[OOC] The Light of Our Oath

[lydyn]

Just got reminded! I'll be gone tomorrow morning and some of the afternoon... which is like... tonight for you American folks (assuming it's like 6 am or something at the time of this post). So that means for you gentle folk, I won't reply until YOUR tomorrow. Gots to visit the doctor for check ups. ^.^

[Amy]

@lydyn I think we may have posted at the same time, so in case you didn't see, I wanted to let you know that I finally finished my CS! Yay~ :D

[lydyn]

@Amy I read it now! I'm glad you submitted one finally. ^.- Just waiting on one more, which will probably come sometime during my absence to the doctor. So after I return, we'll figure out who's coming along with Joslyn for the ride. :)

[FallenTrinity]

Jordani Pyriot

"A woman is only given names by the many faced god, not the reasons."

Appearance:

Armor

Without Armour

Name / Alias: Jordani Pyriette [Peer-ree-et]/ Raven, Lady of the Darkness/Shadows, Mistress of the Dead, A woman (Usually addresses herself as this), Mystica
Age: 28

Occupation: Her priority, as the servant of the God of Many Faces, is fulfilling a "list". This "list", known only as "the book of names", is filled with names of those who are going to or must die due to reasons unknown. So as for occupation, she is an assassin by trade.

Enclave location: Unknown. This reason being it is in constant change, the only true way of knowing where the next "Enclave" location will be is by the sight of an albino raven. The last known location was at an abandoned mill not too far from a fairly known church.

Personality: She is more of a realist and will socialize through....How to put this....Third person? (I.e "A woman goes by the name Jordani but a woman can also go by many names. However, this woman prefers to be known as Mystica.") Despite this, she does have a caring for people but cannot show it do to her pledge to her god.

Likes:

-Birds
-Winter
-Meditation

Dislikes:

-People who disobey orders
-Cockiness
-Arrogance

Deity: The Many Faced God

Abilities:

Aura of the Dead: This allows her to sense the dying, or for more recent matters, the undead in a 10 foot radius.
Abyssal Jump: This allows her to move within the shadows.
Assassin's Shroud: An ability that she can cast on an enemy, exposing their weak points, allowing for quick and efficient kills.
Reaper's Dance: Daggers or swords morph into the shape of scythes which she can wield almost effortlessly since it doesn't change the weight of the blades much. This also acts as a style of fighting for her since it heavily relies on twisting, turning and spinning in order to effectively use this style.
Demon Hunter: Usually done with an axe or broadsword but can be used with daggers (but rarely is used with such), it transforms the blade into a rather large and glowing axe head which she can wield with no difference in weight.
Enhanced Speed, Agility, Endurance: Mostly self explanatory.

Essence of Death: This, for Jordani IS A LAST RESORT. A final stand if you will. It's cost is her life and soul into enternal damnation. She draws upon the Many Faced God's essence and takes form of

Death itself.

Now imbued with his essence, she is granted the ability of decay (fog of decay); which spans in a 15ft radius, pestilence (Mist of Disease), which is in a 20ft radius and instant death (Soul Reaper) in a 5ft radius. She is granted the control over darkness in which she can travel through however when hit with light, it effects her abilities and weakens her. At the end of it's use, she will begin to decay before her soul begins to tear away and fade to nothing.

Skills:

Mastery: Swordsmenship
Artisan: Toxicology, Form of Ninjutsu, Holistic Medicine

Background: Unknown however, I would like to explain in story that way to keep to her persona of being, secret? haha

[FallenTrinity]

@lydyn

have one up...just doing some editing

[FallenTrinity]

@lydyn

done unless told otherwise

[rivaan]

Couldn't help myself :3 I had to make this character, the idea just appeared in my mind and didn't want to let me get to sleep so I wrote the CS and now it's time to sleep ><!

My Hider

Appearance:


Name / Alias: Skeitha / Blaze
Age: 31

Occupation: Weapon master

Enclave location: Fallen Kindgom of Rakashia

Personality: Skeitha is a veteral soldier through and through. She had lived through countless battles and survived where many others fell. She takes that fact not as great as many other do. She often blames herself for not being able to safe some of her comrades. As such she tends to talk little with people she meets for first time. Not that she keeps quiet, she just doesn’t go into too much mindless chatter with them. If she talks to someone it’s to get to know them.

She also likes to keep the place around herself organized, thus her things are always neatly placed in her backpack and that extends to her clothing too. Cleaned, well put on and without any visible wear and tear.

When in battle she often turns into personification of a true warrior. Her expression is stoic as she swings her sword-staff around her. Her battle shouts are strong and clear, capable of being heard in great distances if she has to raise morale. Additionally she tends to help her allies a lot, even to the point of pushing them out of the way and receiving a great injury if needs be.

Her most favorite thing is to stay somewhere, listening to the rain. If there is rain, she can sit in one place for the whole day, just listening to it. It makes her relax like nothing else can anymore. She also has troubles sleeping, due nightmares that plague her often. That is the reason why she started drinking a lot.(Besides just enjoying a good drink every now and then).

Likes:
Reading
Alcohol
Weapons
Peace
Rain

Dislikes:
Undead
Thieves
Chaos
Darkness

Deity: Krias, the blood god.

Abilities:
Blood sense – the most basic of Skeitha’s abilities, she can see the flow of blood around her. Nothing alive can escape her notice in a few meters area around herself, it doesn’t work on undead for obvious reasons.
Blood will. – the second of her abilities, she can manipulate her own blood outside her body. Force it to float around and take shapes or manipulate it at will.
Blood blaze – that’s her main combat ability against the undead, Skeitha can set her own blood ablaze in magical flames, good against the undead. She likes to coat her weapon with her second ability and then set it on fire.
Blood puppet – This is one of her less liked abilities and one that takes a huge toll on her body every time she uses it. At the cost of a lot of blood, she can have the said blood infiltrate enemy dead body and briefly animate it to fight for her. Coupled with Blood blaze and she can turn an enemy undead into fire bomb to send against his brethren.

All of Skeitha’s abilities rely on her own blood, as such along with the abilities granted by her deity, she also received additional blessing that has her body store greater amount of blood than normal humans. Otherwise she will die quite fast due her constant lack of blood. With this additional blood, she can easily use her lesser abilities more freely. Also again because of that blessing, her blood is universal donor, in case someone is wounded and is bleeding out, she can use her abilities to transfuse blood to him.

Skills: She is a master warrior and her weapon of choice is the sword-staff. A hybrid between sword and polearm. It provides excellent range and enough versatility. Skeitha has excelent mobility since she doesn't wear armor. The armor just collides with her blood abilities.
Besides her combat skill, she is ample cook, alchemist and writer(oddly enough). She likes to write dark and grim stories.

Background: Skeitha was born in the now fallen kingdom of Rakashia. It was one of the countries to fall to the undead menace before the paladins could safe it and now, well there was no point in recapturing a land full of death.

Rakashia was a beautiful country, entirely stationed in a mountain terrain, that was also part of the reason why no one saw the danger before it was already swarming the streets. Skeitha was a guard captain at the time, one of the youngest to take that duty, but she like the rest of her people couldn’t react in time. They managed to buy some civilians a breather, but eventually the city that was under her protection fell, along with all other countries in the state.

From a young age she had displayed the gifts of her patron god, but never had she felt a great need to use them, to the point where she finally had to face down the hordes of the dead. She fought, she bled and she destroyed, but no end came. Eventually she joined the paladins and took a station at the edge of the fallen kingdom. Standing guard at her fallen land of birth, serving as a wall against any undead that tries to make it’s way through forwards. Many fought side by side with her. Most of those did not return to their homes, thus she gathered the memories of those unfortunates. In her she carries a small book at all times. It holds the name of every person that died in battle with her against the hordes of dead.

[lydyn]

@FallenTrinity@rivaan@paracosm@Termott@Vee@Amy

I am in review mode now! Once I've read all of the character sheets and sat down to figure out which ones really fit the story and my Joslyn, I will let you all know. (Might be as soon as an hour.) For those who aren't chosen, I am heavily considering making up a stand-by roster if people are interested... I hope it won't come to that, but sometimes real life gets in the way and some people need to 'peace out' because of priorities. There's also a chance I may think of a way of including more players at a later date too!

[NarcissisticPotato]

@lydyn

Well considering the fact that the purifier seems to be a very high-priority target, I would assume that she would also attract the attention of more evil things? What I'm asking, in a roundabout way, is do you need any baddies? :P

[lydyn]

@NarcissisticPotato Hm... perhaps. Feel free to PM your idea and we'll see if it fits. ^^

[FallenTrinity]

@lydyn

Potato has a point. Especially if it's evil. They would send demonic entities of all types to try and stop the purifier from ever moving forward. I would say two body guards would not be enough. the least would be 4-5 for story reasons. I mean (for exaggeration) what if the enemy DID send their best in the beginning? It would be over before they could start. So 3-5 individuals who are powerful.

[rivaan]

@lydyn

Potato has a point. Especially if it's evil. They would send demonic entities of all types to try and stop the purifier from ever moving forward. I would say two body guards would not be enough. the least would be 4-5 for story reasons. I mean (for exaggeration) what if the enemy DID send their best in the beginning? It would be over before they could start. So 3-5 individuals who are powerful.

@FallenTrinity

Oi, don't bring real world logic into fantasy settings xD What will happen if in every fantasy game they send the strongest enemies first, people won't be able to move through the first battle without instant game overs xD

[FallenTrinity]

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Oi, don't bring real world logic into fantasy settings xD What will happen if in every fantasy game they send the strongest enemies first, people won't be able to move through the first battle without instant game overs xD

@rivaan

THEN YOU SWORDART ONLINE THAT SHIT AND FIND SOME BETA TESTERS!!!! >XO

[rivaan]

@FallenTrinity xD that actually sounds like quite the sweet plan~

[lydyn]

@FallenTrinity - Sorry, I get what you're saying, but... that also goes against the point of the role-play. I like adventures and epic tales, but I also enjoy romance, so this whole set-up is as much adventure as it is romance. Having 4-6 people involved in the same romance? That's a tad much... lol.

[FallenTrinity]

@FallenTrinity - Sorry, I get what you're saying, but... that also goes against the point of the role-play. I like adventures and epic tales, but I also enjoy romance, so this whole set-up is as much adventure as it is romance. Having 4-6 people involved in the same romance? That's a tad much... lol.

@lydyn

Tis an adventurous orgy lol

[lydyn]

@FallenTrinity@rivaan@paracosm@Termott@Vee@Amy

I finally came down to a decision after looking through all the character sheets and even talking to a couple friends on their ideas and thoughts. Before mentioning which characters are coming along for the journey, I want to make sure everyone understands that it was a fairly tricky choice on my part and I can see the work and effort put into each character sheet, so I'm hoping no one comes away from this feeling like they failed - because they didn't. Every character was interesting and fun to read and I really appreciate all the work and all the interest in this little experiment of mine.

Like I said before, I'm willing to do a sort of stand-by roster for either of two reasons; the main players have real life get in the way and unfortunately need to drop the role-play (whether they have time to alert me or not) or I find a way to squeeze in more characters in some form or fashion - perhaps in some sort of subplot along the main story (just a vague idea). If there is any need for edits for stand-by characters, I'll PM you privately. Just let me know if you want to be included on this.

In either case, Lyra Andulin @Vee & Reina Lockwood @Amy will be Joslyn's guardians and hopeful lovers. <3 In which case, we need to discuss where we want to start off, since you'll both have a lot of control over the environment and NPCs. A couple ideas is to start their journey from the Enclave or to either start the RP with them arriving at Hebetude. You two let me know when you can (since I know our timezones are a tad different).

[rivaan]

@lydyn sure count me in in case of need. ^_^ I will be keeping eye one this too, sounds like a good read :3

[FallenTrinity]

@lydyn

same

[Amy]

@lydyn Ahh, thank you so much for trusting me with this. I'm incredibly excited to see the trio's journey across Ioter! I hope Joslyn and Lyra don't get their hands too full with Reina. ;p As for where to begin, I believe it might work out better to start with the paladins arriving, or at least near, Hebetude. Starting from the Enclave might leave Joslyn isolated for some time.

And I'd just like to say, I think the subplot concept is great. I'm all for that if you happen to make it work. Everyone's made such wonderful characters; I definitely would love to see them one way or another. :D

@Vee Perhaps we could also establish what sort of relationship the two currently have? :) Lyra would have arrived at the Enclave three years after Reina, who should have been back to her jaunty self by then. I can imagine Reina likes to hover over newcomers, and mysterious Lyra who managed to survive by herself in the wild would have very much intrigued her.