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[Kilojoule Proton]

Goblin Christmas: A tale of labor and gifts (19 days left) (8/20 players)

1114, Moonstone 1

Every year, on the night of Moonstone 24, Zangu Slastda, jovial old goblin and powerful chronomancer, wanders the world in a hoardslay pulled by a dozen flying beak dogs in search of children to serve as replacement workers, enticing them variously with toys, "toys," not-toys, and lumps of charcoal. They are collected and brought to his lair at the Dimple of Bald, a glacier in the far North. You are his current (alive) workers, elves stolen from early childhood.

Zangu and his relatively small crew of goblins have decided not to allow you access to dangerous tools such as picks, axes, or bows and crossbows after several past incidents they refuse to name. However, they will work hard (for a given definition of hard work) to provide you with resources for adding to Zangu's hoardslay.

This is an easy-death game. Characters can and will die (so don't get too attached to them), but players are permitted to reroll on death.

Updates will likely roll out daily around 18:00 PST (or 02:00 UTC)

Character creation

Basic template:

Code: [Select]

Name:
Skills:
Gift:
Brief background:
Color:
Time zone relative to UTC:

Skills

Skill levels:
Not/Dabbling: +0
Novice: +1
Competent: +2
Proficient: +3

Spoiler: Available skills (3 points) (click to show/hide)

Bowyer: Make bows ("toys")
Carpenter: Make training weapons ("toys"), shields, ("toys"), and trap components ("toys")

Wood burner: Turn wood into charcoal (coal)
Shearer: Harvest fur from trolls (pre-not-toys)

Armorsmith: Make metal armor ("toys")
Furnace operator: Make metal (pre-toys, pre-"toys")
Metal crafter; Make metal toys/instruments/goods (toys)
Weaponsmith: Make metal weapons ("toys")

Gem cutter: Cut gems for use in embellishment
Gem setter: Embellish goods with gems, increasing value

Bone carver: Make goods/totems (toys), decorate goods, make bolts ("toys")
Clothier: Make clothes (not-toys), decorate with cloth
Leatherworker: Make wearables (not-toys), decorate with leather
Stone crafter: Make goods (toys)
Weaver: Turn thread into cloth (pre-not-toys)
Wood crafter: Make wooden goods (toys), wooden weapons ("toys")

Dodge: Harvest Great Cheerful Spiders' silk

Gifts

Come up with one unique trait for your elf. Examples include such things as a thick, hard skull, prophetic visions, extra appendages, burning hair, and other things like that. Overly powerful Gifts will be scaled down automatically.

Colors

Spoiler: Colors (select one for IC text, collisions discouraged but permitted) (click to show/hide)

Tomato
Salmon
Light coral
Rosy brown
Indian red
Red
Brown
Fire brick
Dark red
Maroon

Dark sea green
Lime green
Lime
Forest green
Green
Dark green
Chartreuse
Lawn green
Green yellow
Dark olive green

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Players:

Lord_lemonpie
Name:Cacame Lemonpie
Skills: Proficient bonecarver
Gift: Posseses plant magic.
Brief background: Cacame is the son of an elven druid. He was kidnapped by Goblin Claus when he was three. He has an affinity for plant magic.
Color: Dark olive green
Time zone relative to UTC: +1

Salsacookies
Name: Urist McUrist
Skills: Adequate Armorsmith, Competent Furnace operator, Novice Weaponsmith
Gift: Can learn hidden characteristics in metal by merely focusing on it
Brief background: Urist McUrist is of the fort of Urist. When he was kidnapped, no one notice amidst the siege. He knows metal very well. He is an elf kidnapped by dwarves.
Color: Firebrick
Time zone relative to UTC: +6

Nunzillor
Name: "Cheesy" Erith
Skills: Novice dodger, adequate weaver, adequate clothier, novice trapper
Gift: Access to cheese allows Erith to manifest latent psychokinetic abilities.
Brief background: From an early age, Erith knew he would be the greatest transcendent cheesesmith of his generation.  Unfortunately, Erith's unsual ambition made no sense to anyone (perhaps even himself) and he was pressed into clothesmaking by his confused parents.  He views his recent kidnapping as a great opportunity to start a new life in pursuit of his possibly nonsensical dream.
Color: Green-yellow.
Timezone relative to UTC: -8

Harbingerjm
Name: Grifishrulbin.
Skills: Talented Bone Carver, Talented Leatherworker, Novice Dodge.
Gift: Slightly fluffy, smells like a Kobold when damp.
Brief background: "Found" out in the forest by a tribe of Kobolds, adopted because he smelt like a Kobold.
Color: Rosy Brown.
Time zone relative to UTC: +11.

The Froggy Ninja
Name: David (mocked by his elven brotherin for his ridiculous name)
Skills: Competent Gem cutter, Skilled Gem setter
Gift: Can enchant gems and the objects with gems. (mostly lights, bags of holding etc unless assisted by someone else with magic.)
Brief background: Was generally disliked by his fellow elves for his religious views and tendency to boobytrap things with his enchantments.
Color: lime
Time zone relative to UTC: -5

Name: Kringle GoldenToes
Skills: Skilled bowyer, novice gem setter
Gift: Eating sugar causes him to go a bit crazy...
Brief background: *You find a note with the word SUGAR scribbled in blood on it.*
Color:Maroon
Time zone relative to UTC:-5

Playergamer
Name: Steve
Skills: Proficient Carpenter
Gift: Steve can harden wood, making it about as strong as copper.
Brief Background: Steve lived near David. He was one of the elves who made fun of David, and was the son of a renowned carpenter.
Color: Dark green
Time zone relative to UTC: -7

Aseaheru
Name: Everett Owen
Skills: Skilled Weaponsmith, Adequate Armorsmith, Proficient Furnace Operator, Competent Metalcrafter
Gift: Knows how to fix things. Somehow. Sometimes.
Brief background: Brought in at age 10, from human fishing town.
Color: Maroon
Time zone relative to UTC: -5

StrawBarrel
Name: Vanilla Bone
Skills: Novice Wood Burner, Competent Shearer
Gift: An extra pair of arms
Brief background: Seen as a bad omen, Vanilla Bone was given to the goblin kidnappers at a young age because of her odd white hair and four pairs of arms.
Color: Tomato
Time zone relative to UTC: -6

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Reserved

[Lord_lemonpie]

Ooh looks cool!

Name:Cacame Lemonpie
Skills:Proficient bonecarver
Gift: Posseses plant magic.
Brief background: Cacame is the son of an elven druid. He was kidnapped by Goblin Claus when he was three. He has an affinity for plant magic.
Color: Dark olive green
Time zone relative to UTC: +1 i think

[Salsacookies]

Name: Urist McUrist
Skills:
Armorsmith
Furnace operator
Weaponsmith
Gift: Can learn hidden characteristics in metal by merely focusing on it
Brief background: Urist McUrist is of the fort of Urist. When he was kidnapped, no one notice amidst the siege. He knows metal very well. He is an elf kidnapped by dwarves.
Color: Firebrick
Time zone relative to UTC:4:30 AM. My Time: 10:30 PM

[Nunzillor]

Name: "Cheesy" Erith
Skills: Novice dodger, novice weaver, novice clothier.
Gift: Access to cheese allows Erith to manifest latent psychokinetic abilities.
Brief background: From an early age, Erith knew he would be the greatest transcendent cheesesmith of his generation.  Unfortunately, Erith's unusual ambition made no sense to anyone (perhaps even himself) and he was pressed into clothesmaking by his confused parents.  He views his recent kidnapping as a great opportunity to start a new life in pursuit of his possibly nonsensical dream.
Color: yellow.
Timezone relative to UTC: PST (-8 hours).

Edit: typo fixed

[Harbingerjm]

Name: Grifishrulbin.
Skills: Novice Bone Carver, Novice Leatherworker, Novice Dodge.
Gift: Slightly fluffy, smells like a Kobold when damp.
Brief background: "Found" out in the forest by a tribe of Kobolds, adopted because he smelt like a Kobold.
Color: Rosy Brown.
Time zone relative to UTC: +11.

[The Froggy Ninja]

Name: David (mocked by his elven brotherin for his ridiculous name)
Skills: Novice Gem cutter Component Gem setter
Gift: Can enchant gems and the objects with gems. (mostly lights, bags of holding etc unless assisted by someone else with magic.)
Brief background: Was generally disliked by his fellow elves for his religious views and tendency to boobytrap things with his enchantments.
Color: lime
Time zone relative to UTC: -5

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1114, Moonstone 2

Five elves, Cacame Lemonpie, Urist McUrist, "Cheesy" Erith, Grifishrulbin, and David, have been dragged into a dark tower filled with workshops, furnaces, equipment, and supplies. Among the supplies available to these five are bones, shells, rusted iron wire and lumps, coal coke, troll fur, tanned skins, and dull gems of many kinds. A goblin wearing an oddly shaped rust-colored hat appears.

"Hohohohoho! Get ta work, ya smelly kids! We dun have much silk now, so one of ya'll have to go down if ya want ta be weavin'! Slowest one today's gettin' the Spider!"

At this point, you may make plans on how to use your next 24 hours. Fortunately, Elves do not actually need to sleep.

[Nunzillor]

Perfect, thought Erith.  This was perfect!  He hadn't had much luck so far channelling the flaky beings within the dimension of cheese.  Nor, of course, striking the pasteurized wheels of existence with the hammer of his odorous will, as was the very metaphysical definition of the noble cheesesmithing art.  But now, things were going to be different.  He would use the newfound freedom granted by this Zangu fellow to show all Elfdom-- nay, the world!-- just what he was capable of!

Yes, Erith knew what he wanted: cheesesmithery.  And Armok-damnit, he was going to get it if he had to steal it from the heavens themselves!  "This is all well and good, but where is the cheese? 

You don't understand: the holes in a wheel of Swiss lead to the ministrations of the divine pasteurizer himself!  Lead me to your silk and I will weave you your clothes, but I demand cheese as my fair and just compensation!"

Demand cheese!  Be led to the caverns of the great cheerful spiders.

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"Cheese? Yeah, there's plenty down here. Come with me, you with the cheesiness. Hohohohoho!"

[Nunzillor]

"Excellent!"

Spend the next 24 hours gathering webs, weaving those webs into silk, and creating from that silk cheese-themed clothing.  If during these activities Erith finds cheese he will nab it!

((Apologies for the ridiculous number of edits.))

[Kilojoule Proton]

Erith and one of the goblins descend a seemingly endless staircase leading to a small room with a door and a rack of backpacks. The goblin hands one to Erith along with a torch and opens the door.

"Do ya see that room? That's a cave. Not fancy and full of glowy mushrooms like in pictures. Ya go in and get enough silk and we may give you cheese."

He shoves you in and slams the door shut. There are strategically placed torch holders scattered throughout this place, and two torches mark the entrance to the tower. Outside the light of your torches, it is blacker than the finest aged Necrotic Toe cheese. You see some dense webs near you.

[Nunzillor]

Erith couldn't help but feel some of his goodwill towards Zangu fading as the door slammed, locking the child inside a room likely filled with eight-legged remorseless killing machines.  Cheerful ones at that, apparently.  Still though... the goblin had mentioned a chance at cheese.  The path laid before the not-so-humble cheesesmith apprentice was clear.

"Foul bugs cannot stand against the might of my cheesy conviction anyway..."

Take a torch and begin gathering webs.  Keep an eye out for giant murderouscheerful spiders.