Themerlinhawk

Essence of the World: The New Age [CLOSED]

Lol this is is quite interesting. Luckily i think this is perfect for what I envisioned for Ian

Essence of the World: The New Age [CLOSED]

Lazarus is caught up.

Essence of the World: The New Age [CLOSED]

Lazarus

The faint clatter from down stairs and faint shout located his ward however Lazarus frowned at the sound. Normally he wouldn’t have given it any thought. Lazarus suspected Mary was practicing forms however the fact that he had distinctly caught part of a word associated with a swear word, and an american one at that, got his attention. Perhaps he had let himself get too wrapped up in this work this time. When he had found Mary in the ruins of Loom he had been shocked. After all of the research he had done, all the scouring the globe and hunting down clues he had finally found Loom. It had been real and that was where he had found Mary, in amongst the rumble. Which had not been what he had been looking for but it had been fate. Lazarus took the spiral stairs two at a time as he descended towards the practice room. That day it had seemed like the world was giving him another chance to right his wrongs. The girl was someone who needed to be protected and cared for. If Lazarus was correct, given the results of his examination of the girl she was over two hundred years old, really she was only a few years younger than him but he suspected she had no recollection of the last two hundred years. Lazarus frowned again, and then there was that THING in her psyche, a presence which he suspected was related to the taint of demon essence he sensed in connection to her. Mary had been so quick to rush to him when he found her and there was no way he was going to do anything other than take her in. She was too vulnerable to be left in Loom and given her lack of any training in….well frankly anything really. Lazarus had taken her in, however it had been a rough ride. Mary really required more of Lazarus attention than he’d been giving and it needed to change. The two of them were the only ones living in Finch’s Loft and while it had never bothered him it was clearly starting to effect Mary.

Lazarus’ bare feet padded down the steps and he poked his head around the corner peering in the training room blinking like an owl. Mary was curled up against the wall saying something under her breath with tears streaking her face. Lazarus’ heart melted, he’d been away too long wrapped up in the past while he was clearly needed in the present. It was time for a change.

With a few quick steps he was across the room. Gently pushing the sword away from Mary so he didn’t have to worry about accidentally injuring himself. Kneeling Lazarus gently gathered Mary into his arms. “What is wrong sweet girl?” concern emanated from Lazarus and he got the feeling that Mary had not hurt herself so much as...come mentally face to face with something she would have rather not thought about. “I’m sorry I got wrapped up in my...work” Lazarus sighed out the last word. In truth he’d all but forgotten Mary while he’d been painting, he hadn’t meant to do it but then again he rarely meant to do lots of things that inevitably hurt people. It had been his curse for a long time. On a sudden hunch Lazarus tugged gently at Mary’s conscious mind trying to offer it some of the protection of his own warded mind. Lazarus had a few theories about what the other entity in Mary’s psyche was but he was hardly ready to risk removing it as it could potentially harm Mary. Lazarus hoped his own mental wards might be able to block out the feeling of the presence in Mary’s mind. If Lazarus was correct and it was infact intelligent and capable of communication his ward should cause any type of communication from the presence to turn into easy ignorable background noise. Lazarus doubted his wards could do much more than give Mary a momentary reprieve but he suspect that was what she really needed.

“Talk to me. What happened? I’m sorry I’ve been busy. What’s wrong?” Lazarus held Mary gently.

The World of Darkness

Okay guys If we don't see any interest in the next couple days I'm gonna shift over to the actual role play page. Once you get your characters finished go ahead and type out the stats so you can post them as character sheets

The World of Darkness

The gangs all here

The World of Darkness

Just gotta hear from Demonreach and then the gang will be all here

The World of Darkness

Hey so I'm setting up a world of Darkness game that will be using cross overs between Changeling, vampire, geist and werewolf (I may consider allowing a mage or hunter but I'd prefer to confine this to the first 4).
I am going to play very loose with the experience point buy for character creation as I would like this game to play as a form over function game where to focus is largely on the character. As a result I'm more interested in seeing interesting characters over "well built" characters. I have three other story tellers who will be running their own story arcs/chronicles as this goes on. We will be starting in Boston with a heist style story which will lead into other story arcs. We may also at some point change cities if one is more thematically appropriate or is part of another storyteller's story.

The Books we will be using are:
New World of Darkness Core Rule Book
Vampire the Requiem
Werewolf the Forsaken
Changeling the Lost
Geist the Sin Eater

Books I will okay on a case by case basis (Please ask away I just want to know what you're up to):
Armory and Armory Reloaded
The Book of the Dead
Most if not all of the Requiem books (case by case)
Autumn Nightmares
Rites of Spring
Winter Maques
Lords of Summer
Goblin Markets
Swords at Dawn
Dancers in the Dusk
Equinox Roads
IF you have another book in mind please ask!
DISCLAIMER! Many of the players in this game will be capable of getting together IRL and probably will from time to time. I will be attempting to find a way to keep other people involved however if this concerns you please feel free to voice that concern along side your voice of interest in the game. I don't have a set number of slots for this yet but it won't be infinite. I also require certain degree of ability to write well. I toyed with placing this in the advanced role play section however I wanted to keep the game mechanics intact which is why it is appearing here. As many of the players will know each other outside the game this game will probably progress quite quickly. END DISCLAIMER

Essence of the World: The New Age [CLOSED]

gotcha. honestly the katana is more of a stylistic thing as opposed to a practical thing.

Essence of the World: The New Age [CLOSED]

Rtron said
Mary's up. Cue Lazarus.

yay!

Lucius Cypher said
I like knives, but I can never really get the hang of swords. And I don't me those show prop ones either; I actually got to handle a real katana. It was cool, but it felt odd. Did a few moves with them but I wouldn't be confident with it. But maybe that's just because when I was going through the ranks, we had this sort of weight-on-a-stick that my teacher would make the older students use. You had to go through these various strike forms with a ten pound weight at the head, but you can't over extend but also you need to go at full speed. Very difficult work, but now I can hammer stakes into the ground like a John Henry. Plus when that teacher with the katana taught our class, he emphasized that the katana shouldn't be used to slash with all your strength, due to it's fairly delicate design. Of course, I'm sure he meant "Delicate" in his own way, as it cut through some logs fairly well for itself. I imagined that it would be hard to do much damage with a blade that couldn't stand up to a bad hit.

I rock Katana i love it

Essence of the World: The New Age [CLOSED]

Oh I can tell you right now our sword forms are way less complex than our staff forms are, Infact I can count nine staff forms in our system while all total there are maybe 13 sword forms across four different swords that we teach. Eight of which are Wazas from the Toyama Ryu system which are all between three and four motions a piece. so realistically there are maybe Five forms between three different swords. And let me adjust that, nine higher level staff forms there are three lower level staff forms I teach as well.