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[Skyrunner]

The Vault

After the Incident, which originated with a careless mage creating a perpetual power-eating spell, the various kingdoms and countries of the world made sure to prepare Vaults in the event of a catastrophe. They were simply sealed underground rooms equipped with anti-spell doors and walls at least three meters thick, batteries of power stored away to regulate temperature, humidity, and provide life, and simple facilities for rest, production, and research.

Inevitably, another disaster has struck. This time, it was caused by an overabundance of power, unlike the Incident, which was characterized by the lack of it. Plumes of magic appeared from tiny seams in the fabric of the world, which served to separate the seams more, which brought forward more otherworldly magic. In a positive feedback cycle much much wild power appeared in the world, which attracted strange creatures and warped many existing ones into more powerful, feral and tougher versions.

Needless to say, the world collapsed.

You and the others grouped together in the confusion and chaos. Some of you knew where a Vault was, and led the others on the dangerous path there. Though you lost three forths on the way, at least you made it here. The entrance to Vault E — made of metal and ceramic checkered and about ten meters tall, ten meters high, and square — looms before you. Far off, the thick, boiling clouds crackle as thunder and lightning ripple through them, while the surrounding hills are sparse and covered in hardy brown grass. There is a minor river about a kilometer away.


Magic in this game is generated via a random word generator. Some examples I have seen include Zestfulness, Ineffectualness, Diddlery, Brutalization.

Though it is probably a bit annoying, I would like the character sheets to be pasted whenever the player posts a bolded action, for my sanity.

Character sheet

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name:
Health: 30/30 base
Gender:
Physical description:
Biography:

~stats~ (25 points to spend. <5 gains a penalty, >5 is a bonus.)
Physical
Mental
Charisma
Dexterity not the dodging, agility type of dexterity, but manual dexterity.
Agility

~skills~ 27 points
(see below)

~starting inventory~
(write whatever items your character would have. I will decide which ones are keepable. Things like a weapon, armor, tools of trade, crafting etc are usually acceptable)

Spoiler: Skills (click to show/hide)

Each level of a skill adds a +1 bonus to rolls.
A broad skill may be lowered to -2.

Skills are broadly divided into the following. The 'broad' categories are the general ability to do something, and the more specific skills you may request (such as 'Bartering' instead of 'Social') are both added to the general skill bonus, and allow for more complexity in doing an action.
Thus, a character with a 3 in Social and a 3 in Persuasion would get a +6 to persuading a merchant to part with his goods for a cheaper price, but be able to do much better compared to someone with a 5 in Social and a 1 in Bartering.

In other words, broad skill categories** are the general ability to do those, while specific skills are how well you do a certain aspect.

Using

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Broad skill [abbr=specific skills]*[/abbr] would be good. Like this:
Combat 4*.

• Combat : Examples of specific skills would be 'Rapier', 'Short sword', 'Dodging'.
• Arcane : Are special in that the specific skills are not bonuses, but rather the abovementioned random schools. Arcane skills cost 2 points each to get a single magic school.
• Crafting : Examples of specific skills would be 'Field repair', 'Blacksmithing', 'Smelting', 'Alchemy', 'Potions'.
• Social : Examples of specific skills would be 'Perform', 'Persuading', 'Initimidation'.
• Mental : Examples would be '

Spoiler: Example of skillsheet (click to show/hide)

Combat 2*
Arcane 2
Crafting -2
Social 4*
etc

Spoiler: Rolls (click to show/hide)

Done on a d20. Three types:

Regular : d20 plus or minus any bonuses.

Critical failure	1
Failure	2-7
Mediocre success	8-13
Success	14-19
Overshoot	20

Opposed rolls : Things such as trying to grab someone, or attack someone.
Whoever's higher wins.

Aid/hinder another : Roll to give a bonus or penalty to another's roll. Aiding should multiply +1, hindering -1 :

• Critical failure = -d4
• Failure = 0
• Mediocre success = +d2
• Success = +d3
• Overshoot = +d6

Spoiler: Combat (click to show/hide)

Opposed dice.

Spoiler: Magic (click to show/hide)

Spontaneous magic has 3 dice. Magic you have studied and made into a formula only requires one dice.

Power is ambient, and diffuses from area to area. You draw power from the air whenever casting a spell.

Spoiler: Stats (click to show/hide)

Nothing here to look at o_O

Note : Clarifying, each school of magic costs 2 points, unlike other skills.


If the stats turn out to be too much for me (or whoever signs up) to handle, I might pare down on them, so the player be warned.

This thread should become the OOC thread; the IC thread will be made after people signing up.

[Caellath]

Here.

Finished.

Spoiler: Landren Caelumcursor (click to show/hide)

Name: Landren Caelumcursor
Health: 30/30 base
Gender: Male
Physical description: Tall and lean, with a fair face and olive eyes. His long hair is brown with a few lighter-colored strands running through its length. He is clad in pristinely brushed and tended silver armor with white lining and parts and his underclothing is mostly white and dark blue. His full, face-hiding slitted helmet has curved horns as those of a goat.

Biography: Landren was an apprentice of both chivalry, magic and smithing (although with methods regarded as strange), intent on creating both armor and weapons he could use. He was very focused on his objectives and had already achieved a reasonable level of ability - becoming more renowned for his cooking than actual fighting prowess - when the disaster struck and he had to escape from the confines of the castle he lived and move to the Vault with a comitive of fellow knights and people from the place.

None but him made it to the Vault, some dying and others straying from the group while immerse in either madness or pain. Before passing away, the Lord of the castle granted him the title of a full-fledged knight and gave him the right to take a protegee or squire under his wing, a negligible honor for someone who quickly found himself alone.

During his crucible, he abandoned his crafting skills almost entirely in favor of developing the magic side of construction directly, creating strange and never seen effects and making him stray further from humanity. Since then, it may be difficult to assess the effects of the events he has been through on his psyche. Recently he found a roaming group heading to the same Vault he was and joined them, keeping his purposes a mystery.

~stats~ (25 points to spend. <5 gains a penalty, >5 is a bonus.)
Physical - 6
Mental - 6
Charisma - 0
Dexterity - 6
Agility - 7

~skills~ 27 points
Combat - 3 * (14)
Arcane - 1 * (7)
Crafting - 1 * (6)

~starting inventory~
Thunderbolt Steel Halberd - with steel protection running through the handle
Steel Kite Shield - (slung on back)
Steel Medium Plate Armor - horned helmet, chestpiece, leggings, gauntlets, greaves, chainmail etc.
Billowy white cloak and cape
Prayer beads
Hawk's feather quill, Ink and parchments
Bag of supplies - contains dried fruits and salted food
Firestarter kit
Waterskin - filled as of now
Whetstone
Small Thunderbolt Steel Bars
Blacksmithing Kit
Leather pouches - with the coats of arms of several families sewn upon them
Cooking set

[Bdthemag]

Spoiler: Character Sheet (click to show/hide)

Name: Tricton
Health: 30/30 base
Gender: Male
Physical description: A tall thin looking man, wearing a set of fancy looking leather armor and a rapier at his side.
Biography: A former conman, Tricton worked in various large cities across the country. He'd con and swindle, making his living from town to town. After hearing of the creation of the vaults, Tricton didn't want to get caught out in the open when the next disaster hit so he used all of his savings to get into one.

~stats~ (25 points to spend. <5 gains a penalty, >5 is a bonus.)
Physical-4
Mental- 5
Charisma-7
Dexterity-5
Agility-4

~skills~ 27 points
Illusion Magic- 2
Bluffing- 4
Disguise- 3
Social- 5
Rapier- 3
Persuasion- 3
Conning- 3
Gambling- 2

~starting inventory~
Leather Armor, Fine Cloth Hood, Fine Clothing, Engraved Rapier, Dagger, Dice, Playing Cards.

[micelus]

Assuming that we must be human...If we don't have to, then I'm changing the hell out of this.

Spoiler: Albri Welben, Noble Necromancer (click to show/hide)

Name: Albri of House Welben
Health: 30/30 base
Gender: Male
Physical description: 5'5 in height and considered 'light' by his family. He has short black hair and an olive complexion. His eyes are brown. The emblem of his family ( a raven with two skulls for pauldrons and a bone in its legs) is tatooed on his neck.

Biography: The House of Welben is an old house, but not extremely rich and certainly not prestigious. For generations the house was in charge of all the graveyards in the kingdom of Volenand, organising all burials, funerals, rites, embalming, burnings, and what ever it is the dead need. It would be no surprise that the house had long tampered with necromancy, and even less surprise that the house raised up the dead as servants. Even so, power ever eluded them as they could not simply discover how to keep the corpses functional after a few years.

Albri himself was the 8th son of Count Fedrek Welben. As the 8th son, he never stood much chance for an important position or being heir. Luckily for Albri, he had no interest for that. It was expected of him to simply become a necromancer. For most of his childhood, he did spend his time studying the body, and how it worked and how to keep it moving unnaturally. Course, this then made him wonder how such things lived in life, which led to studying biology. To finish off his education, he also studied history and alchemy...although he forgot a few certain details here and there.

And so at the age of 14, he was considered of age, which for the Welben bloodline meant being a necromancer, which included a initation rite. The rite itself is rather...hush hush but suffice to say, Ablri was given recognition as a necromancer. As the 8th son, he was not given much responsiblity, beyond keeping the commoner graves and making sure that no unlicensed raising was happening. Then 6 years later, he received a letter. A letter to the capitol, requesting his admittance to the Royal University! Of course that was never to be. The Incident happened...and you all know what happened next.

~stats~ (25 points to spend. <5 gains a penalty, >5 is a bonus.)
Physical: 2
Mental: 7
Charisma: 5
Dexterity: 6
Agility: 5

~skills~ 27 points
Combat -2
Arcane4*
Social 3
Crafting 3*
Mental4*

~starting inventory~
Doctor Alber's Portable Box of Delightful Tools (Embalming kit)
Linen Tunic and Pants
Leather Gloves
Linen Tuque
Leather Shoes
Satchel
Sheets of parchment
Quill
Ink well (empty)
John Alber's Guide to the Human Anatomy
Languages of The Nations Vol I
The Histories of the Continent by The Serri Company
Prayer Beads
Mortar & Pestle
Food Rations
Waterskin (filled)

Note, Embalming here is a stand-in for upgrading corpses. Course, its normal embalming as well.

[Tiruin]

Spoiler: Jurith Creyn (click to show/hide)

Health: 25/30
Gender: Male
Physical description: Jurith stands at the height of 5'8". With a gaunt appearance and a hardened countenance, it is hard to believe that this is but a man of twenty two with a lean and average stature. His eyes are a deep shade of brown and his black hair is shortly cropped. He has a small, rough beard of the same colour.

He has a rough scar on his right cheek, crossing the eye.

Biography: A son of a knight and nursemaid, Jurith was born and raised in the higher echelons of society; his family was a powerless one, but one that held great prestige in the eyes of his neighbors and fellowmen. In his youth, he tended to the fields of his father, while learning his skills from his mother. In puberty, he was known to be a reckless explorer and a revered fighter, having participated as an auxiliary soldier in the skirmishes of his land. In his coming of age, he was selected to join in with his father in his sojourns across the land.

Chivalry, as taught by his father, was what he was apt to follow. Forwarding the common goals, he discovered that despite the popular belief, working as a squire and watching a knight in combat and in peace was very different to the honor-bound society that he grew up in. There were no rules in battle, and yet most enemies he faced fought as if bound by such, one law that he learned with great impunity.

In a recent skirmish, he spared a bandit who pleaded for his life under parley and when his back was turned, the man struck back at him with whatever weapon was in reach - a metal shard, at the time. His reflexes saved him, earning only a gash to the face, but he was successful in subduing the oath-breaker. It was only after this battle that he and his father attempted to join in on the crusade on their kingdom's vault, against the behest of whatever lord managed to gain control over the land.

He was sent in part of the vanguard force, while his father stayed behind to aid the rest.

~stats~
Physical 8
Mental 3
Charisma 2
Dexterity 6
Agility 6

~skills~
Combat *
Social *
Crafting *

Arcane *

~starting inventory~
Grey's Anatomy: Descriptive and Surgical
Steel Arming Sword
Hunting Knife
Gilded Helm
Hemp Fiber Pants and Shirt
Leather Boots
Leather Gloves
Grey Tunic
White Surcoat
Field Platemail
Satchel
Salted Rations
Waterskin {Filled}
Whet Stone
2 Rolls of Cloth
10 Wads of Paper
1 Shard of Graphite
1 Quill
2 Vials of Ink

[micelus]

Done! Tell me if I did anything wrong.

[IronyOwl]

Spoiler: Sil, Demonic Helper (click to show/hide)

Name: Sil
Health: 30/30 base
Gender: Female
Physical description: Female red-skinned humanoid with a slightly feral appearance, almost like an oversized goblin or imp disguised as a human. Around 5' tall, but often hunches or crouches down to less. Has pointed ears roughly a foot long, spiraling horns about the same, black hair, pointy teeth and claws, arms a bit longer than normal, legs that turn digitigrade at the bottom, obviously clawed feet, a fairly long tail with a small barb on it, small leathery wings, a foot and a half long mostly prehensile tongue, and eyes that appear largely silvery, but shimmering with a constantly changing assortment of other random colors. Her face and general body structure is essentially human otherwise, save that her mouth can split wider than normal.
Biography: Sil was originally summoned to be a grand wizard's familiar, back when she was an imp. He doted on his new pet, which greatly aided her increases in power and size. When the catastrophe struck, her master's tower was sundered and he was pulled into some manner of rift, forcing her to flee.

She's secretly very sad about her master, and hopes she can someday find him again, though she knows the odds of finding him alive and in a recognizable state aren't good. Otherwise, however, she views the apocalypse as a superb opportunity, and doesn't intend to miss her chance to capitalize on it.

~stats~
Physical 3
Mental 4
Charisma 6
Dexterity 7
Agility 5

~skills~
Combat 3*
Arcane 2*
Crafting 3*
Social 2*
Mental 0*

~starting inventory~
Alchemy Kit
Blacksmith's Tools
Assorted bronze hoops (for balancing, jumping through, spinning, etc)
Quill, Inkwell, Writing Tablet, Parchment
Writing Slate & Chalk
The Scrolls of Servitude, a thick, leatherbound tome detailing various minions of possible interest to (generally powerful and reckless) mages, ranging from constructs and summons to mutations and grafts.
Hinges and You, a thick, sturdy tome detailing more complex blacksmith's arts, such as the creation of hinges, locks, hidden compartments, mechanical triggers, and so on.
Wulfram's Guide to Alchemical Wonders, a fairly large guide to alchemical reagents, mostly among plants and harmless, easy to catch insects and fish.

Assuming that we must be human...If we don't have to, then I'm changing the hell out of this.

Easier to beg forgiveness than to ask permission. :3

[Tiruin]

Well, finished my sheet. 

[Skyrunner]

Before we start, I have changed the rules slightly: you may choose your schools of magic.

However, these are not acceptable, for example: Evocation, Illusion, because they are a tad too broad.
Try things like 'Fire' or 'Images'. :3

[Caellath]

However, these are not acceptable, for example: Evocation, Illusion, because they are a tad too broad.
Try things like 'Fire' or 'Images'. :3

Fire seems pretty broad to me.

Also, hello.

[Tiruin]

Is it possible to...not choose magic? :3


Edit: And I intentional the health.

[Caellath]

Well, now on to finish my sheet.

Is it possible to...not choose magic? :3

I believe so, but you should get useful magic while you can. Because later on you'll get random schools of either limited or no use.

[Frajic]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name: Olson Johan
Health: 30/30 base
Gender: Male
Physical description: Tall, frail and cooky old man. Has a beard glued on, and dressed in a ridiculous red, pointed hat and a roughed-up bath robe.
Biography: Was kicked out of the Mage's Guild at age 67 for abusing alchemical compounds. His sorry state of a brain couldn't handle the fact he was no longer recognized as an official mage, and he did everything he could to reclaim his title. In his mind, that meant looking as much as a mage as possible. Since the Guild had been his home, he had to do with what he could get his hands on.

~stats~
Physical 3
Mental 10
Charisma 4
Dexterity 4
Agility 4

~skills~
Arcane 9*

~starting inventory~
White bath robe
Red, pointed hat
Beard
A loaf of bread

Correct me if I'm wrong - but won't bonuses just lead to more overshoots? Or do they only happen on natural 20s?

[Tiruin]

Well, now on to finish my sheet.

Is it possible to...not choose magic? :3

I believe so, but you should get useful magic while you can. Because later on you'll get random schools of either limited or no use.

Well, got me there. 1 Defined school of magic coming up.

[Dwarmin]

Hmm, making a sheet, thought I get the feeling I won't make the first player cut. O_o