medieval quest

[Khadgar]

i donno where to take this, but i would be interested in some kind of medieval thing. purely open for topic and everything. charechters are any, there will of course need to be evil bastards, i'm willing to be it if need be. so yeah, lets talk people

 

[BlazeofLife]

Okay, I'll play evil, no problem.
You need to set some specifics, like:

Is it historical medieval?
Is it earth-based, or another world?
Does it have magic, and mythological creatures?
What kind of characters do you allow? (races, classes, etc.)

Just define a basic setup, meaning, do you want this to follow an actual old-english medieval plot, or are you going for more of the fantasy genre type of medieval setting, complete with wizards and elves and all that other good stuff?

Also, are you looking for a host of evil characters, or just one evil influence to battle all the other characters who post here?

 

[Khadgar]

topic

okay, first, wlel say this, this is historcal, in saying there are no modern things here, this actually is old times. sorry people, no magical guns. take a multi fire crosbow or something. but other than that, it's fantasy. the place is an island. i know too many people base things on scorland, but the highlands just seems really good for this setting. this does not mean it's scotland, this is a different world, but think of that type of land.

we will need hero's and evil people. i'm not sure weither there will be one evil overlord or what. lets look at how many people reply and what demand there is for evil.

races: be imaginative! humans, elves, dwarves, trolls, gnomes, orcs, (the classics) the magi (mage) scorcerors, the lot. witches, megic is ppresent (of course) but if you want to use something else, some kind of humanoid cat, i'm perfectly okay with it.


BASIC RULE: if you are good, a hero or besicly not bad. do not fall to this common though, good is beter than evil. it is NOT. evil can be much more powerful. hitting a creature of darkness with an instument of light does not automaticly kill it. more likely it will laugh and slaughter you.

this one is the biggest rule there is, NO RHINO HIDING for those of you who don't know what rhino hiding is, if you take an arrow through the eye, or get gutted. you are DEAD not "pulls the arrow out and sticks it into the orc's throat" doesn't mean your gone, this is a different world. go to a healer, get resurected. but if you rhino hide, you'll be ignored. thats no fun. also, you do not control other people, do what you do, but they can always counter. don't kill them for them. (if that made sence)

classical evil charechters, like orcs. do not have to be. remember that. evil stikes many hearts.

thats all!


setting: small village on the coast of an island. most people here seem happy and tranquil. there are almost no fights, but a dark cloud has approached overhead. at first the villagers cheery optomistic nature was lighthearted, there were many jokes about how the crops would be plentiful with this shower. the cloud did pass, and they did get alot of rain, but one night, during a downpour, the clouds crashed a deep blue hue, and the star of the village chapel exploded. a few days later a booming cough was heard over from across the forrest. the villagers looked worried, but as always optomistic. the third night after the coughing started, the trees at the east end of the village cracked appart, and out stepped a mouth with two legs and arms. it looked like a sand coloured wedge, it's top a wide mouth, spears of teeth jutting out at off angles. the farmers looked at it curiously, but when it trampled down a wall of a nearby farn and lifted it's head back out, a lifeless body filled with holes hanging from a clawed hand. the farmers managed to subdue it, and cast it off the cliff with many many losses. but ever since then, they have built a makeshift wall around the village, hoping their sent prayers would be answered soon. for what did they know about fighting? there had never been one fight in the village. the daemon had been the first. the constantly looked to the forrests and to the seas. hoping for travelers to aid them, perhaps someone who had recieved their call of distress?....

 

[Khadgar]

typo's

sorry, lots of weird spellings in there, but i'm sure you can plough through it

 

[BlazeofLife]

OOC:

No problem man, don't sweat it.

May I reccomend that anyone joining this thread read the sticky at the top of the main page? It outlines a lot of the rules of etiquette for playing RPGs, and Havocman covers pretty much everything.

Let's see...

Kylan Dhaemon
Race: Elf
Age: 97 (roughly equal to 21 for a human)
Eyes: Grey (shift color with his mood, usually from green to blue)
Hair: Gold with red highlights, black tips
Height: 5'11"
Weight: 165 lbs
Build: slim, wiry, somewhat athletic, very agile
Weapon: Favors twin Katals, proficcient with a bow, know just enough about using a sword to avoid cutting off his own limbs
Magical Abilties: Minor spells and cantrips (e.g. stuff like lighting a campfire and making light, not lightning bolts or fireballs)
Class: Multi:- thief-warrior-mage (listed in order of proficiency, mainly a thief, has warrior skills, few spells but has ability to eventually learn them so he kind of counts as a mage too)

I'll wait for now to find out if this character will assume the "bad-guy" persona, for now just assume he's a traveler with a hidden past.

Hope this works

 

[BlazeofLife]

BTW, if anyone doesn't know what a katal is, it's a subgroup of the weapon class of Katar.

and if you still don't have a clue, it's the weapons used by Kiros Seagill in Final Fantasy 8. (remember the fast guy with the blades on each hand?)

 

[Khadgar]

Balinor Ohms

OOC: excelent, lol welcome to my first attempt, hope it goes well. i also will create a char, and if need be become evil. (note:i like a good evil bastard) i donno what i'll do if no one becomes evil, this guy will die i suppose.

IC:
Balinor Ohms

Sex: Male

Race: Wood Elf

Type: Mage

Age: 134 (keepping with blazes life span idea) roughly 29 human reconing

Eye's: Dark brown, with green streaks in them

Hair: Also dark brown.

Height: 6'3

Weight: 220 pounds

Build: Mammoth. huge chested, muscled, but not heavily.

Reigion: Arctic. in the northern mountains (explains his build, not a classical elf)

Weapons: keeps a Long Claymore strapped to his back along with a quiver, a bow is slung along his back. is an elf, so is a fairly good shot with the bow, would be an excelent shot, but his studies into magic took away that time.

Magic: is a Mage. trained in several techniques. elementals, and constructive. high level of magic.

 

[BlazeofLife]

Alright, we've got two elves, one a really big mage, the other a slender thief (shhh, nobody knows) now we just need some other characters to join in and we're all set to go.
To anyone thinking of joining in, may I suggest some true warriors, and maybe clerics or healers? I don't know about the other, but my character is only really good with his blades. He knows how to use a bow, but doesn't pracitice much. (Carrying a bow gets awkward when you're trying to be... uh... discrete. translation:= light-fingered, ownership impaired, you get the idea)

Come on everybody, feel free to join in, this looks like fun so far.

 

[Khadgar]

OOC: thanks man, i apprieciate it lol but yeah, this thread is only about 2 hours old, but join in people. and yeah, reading the sticky at the top is a good idea, i did before i started. Balinor can use his sword and bow, otherwise he would not carry them. he does not hold the though that it is a discrace for a magic wielder to use mundaine weapons, but against a true warrior, his weaponry skills are inferior. alas, magic....

 

[KillerMuffin]

*claps hands in delight and sings* I get to be a bad guy! I get to be a bad guy! Well wait... Muffie, you should ask first.

Um, may I play? Fair warning, everything I play is laced with humor. I can't be a serious anything; it's all entire poked fun at. The Joker is my favorite bad guy. He's closely followed by Disney's Hades and Samauri Jack's Akoo.

That's all OOC, by the way.

 

[faust]

OOC: Oh yeah, this should get really interesting! I'll gign on. Seeing that we have an abundance of evil bastards and no heroes, I'll play "good" this time.

Name: Syrus G'tavan
Race: Human
Class: Warrior Brute
Age: 35
Height: 6'5
Weight: 190 lb
Appearance: Average build, brown eyes, coal-black hair, bronze weatherbeaten skin.
Weapon: Well-worn double edged war axe, a foot-long dagger that hangs at his belt.
Magic: No magic profficiency whatsoever.
Bio: Doesn't remember anything from his childhood. His first memories are that of fighting for his life. Never having learned diplomacy, he's blunt and to-the-point, to the point of being rude. Spends his time traveling the world. Loves a good challenge. Having heard of the island's troubles, he will gladly take up the villagers' cause for a few pieces of gold.

*hope that works!

 

[Khadgar]

Welcome!

OOC
thank you people! now this can start to get going. attract more people maybe. your both welcome, honor to have you KM, and yeah, be a bad guy, the way i see it, the evil person(s) are much stronger than the good peoples. i like it to be different than commonly believed. your welsome to it, and i fon;t miund comedy, er- as long as it doesn't seriously skew the story lol sorry.

nice charechter faust thanks for taking the brute. beed a few of those.

what do you think people? four players, want to start now, and let others come in, or wait some more?

 

[KillerMuffin]

Cool! I gotta do some work now, but I'll be back later with a character of some sort.

I suggest you make this an OOC thread and start a new one for the storyline itself. Come up with a title that kind of explains what it's about.

 

[Khadgar]

check

okay, thanks for the advice. i'll do it, and re-enter the besic outline. sorry blaze and faust. guess you'll have to re-do your charechters there. hmm... or we keep it here. but the title really doesn't say alot....

tell me what you think

 

[Maid of Marvels]

Kaleigh

http://www.Bibracte.dreamwater.org/ATWAS/Th_F93L.jpg

Name: Kaleigh
Race: Human
Age: 18
Height: 5'3
Weight: 110 lb
Appearance: Petite, red hair and green eyes
Weapon: Carries a bodice knife and is quite proficient with it... (Can you say take your cut throat off my knife?)
Magic: She may have some degree of magical ability, but it is largely untested at this point.
Bio: Kaleigh learned all that she knows at the knee of her grandmother who was both healer and herbalist. Kaleigh CAN, however, speak with spirits and is in constant company with some who guard over her.

She may be young in years, but her youth is belied when one looks into the depths of her eyes... for she is an old soul.

 

[Khadgar]

what is your class, a healer? herbalist? or just a wanderer? how about where did you come from? or... nah, we can talk about thatwhen we start doing it actually. welcome

 

[BlazeofLife]

No problem, just create a new thread for the true storyline, and i'll copy-paste my profile to it. Piece of cake.
I gotta say, this is gonna be a thread unlike any other. I mean, we got how many bad guys? And like one good guy? Gonna be cool. I can't wait to see how Faust manages to represent a good guy. I've seen him evil, and if that's any indication...

Ready to go anytime, I await your lead Khadgar

 

[Khadgar]

Comming of Dark Days

this is the place where the new thread will be. it;s called Comming of Dark Days. post there.

 

[BlazeofLife]

Will do

 

[Khadgar]

any of you still looking on this one, i'm not sure of all the orientations. we know faust is good and km in evil, marvel is good, but where do blaze and i stand? two goods, 1 evil. we should have another evil i think.... maybe i'll create another charechter?

what do you think? drop balinor, keep him, or have two charechters?

 

[KillerMuffin]

The point of a story is for the characters to overcome obstacles to resolve a conflict. In these types of RPGs the characters learn to grow more powerful and then they eventually beat the evil person. Me!

Have as many characters as you need to make things interesting and keep things fun.

We should figure out who all is evil and who all is good. The good guys should have some reason for wanting to beat the bad guy and it shouldn't be the same reason.

My character:

Sedusa
Really, really old, uses death magic to keep herself young.

Bio: She's very vain. Very. Sorceress and a Feminazi, not to be confused with a feminist. She's a shapeshifter and her power comes from bloodmagicks. She just lost a big war with an Adept over in Merovia, so she's pissy, too. Had to relocate. She's used to getting what she wants.

Appearance: Gorgeous. Tall, voluptuous, black hair, blue eyes, perfect skin.

Magic: She's an old adept, she doesn't know her exact age, so she puts it at 29. She's incredibly powerful, but her power comes from death or spilled blood. She stores it in a node that's fed by ley lines that deathmagics pervert. The nodes and ley lines destroy the land around it slowly, turning it as evil and warped as she is.

Weapon: ???

 

[BlazeofLife]

I wanna be evil! Or chaotic neautral, at least. Depends which fits in the story better. I'll start out neutral, and match myself to the theme of the story.

Keep Balinor man, he looks cool. It's up to you whether you want to have another character, but keep in mind, one characters a handful, two's a hassle, but two plus being the GM? Might be better to just go with what we have, or wait for someone else to join. Either way.

 

[Khadgar]

okay

sure, i'll keep Balinor then. have this good idea for an evil prick of you want blaze, although it is influenced by a book.

 

[BlazeofLife]

Magic: She's an old adept, she doesn't know her exact age, so she puts it at 29. She's incredibly powerful, but her power comes from death or spilled blood. She stores it in a node that's fed by ley lines that deathmagics pervert. The nodes and ley lines destroy the land around it slowly, turning it as evil and warped as she is.

Hey, KM, read Mercedes Lackey? I love those books.

 

[Maid of Marvels]

Decisions, decisions

Why not wait and see where it goes, Khadgar? Others may yet join and perhaps one of the "good" characters may "turn"?

At any rate, I would not drop your first choice of characters. (Just my own opinion)

~M