[OOC] Heroically heroic heroes on an adventurous adventure!

[Halvtand]

@Fetzen Don't be afraid to push the story/events even more.

@FickleSickle You're up!

[knighthawk]

@Halvtand

Name:
Gegory Greyrose
Title/Nickname:
Lord
Age:
24
Gender:
Male
Race:
half-Orc
Profession:
Wealthy lord looking for experience rather than riches
Trope/Archetype:
Often mistaken for a necromancer, he is actually the charmer.
Appearance:
6'6" and 150 lbs, he is a willowy thing compared to most.

Equipment:
After being cut-off, the only thing he was allowed to take with him is a scepter fitted with dragons teeth which he uses to focus his magic for greater power. Otherwise he has his fine quality clothing and the horse he rode in on sidesaddle.
Background:
Being a half-orc in a human land is difficult to say the least, being the bastard son of a noble is even harder. His mother was Lady Greyrose, former knight of the silver wheel order. His father was an orc warrior who fought alongside her order to stem back a giant invasion. One night of far too much vidali (onion wine) to drink she had a moment of weakness and nine months later her son was born.
He was an ugly baby and lady greyrose was reluctant to nurse him with those tusks of his already in his mouth when he was born, not unlike a wild boar. As much as she might blame his orc father, in truth, the real darkness comes from the greyrose family line.
Lord Archibald Grey, Grgory's great grandfather, was given his title for his services to the crown in the great war of his time against a vampire coven from the black forest. He had suffered a bite to his leg in that time and was doing all he could to keep the change at bay. He drank only holy water and prayed in the church for three months before he changed. During that time, he fell into passion with a nun in the church and married her properly before he became a monster. Their wedding night, lady grey's father, Gregorio was conceived and Lord Grey turned to ash with the morning light.
That undead bloodline would manifest itself many years later as the boy was surrounded by strange happenings, things falling from shelves and an unnatural amount of dead animals on the property. Lady greyrose sent for specialists of arcane and divine to see if they were besieged by ghosts or the like; what they came back with is that Gregory was a sorcerer, a type of mage that did not study dusty old tomes but drew on his own natural arcane talents. Not being something he could be taught, it made the random happenings even more stressful as he came into his own over the years.
In order to keep his mother happy, he tried to focus on making her happy, magically. His powers focused on manifesting charms and enchantments. As well intended as it was, when Lady grey discovered his magical focus could lead to the speculation that he could manipulate her into doing his bidding, she chose to exile him for one year so that he could adventure to gain real experience far away from her.
Pros:
Placating: he is silver tongue into telling people what they want to hear even without magic,
Magic: Focused on enchantment and charm spells (friendship, sleep, flaming weapon)
Undead heritage: Being the great grandson of a vampire, his magic can effect undead as well (usually undead are either too mindless or caught up in their own ordeals to be a valid target)
Cons:
Sycophant: He is a bit submissive to help others, lacking self-confidence even with his powerful will to manifest magic. The easeist way to break him is to make him question himself and others.
Squishy: Most mages are glass cannons, fragile yet devastating, but he is more like a fireworks display with his most harmful spells causing an enemy to fall fast asleep in the middle of combat for someone else to finish off.

[Halvtand]

@knighthawk Nice work. I like the possible setups for this character.
Do move him to the character-tab and write in the IC when you have a chance. The posting order has not yet been set so jump right in.

He drank only holy water and prayed in the church for three months before he changed.

@knighthawk

Has this been explored somewhere? I like it.

[knighthawk]

Has this been explored somewhere? I like it.

@Halvtand

Old school D&D stuff. Most of the vampire lore we have like the 'horde of rats' was made up by Bram Stroker on the fly for creep factor.
I was using the drinking of holy water and prayer in church like an ICU for magical disease. Basically each day spent fasting in church in prayer and fasting allows for a new chance to resist the transformation.

[Halvtand]

Ok, I've been waiting for Ficklesickle to write the next post, but it seems like that one has forgotten about the guild altogether, so I will post next in a few minutes.

EDIT: And after actually reading the previous post, @knighthawk, would you be so kind and add a paragraph that advances the story in some way that I can resolve? Something like a new NPC or an action or event of some sort. Ending with a conversation piece like that doesn't give me a lot to work with.

[knighthawk]

Can I try switching the two paragraphs? Reacting to the big guy with conversation is still fluid and introducing the waitress along with the resisting chair gives ou something to work with.

[Halvtand]

@knighthawk Well, not what I was looking for, but I can work with it.

KH and @FetzenI've updated the opening post of the OOC with info that were talked about earlier in the thread, but I've been lazy until now. Here is what I've updated:

new info

Important info for everyone!

I've had a thought about posting length and arrived at the conclusion that it is suboptimal. The rules states two paragraphs of text per post, I believe that three paragraphs will be better suited for this game, and it will make things a lot clearer.
In each post we will not only have to react to whatever has happened since our last post and write out what we want to do next, we also have to resolve whatever actions the guy before us wants to do, in two paragraphs it will get messy.
With three paragraphs to work with a post may look like this:

§1: Results of previous poster's actions. This way the player won't have to read the entire post to figure out what happened or if it is irrelevant to their own character.
§2: Reaction to what has happened, new info, actions, thoughts, feelings... You get the drill.
§3: Declaration of next course of action. This is what the next poster will need to resolve.
(At the end of your last paragraph, please use the mention function to let the next guy know it is time to post.)

[Halvtand]

@Fetzen Great post. I loved the resolution of my action, and you've posed a very interesting one for Knighthawk to deal with. Now i want to see what happens to the poor harp player XD.

[Halvtand]

@knighthawkHey, working on the next post?

[Halvtand]

@knighthawkDon't be afraid, young padawan.
I know that the game format here is different from most games, but there is no need to hold back.
When you resolve an action, do take care to finish the situation, you have the power over the other PC to do this, so go for it.
For comparison, have a look at how Fetzen resolved Baxxink's plan in his previous post. Baxxink started out on the ground and ended up on the second floor with a room scouted out, in other words his plan worked, mostly. But after you resolved Vekyzz's action he was still in walking toward the harp player.

[Shoryu Magami]

@Halvtand
I haven't had a chance to take a look at the IC yet, but I've noticed things are underway now.

[Halvtand]

@Shoryu Magami Hi there. Yes, we are moving. Haven't gotten very far yet and we're still fumbling around, trying to see how everything works. We should get comfortable in a few posts and then the fun can really begin.

[Shoryu Magami]

@Halvtand
Yeah, makes sense. I figured I'd give the IC a more thorough look once there's more to read, but I did notice you've started off in a tavern as expected. I really have no idea how I would've fit Emmanuel/'Ernst' into this mess if I'd actually ended up sticking around -- the dynamic this group has is far from orthodox given the premise. I still think I probably made the right decision though; I keep coming up with more complex details for Emmanuel's story the more I think about it.

Here's hoping the game goes well for you guys, since I've been noticing the sort of 'fumbling around' you mentioned; based off the OOC mostly.

[Halvtand]

@Shoryu Magami Nothing more than expected, anything that deviates from the normal style of doing PbP usually takes a few posts to get going properly. It's not the first time I've experimented with stuff like this on the site. Hope you've found something fun to do btw.

[Shoryu Magami]

@Halvtand
It makes sense that - with something new - people will need a bit of time to adapt.

On my end, I haven't completely settled into a role-play yet, but I'm using this thread to get a bit of exercise since it's been over five years since I role-played on a forum.

[Halvtand]

And since Knighthawk hasn't replied either here or on PM he'll be counted as non-existent. We're down to two, let's make it good.

[Shoryu Magami]

@Halvtand
Hmm, at least two of you stuck with it. Looks like one of you went silent and the first guy pretty much just went inactive from the site.

[Halvtand]

@Shoryu Magami It happens. I talked to Fetzen over PM about it and we decided to turn it into a two-player game and just roll with it for as long as we can stand it. After all, it is much better than having yet another game on this site that simply dies before it gets off the ground. And besides, if we keep going someone might see it and get interested. Stranger things have happened.

[Shoryu Magami]

@Halvtand
It's definitely a pain in the ass when people just up and disappear (we had a good reason, so I don't think I'm a hypocrite here), but - like you said - it happens. On at least a few occasions I've tried to consider ideas for a more simplistic character I could throw in here, but no matter how many times I've done it things just end up going back full circle -- just not in my nature to do simple. Hopefully it'll go well.

Also noticed you'll potentially be part of a Naruto role-play shortly. It's been years since I looked at anything related to that series, but at one point there was a role-playing site devoted to it that I almost got involved with. I decided against it mostly due to community problems and due to most ideas I have for abilities being too 'broken' for normal role-plays.

On a side note, I'm part of a Final Fantasy role-play now.