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[Lord_lemonpie]

OOC thread

The great iron bells of Oackholm rang again, for the first time in a century. It was time again. Just like every century, a new caravan was sent to explore the undiscovered and dangerous lands that lied beyond the mountains surrounding Oackholm. Oackholm itself was a result of the centennial exploration. It was founded almost three hundred years ago, by the caravan of explorers that left the city of Skarhamm. That was the last succesfull exploration. The two caravans that left Oackholm in the last 200 years had dissapeared without leaving a trace. Usually, after several months of exploring, a great site to found a city on was discovered, so the explorers would settle there.

As the iron bells rang, the jailer of the Oackholm announced which prisoners were ordered to join the caravan. Most of them were poachers, but there were also other criminals punished by being forced to join the caravan. After notifying every criminal, the counter for voluntary participation was opened. Those who wished to voluntarily join the exploration, which were unsurprisingly few, could sign up to join the caravan.

Soon after the registrations were completed, the people who were joining the exploration, both those who were forced to and those who wished to, were gathered at the town square. The company was made up out of a variety of races: from humans to kobolds, and from elves to gnolls. Soon, the strongest and toughest Sleipnir were taken out of their stables and saddled up. One of the city's mages summoned an Aether whale: A great flying creature that was able to carry the heavier goods. As the snow fell, the people prepared to leave the city, most of them for the first time in their lifes.

Explorers of the Eternal world is a game where you and the other players explore the unexplored, snowy lands north of Oackholm. On their travels they will encounter dangerous creatures, new species, powerful forms of magic and many more things! I will try to post a turn every day, but if I'm unable to, I'll try to notify y'all. There is currently no limit, but once the players leave Oackholm (Probably at the 1st of February), you won't be able to completely create a character yourself, so you have to pick someone who has joined the caravan but hasn't been picked yet, or a sentient being the explorers encounter on their travels. Death is permanent, but once your character has died, you are free to pick another one. The exploration takes place in a Norse setting, with snow and stuff everywhere. If there is any secret stuff you want to do, PM me.

Spoiler: Sign up sheets (click to show/hide)

Name:
Gender:
Race:
Description:
Reason for joining: (Punishment is a valid reason)
Occupation/crime before joining:
Stats: (Every stat begins with 5 points in it. You have twenty more points to spend)
     Strength:5+  =
     Agility:5+  =
     Intelligence:5+  =
     Charisma:5+  =
Other: (God/Familiar/Magic capabilities/etc. Try to accurately describe these.)

[Lord_lemonpie]

Current players:

Spoiler: scapheap (click to show/hide)

Name: Taki (Use to be clan Lakhan, now clanless)
Gender: Female
Race: Drider
Description: Red haired woman top half with ebony spider bottom half. Has green eyes, fair 'human' skin and a few light scars here and there.
Reason for joining: Banish for murder of the clan heir (was self-defense against rape, but as a low class member of the Lakhan with little evident of the 'assault' and well you can guess the outcome)
Occupation/crime before joining: Huntress.
Stats: (Every stat begins with 5 points in it. You have twenty more points to spend)
     Strength:5+3  =8
     Agility:5+8  =13
     Intelligence:5+2  =7
     Charisma:5+7  =12
Other: A strong sense of traps, allowing Taki to quickly set up traps and recognize the signs of a trap zone.
Can't swim, at all.

Spoiler: Blitzdungeoneer (click to show/hide)

Name: Kaya
Gender: Female
Race: Human
Description: A rather tall blonde-haired woman with absurdly pale skin, bordering on being literally white. She has odd silvery eyes, looks thin because of the clothing she wears. Kaya wears a thick dark green cloak, beneath which she wears a dark green bodysuit looking as though it was designed to be as baggy as possible, with an absurd amount of pockets.
Reason for joining: Looking for a new start
Occupation/crime before joining: Mercenary
Stats: (Every stat begins with 5 points in it. You have twenty more points to spend)
     Strength:5+7=13
     Agility:5+6=11
     Intelligence:5+5=10
     Charisma:5+2=7
Other: Has a familiar which follows her everywhere in the form of a vaguely humanoid pink puffball with red feet, roughly 8 inches tall. It is very stretchy and appears to be able to eat anything.

Spoiler: Andres (click to show/hide)

Name: Ixis
Gender: Female
Race: Free Daemon
Description: Here
Reason for joining: To get souls from killed things and make contracts with caravaneers and the people they meet.
Occupation/crime before joining: Indentured Daemon. Ixis served her lord faithfully and for a long time and thus he rewarded her with freedom, so long as he gets to take most of her power. She agreed and is now free to roam the world as a free daemon, though she's rather weak by human standards.
Stats:
     Strength:5+0 =5
     Agility:5+0 =5
     Intelligence:5+12 =17
     Charisma:5+ 8 =13
Other:
Intelligence and Charisma increase as normal, Strength and Agility will not increase on their own
Eating the soul of a dead creature gives a small chance to increase potential Strength/Agility
Eating the soul of a willing creature increases potential Strength/Agility (contracts)
Shapeshifting: Can spend an entire night shapeshifting into a new form, converting all actual Str/Agi to potential Str/Agi and then back again. It also allows for new/better body parts at the expense of those two stats.

As daemons are very honourable when it comes to contracts, Ixis must fulfil her part of the contract as well as she can. If she doesn't, a daemonic hit squad will kill her for sullying the names of daemons everywhere. She can break out of a contract if the person on the other end was dishonourable. Things which qualify as dishonourable include but are not strictly limited to <wording the contract to take more than what was expected> and <misleading the daemon about probable risks involved with the contract>
Cannot enter temples of (possibly most, possibly all) other gods because while the gods tolerate the daemons' existence, they don't like their habit of eating souls. The only exception to this rule is if someone was made the target of a contract prior to the target entering the temple.

Spoiler: IamanElfCollaborator (click to show/hide)

Name: Zazerth
Gender: Male
Race: Lizardman
Description: A green-scaled, humanoid lizard with a single golden eye, his left eye covered by an eyepatch and marred with a scar from a particularly dangerous hunt. His scales are crossed with the scars of past hunts. He wears a lot of light leather and chainmail, with two large knives hanging from his belt.
Reason for joining: To hunt more challenging prey.
Occupation/crime before joining: Hunter
Stats: (Every stat begins with 5 points in it. You have twenty more points to spend)
     Strength:5+9  =14
     Agility:5+9  =14
     Intelligence:5+2  =7
     Charisma:5+0  =5
Other: Ridiculously strong in water, capable of swimming faster than trained humans.
Is a skilled trapper.

Spoiler: Objective (click to show/hide)

Name: Luyfie Arensen
Gender: Male
Race: Human
Description: A petite, ginger boy barely shy of 17 years. He is lean and weak despite him having to exert himself physically to help out in the farm. While he is clever, he is somewhat stubborn and reckless. He ended up running away, without much preparation.
Reason for joining: Running away from home.
Occupation/crime before joining: Farm Hand
Stats:
     Strength:5+ 0 = 5
     Agility:5+ 8 = 13
     Intelligence:5+ 8 = 13
     Charisma:5+ 4 = 7
Other: Having lived in a farm for most of his life, Luyfie doesn't have much in the way of worldly knowledge, and most of the things he known are from outdated old books he managed to get his hands on through sheer persistence.

Spoiler: Kadzar (click to show/hide)

Name: Folwin
Gender: Male
Race: Elf
Description: Brown-haired elf in gray robes. Wearing shackles and a blindfold to block his power. If they weren't covered, you could see his eyes are green.
Reason for joining: Banished for recurrent crimes and multiple escapes
Occupation/crime before joining: Thief
Stats: (Every stat begins with 5 points in it. You have twenty more points to spend)
     Strength:5+1 =6
     Agility:5+9 =14
     Intelligence:5+6 =11
     Charisma:5+4 =9
Other: Can teleport to any spot he can see within (let's say) a dozen yards (or whatever distance you feel is appropriate). Doing so for too long or too often is tiring for him.

Spoiler: Pencil_art (click to show/hide)

Name: Averus
Gender: Male
Race: Elf
Description: A tall, wide shouldered elf in rusty armor. Often wears a mask made of rags starting from the bridge of his nose down.
Occupation: Bodyguard and part time animal researcher. Also murderer, but don't let that stop you from getting to know him.
Stats:
Strength: 5+7 = 12
Agility: 5+5 = 10
Intelligence: 5+7 = 12
Charisma: 5+1 = 6
Other: Animal Whisperer: Can speak to animals (Magic is awesome)

Spoiler: Cryxis, Prince of Doom (click to show/hide)

Name: Bjarg (Steinn) [both mean stone in nordic]
Gender: gender less (just going to call it male to save trouble though)
Race: Stone golem/atranoch
Description: A large humanoid made up of several large conjoined boulders
Reason for joining: was convicted of accidentaly killing the elf Mage that made him, he volunteered to go on the expedition hopping to find his true home, not understanding the current place he lives in
Occupation/crime: (personal assistant/ experiment gone wrong) convicted of accidentaly crushing his creator to death, supposedly upon trying to hug him.
Stats:
Strength: 5+15=20
Agility: 5+5=10
Inteligence:5+0=5
Charisma:5+0=5

Other: can raise stones to life as small stone man minions

Spoiler: Salsacookies (click to show/hide)

Name:  Rob, Bob, and Job Lane
Gender: Male
Race: 3-Headed Frost Troll
Description: A 9 foot tall creature with long, spindly limbs and a fat torso. The heads sit on their own necks, on broad shoulders.
Reason for joining: Curious, and decided to tag along.
Occupation/crime before joining: A hunter who lives on his own in the cold wilderness.
Stats: (Every stat begins with 5 points in it. You have twenty more points to spend)
     Strength:5+10=15
     Agility:5+10=15
     Intelligence:5+0 =5
     Charisma:5+0=5
Other: His three heads act as three separate beings, with their own thoughts and personalities, which bicker with themselves and fight for control for the body they share. He is able to regenerate quickly, and survive even mortal wounds, given enough time to rest. All but the most extreme cold doesn't bother him, but hot things bother him more than usual.

[Squeegy]

You had me at "gnolls."

...but you lost me again at no stats. What's balancing these characters, exactly?

[Lord_lemonpie]

You had me at "gnolls."

...but you lost me again at no stats. What's balancing these characters, exactly?

Would stats make this better? I've never GM'd an RP like this, so I have no experience with this.

Would giving characters Strength, Agility, Intelligence and Charisma stats, with ten points to spend for every stat be okay?

[BlitzDungeoneer]

Spoiler: WIP (click to show/hide)

Name:
Gender:
Race:
Description:
Reason for joining: (Punishment is a valid reason)
Occupation/crime before joining:
Other: (God/Familiar/Magic capabilities/etc. Try to accurately describe these.)

Reserving myself a spot.

You had me at "gnolls."

...but you lost me again at no stats. What's balancing these characters, exactly?

Would stats make this better? I've never GM'd an RP like this, so I have no experience with this.

Would giving characters Strength, Agility, Intelligence and Charisma stats, with ten points to spend for every stat be okay?

Probably.
It depends on how you intend to decide whether, for example, a character can lift a boulder or not, or jump over a certain area.

[Lord_lemonpie]

Okay, I'll add it to the OP now. You'll get 5 points in Strength, Agility, Intelligence and Charisma, and 20 points to upgrade those to your liking.

[Andres]

See, the problem with having stats is now you have to describe what they do. Do they give bonuses to rolls? What kind of dice are we using? Are dice even going to be used? What's considered average? 5? 10? Something else?

What races do we have to choose from? Is it only the four mentioned in the OP or can we choose/make our own?

[Lord_lemonpie]

See, the problem with having stats is now you have to describe what they do. Do they give bonuses to rolls? What kind of dice are we using? Are dice even going to be used? What's considered average? 5? 10? Something else?

What races do we have to choose from? Is it only the four mentioned in the OP or can we choose/make our own?

I was planning to add the stats to dice rolls, probably 1d60 or something. Every roll will be classified as a Int/Str/Agl/Chr/nothing roll. If you get above thirty, you'll suceed, otherwise you won't. Some actions obviously don't need to be rolled. If you distribute your stats evenly, you get ten, so I guess thats the average.

As for races: you can be any generic fantasy race, or maybe even something you've made up yourself, as long as it makes sense. So that means no giant sentient pink flying giraffes that are only able to communicate while vomiting booze.

[BlitzDungeoneer]

Something else?

* BlitzDungeoneer must ask the obvious question.

Can I be a Kirby then? :p

[scapheap]

Something else?

* BlitzDungeoneer must ask the obvious question.

Can I be a Kirby then? :p

*raises eyebrow**Quickly google it* Oh, his race is kirby. Isn't that like calling a human, Human?

[BlitzDungeoneer]

I firmly believe in the anime explanation, namely that the race is Star Warrior, and his name is Kirby.

[Andres]

As for races: you can be any generic fantasy race, or maybe even something you've made up yourself, as long as it makes sense. So that means no giant sentient pink flying giraffes that are only able to communicate while vomiting booze.

Sleipnir

Aether whale

Sure. No nonsense creatures. I'll write up a character sheet tomorrow. It's pretty late where I am.

[Lord_lemonpie]

As for races: you can be any generic fantasy race, or maybe even something you've made up yourself, as long as it makes sense. So that means no giant sentient pink flying giraffes that are only able to communicate while vomiting booze.

Sleipnir

Aether whale

Sure. No nonsense creatures. I'll write up a character sheet tomorrow. It's pretty late where I am.

No nonsense creatures isn't what I meant D: I just mean no cheesy-for-no-good-reason creatures.

Something else?

* BlitzDungeoneer must ask the obvious question.

Can I be a Kirby then? :p

Literally being a kirby seems a little nonsense-y, but I if you were to create a race of small and pink humanoids, you'd get away with it

[BlitzDungeoneer]

Wonderful.
By the way, I do not fully understand the 'Other:' part of the sheet. Mind explaining it to me?

[Lord_lemonpie]

Wonderful.
By the way, I do not fully understand the 'Other:' part of the sheet. Mind explaining it to me?

Other is just for some extra stuff that is special to your character. If your character has a pet kitten that follows him/her everywhere, or ardently worships a specific god, you can put it in the Other part.