Gisk

Scattered Shades: Arcadia Chronicles

As others started following his lead, Cecil put his gun down and bent at the steep edge he stood upon, lending his hands to help up Junker and Diver alike. He had to bring his hands up to shield himself as the creature burst from the surface, showering the whole field with loose earth and smaller stones.

When Cecil looked out over the field, he saw one of the Divers working with fire, trying to aim it at the serpent. The serpent, meanwhile, didn't seem to know where anyone was. Is it blind? It was possible, probable even. What use did such a creature have with eyesight?

There was also a team of both Divers and Junkers on top of the ATV, messing about with the cannon.

If they can hit it with that...

But it's reaching was a concern, it seemed to be tasting the air, like a regular snake might. It needed its attention brought elsewhere. Cecil's mind went back to the curving bullets he had produced during the firefight, and he set about Constructing a new one. When it was done, he loaded it into his VAD and took careful aim several yards wide of the serpent.

The bullet curved gently for a distance, soaring past the serpent, but then suddenly spiraling in sharply, so that it hit the creature on the side facing the edge of the rock field, where no one was at the moment.

Scattered Shades: Arcadia Chronicles

Cecil was relieved at the surrender. He was getting less and less sure of their course as the fight went on, and it was a blessing not to have to kill anyone else(if, indeed, any of his bullets had ever hit anyone).

He was getting back up, brushing Brian off with a grateful smile, and holding his gun(which nobody seemed about to take from him anyway) in an awkward, distancing way. As if to show that he didn't really like it all that much.

"Burials 'aint gunna be necessary..."

"What does that...?" The thing answered, bursting from the earth to finish eating the humans who were standing above its burrows. It didn't see Junker or Diver, only food.

"Oh..."

Someone, the one who threw the fire at the start of the fight, was trying to hurt the thing. And what else was there to do? The ATV was useless, and they couldn't outrun the serpent. But... there were the rocks. The creature traveled through the soft earth, the larger rocks might provide some safety...

Cecil pointed and tried to raise his voice, but it came out as a croak. He realized how much he had hurt his throat with all of his screaming during the battle. Instead, he kept pointing and waving, and made his way to climb the largest of the cairns he could find, hoping that the beast would at least be unable to tunnel through it.

Journey of the Planeswalkers (A Magic: The Gathering Role Play) - Applications open!

Character

Name: Gui Little Thunder

Titles or Aliases: Her surname is a War Name, a descriptive title earned through a feat of battle.

Race: Goblin

Home Plane: Tarkir

Color: Red, White, and Black.
Her magic mostly takes the form of war shrieks that channel strength and battle fury into herself and her companions, or else intimidate her opponents.
She has also learned to breath both fire and lightning.

Appearance: She stands at a little over a meter at full height, but her kind often walk and run on their knuckles, making them shorter. She has a fierce, wolfish face, pale skin and chestnut fur that she keeps clean and shiny. Her mane is often in braids, bound by rings of plundered precious stones and metals, including rare etherium.

Her bracers, greaves and armored skirt are all from her home plane, and are leather with studded plates sewn on. She has a Bant mail shirt, cut short enough for her, and a wojek helm, rudely painted red, from Ravnica. Over her armor is a red, fur trimmed woolen garment, fastened around her belly with a studded leather belt.

Her weapons are a cleaver-like short sword, usually tucked with no sheath into her belt, and a halberd taken from a Bant knight.

Background: Born to a horde in Dragonlord Kolaghan’s clan, her race consigned her to life as a Shriek Bandit, the screaming, looting bandit droves of the clan. It was her ability to rally her siblings that elevated her beyond this low station.
Gui earned her Battle Name, an honor not typically held by goblins, when she led her band of shriekers to steal an entire stable full of horses from a town they were conquering. The miniature horde rode three or four to a horse, screaming and smashing anything in their path as they collided with the enemy’s flank. She was henceforth named for the enormous noise her charging goblins made.

This unusual honor puffed her up, and she soon insisted on her wing of goblins riding in every battle, where before they were always on foot. Her Hordechief consented, though to him she was more of a source of amusement than a respected leader and fighter. Gui recognized this, but ignored it.
After one battle, there wasn't enough food to go around and the goblins, getting the last pick, were expected to go hungry. Little Thunder found this unacceptable. Her Shriek Bandits mounted up and plowed through the Hordechief and his inner circle while they sat at the fire eating. Their portion of food was more than enough for the goblins, and Gui spread the rest among the other lower ranking members of the horde, ingratiating herself to them.

She had her own horde, but it was short lived. The other Hordechiefs of the clan didn't respect her, and as soon as word spread, her horde was beset by rivals and they were all embroiled in a clan civil war. The Dragonlord Kolaghan herself flew down to put an end to it, and at the sight of the dragon descending upon her made Gui paralyzed with fear. As her Planeswalker Spark ignited, she thought she had gone mad with fear as well, but as she calmed, she realized she had in fact been flung to some far place she didn't recognize.

It was Ravnica, and here she spent some time with the Gruul, who Gui thought to be similar to her old clan. But she found their reverence for wild places tiresome, and though she learned much about riding beasts from them, she could never attain the same command of wild creatures that the warrior shamans had.

Still, it was among them that she found her first other Planeswalker, a young man who had been born to one of the clans. In point of fact, it was he who found her; having been to Tarkir in his own travels, he recognized her place of origin. She learned a little of the multiverse from him, but she cared for him as little as she did for the Gruul as a whole, and when they traveled to Alara together, she stayed there. She formed her own horde, plundering the more civilized corners of the restored plane. She took a savage joy in killing Jund’s dragons, though she knew they weren't as strong as the ones on Tarkir.

Gui had her horde resting, with piles of treasure and droves of livestock, in a captured Bant stronghold when she caught wind of a great war brewing on another plane. She left her Bant destrier with her second in command and planeswalked away.

Not a picture of my character but I wanted to put this here in case anyone hasn't played during the Tarkir block, so you'll have a general idea of what the goblins from that plane are like.

Hogwarts: Ignition - Year One

Worldwide internet connectivity has made it easier for muggles to share the unexplainable events that they witness regularly when foolish witches and wizards allow their work to be seen. Though this has been the case for nearly two decades, the International Confederation of Wizards has been slow to act in their ignorance of the wider Muggle world. It is now, in 2016, finally acknowledging this threat to their secrecy and responding to it in the form of an international task force of specialists.

Members: Richard Nothing. Specializes in transfiguration. Prefers research to practical experimentation. Muggle born.
Ex-Auror from America, and capable duelist. Particularly good at detection avoidance. Muggle-raised half blood. Opinionated and vulgar.

We can do proper CSes later, but let's just give a brief overview of characters for now.

Scattered Shades: Arcadia Chronicles

Okay, so I wanna be honest here. I'm gonna preface this with saying that I don't have any intention of leaving, but I do want to bring up a concern.

This battle felt very strongly like it had a predestined outcome, which makes it really hard to care as it wears on. A lot of Junker moves were sort of dismissively deflected. I don't mind being on the losing side, or having my character lose personally, but the fatalism I'm feeling doesn't make for fun play.

Star Wars: Opposing Forces

Since the only people left are Sith and a GM, how about we drop the two sides, and make this a Sith RP, with GM controlled opponents?

Hogwarts: Ignition - Year One

It allows us to play characters from around the world, too. And they would all be specialized in some way, I think.

I don't know what our first episode should be, I'm trying to keep it grounded in both real life superstition, and HP canon. Though I know we'll have to make things up at some point.

EDIT: If anyone has any ideas, PM me to keep it quiet from the others ;)

Hogwarts: Ignition - Year One

@Apoalo@Prints Avoid@Eyeris@MiddleEarthRoze

Okay, grok this.

Wizard X Files. A team of witches and wizards working for the International Confederacy of Wizards. Their job is to investigate unexplained phenomena reported by muggles and determine whether the origin is magical or not(and therefore whether it's a threat to the International Statute of Secrecy).

It would be episodic, exploring cultures from around the world, with particular prominence placed on their superstitions.

Borderlands 3

I think it's safe to say after two years, yes.

I admire that you're willing to jump back on, though.

Journey of the Planeswalkers (A Magic: The Gathering Role Play)

I wonder how GM is gonna decide who to take on.