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The Silver Dagger




The OOC is up: Silver Dagger OOC

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It has been a year and a half since a major disaster occurred in the city of Temrin. A warlock was the catalyst for a dangerous chain of events that turned half the city to ash and cinders. Now, people have just started to recover, and in some parts of the ruined town, life is starting to resemble the way it used to be. However, the city’s leaders know that Temrin is now more vulnerable than ever. After all, manticores, firetoads, and werewolves aren’t works of fiction to the people of Temrin, but before these events, they were muted to an extent. Where other towns and cities feared the possibility of attacks and went pale at the mention such hell-wrought creatures, Temrin’s population could rest easy knowing that it had protectors.

The Silver Dagger was an organization that specialized in solving problems of the occult. Warriors and alchemists, fighters and priests all came together in order to curb the encroaching tide of supernatural and demonic entities that plague other parts of the world. It was they, who are the reason that Temrin still stands at all. During the catastrophe though, most of them were either lost in the battle or resulting explosion.

Vincent Tahler, the former captain of Temrin’s guard, wracked with stress and survivor's guilt, felt he owed it to both the people he was charged with protecting and those who had fallen to rebuild the guild from the ground up.

Putting the word out, he hopes that there are individuals, for whatever the reason, who are willing to help aid him in the fight to protect the city of Temrin.

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The Silver Dagger is a fantasy roleplay of the sword and sorcery variety. Obviously player characters will take on the role of prospective members of the guild. The world that the story takes place in is developed to a certain extent. My co-GM, Riknas, and I have thoroughly developed the story. We have designed a narrative for people to participate in, alter and change. In a sense, it will work kind of like an interactive adventure but mostly affected by the writing. Characters can and will guide the story, and people will be introduced, and if the story necessitates it, people will die.

If you have any questions about the setting, roleplay, or story, feel free to ask myself or Riknas and we will be happy to answer. If you’re interested though, please chime in.
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Interested!
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Consider me interested, if that is indeed what you are checking for.
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Highly interested as well!
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I would be very interested as well. I was wondering, how does magic generally work in this world?
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Interested, though not sure what I might do yet.
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Interested but not yet dedicated. I want to see the OOC but won't say for certain I'll join.
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You have my attention.
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You've piqued my interest.
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I would love to see an ooc!
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Interested.
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We'll have the OOC up today then. An explanation of Magic should be coming after I get through with my run. Look for it at 1-2pm. Thanks for showing interest guys.
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I would be very interested as well. I was wondering, how does magic generally work in this world?


That's a fair question, but let me preface the answer by saying that creating a character who uses magic is going to get your character sheet scrutinized just a bit more than the others. While we don't want to discourage creativity, we do want to avoid things that can easily get out of control.

Magic is a residual energy that lets you fundamentally affect the laws of nature. Some people are born with the inherent ability to do this, and while there are those that pursue a life dedicated to this talent, most don't become practitioners and aren't that different from everyday people. Those who do have magical ability and don't study or train it, wouldn't likely be able to do much if they suddenly had the desire to without means of augmentation. Some may go their entire lives without realizing they had magical talent.

Magic is limited by precision in a sense. To give an example, it is much easier to create a ball of flame than it would be to create a cutting torch from magical energy. Obviously this would hinder some conventional aspects of magic. Illusions for example, would take several decades to learn how to preform on a large scale, but a few years of hard study might make you seem particularly gifted at sleight-of-hand type things (i.e. making small objects seemingly vanish).

Things like summoning demons would be impossible to do on your own. You'd need a lot of time, money, and a particular substance to help augment such an act.

Elemental and healing magic would generally go by similar rules. There's no technical division of magical schools, but to be considered good at something requires intense focus. You do have all-powerful types, but they're like 90-100 years old and spends their days teaching at a university for mages.
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1-2 p.m. by what time zone?
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I am very much interested in this...count me in! :)
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1-2 p.m. by what time zone?


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Very interested also.
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The OOC will be up in a few minutes. Just doing a bit of formatting.
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Alright, it's up. I'll have Jester put it in the OP, but here it is. The Silver Dagger OOC
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Alright, I put it up in the OP as well.
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