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Blight [OOC]

@Elsa There, that should allow us to close off that thread with only one loose end which might actually be useful later.

@All Apologies for my slacking of late. I try to keep above the 1/post a week I expect of players and post 2 or 3 times a week, but I've been working a lot on my own writing recently and school has been a beast. Don't worry though, I'm not going anywhere and I really like how this game is progressing. Everyone has been excellent.

Blight [OOC]

Greenlight District

Fairy glamer fell upon Jaden's brain like snow and normally it would have been melted by his rigorous training, years spent learning to recognize and fend off enchantments. The prospect of mutilating innocent elf maids, however, primed his mind to grasp at any opportunity for salvation. He took what the glamer offered and the elf woman's thoughts became his own. Still there was the sergeant. "Klayde, I don't think she's here, let's just leave, you know he deserved it."

"Officer Jaden!" the scarred man trumpeted, "you forget who holds rank here... wait a second," he squinted into the slits in his partner's visor, seeing the fog in his eyes. "Fairy glamer," Klayde growled rounding on the nearest of the elf bitches and raising his iron maul for a wicked swing.

"NO!" Klayde heard the shouts of the enchanted policeman distantly, but his duty drowned them out. A sharp pain, however, brought it back to focus. Klayde looked down, followed the dripping steel from his waist to Jaden's shaking hands. "Sir... I... I couldn't." Klayde felt his knees weaken as blood pooled in his boots. The greenlight went black and he slumped down falling off the blade and onto the moldy cobbles. Jaden dropped the dagger beside him, stepping back on quaking legs, "Klayde... no..." Then he ran.

Blight [OOC]

@Elsa I usually don't metagame but since were still early on and players don't know as much as their characters might, I'm going to break that rule. The younger cop is about to go around the back, are you sure you want to glamer him while he's in the presence of his commanding officer when you could intercept him when he's alone? I'll let you edit if you want to do so and you don't need to delete anything, you just need to specify that you followed him until he's out of sight. I'll give you a little bit to decide if you want to make the change. Another reason, I'm doing this is that I feel like I may have jumped the gun pitting you against such antagonists so early on in the game.

Also, and this is to everyone because Iron Police are a common antagonist, these are people who have been trained to spot and counter fairy glamers. This doesn't mean they're immune, but they are definitely more likely to notice a charm being woven on their comrads.

Chain Mail Panties [Light Fantasy/Gender Comedy]

If we don't get enough players here in the next few days, I'll punt the interest check over to advanced. I'll keep submitted characters of course.

Chain Mail Panties [Light Fantasy/Gender Comedy]

@Unendingempire Okay gotcha. Just want to make sure we're on the same page.

I'm starting to wonder if I shouldn't have put this in advanced, but I wanted something light and advanced players do not generally excel at the kind of brevity light fantasy requires.

Blight [OOC]

Okay I'm back in the game, but I want to get the brothel scene wrapped up before I shift focus to the bar

Chain Mail Panties [Light Fantasy/Gender Comedy]

@Deserted So that character is very vague. I don't think I can accept it as is. PM me if you want to try and edit it. The main problem is the grammar, the lack of a clear character concept, and the huge missing chunks in the background.

@UnendingEmpire Okay, the character write up is good, but we had a big miscommunication. When I said I didn't want some totally unique culture like out of serious fantasy I did not mean create a totally unique culture like out of serious fantasy and just ignore the details. Everything in this story should be archetypal. It's a satire. So a desert culture shouldn't be some unique creation, it should be a satire of middle eastern culture and pop fantasy, just as the main setting is a satire of western culture and pop fantasy. For the same reason, ethnic appearance should reflect location. If you're playing with Persian and Arabian themes then have them look like people from those regions. Imagine how confusing it would be if I introduced an Eastern themed setting and had the people there be tall with green hair and brown skin rather than oriental.

@Cid It's alright, I'm in no rush to get started. It takes as long as it takes.

Blight [OOC]

Love the posts guys. I have been assaulted with exams and illness this week, which is why I haven't been as active.

Chain Mail Panties [Light Fantasy/Gender Comedy]

Thanks Lillian and do keep an eye on the thread. Even if we do start b4 your break ends, I'm not averse to late joins if we need another player.

Chain Mail Panties [Light Fantasy/Gender Comedy]

UnendingEmpire said On the bright side, I now have a pretty awesome mage for a high fantasy story of mine currently in deep hibernation :)

Yeah it's a good character, I normally would have accepted her with open arms.

UnendingEmpire said
I feel I should ask about desert kingdoms, if you had any in your mind already or if I could just stick one somewhere ^_^; no big deal if "no" on all accounts.

This is a global, cosmopolitan setting so bringing in something outside the Western spectrum is fine, just make sure you don't get all serious and try to create some unique detailed culture out of a Robert Jordan book. Remember this is light fantasy. I created this game so that I wouldn't be turned emo by the intense dark fantasy I'm GMing in advanced XD. Don't ruin it for me :-P Desert fantasy archetypes means djinns and flying carpets or maybe mummies and jackalheaded henchmen if you want to get all Egyptian with it. It doesn't mean pages of historical and cultural exposition which crush the funny with a sledgehammer.

Rata Tat Tat said Albireo

Wow. Yeah, you pretty much nailed the setting and the character is excellent. Very dynamic and completely capable of playing the fool, something I was expecting the mage player to be able to do. The only error I see is that cell phones should be spell phones. It's a general mechanic we'll be using. Lapbooks become spellbooks, electronics become spelltronics, internet becomes aethernet, I-pads become rune pads, texting becomes runing, and html becomes hextml. Stop me if I'm becoming too silly.