Katelyn

Magic-Centered, GOT-like Cool RP idea

Very nice. I'm interested.

Twisted Redux

Maiden - The CS is updated. Please let me know your thoughts whenever you have time.

Elsa - *Smiles* what is an artist's colony? There was TONS of art galleries. We spent most of our time walking through them and grabbed a few cards of artist for pieces that were just beyond words.

Resounding Provocation: The Council of Shadows

We can have Lycans, Demons and Vamps if we want. With a smaller group we have the ability to bring in more than 1 MC for each of us - IF we want to. I'll leave that up to you guys.

I'll probably wait to see who everyone is bringing in and decide who to throw in for my own MC's based on the types of characters you guys play.

We can limit the species if you guys thing a tighter story might be better, or we can leave it wide open and see what happens. Things seem to spin themselves into motion if left in the hands of a few talented peeps. (whispers: that'd be us)

Vanguard of Thornfall (Frenetic Raptor & Kate)

Ah, I see. :)

We are getting that storm as well. Flooding everywhere and lovely tornado warnings. BOOOO on a rainy memorial day!

Trip was good. The city is a ceaspool at night, but I think we all knew that was coming. Great food and lovely art studios. I had fun with my beau. I needed to get out of town and get a breather.

Fortune by Land & Sea (Dreamshell & Kate)

Andrea DeMarco I 22 I Captain of the La Jolla

Andrea is warm and welcoming to her closest friend, the rest of the world and most of her crew receiving a stern, controlled encounter with the only female captain in the Adriatic Sea. She leads with a big-picture mentality and can see things that most cannot. Her dealings with other pirates are straight-forward and often violent from the onstart, namely to prove a point about her gender. There are rare occasions when she'll use the misconception about her being soft due to her femininity to her advantage, but those usually end with someone buried in a watery grave.

Having grown up the only daughter of the illustrious Captain Williams "Hammer-hands" DeMarco, Andrea was trained to be tough and self sufficient. Her mother died upon her birth and her father decided to never marry again, leaving Drea to travel the high seas with him from the time of her infancy to a few years past when he lost his battle with a blood disease. She learned the ins and outs of the ship, the pirating business and self-defense. She can wield a blade better than most and sees herself growing old alone with nothing but the future to greet her and the past to push her forward.

Fortune by Land & Sea (Dreamshell & Kate)

"Notes from our PM"

You can be cap'n, that's cool with me. A stuffy, law-abiding Norrington type could be plenty fun, then there's also the option of a sort of all-inclusive Spock to your Kirk who tends the ledgers, acts as ship's surgeon and gives regular counsel, etc., all while still being an outlaw on the high seas himself. One supplies more immediate conflict than the other, but both are cool ideas, and of course there's always the possibility of multiple characters.

Well, the Napoleonic wars were shortly after the American and French revolutions, lasting from 1803-1815, with some stops and starts. Horse & carriage would be the norm at that time, yeah. Trains and railway transportation didn't get popular/commercial until around the 1850s-60s.

Anyway, most of that seems irrelevant if we're to be at sea most of the time, but we can model the land-based stuff off the British Empire and dynastic Europe easily enough. So fancy clothes and wigs for the nobles, more humble stuff for the majority and rags for the more unfortunate. Think the Pirates of the Caribbean movies (they might be a deal before the era I'm referring to, though, I'm not sure; piracy as is commonly portrayed went back at least to the 1600s), Les Miserables, Master & Commander and most other pirate or swashbuckling media one might imagine.

just imagined a great scenario where our pirates are posing as nobles, perhaps even royalty. My pirate, your captain's lieutenant, is probably posh enough to pass off as one, so maybe he handles the talking if she's less schooled in her etiquette. He might even be impersonating the prince himself... and then the real one shows up. Cue a brawl and epic scrambling to escape to the ports.

Perhaps the prince will find his life a bit boring and tame and wonder what life on the high seas might be like, finding the female captain to be a treasure he'd love to add to his collection and her wanting nothing to do with him, save teaching him a lesson or two in common manner.

My conception of the prince thus far is that he believes in law and order to the utmost and his view on piracy is something of a mix of demonization and "love the sinner, hate the sin." Some pirates are too wicked and savage to save, but others must be brought back into the fold. His father the king takes more of a hard line; he means to eradicate them all and will adopt any means to do so, something which he and his son disagree on quite strongly.

If he's not merely taken as ransom, I imagine the prince might actively pursue "converting" or redeeming the captain and her crew himself. Of course, the likeliest scenario is that one follows the other.

Oh that's fun. I always love a good religious element in our stories. Saving that world or dirty pirates as it were will be fun. I'll make his sister a dreamer who's a bit whimslical and quite girly in appearance and stature.

So let's start with our pirates and we'll intro the other half of the story in the near future?

Do we need CS for the MCs?

If you like. I'd at least like to work on mine a bit more. The usual fare like name, age, appearance and maybe personality and a brief bio should be good. I'm going to use original names for places and things, not try to fit this into a RL historical context.

Okay, I've got some details for my character, but one idea I like is that our PCs have a history dating back to before yours was captain. She might still have already been a pirate by the time they met (if she wasn't just born into it, that is), but I kind of enjoy thinking she owes at least some of her rise to power to him. =P

I'm perfectly fine with the first mate being a bit older and having attributed to her fathers and now her success. Let's say her father died quickly of a heart attack or something and she's only 22. ??

Hmm, interesting idea! A sort of inherited right-hand man. I did imagine him being mid-30s, so unless you want to age her up and have them be peers first, that sounds fine.

EDIT: Though 22, geez. That sounds so young to me now, despite not being much older. I guess I just haven't had much experience with my own age group in a while. At any rate, they lived hard and hearty in those days, so it's not impossible.

Dream - drop your CS's in here and I'll be working on mine too. :)

Resounding Provocation: The Council of Shadows

*Smiles* Behave men. (see... I didn't use boys)

I'm cool with you bringing in a new character Bane. We're going to make reference to Dagon I believe as we need a bit of a ruler/warlord over the Demons.

Let's pony-up and see which characters we are all thinking about bringing to a new (slow-moving) adv story and then I'll see if I need to put up an interest check for another member.

A Moment of Weakness (LaShana & Kate)

Oh that's fun. I think that fits perfectly. We'll get them past the part of being sworn enemies and then perhaps Vincent can catch word of someone (old family friend/brother?) finding substantial evidence that the old love is in fact gone.

We'll bring the crazy chick back in a later episode, but the drama would be quite lovely. :)))

Lovely job on your post. Nice intro for the sister.

A Dance in the Dark (Kefka Palazzo & Kate)

I'd never forget the premise. I love stories with these types of characters. I have the original PM if I have a lapse in memory. :)

Vanguard of Thornfall (Frenetic Raptor & Kate)

Why are you lifting such heavy stuff? Sounds taxing... :P

I went on a surprise trip this weekend, so forgive my timing. I'll have something up in the next few days. :)

Hope your weekend was great.