Woundwort

The City in the Sea: New Anathagos [Fantasy politics! Intrigue! Sea Monsters! Pirates & More!]

@Ophidian Your Vamp Nobles may find use in the Grogari then

Good muscle and all :)

@Sigma

This is the start of a beautiful friendship.

Come, my pseudo-reptilian friend! There are slaves to liberate! Also have some money!

The City in the Sea: New Anathagos [Fantasy politics! Intrigue! Sea Monsters! Pirates & More!]

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Enemies? Please. I respect my enemies. You, well, you're like vermin, and need to be extinguished.

(Get it, cause your fiery!)

@RisenDead

Heh.

I'll probably be playing a faction of Vamp nobles from their homeland. Who, in a twist, aren't there to drain the city of their blood.

They just have Problems with slavery.

Which means, considering they're nobles and don't see why this cities silly old laws should apply to them, means their methods of fighting it aren't limited just to pretty speeches.

Enemy or vermin?

:p

The City in the Sea: New Anathagos [Fantasy politics! Intrigue! Sea Monsters! Pirates & More!]

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Go for it. If there are any red flags in your sheet, I'll let you know. Maybe we can merge ideas re: the vampyr stuff and the in-world lore about them too, once you get a WIP sheet up and i get a sense of what you have in mind.

@Flagg

I'll write up an infodump on the species then. Some cliffnotes that might be relevant.

-Extremely rare. Their factions, bloodlines, etc, don't take people in lightly-immortality is a gift, and even the most morally dubious of them don't want to be responsible for making, say, a genocidal madman immortal. It's happened in the past. They've learned. This does break down sometimes-since it's relatively easy for one vampire to make another. But right now, they're mostly on top of things and there's no madman seeking to build an army of vampires. Yet.
-Tied to magic, by their very nature, they're tied to magicks like necromancy, and more obscure, less understandable forces. Magic flows in their veins.
-They need to feed, somewhat often, this doesn't have to be fatal-but it is another reason they're so rare. They can't produce, regardless of the exact effect vampirism has, blood on their own, meaning they need to feed more then many portrayals of vampires. High numbers of vampires are unsustainable without pretty forgetting ethics are a thing. If they don't feed, they become little more then beasts-and there's no way back from it. Physical changes and permanent insanity. And even if the beast is slain, some of the magicks that flowed in their blood stays behind, as a wraith, an incorporeal, ever-hungry, creature of pure hunger. The human part of them needs the magick-but the magick doesn't need them.
-As you might have guessed, the transformation from human to vampire doesn't effect morality much, they remain just as good, or as evil, as they were before.

Granted, considering they're immortal, the evil ones still manage to cause a heck of alot of trouble.

The City in the Sea: New Anathagos [Fantasy politics! Intrigue! Sea Monsters! Pirates & More!]

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Absolutely. I have a quasi-vampire race that for right now I am calling vampyr (creative) but will eventually rename. But go for your idea!

@Flagg

What I tend to do is really play up the "undead" factor, while taking full advantage of the merging of the mundane and magical they tend to represent-they are often compared to diseases, but diseases, according to modern science can't remotely do what vampirism does. So I figure that this would be reflected in their biology. To get into the nitty-gritty-vampirism can manifest differently in each person, as I write it.

Some of them, going for the heart is a totally legit kill move. Others will laugh, pull the stake out of their chest and pin you to the wall with it. Which boils down to how vampirism has effected their inner workings-some organs might as well be alive, but some of them look like they're about to crumble to ash if a stiff wind blows.

Some of them can even drown, depending on the lungs situation.

The City in the Sea: New Anathagos [Fantasy politics! Intrigue! Sea Monsters! Pirates & More!]

Hm.

I've got some non-conventional ideas for vampires-I tend to deplore some of the more popular portrayals on both sides of the Dracula Divide-the old style and the True Blood style, but I do have a concern-is a non conventional take on a conventional race within the bounds of the RP?

Pokemon: Legendary Guardians [V2]

There. Posted.

Sorry about the delay. Ran right into writer's block and a string of long shifts!

New Anathagos: Politics and Adventure in a Fantasy City

If there is still room, I've got some concepts I could use.

Pokemon: Legendary Guardians [V2]

@Ninian

Jinx

Well. ****ity, ****, ****eth. This was bad. There had be a hospital somewhere nearby, but he didn't have any idea where, and calling 911 might not....by the spirits this guy looked bad. Almost like he'd just climbed out of freezing water. That same desperately clinging to life mixed with wet dog look.

What in all the mounting hells of the void was he supposed to d-

Four months ago. Hoenn. Leap off a roof into the sea. Enough bruises, scraps and dents in him to put a used car to shame. And he'd made it out. Heck. He was wearing more then his share of bandages now-one on the arm, some underneath the shirt. Crime paid well. Really freaking well (lie and cheat kids, it works!). But it also hurt. Vents had sharp things in 'em. Breaking glass, shockingly, had a chance of cutting you.

And dodging the police wasn't a low-risk profession. He had this.

Right.

A certain...zen overcame him, and actions became automatic.

"Houndoom. Get my kit."

The hound pokemon chuffed once, questioningly.

"No I don't care if you have to tackle the luggage attendant. Hell. Set everything else on fire for all I care. Just get the kit."

“Now.” The words were smooth, confident, not quite the purr he used to freak out handsome cops, but definitely in same range as his classic ‘we both know I’m going to escape so why bother’ typeset.

“I’ll tell you what’s going to happen.” He directed his gaze at the psychic pokemon. “As soon as Houndoom plows his way through whatever rent-a-cop they have in luggage, I’ll fix up your man. While the slack-jawed morons who run this place sit around being useless. Savvy? Savvy. But for me to do that. I’m gonna have to ask you to stop shouting in my headspace.”

Pokemon: Legendary Guardians [V2]

Still working on a post!

Work has been crazy.

three 12 hour shifts.

Pokemon: Legendary Guardians [V2]

Looking over the character sheets submitted.....

There's a long running character of mine I might bring in. I am assuming multiple characters are a-okay?