So who's going to be an existing part of the squad when we start? We should know each other pretty well.
Well, I'm pretty sure me, Amahan and Illmanthonil all just joined up with the airship's guards, but the rest probably are.
(Really, just bumping the thread to see how many people are still here, since I don't want another game to slowly fizzle out while waiting for the game thread to start.)
Still waiting around, and I have my fingers crossed for non-fizzlage.
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(Really, just bumping the thread to see how many people are still here, since I don't want another game to slowly fizzle out while waiting for the game thread to start.)
Yeah I'm still here, I just find backgrounds difficult to write so its been taking me a while. Invar'll almost certainly be a new addition to the crew, having joined mostly just to get to Xen'drik. I'll finish his background today.
Don't worry, guys. The game is still on. I was just sick, had a fever and so on, so I wasn't up to frequent posts. And I had Midnight game to run. I would recommend you to check out that game thread if you wish to familiarize yourselves with my GM style before we start this game. I'm gonna leave up to you how and when will you approach Darkstar Company and become member of the crew.
I've been absentminded until Davi reminded me this afternoon. Since I've been procrastinating, it's better that I officially duck out of this so I don't hold anything up. My apologies to anyone to which I may have been dragging out character creation.
I've been absentminded until Davi reminded me this afternoon. Since I've been procrastinating, it's better that I officially duck out of this so I don't hold anything up. My apologies to anyone to which I may have been dragging out character creation.
Thanks.
You wont get away that easily. There is time yet for you to finish your character if you want to play.
far_wanderer here with my character profile. I'll proofread it sometime tonight and then be ready to go. Let me know if I need to change or correct anything.
I didn't see anything in the Ardwright description about starting gold. I spent 64gp, let me know if I should have anything more.
far_wanderer here with my character profile. I'll proofread it sometime tonight and then be ready to go. Let me know if I need to change or correct anything.
I didn't see anything in the Ardwright description about starting gold. I spent 64gp, let me know if I should have anything more.
Use artificer's starting gold. I'll review your character tomorrow.
Hi Nightflier here is my character write-up. I will hide the history as it is somewhat long. My character believes what he is told by most of the NPC's he encounters (he is not the brightest bulb) it is of course up to you to decide if it is the truth :-) (or write it out entirely if you don't like it). Let me know if this is sufficient for the bonus feat (which I took in my character creation).
Personality:
Reth is a zealot plain and simple. He believes that his own interpretation of right and wrong is nearly infallible and that if something he deems is wrong, wrong it must be. His own confidence is shaken after his failures in the Gloaming and his subsequent imprisonment by his own Church. His zealotry is his cover for this crisis of faith. Without question Reth cannot stand his race and is shamed at even being a Shifter. He tries for all intents and purposes to be as human as possible (hiding his appearance as best he can with cloaks) though he will not hesitate to use his racial abilities in combat. Reth proudly wears the insignia of the Silver Flame and encounters evil head on, perhaps too head on.
Appearance:
Reth stands 6’1” tall and weighs 195 lbs. He has a very hairy body as is the nature of a Shifter (he gave up on shaving his body and face long ago, it just grew in thicker). Reth has green eyes and brown skin underneath his hair. He always wears a large dark green cloak and black gloves to hide his appearance. Beneath his cloak is scale mail armor. Around his back is strapped a quiver full of sheaf arrows. Through a look in his belt is dropped a Morningstar and he carries his longbow unstrung as a “walking stick” when not ready to engage in combat.
Background spoiler:
Reth Kaskin
Shifter of the Silver Flames
Background:
As a young babe Reth was found in the Wynarn River near the city of Varna. The kindly Sesha Kaskin found the poor child unharmed but badly malnourished thinking the child human she took it in and cared for it as if it were her own. Sesha had come to the Eldeen Reaches at the behest of the Friars of the Silver Flame to spread the faith to the heretics of the Reaches. As a human and adherent of the Silver Flame Sereth would not have conceived of allowing a Shifter to live as such creatures were abominations.
Sereth had met with little success in the four years she had been living as a missionary in Varna. She somewhat lost her way once the child came into her life and she began to spend much more time caring for it than spreading the light of the Silver Flame. As the child grew Sereth out of the corner of her eye she would see strange things happening to it almost as if it were changing forms. At first she passed it off as her imagination being alone near such an obviously dangerous location as the Eldeen Reaches. Her fears were confirmed though as the child became old enough to walk and talk, this child was no human! It was a Shifter!
Her first thought was to dash it against the wall and end its existence lest it grow up to be a force for evil in the world. As she stood there holding the babe in her arms she realized that it was not something she could not bring herself to do. Instead she decided that she would ensure that the child was a force for good and bring it up under the strict teachings of the silver flame.
Reth grew and Sereth’s determination to ensure that her “son” would become a force for good grew as well. Reth was forced to hide his heritage from locals in Varna and thus grew up ashamed of what he was. On the occasions that Silver Flame Friars visited, Reth could not meet them or receive them lest his dark secret be revealed. Despite this life of solitude and isolation Reth developed a deep respect and passion for the teachings of the Silver Flame. He hoped to match the deeds of past heroes of the Silver Flame. Perhaps he thought through such great deeds he could transcend his race of birth and a purification of sorts thus becoming human. At 15 Reth received a vision from the Silver Flame and took up the mantle of the cleric much like his adoptive mother.
Unlike his mother he was not content to preach the message of the Silver Flame he was a warrior. Reth found locals who were willing to teach him the ways of combat. A combination of physical prowess and divine might were the ways that Reth saw to achieve the transcendence he so desperately wanted. At 17 Reth joined an adventuring band and headed into the deepest darkest parts of the woods to combat evil. Reth and his band the Valkyries, took the fight to evildoers whether agents of the Dragon Below or of the Emerald Claw it did not matter. Many denizens of the Reaches saw Reth as a traitor to align with the Church of the Silver Flame considering their traditional stance against Shifters and their attempts to systematically destroy their lycanthropic ancestors.
Unfortunately a journey into the Gloaming resulted in the loss of all members of the Valkries except for Reth and Ladonna a female human wizard. Reth managed to pull her out when the battle versus enormous vermin went terribly wrong. Reth felt horrible, he had failed. He felt he must atone for this failure by journeying to Thrane and being purified by the Keeper of the Flame. Sereth begged him not to go, as his presence revealed would place them both in danger from the church. Reth felt that it was time for him to reveal himself to the church he was sure that they would accept him and see him for the warrior of light that he was.
Against the better judgment of Sereth, Reth journeyed across Aundair with the aid of Ladonna, who grew up there. Taking the main road to Flamekeep, Reth in disguise with Ladonna accompanying him finally arrived. His big reveal proved to be yet another disaster. He was seized as an assassin and a heretic, how could a Shifter be blessed by the Silver Flame? Reth was thrown into chains to be questioned later and judged by the Cardinals in light of the odd situation. Clearly, this Shifter received divine strength from the Silver Flame but how could this be? Before a resolution could be reached an agent from another land intervened.
Reth was broken out of his imprisonment by a shadowy figure. Reth did not know where Ladonna had gotten to nor could he take the risk to find her. He felt obligated to follow his rescuer though he knew nothing about him. Reth felt more disillusioned than ever, how could the very church he dedicated his entire life to turn on and imprison him? Reth rationalized along the road out of Thrane that this was a test of faith that he was determined to pass.
This introspection so dominated Reth’s thoughts that he did not question the motives of his rescuer seeing the break as divine intervention. His rescuer after finally getting Reth out of Thrane revealed himself as a Dark Lantern an agent of the crown of Breland. His assignment in Thrane was coming to an end so he decided to spring Reth believing that Reth could aid in his next mission. His name was Kranth a human and agent of the throne of Breland. He explained to Reth that his mission was to infiltrate a new organization in the city of Sharn, a merchant company named the Darkstar Company. The company’s existence is only a year old and not much is known about them thus the reason for the inquiry.
However, they are looking for recruits to go to Xendrik of all paces and Kranth believed that Reth’s unique situation as a cleric of the Silver Flame would allow him to gain access to the company’s maiden journey. He could then feed information to Kranth if the company was revealed to be up to no good. Reth was intrigued, though investigation was not his strength perhaps this was test of his versatility? He therefore decided to accept the opportunity. Reth agreed to join this company, indeed if Xendrik was his final destination he believed that he could find evil to purge there if the company proved to be above the board. Reth after arriving in Sharn just this very day goes to seek out the Darkstar Company…
Should I roll for hit points or are we doing max for first level (I don't remember seeing this anywhere on the discussion thread but maybe I missed it).
Should I roll for hit points or are we doing max for first level (I don't remember seeing this anywhere on the discussion thread but maybe I missed it).
Extra Channeling was the extra feat I chose. I will update my hit points and I am ready to go. Let me know when I can post in the game thread. I will be away all day today though as I am signing a lease in the morning (I am movng at the end of April) and playing Dark Heresy table top today.
My email is Petrankov at yahoo dot com if you need to reach me off of the boards.
Thanks for the acceptance, looking forward to the game I have always wanted to play an Eberron game :-)
Extra Channeling was the extra feat I chose. I will update my hit points and I am ready to go. Let me know when I can post in the game thread. I will be away all day today though as I am signing a lease in the morning (I am movng at the end of April) and playing Dark Heresy table top today.
My email is Petrankov at yahoo dot com if you need to reach me off of the boards.
Thanks for the acceptance, looking forward to the game I have always wanted to play an Eberron game :-)
Introduce yourself in the game thread as soon as you like.
I'm all ready to go, I was just waiting for you to review my character:
nightflier wrote:
Daedal wrote:
far_wanderer here with my character profile. I'll proofread it sometime tonight and then be ready to go. Let me know if I need to change or correct anything.
I didn't see anything in the Ardwright description about starting gold. I spent 64gp, let me know if I should have anything more.
Use artificer's starting gold. I'll review your character tomorrow.
Argh! I have been internetless for the last 10 days. Some berk smashed his car into the phone line junction box thing at the end of the road and ripped it right out. So yeah, no internet and no phone. But I am back and I have a big wall of text that is most of a background.
The rest being that basically Invar gets to Sharn, pretty much decides that going back to Krona Peak seems kinda pointless as sharn is far more interesting and also has a small population of warforged and Kalashtar. He gets in contact with said population and is informed about the wonders of Xen'drik. Forgotten lore on the creation of warforged, thinks he may find the solution to the bonding of a quori spirit with a warforged body and then can return it to the Haztaratain monks to help them fight the Inspired, thus furthering his main goal in life. So he seeks employment as a guard on Darkstar company ship and there we go.
I'll be out of the country from April 1st to 7th, and I highly doubt I'll get internet access in that duration. Feel free to dmpc my character if needed.
By plane, guys. I'm not from Britain, but thanks for thinking that my English is that good. I was stuck in Toulouse, France for several days and then I had to deal with fallout of prolonged trip when I got back to Serbia.
Guys, I have something of a problem. My employer just decided to double my work load - for the same pay, of course - so I will have a lot less time than before. That means that I have to back out of lot of things, including pbps. I already pulled out of all the games in which I played and now I just master in two games - this one and Midnight game. Midnight came first, though, so it has a slight advantage. My question is next: I am not gonna be able to make more than one or two posts per week in this game. Do you wish to continue with that rate of my posting, or do you wish to end the game before it progresses to far?
Guys, I have something of a problem. My employer just decided to double my work load - for the same pay, of course - so I will have a lot less time than before. That means that I have to back out of lot of things, including pbps. I already pulled out of all the games in which I played and now I just master in two games - this one and Midnight game. Midnight came first, though, so it has a slight advantage. My question is next: I am not gonna be able to make more than one or two posts per week in this game. Do you wish to continue with that rate of my posting, or do you wish to end the game before it progresses to far?
If sacrificing this game means Midnight will live , then yeah go ahead and end it, but I am OK with a slow posting rate as well.
Guys, I have something of a problem. My employer just decided to double my work load - for the same pay, of course - so I will have a lot less time than before. That means that I have to back out of lot of things, including pbps. I already pulled out of all the games in which I played and now I just master in two games - this one and Midnight game. Midnight came first, though, so it has a slight advantage. My question is next: I am not gonna be able to make more than one or two posts per week in this game. Do you wish to continue with that rate of my posting, or do you wish to end the game before it progresses to far?
If sacrificing this game means Midnight will live , then yeah go ahead and end it, but I am OK with a slow posting rate as well.
PBP games are already really slow-moving, so I would encourage you to support your other game first. If, after you've given that game all the attention it can handle, you still have additional time to make a post or two here, then I'll gladly continue to play.
To be honest, Midnight game takes a lot of my time and I am beginning to think that I will not be able to DM both games to my and players satisfaction. I am very sorry, but I will have to end Eberron game. For those who are left without the game to play in, I can extend the offer to create characters for Midnight. That game is progressing rather well and with high death rate in Midnight and considering my plans for dividing the game later on in two or more points of view, there will be room for new characters.
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