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Welcome to The Redwatch, a story about mice with swords, the things that try to kill them, and how they refuse to die. It is essentially Redwall played by the rules of A Song of Ice and Fire, bolstering the world with cozy settings and loving descriptions of food and festivals, while still delving into the details of vicious animals killing mice while even more vicious politicking does essentially the same thing. The setting of The Redwatch is what you might call “low fantasy.” There is no magic, few if any traditional fantasy elements, and the world operates according to well-understood natural laws. The exception, of course, is that there are sapient mice, and they've established what amounts to a medieval society in the middle of a forest known as The Kingdoms of Gnaw.

The mice of Gnaw have created a quasi-military force -- the titular Redwatch -- to elevate themselves from their place at the bottom of the food chain and overcome the forces of nature. The Watch exists in an ambiguous social area somewhere between knights, Tolkien-esque rangers, and FEMA agents. They are thankless heroes who exist outside of mouse society to better serve it. When something has gone seriously wrong in the kingdoms and time is of the essence, members of the Watch are dispatched to put it right -- even at the cost of their lives.

Despite their technology and fledgling civilization, they're still mice: when you're three inches tall, a snake is a creeping horror out of Lovecraft, hawks are terrifying dragon-like predators, a swollen stream is a deadly impassable torrent, and a good storm can annihilate farms and wreak havoc on your communities. One of the core features of a world of mice is the sense of scale this should impart. You are playing small creatures in a huge and hostile world, but highly motivated ones. With swords.












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This reminds me quite a bit of the Mouse Guard, more so then Redwall not only by the aesthetic choices, but the world you've envisioned as a whole. The Redwatch is very similar to the Guard. I'm kind of surprised you never mentioned David Petersen's comic books actually, and it leads me to believe you might not have read them. In which case, I highly recommend.

Either way you've intrigued me, I'll definitely be fiddling with an application in the near future.
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Oh man, definitely interested! Won't be able to work on a character until I'm back from vacation (in over a week) though. But if spots are still open by then, I'm in.
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This reminds me quite a bit of the Mouse Guard, more so then Redwall not only by the aesthetic choices, but the world you've envisioned as a whole. The Redwatch is very similar to the Guard.


Quoted for truth.

Also interested. I'll send you a PM later.
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Glad to see some interest! The original interest check from the last iteration had me drop the GM voice at the end and clarify a few things, such as how Mouseguard inspired this is, but I ended up just recycling the original OOC for all the info it had. Redwatch is intended to be Mouseguard with all the series-specific bits of lore boiled away to make it easier for those unfamiliar with the series to join us, with some of the cozy Redwall atmosphere.
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Redwall and Mouse Guard may be the best things ever, so interested.
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Ok. You've got my attention!
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I have a question.

What is the requirement for a new Greenband joining the Redwatch, and how is the recruitment operated? Do they have to be of a certain age, pass a test, or just show up to the recruitment office some Saturday morning and sign their life away? Or are they rounded up from prisoners and exiles like in Game of Thrones for the Night's Watch?
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I have a question.

What is the requirement for a new Greenband joining the Redwatch, and how is the recruitment operated? Do they have to be of a certain age, pass a test, or just show up to the recruitment office some Saturday morning and sign their life away? Or are they rounded up from prisoners and exiles like in Game of Thrones for the Night's Watch?

The original thread goes over the greenband trials a little bit.
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@Inkarnate Sorry, Never mind
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@Inkarnate Sorry, Never mind

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I was checking in the OOC, and I was asking you to specify where the description of the trials were. But then I checked the IC and found them.


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That's a long quote!
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While I know little of the two settings spoken of above, and I still need to go through the ic and ooc info, I am very highly intrigued by this! Just returned from a two year absence, but hopefully I can still do a decent job :3
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Badgers, Porcupines, Raccoons, Lynxes, Foxes, Wolves, Snakes, Wolverines, Fisher Cats, Birds of Prey
Various flavors of ragons.


I have a question, what is a ragon? Or do you mean dragon?

Also how high into fantasy does this go? Is there a concept of sorcery and witch craft, but just limited to superstition. Or is it a working thing?

Annnd... Can you combine part 2 of the character sheet with the first post? It's kinda odd for it to be separated. I had to dig for it in the original thread.
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I was super into this one the last time around. Definitely have my interest in giving it another wack.
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Fucking.

Hyped.

Boyos.


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