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[crazyabe]

In the kingdom of Blixnor, the slums run thick with people, millions searching for a way out of the Tormented pits where they are viewed only as cattle, mages run near free here, you were free too once, as free as the slaves in the slums, as the other mages… but you screwed up, you pissed off someone important and once you were caught you knew you wouldn’t be seeing that again… what you didn’t expect, that your “Punishment” would be to join the Royal Interrealm Settlers, or rather, their suicide division where they assign only the stupidest, least trustworthy, and most insane to lead thousands through portals to who knows where and probably die… whelp, time for you to try your luck.

Spoiler: Character creation (click to show/hide)

Name:
Description:
Backgrounds: your history
Crimes: What got ya assigned to the suicide Division of the Settlers
ATTUNEMENT: Pick two from the list below, the first will be "Apprentice" the second "Adept"
METAMAGIC: Pick upto two from the list below, they will both start at "Adept" or one will be "Apprentice"
MAGIC SKILLS: You get all three, order determines starting rank, the first is "Master" the Second "Adept" the Third "Novice"
SKILLS: Pick three, Any sort of non magical skill from swordsmanship to masonry, they will all start at "Adept"
You will be PM’d some Potentially useful lore & information relating to your Attunement, Metamagic, and Magic skills once the game begins.

Spoiler: mechanics (click to show/hide)

This game runs off a D100 Roll system. In order to succeed on your actions you need to roll above a minimum, Successes add Experience to whatever skill was used. A Roll of “100” is a Grand Success, getting such is a guaranteed success, and levels you up to the next level on whatever skill you used.

There are several ranks to skills, Each rank increases your chance at success by 10
Untrained: Level Zero, you know literally nothing about what you are doing (0XP)
Novice: Level one, You Know just enough to hurt yourself (200XP)
Adept: Level two, You know enough to not break everything (1000XP)
Apprentice: Level Three, You know enough to do most of the basics (5000XP)
Master: Level Four, You Have a decent chance of not screwing everything up (25000XP)
Legend: Level Five+, You are most definitely one of the better people for this job! (10^TOTALRANK)

Magical bits are run a bit differently, they stack and gain combined bonuses based on what you are doing, can can gain further bonuses from Normal Skills. there is also a Difficulty system for your tasks, but I'm not going to tell you how that works directly.
Each update is roughly a Week to a months time, and NPCs WILL work on without your direction.

Spoiler: Magic Attunement (click to show/hide)

Fire - The magic of Chaotic Change, that which ends as abruptly as it begins
Earth - The magic of Ordered Stability, the pillar which stays even though its own destruction
Water - The magic of Ordered Change, the cycle that never ends while ever ending
Air - The Magic of Chaotic Stability, The wind which changes even as it stays the same
Light - The magic of healing, angels and the Gods, the Glow which casts off the darkness
Darkness - The magic of Death, Demons and the Devils, the shadow which drains all color
“Gray Magic” - The magic of man, Flesh, Soul, and the mind all fall below this.
Nature magic - The magic of the Land, All that crawls, flys, or grows is bound by this power.

Note, Portal magic does NOT fall under any of these, it is its own magic which the nobles keep known only to themselves.

Spoiler: Metamagic (click to show/hide)

Runes - A form of magical encoding, Runes store the “Essence” of a spell for later activation, or continual activation
Rituals - a specific modification to a spell which allows more than one person to work on one spell
Enchanting - “Invoking” a spell into an object, generally simpler than enruning something, but less flexible
Cursing - Attaching a spell to another living being until specific circumstances are fulfilled, not necessarily negative
Binding - The art of tying off magic in such a way as to keep it from dissipating nor affecting the world, used to precast spells and keep things around.
Disbanding - The art of Taking a spell apart without it going off, useful for disposing of Summoned creatures or undoing the effects of a spell that screwed up.

Spoiler: Magic Skills (click to show/hide)

Evoking - The act of drawing upon the raw energy of magic to bring forth Temporary effects upon the world, As an example, to move massive amounts of stone, or to throw a fireball
Invoking - The act of drawing the powers of magic Within yourself, as an example, to make your skin as stone, or to become as tangible as water.
Conjuring - The act of Pulling beings and things from the true planes of magic themselves, as an example, to bring back the souls of the dead, or to Summon Demons.

I'm looking for 3-5 Players, and probably capable of running with a maximum of 8.

[crazyabe]

CHARACTERS

Spoiler: Edelred Wilhelmsson (Maximum Spin) (click to show/hide)

Description: Tall, thin, good-looking, kind of looks the "charismatic fascist dictator" type.
Backgrounds: Born into the lesser nobility, I grew up with enough money and freedom to develop a wide range of eccentricities and not a whole lot of responsibility. In retrospect, it's not at all surprising that I wound up using magic in creatively unlawful ways.
Crimes: I pioneered the art of connecting living creatures with magically-imbued objects and/or other living creatures to create large, complex living constructions. Apparently this is "blasphemous" and "extremely ill-advised" or something.
ATTUNEMENT: Apprentice Nature, Adept Air
METAMAGIC: Adept Cursing, Adept Runes
MAGIC SKILLS: Master Conjurer, Adept Evoker, Novice Invoker
SKILLS: Adept Biologist, Adept Negotiator, Adept Strategist

Spoiler: Falerion (dgr11897) (click to show/hide)

Description: Thin but surprisingly athletic, his right arm is a quasi magical prosthesis, magic seems to flow from the joints of the device whenever he casts, he has eyes that are bright orange and glow the color of fire whenever he uses magic, you will never see him without his metal staff, meant more for bashing then for casting. He is generally fidgety, bouncy, and quick on his feet, he is also not very good with people. His hair is bright red and a bit of an unruly mess. He isn't picky about what he wears either, so he is typically wearing a cloak or poncho with a simple shirt and pants underneath.
Backgrounds: Starting out as a simple worker, he started making automatons as a hobby, this lead to him needing specific metal parts, and pieces of cloth for his creations. Then while out camping he discovered an ancient site that enhanced his runes and magic, this lead him to make bigger and better creations, but as demand rose so did the stress on him, eventually leading to the accident that led to him winding up in this situation.
Crimes: An error on the runes of one of his robots engines caused a piece of matter the size of a penny to get turned into energy, The resultant explosion leveled a small village
ATTUNEMENT: apprentice grey, Adept Fire
METAMAGIC:  Adept Runes, Adept enchantment
MAGIC SKILLS: Master Invoking, Adept Conjuring, Novice evoking
SKILLS: Adept Blacksmithing, Adept tinkering, Adept Tailoring

Spoiler: Maiena Cyrois (Shadowclaw777) (click to show/hide)

Description: Maiena looks like a young yet lithe, pale white, woman with ordain white robes, with long and flowing blonde hair with white linings around it. Has a hood she often crops up to her face and also wears a facial skull bandana made of black silk for some reason of facial hiding.
Backgrounds: Raised by the secret and reclusive Mage society that practice their manipulation of the weak political framework that is known of medieval feudalism and asserts their control over it, she has never had any form of parentage except by the secret agents of the hidden mage council and the other members of it. Spent years on becoming a Arcanist of the powerful magical arts and a agent for the reclusive mage society, and as the espionage guild forced Maiena on becoming bethrothed to a mean-spirited prince so that the spy guild could keep tabs on another noble family, they weren’t prepared for her rejection notice.
Crimes: I have made treason and gain a vendetta against the people who raised me, apparently “turning” the blood of a high royal noble into a sentient pile of blood, will give you a price on your head.
ATTUNEMENT: Adept Water, Apprentice Gray Magic
METAMAGIC: Adept Binding, Adept Runes
MAGIC SKILLS Master Conjurer, Novice Evoker, Adept Invoker
Skills: Adept Historian, Adept Subterfuge, Adept Deceit

Spoiler: Karl Genver (Puppyguard) (click to show/hide)

Description: Somewhat pudgy, stout and a bit shorter than the average height. A bit ugly too, his nose is bent slightly to the right.
Backgrounds: Karl grew up on the streets and quickly learned that only the toughest survive. He made his existence by stealing and fighting to survive. Magic came to him when an apprentice of a Mage felt sorry for him and taught him the ropes.
Crimes: He managed to break into the back of a merchant caravan's food wagon, and was captured at spearpoint after eating all of the food stuffs inside.
ATTUNEMENT: Apprentice Fire, Adept Earth.
METAMAGIC: Adept Disbanding, Adept Binding.
MAGIC SKILLS: Master Evoker, Adept Conjurer, Novice Invoker.
SKILLS: Intimidation, Wrestling and Sleight of hand.

Spoiler: Octal Atlantis (Glass) (click to show/hide)

Description: About average height; thin and bony, but not to a particularly malnourished degree. Vaguely blue-tinted. Usually wearing black pants, a dirty white shirt, and his trademark feathered cap. Has a dangerous gleam in his eyes. Rarely smiles or frowns.
Backgrounds: Octal grew up on the streets, or rather, below them: he was one of the driving forces behind a slightly infamous gang of urchin sewer-dwellers. Specifically, he had been the one who kept their water safe to drink, the rats docile enough to tame, and the marks unsuspecting enough to trick. However, when the police came to break the group up - Octal being around 16 at the time - he was forced to find a moderately honest job. To that effect, he became one of the town criers, drawing attention to people and raining the news down upon them. However, he was not one to be trusted with news. Already biased against the government, Octal began to twist the news around, against them (not that this was terribly difficult), before going out to find his own news to spread. He did this for a couple years, reaching 23 in this profession, slippery enough that he could get his info without anyone noticing. But then he saw something a bit too big. Nobody could be allowed to see that and stay around to say anything. He had been silently removed from the city soundscape by the next morning.
Crimes: First, I was a firebrand, looking for a way out, trying to rile up the people. There's plenty of those around; that wasn't the reason I got thrown here. But I saw something I shouldn't have, and I was known to not be the kind to keep my mouth shut. I was inconvenient to have around. That was why I got volunteered.
ATTUNEMENT: Water, "Grey"
METAMAGIC: Enchanting, Disbanding
MAGIC SKILLS: Invoking, Evoking, Conjuring
SKILLS: Survivalism, Ranged Combat, Speaking

[helmacon]

This is remarkably similar to a game I've been planning on and off for over a year. Just less kobolds.

PTW.

[Maximum Spin]

Name: Edelred Wilhelmsson
Description: Tall, thin, good-looking, kind of looks the "charismatic fascist dictator" type.
Backgrounds: Born into the lesser nobility, I grew up with enough money and freedom to develop a wide range of eccentricities and not a whole lot of responsibility. In retrospect, it's not at all surprising that I wound up using magic in creatively unlawful ways.
Crimes: I pioneered the art of connecting living creatures with magically-imbued objects and/or other living creatures to create large, complex living constructions. Apparently this is "blasphemous" and "extremely ill-advised" or something.
ATTUNEMENT: Apprentice Nature, Adept Air
METAMAGIC: Adept Cursing, Adept Runes
MAGIC SKILLS: Master Conjurer, Adept Evoker, Novice Invoker
SKILLS: Adept Biologist, Adept Negotiator, Adept Strategist

[dgr11897]

Name: Falerion
Description: Thin but surprisingly athletic, his right arm is a quasi magical prosthesis, magic seems to flow from the joints of the device whenever he casts, he has eyes that are bright orange and glow the color of fire whenever he uses magic, you will never see him without his metal staff, meant more for bashing then for casting. He is generally fidgety, bouncy, and quick on his feet, he is also not very good with people. His hair is bright red and a bit of an unruly mess. He isn't picky about what he wears either, so he is typically wearing a cloak or poncho with a simple shirt and pants underneath.
Backgrounds: Starting out as a simple worker, he started making automatons as a hobby, this lead to him needing specific metal parts, and pieces of cloth for his creations. Then while out camping he discovered an ancient site that enhanced his runes and magic, this lead him to make bigger and better creations, but as demand rose so did the stress on him, eventually leading to the accident that led to him winding up in this situation.
Crimes: An error on the runes of one of his robots engines caused a piece of matter the size of a penny to get turned into energy, The resultant explosion leveled a small village
ATTUNEMENT: Adept Fire, apprentice grey
METAMAGIC: Runes, enchantment
MAGIC SKILLS: Invoking, Conjuring, evoking
SKILLS: Adept Blacksmithing, Adept tinkering, Adept Tailoring
Is this good?
Edit: i am changing bo staff combat to something else.

[Shadowclaw777]

Name: Maiena Cyrois
Description: Maiena looks like a young yet lithe, pale white, woman with ordain white robes, with long and flowing blonde hair with white linings around it. Has a hood she often crops up to her face and also wears a facial skull bandana made of black silk for some reason of facial hiding.
Backgrounds: Raised by the secret and reclusive Mage society that practice their manipulation of the weak political framework that is known of medieval feudalism and asserts their control over it, she has never had any form of parentage except by the secret agents of the hidden mage council and the other members of it. Spent years on becoming a Arcanist of the powerful magical arts and a agent for the reclusive mage society, and as the espionage guild forced Maiena on becoming bethrothed to a mean-spirited prince so that the spy guild could keep tabs on another noble family, they weren’t prepared for her rejection notice.
Crimes: I have made treason and gain a vendetta against the people who raised me, apparently “turning” the blood of a high royal noble into a sentient pile of blood, will give you a price on your head.
ATTUNEMENT: Adept Water, Apprentice Gray Magic
METAMAGIC: Adept Binding, Adept Runes
MAGIC SKILLS Master Conjurer, Adept Evoker, Apprentice Invoker
Skills: Adept Historian, Adept Subterfuge, Adept Deceit

[crazyabe]

So far, All the sheets have been Acceptable, and thus are accepted.

[Puppyguard]

Spoiler: Karl Genver (click to show/hide)

Name: Karl Genver
Description: Somewhat pudgy, stout and a bit shorter than the average height. A bit ugly too, his nose is bent slightly to the right.
Backgrounds: Karl grew up on the streets and quickly learned that only the toughest survive. He made his existence by stealing and fighting to survive. Magic came to him when an apprentice of a Mage felt sorry for him and taught him the ropes.
Crimes: He managed to break into the back of a merchant caravan's food wagon, and was captured at spearpoint after eating all of the food stuffs inside.
ATTUNEMENT: Apprentice Fire, Adept Earth.
METAMAGIC: Adept Disbanding, Adept Binding.
MAGIC SKILLS: Master Evoker, Adept Conjurer, Novice Invoker.
SKILLS: Intimidation, Wrestling and Sleight of hand.

[Glass]

Reserving a spot. No, the sheet isn't done. There we go.

Spoiler: I see. (click to show/hide)

Name: Octal Atlantis
Description: About average height; thin and bony, but not to a particularly malnourished degree. Vaguely blue-tinted. Usually wearing black pants, a dirty white shirt, and his trademark feathered cap. Has a dangerous gleam in his eyes. Rarely smiles or frowns.
Backgrounds: Octal grew up on the streets, or rather, below them: he was one of the driving forces behind a slightly infamous gang of urchin sewer-dwellers. Specifically, he had been the one who kept their water safe to drink, the rats docile enough to tame, and the marks unsuspecting enough to trick. However, when the police came to break the group up - Octal being around 16 at the time - he was forced to find a moderately honest job. To that effect, he became one of the town criers, drawing attention to people and raining the news down upon them. However, he was not one to be trusted with news. Already biased against the government, Octal began to twist the news around, against them (not that this was terribly difficult), before going out to find his own news to spread. He did this for a couple years, reaching 23 in this profession, slippery enough that he could get his info without anyone noticing. But then he saw something a bit too big. Nobody could be allowed to see that and stay around to say anything. He had been silently removed from the city soundscape by the next morning.
Crimes: First, I was a firebrand, looking for a way out, trying to rile up the people. There's plenty of those around; that wasn't the reason I got thrown here. But I saw something I shouldn't have, and I was known to not be the kind to keep my mouth shut. I was inconvenient to have around. That was why I got volunteered.
ATTUNEMENT: Water, "Grey"
METAMAGIC: Enchanting, Disbanding
MAGIC SKILLS: Invoking, Evoking, Conjuring
SKILLS: Survivalism, Ranged Combat, Speaking

[dgr11897]

Hey you might want to update my sheet, I made some changes to it. Mostly changing bo staff combat to tailoring and updating his backstory to fit with how I want to play.
Also anyone having trouble picturing my automatons, they are mostly metal with intricate cloth strips serving as manipulators and holding the things together, of course he hasn't brought any with him so don't expect to see them for a while.
So  for those wondering what my character is about, they specialize in crafting labor saving devices, and automation, just don't expect to see him on the front lines much, when he does fight he will probably use invoking and grey/fire magic to enhance his strikes Be they from his staff or just straight punches.
I would also like to point out that my guy's backstory is kinda appropriate for fire magic, which is described as that which ends as abruptly as it begins.
Finally here are a few thoughts for skills that could be interesting paired with magic, glassworking, carving, carpentry, pottery, martial arts, and staff combat.

[dgr11897]

When is this going to start?

[crazyabe]

Sometime before next year, Kidding it'll start some time between friday this week and friday next week.

[Glass]

Sheet done.

[IronyOwl]

Spoiler: Skaros the Golden (click to show/hide)

Name: Skaros the Golden
Description: A statuesque man, with a flawlessly chiseled physique, beautiful mane of golden hair, and dashingly handsome face perpetually bearing an arrogant grin and raised eyebrow. Seriously, he even looks like a smug asshole when sleeping.
Backgrounds: Skaros Antuminoc was born the eldest child of the fourth child of the younger brother to Lady Ordomis Antuminoc, a minor but decently well-connected noble. With no chance at the family holdings but a great deal of secondhand clout, Skaros decided from a young age to be an insufferable twat and build his own fortune through magic. The already handsome young lad began enhancing his own body to meet his unsurpassed ego, and modifying every other living thing to suit his tastes along with it. Now Skaros the Golden, as he calls himself, is ready to build his own grand fortune, his own glorious fame, and his own peerless noble house.
Crimes: One of the livestock mournfully declared "I was once a man" as one of Lady Antuminoc's highborn friends passed by. This proved to be the straw that broke the camel's back, and Lady Antuminoch agreed to send her grandnephew someplace more befitting his talents (and ego).
ATTUNEMENT: Gray Magic, Nature Magic
METAMAGIC: Enchanting
MAGIC SKILLS: Invoking, Evoking, Conjuring
SKILLS: Diplomacy, Wrestling, Anatomy

[RoseHeart]

Yo dawg. Sorry to intrude. You been hoping for a TactiCraft sequal, and it's finally here. Guessing you're buried in PMs and didn't see mine. GL with your game.