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3 yrs ago
Current This site's like Old Broadway...I'm seeing a young man sittin' in an old man's bar, waitin' for his turn to die.
3 yrs ago
I would sooner face outright phobia again than be given a half-hearted apology by the same systems which did nothing in the face of injustice and to now seek to make profit from our suffering.
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3 yrs ago
I will never celebrate Pride Month for being stabbed in the leg and shot in the neck while it is sponsored by Chase. I will never mistake complacency for forgiveness nor acceptance.
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3 yrs ago
Pride Month is celebrate by those who have never struggled. Those of us who have - those who have been harassed, assulted, detained and debased - have no such pride in it. There is only ire and spite.
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3 yrs ago
So sorry if I'm not enthused. It's just that there's nothing to be happy about now, and people just buy rainbow stuff from the same corps who need us kept down to sell them in the first place.
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“There was a time when I was master of the universe. As I was staying ageless and motionless before my computer, flying untouched over human frenzy, cities rose and crumbled under my thumb, tiny people ran hurriedly to their death on the roads I had built and time flew at my command.

Then it all stopped, and I had to become one of those running specks. They call it 'life.'”

Nicolas Combrexelle

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@Yam I Am

Here she is. I did copy and paste a lot from the old one. Let me know what you think. I am flexible to make changes.



I'd add in a few bits as to how exactly she managed to gather Lord Ahrimen's attention. I think it's a fairly important detail that isn't quite covered as it stands, but other than that, it seems alright from where i'm sitting. If anything, she's a bit subdued compared to some of the other character ideas on offer so far, but I don't necessarily think it's a bad thing, mind you. It does just mean that there is a difference in abilities between her and the others, but if that's what you want, then i'll be fine with it.
@Yam I Am

I have a modified character sheet ready for evaluation. Would you like me to post it here or wait until you have the OoC up?


Go ahead and post it. Like I said, when things get more concrete with an OOC, edits and adjustments can be made as the need arises.
Also, now that it's pretty clear that this is gonna get off the ground (a serious "if" when I was first writing this out, I won't lie), I don't wanna do a "hard" character cap. I've GMed a few large group RPs before, and I can handle quite the number of players. But first, I wanna see everyone get in their concepts and ideas down in the thread before I go on about group size.

That said, if everyone gets in their ideas down here first, I can start getting a better hold on how quite to go about managing it all.
Well shit, guess I may need to rewrite what I was cooking up so I dont have a character that takes away the uniqueness of yours.

I was straight up going to make a holy knight that had come to despise the church for reasons I was just fleshing out in my head while at work.

I'm fine changing it though.


I don't really see the issue. In fact, it'd be a pretty refreshing dynamic to have a few characters who had their own reasons to not be EEEVIIIIIL, who'd be opposed to Mister Slasher and Ms. Pick-To-The-Bone. Plus if he had the status to be a true "holy knight", it'd be a different enough concept from an aspirant (as described) to being a hero; They'd have a lot of practical experience with how the inner workings of the Ecclesiarchy go down, for one.
@Yam I Am

I didn't mean Evil like Evil-Evil. I meant it, like, from Katrina's point of view. In the version of her that I'm imagining she was raised by a family of warriors devoted to Saint Zariah. So, she was taught Saint Zariah is Good and Lord Ahriman is Evil. Except she was trained to be a perfect warrior with beatings and harsh words rather than care and praise. She was taught that she would never get to be the Main Charater. She would always be Support and that's galls her. And that's suppose to be Good? Katrina doesn't really think so, but if it is and Evil is the opposite of Good she might as well try Evil. Rolf's whispering are really "Hey let's murder this town." It's more like, "You can just leave home. Who's gonna stop you?" And "You could charge for defeating that troll that terrified that village." And my favorite, "Who gives a damn if he's a priest of Saint Zariah. He raped a child! Killing him would be easy." Less about Evil and more about learning that sometime you can be a little selfish, a little violent, a little less than a sheep with teeth and a little more a wolf with heart.

Character regression because she stops caring about mindless Good and starts questioning is Evil really Evil-Evil?

Does that make sense?

It would be like if Stephanie from No Game No Life or Viktoriya from Tanya thr Evil were competent and had enough of catering to strangers from another world and left to figure out how to write their own story. Kind of. Those are the only real examples I can think of but they are perfect.


Aaaaaah, ok, I think I misunderstood at first.

Guess it never hurts to clarify a few things, though. In that sense, yeah, I think it works pretty well.
The first thing I'm planing on changing is Rolf. Instead of being a regular hawk he is going to be a demon hawk sent by some evil demon possibly even Lord Ahriman to seduce her more fully to the dark side.

Because! And I think this is great! She's not fully evil yet. She's just done. She was raised by a family that was pledged to Saint Zariah. Anything for the Greater Good and all that rot. So, she's been training in combat and tactics all her life when one day this little wannabe hero from nowhere shows up without the faintest clue which end of the sword to hold. And rather then being allowed to fight the evil she's been training to fight her whole life she's told it's her job to help the Hero kill the evil. And so she does it the first time. And then the second. And by the third Katrina is a little miffed. She's been training her whole life. Beaten black and blue for every little failure. Force to help clueless nobodies who's only claims to fame are Blessings from Saint Zaria. When is it her turn to shine? To show off? To conquer? To win? So, she says damn the Heros and damn Saint Zariah and leaves.

I was planing, at the start of the story, not have her be quite evil yet. She's not really on the Good side, but she's not really Evil. Then as the story progresses, with Rolf whispering in her ear, and watching others who are Evil have a grand old time start wonder why she shouldn't be Evil. After all, if she can't be the main character, Katrina might as well have the time of her life.

Character regression arc! Let's go!

PS. I'm not sure what you meant by obvious. I'm sorry.


By "obvious", I mostly meant, "Adapted to be fighting alongside someone as notorious as a Demon Lord".

Now, it's actually quite interesting to mention evil in this concept, because I actually didn't envision Demonic society as traditionally "evil". They have their own sense of morality, no doubt - one that's very much at odds with the morals of our own, considering how life and consciousness fundamentally differs quite a lot from regular "mortal" society - but the connotations of evil? I intended for that to be more reflective of how certain aspects of life and living are so fundamentally different, and the conflict that arises is well...understandably perceived as such.

I don't think Ahriman would really go out of his way to make any one character "evil", per se. He would insist that it be all their own doing. "Becoming Evil" is never his goal: It's only getting people to be "their truest selves". Ahriman wouldn't really go against anyone who was just following what they wanted. They're only being honest with themselves, after all, and as far as his underlings go, he only particularly cares if your goals diametrically oppose his. In that sense, he would have a (begrudging) respect for some of the more adherent members of the Ecclesiarchy: Sure, he might not like them for standing so ardently against the choices of others, but he would show respect for those who genuinely followed them with nothing in return, just because that's what kind of person they were.
@Yam I Am Asking for input mostly because the two ideas are kind of similar, or liable to be played similarly.

The vampire I'm planning to kind of like Castlevania Dracula, practically a demon in human flesh. Legions of undead minions are his game, and he wants to darken the sun and enslave the world in his hellish reign. Pretty straightforward stuff.

The sorcerer I'm planning to be a very powerful mortal wizard that has enslaved demons to teach him their dark secrets and do his bidding. Besides that he's all about psychic torment, hellfire, a real flair for the dramatic. He's got kind of a psuedo Egyptian theme going, with like a snake/dragon motif.

That last part said, I am considering mashing a dragon into either of these ideas. So a vampiric dragon Lord, or a chaos dragon disguised in human form. Up to you if you think this is a good idea, or if it's too much.


You sold me on the latter. I think perhaps a D&D-inspired sort of draconic sorcerer who would scry well into the Planes would prove a pretty interesting character. If you're interested, i'd even go as far as to suggest that you do an Assyrian motif with like feathered dragons that take the likeness of griffons - with snake-like eyes that can paralyze, hair the likeness of a lion's mane, with a downy appearance that glistens in the wind, and maybe a serpentine tongue that is barbed in narcotic acid. That'd be really cool.
Ah! Ah! I was going to wait to post until I had Katrina Valance's character sheet just a little more fitting for this story! And now it looks like I'm late to the party! Ah!

I'm interested! In case that wasn't clear. Like majorly interested. I have to tweak Katrina's backstory just a bit, I still think it could be fun.


The party don't stop until everyone's got their own castle in Sheol.

Looking over Katrina's character sheet, I think it could definitely work - I am curious as to what you would want to tweak about it, the obvious aside.
@Yam I Am
So many kwestins, so little time:
1. How many players on average are you looking for this?
2. Can I go ahead and make the CS or wait for the OOC thread?


1. Considering how I was expecting perhaps 3 people to be interested, and i've gotten 5 on here, and another 3 or so who have expressed interest on Discord, it's proving more...acclaimed than I had expected. I'll say i'll take up to 8.

2. Go ahead and make it. If something comes up, you can always add stuff to it when the OOC goes live.

Speaking of, I think the OOC will be up sometime this weekend. Maybe tomorrow, maybe as late as Monday. It all depends on how quickly I can get a map done.
I'm into it. Do you want a vampire lord (my specialty) or the iconic backstabbing sorcerous vizier?


Would it pain you if I were to say, "Do what you want more"?

Yes, yes it likely would.

I am inclined to say the former...but the latter does leave me very intrigued. I'm going to have to ask for some more information about the both of them before I definitively lean one way or the other.
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