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    1. ClocktowerEchos 9 yrs ago

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2 yrs ago
Current I was gone for a lot longer than I thought >.>"
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2 yrs ago
Sorry for my absence! A Volunteering position suddenly turned into a Volunteer Leadership position I was not expecting at all so things have been hectic.
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2 yrs ago
Look at you posers, having to bang dragons or sell your soul for magic when you could just play a lute for some. Anyways, here's Wonderwall. - Bards
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2 yrs ago
Sometimes we live in a society. Other times, a society lives in us. Occasionally, society.
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2 yrs ago
I am fucking screaming. Why are there so many fucking MLMs posing as actual marketing/advertising agencies. Just give me an actual fucking job reeeeeeeee
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@Elgappa I can quickly set one up if we need one.
@ArisenMoon

At the moment i am still working on the map (Gimp is a bitch...i wish i had the money for Photoshop..), but i would tendate to either the first, or the Third floor! Your choice...Fire-Maniacs or big Scary Jungle?


Have you tried Pixlr? Its like a cruder version of PS but its online.
@ClocktowerEchos
Fair point.

How about having this band be led by an outcast member of one of the Merchant Clans (preferably a minor one)? With no way to climb up the order of succession with ease, this Rat figured it'd be a better idea to first carve up a respectable reputation and gain some money through work as a Condottiere leader. When the time comes, he could be a returning war veteran of sorts, looking to systematically tear down his Clan and rise to the top with the help of his personal army of War Rats and considerable wealth gained from his military service. Would that work better?


Like I said before, you need more than just brute strength to get anywhere in Origlian politics. The Ratpublic as a whole is ludicrously wealthy and the second a Merchant Clan hears of someone trying to destroy the entire clan, they are going to throw everything at you until the problem is solved by either bribing you to go away or hiring assassins or mercenaries in greater quantities than you could. Even if you do win out most of the other Clans are not going to take kindly to someone just showing up and inducting themselves into their societal group, especially if said person is an outcast.

I'm not saying you can't play this idea, I'm just trying to say you can't expect to bash down the doors to Origlio and expect things to work out on pure martial skill alone.
@Kreegs The thing is that the Ratpublic doesn't usually go out of its way to make enemies since you can't trade with dead people. You're more than welcomed to act as guards in a major trade post just be aware that I don't even know where exactly Origlio itself is located much less its trade posts yet.

Also if you're going to get involved in Origlian politics at any point in time during your climb to power, you are going to need more than just soldiers to get places. And also preferably a shit load of money since money rules all in Origlio, without it you're just another large group of Condottieri.
@Elgappa Because I got bored and I stay up later than I should, I made some stuff. Two mythical locations and two legendary weapons for both religions.

El Dorato

Of all the mythical places within the Mall, none are more glamorus and far-fetched than that of El Dorato. Every rat has their own idea of what it is -wealth beyond measure, women beyond beauty, knowledge beyond genius, battle beyond glory- but such a mythical realm has been the target of adventurers ranging from simple bands of friends exploring the lost halls to heavy planned and researched expiditions with scribes and soldiers. One of the most persistant legends is that within El Dorato, there is a living Creator made of gold who lives in a giant palace of equally magnificent gold and will share the secrets of transmutting gold to any who find him.



Squeekra-La

A utopian valley said to be somewhere on the roof of the Mall where Rats live in haromny with all other animals, living hundreds of times past their normal lifespans and aging little. A lush, earthly paradise that existed before the time of the Creators, its said to be home to the legendary Pearl of the Orirat, a magical sphere the can force thoughts of peace and harmony on to the mind of any being.



The Burning Blade

The golden sword used by the Burnt Prophet himself in his fateful duel against the Chosen of the Creators in the Battle of Burning Waters. It radiates with heat and its warm to the touch. Legends state that when the Burnt Prophet wielded it, it wreathes itself in holy flame to smite the heretic and said to contain a fragment of the Prophet's very soul! Lost during the Battle of Burning Waters when both the Prophet and the Chosen were swallowed whole by the earth!



Forgebreaker

Used by the Chosen of the Creators in the Battle of Burning Waters against the Burnt Prophet, Forgebreak is a massive hammer carved with runes and blessings of all the Creator Gods. Said to be able to crush the bones of Skulkers and even able to rend the very ground itself, its said that the hammer choses its user during the Creator Cult's time of need. It was lost with its weilder during the Battle of Burning Waters where the Chosen of the Creators split the earth in two and martyred him with the Burnt Prophet, tumbling into the abyss below.
Finished NS. Their stats are as follows:

Richness - 5 (+1 from low Military, base 5)
Military - 1 (Skulkers at the Door!)
Population - 3
Control - 3
Knowledge - 4 (+1 from low Ferocity, base 4)
Ferocity - 1 (A Rat or just a Mice)

Sub Total = 17/15

Pack Divided Weakness + 2 Points

Total 17/17

@Elgappa Decided to come up with some more animals and ended up with some myths instead and an friendly animal.

The Beast of Kyburgrad

"Be a good-good child or the Beast of Kyburgrad will eat you-you!" - Common scolding of children in the village of Greyfur; no longer said said village wiped out by something, leaving no survivors and no ruins to pick at.

A mythical monster said to have single handly destroyed the city-state of Kyburgrad and left it in bloody ruins, no one knows who or what the Beast of Kyburgrad is. Some say it is a blood starved Stinker while more superstious folk claim its a possessed spirit who punishes the unworthy and unfaithful. However, the darkest rumor says it is actually a Small who survived being fed Pink-Corn and became a hideous monster who made a dark pact to purge the mall of life. More than a few Rats have used this to justify actions against Smalls, but that doesn't explain why not even Smalls are spared when this monster supposidly "attacks". Its said that calling its full name will bring the beast to you for it can hear from a thousand miles away and thus those few who talk of it call it the "K-Beast".



The One Reborn

"I will not go there! You know the stories, ratling and so do I! Now let me through or I will eat all of you! Nothing you can pay me will get me to run down that accursed hallway!" - Brave-Tail, Mercenary Skulker
"O-oh by the Creators! What horror-horror I seen-seen! Its form-form, it burns into my eye-eyes! Yes-yes! Creators above help me-me!" - Jikjag "the Mad" after apparently witness the One Reborn; burned at the stake for heresy and insanity

The story of Doctor Frankenrat's Folly is told across countless schools and colleges, of how someone who was blinded by his own ambition and delusion fused together dozens of dead rats and Smalls and even a Winged One a Furred One and pumped it full of sustance the Creator's left behind along with clockwork machinery. The abomination that resulted was a tortued beast with many heads and limbs, all crying in pain and agony, full of unbriddled raged at the constant pain it feels. After devouring Frankenrat and his assistants, the undead monster charged into the deepest, darkest recesses of the Mall where only its etheral cries and blood curling howls can be heard, sending shivers down even the spines of Skulkers and Stinkers. It is much to Origlio's shame that they are directly responsible for the creation of the "One Reborn" as Frankenrat was their brightest student who never understood the concept of "ethics".



Jormungand, the World Eater (Giant Fucking Danger Noodle)

"As the Tales have fortold,
The black beast of cold,
When brothers waged battle,
They hear the deathly black rattle
Of Jormungand, Bane of Rats!
Who leave not a scrap,
For when his hunger unfurls,
He shall devour the world!"
- Song of Skalabrimbor, an Ancient Prophecy

In the oldest of tales speaks of a great slumbering beast that sleep deep within the bottom floor of the Mall who is said to once have nearly brought the Mall to ruin before being put under a spell by the mythical wizard, Skalabrimbor the Wise. According to old myths, when the Mall is divided and its people slaughter each other, their blood will seep through the floors and awaken the World Eater Jormungand, named after a passage in a book the creators left behind called "Viking Myths for Kids". Some claim that the Great Schism nearly awoke the beast and is what caused the superstitous to push for peace.



Swift Tails (Squirrels)

"Themagestyrequestyourprensenceatthenextcoucilmeetingmilord!"
"...What did you just say?"
- Conversation between a Swift Tail messenger and a local lord.

Nible and quick, Swift Tails sometimes inhabit the upper levels of the Mall in search of berries or fruits or seeds. Its not uncommon for Rats to pay these Swift Tails to deliver messages across great distances faster than any courrier ever could. However, given their rapid speech, the message sometimes becomes unintelligable without the help of a translator!


@Elgappa Yup, nothing says "unity" quite like everyone else with a scrap of power trying to shank you! /s

As for the Ironbacks, here you go:


@Elgappa Is this okay?

Richness - 5 (+1 from low Military, base 5)
Military - 1 (Skulkers at the Door!)
Population - 3
Control - 3
Knowledge - 4 (+1 from low Ferocity, base 4)
Ferocity - 1 (A Rat or just a Mice)

Sub Total = 17/15

Pack Divided Weakness + 2 Points

Total 17/17
They don't misfire that often


Early blackpowder weapons are notorious for being unreliable, inaccurate and dangerous. Sure a cannon might be safer than a mortar, but its still experimental and dangerous technology that still has a fairly high chance of blowing up in your face. Hell, most early cannons where only ever used for moral damage because the sound scare the shit out of people and horses. The cannons you're thinking of are the ones from the 1700s onward where we really figured out how to properly treat and use cannons instead of pray that it would kill more of the enemy than us.

The first medieval cannons didn't even really look like tubes and more like vases instead.

they're easier to aim and move,


Not really. Yes they were lighter than mortars which we didn't figure out how to put on wheels until much later on, but early cannons even beyond the pot-de-fer where literally giant tubes of pure solid metal mounted on equally huge supports with equally massive wheels to move the damn thing. What you are thinking of most likely is horse artillery which wasn't invented and used in the 1700's. Even before horse artillery, cannons are extremely slow given the fact they're still solid chunks of metal being lugged on a heavy rig that could support their weight and the recoil which required at least two horses to pull.

Also, cannon aiming is not a simple task of "point and shoot" unless you're aiming at something massive like a wall. You'd have to load in the exact amount of powder and hope you didn't put too much causing the shot to overshoot or too little causing the ball to land below your target area. We didn't understand the concept of ballistics until at least 1531 where mathematicians began the study of it and it only saw advances one Newton came around with his idea of gravity.

tl;dr - The cannon you are claiming to have wouldn't exist in the technology level that I assumed this RP would take place in wouldn't actually exist for a comparative few hundred years. The cannons at our current technological level are crude, basic, dangerous, unreliable, heavy, slow, innaccurate and are easily out classed by more conventional artillery pieces unless you want the scare the shit out of the enemy.



So I don't have to double post, @Elgappa is my NS accepted?
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