I would like to start the new page with the crunch for drayen's submission. A female drow bard (arcane duelist).
Question about the different houses.
Is the name of the house the last name of its members?
I was thinking House Vakazar, because of the slavery ties.
Anyone else in Vakazar, feel free to talk about merging or just getting details together about our backgrounds.
@Thades
I spoke to the GM, and basically each house has its own patron demonlord.
House Vakazar's has not been established yet.
So for the rest of this post we will refer to this mysterious patron as "The Dark Lord"tm
Matron Mother showed favor to Salacious since her birth. A spark of a vile primal emotion birthed with her youngest daughter, Love. The matron mother kept it buried, and stayed in denial, but despite her best efforts...it grew.
This betrayal to The Dark Lord would not go unpunished. The protections the Matron Mother enjoyed, the protections that kept the houses from falling into anarchy, drained away. Slavinius saw this as her chance to seize power, and to take revenge on the beautiful Salacious.
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Salacious was a youth going about her duties managing the stupid males as they slop the slaves. She was cruel to her drones. Her sublime beauty made seduction easy. She would regularly pull them in with seduction, then cruelly devalue them with despicable sex acts that she forced them to perform. She would use these tricks to keep them down and subservient.
She would frequently pull a drone to a empty quiet room.
Salacious's predictability would be her downfall.
Her jealous sister, Slavinuis, disguised herself as a drone. She had always hated Salacious for her beauty, and for being favored by their mother. When the moment was right, when the two sisters were alone, when Salacious had her defenses down. Her sister sprung the trap.
Slavinius cut off her sisters face, and had her body spirited to outside the city walls. Naked and alone and left to die.
Salacious prayed for help; to help her live, to help her get revenge. She made a pact with demon lord Mestama. She was rewarded.
After she healed, she found a ceramic mask out in the city's dump. She uses it, not only to protect her identity, but to cover her butchered face. She has learned from other drow, that Slavinius is suspected of murdering her mother and taking over House Vakazar.
Mine is actually crunch completed, but it would seem I didn't paste said crunch into the vestigial alias I've made. Will be rectified tonight.
Ghorrin Redblade
And my crunch is up in the alias I created (which I'm not using yet, but is available under my profile).
So do any of you guys know if the race things he has over-ride the stats normaly for drow and other races OR if that's added on? Cause if so that's insanely powerful..
added together
He's expecting it to be insanely powerful.
He said we'll need it.
I don't like the idea of a power game over substance though...it makes me leery of the game.
I get the impression with the fluff he wants in the way of backgrounds and such, that there will be plenty of substance as well as power... At least I hope so, as I like a lot of role play along with my roll play.
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Hope I'm not too late but I saw the recruitment and was extremely interested. GM, would you allow the Consecrated Fury from the UMCAW?
If yes might I also ask what all gods/patrons are in this setting? Or should I just use what's in the ISG?
The fluff is the most important thing in the game. HOWEVER, as the PCs will be facing above average foes and challenges, a slight power boost is in order. I would rather PCs NOT be mercilessly slaughtered early on for a few bad rolls! Besides, the PCs are upcoming CONQUERORS, something that suggests that they are more powerful than 'Farmer John Pally from Peasantshire', right? Make no mistake, this game will be a great deal heavier on RP than most campaigns.
Rysky, it is not too late, though you will need to put a bit of haste into your profile construction, given the relatively tight deadline. As for deities and other objects of veneration for PC use, use the Inner Sea Gods and the Book of the Damned trilogy as a baseline. There has only been two unique demon lords listed in the AP and, for story reasons, one of those is mostly off-limits. Make sense?
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Okies! I was figure having her worship Ealdeez and basically be a nihilistic hedonistic bloodsporter and courtesan (those go together don't they?)who will latch on to one of the party members because she wants them to be the one to finally kill her, which is why she very much wants to keep the other person alive.
Creepy? Probably.
In that case I'd love to latch on at the last moment as well. Been lurking a bit but before now hadn't managed to figure out a proper concept, until I realised another idea I've had for some time would be perfect.
The basic idea is for a Drow Necromancer who sees the undead more as cheap labour than as some ideal sort of thing. He'd be a merchant and trader who is simply in it to make a profit and cares little about what he has to do to get it. Money is power after all. Expect things like a skeletal personal assistant with a gold plate nailed to it's face whose only task consists of carrying my character's administration.
Here is my current, as of yet fluff-less(beyond what I posted before), gearless and mostly traitless incarnation: Kaer'Anbreth Jezzavon
He uses the Master of Arcane Secrets stat package and the Ambitious Schemer alternate racial trait.
Above average foes and challenges, eh? Sounds ... challenging... but moreso the fact that the fluff is more important than the crunch. I was intrigued with the game before, but now I'm thrilled with it... And there are SO MANY great submissions... I hope I make the cut now even more than before...
Hey, GM Overseer, I'm gonna be busy pretty much all day today at said Con.
Are the players going to be selected sometime today or tomorrow?
If so, I'm gonna have to back out.
I should be able to complete both fluff and crunch tomorrow, and would love the chance to join the competition.
That said, I understand if the time doesn't let me do so.
I've got the crunch done for Dr. Aldus Mantari, male drow elf alchemist (preservationist). I may switch out archetypes, as the preservationist really fits my character concept, but almost all SNAs don't have a good means to operate underground, and thus may cause more headaches then they are worth.
I'll get the fluff up this afternoon.
A slender drow wearing an antique plague mask bows low, sweeping his hat from his head in a gesture of supplication. "The esteemed doctor Aldus Devalus is here to reconnoiter the darklands, if he is desired."
Rejigged some of Hurkkagg's weapon choices and combat trait to better reflect his status as protector-vassel of Drayen's Akor'maybryn
Xellen Arnakshen, Drow Arcanist (Occultist)
Xellen Arnakshen
Drow arcanist (occultist) 1 (Pathfinder RPG Advanced Class Guide 8, 78, Pathfinder RPG Advanced Race Guide 102)
NE Medium humanoid (elf)
Init +3; Senses darkvision 120 ft., low-light vision; Perception +5
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Defense
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AC 12, touch 12, flat-footed 10 (+2 Dex)
hp 7 (1d6+1)
Fort +0, Ref +3, Will +3; +2 vs. enchantments
Immune sleep; SR 7
Weaknesses light blindness
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Offense
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Speed 30 ft.
Special Attacks arcane reservoir (1/4), consume spells
Spell-Like Abilities (CL 1st; concentration +7)
1/day—dancing lights, darkness, faerie fire
Arcanist (Occultist) Spells Prepared (CL 1st; concentration +7)
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Statistics
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Str 10, Dex 15, Con 10, Int 20, Wis 12, Cha 20
Base Atk +0; CMB +0; CMD 12
Feats Sharp Senses[APG]
Traits - custom trait - Dangerously Beautiful, arcane temper, youthful mischief
Skills Knowledge (arcana) +11, Knowledge (dungeoneering) +9, Knowledge (local) +9, Knowledge (planes) +9, Perception +5, Spellcraft +11, Use Magic Device +9; Racial Modifiers +4 Perception
Languages Abyssal, Common, Drow Sign Language, Elven, Goblin, Undercommon
SQ conjurer's focus (Summon Monster I, 1 minute), poison use
Other Gear 1,000 gp
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Special Abilities
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Arcane Reservoir +1 DC or CL (4/day) (Su) Pool of points fuel exploits, or can expend to add +1 CL or DC while cast spell.
Conjurer's Focus (Summon Monster I, 1 minute) (Sp) Cast summon monster spells with points from arcane reservoir.
Consume Spells (Su) As a move action, expend a spell slot to add its spell levels to arcane reservoir.
Darkvision (120 feet) You can see in the dark (black and white vision only).
Drow Immunities - Sleep You are immune to magic sleep effects.
Light Blindness (Ex) Bright light blinds for 1 rd, then dazzled as long as remain in it.
Low-Light Vision See twice as far as a human in low light, distinguishing color and detail.
Poison Use (Ex) You do not risk poisoning yourself accidentally while poisoning a weapon.
Spell Resistance (7) You have Spell Resistance.
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Xellen grew up in the schools of magic, but arcane structure was simply beyond his skill. Or rather the patience to harness the arcane through the tedium and strict structure that the schools taught. They had always told him "You have vast power, but you need to apply yourself." Apply hisself, Ha!, there would be a faster way, and easier way to gain power, and he'd show them all. He began to study the histories, searching for anything that would fill his need for power, and not just power, but power..right...now.
He found some obscure books, brought down from the world above, talking about sorcerors and their channelling their bloodline for power. Surely somewhere in his bloodline there had to be power. His was a family of powerful spellcasters. They'd consorted with demons, wrested power from devils, but they had taken years. Xellen wanted that now. He bent his will to nothing else but the contacting of extraplanar beings, and controlling of the same. It took time, but far less time than the fools at the schools would have him spend.
When he finally had what he thought was knowledge enough, he raised his wards, and sent his consciousness outward, seeking some sort of patron. His seeking would be answered.
"You are young to be on this journey, and foolish."
"That may be, but I am also armed, and know the ways. He drew his consciousness back, enticing the being back with him, and to his joy, it followed. Soon it came through to the material plane, and was caught by Xellen's wards. The being growled, shape shifting from one form to another. Some pleasing, some not. When it finally stopped, it chose the form of an alluring, shapely drow woman.
She grinned at Xellen and licked her forked tongue over her lips and her sharp canines, and then pouted at him. "Oh come, Xellen, there's no need for all of this. I know what you want," She drew her hands over the curves of her body, nearly dragging off the diaphonous gown that left little to imagination. "power. Arcane power. Enough to show these fools that you are, and have always been better than they are."
Xellen nodded, enraptured by both the alluring figure, and the promise of power. You want to be able to control forces and summon beings to your aid, at your whim. To bend the elements to your will. Imagine how those others will feel when the very forces of nature are yours to command..." Xellen closed his eyes, imagining it all, as the creature ran its soft hands over his neck, and chest, and draped herself around his back. "It can all be yours, Xellen...if you want it." The creature's embrace was warm, and soft, and enticing, and Xellen felt her breasts against his back....no!
He struggled a bit, but felt too good in that embrace.How...the wards, how did you...?
"Oh, Xellen, those wards would work on most any demon, devil, archon, with the right amount of will, but I'm not just any being, am I?" She kissed his neck, hotly, "But you are not just any Drow, either. I can give you what you want, Xellen, as long as you are with me. She slid into his lap, leaning back against him as the gown, slid from her shoulders, "Will you be with me? Will you be mine?"
Xellen gulped and groaned in his need for both the power, and the physical need he felt welling up inside him and he simply nodded.
She smiled..."Good boy.", and pulled him to her.
When he awoke, he smiled at the memory of her, and then began the screaming as the power filled him....
I just need to add gear, and pick his spells for the day. I'll create an avatar if he's chosen for the campaign.
Koliah, it is preferred that equipment be sorted out before the campaign begins but is not strictly necessary. It would certainly save some time, and posts, if you did so.
Additional equipment procured.
DEADLINE FOR APPLICANTS IS REACHED! NO MORE APPLICANTS!
Those who have applied, work on finalizing your characters, as I have changed my mind and am no longer waiting a week for finishing touches on characters, only 5 days.
Can someone make me a list of characters so that I can look it over and make it easier for me to check people off once they have finalized the characters? I plan on transcribing the list elsewhere.
Woo hooo!!!
D:
Feral, implore your fellow PBPers to get those applications finalized faster then! :P
Faeryl, for some reason, when I saw your post, I imagined your character doing the 'ride 'em cowboy' dance with several Drow looking on with stone-cold faces!XD
Krentel, what's the 'oh no!' face for?
Oh and my haul was good from the prerelease! I got a foil Dragonlord Silumgar, a Dragonlord Dromoka, a Silumgar's Command, and an Icefall Regent. And I have a SARKHAN! That's a fist-pump-into-nerdbro-fist type situation!
Krentel, what's the 'oh no!' face for?
I can't finish the fluff of krentel right now, I was planning to use the sunday for it.
Full submissions:
Akor'maybryn Qu'ellar'xuileb - female drow bard (arcane duelist) (Drayen)
Dr. Aldus Devalus - male drow elf alchemist (preservationist) (Fighting Chicken)
Arameth “The son of Asmodeus” – male drow mighty godling 1 (Ashe)
Faeryl Dusk - drow-blooded demon-spawn tiefling sorcerer 1 (JAF0)
Hurkkagg – male bugbear slayer (stygian slayer) 1 (Black Dow)
Jaelryn – female drow cleric (demonic apostle) of Nocticula 1 (Magbeus)
Kaer'Anbreth Jezzavon - male drow necromancer (Cuan)
Kolaiah – male drow oracle 1 (Zahir ibn Mahmoud ibn Jothan)
Krentel Nylineth – male drow samurai (Nicos)
Moresh Ma’anam – male drow ranger (deep walker) 1 (Javell DeLeon)
Ruul – male minotaur brawler 1 (Feral)
Salacious of House Vakazar – female drow inquisitor (sanctified slayer) 1 (LitanyOfCurses)
Salazar Torghym - Male Drow Gunslinger (Bolt Ace)/1 (Phylotus)
Taecuss dyn Bru – male drow wizard (diviner) 1 (markofbane)
Tazantahrac - Male Drow Stalker 1 (Redblade8)
Tazennin – male drow cavalier (luring cavalier) 1 (Sixteenbiticon)
Tiberius d’Arke – male drow warder (Zwiehandler) 1 (Lessah)
Xellen Arnakshen - drow arcanist (occultist) (Kelarith)
Xodar of the Order of the Jet Star – male drow warpriest (Joey Virtue)
Interest shown:
Bigrig107 – cleric/monk of zon-kuthon
Cam James – psion
HighonHolyWater – silent killer ninja
Ictoo – alchemist (vivisectionist)
Scott Henry
Silverseabird – hunter w/ dire bat
Thades
Tirion Jordhar – swashbuckler or half-drow oracle of the dark tapestry
Viluki – psionics or path of war
I hope I got everyone updated.
Thanks Faeryl!
You're welcome...
Good luck to all, but more luck to me.. *lol*
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+1 luck bonus for being my GM toadie! :P
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I'm not proud, I'll take anything I can get... *Evil snicker*
Be careful Overseer. Faeryl only ingratiates herself to be in better position for betrayal.You were warned!
And here I thought we were friends, Salacious... backstabbing already? How drowlike, you b*tch!
Arameth ready to go, When I post my guy and background I'm done. Will move to an alias if selected obviously, but have enough dead ones :)
We are friends my dear. I only save you from yourself. The Great Overseer is far too brilliant to fall for your sycophantic machinations. I don't want you dying due to overstepping your station.
*hugs* (and without a dagger in hand either!) "You are too kind to think of my future, dear one . I know he'd never succumb to my charms, but he is a man and they all have their weaknesses...." the tip of her tongue just passes her teeth to lick her lips lightly.. and she hisses quietly with a soft intake of breath.
Salacious caresses her lips with her thumb. The breath beneath her mask deepens. They are the weaker sex. Her fingers cup Faeryl's face But they do have their uses. Let's find one to share, and bury this tiff with his humiliation and our pleasure.
Xellen Arnakshen
Drow arcanist (occultist) 1 (Pathfinder RPG Advanced Class Guide 8, 78, Pathfinder RPG Advanced Race Guide 102)
NE Medium humanoid (elf)
Init +3; Senses darkvision 120 ft., low-light vision; Perception +5
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Defense
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AC 12, touch 12, flat-footed 10 (+2 Dex)
hp 7 (1d6+1)
Fort +0, Ref +3, Will +3; +2 vs. enchantments
Immune sleep; SR 7
Weaknesses light blindness
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Speed 30 ft. (20 ft. in armor)
Ranged hand crossbow +2 (1d4/19-20)
Special Attacks arcane reservoir (1/4), consume spells
Spell-Like Abilities (CL 1st; concentration +7)
1/day—dancing lights, darkness, faerie fire
Arcanist (Occultist) Spells Prepared (CL 1st; concentration +7)
1st—color spray (DC 16), grease
0 (at will)—acid splash, detect magic, disrupt undead, message
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Statistics
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Str 10, Dex 15, Con 10, Int 20, Wis 12, Cha 20
Base Atk +0; CMB +0; CMD 12
Feats Sharp Senses[APG]
Traits - custom trait -, arcane temper, youthful mischief
Skills Acrobatics -1 (-5 to jump), Knowledge (arcana) +11, Knowledge (dungeoneering) +9, Knowledge (local) +9, Knowledge (planes) +9, Perception +5, Spellcraft +11, Use Magic Device +9; Racial Modifiers +4 Perception
Languages Abyssal, Common, Draconic, Drow Sign Language, Elven, Goblin, Undercommon
SQ conjurer's focus (Summon Monster I, 1 minute), poison use
Combat Gear wand of cure light wounds; Other Gear crossbow bolts (11), hand crossbow, bedroll, belt pouch, flint and steel, ink, black, inkpen, masterwork backpack, mess kit, soap, spell component pouch, spellbook, torch (10), trail rations (5), waterskin, 79 gp, 17 sp
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Special Abilities
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Arcane Reservoir +1 DC or CL (4/day) (Su) Pool of points fuel exploits, or can expend to add +1 CL or DC while cast spell.
Conjurer's Focus (Summon Monster I, 1 minute) (Sp) Cast summon monster spells with points from arcane reservoir.
Consume Spells (Su) As a move action, expend a spell slot to add its spell levels to arcane reservoir.
Darkvision (120 feet) You can see in the dark (black and white vision only).
Drow Immunities - Sleep You are immune to magic sleep effects.
Light Blindness (Ex) Bright light blinds for 1 rd, then dazzled as long as remain in it.
Low-Light Vision See twice as far as a human in low light, distinguishing color and detail.
Poison Use (Ex) You do not risk poisoning yourself accidentally while poisoning a weapon.
Spell Resistance (7) You have Spell Resistance.
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Xellen grew up in the schools of magic, but arcane structure was simply beyond his skill. Or rather the patience to harness the arcane through the tedium and strict structure that the schools taught. They had always told him "You have vast power, but you need to apply yourself." Apply hisself, Ha!, there would be a faster way, and easier way to gain power, and he'd show them all. He began to study the histories, searching for anything that would fill his need for power, and not just power, but power..right...now.
He found some obscure books, brought down from the world above, talking about sorcerors and their channelling their bloodline for power. Surely somewhere in his bloodline there had to be power. His was a family of powerful spellcasters. They'd consorted with demons, wrested power from devils, but they had taken years. Xellen wanted that now. He bent his will to nothing else but the contacting of extraplanar beings, and controlling of the same. It took time, but far less time than the fools at the schools would have him spend.
When he finally had what he thought was knowledge enough, he raised his wards, and sent his consciousness outward, seeking some sort of patron. His seeking would be answered.
"You are young to be on this journey, and foolish."
"That may be, but I am also armed, and know the ways. He drew his consciousness back, enticing the being back with him, and to his joy, it followed. Soon it came through to the material plane, and was caught by Xellen's wards. The being growled, shape shifting from one form to another. Some pleasing, some not. When it finally stopped, it chose the form of an alluring, shapely drow woman.
She grinned at Xellen and licked her forked tongue over her lips and her sharp canines, and then pouted at him. "Oh come, Xellen, there's no need for all of this. I know what you want," She drew her hands over the curves of her body, nearly dragging off the diaphonous gown that left little to imagination. "power. Arcane power. Enough to show these fools that you are, and have always been better than they are."
Xellen nodded, enraptured by both the alluring figure, and the promise of power. You want to be able to control forces and summon beings to your aid, at your whim. To bend the elements to your will. Imagine how those others will feel when the very forces of nature are yours to command..." Xellen closed his eyes, imagining it all, as the creature ran its soft hands over his neck, and chest, and draped herself around his back. "It can all be yours, Xellen...if you want it." The creature's embrace was warm, and soft, and enticing, and Xellen felt her breasts against his back....no!
He struggled a bit, but felt too good in that embrace.How...the wards, how did you...?
"Oh, Xellen, those wards would work on most any demon, devil, archon, with the right amount of will, but I'm not just any being, am I?" She kissed his neck, hotly, "But you are not just any Drow, either. I can give you what you want, Xellen, as long as you are with me. She slid into his lap, leaning back against him as the gown, slid from her shoulders, "Will you be with me? Will you be mine?"
Xellen gulped and groaned in his need for both the power, and the physical need he felt welling up inside him and he simply nodded.
She smiled..."Good boy.", and pulled him to her.
When he awoke, he smiled at the memory of her, and then began the screaming as the power filled him....
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with gear and spells
"Mmmmm luscious notion. Do you have someone special in mind? If not, my precious Ruul can probably recruit a suitable fellow... have you a preference I should know about, tall, short, old, young, you know... something special that makes you thrill when it squirms?"
Idly stroking the coiled braids of leather in her hands, the stunningly gorgeous drow ever so lightly licks her lips with the tip of her tongue. With a breathless pout, she points out, "Strange that so many males come to vye for our places of glory. Still, if they've the flesh, I've the whip."
Innocence she laughs musically
"THose make such fun playthings, I must admit... an admirable choice..."
Rysky, you are still in the running! Just get your character built.
Like I said, I hoped I didn't overlook anyone - I just took the most recent list and updated it based on all posts made after it - obviously the original poster just left you off, and I missed that too - but you did post interest prior to closing. The GM has spoken!
my sincere apologies for missing you, Rysky!
You wicked wicked girl
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Like I said, I hoped I didn't overlook anyone - I just took the most recent list and updated it based on all posts made after it - obviously the original poster just left you off, and I missed that too - but you did post interest prior to closing. The GM has spoken!
my sincere apologies for missing you, Rysky!
Aww it's okay :3
*hugs the adorable Drow girl who tried to use subtle subterfuge and misinformation to get rid of a potential rival*
Will have her built either tonight or by tomorrow.