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Reserved.

[Demonic Spoon]

The world intrigues but ultimately the mercenary character thing does not. 

[ATHATH]

*Jaw drops at the amount of lore and dedication that has been put into this game*

Making character sheet... When will sign ups close?

This is a brilliant concept, by the way. Did you make it yourself?

Is illuminator's disease cancer?

Theoretically, could a Drogue Arbiter cast off the parts of it that go insane, purifying their sanity but producing an insane creature?

[Pencil_Art]

Spoiler: Taki Fe' Reuh (click to show/hide)

Name: Taki Fe' Rueh
Captain: Nay
Race: Aoul
Archetype: Wistful Fighter
Attributes ( points)
Strength:30
Finesse: 20
Speed: 10
Grace: 15
Wisdom:20
Brilliance: 5
Skills + Special Abilities (5 points)

Weapon Proficiency: Sword
--Cadet Training: Inner Void
--Weapons Aptitude: Execution
Path of the Scholar
--Scholar: Knowledge of the Land
Arbitomancy
--Operant Intent (top one)

Description:

Taki is exceptionally tall, even among his people, and looks like he was built to run for long distances. His mane is a hazily dark maroon color, and is less then five millimetres long at a time. His skin is a light shade of grey, and his eyes, as dark as hot tar and as molten-looking to match, often fix onto something for long periods at a time, as if he is contemplating something. His left cheek bears the marks of ancestry and family, the complicated runes seemingly carved into his skin. His gait is soft and easy, and he stays almost completely level as he walks. However, his eyes betray a certain wistfullness about him, as if longing for something he can never quite achieve or gain. He dresses simply, more for practicality then for anything else. He likes to keep his armor in a good condition, often taking a decent time after battles making sure his armor is clean.

Personality:

Taki speaks calmly most of the time. He is fiercely protective of his family, sometimes leading to Taki shrugging off the chains that normally keep him from such behavior and striking with full force at his aggravator. Only his best friends will have the honor of being treated like his family. His attitude towards death is simple. He does not mourn actively because that, in his mind, is not something that the subject would want him to do, as his being useless to the outside world would simply be a detriment to society. He does however, pray that they are now happy with his spare time and often before sleeping in a meditative state.

In battle, Taki's eyes go icy cold, and his jaw sets in a hard grimace. He feels no regret at the passing of his enemies, but prays for them the same as he does for the passing of those close to them. He prefers the fairness of honest battle, but doesn't really care if it isn't. He knows from his family how to fight unscrupulously, if that is what it takes to fight another day.

He is quite a social Aoul, and likes to express his emotions in light banter, his body language showing what he feels like; stresses, happy, sad, or angry. He always maintains a comedicly positive outlook on life, though you can tell when he is truly angry. He completely refuses to speak at all, in fact.

Biography:

Taki learned his art in his ancestral home, his father helping to teach him and teaching Taki the flowing forms of battle manuevers that made swordfighting an art. He was also given his weapon, a great Crystal-Edged Blade that had been held in the family bloodline for generations. A reliable weapon, and hardy enough for true battle. It was at this stage that he bonded significantly with his weapon, a sign his family took as the fact that the weapon had been destined for great use by him. He also learned the art of great calm in battle, which was said to look to others like he was a great, thoughtless void of a body, carrying out actions swiftly and decisively, and more importantly, accurately. He had not had much time to learn, but he had been shown to have a talent for using swords.

His village was next to a large darkland, and several members wanted to explore it. Taki was one of the members to join the party. Using the power of Lumomancy, the group ventured further in. However, a few days later, Taki, exhausted, was seen carrying one of the dead party members back, before collapsing on the ground outside the village. He was treated for various wounds, including a major mid-torso wound that had nearly killed him. Powerful Arbitomancy saved his life, and he holds the form of magic high regard, even practicing minor Arbitomancy. He doesn't use it often though, keeping it as a last-reserve, afraid that using it too much would have extreme side-effects. He had seen many Arbitomancers reduced to screaming wrecks by their own powers.

He became a sell-sword when it became apparent that he was beginning to scare his family, his experiences in the Darklands being a bit too much for him. Taking his sword, his armor and some food, he left quickly and quietly in the silence of the night.

Gear:
Crystal-Edged Sword - 125 credits
6 Power Crystals - 10 credits

Common Clothes - 0 credits
11 Days Aoul rations - 11 credits
Bedroll - 10 credits
Backpack - 8 credits

Pallia - 70 credits
Small Tent - 15 credits

Armor:
Name: Heavy Scalemail
Tech Level: Lesser
Defense Vs Polearms: 3 (15)
Defsense Vs Blades: 3 (15)
Defense Vs Blunt: 3 (15)
Defense Vs Pistols/Rifles: 3 (21)
Defense Vs Bows: 2 (10)
Defense Vs Phari: 0
Attribute Penalties: -5 Speed (-10), -5 Finesse (-10)
Description: A set of heavy metal armor, designed for warding all kinds of attacks with mediocre effectiveness. However, it is not augmented to have any defence against Phari attacks. Cost: 51 Credits.
Special:

[Tiruin]

Dropping a sheet here for future editing (because I have total net troubles)! Also, thanks for the PM Draignean!
...And I -like- how you made the OP picture blend in...though only in the Darkling forum format (unless...the grey is actually 'transparent'), in which kudos in general!


New Sheet Posted!

The world intrigues but ultimately the mercenary character thing does not. 

* Tiruin bops with silliness

A mercenary is more than a soldier for hire. It's a way of life (which pretty much encompasses the limitations of profession). Just depends how you spend it.

[Draignean]

The world intrigues but ultimately the mercenary character thing does not. 

Note that being a mercenary doesn't just mean you're hired to go around killing people. You're an operator for hire, and what kind of operator is entirely up to you. Hell, you could be part of a team of impartial negotiators who defuses disputes where the locals are too intransigent to naturally resolve the problem, and the involved nations either don't have the time, or the problem is beneath their immediate concern.

Mercenary is essentially a boon for me. It's a good reason for the party to stick together and continue to do things, instead of having one character get bored and leave the party to spend the next six months attempting to catalog mutation strains in the stormlands.   

Making character sheet... When will sign ups close?

This is a brilliant concept, by the way. Did you make it yourself?

Is illuminator's disease cancer?

Theoretically, could a Drogue Arbiter cast off the parts of it that go insane, purifying their sanity but producing an insane creature?

The captain will be selected, at the earliest date, next Saturday. That deadline might get an extension if someone is still working and I feel generous. Signups will continue even after that while the captain selects his/her crew.
At minimum, signups are open for a week, but it's more likely to take a week-and-a-half.

Thanks, and yes, the lore is my own stuff. A few small components have been recycled from my earlier work, but, for the most part, it's shiny and new.

Illuminator's disease isn't limited to just cancer, but yes. Internal malignancies are the most frequent cause of death in old illuminators.

As to the last, no. A Drogue isn't aware of the parts of it that contribute what pieces of its mind, not anymore than a human is able to tell which grams of its grey matter are responsible for a fear of heights or an enjoyment of pastries. Even if it were, the specific control of an individual unit of the Drogue construct is not something that most Drogue are able to do. Individual drogue units don't have the intelligence to go insane themselves (how does a cockroach even begin to experience megalomania), they'll behave as extensions of the construct until the end.

Dropping a sheet here for future editing (because I have total net troubles)! Also, thanks for the PM Draignean!
...And I -like- how you made the OP picture blend in...though only in the Darkling forum format (unless...the grey is actually 'transparent'), in which kudos in general!

NP, and yeah, that's a transparency layer. It sticks to anything.

EDIT:

Spoiler: WIP (click to show/hide)

Name: Taki Fe' Rueh
Captain: Nay
Race: Aoul
Archetype: Wistful Fighter
Attributes ( points)
Strength:30
Finesse: 20
Speed: 10
Grace: 15
Wisdom:20
Brilliance: 5
Skills + Special Abilities (5 points)

Weapon Proficiency: Sword
--Cadet Training: Inner Void
Battle Mastery
--Combat Expertise: Shieldmate
Path of the Scholar
--Knowledge of the Land
Lumomancy
--Ifraim Contigency
Description:

Taki is exceptionally tall, even among his people, and looks like he was built to run for long distances. His mane is a hazily dark maroon color, and is less then five millimetres long at a time. His skin is a light shade of grey, and his eyes, as dark as hot tar and as molten-looking to match, often fix onto something for long periods at a time, as if he is contemplating something. His left cheek bears the marks of ancestry and family, the complicated runes seemingly carved into his skin. His gait is soft and easy, and he stays almost completely level as he walks. However, his eyes betray a certain wistfullness about him, as if longing for something he can never quite achieve or gain. He dresses simply, more for practicality then for anything else. He likes to keep his armor in a good condition, often taking a decent time after battles making sure his armor is clean.

Personality:

Taki speaks calmly most of the time. He is fiercely protective of his family, sometimes leading to Taki shrugging off the chains that normally keep him from such behavior and striking with full force at his aggravator. Only his best friends will have the honor of being treated like his family. His attitude towards death is simple. He does not mourn actively because that, in his mind, is not something that the subject would want him to do, as his being useless to the outside world would simply be a detriment to society. He does however, pray that they are now happy with his spare time and often before sleeping in a meditative state.

In battle, Taki's eyes go icy cold, and his jaw sets in a hard grimace. He feels no regret at the passing of his enemies, but prays for them the same as he does for the passing of those close to them. He prefers the fairness of honest battle, but doesn't really care if it isn't. He knows from his family how to fight unscrupulously, if that is what it takes to fight another day.

He is quite a social Aoul, and likes to express his emotions in light banter, his body language showing what he feels like; stresses, happy, sad, or angry. He always maintains a comedicly positive outlook on life, though you can tell when he is truly angry. He completely refuses to speak at all, in fact.

Biography:

Taki learned his art in his ancestral home, his father helping to teach him and teaching Taki the flowing forms of battle manuevers that made swordfighting an art. He was also given his weapon, a great Crystal-Edged Blade that had been held in the family bloodline for generations. A reliable weapon, and hardy enough for true battle. It was at this tage that he bonded significantly with his weapon, a sign his family took as the fact that the weapon had been destined for great use by him. He also learned the art of great calm in battle, which was said to look to others like he was a great, thoughtless void of a body, carrying out actions swiftly and decisively, and more importantly, accurately. He was known as one of the best swordfighters to have been produced by his family.

It ended on a battlefield, as careers often do. He remembered the enemy, and his thoughtlessness, the void that filled him. His friends dying around him. Swords flashing, blood spraying. His among theirs. Flashes of powerful light. An explosion.

He woke up on a grey and bleak land, far from home and injured hugely. Surrounded by the bodies of both his enemies and his friends. He knew then that he had been the one who had killed all, his battle void filling him to the point of mindlessness, a killing machine with no regard for loss. Perfect, but too perfect. He tried to maintain a positive outlook as he stumbled towards the nearest place of healing.

The battle mastery tree is separate from the weapon proficiency tree, so you have to purchase Battle Sense before Combat Expertise. Also, Cadet Training doesn't make you nearly as good as you were in your biography. If you're playing it so that your injuries debilitated you and you're now a shadow of your former ability, that's fine, but otherwise... You're good, but you're not that good.

[micelus]

Done.

[Powder Miner]

Probably shoulda announced it a little earlier, but me too :p

[Demonic Spoon]

The world intrigues but ultimately the mercenary character thing does not. 

Note that being a mercenary doesn't just mean you're hired to go around killing people. You're an operator for hire, and what kind of operator is entirely up to you. Hell, you could be part of a team of impartial negotiators who defuses disputes where the locals are too intransigent to naturally resolve the problem, and the involved nations either don't have the time, or the problem is beneath their immediate concern.

Mmm, that does sound potentially interesting. I might make a character for this is I feel up to it. There is quite some material to dig through after all.

EDIT: The fuck is a pseudoman?

[ATHATH]

Couldn't an Arbiter restore a Bale's memory by casting "restore memory"?

Also, you spelled "Gandalf" wrong in the "Character Sheet" section.

[Demonic Spoon]

As a rule of thumb, three times the spell tier is the average amount of focus used for an Avernomantic spell.

What the what.

[Draignean]

Replying via phone, so bear with me. Avernomancy is a typo there, it should be arbitomancy.

I'll fix Gandalf when I can get to a computer, not sure how I missed that.

As to memories, no. Destroying a memory is straightforward, as is fabricating a false one. Restoring one, however, is practically impossible. Arbitomancy is fueled by intent, which is why it can go awry if an errant thought interferes. When destroying a memory, the arbiter believes that the subject has no memory of x. When creating one, the arbiter imagines a scene and believes that the subject remembers it. When restoring a memory, there is no specific intent. The arbiter has no idea what the subject should remember, and thus cannot hope to recreate the memory. Instead, they create a false memory based on what they expect/want the subject to remember. This is, needless to say, very bad.

Edit: pseudoman, like pseudopod, except with hands not feet.

[Demonic Spoon]

Could a psion restore memories?

I have some niggling suspicions you can do some pretty crazy things with the magic system(s) if you're smart about it. Really, it makes we wonder why there aren't any airships?

But from your description Arbitromancy, using it to divine information would not be possible? A shame since that was something I had some vague ideas to use pretty heavily.

[MrVoid]

Attempting a Character sheet if there is still room when I'm done.  I just have to skim through everything first, then make a character sheet, then rewrite everything because of a technical aspect that I missed the first time, then reread through everything again, decide that I want a different character entirely and then go back to my first idea because it was too much work.

Spoiler: Rol (click to show/hide)

Name: Rollun Kol Nodelega
Captain: Nope
Race: Kadi
Archetype: Intellectual bruiser
Attributes (80 points)
Strength: 30
Finesse: 15
Speed: 10
Grace: 5
Wisdom: 25
Brilliance: 15
Skills + Special Abilities (5 points)
Battle sense +5 ACC, +5 EVA, +5 CRR
--Specialization, Opportune Timing 15 Focus, expend. Gain +10% Crit chance, +50% crit damage on one attack. If you kill a target with the boosted attack, regain 10 RP.
Operant fundamentals Can issue one word commands. No proper nouns.
--Specialization, Operant intent: 10 Foc. Next arbitomantic spell is increased in power 50%, but has a +15% chance of inflicting a backwash effect.
Operant Lexicography: Can use a sentence no longer than five words. No internal punctuation. No proper nouns
--Specialization, Old Lexicon:15 Foc. Any operant ability is increased in power by 50%, but has a greatly increased chance of producing an unusual result.
Artificer
--Repair techYou might not be skilled enough to make an ablation rifle, but you can fix one up well enough. Repairing an object isn’t any less of an act of creativity than building a new one- particularly when you aren’t sure how something was made in the first place.

Equipment:
Repair Kit: Greater tech 50
Large Tent: 10
Week of Kadi rations: 10
Massive hammer: Cost 125
Tech Level: Greater
Type: Blunt
Max Attacks Per Round: 2
Range: 1
Damage: 8 + [ProficiencyMult][0.4*STR + 0.25 *SPD + 0.1*WIS]
Accuracy: 35+ [ProficiencyMult][1.5*GRC + 1.25*FIN + 0.75*BRI]
Crit Chance: 7 +[ProficiencyMult][0.25*FIN + 0.15*GRC + 0.1*BRI ]
Crit Damage Bonus: 200% + [ProficiencyMult][3*SPD + 2.5*GRC + 1.5*WIS]
Special: Shockwave Smash: 15 Focus, 3 actions. Flat 25% chance to hit. If the target is hit, the damage is critical and there is no splash damage. If it misses (or an empty tile is targeted), all units within one tile of the target (including the user) take damage equal to a standard hit.


Armor:
Name:Kadi light armor
Tech Level: Lesser
Defense Vs Polearms:3 15c
Defsense Vs Blades:3 15
Defense Vs Blunt:3 15c
Defense Vs Pistols/Rifles: 3 21c
Defense Vs Bows:3 15
Defense Vs Phari:0
Attribute Penalties:
Description: Made out of tremendously light steel plates and crafted to defend evenly against any physical threat while refraining from limiting the Kadi in any manner.  It isn't perfect however, as it does lack any Defense against Phari.
Special:

Description:As with most Kadi, Rol possesses brownish skin and a black exoskeleton, though unlike most Kadi from his region, his bones are rather intensely incorporated with silver, copper, gold and platinum.  Additionally, he is not particularly slender for his species which are already known for being rather large.
Personality:   Significantly calmer than in his youth Rol now spends a great deal of time attempting to fix machines whenever he gets the opportunity and attempting to read either through braille or through his own terrible eyesight.  He is genuinely polite and attempt to answer all questions truthfully, though he will specifically refuse to answer any questions regarding the valuable materials in his bones.
Biography: As a young and impulsive Kadi, Rol attempted to gain the inheritance of his great-grandfather, not really anticipating the struggle that would come from the lands of a former speaker.  He was almost immediately removed from the running by his maternal aunt's family due to a clever speech that never once mentioned him directly, but instead impugned his fathers entire family as irresponsible and inept at even the most basic aspects of land management.  In a rage, Rol did something truly irresponsible and proved his aunt correct.  He fled into exile to avoid imprisonment and has since spent a great deal of time around the other 9 races, learning where he can to be the best he can be.

[Draignean]

Could a psion restore memories?

Perhaps, but they aren't saying.

I have some niggling suspicions you can do some pretty crazy things with the magic system(s) if you're smart about it.

That's the idea.

Really, it makes we wonder why there aren't any airships?

There aren't?

But from your description Arbitromancy, using it to divine information would not be possible? A shame since that was something I had some vague ideas to use pretty heavily.

No, looking forwards in time doesn't work so well. The Fanai tried it and foresaw their inevitable triumph. Turns out predicting the future via belief has a pretty heavy confirmation bias.