Way of the Wicked

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Some personality and motivations for

Ardra:
Ardra is, in her own mind, anyway, a perfectionist and an artist, and doesn't consider herself to be at all evil. Her one true desire in life is to reach the pinnacle of haut cuisine and share the experience with as many people as possible. She wants to connect and to belong, she's aware of her own talent and believes it to be the best if not only vehicle with which to achieve that. Her cannibalism stems directly from this, it has driven her down the foodie highway well past the last exit to gourmet avant-gardes.

She understands that society frowns upon the consumption of sentient creatures, but she believes that to be ignorant folly and an unreasonable deprivation of the senses, as the great side effect of intelligence is the huge range of emotion humanoids especially are capable of, emotions which, according to her research and experimentation, add a great deal of substance to the flavor of the flesh depending on what the meal was feeling when it was slaughtered.

She'd made tremendous inroads toward enlightening an entire culture before her talent got the better of her and caused the king to send his emissary and discovered her grand secret before she was ready to reveal it.

Her Preservationist archetype offers as much flavor, no pun intended, as it does mechanical diversity since it literally gives her access to fresh meat w/o the recently discovered difficulty of maintaining a a stockyard, although she'd still prefer to have the latter as emotionally preparing a meal before killing it is one of her greatest innovations. On the other hand, with the eventual addition of the planar preservationist feat certain meals which were previously unthinkable are within her reach, dishes like braised leg of glabrezu and angel heart scampi.

Her ultimate goal is to see a world where her accomplishments are honored and where food is not caged by petty, misinformed morality

that I'd forgotten to include with my original submission.


Penelope

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Whoops, thought I had Sykes' backstory with the rest of him :3

Backstory:

There are many such tales of noble knights diving headfirst into darkness to slay whatever unholy monsters lay within, to return to the cheering jubilations of the common folk they have protected. But this is no such tale. Late one dead winter morning the a knight returned home to his wife after he and his brothers in arms had successfully followed an undead abomination back to its lair. And while the valiant knights had succeeded in bringing the beast low it was not without great cost into themselves. The knights perished in their attempt to stop the beast, but the did not lay idly afterwards as good corpses are apt to do. With magic they had before in life or gained in undeath they each returned back to the lives they once had, or rather, what had belonged to the corpses that now unnaturally walked about as men.

To the unawares of his wife, family, and friends who were altogether too trusting (though the use of illusion and enchantment played no small part) the once valiant knight went on about his life till one day members of his order he once called brothers came upon him with weapons drawn. One of the former vampire hunters had had a twinge of guilt and disgust at his unlife and had revealed the truth about their existence to the other living members of the monster hunting order. In the ensuing all too familiar fight of knights against a monster wearing a familiar face one of the aids to the hunters turned on the wife of the former knight, thinking her a willing compliant accessory rather than a unwitting thrall. Filled with self assured righteous indignation but lacking the most basic combat skills the the attempt was feeble, and the wife was able to escape.

Fleeing from everything she had once known she took refuge in the many caverned mountains that dotted the land. It was here in these solemn sanctuaries that she would give birth to a child of a monster, in and of itself a monster. Although disgusted with what the baby boy was maternal instinct easily won out and she could not find it in herself to blame the child for the sins of the father. Do she stayed in those cold unforgiving mountains for the safety of not only herself, but for that of her child.

Trying to raise the half feral child though became harder with each passing year, as his birth had seemed to wring most of her life force away from her, and his continued presence proved to leech more and more until one day she did not wake. And although the boy was sad he did not know loneliness for the benefactor of his father's sire had trickled down the familial bloodline and now, with no one else to guide or correct him, it made its existence known to him. Each night that he slept The Beast Behind the Dream whispered sweet nothings and savageries into his mind's ear, and each day he awoke with more loathing for the world that had rebuked him and his mother, a world that he had never known until recently.

Restless with his hermetic life he came down from the mountains to world below, to varying degrees of hatred on first sight and fear and indifference and curiosity. As the seasons came and went he became increasingly tired of people and their holier than thou ways and culture and so set forth to a smaller island nation off the coast from the mainland, although upon making land it soon turned out the land he had ventured to was even more bigoted and self righteous. With only a few days spent on the soil he elected to travel elsewhere but was accosted by a group of young knights, who were more than a little under the weather at the time. One knight stepped forward from the others and declaring the half-spawn an abomination upon his God Mitra challenged him to a duel to the death.

While possessed of no qualms about taking lives the repercussions of a monster killing someone in shiny expensive armor and livery was immediately apparent to him. Wanting to just leave the man with a beating that a drunk deserved to snap them to their senses, as although the challenge had been declared and the knight's weapons drawn and boxing him in the challenger simply drolled on in a puffed up self righteous monologue, completely fascinated by the sound of how own voice. Thinking the man would soon fall over due to his drunken grandstanding the traveler simply waited and let the idiot ply his superfluous beliefs. Until the intoxicated mockery of a holy champion touched on the subject of what kind of women would willingly lay with a monster to produce whatever it was that the drunkard saw before him, although using less kind words.

Having enough of the knight's nonsense the traveler removed a dagger from his vest and tossed it into the man's throat. It found the enlarged organ easily and sank deeply, putting an end to the man who made a better half assed bard than a sellsword in fancy armor. The events that played out next were as predictable as they were stupid. The man garbled as his mind forever failed to even conceive that he had been wounded, let alone slain. The man fell with eyes wide open with a look as if he had aged ten years. The other Knights and the gathered guards and townsfolk swiftly fell upon the traveler and although he couldn't remember much from before his vision went black he did fall with a grin on his face for jus teeth clutched a large piece of flesh from one of his attackers.

And it soon simply spiraled from there. The drunken knight became a self sacrificing martyr who valiantly have his own precious life to hold off a savage monster from ravaging the innocents around them. With an over abundance of testimony from Knights dressed in similar holy garb and clutching the sacred symbols of their God calling for righteous vengeance against a foreign monster who did little more than snark about the current situation and insult the victim in lieu of putting up a defense the outcome was predetermined and clear. And so the monster was shipped off to where all monsters are sent to on the island nation.


Out of curiosity, do you plan on taking one person from each 'category' (e.g. martial, arcane, divine, skilled) or is that merely a method of keeping things organized after a fashion? I ask as there are some classes/characters whose role/capabilities may overlap into other categories.


Yes. But I do realize (especially with the hybrid classes) that some characters overlap. So I intend to take somebody who covers each section, but the grouping I have you all in is just for convenience and I realize some people cover divine/martial or arcane/skill etc.

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GM Eats the Eyes wrote:
Yes. But I do realize (especially with the hybrid classes) that some characters overlap. So I intend to take somebody who covers each section, but the grouping I have you all in is just for convenience and I realize some people cover divine/martial or arcane/skill etc.

*cough*Slayer*cough*Martial/Skill*cough*


lol. and *cough*Hunter*cough*Divine/Skill*cough*

;P


Darn you hybrid classes and your fulfillment of multiple party roles!


Lol. I thought etc. covered it, but thanks for fixing that for me :).

Seriously though, no one should be worried that they won't be selected simply for choosing the "wrong role." There are two main reasons:

1. I'm selecting 5 to 6 players, so that allows for one character to cover each traditional role, as well as 1 to 2 spots for someone to fill a nontraditional role or double up on roles.

2. Yesterday I decided that there were too many great characters to choose from. So I'll be running two tables.


SQUEE!!!!!

*Cough* Hellknights don't squee.

But seriously, that's just too exciting!

EDIT:
Order of the Squee?

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Zova Lex wrote:

SQUEE!!!!!

*Cough* Hellknights don't squee.

But seriously, that's justt too exciting!

You shall be from the Order of Hellknights Who Say Squee.

Addendum: SQUEEE!!!!


I will prepare some silence spells. Hellknights should not squee.

Does the happy dance!


I dont see myself on your list, oversight I assume?


Richard Foxworthy wrote:


I dont see myself on your list, oversight I assume?

Yes. If you look at the link address for Shauldrek, you will see that I did not properly bracket your link. I didn't realize it till this morning when it was too late to fix. It is fixed in my master list though, and you will appear in tonight's update.


SQUEEEEE!!!

Gah, I feel so dirty now. Freekin peer pressure.


Quick! Someone submit a Tiefling for the "Skill" section so we can possibly have an all-tiefling party!

--I thought about a Tiefling Rogue(Spy/Sanctified Rogue) as a remnant of the old order that managed to survive.. until he got caught, but I couldn't come up with a good enough story to switch.


Ardra can just about double as a skill monkey if no one comes forward and the temptation for an all tiefling party is too great


Tenoch here has 10 skill points per level, so could qualify (and the hunter is a divine/skill hybrid [half druid, half ranger] as previously mentioned). No trapspotting though.


SQUEE! But it's not surprising there's quite a bit of tieflings, I mean it's a chance to play them without being a good guy besides his blood, plus they got quite a lot of variations with the heritages so they can be used by any class.


I think its fine for villains to say "Squee"...as long as they do so in their most sinister voice, while twirling their imaginary goatee. Of course, this must immediately be followed by maniacal laughter.

...but then again, I am a gnome and you probably shouldn't take my advice on things like squeeing.


Oh boy, two tables. This is exciting. Dastardly exciting...and uh... y'know...villainous.


STR: 1d10 + 7 ⇒ (7) + 7 = 14
DEX = 18
CON: 1d10 + 7 ⇒ (6) + 7 = 13
INT: 1d10 + 7 ⇒ (9) + 7 = 16
WIS: 1d10 + 7 ⇒ (6) + 7 = 13
CHA 8

remaking this guy for the AP Halfling Rogue.

Crunch in profile.

Working on background.

Basic idea is a greedy halfling, took coincunning and successful shirker as traits, Avarice as drawback, and took Craven alt racial trait.

Olo will be a skill monkey who is a coward and con artist. His crime is fraud, where he used his connections at the orphanage he grew up in to stage a grand heist when he "got adopted" by a buffoon of a lord and then let all of his gang in while his new "Parents" slept, robbing them blind of massive sums of money as well as lots of items.

He is opportunistic and not the kind to act without the likelihood of gain. His envy and jealousy can make him difficult when it comes to divvying up treasure. He is a worm, and he'll worm his way out of this stupid prison.


I don't mean to be a naysayer, but I might council against trying for two campaigns unless you really have a rather copious amount of time and energy. Granted, the campaign in premade, but I have found that running just one (pre-made) campaign requires a rather large amount of work.

You could start by running one for a month, seeing how much free time you have and then start a second campaign if the first one is proceeding well. You can even save the maps and resuse them :). A month is basically nothing in PbP time scales.

There are lots of people here who could just as easily run the campaign for their peers with sufficiently persuasion. If there is that much interest, I'm sure someone else could step forward and GM. It seems to me that WotW frequently comes up on the board with plenty of interest, so interested players will have opportunity again if they are persistent.

Anyways, just take my advice under consideration. I am by no means a master of PbP, but my opinions are informed by the short time I have been doing PbP (playing & GM'ing) on the boards.


Thank you for the advice.

That being said, I am aware of the time and effort, and I am certain that I can make this work. Thank you though.

Now. Here is the final update of submissions:

Martial
Declan-Tiefling Barbarian-Me'mori
Lisbeth Steelsong-Human Antipaladin-KBoom
Zova Lex-Half-orc Barbarian-Michael Riter
Kalethe-Kasatha Monk (Hungry Ghost Monk)-Yanjieming
Sykes from Under the Empty Moon-Damphir (Ancientborn) Slayer (Deliverer)-Rysky
Alicia d'Kouzra-Human Fighter-Lufien "Silvertongue" Loamin
Iana-Tiefling Antipaladin-Brass Legionary

Arcane
Ardra-Tiefling Alchemist (Preservationist)-Toodles or summat
Penelope-Human Witch-Gilthanis*
Cora-Human Wizard-sureal
Waren Powers-Damphir Sorcerer-Lord Foul II#
Ami Fyora-Gnome Summoner (Master Summoner)-ElenionAncalima
Ash-Elf Wizard-Jonahkan
Xarissa-Human Wizard (Enchanter)-Tangaroa
Richard Foxworthy-Human Wizard-Deliverance

Divine
Shauldrek-Tiefling (Hungerseed) Inquisitor-The Little King
Paul Granius-Tiefling Cleirc-GunMetalDrac
Freyja Wraithburn-Aasimar Cleric (Evangelist)-Fanguar*
Nera Leroung-Human Warpriest (Divine Commander)-Cuàn
Tenoch Itzcoatl-Tiefling Hunter (Divine Hunter/Verminous Hunter)-Dark Netwerk

Skill
Dog Tooth-Goblin Investigator (Empiracist)-Echos Myron
Anchard Wulphear-Human Skald-ToxicDragon
Olo Green-Halfling Rogue (Knife Master/Scout)-Bane88

Unknown
Fighting Chicken*#
Viluki*#

*needs background
#needs crunch


Wait, does this close Friday at Midnight as in leading into the new day, or Friday at Midnight, actually meaning Saturday? ;)


Zova Lex wrote:
Wait, does this close Friday at Midnight as in leading into the new day, or Friday at Midnight, actually meaning Saturday? ;)

Yes? :)


Sorry. I guess the whole "last update" was probably confusing. There is still around 25 hours till recruitment closes, but I'm not putting an updated list up tomorrow night. I'll just work off my master list at that point.


I've been dieing to get into a WoW. Figures, it is the last day. But I will come up with something. Who needs to sleep anyway?

Strength: 1d10 + 7 ⇒ (9) + 7 = 16
Constitution: 1d10 + 7 ⇒ (8) + 7 = 15
Intelligence: 1d10 + 7 ⇒ (1) + 7 = 8
Charisma: 1d10 + 7 ⇒ (3) + 7 = 10

Arrg the exact opposite of what I wanted.


Backstory updated :)


I just had a strangest dream... I was thrown into a prison cell, accused of murdering some inquisitor... I don't remember much, but I was screaming "YOU'RE NOT THE LAW! I AM THE LAW!"

Looks at shackles on her hands
Aw, that's a bummer.


Well, I guess now's the time to systematically kill off the competition....

Or...uh... I mean... Good luck to ya?


Dog Tooth, shall we make an alliance, and keep it until there are but six of us total (twelve if there is a second table)?


But what if he then decides on 5? ;)


Simple! We turn to the person with a somewhat redundant role (and preferably not someone who could rip our heads off with their bear hands) and vote them off the island! and by that I mean we kill them ^_^ No one shall stop me by getting in the way of the LAW!


Bear hands would certainly be effective for head ripping, for sure.


You can't kill all but twelve! Who will be the scapegoat!?!

The key is to find the primary threats, eliminate them quickly and make it look like an accident.


Zova Lex wrote:
Dog Tooth, shall we make an alliance, and keep it until there are but six of us total (twelve if there is a second table)?

An alliance would be mutually beneficial, yes. We could do more together than we'd do separately...hmnmmm... I've got a plan... But it's going to need a thing. Uh, I'm gonna need that guy's leg. While you do that, I'm gonna go make an...uh... I'm gonna go make *cough* an accident.

stealth: 1d20 + 16 ⇒ (15) + 16 = 31
sleight of hand to tie everyone's shoelaces together: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (9) + 8 = 17


Killing is so... uncouth. And wasteful. May I humbly propose to sell the surplus into slavery instead? You wouldn't believe the profit margins involved...


Ashmoniel Augmirina wrote:
Killing is so... uncouth. And wasteful. May I humbly propose to sell the surplus into slavery instead? You wouldn't believe the profit margins involved...

The problem with that is the number of witnesses! It's hard enough to cover up a murder, imagine trying to sell a bunch of humans and tieflings! It's nigh impossible I tell you!


Dog Tooth wrote:
... But it's going to need a thing. Uh, I'm gonna need that guy's leg.

Oh you...


Zova Lex wrote:
The problem with that is the number of witnesses! It's hard enough to cover up a murder, imagine trying to sell a bunch of humans and tieflings! It's nigh impossible I tell you!

I must agree with Zova. All the rival villains in this thread are vicious and deadly. If left alive, they will surely come for revenge. Any sabotage must be covert. Any witnesses must be silenced.

There is a time and place to be enterprising, but that time is... *trips over shoelaces*


Richard Foxworthy wrote:
Dog Tooth wrote:
... But it's going to need a thing. Uh, I'm gonna need that guy's leg.
Oh you...

¯\_(ツ)_/¯


"Selling tieflings is easy if we can get them to Cheliax...issue is getting them there." Shauldrek flexes his abnormally large right arm, "But I've dealt in ettin so how hard can it be?"

Also, I agree, it seems logical that tieflings would be attracted to the worship of the Lord of Demons, and that those tieflings would be attracted to what these people consider heinous crimes.


Ami Fyora wrote:
Zova Lex wrote:
The problem with that is the number of witnesses! It's hard enough to cover up a murder, imagine trying to sell a bunch of humans and tieflings! It's nigh impossible I tell you!

I must agree with Zova. All the rival villains in this thread are vicious and deadly. If left alive, they will surely come for revenge. Any sabotage must be covert. Any witnesses must be silenced.

There is a time and place to be enterprising, but that time is... *trips over shoelaces*

You call them witnesses, I call them additional stock!

I don't usually do capture, but... <throws net over Ami's stumbled form>...

...come back and take their revenge, you say? Hmm... I don't think that far ahead. That's how I came to be imprisoned in the first place...


Ashmoniel Augmirina wrote:

I don't usually do capture, but... <throws net over Ami's stumbled form>...

What treachery is this!


Ami Fyora wrote:

What treachery is this!

The evil, sudden-yet-inevitable kind?


Ashmoniel Augmirina wrote:
Ami Fyora wrote:

What treachery is this!

The evil, sudden-yet-inevitable kind?

Frees Ami

She's a summoner! Probably the most useful person in this prison at the moment along with monks and sorcerers.


Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal.

*steps over and helps Ami up*

Come over here with Warren and I. The three of us can just watch until the weak have been culled and the strong weakened, then we can pick from whoever we want.

*eyes look hungrily at the crowd*

Though I might just break a few bones first . . .


Curse the sudden but inevitable betrayal indeed! Kalthe, Ami, Warren, on my word as a Hellknight, I will stand in the front and protect you from any who would try and stab you in the back! Just be sure to keep me alive with your magics, or if ye be martial, stand by my side and hold the line!

Profession Soldier to Inspire Competence!: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (11) + 8 = 19


Zova Lex wrote:

Frees Ami

I knew I liked you.

Kalethe wrote:

*steps over and helps Ami up*

Come over here with Warren and I. The three of us can just watch until the weak have been culled and the strong weakened, then we can pick from whoever we want.

An excellent suggestion.

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