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[Wwolin]

The monster fortress of Darrowden lies in ruins. Once the largest monster stronghold outside of Elaris Island, it is now little more than a smoldering cavern, dotted with the corpses of monsters and the occasional flag of the Adventurer's Guild. Something like this never could have happened twenty years ago, but times have changed since then. Human craftsmen have learned how to infuse the very souls of monsters into objects, creating weapons that allow the user to perform otherwise impossible feats. Armed with these 'Masterworks', adventurers have gone from being little more than a nuisance to the leading cause of death among most species of monsters. But while the humans might be the ones known for their ingenuity, monsters are nothing if not adaptable. Back on Elaris, the homeland and last stronghold of the monsters, a doppleganger by the name of Braunkleid has used information gleaned from humans to put together an experimental fighting force. More similar to a human adventuring party than a monster pack, this group of four, known as the Black Bulwark, will either turn out to be monsterkind's saviors, or the final nail in their coffin.

Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)

Name:
Species:
Gender:
Age:
Appearance:
Backstory:
Stats: All stats start at 0, and you get 7 points to spend. Every 2 points in a stat is a +1 to related rolls, and a 0 in a stat is a -1 to related rolls
Strength: How hard a hit you can dish out
Endurance: How hard a hit you can take
Dexterity: How good you are at hitting things, and not getting hit yourself
Power: How good you are at casting spells
Intuition: How good you are at determining the purpose of things
Charisma: How good you are at getting your way
Major Trait: Some sort of natural or supernatural power that makes your monster monstrous. Things like 'Huge' or 'Shapeshifter' fit here. You can only have one of these.
Minor Traits: Traits that your monster has picked up throughout its life (or unlife). Things like 'Skilled Sword User' or 'Plant Expert' fit here. You can have up to two of these.
Flaws: For each minor trait that you have, you must have a flaw. The more powerful the trait is, the more detrimental the flaw must be.

I'll be taking four players, NO FCFS. If anyone has any questions about anything at all, just ask me and I'll try my best to answer them.

[Yoink]

RESERVED, will edit in sheet.

Spoiler: Sosash the Vulture-man (click to show/hide)

Name: Sosash
Species: Vultureman (product of a divine curse)
Gender: Male
Age: 37
Appearance: A gruesome bipedal figure, somewhat taller than most humans but stooped, raggedly cloaked in coarse black feathers and with two sets of legs- a pair of mostly normal human legs upon which he stands, and a pair of twisted, scaly talon-like arms protruding from his upper body which he can use as arms, albeit somewhat clumsily.
His head is bald of feathers save for a few short scraggles towards the back of his skull, and his facial features are mostly that of a vulture.
Piercing, round brown eyes either side of his head, wrinkled, light pink skin, and a viciously hooked black beak- which can, as a product of his human parentage, twist into a nasty parody of a cruel smile or a snarl- the limit of his facial expressions.
Jutting awkwardly upwards from his shoulders, where a normal human's arm sockets would be, is a pair of wings covered with the same black plumage as the rest of him. They reach to an impressive span either side of him when outstretched, and if Sosash is rather clumsy on land thanks to his twisted body, he makes up for it in the air.

Backstory: Years ago, a raider lord named Rasik lead his people to sack the ancient, holy city of Vau.
The city's High Priest warned him not to trespass on the great temple, but Rasik laughed, gutted him, and plundered the temple for the enchanted weapons Vau's ancient heroes were buried there with, among other treasures. The Priest cursed Rasik with his dying breath, saying if he acted like a foul bird of carrion, his children would become like them.

Rasik and his clan thought no more of it, finishing up their rampage through the city and consolidating their power, taking the Vauian citizens still alive as slaves. From there, using the magical weaponry found beneath the high temple, they were able to ransack several other cities, becoming feared throughout the lands beneath Rasik's shrewd, fearless leadership.
He took Vau as his seat of power, having conquered a large chunk of the surrounding countryside, and lived it up for some time, prospering along with his rapidly-growing band of followers. Prospering, that is, until his young bride, chosen from the enslaved populace of Vau for her incredible beauty, gave birth. To a brood of grotesque, monstrous creatures which tore her apart from the inside out with beaks and talons.

The vast majority of the bandit king's people fled in terror when Rasik's twisted offspring came into the world, proving the curse true, leaving only the most depraved of his followers to serve him as he cared for them. Six of them, there were, and they grew into a vaguely humanoid shape- stooped and hideous, with vulture-like heads, feathers and claws twisted into a parody of a human.
Rasik lived there in the desolate, mostly abandoned ruins of Vau, commanding his brood of horrifying vulture-folk until the Adventurer's Guild came and took his head for his crimes against humanity.
He and his human followers died, but his children- not yet fully grown- took wing and fled, trailing feathers and awful shrieks through the skies as the scattered throughout the land. Sosash ended up in Elaris, his small avian mind filled with fear and hatred of his father's killers, which made him fit right in as he grew. He ended up being somewhat larger than most humans, and he trained with various weapons, teaching his strangely-shaped arms to work as a humanoid's, better for combat.
His father was a cruel, greedy man, but Sosash remembers only good about him and dreams almost single-mindedly of revenge... and keeping his belly full, of course. Oh, and the occasional shiny wouldn't go astray either. OH MY GODS a new nest?!? Gimme.
...Actually, okay, let's just put his twin drives as revenge and greed and call it a day.

Stats: All stats start at 0, and you get 7 points to spend. Every 2 points in a stat is a +1 to related rolls, and a 0 in a stat is a -1 to related rolls
Strength: 2
Endurance: 0
Dexterity: 4
Power: 0
Intuition: 1
Charisma: 0
Major Trait: Able to fly.
Minor Traits: Skilled spearmonster. Adept flier.
Flaws: Bird-brained. Taloned arms (has trouble performing any delicate procedures with his twisted arms, such as opening a lock or writing.)

[TamerVirus]

Name: Gog n' Og
Species: Twin headed Ogre
Gender: male
Age: 44
Appearance: A big, tall and fat. Muscular arms and legs support a big belly. Skin is a slimy green color. Oh yeah, two heads, both with different personalities. There's Og, the one who tries to think logically...and Gog, the GAHHH BOOM SMASH type of monster. Both still kinda dumb, though

Backstory: Sometimes two is better than one...because two is one plus one. Normal, singled headed ogres are a ugly and brutish bunch prone to violence and general distastefulness. Gog and Og are not normal single headed ogres though... they are double headed ogres. An extremely rare genetic anomaly amongst their brothers, both 'heads' are able switch control of the singular body on the fly. 'Volunteered' by the head chieftain, Gog n' Og just might enter Ogre legend ... or finally be done away with 

Stats:
Strength: 4
Endurance: 2
Dexterity:
Power: 1
Intuition:
Charisma:
Major Trait: Two is better than one-Can occasionally submit two actions, the one chosen to be determined by chance
Minor Traits: Strong melee user. Skilled hunter
Flaws: Stupid- Occasionally overrides action with a nonsensical one
Really poor social skills

[UltraValican]

Name: Vindala
Species: Rakashasa
Gender:Male
Age: 30
Appearance: Stands at around 6'9. Posses a humanoid torso with the head of a tiger with a third demonic eye on its forehead. He has 2 pairs of arms. The first pair is covered with scales and ends with a pair of razor-sharp claws. The second pair resemble a pair of tiger paws with claws that don't retract.

Backstory: The Rakasha' are born resembling humans and gain seemingly random and monstrous traits as they age. They typically stop growing around their 20's. Vindala's mutations were seemingly discreet at first. He enjoyed the taste of rotting fruits just as much as fresh ones. Sweet smelling spittle. He took advantage of this and lived in a human city. There he could have feasted upon human flesh to his heart's content, and they would be none the wiser. That is until Vindala woke up with a tiger's head. He fled the city and took up arms, in both senses of the word.

Stats:
Strength 2
Endurance:1
Dexterity:4
Power: 0
Intuition:0
Charisma:0
Major Trait: Multi-Armed- Posses two sets of monstrous arms
Minor Trait: Demon-At-Arms- Can hold and use a weapon in all 4 arms
Flaws: All Out attacker- Receives a penalty to defensive rolls any time he makes an attack

[blazing glory]

Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)

Name:Cladral Slafion
Species:Minotaur.
Gender: Male.
Age:76
Appearance:Brown fur all over,muscular and somewhat old,as Minotaur's only live for 125 years,standing at 8 feet tall,he has green eyes.

Backstory:Living in a Minotaur tribe,at the age of 23 one of the Shamans said that the Humans would come and wipe out the tribe,he was the only one who took this seriously,as the rest of the tribe simply laughed because in the past 1000 years the humans haven't once been able to destroy the tribe,and so he trained and prepared himself,and surely enough,3 years later the Humans came with weapons and armor infused with the very souls of their kin and other creatures,the whole tribe was slaughtered except for him because he was prepared,he managed to escape with his life,after reaching a monster gathering he discovered that the humans were attacking all the monsters,and so for 68 years he had aided to try and defend their land,but everyone knew that the Humans were winning,so after those long years of barely surviving battles,he spent 4 years looking for some other way to fight them,though it didn't yield results,and now,after one year,he has discovered that Braunkleid is putting together a fighting force,one that will try it's very best to fight this Human plague,and he signed up right away.

Stats:
Strength:3
Endurance:2
Dexterity: 1
Power:0
Intuition:1
Charisma:0

Major Trait:Lucky:He gains a 1+ to avoiding any attacks or such that would kill him.
Minor Traits:Skilled two handed sword user,intimidating.
Flaws:Old:Occasionally has to roll to see if he'll suffer back pain or such,if the number is below 4 then he'll take a 1- penalty to his action. inconveniently large:Takes a 1- penalty to dodging if he's in any cramped space,or "Human sized space".

[blazing glory]

Spoiler: sheet (click to show/hide)

Name: Gog n' Og
Species: Twin headed Ogre
Gender: male
Age: 44
Appearance: A big, tall and fat. Muscular arms and legs support a big belly. Skin is a slimy green color. Oh yeah, two heads, both with different personalities. There's Og, the one who tries to think logically...and Gog, the GAHHH BOOM SMASH type of monster. Both still kinda dumb, though

Backstory: Sometimes two is better than one...because two is one plus one. Normal, singled headed ogres are a ugly and brutish bunch prone to violence and general distastefulness. Gog and Og are not normal single headed ogres though... they are double headed ogres. An extremely rare genetic anomaly amongst their brothers, both 'heads' are able switch control of the singular body on the fly. 'Volunteered' by the head chieftain, Gog n' Og just might enter Ogre legend ... or finally be done away with 

Stats:
Strength: 4
Endurance: 2
Dexterity:
Power: 1
Intuition:
Charisma:
Major Trait: Two is better than one-Can occasionally submit two actions, the one chosen to be determined by chance
Minor Traits: Strong melee user. Skilled hunter
Flaws: Stupid- Occasionally overrides action with a nonsensical one

You need another Flaw.

Flaws: For each minor trait that you have, you must have a flaw.

[Nidilap]

Name: Gruump
Species: Orc
Gender: Male
Age: 32 1/2
Appearance: Green skin, bald head, dirty Sanchez mustache
Backstory: This Orc was brought up by a famous war chief, and was put to labor after his step father's death. He joined an Orc raiding group, serving as a warrior and cook. He had so many injuries to the head, he has become mostly a soldier, and not much else. But when his pure rage is tapped, he unleashes an ancient power rare amongst Orcs. The Gijakpis, the Super Orc.
Stats:
Strength: 5
Endurance: 2
Dexterity: 0
Power: 0
Intuition: 0
Charisma: 0
Major Trait: Can turn into a Super Orc, massive muscles, horns everywhere, savage teeth and a brutal lust for blood.
Minor Traits: Excellent with an Axe. Also can cook suprisingly well.
Flaws: Terrible with anything outside of combat or cooking. He also gets angry easily.

[Sarrak]

Spoiler: Sseth (click to show/hide)

Name: Sseth
Species: Salamander
Gender: Male
Age: 98
Appearance: A middle-aged specimen, with rough bright-red scales and clawed hands. He moves using his tail better than some may while using legs. Right of his needle-like horns is broken.
Backstory:
Stats:
Strength: 0
Endurance: 1
Dexterity: 2
Power: 2
Intuition: 2
Charisma: 0
Major Trait: Fireborn - all salamanders are called this and not without a reason. They have high bodily temperature and can easily endure heat that is deadly for other creatures. It also gives them innate understanding of fire and its nature.
Minor Traits:
Historian - In his early years, Sseth worked harder than anyone while studying ancient and modern texts about the world.
Sharp senses - Sseth can easily notice things and signs that others would not recognize or deem insignificant.
Flaws:
Unstable mind - things that he has experienced throughout nearly a hundred years of life are starting to affect his sanity.
Frail bones - while nearly as hard to kill as any other salamander, Sseth suffers from magically induced illness that makes his bones brittle and easy to break.

[Cheesecake]

Spoiler: Tik (click to show/hide)

Name: Tik-tik
Species: Goblin
Gender: Male
Age: 10 (Age of maturity for goblins.)
Appearance:
Standing at 4'5", he is taller than most goblins his age. Tik has pale-green skin, his eyes are red orbs, and sharp teeth that jut out of his mouth. He wears a leather vest, with a satchel tied to his belt containing some small loot he's scavenged. He wields a dagger (which is comparable to a human sword in goblin terms.) sheathed on his belt.

Backstory:
Tik was one of the few remaining goblins of the Highstone Clan, most of the children having died from a plague cast on them by a wizard, and the full grown goblins slaughtered trying to raid a human convoy. Realizing that his village was doomed to die, he resolved not to die with them. His friends and family had died anyway, so he decided to set out by himself, scavenging off of corpses and living in the slums of monster settlements. His chance to a better life came when a doppelganger assembled a fighting force of monsters to fight the humans, as well as scoring some loot on the way.

Stats: All stats start at 0, and you get 7 points to spend. Every 2 points in a stat is a +1 to related rolls, and a 0 in a stat is a -1 to related rolls
Strength: 2
Endurance: 1
Dexterity: 2
Power: 0
Intuition: 2
Charisma: 0

Major Trait:
---Goblin Ingenuity: Goblins are notorious of being able to design and build anything from mere scraps.
Minor Traits:
---Street Smart: Tik has lived on the streets his whole life; he knows how to find food and navigate urban areas with ease.
Flaws:
---Coward: As long as the battle is in Tik's favor, he won't run. If it isn't however, he's gonna hightail it.

[Yoink]

Edited my sheet, is it alright?
Not quite sure what effects/penalties my traits and flaws would actually have. Hope they work anyway.

[SomeStupidGuy]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name: Gregorios
Species: Bogeyman
Gender: Male
Age: 46

Appearance: Looks almost like a regular human old man, save for his unnatural thinness and for his blackened claw - he'd lost the other some years prior, and has a simple multi-hooked brass claw in its place. His white hair is patchy and thin.
He often wears a musty old suit, to complete the creepy old man aesthetic he already has going.

Backstory: Gregorios had always been the kind of monster to take the path of least resistance, so when it was pointed out by a friend of his that he was a bit more human-like than your average monster, he happily took advantage of it, soon gaining the persona of an elderly trader and losing the respect of most of his monster friends. Not that he cared much about that.

Why would he? He had a nice thing going, with a nice comfortable home and a simple business, not to mention the perfect chance to unnerve some of the citizens. Of course, everything good must end, and in this case, it ended unceremoniously. The citizens of the town came together with their collected evidence of Gregorios' wrongdoing (his main offenses being that he's creepy, weird and a little girl thinks she saw him eat a rat once) and planned to oust the bogey in the middle of the night. That came to Gregorios' advantage, giving the chance to claw, maim and otherwise assault the townsfolk in self-defense. And with that, Gregorios came to the perfectly reasonable conclusion that humans are terrible and that he began to make his way to Elaris.

Upon reaching Elaris, he began telling a story of his life amongst the humans. Said story is mostly notable due to being almost entirely untrue.

Stats:
 Strength: 0
 Endurance: 0
 Dexterity: 2
 Power: 2
 Intuition: 1
 Charisma: 2
Major Trait:
  Shadowy Figure - The longer he stays within shadows, Gregorios enjoys a multitude of benefits, becoming much more powerful, stronger and quicker
Minor Traits:
  Great Trader - Gregorios learned a great many skills during his time with the humans, the main one being how to screw over any customers at a high profit.
  Pugilist - There's always been a certain quality when fighting with his bare claws(even the fake one) that actual weapons simply can't compare with.
Flaws:
  One Handed(or Clawed?)
  Slow Healing

Wasn't too sure what effects to give to my traits stats-wise, so I uh, suppose I'll leave those details up to you. :I

[Salsacookies]

Name: Adam
Species: Flesh Golem(Frankenstein)
Gender: Looks male, can change
Age: 200
Appearance: Looks mismatched and decaying, appearance changes subtly over time through self repair
Backstory: One of the well known but virtually unseen Frankenstein, it shows humanity's inner self openly, so it was driven away and outcasted. Its only friend, it thinks, is a little child, whose parents drove it away from due to its appearance
Stats:
Strength: 2
Endurance: 2
Dexterity: 1
Power: 0
Intuition: 2
Charisma: 0
Major Trait: Self repair- Can fix self damage by sewing other body parts to itself
Minor Traits: Feels no pain. Knows the human anatomy well.
Flaws: No friends- It has been outcasted and chased for so long, it has a hard time trusting others. Decay- The body becomes weaker over time, and must occasionally Self repair to keep from wearing out. (Effects up to GM)

[Wwolin]

Edited my sheet, is it alright?
Not quite sure what effects/penalties my traits and flaws would actually have. Hope they work anyway.

Your sheet works perfectly.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name: Gregorios
Species: Bogeyman
Gender: Male
Age: 46

Appearance: Looks almost like a regular human old man, save for his unnatural thinness and for his blackened claw - he'd lost the other some years prior, and has a simple multi-hooked brass claw in its place. His white hair is patchy and thin.
He often wears a musty old suit, to complete the creepy old man aesthetic he already has going.

Backstory: Gregorios had always been the kind of monster to take the path of least resistance, so when it was pointed out by a friend of his that he was a bit more human-like than your average monster, he happily took advantage of it, soon gaining the persona of an elderly trader and losing the respect of most of his monster friends. Not that he cared much about that.

Why would he? He had a nice thing going, with a nice comfortable home and a simple business, not to mention the perfect chance to unnerve some of the citizens. Of course, everything good must end, and in this case, it ended unceremoniously. The citizens of the town came together with their collected evidence of Gregorios' wrongdoing (his main offenses being that he's creepy, weird and a little girl thinks she saw him eat a rat once) and planned to oust the bogey in the middle of the night. That came to Gregorios' advantage, giving the chance to claw, maim and otherwise assault the townsfolk in self-defense. And with that, Gregorios came to the perfectly reasonable conclusion that humans are terrible and that he began to make his way to Elaris.

Upon reaching Elaris, he began telling a story of his life amongst the humans. Said story is mostly notable due to being almost entirely untrue.

Stats:
 Strength: 0
 Endurance: 0
 Dexterity: 2
 Power: 2
 Intuition: 1
 Charisma: 2
Major Trait:
  Shadowy Figure - The longer he stays within shadows, Gregorios enjoys a multitude of benefits, becoming much more powerful, stronger and quicker
Minor Traits:
  Great Trader - Gregorios learned a great many skills during his time with the humans, the main one being how to screw over any customers at a high profit.
Flaws:
  One Handed(or Clawed?)
  Slow Healing

Wasn't too sure what effects to give to my traits stats-wise, so I uh, suppose I'll leave those details up to you. :I

Yeah, I'll stat out everyone's traits after I select the four players, which will probably be sometime later today. Also, you appear to have one more flaw than you need to.

[SomeStupidGuy]

Yeah, I'll stat out everyone's traits after I select the four players, which will probably be sometime later today. Also, you appear to have one more flaw than you need to.

Oh, right. Somehow I got it in my head that I needed a flaw for each trait, not just the minor ones. I'll fix it in a bit.

[Pancaek]

Spoiler: crypt guardian (click to show/hide)

Name: Zareb
Species: Crypt Guardian
Gender: Male
Age: 86
Appearance: Has a humanoid shape, roughly 1.8-1.9 meters tall. His skin is ashen grey with dark blotches, his face a twisted amalgamation of fury and pain in their most primal form. Wears some sort of face conceilment at almost all times.
Backstory: He was a construct. One day, he came into being to protect the tomb of a woman. His creator had made him to protect her crypt into eternity, so that none would disturb his loved one's sleep. He was the silent watchman, beautiful and ivory white, fashioned after the image of the legendary archer warrior of the east. His one purpose was to guard the tomb in silence.

Many years passed, intruders were defeated or scared off. After some time, the creator stopped visiting. But the tomb was safe, and he kept his duty. Until one day a group of grave robbers came to plunder the crypt. The creator had left powerful artifacts in his lover's tomb and these men were hell bent on getting them. They came with their new masterworks and did battle with him on even ground. But the humands had the numbers, and he was soon defeated and pinned to the ground. He was made to watch as the broke open the beautiful tomb with their wicked weapons and destroyed her fragile remains in an effort to get the artifacts.

He did not understand. This was not part of his purpose. This was not part of the Duty. When the one who pinned him down looked back, his smile faded fast and was replaced by a look of horror. The guardian had changed, he was no longer the same, he could not bear the sacrilege that was being committed.
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And so, days later, a dark figure emerged from a tomb. Wearing grave robber clothes and a hooded cowl, he staggered off towards the land of the outcasts.


Stats: All stats start at 0, and you get 7 points to spend. Every 2 points in a stat is a +1 to related rolls, and a 0 in a stat is a -1 to related rolls
Strength: 2
Endurance: 1
Dexterity: 3
Power: 0
Intuition: 1
Charisma: 0
Major Trait: Beneath the mask
Minor Traits: excellent archer. Defender
Flaws: Abomination  Archery construct

Mouse over traits to get descriptions of what I was thinking of. Also, would the 'beneath the mask' one use charisma? Because if so, I'll need to shuffle some stats around.