I did drop out, but I will read the the postings once they start. I think this will be very interesting.
I've whittled the list down to the top ten. It's only getting tougher from here...
Price discreetly slides a stack of gold Crowns and the thumb of a teenage girl across the table...
"Does this simplify your deliberations?"
Lol. Eesh.
Can't wait to see the rogues gallery you select....plenty of colorful options.
Price discreetly slides a stack of gold Crowns and the thumb of a teenage girl across the table...
"Does this simplify your deliberations?"
"Bribery? Do you honestly wish to go that route?"
A petite girl plops a pouch full of coins down on the table, followed by several bracelets, another couple of pouches and a very nice looking dagger.
"That is how you bribe someone."
There gasps and shouts as several people realize that some of their valuables have gone missing. Your purse is also gone, and your clothes don't seem to be hanging right. It also seems to have gotten a bit draftier.
The simple looking dagger the girl is twirling might have something to do with the latter two problems, not that the girl would ever admit to it.
By the time you turn around to see what the thumps on the table were, a blonde man is standing over the body of a petite girl, wiping the blood from his daggers. He gives you a half smile and shrug, before pushing the treasurers to your side of the table.
The glint of the girls dagger catches his eye, and he quickly grabs it " Nice dagger, could always use another blade" He then moves to the side, back against the wall, surveying the room.
Suddenly the ghostly form that looks like the girl you just stabbed appears before you with a pout on her face.
"That wasn't very kind of you. I didn't even touch your purse, or daggers."
The gaunt ashen skinned man brushes back his silver hair and arches his eyebrow at the ghostly figure before very simply stating "I don't mean to be rude, but I do believe not stealing his daggers was well....obviously your mistake. Apparently a quite...costly... one at that." with a smirk.
"A lesson well learned, perhaps with a little less attention paid to riffling through others pockets or shamelessly prostrating before the gods with feeble gifts and minor trinkets and a little more attention paid to the daggers at your back your misfortune may have been averted." he muses coldly as he leans his own back firmly against a stone wall and keeps careful eye on his comrades.
He nods respectfully towards Talon, "Competency should be rewarded and I do believe that nice dagger is sufficient. I complement you on a task well executed, but I would impart advice. If you wish to keep such bauble as well as your life expel any such thought of attempting the same towards me should it happen wander into your mind. Or see the bloodstained trinket fall from hers, to your, to mine."
Not taking his eyes off the room and its dangerous patrons, he nods "I'm content with my pointy prize, fear not friend"
Good luck to everyone and I look forward to reading another "Way of the Wicked" pbp.
I agree that there are great options to choose from.
Gary McBride
Fire Mountain Games
Leaning against a wall with her arms crossed, Beatrix regards the group with something between irritation and amusement, rolling her eyes several times. "Bunch of idiots."
Exactly," Khaine says to Bea. "This is the problem with people in our line of work. They think that they have to conform to some ridiculous idea of mustache twirling evil." Khaine pulls out a dagger and cuts a long score onto his arm. "This is evil. I do not care about the pain. I do not care." Khaine grabs a random person from the tavern and brings him back to the wall against which he had previously leaned. He clamps his hand over the man's mouth and stabs him over and over again, he hand muffling the man's scream. "That is evil. My only regret is that I did not draw his death out longer. And that I only got...two silver out of it. Zon-Kuthon's pierced balls, two silver! He deserved to die."
Across the way to Terran "Say what you will, but at least I got a dagger, thats a bit better than 2 silvers"
Beatrix grunts at the masochistic display. "You're as bad as they are, trying to show off. As if this is some kind of absurd contest to decide who's the most evil. Now we have to deal with the stench." And with that, she tosses her hair over her shoulder and steps over the body to find a new wall to occupy.
Good luck to everyone and I look forward to reading another "Way of the Wicked" pbp.
I agree that there are great options to choose from.
Gary McBride
Fire Mountain Games
Thanks, Gary! Thanks also for writing an awesome adventure for us. :)
By the Devil's trident, what a sad bunch of misfits. I guess I will have to make due if I want out...
Save those daggers for the guards. They are going to be here pretty soon and its not soup they bring.
Wait for the first few to die and steal a sword. You are not gona have a better chance out of this $&!@hole Jack, no your not.
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Better die with a blade in hand.
Smiling.
Maybe you can even kill an old comrade or two.
Love the role playing, everyone. Thanks for being such a spirited group of supplicants...er, applicants.
Having seen that another Way of the Wicked AP has opened recruiting, I think I'll go ahead and announce the roster now. This way, those not selected can go ahead and apply for the other game, if desired.
Here are the five PCs...
Price
Gwyndolin Maulsen
Xanos
Kalina Jakes
Cain
Notorious villains all. With only five slots to fill, I had to sadly leave some other really good prospects by the wayside. I wish all of you the best, and offer my thanks for your interest.
Discussion thread goes live tomorrow!
Another thread. I hope I can get my head into the game for that group once I find them. Thanks for the info.
Cool. Thanks, Malvoison. Let us know when the Discussion thread is open.
And Mr. swagger is right. Another DM has opened up another Way of the Wicked recruitment. He's a good DM, too. :)
Look forward to playing with you all.
Oh and Talyon, you might wanna gets some new pants.
*Your pants now appear cut in several different places around the waist and fall around your ankles.*
A right bunch of bastards....you'll do.
Though I'll thank the grave robber to keep his hands to himself. That's just wrong.
I don't think he's interested in your goods... your blood is too warm. :)
I think we can be friends. He needs corpses, I've been known to produce some on occasion.
Can they be slightly gnawed-upon corpses? :D
He might have to accept the odd limbless, run-through, or decapitated body as well, so I don't imagine a little beastly worrying on the corpse will bother him. How picky can a necromancer in Talingarde be?;-)
I got a sewing kit. I'm sure I can stitch a limb or two back on. Flesh.... fabric... the principle is the same. :)
@ Havoc - thanks for the invite! Also, Price's character sheet is now tweaked to your requirements.
Definitely not picky.
Putting on my tinfoil hat tagged with a post-it that says "Tactical Jean-yus"... Xanos, can you channel positive energy?
I figure the good guys are not going to surrender immediately - if only to save face - so some healing for Team Evil might be in order. I'm happy to take CLW but I can only fire it off twice a day.
Speaking of which, the Discussion thread is now live! Let's get to making some characters.
Psst - you might want to move to the discussion thread so you don't keep bumping the recruitment thread.
Bah! We're EVIL. We draw outside the lines, run with scissors, and purposefully bump the recruiting thread to confuse others!
Talyon thansk you for gettign rid of his blood stained pants, they were evidence that needed burning anyway.
Arrrrrgh, all that work for naught! And those fools in the other thread want entirely diabolic characters. What fools, thinking evil is only the work of the damned. Think of it in abstract terms, evil personified, enacted, perpetrated.
Evil is what you do, make the most of it. Good job all, thanks for the opportunity.