WHERE WAIT=TOO_LONG;
SNOOZE=LOSE
Yeah. Thanks for adding insult to injury.
Expesally since similar things have happened often due to my reluctance to introduce charecters too close to another chacrecter's introduction.
Still filling out the crunch, but here is the profile, for Bane88
Welcome to school, glad to have a new classmate
Why thank you!
This guy looks familiar!
Otherwise looks like a good start there and I look forward to seeing what you've got when Billy is all finished. :)
WHERE WAIT=TOO_LONG;
SNOOZE=LOSEYeah. Thanks for adding insult to injury.
Expesally since similar things have happened often due to my reluctance to introduce charecters too close to another chacrecter's introduction.
It's nerd humor, sorry. Wasn't trying to push any buttons.
Hi billy
Looks like another for team Avatar
Alright, got the first part of my backstory done. I'll keep adding to it.
Here's my character image post-Daemonknight.
Here's his image pre-Daemonknight
His Daemonknight picture can be found in the backstory.
The one I'm writing up right now will be dating his sword as soon as he gets it.
Ok switched pictures!
No posts in nearly a year. Think I'm safe? There are very few pictures that look even remotely like children.
Ok, for now I'll just post a quick summary. The rest of you are free to read the ongoing saga.
After being sent off by his mother on his family's traditional journey to find their true "Weir" (destiny), Iolth starts becoming one of the more successful adventurers in his area, he happens upon a mysterious suit of armor that enhances his abilities. However, strange events start happening, and Iolth finds that occasionally he forgets large chunks of time, and he starts having strange, dark thoughts.
Finally, Iolth gets fed up, and tries to take the armor off to destroy it. To his horror, he cannot take the armor off, and as he panics, a booming baritone laughs and claims that Iolth is simply his mortal vessel. The Daemonknight, a herald of Szuriel, has returned.
The Daemonknight went on a rampage for decades, decimating kingdoms and destroying armies. He was a Person of Mass Destruction. Eventually, however, a champion of light, equally powerful, confronted him. In one, last heroic attempt to resist, Iolth impeded the Daemonknight in whatever small ways he could. His soul being ripped to shred, bit by bit, Iolth knew that he did not matter. Only the paladin's victory did.
When Iolth awoke, he found himself in the middle of a council of empyreal lords. They ruled that he should continue living to right the wrongs he had allowed the Daemonknight had commited. That was his Weir. As a gift for allowing the Daemonknight to be defeated, they gifted Iolth with Kaetar, an intelligent sword that was all that remained of an astral deva. The sword had various powers, including the ability to project an illusion of her old form, minus the wings and scrolls. The lords also gave Iolth a burden to bear, and to guard-the sword-arm of the Daemonknight's armor. It was extremely powerful, and gave him a portion of the power he had possessed previously. However, when the Daemonknight roped in the next fool, it would be after Iolth.
When both of them were shunted back to Agartha, although they initially disagreed on many things, they soon became close friends, then, lovers. Now, Kaetar and Iolth wander Agartha, looking to right the Daemonknight's wrongs.
So, I have a question: Are demons made of chaos and evil in this world, or do they have some semblance of free will?
So, I have a question: Are demons made of chaos and evil in this world, or do they have some semblance of free will?
Rules light.
Really depends on who's telling the story.
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Semblance of free will but when nature and nurture tell you to do evil, 999/1000 you do evil,
Fortunately, Avalon attracts the weirdos.
"Drink the blood of the innocent!"
"Screw you, mom!"
So what do you guys think of my quick backstory?
Alright, so I'll condense my stats a bit in order to fit with the rules-lite version. Or, if you want solid stats, I could change it.
Can't wait until I get into the game!
"Hi, guys. I'm Iolth, and this is my sword, Kaetar."
Kaetar says nothing.
"..."
"Cahman, Kaetar, are your really gonna embarrass me like this?"
"Yep-Dammit, you made me speak!"
a short brown haired kid turns to you as you enter the room, he wears a black hoodie and cargo shorts, his eyes are hectochromatic, one steel grey one ice blue, he raises one eyebrow at your antics he looks to his friends then back to the newcomer "uh hi I guess" he says
Kaetar looks exactly like in the picture I put above. She originally looked all holy-like, though she changed her appearance to fit with Iolth's motif.
Anyways, I was just making a joke, I don't really like recruitment forum RP to be honest.
Also... Is Lynora the only one authorized for green-lighting submissions?
Also... Is Lynora the only one authorized for green-lighting submissions?
Yep.
Yeah sorry about the RP, I thought you were just getting antsy, so I was gonna oblige you for a bit
As for green lighting, she's in charge, DB3 is secondary DM, I'd just wait for lyn though
And Sam! Don't forget about Sam!
*Grumbles* Stoopid life happening... I'll kill you, broken-down modem...
don't mind me though, I just run around being a nuisance...
So, let me get this straight:
The original Tales of Agartha thread contains the story of all the staff?
Am I right?
So, let me get this straight:
The original Tales of Agartha thread contains the story of all the staff?
Am I right?
Various current staff were prior students, if not mistaken.
This may confirm your observation.
So, let me get this straight:
The original Tales of Agartha thread contains the story of all the staff?
Am I right?
It contains the story of a few of the staff who went on to found the school later on.
So, let me get this straight:
The original Tales of Agartha thread contains the story of all the staff?
Am I right?
Various current staff were prior students, if not mistaken.
This may confirm your observation.
This is also true, but that story happens within the early portions of this current thread.
Also, yay, new router! Just finished setup. :)
I will try to get caught up and respond to stuff as soon as I can now that I have internet access back.
Yay!
Double yay!
Now you can review my backstory and maybe I can get accepted!
Yay!
Just a note
Even after being approved you need someone to write you an intro
That's not always true... I wrote my own intro's for all of my characters
kind of like me making all my own adventures
Ok, but that's not the norm, and you're rather expirenced
true, just like everyone else here. and I believe my new character will be my own intro as well... I am just waiting for the right time so that I can include at least one other player.
of course I can just send Mel there and use my current character to get my new one in, so I can be DM and PC and NPC all at the same time
He is effectively 18 (he spent 2 years as an adventurer). The reason that he's at the school is this: even though the Daemonknight was dismantled, Iolth was permanently connected to him... and that manifests as his arm. The Daemonknight, since he took thousands of years of forging to get that powerful, isn't up to his full strength-i.e., he is effectively and extremely powerful mortal as of right now, not a demigod yet. However, the herald of Szuriel has one way to get his old powers back-to get back his main component, the swordarm, which is attached to Iolth's body.
Iolth, even though he has been back for roughly a year and a half, has only a little control of his powers. When he uses more than five eldritch blasts or invocations in a row (not including status effects, such as eldritch flight), things start getting a little wonky. More pieces of armor start appearing on his body, and for every three invocations/eldritch blasts he uses after that, he shifts 1 step towards Neutral Evil. Generally, before things get too bad, Kaetar yanks herself away from Iolth and does the sword equivalent of a slap across the face. Such a thing snaps him out of his power-spree and shifts him back to Chaotic Good. However, if Iolth himself finds that he's slipping, for every step towards Neutral evil, he has to spend seven minutes recovering.
His ultimate mission is to gain control of his powers, and then, once he has become sufficiently powerful, is to go into the belly of the beast and permanently destroy the Daemonknight himself while the fiend is still weakened. Iolth, however, is in trouble if he fails: unless he gets the Daemonknight destroyed before he dies, Iolth will instead go to Abbadon. The real mind!@#$, however, is this: because Iolth's soul was literally ripped to shreds as he allowed the paladin to vanquish the Daemonknight, the gods will restore it to its natural form once it is over: nothing. As soon as he kills the Daemonknight, Iolth is a goner. So, it's a lose-lose situation. However, hopefully the group can confront the empyreal lords (psssh, they can handle that-they subdued an all powerful eldritch thunder god before) and get him out of that sticky situation.
In summary, Iolth is trying to make the best of his life while he still has it, because he's #%@!ed either way.
Geeze politics,
And then there's the war that's we're on the brink of back home this stuff's messed up.
Would a reaper-in-training be of any help?0
Next point, if his soul was ripped to shreds how is he even back? That makes no sense. And what's with the evil stuff? Again, I'm not getting it. Is it just that his soul is bonded to the armored arm? I need a better explanation. I do not understand your backstory.
Which brings me to my last point. Almost everybody messes this one up with their first character. Keep it simple. A complicated backstory does not necessarily make for a better character. This is a cooperative storytelling environment. You kind of have your character's whole story written, including your vision of where he'll end up. But there are a lot of crazy things that he'll run into at Avalon, any one of which can drastically alter his future. Leave yourself open to the possibilities. Don't get so bogged down in the details to begin with. You're not writing a novel. Leave room for change. If you don't, you're going to end up getting bored with your character early on and abandoning him in favor of something more fun. At least that's what I see happen over and over again.
Anyways, I still need to understand his motivations for being there, but I don't think we're going to get that far until I understand his backstory.
Unless you count the initial post from Lyn for this start of this semester and I guess the sort of one for the new firebirds, I intro'd all my PCs