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Thiago Proudfoot of The Sauerabfel Hills

Age: 31

Gender: Male

Race: Halfling



Background: Thiago comes from a long line of builders. His family built into the hills of Sauerabfel for decades and learned precisely how to develop things to be safe, solid, and homey. Placing trees in a natural way and at the proper distances that their roots would grow strong to support themselves, the hills, and the earthen homes of his people. Managing water that they might easily water their crops, swim in lakes, and nap beside rivers. Dotting bushes and flowers about to draw in visitors. Lovely.

That would have been his life as well were it not for the fall. Sauerabfel relied on trade and tourism and had never had any issue drawing either. It had been bustling in time of plenty but when the wars came and kingdoms fell it quickly followed. Some families left for the protection of a larger city. Others sold off their goods and fled to try to support family elsewhere. It was as a rock rolling down a hill gathering speed as it goes. Fewer and fewer halflings, fewer travelers, and soon the roads grew too dangerous for even larger traders.

Thiago was one of the last to leave that might actually have a shot at establishing himself elsewhere. If there were anywhere left to establish. He left behind an all but deserted Sauerabfel Hills, populated only by those too old to leave and a few small families hoping to hide out in the smaller more hidden burrows.

He wants to build again. To participate in establishing a new home for himself and perhaps eventually resettle the remaining halflings of Sauerabfel or maybe at some far flung date even return to the hills with a team and bring it back to life.

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Goals: Thiago wants to ensure that future generations of his people have a safe place to gather and that their culture is not lost. He believes he would make a fine leader and harbors aspirations to one day return to the Sauerabfel Hills to rebuild it and become mayor of it. He can almost see himself walking through the hills, waving to visitors from lands near and far, garbed in some sort of stately robe. Holding fine feasts, carousing with representatives from lands near and far. It seems so impossibly far off the way the world is now, but he's a halfling and so if there is one thing he has it is hope.
Welcome to the Inaugural Edition of the RPGWC Monthly Short Story Contest.

The concept is as follows:

- A prompt is chosen
- Folks have one month to write a short story based on that prompt and submit it as well as a new idea for a prompt anonymously
- Every one who participated votes on which story was best, not voting for their own story as that is super weak and against the rules
- Explaining why you chose which story you voted for is encouraged as is constructive criticism
- A winner is chosen and gets to chose the prompt for the next month from the suggestions that month and any previous ones
- The winner may choose to let folks know he/she won or remain anonymous
- At the end of the year maybe we see who won the most or maybe not, it's mostly just for funsies and to develop our writing

Prompts could be things as simple as Universal Themes like Loss, Love, Balance, or Time. Prompts might also be Settings like Wild West, Fantasy, CyberPunk, Warhammer or a combination of things if you want to be more specific. You might also make the narrative style part of the prompt, like First Person, Third Person, Third Person Omniscient, or Unreliable Narrator. I will maintain a list of previous prompts that were not chosen here in the Opening Post so that folks can more easily look back at past options if they win or if they just feel like writing up a short story. If you do that please let me know.

You can write stories that connect with one another or with each others if you want to or completely stand alone stories, but do try to make them self contained. You don't need to solve every mystery you might introduce in the story so cliff hangers are fine, but try to make stories that have some sense of closure at the end so that it is a complete short story even if the greater story continues on.

The first Monthly Contest will start immediately and conclude at the beginning of April 25th to allow time for voting.

The prompt chosen by group vote for the first month is
"Campfire Stories Made Real" which was suggested by Kalleth



Happy Writing! Tell Your Friends! Tip Your Bartender!
Just an expression of interest before I go to sleep.

Probably a Halfling. Maybe a cook if there's a position for non combatant characters. If not that like an Alchemisty Rogue sort.

I figure in a world taken over by evil Halflings are desperate for a nice green field and a place to call home. Probably still making the best of whatever dank dingy hidey hole they can find. Still trying to bring a little light. Sounds good to me.
I will post up the contest later this week, but for anyone thinking of joining in just going to call it now and say the prompt is going to be
"Campfire Stories Made Real"
I've got an idea for a character, based on a Deadlands campaign NPC character.

I'll try to find some materials from the module he was in but...

Native American Shaman Gunslinger
Wears a Blood Caked Confederate Jacket with Scalps sewn into it
Carries a strange length of rope

Edit:

I can't bloody well seem to find him, but I've got a vague recollection and I'll make up the rest.
Amnesia by Bango

"I was going to make an entry,
I forgot"
Poly was a good friend.

Her and I argued a lot and had a lot of different perspectives but it was always interesting conversation and we were always friends. She was one of those folks you didn't really hear a bad thing about in RPGO and there was a damn good reason for that.

I got to participate in a few RPs with her, mostly the pen and paper sort, and her characters were always some of my favorites. She was smart as a tack and so were her characters. When the rest of us were bumbling about she was solving weird puzzles and keeping things moving.

We talked a decent bit as her condition worsened and through it all she was stronger than I would have thought possible. She had a better attitude about the stuff she was going through than I did. She kept her sense of humor through it all. She was incredibly optimistic even through all her difficulties. A futurist to the end.

I'm going to miss talking with her about super algae technology and androids and the future of schools. I hope you're skipping through daisies on the other side buddy.
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Relevant and excuse to post this.


In BAN REQUEST 3 yrs ago Forum: Spam Forum
I would suggest seeing if you can use something like a Kid Proofing site to block your own access to RPGuild. Or change your password to something long and random so you will forget it.

If you want back in later you can ask to have it reset.

If you don't, don't.

You could even make it clear you want to have to go to Mahz to get reinstated. This will ensure that even if you decide you want back in tomorrow it will probably be six months before he sees your message and reinstates you. Get it. It's a joke. I'm a funny guy.
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