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[Samarkand]

This is the OOC thread for Kurchil's Children, meant to keep the IC thread from being jammed with those dreaded double parenthetical statements. If you were gonna put it in one of those, save the virtual ink and post it here!
Again I find myself running a game heavy on mechanics and slim on roleplaying and genuine character development. This one will focus more on characters and less on mechanics. I’m hoping that players will have time and security to make very interesting characters and explore a world that will be generated as randomly as I can, using various online random generation tools. The maps are done using GIMP, with lots of noise clouds filling in the details. All I do is give general outlines. And pick pretty colors.
 
We'll begin with five players, not FCFS though preference may be given to those who played this originally. More may or may not be added depending on my time commitments. What follows was mostly copied from the original game, at least in terms of lore. Changes will be made to some mechanics.

Spoiler: Aethellian Coast (click to show/hide)

The Aethellian Coast lies on the east of the great land of Kurchil
At the heart of this bustling region is the great port city of Aetharbor. This sheltered port serves as a connection between the ocean and large cities further in land through its river, named the Shimmering River. Because of its central role in trade, it is called home by individuals from a multitude of cultures and races, as well as representatives of most guilds. Like most ports, however, it also has a seedy underbelly, centered in the Lower District. The majority of its inhabitants are humans.

The surrounding land is covered by the rich Aethen Forests, for which the port is named. The forest dwelling Aethen have small population clusters throughout the region. While they do not have what could be termed a government, their Speaker is located near Asha Lake.

This forest is bordered on the North by the Korchaal Mountains. This range has a large stretch of low-lying mountains. These less elevated areas, as well as the foothills of larger mountains, house clans of Wolfkin in their expansive cave systems. The upper portions of the mountain range are home to the secretive Korsha. They live in very loosely clustered groups, always forming around spiritual leaders.

North still of these mountains is the Sensa Desert. This region sees nomadic groups of Desert Serpen with great frequency. With the exception of the desert dwellers, most choose to avoid these dangerous waves of sand.

Off the coast of the mainland are several significant islands. These islands pay the price for the protection of the port. All are frequently ravaged by pirates and storms, and their inhabitants earn a meager living from the sea which oppresses them. The longest island, Keros Island, has a number of mines on it, supporting a larger economy.



((New region maps and descriptions will be made as people express interest in exploring different areas.))

Spoiler: Starting Ports (click to show/hide)

Part of the idea is that you don’t really know that well where you’re going till you get there, but I want you to have a vague idea as pick the port of your arrival.

Aetharbor is the center of trade for the region, and the only truly major city.
Ferlac, Depfant, and Glowcoast are all on a mineral rich island which supports quite a bit of mining related industries.

Seawall is on an island with quite a bit of undeveloped wilderness, and mainly serves as a defense against pirates.

Arclow is a mostly desolate island home to a particular religious group.

Spirarbor houses an ancient magical lighthouse and quite a few magical practitioners.

Iseaya is surrounded by runes and has a number of problems with the local wildlife.

This is what you have to go off of as you make your choice. You will, of course, be able to get off of whatever rock you choose, but it will cost you precious coins.

Spoiler: Playable Races (click to show/hide)

Humans: Entirely as you know them to be. They are of average physical statistics, with low resilience, but have relatively high intuition and intelligence, as well as charisma. They are the race responsible for the greatest degrees of social order and communal action.
Resilience -1, Charisma +2, Intuition +1, Intelligence +2, Strength -1, Agility -1, Dexterity -1
Social Climber: Interaction Modifiers from social status and groups

Serpen: These come in two varieties, desert and swamp. Both have reptilian features, and are just taller than the average man. They are known for high resilience to environmental and poison effects, as well as wound regeneration. Of slightly below strength, but their tales give them a greater ability to balance than most, making them quite agile.
Strength -2, Resilience +2, Agility +2, Dexterity -1
Reptilian Regeneration: wounds heal quickly

Aethen: These small forest dwellers are agile, their wings allowing them to readily maneuver. They have high intuition and willpower, but have weak constitutions and do not bear wounds well. Due to their time in the forest, and their intuitive natures they have a level of innate connection with much of the wildlife.
Agility +3, intuition +3, willpower +2, resilience -4, strength -3
Bond with the Wild: +1 to animal interactions

Korsha: These grey skinned brutes are slow but powerful. They are significantly larger than most men. Their isolation has made them very antisocial. They are not often intelligent, but many among them have an intuitive understanding of magic.
Strength +5, agility -2, charisma -3, intelligence -2, intuition +3

Wolfkin: These small furred creatures are agile and dexterous, making them adept thieves among other things. Their strength leaves much to be desired though. They have been known to be thrown around quite readily by Korsha when encounters between the two occur.
Strength  -4, agility +2, dexterity +3
Clan Member: Interaction modifiers with other Wolfkin

Spoiler: Stats (click to show/hide)

Strength – How strong you are
Agility – How fast and graceful you are
Dexterity – How easily you can manipulate things with your hands
Intelligence – How readily you can understand the world around you
Intuition – Your ability to channel magic and achieve desired results
Willpower – Your ability to resist effects of some magic, as well as resist backlash from your own
Charisma – How readily you can convince NPC’s, effects interactions with any form of intelligent life
Resilience – Your ability to resist natural events such as disease, hunger, and weather

Spoiler: Magic (click to show/hide)

After your application has been submitted I will generate 5 magics from here Magic Generator
I will present you with three of them as options, and you will select one. These often have effects which change your characters attitude. I will try not to offer you any which conflict with your character sheet as you presented it. If you feel that no option fits your character at all, I can reroll.

Spoiler: Character Application (click to show/hide)

Name:

Gender:

Race:

Description:

Starting Port:

Background: Include a description of your characters reason for coming here, their aspirations, etc.

Trinket: Some (useless) item from your character’s past which holds sentimental value for them

Note: All characters will start off with exactly the same inventory, with the exception of the trinket. They will have a cloth shirt and pants, sandals, and 100 copper coins. This game is about developing a character from scratch.

Spoiler: Mechanics (click to show/hide)

Time - Eight hours of sleep is expected, and there will be six day turns, and then most characters will sleep. Your character cannot go more than 20  hours since sleeping before experiencing a -1 penalty to all actions, meaning you can take 1 turn into the night before needing to sleep, but then you will sleep for 8 hours, meaning you will sleep through the first turn of the next day. If you sleep in unprotected place you will have a chance to be attacked or have a similar bad thing happen to you. Going to an inn or somewhere else to sleep does not count as an action, so your sixth turn of the day can be Work for the blacksmith, and then sleep in the inn.

Weather – At the beginning of each game day I will use Weather Generator to set the weather for the day, which can effect characters in many ways. The parameters for this will be determined by where you are. For example, the Aethellian Coast is a temperate region, you will begin in spring time, and it is an enchanted forest so the chance for something magical to happen is uncommon, not rare. Seasonal changes are something I’ll deal with if this is successful/goes long enough.

Combat - Combat rolled in two parts: hitting and doing damage. d20 + AGI (Attacker) vs. d20 + AGI (Defender) determines whether or not the attack is within the area of the target's body. A natural 1 or 20 from either party results in critical table being referenced (in progress). 20! vs 20! negates critical effect, as does 1! vs 1!, whereas 20! vs 1! or 1! vs 20! results in extreme versions of the original critical effects. Damage is rolled based off of the weapon, and compared to the armor. This value determines the magnitude of the effect, which will appear as status modifiers (1 may give no status, or amplify a previous status slightly, higher values will result in bleeding, pain, bruising, broken bones, and other unfortunate things you'd rather avoid.) All of this may be avoided by spending Life Points. A Life Point may be spent before a round of combat to avoid the outcome of an opponent's attack, after an effect has taken place to delay an effect until after battle or otherwise diminish it, or after a would-be-lethal attack to hang on to life, and gain one round of bonuses to get out of or end combat. Think of these as last ditch efforts, since every good story has near death experiences that are miraculously avoided. Replenishing these points will not be easy, but will be possible. Combat is rolled in the middle of turns.

Conversations with NPCs -  You roll at the start of dialogue to determine the NPC's attitude towards you. This is semi-static throughout the dialogue, changing in response to actions which would garner or lose favor, and the validity of arguments you make. For the most part this makes them generally helpful or not, but there is a check against this value if you ask for something that could be considered a gift or a favor to see if the NPC will do it for you.

"Regular" Actions - If its not talking or fighting, its this. I'll roll a d20, apply relevant skill/attribute bonuses, and compare with a difficulty check value. If you're higher, you succeed. If you're lower, you fail. Natural 1 is a critical fail, natural 20 is an overshot.

[Samarkand]

Reserved.

[Patrick Hunt]

How come Wolfkin get a - interaction with other Wolfkin?

Sheet in progress.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name : Streak
Gender : Male
Race : Wolfkin
Description : Larger then average size and more heavily muscled then is common amongst his species. A streak of white fur down the left side of his face while the fur covering his body is black and his claws are meticulously sharpened.
Has bright yellow eyes and sharpened fangs with a slightly angular snout and pointed ears.
Starting Port : Seawall.
Background : Until recently streak was a well known and rightly feared warrior amongst his species known for his impressive size and his ability to force his enemies into submission and had fathered many children amongst his clan and those his own had defeated in battle but he was also growing sick of killing his own people.

He sought to convince his clan leader to send him and some of his fellow warriors to the seawall where they could face new enemies in battle and prove Wolfkin dominance to the other species but his leader refused causing Streak to challenge him to a fight for dominance.
His leader agreed in private and with a few witnesses they fought for control of the clan, a fight in which streak was victorious until those witnesses having been bribed in secret struck him down while his back was turned and then sold him to pirates to be rid of him.

However unknown to his people shortly after his awakening on the pirate ship Streak tore out the throat of the pirate captain as he was gloating and taking the key from his body freed himself before leaping into the ocean a short distance from Seawall and swimming to shore before beginning to plot his vengeance on the pirates who sought to conquer him and the clan leader and his lackeys who betrayed him.

Without a clan of his own though Streak's first goal is to gather the scattered clanless of his species to him to form a new clan, one which is true to the ancient tenants of his people much as Streak has done himself choosing to fight with Fang and Claw as his ancestors did long ago.

Trinket : Nothing.

[Harry Baldman]

Spoiler: Asithi Esseth (click to show/hide)

Name: Asithi Esseth

Gender: Female

Race: Serpen (Desert)

Description: no taller than the average Serpen, outwardly attractive, with large, deep blue eyes and well-done teeth, wearing a white silk robe with an accompanying white silk headdress. Her voice is not the most pleasant, but is sufficiently inoffensive, as is her general manner.

Starting Port: Aetharbor

Background: though upon viewing the image of Asithi Esseth one may easily assign her to any of a number of social groups, and form a rough image of her lifestyle, and even draw parallels between her and themselves, it is important to remember that the Asithi Esseth you see, speak to and perhaps enjoy or at least tolerate the company of is but an abstraction, a painted curtain of sociability, beneath which lies... nothing. There are no mysteries to uncover beneath, no deeper thoughts to divulge, no love to earn and no personality to locate. What personality she has is unformed, a peg that fits every hole it is shown, and while she knows of the outline of the concepts of good, evil, honor, decency, adventure, love, justice, enjoyment, enthusiasm and more, it is all she knows about these things. It never occurs to her that they might be in any way applicable to actual existence, or something worth further consideration than the lip service casual conversation pays them. She does have some notion of beauty, or price, or material value, and does appreciate many forms of humor, even when she does not find it very funny herself.

With little else to do, her homeland holding nothing of value or interest, she walks the land, most recently having found her way to the city of Aetharbor, where she believes she can stay a while before moving on to her next target - the island of Arclow, which she is very mildly curious about due to its mysterious inhabitants. She has no true goal there, but she does think it would make for an interesting diversion, which is the best one can hope for these days.

Trinket: the bleached, dried, cured skeleton of a jumping mouse, which Esseth found an interesting animal at the time of its capture.

[Playergamer]

Spoiler: Will (click to show/hide)

Name:Will Bayler

Gender: Male

Race: Human

Description: Will Bayler is a raggedy man in his late 20s. He is blond with green eyes, and about 5'7". He has a small beard, and short hair.

Starting Port:Seawall

Background: Will Bayler was a vagrant in Glowcoast, just barely surviving day to day by begging, and occasionally stealing, from miners. One day, he got lucky, and found something valuable, worth enough to get a ship ride to Aetharbor, where he had heard rumors that there were jobs a plenty, and then still have some coin left over. He waved goodbye to his only friend, and boarded a ship headed to Aetharbor. Unfortunately, a storm hit on the way, and the ship was wrecked on the Seawall island. He managed to stumble his way to the port from the small wreck, and decided to try and start a new life here, or at least make enough coin to get on another ship. At the very least, he hopes to have a better life then just being some vagrant, eventually being thrown into some deep dark mineshaft because he ticked someone off.

Trinket: A tiny piece of shoe leather, Will's only connection to his only real friend.

Patrick, I don't think they do. That's just to separate the trait name from the effects, see? It's on everything, even where a minus wouldn't make sense.

[Samarkand]

How come Wolfkin get a - interaction with other Wolfkin?

The dash is an unfortunate formatting issue which will be remedied, although it is worth noting that if your tribe is known it may elicit negative responses from those of other tribes, depending on diplomacy and such.

[Patrick Hunt]

Ahhh ok I wasn't sure if it was negative or not, but different clans disliking each other does make sense.

[Powder Miner]

Imma get working on a sheet-- specifically, I feel like expanding upon Sofia Sala, making her a sheet with more details.

Spoiler: Sofia Sala (click to show/hide)

Name: Sofia Sala

Gender: Female

Race: Aethen

Description: Sofia is rather tall for an Aethen, standing at 4'3'', but she's still small by the metric of every other race. She weighs a little bit more than the average would be for her height, and her build is a rather buxom one. Her hair is a hazel color, and goes down to just under her shoulderblades. The hair is rather stiff, and it's difficult to do a ton with it, hence its being not altogether well-groomed. Her eyes are a brown color, somewhat narrow,  and show rather a large amount of confidence-- perhaps overconfidence, even. Her hands are rather calloused.

Sofia is rather difficult to shake, and she possesses the bravery to get through quite a bit of adversity. Her confidence is both a blessing and a curse, however-- as it very easily turns to overconfidence and recklessness. She's also somewhat arrogant, not often taking the words of others to heart unless she truly wants to. She's aware of her hubris, too, she just... doesn't care about it, and will not accept that it's wrong. She truly believes that she is destined to be a hero, and any confirmation of that destiny will have her very, very happy.

She very much has a taste for bitter things, especially leaves.

Starting Port: Iseaya

Background: The Refugi community, a small enclave of Aethen in the middle of the forests of Iseaya, was once, a long time ago, a very exciting place. A common place of asylum for outcasts and heroes, many a tale of adventure came from within its borders. Many generations have passed since its founding, though, and Refugi is no longer the bustling place it was. No, Refugi has shrunk, and is no longer anything more than a little group of Aethen living a simple life of gathering and of hunting. The only reminders left of its once frequent adventures and escapades are the tales passed down by the old to the young, far removed from their origins.

Sofia Sala grew up in this declined, simple little village where the tales of old captivated her. Even from a very young age, she found herself dissatisfied with the quaint life offered. She dreamt of getting into the world and living the legends, becoming a hero! She wondered if it would ever come to be, though, and her confidence was slowly beginning to fade... Yet, one particularly lucky day would not only restore her confidence but inflate it.

She found a relic in the forest one day, a piece of bronze shield, warped and charred, with a bright red pattern on it. Sofia recognized this pattern! It had belonged to Gabriel Aegis, an Aethen hero unusual for his stalwart toughness. Wearing heavy armor and with a large shield, Aegis had been almost unkillable! It had taken a whole forest fire to take him down! Snatching up the piece of shield, Sofia understood this as the confirmation of her destiny, and pride boosted further than it ever had been before, she packed up and left to go to Iseaya, for she knew she would become a hero!

On her way to the city, she met a human --apparently, an aspiring adventurer like herself-- who had apparently found out about her little piece of shield and was interested. They've joined each other on the road to adventures, at least for now.

Trinket: Aethen Shield-Piece: A piece of a shield of a famous Aethen warrior, this small, pocket-fitting piece of metal is highly burnt and highly twisted- a pattern of bronze and bright red being unrecognizable but for the color.

[Patrick Hunt]

I'm sending you a PM about something I want to discuss for my background and my characters goals Samarkand.

[Samarkand]

Yay sheets!

d20 has won out in the poll, so now I know how most rolling will go. But what about combat? Chunky salsa (more descriptive, less consistent) or hitpoints (very consistent, not very flexible/descriptive)?

[Powder Miner]

I'd prefer dem chunky salsas.

[Caellath]

If by chunky salsa you mean you'd also use logic to determine damage caused and received, why not? In the games I've attempted to run to this day, I use both a measure of good sense and take the rolls (plus defensive bonuses for armor, for example) in consideration as far as damage-dealing goes. You could also include something like a very limited pool of Fate/Life points for the PCs, which would basically be "burn this and you don't die" points so characters can evaluate whether it's worth trying their luck.

Edit: Corrected derp moment. Had written "run to this game".

[Samarkand]

If by chunky salsa you mean you'd also use logic to determine damage caused and received, why not? In the games I've attempted to run to this game, I use both a measure of good sense and take the rolls (plus defensive bonuses for armor, for example) in consideration as far as damage-dealing goes. You could also include something like a very limited pool of Fate/Life points for the PCs, which would basically be "burn this and you don't die" points so characters can evaluate whether it's worth trying their luck.

Color me interested. So you're saying do chunky salsa (rolls translate into status effects, not some abstracted number which represents your physical well-being) and points which can be spent (in advance or after the effect?) to cling to life? That might work... I'll change the poll to represent that option as Caellath's Method, to allow people to vote for this.

I'd prefer dem chunky salsas.

Check Caellath's plan and see if you prefer that. The poll is set up such that you can switch your vote by revoking and recasting it.

[Powder Miner]

Plan Caellath sounds good to me, I'm not real picky though.

[wolfchild]

Resubmiting old char never got to get into her

Spoiler: character (click to show/hide)

Name: Meyath Deepfen
Gender: Female
Race: Swamp Serpen

Description: Meyath is approximately two meters tall, but has never actually gotten herself measured with a relatively modest bosom(if serpens do not have breasts ignore), her scales are a mottled black and blue colour, somewhat of a mutation in her family, who normally have black and dark green scales. Her tail is somewhat short for her size, but her lithe (even for serpens) makes up for the difference in agility. Her hands and feet are webbed, a normal trait for her family, who make a habit of hunting in the deeper parts of the swamp they hail from.

Starting Port: Seawall

Background: Meyath grew up in a tight-knit extended family in the heart of the great swamp (or other appropriate name), they lived mostly on hunted animals, occasionally leaving the swamp to trade flora and fauna found in the swamp for more exotic goods. Meyath enjoyed these trips thoroughly, and hoped to become the family's main liaison to the world outside the swamp. Not that she did not love her native habitat, always happy to get home after a trip she just enjoyed seeing new faces. Unfortunately however, on one such trading journey a group of bandits (race unknown, she was not there) had fled into the swamp to evade pursuit. They had, by random happenstance found the Deepfen dwellings, and proceeded to slaughter them after being offered hospitality by the friendly serpens. Meyath could not bear to stay after that, her brother, with whom she had a strong bond had been among the family staying at home. So she said her farewells to her family, and left the swamp, taking her wherever her feet took her, they eventually ended up with her on a ship bound for seawall; perhaps there she will be able to start again. (I know tragedy is overdone, but I could not think of any other way to get someone to leave a place they were happy in)

Trinket: Small piece of petrified wood, a gift from her brother