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[Harry Baldman]

Done!

[GreatWyrmGold]

Then why did the snow affect the crops so much in a period of about 48 hours?

The same reasons people don't grow wheat in the winter:
1. The snow blocked light from the sun from reaching the crops. Now, for big plants like trees this isn't much of an issue, but grass and crops would have been devastated, especially since...
2. ...the temperature of the plants themselves was greatly lowered. Few organisms not specifically adapted for arctic/deep winter conditions can survive being buried in snow for even one day, let alone two.

Done!

Looks pretty good.

[kj1225]

Better question, how were cattle and chikens so greatlly affected? They should have been in barns and coops.

[Avis-Mergulus]

Done!

Do we have some sort of telepathic link or something?

Your character:
Survival 5
Archery 2
Cooking 1
First aid 1

My character:
Survival 5
Archery 2
Cooking 1
First aid 1

[Harry Baldman]

Do we have some sort of telepathic link or something?

Their stats are also somewhat similar, including lack of knowledge and strength and increased focus and spirit, though Kext's got way more training, less wisdom and normal endurance. As for the skills, well, there's only so much you can do in the wilderness, honestly.

[Avis-Mergulus]

Do we have some sort of telepathic link or something?

Their stats are also somewhat similar, including lack of knowledge and strength and increased focus and spirit, though Kext's got way more training, less wisdom and normal endurance. As for the skills, well, there's only so much you can do in the wilderness, honestly.

Also, your backstory is far more detailed and better written. Of course, I have the excuse that I wrote it from a friend's mobile phone, but still...

I was just amused by the whole deal. Maybe I should have put some points into strength or quickness... But I see Yuun as a tough, wiry little rat.

Hey GWG, what stat does knife-fighting use?

[RangerCado]

Alright, you've sold me. Character being made.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name: Selina Hallis
Gender: Female, and into girls... she doesn't know why though.
Appearance: My profile picture in a sense. 5'7.
Mark: The backs of Selina's hands have been marked with blue compass-esque symbols. They appear to catch the light.
Personality: Selina is a very quiet person, preferring to be alone a lot of the time. She is however, very kind and quite thorough in anything she puts her mind to.
Catalyst Emotion: Anger
Background: Selina grew up in a farming community, learning from her mother the ways of a herbalist. When she was about 12, bandits came through the area and killed her father. After that, she became distant a lot. Nothing serious, but people just... weren't a real thing for her outside of something to be treated with herbs.
Trigger: A trader came through town with a selection of crystals from a far off mine. They weren't very useful in a sense, but Selina had taken a liking to a light blue one and had bought it. Later that day, bandits had come again, attacking the market and robbing everyone. In a fit of rage as one man beat her mother, she grabbed the crystal and screamed, it expanding quickly to impale the bandit and smash the ground around the area, nearly killing her mother as well. The bandits ran in fear, and the farmers gathered to burn her as a witch. Selina ran then, alone and afraid.
Retreat: Selina hid in the hills and forests, surviving off of her knowledge of plantlife. She was always on the move, visiting villages and small towns and using her herbalist skill to help treat people for a small bit of money. On her travels ash also found a young beggar girl half dead in an alley. After being treated, she followed Selina around, though hasn't spoken in all the time they've known eachother. At the age of 17, Selina had never gotten rid of the crystal, and at one point had to use her power to stop a cutthroat in an ally, smashing a wave of crystal into the surrounding walls. She had then been apprehended by royal soldiers and brought to the castle. The young girl, about 8 now, had been able to get away, but Selina spotted her hiding in a tree as she was taken away. ((All assuming i'm reading the flavor right here))
Element: Crystal and crystaline things.

Attributes:

Endurance: 2
Focus: 5
Knowledge: 2
Quickness: 5
Resistance: 3
Spirit: 3
Strength: 1
Training: 2
Wisdom: 3

Skills: Herablism 5, Alchemy 2, First Aid 2, Cooking 1, Stealth 1, Meditation 1, Woodcraft 1
Traits: Easily Overlooked(+) Clumsy(-) Easy to get along with(+) Taking care of Young child(-) Sign Language(+)
Other: -Will add little girls stats if needed?

((DONE!))

I am finished! Somebody call for a MEDIC! ...bad joke.

[Avis-Mergulus]

Alright, you've sold me. Character being made.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name: Selina Hallis
Gender: Female, and into girls... she doesn't know why though.
Appearance: My profile picture in a sense. 5'7.
Mark: The backs of Selina's hands have been marked with blue compass-esque symbols. They appear to catch the light.
Personality: Selina is a very quiet person, preferring to be alone a lot of the time. She is however, very kind and quite thorough in anything she puts her mind to.
Catalyst Emotion: Anger
Background: Selina grew up in a farming community, learning from her mother the ways of a herbalist. When she was about 12, bandits came through the area and killed her father. After that, she became distant a lot. Nothing serious, but people just... weren't a real thing for her outside of something to be treated with herbs.
Trigger: A trader came through town with a selection of crystals from a far off mine. They weren't very useful in a sense, but Selina had taken a liking to a light blue one and had bought it. Later that day, bandits had come again, attacking the market and robbing everyone. In a fit of rage as one man beat her mother, she grabbed the crystal and screamed, it expanding quickly to impale the bandit and smash the ground around the area, nearly killing her mother as well. The bandits ran in fear, and the farmers gathered to burn her as a witch. Selina ran then, alone and afraid.
Retreat: Selina hid in the hills and forests, surviving off of her knowledge of plantlife. She was always on the move, visiting villages and small towns and using her herbalist skill to help treat people for a small bit of money. On her travels ash also found a young beggar girl half dead in an alley. After being treated, she followed Selina around, though hasn't spoken in all the time they've known eachother. At the age of 17, Selina had never gotten rid of the crystal, and at one point had to use her power to stop a cutthroat in an ally, smashing a wave of crystal into the surrounding walls. She had then been apprehended by royal soldiers and brought to the castle. The young girl, about 8 now, had been able to get away, but Selina spotted her hiding in a tree as she was taken away. ((All assuming i'm reading the flavor right here))
Element: Crystal and crystaline things.

Attributes:

Endurance: 2
Focus: 5
Knowledge: 2
Quickness: 5
Resistance: 3
Spirit: 3
Strength: 1
Training: 2
Wisdom: 3

Skills: Herablism 5, Alchemy 2, First Aid 2, Cooking 1, Stealth 1, Meditation 1, Woodcraft 1
Traits: Easily Overlooked(+) Clumsy(-) Easy to get along with(+) Taking care of Young child(-) Sign Language(+)
Other: -Will add little girls stats if needed?

((DONE!))

I am finished! Somebody call for a MEDIC! ...bad joke.

I know what the team will be called.

THE MAGNIFICENT SIX CHEFS!

Okay, that sounded better in my head. But seriously, half the people who already applied have cooking (1) as a skill.

On the other hand, most real-life people also have cooking (1) as a skill.

[kj1225]

And I'll provide the meat!

[Sanure]

I'll provide the heat! I mean the fire >.>

[Lenglon]

GWG, pick whichever of the three sisters you want for me to bring.

Spoiler: Maryne (click to show/hide)

Vital Information
Gender:F
Appearance:Tanned, muscular, largeish, heavily scarred.
Mark: a skull-shaped scar on the center of her chest
Personality: Curious, unyielding, growing increasingly world-weary and cynical over time.
Catalyst Emotion: Grief

History
Background:Eldest of the three adoptive sisters, Maryne grew up in a backwoods swamp-town along with her best friend Lirian. They were the village's rising stars and were planning on joining the army together. They trained together, and both had some skill with blades, but...
Curse: Maryne's village was attacked by a large bandit group, and they fought back. Sadly, they underestimated the size and determination of their attackers. Maryne's family was killed. Her friend's family was killed. Her armsmaster was killed. and many more, and the fighting was still going on. She and Lirian retreated to Maryne's home, and tried to make a stand there. As they fought, Lirian was stabbed and collapsed beside her. Overwhelmed with desperation and grief, Maryne knowing took hold of a cursed sword her family were the caretakers of, without knowing exactly how its magic worked. The resulting storm of magic as it fed off her grief took hold of all the fallen in the battle, on either side, and made them rise again as malformed monstrosities, caricatures of their old selves, and hostile to everyone and everything they encountered, including Maryne, and anyone they slew rose up again within seconds as yet another abomination.
Retreat: In the resulting chaos, panic, and death, Maryne was able to carry Lirian out of there, and got her some medical help, but she was still overwhelmed by grief from the deaths of everyone else she knew, and so undead monstrosities kept appearing around her, as though she was being chased everywhere she went. the two of them fled from town to town for a while, and considered themselves adoptive sisters, but eventually they couldn't stand to bring danger to others everywhere they went,so they fled into the woods. Out there, Maryne eventually figured out that she was the one creating the monsters when she unknowningly raised a deer they had hunted down for the next several meals. for the next several weeks she tried to get control of her abilities, but reminders of their swampy home kept making her lose control and create more monsters, and one of the strongest reminders of home she had was her best friend, Lirian. So she left her in the middle of the night, and fled. It's been three years since then, and Maryne finally has some limited control of her abilities, but she hasn't been able to find Lirian again since that day. She's hoping to make contact by returning to their childhood dream of joining the army, and hopes that Lirian would try the same.

Important Game Data:
Element: Dead bodies
Attributes:
Endurance: 6
Focus: 5
Knowledge: 1
Quickness: 3
Resistance: 2
Spirit: 4
Strength: 5
Training: 2
Wisdom: 1
Skills:
Swordsmastery: 5 - she's been fighting the monsters she creates for a long time.
Wiilderness Survival: 2 - She can take care of herself in the woods if she has to.
Unintimidated: 2 - she's seen monsters, she makes monsters, and you expect to scare her?
Swimming: 1 - growing up in a swamp, she's a decent swimmer
Intimidating: 1 - with all her battle scars, she tends to leave an impression.
Knife-user: 1 - you get some practice knife-fighting when whatever you're skinning tries to fight back.
Alertness: 1 - if you get attacked a lot, you learn to watch out for it.
Traits:
Always armed - Maryne physically cannot discard her cursed sword. She's tried. She's thrown it off a cliff, melted it down at a smithy, sold it to a merchant (this last one several times, it was a good way to make money), and yet it always is right beside her whenever she turns around.
Monstrous aura - Maryne still sometimes creates monsters by accident, and she doesn't even know when she does it until they attack someone. They just rise up from a dead body in the area all on their own, and they are not friendly to her or anyone else.
Unstoppable - Maryne is unaware of this, but the same magic that animates the dead around her can work on herself. She can survive normally fatal wounds as her dead flesh animates, closes, and attempts to perform the same function it did in life. This does not always work, and will make her sick later as her living cells attack the dead ones and replace them, but it still makes her amazingly hard to kill.

Other:

Spoiler: Lirian (click to show/hide)

Vital Information
Gender:F
Appearance:Short, wiry, black hair, tanned skin, tends to wear green clothes with an emphasis on freedom of motion.
Mark: Green eyes that become brighter shades of green as she fills with despair, and darken as she loses it.
Personality: Playful, hopeful, but this is partially a facade, because she wants to stay that way, despite what the world might do to her.
Catalyst Emotion: Despair

History
Background:(See Maryne's bio)
Trigger: Lirian first learned of her ability while she was quite young, but due to the ephemeral nature of wind manipulation she was able to hide it suprisingly well. She never ended up being "outed" as it were, and only Maryne knew of her ability until she found out that people with magical talent were being actively recruited by the army. She is attempting to sign up in the hope that Maryne will join her.
Retreat: After Maryne left her, Lirian spent quite some time unsuccessfully searching for she might have gone. however, after a year of unsuccessful searching, she encountered a young girl who had been cast out due to a recent curse, and became her mentor, teaching her about magic and helping her acclimate to the changes the curse had brought upon her, treating the girl as an adoptive sister of sorts. However, upon learning about the army's recent recruitment drive, she knew that this was her best chance to find Maryne again. So she wrote a note to her protegee, left behind all the money and resources she could spare, and went off to join the army and hopefully find Maryne.

Important Game Data:
Element: Wind
Attributes:
Endurance:3
Focus:4
Knowledge:1
Quickness:6
Resistance:3
Spirit:4
Strength:2
Training:4
Wisdom:3
Skills:
Swordsmanship: 5 - training with a blade since childhood and fighting your best friend's monsters tends to make you pretty good at it.
Wilderness survival: 2 - She has some experience taking care of herself in the woods.
Boosted motion: 2 - a specific trick Lirian has practiced is using the wind to enhance her movement, making her faster, and the initial impact of her blows harder.
Flight: 1 - another specific trick Lirian has been practicing is attempting to fly, it's still difficult for her, it's easy to either overdo it or underdo it. rocketing into the sky or falling out of it.
Alertness: 1 - she makes sure people aren't watching when she practices.
Swimming: 1 - you grow up in a swamp, you learn to swim.
Knife-throwing: 1 - It's a good way to practice control! and it's kinda fun to cheat
Traits:
Highly intuitive: though she is capable of extremely complex or advanced magic, she doesn't understand how she does it very well. she doesn't benefit noticeably from others teaching her things, and can't teach others anything beyond the most basic techniques.
Magical veteran: has been around a lot of magic, and has had her own for a very long time. She intuitively understands what she's seeing whenever others do magic around her, and knows how to react to it almost without thought.
Fast reactions: has a lightning-fast reaction speed, and is able to react to things nobody else could, and make fine motions at speeds nobody else can.
Other:

Spoiler: Ahrian (click to show/hide)

Vital Information
Gender:F
Appearance: Small, white-haired kitsune.
Mark: kitsune
Personality: timid, hopeful, determined.
Catalyst Emotion: Anger

History
Background: Ahrian grew up (as a human) in a trading port in her father's clinic, learning how to be a doctor. Her parents cared for her, and overall her life was boring, but good.
Curse: At one point she went with her father on a trip, attempting to stem a wave of sickness that had struck a village a couple days away. though he tried as hard as he could, her father failed in the attempt, and the village's shaman cursed them both both. Her father died of the curse, and Ahrian's body was malformed, becoming as she is now.
Retreat: Ahrian fled into the nearby woods, though she had no clue how to take care of herself, but she was lucky enough to run into Lirian, who took her in and looked after her, treating her like an adopted sister, unafraid of her changed appearance and magic. Ahrian proved to be a quick learner, watching closely as Lirian performed various tricks and figuring out how they were done. However, one day Lirian disappeared, leving behind a message saying she was going to join the army to look for her older sister, and to not follow her, since the army life probably wouldn't be right for her. Ahrian decided to ignore this, and has come to chase after Lirian, hoping to catch up to her and stick together. She doesn't want to be alone and abandoned again.

Important Game Data:
Element:Fire
Attributes:
Endurance: 2
Focus: 5
Knowledge: 4
Quickness: 4
Resistance: 2
Spirit: 5
Strength: 2
Training: 4
Wisdom: 2
Skills:
Medic: 5 - Ahrian was training to be a doctor
Observant: 2 - Ahrian has a fine eye for detail, and notices small things that are out of place
Stealthy: 2 - Ahrian is a quiet little thing, and is good at sneaking around.
Flexible: 1 - Ahrian actively practices using her full range of motion, and can slip through things that most can't.
Haggling: 1 - Ahrian knows how to get her money's worth.
Slight of hand: 1 - A side-effect of her other traits, Ahrian has some skill picking pockets and hiding items on her person.
Bookkeeping: 1 - Ahrian takes good notes, and is good at keeping records.
Traits:
Quick study: Ahrian is a fast learner

Other:

[Harry Baldman]

Oh, I just remembered - GWG, you said that crystals would be harder to control than stone.

Simple: Also fairly simple. A basic homogeneous substance like stone is likelier than a more complex substance like crystal or flesh. Less simple substances are harder to control; they prefer to develop on their own. However, with luck or skill, they can be made into more complex forms than what the simpler substances can hope for.

Like so. This raises a question - isn't a monocrystal as homogenous as a solid material can get? Stone is, after all, crystalline and far from basic in nature and can be pretty heterogenous in composition from what I know. No such thing as a pure mineral as far as I know.

[GreatWyrmGold]

Better question, how were cattle and chikens so greatlly affected? They should have been in barns and coops.

For the most part, they weren't. However, some were caught in the fields when the blizzard hit (which didn't affect the big livestock much), and hay stores were damaged both by lowered production and a couple days extra of needing to feed their livestock. The setting is more or less based on the Scandinavian region, where people tend to be pretty close to the maximum herd size they could support through the winter, such that a bad summer would require culling a good portion of the herd.

Hey GWG, what stat does knife-fighting use?

Focus is used for aiming well, Strength is used for piercing deep (probably not much of a concern unless you critfail or fight someone in armor), Quickness is used for not getting stabbed in return, and Endurance is for not dying when Quickness screws up.

I am finished! Somebody call for a MEDIC! ...bad joke.

Goodie.

-snip-

Part of that has to do with magic not always following common sense, but a bigger part has to do with my explanation: "they prefer to develop on their own." Crystals are a lot harder for craftsmen, mundane or magical, to shape intricately because they maintain their crystalline structure more.
And, of course, the biggest problem is that I suck at explaining things.

[Avis-Mergulus]

Oh...And say, GWG, will you be giving out the starting gear, or can I put Yuun's stuff under his "Other" tab? Non-magical, just clothing, gear and weaponry. Or are we supposed to wear uniforms, since we're in the army now?

[RangerCado]

Oh...And say, GWG, will you be giving out the starting gear, or can I put Yuun's stuff under his "Other" tab? Non-magical, just clothing, gear and weaponry. Or are we supposed to wear uniforms, since we're in the army now?

Good point actually.