have worked alongside it on certain assignments.

Dredgelands
These are basically a bunch of provincial territories that are unaffiliated with any greater power. The creation of Dredgelands came about by the dredgers and some refugees wanting their own space. Their land is the somewhat motely and patchwork as it was made of more smaller islands than other places. This is because this community was created piecemeal and during the downtime of the dredging crews and the process of bringing up large chunks of land being costly in time and resources. However, geo-magics and wealthy retired dredgers/adventurers have prevented the Dredgelands from being too starved for space.
While on their own they’re a bunch of separate and autonomous communities this common history of wanting to be a new home and new start to the survivors all binds them quite closely. They’re also home to a bunch of artisans and thus are an attraction for people wanting and buying various artisanal goods. Due to the position of the Dredgelands relative to other territories, it acts as hub for both merchant and traveler activity going all over the sky lands.

New Porinton
This is the country of the race known as the Oozelings, a race of gelatinous slimy beings. Due to their rather unique bodies and abilities they have made their own metropolis that is much more suited to their needs. While the Oozelings can be found all over they get a longing for their lost homeland. By far the most visually unique of all the lands, their strange buildings that seem to be made of the same material as them, attract all manners of tourists who come to admire the locale which in turn has created some resort towns and touristy districts. Porinton also boasts a top notch magitech prowess due to the Oozelings own abilities. It rivals that of the mages in Itonia although it takes a bit of work converting it from Oozeling sensibility into something more usable for the more humanoid races. This country is also famous for its pastries both savory and sweet, as well as the source of a new beverage sensation sweeping across the lands.
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Yaskal
A beautiful city-state filled with lots of water and buildings created magically manipulated trees that still live. It was created by the race known as the Leppids, to whom trees and water held a special significance. The city has many a fountain, canal, pond, wetland, and even some exclusive aquatic areas only accessible via swimming. It too also contains a temple to the Leppid’s own religion. Yaskal exports quite a bit of food from its agricultural industry as well a recreational drug known as “loud”.
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Red Dragon Bone Guild
This island itself is detached from any territory placing it in a neutral position. It consists of one island large enough to house a village. It houses the headquarters building and contains many facilities such as: sleeping quarters, workshops, eatery, training area, infirmary, and an airship dock. Another unique feature is its rapid adventurer delivery system adapted from Oozeling tech that catapults the user in an enchanted bubble to their destination. It’s name comes from the red colored dragon skeleton that was found embedded underneath the island and part of a mountain, which has long been destroyed to give more flat space, when it was raised into the air. The bones can now be seen decorating part of lobby in the HQ building and elsewhere around the island.
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Huemac
This land was created by the great sorceress Asiola who was one of the original magicians in the project to raise land. She was skilled with various magics particularly that of using crystals as learned from the Temmincki and other areas. The landscape she had created is quite wild as one of her project was the creation of Asiola’s repose an artificial “sea” created by molding and filling a chunk of sandy wasteland and adding salt water. The local builds incorpate a bunch of crystal work and also host a fair amount of the Temminicki as their burrow lands were raised from the earth as part of the founding of this area.

Floating Bazaar
A network of floating airships and platforms all interconnected to create a nomadic marketplace filled with all sorts of oddities. Travelers use it as a pitstop of sorts to pick up things or just to kill some time in between their destinations. Home to the Midnight star inn which has a peculiar quality of having many dark corners to sit mysteriously in.
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Surface World
The surface of Marstenna has been completely reshaped by The Great Tempest and the subsequent raising of islands for inhabitable land. Although it has now long since dissipated the recolonization of land below is only just a recent endeavor starting about a couple of decades ago from the present. Life is currently stable but some of them are too small to be self-sustained and rely on the sky world for manpower mainly especially when it comes to taking care of dangerous monsters and whatnot.
Currently the surface world consists of many small colonies that are turning into towns with a couple of small to mid-sized cities. There are also many outposts used by various organizations who are doing exploration of the changed surface as well as small mage’s living alone and doing their own independent research.

The surviving races of Martenna are a colorful lot. Here are the list of them.

Races

Human
They come in all sort of shapes and sizes. By far the most numerous of the races in the Sky lands. They’re your standard hominid race.
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Oozelings
One of the most diverse and colorful race of Marstenna. They are sapient slimes and despite lacking damn near everything most animals have they carry on quite well. Oozelings are quite adept at magic and during the cataclysm put it to good use to help the other races out as well as help themselves adapt to the new needs of living on sky islands. However they aren’t wimpy piece of gelatin, some of them practice an ancient martial art native to their species known as Zerachin no ken.
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Leppids
This race of omnivorous reptilian humanoids is quite mammalian despite their appearance. They have an affinity to water which makes sense given their natural skill in swimming and aquatic related magics. They’re also skilled in using magic to warp vegetation to great effect as demonstrated in Yaskal. Appearance-wise they tend to be like 2 feet taller than the average human. They sport a medium sized snout, and they have these soft fleshy tendrils that can be mistaken as ears. They walk plantigrade and they have paddle like tails which they use in swimming.
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Temmincki
They’re a race of bipedal pangolin people that traditionally lived in underground communities. Surprisingly lithe despite their bulky appearances one of their contributions was that of crystal working which would then be used for the technology of the Etherium crystals whose application is widespread in many devices. They also do a unique music form of using their voices to create many sounds in lieu of instruments. They are found everywhere but Huemac has a special place in their hearts.
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Go’za
More or less indistinguishable from humans their visually defining features are their sheep/ram like horns and floofy hair. They tend to be shorter than average but given their interbreeding with humans this isn’t as true. One Go’zan of note was the wizard Chup who was skilled in the art of inscribing symbols for use with magic it was him who also laid out the groundwork for the later development of magitech.
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Hounders
A race of sapient talking dogs, they are quite cosmopolitan and found everywhere. Their small size, speed, cunning, and surprising agility gives them a leg up when it comes to getting into cramped areas which makes them great as thieves and scouts. There are rumors that somewhere hidden in the islands is a secret training village where the finest warriors are trained in the way of fighting and being sneaky.

Magic and Magitech

Origin

Magic flows through the land and everyone is capable with some training. With the cataclysm though, it provided a very urgent pressure to develop and advance techniques. Magitech has made magic much more prolific and accessible to the common citizen. It is a very important development to the known world as it has created all sorts of gizmos that made life possible.
Magitech as previously noted has it origins during The Great Tempest. It draws from a cross-disciplinary application of various magics: channeling, inscribing, crystal loci, alchemy. They all blended together into producing a magic well suited to crafting and putting into objects that was much more mana efficient compared to the older methods that were put at use during the time of the raising of the islands.

Etherium Crystal
One of the big developments was that of Etherium Crystal from Astolia and the Temmincki. Developed in conjunction with some alchemical processes, this material does several important functions. Firstly, it acts as a battery of magical energy, it acts as a conductor, and it also can modify magical energy. This first part allowed for the crafting of many magical devices that can be used for the non-caster. For the caster it also allowed them to not need to expend themselves so much while also giving and easy material to channel their own magic for their own needs. The crystals draw energy from the resonance of the planets own innate magical energies and will recharge slowly over time, but if placed into a special device or if the user expends their own energy it will charge faster

Transportation
All of transportation has sort of evolved to deal with the fact that everything is in the air and that the islands aren’t all properly aligned within areas. Airships are the norm for mass transportation, smaller aerial vehicles are used for common usage. Tram like vehicles are used to transport foot traffic within local territories as space is still somewhat a premium. Smaller scale ground transportation tends to be either small hover type vehicles or small aircraft for longer distance traveling.

A new and exotic form of transportation was invented by Oozelings and it consists of what amounts to a magically power rail guided catapult. For none-Oozeling usage it has been modified to create a forcefield around the user which will allow them to partially guide their path upon being launched and also to cushion their landing as Oozelings’ lack of anything breakable and their own innate magical abilities allows them to do the same without much work. The Guild uses this as a rapid delivery device of adventurers to their hotspot without needing to prep up an airship. However, for longer expeditions the method of sending them by airship still works, although the adventurers might be launched via the device first to secure the area and then shoot up a signal for a ship full of supplied to come land.

Other stuff
Magically powered communication devices are widespread of popular although far from fail-safe. Heating/Cooling and lighting are common throughout so too is modern plumbing. There are certain modern technologies, but the setting is a bit anachronistic and idiosyncratic to have a 1;1 to everything. But you got like holograms and monitors but no TV, but rather a glorified version of radio and theatre exists. Cars aren’t a thing, but hovering vehicles and aircraft are.

Guns and melee exist alongside each other and each one without melee being invalidated but that’s because of rule of cool really. The crystal tech goes into both weapon types with melee weapons using it for more or less as an easier version of enchantment. Guns have two levels of crystal usage one that basically acts as replacement for magic training and acts a power source and more advanced tinkering for the actual caster for whom it may acts as a fancier and deadlier wand.

Magic as one might know it still exists though. Magitech while flexible and powerful in its own right can’t be beat by a skilled practitioner of the arts, and certain fields just can’t be done solely with it as the magitech only enhances it.
Speaking of magic, the only types that don’t exist are: time warping, and bring back the dead. Summoning is said to be a dead magic area but only because during the calamity it stopped working properly either creating magical implosions or letting out severely corrupted critters. Likewise anything related to Ley Lines has also fallen behind due to said disaster as well.

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Rules

• Standard guild rules apply
• Don’t backseat mod
• When in doubt, ask

CS

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[b]Appearance:[/b] Picture or description, although I know for the other races it’ll be a bit trickier to find something.
[b]Background:[/b]
[b]Personality:[/b]
[b]Role:[/b] This does not neceserilly mean like your “class” like in an RPG, but also encompasses what you do in the guild’s employ. Examples would be: Cook, scout, scholar, craftsmen, etc.
[b]Abilities:[/b] List any skills, magic, or cool fighting moves here
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Red Dragon Bone Guild

This took way longer to write up and sprinkle bbcode into than I expected.😫

Also I think I might be looking for a co-gm. Anyway commence the questions and whatnot!

Sky islands & adventurers

It's a day late but I'm working on the ooc. It will be up later today.

Sky islands & adventurers

Cool I'll get an OOC up with more settings stuff and a cs up some time later today.

Sky islands & adventurers

Cool!

Like I wrote in the opening post, ask me questions if that will help you think about what you want to do.

Sky islands & adventurers

Gun wizard could be done multiple ways.

Like the simplest would it be like a laser gun and maybe some stuff you jam into it to change how it works and it runs off your own mana or an external mana supplier. Perhaps you channel spells through gun and the gun makes it easier than casting traditionally but at some cost, or maybe it works like the Caster Gun from Outlaw Star.

Sky islands & adventurers

Red Dragon Bone Guild

A world once hit by calamity enters an era of renewal. This is the story of adventurers that plunge into the depths like stars falling across the sky.

It had only been four generations since the calamity known as “The Great Tempest” happened. A powerful magical force ravaged the lands spreading itself through the ley lines of the planet which created a thick fog of chaos. It was only with the works of magic users using relics and wards created a great act of terraforming where chunks of land which were positively soaked in this energy was a catalyst to create large chunks of floating landmasses high above the chaos to weather this apocalyptic disaster out.

During the ensuing years although the maelstrom below would lessen it was still deemed too dangerous and costly to mount an expedition to reclaim the land below. Instead what happened was the creation of the phlogiston divers and the practicing of “dredging”. These brave folks donning special protective armor akin to diving suits would come down with magical markers to quickly mark land for elevation into the air to create more space for a variety of needs.

As decades passed eventually this maelstrom would calm down exposing a completely different world below. It was as if a new world was created during this calamity. The survivors soon began communicating plans of going back, exploring the new world, to begin to reclaim and resettle. It was during this time that organizations like soon became adventuring organizations.

One of these groups eventually would become known as the Red Dragon Bone Guild. So-called because on a mission to dredge up some land for their own purposes they found reddish colored dragon bones embedded in parts of the earth they brought up. They became one of the biggest groups during this change and soon became the premier adventurer’s guild.
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OOC Stuff

So my rp, in terms of setting it’s best described as post-post-apocalyptic in that everyone is now less focused on survival and more on rebuilding and carrying on as normal as possible. The cataclysmic event has subsided and now people are able to descend to the world and have been starting new settlements and there’s missions to explore the world. In terms of tech level it’s hard to describe as magitek is how stuff runs in the setting, even swords can have it implemented into them. There's a handful of races besides humans who have survived the cataclysm and work beside them in the sky islands.

Your characters are all part of the same guild and will be doing all sorts of assignment mainly related to surface world matters. My plan is to have an episodic type of vibe with your characters doing quests from the guild and some SoL downtime stuff with the intent to delve into the past and find out what was the cause of this great disaster and see if it can be prevented from ever happening again.

If you got any questions regarding the game, feel free to ask me as there’s definitely more setting information. I have more but it's being saved for the full writeup on the RP proper.

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