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Knights & Nightmares: A Classic Dark Fantasy Adventure

I'll be reprising my namesake. Unfortunately, my friends just called up and asked me to see Ready Player One... But he had a pokebattle to get to so we have to leave now now now.

@Assallya

Damn that sounds like a cool life. I miss my teenage years :(

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Knights & Nightmares: A Classic Dark Fantasy Adventure

Also keep an eye on the 'Races & Places' hider in the 1st post, I will be updating it to include new info that gets revealed in the story.

@Nieszka@Assallya

Knights & Nightmares: A Classic Dark Fantasy Adventure

Cullwath, 3rd Largest Town In Naveroth.

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Cullwath was one of the more inhabited towns of the Naveroth Province, but that didn't make it anymore pleasant. Under the looming shadows of the tall houses and inns there were cold and indifferent stone pavements, a large traffic network of rats and creatures that looked like rats from a distance in the dark. And of course the dull glow of Gothic streetlamps, interrupting the fog of darkness with splashes of sickly yellow spotlights.

The people of Cullwath matched the atmosphere, suicidal looking peasants, who's main option in life is whether they and their family will starve to death or freeze to death. Large human men in black and grey armor, with the insignia of the 'Black Beak'. They were a private milita hired by the wealthy of the city to essentially act as makeshift muscle for criminal mobs, and occasionally low-end hitmen for petty disputes. They were numerous but also fairly unskilled and damn near always drunk. There were also rambling folk in dark hoods who were assumed to be either practitioners of dark magic or just addicted to chaos dust.

Lastly there were the merchants, the only people who ever seemed to smile in town, cold hollow serpent smiles to peddle their wares. Some sold regular goods, but there was a trend of travelling 'miracle merchants' who would attempt to sell their tonics to the desperate before leaving town as quickly as possible, sometimes they would get away with it, sometimes they would be caught, and it was never pretty when they were.

In a cramped in near the center of the city a young doctor had just finished stitching the wound of a local hunter, he paid the doctor 20 gold pieces for his service and thanked him for the speedy job. The doctor was actually fairly broke. Now with only 45 pieces to his name, not including the 3 he would have to pay to stay at the Mousetrap Inn for another night. It was the only inn where he could find regular work without being harassed by thugs, but he still had to encounter the odd Black Beak Mercenary who weren't much better.

His name was Pox and he had no idea how he ended up in Naveroth or this town of Cullwath specifically, but there seemed to be more work here than anywhere else. Just as he was packing up his medical equipment the Innkeeper called out to him from the other-side of the door.

Hey Doc, just heard about another job, apparently some mercs just survived a bandit ambush up the road, they say the area is clear but wanted a doc to patch up their commander, apparently he got the worst of it. Pay is 50 pieces but you have to leave right away.

It was one of those urgent 'inn requests' where a carrier bird would deliver a job that was open to freelancers, the pay was usually decent, but details would always be thin, making it that much more dangerous. Pox sat in thought for a few moments before he heard some shouting outside the inn, it seemed to be the hunter he just finished stitching in some sort of dispute. Looks like there were some choices as to what to do next.

@ShwiggityShwah

-Accept the inn request and make for the east road.

-Decline the inn request and go outside to investigate the commotion.

-Decline both, call it a night and get some sleep.

Underrated and Overrated Video Games

<Snipped quote by Dynamo Frokane>

You're right, I don't. I'm not going to sit here and say it's on par with a good character action game but it's above any given Musou game and its simplicity doesn't mean a lack of variety, QTE event kills aside since that's more the reward anyway. If that's a defense then so be it, but the problems with God of War isn't in the combat.

@Fabricant451

Well at least we are setting the bar high.

If we are defending combat systems based on being 'better than dynasty warriors' which is easily the worst combat system ever, then we arent off to a good start.

The game has almost no variety, every enemy in the entire game including bosses can be fought most efficently with square, square triangle. In God of War 3 all of the weapons apart from those shit hercules gauntlets function exactly the same just with different colours. QTEs are a whole nother issue but the core of the gameplay is mediocre platforming and god awful 'sweep the room' combat.

And yes I agree with you, everything about Kratos and his world is stupid and shit, but its not just him. Almost every god acts like a one dimensional sneering prick till their last breath, and the game revels in this. You hate everyone and everyone hates you, which is fine when you are a all powerful shirtless spartan with a black guy's voice. But not so much when you are a musty neckbeard who can only attempt pro-creation with a used sock.

And 'greek tragedy' in the loosest possible sense, translates in god of war as "You killed my family you motherfucker, I'm going to kill you and everyone who looks like you" was never going to make for a very interesting trilogy.

These games were never good, and if you purchased sequels to this game hoping it was ever going to be good then Sony did a good job marketing it and deserves your money.

Knights & Nightmares: A Classic Dark Fantasy Adventure

@ShwiggityShwah this is great, post him in the characters tab he's approved, we can start the story right away.

Knights & Nightmares: A back to basics, linear supernatural-fantasy RP

@ShwiggityShwah submit this work in progress in the OOC in the above link, I dont mind if you wait until hes completed.

Also, with his weapon arsenal you need to be specific how much he is carrying of each weapon like his darts and grenades, and crossbow bolts of course,

Knights & Nightmares: A back to basics, linear supernatural-fantasy RP

Submit your characters here in the OOC

Knights & Nightmares: A back to basics, linear supernatural-fantasy RP

@Assallya Hey there its been a while, we RPd once or twice nearly 3 years ago!

And yes very good point. The magic level for the player character would be in the 'low to mid' power. With the more destructive spells taking a lot of time and energy (even life force) to cast. So maybe some mid sized fire balls and small lightning abilities. A fighting mage would be even more limited.

Knights & Nightmares: A Classic Dark Fantasy Adventure

The Intro & What To Expect

The meat and potatoes to any good RP is dedicated players, interesting characters and an active plot. this shouldn't be hard to achieve at all. So I propose to keep things nice and simple (at least to start with).

First, clear choices in a 'Choose your own adventure' style will be given at the end of most of the narrator's posts. You will still have a free agency within the posts to act and say whatever you wish, but to keep the story focused I will employ this technique.

Second, there wont be any long waiting period to start or prologues to pour over. You will have a world, and a starting location and you will figure out the world and the plot from the IC as you play it. Choices and survival will be difficult and combat will challenge you as a character and a player.

Third, we only need two players to get started, the rest will join the party 'fellowship style' as the story advances. The writing level will be low-advanced. Let's have some fun!

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The Fantasy World of Terraixa

A traditional sword, sorcery and savior setting where I base all my high fantasy stories and characters.

The 4 Provinces Of Terraxia

Alvion

Welcome to the lands of Alvion, the 1st of the main provinces, you can find this area of land in the north east part of the world. The Alvion Kingdom is a living example of a fairy tale royal city. The Country has mainly forrests and plains and the neighboring towns monstly deal in horses and tools. The very mixed community are moderately intergrated with each other. Although elves prefer to live in forest towns and the majority of dwarves live underground. Halflings seem to live quite closely with humans, and even the demon folk are generally left to their own business.
Population: 50% Humans 20% Elves 10% Dwarves 10% Halflings 5% Demonfolk, 5% Other

Roh

To the south of Alvion the landmass is connected to a harsh desert area known as the domain of Roh, the sun has scorched most of the land into endless miles of desert and savannah the Royal City of Roh is run by the beautiful council, a group of 6 beautiful women said to be over 1000 years old but never age. The Country has very few natural resources so makes most of its income through trading exotic spices, cusines,tourism and assasins. Human's make up the vast majority of the land and there are some tensions between those and the Demonfolk who are known to be murderers and thieves, the other small pockets of races keep to themselves and dont have established communities.
Population: 70% Humans, 5% Dwarves, 20% Demonfolk, 3% Elves, 2% Other

Ispar

Across The Grand Ocean Past the Bishop and Knight Isles in the North East is the ice capped region of Ispar. This nation takes pride in it's highly developed democracy, technology and education, the people of this nation are also very studious and well versed in magic, which contrast to the large burly Dwarves and Human lumberjacks who harvest the Frostwood, some of the finest timber to survive in such a cold country. The reigon is home to many mountains, ice caves, and frozen rivers, the main city of Ispar is controlled by the Greater Ispar Government. The diverse racial makeup of land is very well integrated and all beings live together in the advanced cities.
Population 30% Dwarves, 30% Human, 35% Elves, 5% Other

Naveroth

Population: Humans 75%, Elves 15%, Demonfolk 9%, 1% other
Finally in the south west of the world you will find the Gothic Empire of Naveroth, a very ancient and secluded nation made up of swamps, and very urban towns with stone pavements. The Naveroth main city, is home to the Empress and very little is known about her beyond her solitude, independence and authority over her people. The few large business chains in the land specialise in weapons and the notorious bio-pit is home to some of the most dangerous creatures who are thought to be bred and mutated by Naveroth's highly developed but unethical science community. The City's are almost all Human and the Elves have been driven out to live in small towns in the middle of the swamps. Segregation and Racism is a huge issue here.

Costa (other)

The Costa Islands are dotted around the south cost of Roh, where the weather is more tropical than desert-like, although technically owned by the Roh council the Costa is generally seen as 'free islands' where most of the tourists come to relax and Inns and markets flourish at this beautiful resort land. There is no real ruler but the very rich Halfling produce merchants have a lot of control of what goes on and generally keep order.
Population: Always changing but the main inhabitants are currently humans and halflings.

Bishop and Knight Isles(other)

Population: No offical demographics, but home to many demonfolk.
These very small islands in the centre of the map fall under two different controllers, the Knight Islands Port towns are run by pirates and organised criminals from around the world, and the Bishop Isles are run by insane cults and mystics. The Islands are generally considered dangerous places to be and the 4 kingdoms have largely turned a blind eye to the dealings of the two communities mainly because they are contained in centre of the world map where they are surrouned and generally inactive globally. The Pirates sell stolen goods and train deadly mercenaries while, the mystics of bishop will sometimes part with their ancient artifacts for the right price. Tensions are obviously very high and the communities are unstable at best.

Races & Places

Races & Variants

Humans:
The sons and daughters of the ancient 'gatherers' have established themselves in this world as a fascinating and diverse people. Over the last 500 years or so, they have become the most populous race on terraxia by a small margin. They also have more religions than any other race, which has lead to isolation and tribalism in some cases. Known as the most effective politicians.

Elves:
Also known as 'Province Elves' to describe the basic and non variant versions of elves. These usually are seen in cities living alongside humans and city dwarves in relative peace. Because of lack of exposure to magic and natural energies, they have a shorter lifespan than wood elves and dark elves but are somewhat hardier too. Agile and quick witted, they make excellent hunters. Thier variants are Dark Elves and Wood Elves.

Dwarves:
Known as 'City Dwarves' to describe the folk who live among other races in large cities. They are few in number but have very established cultures and traditions. Also living shorter lives than their other variants, but enjoy a less rigid lifestyle and are amazing merchants and builders. Their Variants are Chaos Dwarves and Mountain Dwarves.

Demonfolk:
are essentially low powered demons who roam the mortal world, their demon blood is heavily diluted with human and dark elven blood but they have demonic markers such as dark blue/grey skin and red/yellow eyes. Sometimes tails or horns too. They are said to all be the descendent of one demon family who escaped from the underworld , others claim they are just mutant dark elves whose radical appearance can be explained with inbreeding.

Places Of Interest

(WIP)

Character Sheet

Name: (Full Please)
Age: 15-70
Height:
Weight:
Class: (knight, wizard, thief. assasin, beserker, etc)
Race:(Dwarf, Human, Elf, Halfling,)
Weapons & Equipment: (details but fairly brief)
Skills and Abilities: (expertise, techniques, and magic go here)
Bio: (must be AT LEAST on paragraph long, please use the small amount of lore that I have provided in the lands and intro to help shape your background and backstory)

Combat

Combat follows the Arena-style method of engagement. You declare attacks but you cannot auto hit. You can attempt to dodge/block/defend but the circumstances of the attempt must be reasonable or your action will be overruled by the GMs (If you get shot at by a hail of arrows, don't attempt to Neo-dodge the projectiles or you will just get torn up).

However where this differs from Arena is that all of your encounters will be PvE (unless you and your team want to have a scuffle). So while you cant auto hit us (the GMs) we can Auto-hit you if we feel necessary. We also calculate how much damage you suffer and and how much inflict. Instances where you can auto-hit the enemy is against 'horde' type enemies like mindless zombies ,low level bandits/gangsters or stationary defense towers if they are part of a siege.

Please note YOU CAN DIE in this game, this is part survival and although GMs wont kill you for something minor 'like oops you stepped into a pit'. We will announce deaths if we feel you fail a combat encounter bad enough to warrant death being necessary. If you die your character will not come back, but you as the player will be given a grace period we you can 're-join' the waiting line with another reserve character later in the story. So write well, think logically and you will most likely live to see another page of IC posts.