Kurtis Stavian's page

I have this guy, who was going to be in another War for the Crown pbp until the GM disappeared. As they do. I can rework the stats fairly easily in the event you decide to go with him.

1) Develop character concept. Crunch does not need to be complete, but it can be. Character concept should include the following:
- Class: Fighter (Aldori Swordlord)
- Alignment: LN
- Characters link to Taldor, and specifically Oparra: He's a Stavian. He's always been in Oparra, since his family is the biggest of all possible muckamucks
- Livelihood: He's a noble and lives off of the money his family gets via taxation and business deals and stuff.
- Motivation: He likes his cousin, and wants to make her transition to leader an easy one. Also he wants to help make Taldor more like Brevoy, because he's kind of a fanboy.
- Rollplay vs Roleplay: How will your character contribute to the group in combat? What about out of combat?: In combat, he's going to sword things and parry things and sword more things. Out of combat, he knows nobility and has a bunch of untrained skills. His best option is intimidating people, but really it's the difference between +9 and +2. He's mostly for swording and knowing things about nobles, it comes with being the weird cousin who's obsessed with all things brevoy and aldori swordlord.
- Progression: Full swordlord, doing everything within my power to make this fighting style actually work.
- Background: What is the characters backstory? Doesn't need to be a novel, but at least 1-3 paragraphs of an overview. (IE what is your history, what are you doing now and what are you trying to achieve in the future)
My specifics on his backstory are intentionally vague since his proximity to a possibly important character means things can be filled in as the plot might demand them to be, but here's the broad brushstrokes:
He's a nephew of the current grand prince. He's got a bit of a reputation among the noble circles, since he has a bit of a quirk:

He's a gigantic Brevoy fanboy.

He saw an Aldori Swordlord in a fighting tournament when he was a child, and he thought that the guy looked so cool as he effortlessly crushed everyone else that he wanted to be just like that. Since then, he's imported a sword of his own, and a great number of books and information about the far northern land of Brevoy so that he could learn all about it. (Because we're doing background skills, I'm taking Lore: Aldori Swordlords. It is that important.) His parents are frustrated by his stubborn attachment to his blade, and he sees the exciting times as a chance to prove his (classically taught by the finest of tutors) sword-hand an equal to the forms and styles of the swordlords he's seen in the imported information he's gotten and the tournaments he's watched.

2) Let me know your time zone and the time(s) of day you will most likely be able to post: I'm in CST, and I'm usually awake in the middle of the night so that's when I'll be posting

3) Tell me about your experience with PbP? How many PbP games are you currently participating in?: I'm in 2 PBP games, and while I have a great deal of experience with them, people in games I'm in keep dropping out. Generally the GM, or half the players causing the GM to quit, or... something. You know how it is, I'm sure.

so I note we don't have an official recruitment page. What's the ETA?

We lost our arcane caster, but I’m here.

:|aa did the game just die off immediately?

It's only fashionably late that a Stavian ever makes their entrance, and it's only just in the nick of time that an Adori Swordlord shows up to save the day by slashing all their would be foes into jelly and blood, so it's no surprise that Kurtis made a point of trying to be just in the nick of time to be fashionably late whenever he was called to anything. As a result, he's the last one to the table--but only by a little bit.

The money had intrigued him--having already spent his stipened for the month on a new breastplate, he was looking for spending money--and considering the source was looking to make the vote go the right way, he figured he should do what it took to ensure his dear cousin was able to take the throne without issue. It'd be better than trying to... 'crash through things like an enraged boar,' as his tutors put it?

With a small nod of hello, Kurtis sits with his hand casually on the sword at his hip.

"I'm no woman, but I think I'll suffice quite nicely for the moment, thank you. So, what do you need?"

Definitely sounds good to me. I figure that Kurtis pays a fair amount of attention to royal gossip as something to do between obsessing over swords and being the bluntest person in any given room, so he's probably aware of the other nobles in the group.

And voila.