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[sjm9876]

   The world of Alleria is a war torn place. Mercenaries fight alongside loyal soldiers in the endless feuds of city states, whilst merchants and craftsmen in cities mourn their lost husbands and wives. Foolhardy adventurers risk their lives for whispered rumours of power, whilst strange creatures guard the mountains that hem in the realm.

   The world around you is black. No light, no sound, no sensation. You try to turn your head, but nothing changes. Your head doesn’t even seem to react. Then you remember - flashes of blood, of violence; poison and deceit; a soft bed and family. You remember your death.

   Is this the afterlife? You ask yourself.
   NO. Comes the answer. YOU HAVE BEEN GIVEN A SECOND CHANCE.
   A pause follows, and the black lightens, a room coming into focus…

Spoiler: GM notes (click to show/hide)

Welcome to Shattered Souls - a multiplayer RPG. You play as freshly incarnated souls, killed with some unfinished business begging you to return. The world is low fantasy - magic is possible, but very rare, such that wizards and sorcerers are non-existent, and many will go through their lives without ever hearing more than rumours of magic. Similarly, non-human races do exist, but are equally rare.

The game will focus on exploration and RP (as well as figuring out what’s happening) more so than combat - what combat there is will likely be short and very, very dangerous.
 It may get rather grim.

Spoiler: Soul sheet (click to show/hide)

NAME: Everyone had one, once. Even if they choose not to use it.
PERSONALITY: Some things stay with you when you leave the flesh behind.
BACKGROUND: Memories fade quickly, but they still impact you more than you may realise. How you lived is as important as how you died, and why you wish to live again as much so as either.

Stats: You have 6 points to distribute here. All stats start at 1.
WILLPOWER: Your strength of will - resistance to fear and horror, and whatever else may come your way.
AFFINITY: Your knack for magic - many characters may not even know this exists, but it’s there for everyone. It impacts on far more than just direct magic use.
SKILL: Your adaptability and aptitude - your memories may fade, but some part of you remembers. This represents the non-physical part of your skills however - quick fingers won’t help here.

[GiglameshDespair]

In. Give me a sec.

[endlessblaze]

I'm in, but this might take a moment to get my sheet made, got stuff to do.

Exactly how rare is magic, and how obvious is it when it happens. By this I mean when DOES magic happens is It boom! Flaming sword of awesomeness or "a soft light envelops your wounds and seals them.

Or is it more boring like "you feal a faint wind, fate favors you, +1 to chances of survival"

[sjm9876]

It varies depending on the caster or effect - a more outgoing caster may have a more obvious shade of magic. It will however mostly tend to somewhere between the two examples given above. The 'soft light' example is quite a good one.

For the rarity - well, dedicated casters are not a thing. A village may have a healer with an unnatural talent, or a warrior's sword may burst into flames whenever he goes into battle. There may be a couple such people in a city - though that's not to say there aren't more who don't know about their talent. It isn't known exactly how many people could potentially use magic, but scholars guess that many people who could never find out.

[endlessblaze]

Fixed---
-----fixed agian

NAME: embrus
PERSONALITY: he is somewhat kind hearted but if you stand in his way or if he simply feels like it he will kill you, however he almost never turns on those he knows. He can be quite benevolent and loves children, making harming them one of the best ways to incite his wrath.
BACKGROUND: born to a small village full of poverty he sought more. Learning the way of the sword he began to adventure. And discovered his magic affinity for fire and darkness. He seeks to carve out his own kingdom were people live happily, and we're light and dark dance in harmony.

Stats: You have 6 points to distribute here. All stats start at 1.
WILLPOWER:2
AFFINITY: 4
SKILL: 3

Did I do that right? And is that magic skill enough to do the flaming sword?
And we can get increased in stats later right?

[sjm9876]

Ah, no. Affinity and skill are both numerical, rather than typed - so you have 6 points to add to willpower, affinity, and skill, which apply to everything they cover.

Likewise, whilst a character could access any magic consciously, that would require a high affinity score, which would drain a lot from other stats. I won't stop anyone, but I wouldn't recommend this.

Also, how did your character die? - all the characters are souls at this point.

Stat increase is possible, but not guaranteed - there is no leveling system.

[endlessblaze]

So....wait....how does just a number show my affinity so and skills, give me an exsample.

Fixed

[Andres]

Reserved

[Urist Arrhenius]

Let me know what you think. I can write more or less, not really sure what you're expectations are.

Spoiler: Felicity (click to show/hide)

NAME: Felicity
PERSONALITY: Felicity is, or was, resolutely hopeful. Life had often been difficult, but it had also often gotten better. Felicity expected more or less the same thing from the afterlife, and was actually quite looking forward to the adventure.
BACKGROUND: Felicity remembered... a bed. It had been soft, as soft as beds got at least. There had been people around it, all wet eyed. Before that... she had been working as a seamstress! That's right, she had made beautiful clothes, right up until the shaking had started. Something had been wrong, the kind of thing that couldn't be fixed. But Felicity had been hopeful it would get better all the same. She was sure wherever she was now had a way to make it better!

Stats
WILLPOWER: 4
AFFINITY: 3
SKILL: 2

[sjm9876]

@ endless: all stats start at 1, so you can add 1 to each.

Spoiler: Example sheet for clarity (click to show/hide)

Name: John Smith
Personality: Fairly docile, but exceptionally loyal to his king and family - he would happily die defending them.
Background: After a disastrous apprenticeship to a famous healer, in which even the most potent poultices turned to mud in his hands, John applied to the city guard. Here he rose slowly through the ranks by sheer determination, until he was sworn in as Captain, to hold his post until death came for him. About 2 years before that day, raiders slaughtered his home village, his family dying in the flames. Still, he held his post. He died there, too, and the night watch came to find him slumped against the wall, at peace at last.
Now, freed from his oath at last, John seeks vengeance for his village and all that he has lost.

Stats:
Willpower: 5
Affinity: 1
Skill: 3

@Urist: A little more would be nice, but it's less about the quantity and more about getting the character across - after all, not everyone has done vast amounts with their life.

[endlessblaze]

@ endless: all stats start at 1, so you can add 1 to each.

Spoiler: Example sheet for clarity (click to show/hide)

Name: John Smith
Personality: Fairly docile, but exceptionally loyal to his king and family - he would happily die defending them.
Background: After a disastrous apprenticeship to a famous healer, in which even the most potent poultices turned to mud in his hands, John applied to the city guard. Here he rose slowly through the ranks by sheer determination, until he was sworn in as Captain, to hold his post until death came for him. About 2 years before that day, raiders slaughtered his home village, his family dying in the flames. Still, he held his post. He died there, too, and the night watch came to find him slumped against the wall, at peace at last.
Now, freed from his oath at last, John seeks vengeance for his village and all that he has lost.

Stats:
Willpower: 5
Affinity: 1
Skill: 3

@Urist: A little more would be nice, but it's less about the quantity and more about getting the character across - after all, not everyone has done vast amounts with their life.

ohhhhh

Ok then so...

There now it should be right.

[GiglameshDespair]

Spoiler: Ayzebel Glassria Kulandria (click to show/hide)

Name: Ayzebel Glassria Kulandria
Personality: Logical, with a wry sense of humour. Determined to live (again) at any cost, even if it means dishonour, to get back to her clan.
Background: Ayzebel Glassria Kulandria (in the meaning of her people Alikia, of Glass, of Kuland) is a daughter of the glass-maker clan of Kuland, a city state by a warm sea. While many people knew how to make coloured glass, the secret of clear glass was known only to them - this and their skill at the glass arts made the clan rich and successful - their glass was known the civilised world over. Kulan, in it's greatness, however, had many enemies, especially the city of Ixan. To protect itself, Kulan hired mercenaries, and each clan had to dispatch a contigent of their own troops to fend off the heavy legions of Ixan.

Ayzebel was the leader of the Glassria clan soldiers, a large and surprisingly potent force for a clan of glass makers - their wealth allowed them to afford the best equipment - fine bronze armour and even steel blades from overseas. During the first battle, the mercenaries turned on the Kulandrians, bribed by the Ixani. Surrounded by foes, the Glassria clan soldiers fought a bloody, desperate struggle to the last man - Ayzebel was the last to die, unable to fall from the spear that impaled her, surrounded by the corpses of her soldiers and her foes.

Stats: (assumings the starting at 1 doesn't count towards the point total)
Willpower: 3
Affinity: 2
Skill: 4

_{Based on Carthage and Rome. The romans never really discovered steel making - their steel was actually rather rubbish. Instead, at the time, bronze was considered superior for armour due to the ability for craftsmen to work it, and iron was most common for weapons. Wootz steel was sold to the romans in small amounts, but they only ever really made it into a few sword blades.}

[sjm9876]

Look good so far.

[Rolepgeek]

Looks interesting. I'll bite.

Spoiler: Kanders (click to show/hide)

NAME: Kanders Denres tuCessern
PERSONALITY: Grim, dour, argumentative, and stubborn, but also curious, bright, and occasionally even playful, to those he knows.
BACKGROUND: Once, there was a man, by the name of Kanders, born to the Cessern family. A poor but technically noble family within the holdings of a more powerful lord in the feudal lands of Restienn, Kanders did not grow up in decadence; he did grow up with ambition, however, and questioning the world around him. Why didn't the other families know their servant's names? Why were the merchant houses allowed to grow so wealthy through lies and corruption? How come there was no time for him to learn to art of swordsmanship like his brothers? None of it seemed fair. Kanders would soon come to learn, however, that life was not fair.

In addition to this ambition, though, he'd always had a fascination for the old, the ancient, and the mysterious. When he came of age, and received a small allotment of inheritance set aside so that he could try to bring wealth to the family, it was only natural that there were two things he most wanted to do. Archaeology, a relatively new field of study, though some might call it grave-digging(Kanders preferred the term 'spelunking'), and magic. Magic, of course, was incredibly rare, and there were doubts as to it's existence, but Kanders felt sure there was something more to those rumors.

Perhaps it is no surprise he died as he did, then. While he managed to bring back some small fortunes for his family and fund further expeditions into ancient tombs and the like, the ancient world is not a safe one. One day, he descended into the site to study some writings by himself, the guards superstitions taking the better of them, as they refused to enter the dilapidated tunnels that night, due to ill omens. Kanders scoffed at their believed cowardice, but he would have done better to listen, for, omen or no, he never returned from those cavernous rooms. His body was found some weeks later when his family paid a small mercenary band with the remains of the fortune he'd obtained to retrieve the corpse for his funeral, but it was already dessicated. The precise cause of death seems unclear, but it seems likely to have been either poison, drowning, or, possibly, considering his present condition...perhaps it was a curse. Yet he had changed nothing. Life was still unfair. People still starved despite their efforts, the corrupt still grew more powerful...he had accomplished almost nothing in life.

But...if he had not accomplished what he wished in life, perhaps he could...in death? If life was not fair...maybe, just maybe....maybe death could be, instead.

Stats:
WILLPOWER: 3
AFFINITY: 3
SKILL: 3

[Pencil_Art]

Looks interesting.