No worries. :)
Thanks for your understanding. :)
I've sent you a PM.
After Ariarh's pm, I've decided to change Uzziah's archetype from oceanrider to beastrider, and he will begin by riding a large gecko.
Is that in place of the horse or a camel at first level or at fourth level?
@Taldo: At level 1 in lieu of horse or camel. :)
Backstory done...
Thanks, Daryl. I'm looking forward to reading all the backstories and attempting to pick just the right signature item for each of you.
I'm going a tad crazy with birthday prep and I have a torn shoulder, but I'm rallying. ;)
btw, imimrtl has broken a tooth and is in some pain. He'll post something re his character as soon as he can.
Hello, gentleman.
I hope, by the start of next week (4th June), you will have your characters completed and your profiles showing the stat sheet, physical description, personality, backstory, gear/supplies and any other pertinent information. I can then read through the sheets and decide on signature items and the official start date of game (it shouldn't be too long after).
I'm off the boards for the remainder of this week as you all know, so I eagerly look forward to reading through your completed sheets.
Please enjoy the rest of this week and thank you for all your efforts.
:)
A heads up. Between friday 1st June and sunday 3rd June, I won't be available at all. My availability on the thursday and monday is also likely to be very limited. So realistically, I'm not likely to post much from Thursday May 31st until Tuesday June 5th.
I'll try to get Uzziah finished before thursday, but if not, it would be at least tuesday.
Ariarh, Imimrtl, I hope you are both feeling better!
Yes, I hope things go well for the two of you.
I will focus on finishing Taldo this week :-)
No worries, Uzziah, and thanks for the heads-up. Even if you submit your completed character once you’re back on the boards, that’ll be fine. :)
@Taldo: Shoulder is still torn, but had some more work done to relieve the pain, so I’m doing okay. Thanks for the well wishes. The stress will lower once the party is done with. ;)
I appreciate you working on your sheet.
:)
Be well, GM Ariarh - see you soon!
Update:
Uzziah and his riding gecko Ezekiel are largely done, though I'm having issues pinning down feats, equipment, and detailing his background. What I have for the latter so far:
Uzziah and his brother Jeremiah are from Outsea in the River Kingdoms and as aquatic inhabitants, served some time in patrolling and safeguarding the nearby waters.
Uzziah joined the Order of the Waves, given his martial bent and natural bond with animals. Jeremiah tapped into his Azlanti heritage and developed sorcererous powers.
Both were interested in the first expedition, but could not make it. For the second, Jeremiah had committed himself to exploring closer ruins, but Uzziah was able to join. The last contact the brothers had, Jeremiah said he would follow on the third expedition, whenever that would be.
Before leaving, Uzziah ran across a giant gecko whom he entitled Ezekiel, and was large enough to serve him as a mount. Together, they will explore the lands around the colony!
Thanks for the update, Uzziah. I'll be sending you a PM either by my day's end or tomorrow morning at the latest.
:)
I'll be changing mount, as a heads up.
I hope everyone is doing well.
I’m looking forward to seeing your finished characters by tomorrow. Thanks kindly! :)
Ninja'd by Ariarh,
The more I think about actual character personality; then combine that with the classes, archetypes, feats, skills and traits I’m taking, I continue going back looking for more information for the backstory. Then I get distracted by the history/research of the potential places/races/monsters/classes. Then I get further and further from my new story, and start over. It’s exhausting distracting.
I’ve been struggling with ‘tropes.’ I love the idea of borrowing from “the shape of water” and I also love the old Tarzan books, who is also a ‘found’ orphan. So, I wanted to combine the two. But there are a lot of jokes about the ‘orphaned’ adventurers because it is an easy bakcstory. I kept trying to stear away from it, but I wasn't able to.
So for now, I will post a list of bullet points on the backstory. I’m not at work this evening, so I’m going to bed after I post this. I will work on the actual story, or at least a snippet in the morning, after I post background and personality.
- Navarre is found as a toddler by the banks of the Vanji River in of the Mwangi Expanse by an elf named Eldlen Madras.
- Eldlen is a member of the The Ekujae tribe. He is a ranger/druid who hunts Aberration.
- Eldlen is on a hunt when he finds a horrible scene of death and destruction of an exploration party, caused by the Aberration he was hunting. (I have not figured out what kind of Aberration yet.)
- The only survivor a young child, further down river from the scene, it looks like the child may have been thrown into the river.
- The young child goes with Eldlen, as they go, the child sings while he walks “Taldo, Taldo” Eldlen names the child Taldo, and assumes it’s a marching song the child learned from a Taldan. Possibly a mother or father.
- Taldo grows up as Eldlen’s son, learning to be a hunter and trapper of Aberrations.
- Eldlen and Taldo research into what exploration parties were in the jungle: they learn there were two. One from the pathfinders, one from the Aspis Consortium. Both parties were searching for the city of Kho. Neither parties ever returned.
- When Taldo comes of age Eldlen encourages him to go to Avistan to learn about where his parents were from.
- Taldo takes passage on a ship out of Osirion, where he says goodbye to his father.
- Sailing to Taldor, the ship wrecks in a storm, Taldo is the only survivor.
- Waking up unconscious, under water, and spending ten days in the deep. Taldo realizes he is not entirely Human.
- Taldo is rescued by a ship sailing for Andoran.
- Penniless and disturbed by the fact that he may not be a human. Taldo stays in Almas.
- While in Almas he works as a tanner, putting his education as a trapper/skinner/leather worker to use.
- While in Almas he learns he is Undine. He also learns there are Marid living in Kho. Confusing even more his search for his ancestry.
- After five years, feeling a desire to return to the wild, and that his search for answers is at a dead end, he applies for a position on the joint expedition where he is accepted.
I may change the background skill ‘craft armor’ to ‘language’ for a level, to reflect being raised in Mwangi by a wild elf. While thinking about personality; I liked the earlier reference to “Last of the Mohicans” and will base him some on ‘Hawkeye.’ though, the archery skills will need to be developed after the ‘two-weapons skills'. As for the ‘background item’
Ninja'd by Ariarh,
Dude; I read those spoilers - if those are "walls of text" I'm really nervous about how my posts will come across ;)
Dude; I read those spoilers - if those are "walls of text" I'm really nervous about how my posts will come across ;)Ninja'd by Ariarh,
LOL, hey they looked bigger on my 'word' document. I guess if it's in a post I feel obligated to read all of it. If it's in a spoiler, that isn't directed to me, then I don't feel obligated.
Sinse you read them, any recomendation on the "attacking Aberration" I'm looking for something that would have started a fire. If everything was ablaze then there would be no evidence. Also if fire was involved it would explain why one of the adults would have thrown Taldo into the river. Knowing he would be able to breath.
Okay, so far we have three relatively completed characters:
* Daryl Bohannon: Human Gunslinger (Bolt Ace)
* Taldo the Tanner: Undine Ranger (Beastmaster, Trapper)
* Uzziah: Gillman Cavalier, Order of the Waves 1 (Beastrider)
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I know Uzziah has been away and he is changing mounts. And Taldo is finalising his backstory/fluff as well.
Immortal, how are you doing? Last we checked in, you had the stats done for your wizard, but you were working on the fluff? How goes it?
And a small point for all, can you provide me with a small description of your characters (or a pic) and their age, please?
Thanks kindly,
Ariarh.
Still away from pc and notes, but can post.
Age 27
Long black hair, purple eyes, pale skin. Atzlanti blood quite strong in his family. 6' 3"
At the age of 20 Taldo learned he was not human, he has spent the last five years in Almas, learning about his heritage, he is in fact, Undine. Now at the age of twenty five, the wander lust has called. He has outfitted himself for the journey of a lifetime. Purchasing a fine chain shirt armor to wear over his practical traveling cloths. He has armed himself with axe, shortsword, spear and bow. Packing all his needed crafting tools in his rucksack along with a few provisions. Donning his flop hat and cloak, he is ready to go to the new colony.
As for personality, I'm thinking a Virtuoso
I wanted to live the life, a different life. I didn’t want to go to the same place every day and see the same people and do the same job. I wanted interesting challenges.
Harrison Ford
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Sinse you read them, any recomendation on the "attacking Aberration" I'm looking for something that would have started a fire. If everything was ablaze then there would be no evidence. Also if fire was involved it would explain why one of the adults would have thrown Taldo into the river. Knowing he would be able to breath.
Sorry for the delay; I was a bit busy - so okay, here goes...
Given that your culture was in the Mwangi expanse it's possible that there was a strong set of local folklore and myths about unusual creatures. It's possible that you were given folk tales and stories about your people's roots and background; a dark demon/djinn/evil god is one that is typical in such legends and culture.
As a child you might have heard stories about creatures of darkness that would do horrible things to people; when the creature came you would have known enough such bedtime stories to know that this was the creature you feared - the demon who would come for you if you were bad and didn't listen (this leads to a potential fun RP element; your struggle with threats being bonded to a sense of guilt - as in - "My family died because I was "bad" and so the demon came - if I was a better child/son/friend.person then my family would still be alive" - so subconsciously you'd be wrestling with feelings of guilt for things you cannot control and a loyalty to your friends/family would be very strong for you as you don't want that to happen again, even if your adult mind knows better).
So essentially being a child of three or four means you'd be terrified of the creature and panic and run no matter what happens because it seems like something from a nightmare came true - you'd be old enough to at least recognize and remember the details and still old enough to know how to run away terrified no matter what happened to your family - also it leaves you open to guilt for RP for running in general - and it allows you to have seen the creature and know it enough to remember it, even as the creature did utterly destroy your tribe.
This makes me think of both how Newt from "Aliens" reacted when she spoke to Ripley about the Xenomorphs and also how The Hound from Game of Thrones reacts to fire. Plus it creates encourages you to be more close to beasts/animals as something like a dog won't "judge you" as good/bad but love you unconditionally (cats, of course, are always judging us - they're so smug!) - however it also would open the door to your first "Favorite enemy" if you multi-class to Ranger as you'd be hunting the enemy of your people - and it would remind you that on a quasi-spiritual level that "Evil" will come but that "water" is where you are safe; where evil does not come - and if it DOES come to the water then that's the place you'll fight the hardest to defend.
Anyway, hope that helps a bit via the creature idea :)
Thanks, Uzziah & Taldo for the info re your characters' looks and personalities. :)
However it also would open the door to your first "Favorite enemy" if you multi-class to Ranger as you'd be hunting the enemy of your people...
Taldo is a ranger (utilising both beastmaster and trapper archetypes).
Daryl, still need to see a blurb on your guy's personality. Thanks.
I have placed some additional info on the Campaign Info tab and posted an intro post on the main game play thread.
I'm hoping to get all the character sheets by tomorrow so I can look them over and in the meantime you four can do a little social rp between yourselves (no interaction with npcs at this time, please).
:)
After 6 weeks of voyaging across the ocean on the same ship, I would say that you all know each other's names at the very least. How well you know each other depends on your characters' personality/behaviour/motivations and how social or anti-social/awkward/mysterious they are (so, I leave that up to you). For those who are playing more distanced from the others, there will be ample opportunity in game to forge closer relations/friendships (if that is what you want).
Your opening posts could simply involve getting ready for landfall the next day ... and so you aren't interacting so much as narrating. Whatever you do, just have fun with it. :)
I like a good story ... so write as you would.
Our 4th player, Immortal, has had issues with his home and hasn't had the time to finalise his character. He has his stats ready, which he will be forwarding to me and will then be working on the fluff. For now, he won't be able to participate in the pre-game start social rp ... He'll join in as soon as he is able.
Thanks, guys. :)
I believe Uzziah's sheet is pretty much complete now.
And hopefully Immortal's home situation will improve soon.
Thanks, Uzziah.
I've PM'd the three of you regarding your boon item and I hope you like them.
If, for any reason, you do not think they will be useful to your character, please let me know via PM and I will take another look. I tried to find something I think could benefit you and the party. I am still waiting on Immortal's sheet, but once I receive that I will find a suitable boon item for him as well.
:)
Okay, so the party is made up of the following:
1. Daryl Bohannon - Male Human Gunslinger (Bolt Ace)
2. Uzziah - Male Gillman Cavalier, Order of the Waves (Beastrider), with his large dodo mount, named Ezekiel
3. Taldo the Tanner - Male Undine Ranger (Beastmaster/Trapper)
4. Aeracian - Male Human (Taldan) Universalist (Exploiter Wizard)
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Immortal, who will be playing Aeracian, has only just been able to get access to a computer, so he's still working on his stats and fluff. I don't want to officially start the game without a player, so please continue with your fantastic rp and hopefully by the start of next week (or early next week) we can formally start the game. Thanks for your patience, gentlemen. :)
cool...
Thank you, GM. Looking forward to it :)
Sounds fine to me. :)
Phew! Okay, I have now finished everyone's boon items.
Immortal was still having issues with completing his character - but he's notified me saying he'll be done by end of tomorrow, bar any unforeseen circumstances.
If that is the case, then I will begin official play on Tuesday, 12th June.
I'm looking forward to this! I hope everyone has fun. :)
Thanks,
Ariarh.
I'm looking forward to it. Cheers for the update.
Very cool, looking forward to it also.
Sorry - I was late getting home, but I'm ready to go!
@Daryl: It's okay - we formally start the game tomorrow. :)
@Daryl: It's okay - we formally start the game tomorrow. :)
Oh! I thought the plan was the 12th - does that mean tomorrow as the 13th, or just later in the day? Sorry for the confusion; I just finished a 14 hour shift and I'm not quite coherent.
That said; I'm curious to see what happens :)
Gotta love those fourteen hour shifts....
Gotta love those fourteen hour shifts....
They totally suck! But the worst part is when you get home you're so tired you feel sick, but you're also so wired on adrenaline that you can't sleep.
Anyhow, I'm totally ready to play as it's the 12th on my side of the world but anyway - I guess we'll see what happens next :)
I'll make a formal post opening the game tomorrow morning my time (during a break at work). This will give Immortal time to put the finishing touches to his character as I need all four of you ready to start at the same time. ;)
I'll make a formal post opening the game tomorrow morning my time (during a break at work). This will give Immortal time to put the finishing touches to his character as I need all four of you ready to start at the same time. ;)
Okay.
Yesterday ate my attention, thus the delay in my reply.
But we're off! :)
Don’t forget your wizard! ;)
He's clearly a quiet, retiring type. ;)
I'm sorry everyone!!! *sheepish face* I'm living out of a hotel with 4 boys under the age of 10 while our house is undergoing repairs/mold testing. To add icing to the cake, I am on the team designing the new Child Juvenile and Adult Services database for the state of Maryland and it has been kicking my ass with everything were trying to do. In any event, I'm going to be posting shortly. Thank you all so much for your patience!
It sounds like you have a lot on your plate! It's understandable that you would prioritise all that. :)
No need to apologize. Are we rolling characters for the four boys? That could be a hoot!
@Taldo: There are ample female npcs for the boys. ;)
To all: My apologies, but I have to head out of town early tomorrow morning for a serious family emergency. I may be able to post again on my Saturday (your Friday), so I’ll be off the boards until then. If Aeracian wants to roll a Perception check in the meantime, I will respond to the checks when I’m back. So, for now, I’ll just put the game on a temporary pause. Thanks for your patience.
@Ariarh: Take all the time that you need. I hope that matters turn out well, and soon.