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[Interus]

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Name: Warren Heath
Gender: Male
Description: An older man with a worn face, long, dark hair with streaks of gray, and a beard a few inches long that is also graying. Wears thick fur clothing with a fur hood rather than a cap. Always has a rifle and revolver with him, as well as pack of misc. supplies that frequently come in handy. His gruff attitude can come across as unfriendly, but he hates to see people suffering.
Origins: Warren Heath has made a living of surviving in the Rime. When he was younger he worked as a tracker and trapper. His Pa taught him how to get along in the Rime, whether that's in civilization or in the wilderness. The first rules he learned were about looking after yourself. Make sure you know how long your fuel will last, don't get caught without a shelter in a storm, stay away from open water and thin ice, and be ready to use your gun if you need to. However, he also learned the importance of helping others when you can. He grew up traveling through the wilderness with frequent stops at Rimer homesteads, trading pelts for coal and meat for preserves.
Eventually he learned that his talents for survival translated well to bounty hunting. There's value in pelts, but sometimes you can make a lot more money from one wanted man. Besides, there's no use in the Rime for folks eager to put others at risk. He's survived this long by being cautious and persistent, has a tendency to prefer waiting until he has some advantage before striking.

Stats:
Might: 1 (3-2)
Speed: 3
Learning: 0
Wits: 6 (4+2)
Presence: 0
Mind: 6 (4+2)
Chosen Traits:
Prepared for the Worst: Never suffer impairment from environmental conditions such as Icy, Frost or Deathfrost.
Lethal Shot: Ranged damage inflicted is always increased to next level; Glancing Hits to Wounds, Wounds to Severe Wounds, Severe Wounds to Death, and so.

So I'm assuming that Wits would also be used for things like tracking, being able to tell when a storm is coming, and generally understanding what you need to do to survive, while Learning might cover understanding a lot of why things happen or more scientific thought, or at least formal education.I don't know if learning would cover a lot that this guy needs to know, since most of the examples didn't seem like it, but the expert trait does have a couple examples that suggest I should maybe shuffle some points into it. I don't know if I'll actually be able to play (if it's just play-by-post, I can probably manage) but I still wanted to write up this character. And I briefly considered also nicknaming him "Frostbite" after those earlier jokes.

A couple comments on "Fry" First, cornflower is actually a shade of blue, not yellow. Really confused me when I was watching Breaking Bad and a blue shirt was referred to as Cornflower, because I thought of corn flour. Also, I just like that character. I had somebody similar in mind, but from the thaw rather than the inner lands. Also, I basically stole her concept from what I remember of "True Grit" and that's also where a lot of this guy came from.

[Dwarmin]

I guess I had yellow flowers on the mind. I'll fix that...

Maybe we'll make a good team!

[Persus13]

What's the currency on the Rime? I imagine it wouldn't be coinage, since you don't really want to be frozen to your money.

Spoiler: Character Application (click to show/hide)

Name: Albert Tremain
Gender: Male
Description: Albert is a tall man in his early thirties. His face is weathered from a decade of travel on the Rime, with some burns on his skin from frost, coal, or smoke. He usually cuts his brown hair short and covered with a cap, which he also uses as a hiding place for some of his cash. On his back is a pack full of trinkets, odds-and-ends, and useful appliances and gear for sale.
Origins: Albert is a Thawer originally, and was the 5th surviving child of a prominent family in the recently thawed territory. Albert grew up hearing stories about life on the frontier, but Albert was more interested in learning about the trains that traveled back and forth near his family's house and tinkering with scraps. He scared his parents at 13 by attempting to build his own train from farm equipment and nearly destroyed the family barn. At age 17, his father died, leaving all his property to Albert's eldest siblings, and Albert with a moderate sum of cash. Albert decided that a life of working as a hired hand for his siblings was not for him, and decided to stow away on a train headed for the Rime.
When Albert got to the Rime, he learned that the people there work hard, but they never get enough, and the small comforts and aids of life rarely get to them. So Albert became a traveling salesman, using his tinkering and his ties to the thawed lands to have all manner of toys, ointments, poultices, and odds and ends for sale to folks on the Rime, and doing odd jobs on trains for passage. Along the way he's picked up some skills, including being able to make good deals, and preparing for the worst the climate can throw at him. He can also handle a gun in case of bandit trouble, but would prefer to use his wits and charm to talk his way out of trouble.

Stats: Allocate 14 points between these attributes as you wish, and add the modifiers from your Origin.
Might: 3 (1+2)
Speed: 2
Learning: 1
Wits: 4
Presence: 4 (2 +2)
Mind: 2 (4-2)
Chosen Traits: Hard Bargainer, Prepared for the Worst.

[Dwarmin]

If we're far on the frontier, I'd imagine its something like "Republic credits? Republic credits are no good out here!"

Essentially, I suspect an economy at least partially based on bartering goods and doing favors. Like, in the Rime, a bucket of coal is likely worth a lot more than a bunch of colored papers.

[Digital Hellhound]

Paper money - known as Marks or 'scrip' in the Rime - does exist, coming in from the interior. The further east you get, the less useful it becomes, though - it's great when you're buying coal right out of inner trains, but no good when you're bartering with a survivalist on the edge of the endless black sea. So, as Dwarmin said, an economy partially based on bartering goods and doing favors. Hard Bargainer provides a bonus to bartering when there's no actual money involved.

I'm changed some of the Traits:
-Quick Attack now allows you to dish out two attacks in a turn, but with a halved attack bonus. It's still potent, but not quite so overpowered.
-Frontier Cook now provides inspiration for up to 5 people; the 4 people version was from when I intended to have 4 players.
-Hunter... has not been changed, yet. It is very powerful, but only against single targets, and even bosses perhaps dying quickly is in tune with the themes of the game.

Will probably tinker more as we go along. In any case, I'll be choosing the players later today and getting out the first post sometime this week. This'll probably turn into an OOC thread and I'll getan IC thread up.

[hector13]

Still time for another application?

'cause you'll get on regardless

Spoiler: rushed but eh (click to show/hide)

Name: Cormac Hess
Gender: Male
Description: Short and wiry. Cormac is a quiet young man, with short black hair above brown eyes that seem to be trying to look at everything at once. Constantly being covered up in warm clothing has left his skin pale.
Origins: Rimer

Cormac's large family were a gang of bandits, ruled by his kind but strict father. They lived in some underground caves near the railways that brought supplies, which they occasionally targeted for their coal and wood. His father was astute, always aware of the level of supplies they had on hand, and when they needed to alleviate the trains of more.

The need for coal and wood was constant in the frozen wastes, and Cormac's family, while tremendously well-versed in dealing with trains, were not hunters. Thus, they traded some of their ill-gotten coal and wood for some equally important food and water. His father was no fool; trading their fuel with the local settlements kept them from enacting frontier justice, and also allowed them to keep the paper the people on the trains preferred for future use.

Unfortunately. these companies wanted to put a stop to the bandits stealing their goods. A train came through, but it wasn't filled with coal and wood. It was filled with angry men with guns. Cormac's father was the first to fall, shot when he opened the one of the cars that was supposed to contain supplies. That was the signal. Men poured from all the other supply cars, shooting. The slaughter was great. Cormac took a shot in the shoulder, falling. He hit his head. Black...

When he came to, the train was gone, and his family... dead. The grief battled with the hard pragmatism his father instilled in him, in all his siblings... and he left. For months he wandered from settlement to settlement, trading the skills his father taught him for food and shelter. The anger he felt over his family's demise slowly subsided; petty revenge wouldn't bring his family back, and it certainly wouldn't help him survive the cold and ice.

Stats:
Might: 1 (including -2)
Speed: 4
Learning: 1
Wits: 6 (including +2)
Presence: 0
Mind: 4 (including +2)

Chosen Traits: Keen Senses: Never suffer increased difficulty from environmental conditions, such as blizzards, for perception checks.
Frugal: Heat requirements halved in the wild.

[Egan_BW]

I say that Hunter is just fine up till the moment it's used against me. >.>

[Digital Hellhound]

It was a very difficult choice, but...

Player List
1. Stirk - Ronald "Frostbite" McCarthy
2. Egan_BW - Ulien Inervios
3. Dwarmin - Fiona McDougan of Cormwall ('Fry')
4. IronyOwl - Sir Rimelight "The Croc" (Alaric Addington)
5. hector13 - Cormac Hess

Waitlist
1. Persus13 - Albert Tremain
2. Interus - Warren Heath
3. Jerick - Doc James Leary
4. dgr11897 - Falerion ('Octo-Faced Freak', 'Avalanche')
5. crazyabe - 'Jonah'

Don't be dismayed if you're on the waitlist - I'm sure someone will get themselves killed soon enough!

[dgr11897]

Don't be dismayed if you're on the waitlist - I'm sure someone will get themselves killed soon enough!

Probably, anyone want to bet on who will die first, and how they will die?
Also I might make a different character, I don't like the way my current one turned out very much for a variety of reasons. Either going to go for a dedicated melee range tank, or a mer sniper, just since I like the idea of playing as a mer.
Also I am curious if any new races will become playable as the game goes on, and will any new traits be created?

[Persus13]

Don't be dismayed if you're on the waitlist - I'm sure someone will get themselves killed soon enough!

No dismay here. Looking forward to following from the sidelines for now.

[Stirk]

It was a very difficult choice, but...

Player List
1. Stirk - Ronald "Frostbite" McCarthy
2. Egan_BW - Ulien Inervios
3. Dwarmin - Fiona McDougan of Cormwall ('Fry')
4. IronyOwl - Sir Rimelight "The Croc" (Alaric Addington)
5. hector13 - Cormac Hess

1. +10 Attack, +11 Defense, 2 combat traits (Frontline Fighter)
2. +8 Attack,  +6 Defense, 1 combat trait (Fight/Support)
3. +6 Attack, +7 Defense, 0 combat traits (Support)
4. +6 Attack, +8 Defense, 1 combat trait (Face/Fighter)
5. +8 Attack, +9 Defense, 0 combat traits (Fighter/Support)

So the one most likely to die if we get into a fight is Ulien .

[Egan_BW]

Well, most likely to die if I manage to get shot at, that is. Turns out that -2 Might isn't a good defensive strat.

Which is what Lethal Shot is for. If I need to kill someone, they need to be dead before they manage to shoot back. :V
Hence also the above-average speed and ranged attack bonus. Fastest Shot would also be nice but I think Lethal Shot has better value in making a single shot count.

[Stirk]

Well, most likely to die if I manage to get shot at, that is. Turns out that -2 Might isn't a good defensive strat.

Which is what Lethal Shot is for. If I need to kill someone, they need to be dead before they manage to shoot back. :V
Hence also the above-average speed and ranged attack bonus. Fastest Shot would also be nice but I think Lethal Shot has better value in making a single shot count.

D20 + speed means that someone with 0 speed is gonna shoot faster 1/3 of the time. That is why Fastest Shot is kinda nice. Generally in systems focusing around addition and subtraction, multiplication things end up being OP, and "You always win!" is always nice.

[hector13]

Cool beans.

[crazyabe]

Really, since speed is used for Both types of attacking, defending, and getting initiative, its the best stat to overdo.