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[Nirur Torir]

The Empire of Fortune's Travels vastly outpaces any other state on the planet. Its tinkerers tirelessly construct majestic zeppelins. The people enjoy vast luxuries pouring in from across the world. The universities train the finest minds. The wizards constantly work to uncover the secrets of the cosmos. The Emperor himself benevolently watches over his domain, and those few who disagree with his wise rule are swiftly brought to justice.

The vast prosperity comes with a cost: Population growth is projected to outpace food production within half a century. The wizards have recently discovered a way to breach the veil between planes, although at high costs. The Emperor has decreed that voluntary colonization begin on these new sites. Most of the cost with transportation is with breaching the veil: Large numbers of people and supplies will be sent at once, but the veil will re-seal itself within days, forcing the colonists to be self sufficient from the outset.


Five enchanters will accompany one such expedition. That would be the players. There may be other wizards, but they will play a lesser role at this particular colony.

Possible sites, on different worlds:
An Idyllic Valley - This peaceful valley looks to have nice farmlands, and the nearby hills look to have an excellent site for a quarry.
A River Delta - This site is heavily forested, and the water access would be useful for fishing and exploring.
A Mountain Chain - There isn't much room to build, but there should be easy access to ore.
A Frightening Forest - Anyone in this forest feels constantly ill at ease, but the air is filled with magic.
A Dead Wasteland - It would take a concentrated effort for anything to survive in this desolate area.
Other - Ask the wizards if they have a site meeting criteria X

Spoiler: Signup-sheet (click to show/hide)

Name:
Description:
Specialization: (Either one sort of enchantment[Super sharp], one type of object for enchanting[Swords], alchemy[I'm not making an in-depth alchemy mechanic], divination, or some more direct form of magic.)
Hobby:
Personality: (Up to two positive traits, at least one negative trait. This may or may not have effects, as I see fit)
One good thing you hope this world has:
One bad thing you hope this world doesn't have (or does have):
One suggestion for the expedition to bring: (A zeppelin, extra trackers, Governor Y the superior administrator, etc..)
Desired Site:
Assistant: (Who did you bring to help you with gathering your more exotic materials?)

Spoiler: GM Note (click to show/hide)

I wasn't going to create another game for a while, but this idea blind-sided me about an hour ago and I had to make it into a game. We'll see how long it lasts. The original idea was along the lines of "enchanters send out NPC heroes, and later parties of NPC heroes, to adventure and hopefully gather useful crafting materials." It changed slightly during the writing. Some sites will be better for adventuring than others.

Player cap is 5. Sign-ups are NOT first-come first served, and should be open for 24-48 hours.

[Tiruin]

Spoiler: "Ari" Eloam (click to show/hide)

Description: A woman of five and a half feet tall, dressed in light clothing with idyllic, complementary and bright tones-usually of marine hues. Her straight, black hair falls to medium height and is kept tidy with a nearly indistinguishable headband. She has a light tan complexion and an amulet hangs around her neck by a silver chain.
Specialization: Artificer
Hobby: Art/Architecture/Drafting, Medical/Anatomical and Literature work
Personality: Creative, Open-minded, Skeptical

One good thing you hope this world has: The secret of magic, or at least a catalyst/device which aids the understanding and use of magic
One bad thing you hope this world doesn't have (or does have): Parasites (Endoparasites)

One suggestion for the expedition to bring: Biostabilization equipment (prior to agricultural needs - setting the area ready for homeland products)

Desired Site: River Delta
Assistant: Akari, personal advisor and guide - childhood friend and amulet-residential spirit. Said to have a knack of intuition and foreknowledge.

[Draignean]

Spoiler: Gordon Neider (click to show/hide)

Name: Gordon Neider
Description: A short, squat man, strapped with a surprising amount of muscle for an enchanter. His blond hair is kept in a military cut, and his clothing ranges from austere to downright ascetically functional. He is very, very far from handsome, but he has a ready smile and surprisingly easy personality on most occasions. He's approaching his later years, and the gray is starting to show against the blond. Still, age hasn't slowed him down much. Not that he ever moved terribly quickly.
Specialization: Rocks. Gordon Neider is a specialist with rocks. Calling rocks to the surface, stacking rocks on top of other rocks, making rocks into differently shaped rocks, you name it.
Hobby: Miniature gardening.
Personality: Brave. Determined. Smart as a box of rocks. Hard-headed.   (Up to two positive traits, at least one negative trait. This may or may not have effects, as I see fit)
One good thing you hope this world has: New and hitherto undiscovered types of rocks/crystals.
One bad thing you hope this world doesn't have (or does have): Spiders, of any variety and/or size.
One suggestion for the expedition to bring: Clockwork Draft Animals
Desired Site: Idyllic Valley (Quarry!)
Assistant: Milly, a young diviner apprenticed to Gordon for field experience.

[Execute/Dumbo.exe]

Yay! This sounds interesting!
Name: Cion
Description: tall and thin, a unnerving gaze with misty grey eyes and a look that suggests he might not be all there, plain white cloth for garments and closely shaven hair, fair skinned and black hair with an odd simmer whenever he uses his magic.
Specialisation: teleportation powers (basically being able to transport stuff small distances and himself as well, distance changes if he focuses, that doesn't happen much.)
Hobby: experimentation and observation
Personality: observant but hyperactive, insane and insomniac with an odd fascination about anywhere which he hasn't been to or can't get to, this was the main driving factor behind him training in the powers of teleportation, highly aggressive against anyone who harms his friends and will mark them as doomed in his own fragmented mind, only pulling off the path from forgetfulness or being god not to.
Good thing for this world to have: diverse wildlife and fauna
Bad thing I also hope this world doesn't have has: fluctuating enviroments
One suggestion: phffffff I dunno, basic tools and stuff?
Desired site:river delta
Assistant: small trained peregrine falcon!

[luvmonke]

Name: Jack B Nimble
Description: Jack is a average height but slim build, with a body more suited to tasks of speed and agility than brute strength.  He has a half foot high blonde mohawk and a single nose ring on the left side of his face.  That is however only the start to his jewelry collect as he also wears an assortment of rings on fingers, toes and even one through his navel.  That sparkly nicely in the summer run against his pale skin and all are known to be
Hobby: Spelunking, Exploring, Hunting
Specialization: One type of object for enchanting[Rings]
Personality: Energetic and Inquisitive but has a nasty habit of being impulsive.
Good thing for this world to have: New ores and gems to find, new environments to explore, new wonders to see.
Bad thing I also hope this world doesn't have has: Deserts, Lack of sentient life, Poisonous inhabitants
One suggestion: Pickaxes, Navigation Stones, Rope (you can never have too much rope), Candle sticks
Desired site: Mountain Chain or Frightening Forest
Assistant: Kandul Stiks, a short dwarf who aids Jack in fetching raw materials and shaping his enchanted rings.

[Lenglon]

Name: Unen (he simply shrugs when asked for his last name.)
Description: Tall male, dark-skinned, brown eyes, black hair, clean-shaven, brown robes.
Specialization: Destruction. Making things split apart into many smaller things. sometimes while emitting light and heat. in any case, acceleration of entropy is his business.
Hobby: highly volatile chemistry experiments, expanding rooms that don't need any expansions, and making intricate model ships in glass bottles... his collection is quite extensive! NO TOUCHING.
Personality: very quiet and soft-spoken, he prefers to just up and do things rather than waste time talking about them.
Good thing for this world to have: Verdant life and extensive cave formations.
Bad thing I also hope this world doesn't have: Merfolk.
One suggestion: extensive mechanisms for complicated feats of engineering.
Desired site: River delta
Assistant: Carrie, a battlemage highly specialized in fighting the undead. she is quite independent and generally just uses Unen as a source of weaponry or asks him for support against particularly durable problems.

[Fniff]

Spoiler: Zedas Piek (click to show/hide)

Name: Zedas "The Penny Sorcerer" Piek
Description: When Zedas was brought before the Emperor for 154 counts of practicing wizardry without a license, 119 counts of necromancy, 97 counts of thievery, and 44 counts of disturbing the peace, he was pretty sure he was going to die. He wasn't exactly sure why he had to die: all he wanted to do was to be a wizard, but the licenses were way too expensive and the training was too much for him. He was naturally talented at his areas of expertise, but he was neurotic, prone to panic attacks, and utterly unable to speak the Emperor's language (He hailed from across the sea: he never really says where precisely). Thus, he wasn't cut out for being a proper professional wizard. So he left to seek his own fortune. He didn't kill or slit throats like a common vagrant, no. His only crime was to help the citizens of the land! Raising the crops, speaking to the dead, making the rain come! However, there was always problems. The dead said the wrong things, the crops withered, the rain acidic. He eventually got better, but just as he thought he was doing things right the Emperor's justice landed on him like a ton of bricks. Now he was going to die. However, something happened to him. He was told (by the emperor himself!) that his skills were marketable for the emperor's latest plan, and he had a choice. Due to the small but present amount of scandal surrounding Zadas's arrest (As he was trying to help out the isolated village he was caught in a little), he wouldn't be executed in either choice. He could either head to a world across the veil that separates universes, or be found dead in his cell having hung himself with his own belt. Zedas chose the former, and now he's stuck here. Of course, having breached the barrier between worlds already, perhaps he could find the ultimate escape here...?
Specialization: Zadas is quite good with life and death. He can temporarily increase the output of crops, and is able to speak to the dead. However, it can go pretty badly wrong.
Hobby: Public speaking. Zadas may have quite broken English, but he is quite the character and his personality can fill up the room when it wants to.
Personality: Zadas can be very determined when he wants to be, and is ultimately a kind-hearted person. However, he is completely unfocused and prone to abandoning ship when given responsibility.
One good thing you hope this world has: An escape from the law.
One bad thing you hope this world doesn't have (or does have): More law.
One suggestion for the expedition to bring: Hoes, seeds, and farming equipment.
Desired Site: River Delta
Assistant: Florentine, an Empire Soldier who makes sure he's not attempting to escape the law. Less of an assistant and more of a parole officer who occasionally helps out when it's beneficial to the empire.

For extra fun and to simulate Zedas having terrible English, I am going to repeatedly do a back-and-forth translate on Zedas's lines.

[Tomcost]

Name: German Liyer
Description: A middle-sized red haired individual in his late thirties. He bears a short moustache and a goatee.
Specialization: Life-touch enchantment. (Useful for healing wounds or making things grow faster)
Hobby: Gardening and making unusual sculptures with living plants.
Personality: He is pretty relaxed and not prone to be stressed at all, but he tends to be very introverted, often failing to notice things to which he isn't paying attention to. He is curious about flora-related subjects, but ignores pretty much everything else.
One good thing you hope this world has: A rich and fanscinating ecosystem.
One bad thing you hope this world doesn't have (or does have): Pests. He hates any kind of pest.
One suggestion for the expedition to bring: Farming implements.
Desired Site: A Frightening Forest.
Assistant: his cousin, Stuart, who decided to go to another plane so that he would become a real man. There is no need to say that he was actually forced by his parents because he was lazy as a sloth. He is actually (slightly) interested in mining rather than in his uncle's "pussy plants".
[/spoiler]

[USEC_OFFICER]

Spoiler: Sir Aleksander Dibaris (click to show/hide)

Name: Sir Aleksander Dibaris
Description: A tall and wiry man, with tanned skin and bleached hair. His eyes are of a striking blue colour. Usually wears overalls, high leather boots and rough shirts and pants, but has formalwear tucked away in his pack for special occasions.
Specialization: Plants
Hobby: Horticulture and farming
Personality: Kind and friendly, but tends to ignore any problems that don't interest him personally.
One good thing you hope this world has: Good soil and drainage
One bad thing you hope this world doesn't have (or does have): Fog and dampness.
One suggestion for the expedition to bring: Golem Workers
Desired Site: Anything with fertile soil.
Assistant: Yew, a wood golem carved to look beautiful and androgynous.

[Tiruin]

We have a very interesting setup:
Tomcost//German Liyer - Botanist [Healing - Growth]
USEC OFFICER//Sir Aleksander Dibaris - Botanist [Plants]
Fniff//Zedas Piek - Thanatologist [Thanatology - Death]
luvmonke//Jack B. Nimble (gag name?) - [Unknown specialty...]
Execute/Dumbo.exe//Cion - Transportation officer
Lenglon//Unen - Micro-thermodynamic Scientist
Draignean//Gordon Neider - Geologist
Tiruin//Ari Eloam - Artificer


..Oh great, 5 people max :x

[Errol]

Let's see how far I can stretch the envelope...

Spoiler: Ren (click to show/hide)

Name: Larennue T'Herezi Ytriakarem tar Ferren. Yes, she hates her parents for that, too. Ren for short.
Description: A clearly foreign woman in maybe her early thirties, but still in top shape, with a lean and wiry build. Her features are sharp and angular, her eyes and expression harsh. She wears her accurately trimmed, curiously ice blue hair in a topknot ponytail that reaches to her shoulders, and usually is found in an ensemble of worn cloth robes made for ease of movement, and some lamellar armor plating. A carefully maintained sword of eastern make hangs by her side, in its sheath. Enchanting's a surprisingly dangerous job, okay?

Ren aren't you getting this thing a little backwards, you're a merc, they don't call you a sword saint because of your exploits in the fields of magic
SHHHHH, it's not like I'm an incompetent enchanter so it'll be alright

Specialization: Crystals - creating crystals, shaping crystals, crystallizing things. This could theoretically be extended to gems too but Ren tends to screw them up. Same story with ice, but that's less expensive at least.
Hobby: Swordsmanship (Foreign Style), although she trains with a wide variety of weapons.
Personality: Focused, Quick-witted, Blunt
One good thing you hope this world has: Adventures. Not quite old enough to retire, yet...
One bad thing you hope this world doesn't have (or does have): Too much civilization. No jobs then, and there's so many laws you're breaking one when looking at someone funny.
One suggestion for the expedition to bring: Lightly armed exploration-class zeppelin plus a small crew for it, including a cartographer.
Desired Site: Mountain Chain. River Delta as second choice.
Assistant: Arianrhod Tlechta, easily distinguished by her pitch black cloak, flame-colored hair and golden, chained bell. easily mistaken as her daughter, she's actually Ren's long-time adventuring companion and a witch specializing in curses chemical assistant in crystallization research.

[USEC_OFFICER]

..Oh great, 5 people max :x

Yep. I think that certain specialities have a better chance of getting in than others though. The colony will have to be self-sufficient quickly, so one of the two botanists should get in. Draignean probably has a good shot at playing too, since he's the only geologist. I'm not entirely sure about the chances of everyone else though.

[Harry Baldman]

Name: Ummur Kummur
Description: a person of middling height and uncertain gender, although definitely more feminine in appearance. Possesses skin in a shade somewhere between dark green and light brown, looks quite young, definitely no more than 30 years old. Has long hair arranged in many braids, and quite a skeletal frame. Has six fingers on both hands, as well as six toes on each foot. In addition, one of Ummur's eyes appears to be significantly larger than the other for some reason. He wears a long skirt together with a large, baggy shirt on most occasions. Her smile makes people a tiny bit uncomfortable.
Specialization: Enchantment: Preserve - by this it is meant that his enchantment puts an object in stasis, so to speak, forcing it to unchangingly maintain a momentary state for a while.
Hobby: Ummur loves ice sculptures. And snow sculptures. Normal sculptures aren't anything to scoff at, either. So you could say sculpting is her hobby.
Personality: personable, though can get a little too insistent and disrespectful of privacy for other people's comfort. He smiles at most of her friends, and some of his enemies. Magic gives her a rush, probably not a very healthy rush at that, and he always loves seeing it in use, or, even better, using it herself. Is truly moral and upstanding generally, and hopes to hold to a standard of behavior even on the wild frontier, and to have a wonderful time as well.
Good thing: at least one civilization of aloof, yet vicious, completely inhuman natives.
Bad thing: sentient ecosystems.
Suggestion: a person with civil engineering skills, to organize the builders.
Desired Site: River Delta.
Assistant: Jeschka, his daughter. She enjoys botany and medicine, and hopes to learn much from Ummur, who has taken her as an apprentice at her request. She has a lot of enthusiasm, but less sense than a rampaging bear in an explosives lab.

[Nirur Torir]

Lots of interesting characters to choose from.

I'd like to point out that the world is still largely undefined in my mind. The good/bad things fields are more for your input into the world, although using it to further flesh out your character's personality isn't a dis-qualifier. I'll be arbitrarily picking these even from people who's characters don't get in, so if any observers want to throw terrifying features at the players or vote on the starting site, go ahead.

Current votes, including anti-votes:
A River Delta: 5
A Frightening Forest: 2
An Idyllic Valley: 1
A Mountain Chain: 1
A Dead Wasteland: -1

[Execute/Dumbo.exe]

Edit: I think this was a double post, forget about this.