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Name: Jethec Ardozhian

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Fighting Style(s): Jethec ain't exactly acquainted with the jousts and melees of song. In fact he doesn't really like to humor "foes" at all, but prey, who did not know that he was there til the boys had already struck. He feels naked standing in open formation with the other soldiers. But he has received barely-adequate sword and crossbow training via the city watch's captains, improving upon what he had already known of these weapons. He can win, but he'll have fought dirty to do so; he makes impromptu weapons of the terrain and also hides weapons on his person. Dirt, foliage, coins, nearly anything can give him an edge in the right scenario.

Equipment: His crossbow, quarrels, sword (a falchion), hauberk, and kettlehat are all standard-issue. He also carries a small warhammer, useful in a pinch as a tool as well as a weapon. But Jethec wears his own bracers, his own boots (well broken in, and softer in the soles), as well as his own lockpicks and poignard. The knife is a good deal more sophisticated than the rest of his kit, featuring both engravings and a precious metal hilt.

Biography: Wulcis was a relatively insignificant member of House Ostogard; a third or fourth son, maybe of a cadet branch. He could not expect a big inheritance; an estate; an esteemed position like general or castellan or guildmaster among his father's cronies. Wulcis had only a suit of armor, a big fucking sword, and a nonchalance about the honor and esteem of his house. Being so equipped, he seemingly had no choice but to humiliate his father and tarnish the family legacy, and he just so happened to take to banditry as his method of choice. His petty nobility protected him from the wrath of the emperor and his corrupt court, just as his steel protected him from blades and arrows, so Wulcis took to terrorizing the roads of his own brother's shire. He also gathered more misfits along the way, adding them to his handful of house knights. This is how Jethec, technically, came under the employ of a nobleman, a fact he keeps ready for anyone fool enough to think that he will tell the whole truth. (Everyone had to forget someone, backstab someone, leave someone behind to make it past the walls.)

The Undeath struck on one such a day, of sitting in the mud along a little road a few days out from Tarne, waiting for caravans and the odd pilgrim. The whole band made it to the city in time, having been warned by the sight of a courier, still bleeding, racing past their ambush, even ignoring their bows nocked and knives drawn. Something far deadlier than they must have been giving chase, they realized in good time, that their predation seemed of so little consequence to this man. Well, Wulcis of House Ostogard was already quite infamous in Tarne, and he and the fellows accompanying him were all cut down when the guards cornered them in some tavern or other, that big sword catching on the chandelier. But Jethec, and the other clever ones, they absconded down their alleys of choice, trickling back into the crowds of refugees. They laid low, picked up honest work and some alibis. Most of these men are still kicking around Tarne today, pretending they don't have a past.

It's well and good to be a nice guy while the going is easy. But when the king orders the gates shut, when more food has been eaten and shat out by the day, when the city runs dry of even basic amenities, a man's neighbors sour faster than milk in the sun. They will always—always—choose their families over their friends; former drinking buddies and even war-comrades will eat each other, given enough days of staring at a wall waiting for death. Thus, every smart tenement employs a featherfinger from among its residents: a man (or two) to keep the whole block that slightest bit better-fed than it would be without. Jethec is one such mercenary. When the city is doing well for itself he patrols its walls and alleys as a town watch; he keeps order in the streets, and cleans them of the riots, the other thieves. But in lean times he joins their ranks, breaking into the same storehouses and supply depots he is paid to keep free of such vermin. Quite convenient, in its way. Jethec can relive the old days of taking what he wants, when it suits him; collect an honest ration (and hurt the competition) when it don't. Some things never change. Long as he don't get caught. Maybe a jackal can eat lettuce when enough of his ribs are poking through but you can't teach him to like it.

Tarne, meanwhile, rides the winds of change. The chant on the streets tells of conspiracies from the castle. Expeditions leaving the cities, looking to end whatever necromancer or great demon had summoned this invasion, erasing the plague for good. Some men stand in line to volunteer; others, like Jethec, are "volunteered" on their own behalf. Seems bad luck don't change much neither.
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will change Tarne to another city if staying there would mean being too distanced from the other players. i'm getting the impression that we start in different places and end up converging, though?
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Oh I’m sorry, I assumed we were all starting in Cartelom. If you want I can change where Theon is.
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Right, I'm the slightest bit confused cuz it seems you guys all chose Cartelom on your own, rather than the GM giving you such direction. So is it mandated that we write apps which place us all in the same city (with more diverse backgrounds as we see fit, of course), or is it coincidence, right? lol

Well it'll be neat if other people join Tarne and we have two/several narratives running simultaneously. But right now I'll just accommodate whatever the GM wants to see.
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I’d be happy to change it to Tarne and stick around Jethec. Just let me know if you’re okay with it.
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Bro that'd be sick! I like that they'd end up as foils to each other in the beginning: both did some bad shit to protect themselves, both circumstantially, but their personalities would clash in an interesting way.
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Alright, it’s done! Maybe they could be fellow featherfingers? For the same block or something.
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We could always have a Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser thing going on if you wanted to maintain being a relatively warrior-centric dude (and/or being a stronger moral compass, though your app leaves it deliciously ambiguous how easy the desertions were on Theon). I hope you're not leaving it entirely to me, but if you want my input, at the very least you being a warrior/knight gives us an immediate opportunity to know each other, since guards may or may not be stationed at the keep, and since we may sleep in the same barracks while we're on rotation. Either way we could be flatmates without any objection from me.
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I want him to remain a warrior, but I also do like the idea of the desertion having a big impact on Theon. Let me know what you think.
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Ah, I was wrong to assume that a featherfinger and a knight are mutually exclusive, and that he'd necessarily be clumsier than the dedicated rogue. It actually does fit with what I tried to worldbuild about life within the cities: of people being killers and criminals when they're desperate, but generally having day-jobs otherwise, and not always within their area of expertise. Since, block by block at least (probably not across the whole breadth of a city), everyone will know everyone when shoved into confined quarters. And since you have to earn your bread or you're a waste of scarce resources, liable to be thrown out with the rest of the trash. An accomplice would be cool; someone to case a place before we sack it, or someone to watch the door and help out in a pinch, etc.

I see the GM lurking so I know he'll undermine me if I'm speaking incorrectly or out of turn.

But yeah, I see a ton of potential between our characters, so I'll roll with what you wanna do. I do agree that being a knight better fits an evident arc about redeeming his lost honor or some-such.
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The whole brains and brawn thing sounds good. Especially if he was in the city watch. He could case places that Jethec wouldn’t be able to access.
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Yeah, a mere town guard won't be able to access all the places that the hardcore shock-troop elites can, to be sure. Sounds fun bro, hoping to meet you IC!
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So, it's almost Sunday, and I don't have much to show for this roleplay. I'll be honest, though, in that I'm not really feeling the RP as I had in the beginning after thinking about it for a bit. It'll be best to continue on without me, but I wish you luck in your roleplay, @ArkmageddonCat.
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Yeah, a few writing priorities have come up and I've had to abstain from new projects outside of some few exceptions. Looks like you have enough people, though, Ark, so good luck.
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What's Cartelom like actually?


Cartelom is the military center of Rhogein. You can expect the walls to be strong and the soldiers to be well equipped. However they rely on imports from other cities, such as raw materials from the mines near Amal. In exchange they provide specialized training for guards and soldiers, protections for caravans moving valuable supplies, and they are currently spearheading the search for the undead origin. They have the best scouts in the land, and send out scouting parties almost every day.

Sorry if this isn't enough, I don't have it written down yet and I'm having trouble thinking straight at the moment.

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@YeetMeister Accepted, though I should've said that Dread Knights were first encountered after the first days of the plague, and the RP now takes place 3 months after the undead first appeared. The first to rise were the Liches, then Bone Men, Ghouls, and finally Dread Knights. Or, that was the idea. Didn't communicate that too well, and that's 100% on me.

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@pugbutter Also accepted, glad to see you guys getting into this. I'm excited to see where this leads, and I hope it's gonna be fun.

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EDIT: IT TOOK ME OVER TWENTY MINUTES TO WRITE THIS?!

@Kuro@Inkarnate I know you won't get these pings but I'm sorry to see you guys go, thanks for the well wishes and best of luck to you two too!
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Thanks GM. Would it be unwise now to have this smaller cast split up into two different regions? Should we consolidate into one instead?
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You can consolidate or stay split up, doesn't matter much to me as long as you don't insist on staying half a world away for the foreseeable future.

I've got some ideas on getting you guys together, though. Don't you worry.

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EDIT: As I hate to double-post in RP OOC threads (and don't feel this is worthy of a separate post anyways), I'm editing into this comment that the IC will not be going live today (Monday, June 3rd) due to summer classes and associated work. I will try to make sure the IC goes live on Wednesday, but I don't feel I can promise that with how fast paced I'm expecting one of my classes to be. Luckily I've only got two days of classes, so my time shouldn't ever be totally consumed by summer school.

Apologies for this delay and I hope it doesn't last longer than I'm expecting it to.
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EDIT: As I hate to double-post in RP OOC threads (and don't feel this is worthy of a separate post anyways), I'm editing into this comment that the IC will not be going live today (Monday, June 3rd) due to summer classes and associated work. I will try to make sure the IC goes live on Wednesday, but I don't feel I can promise that with how fast paced I'm expecting one of my classes to be. Luckily I've only got two days of classes, so my time shouldn't ever be totally consumed by summer school.

Apologies for this delay and I hope it doesn't last longer than I'm expecting it to.


This ironically works out nicely for me, as I spilled a little water on my laptop like a dumbass and so didn't get to post my CS. I'm getting it checked out tomorrow, worst case scenario I'll type it up on my phone. Really sorry it's taking me so long, RL has just been a mess for me the last few days.
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