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[abculatter_2]

On the elven homeland of Kinvar, a cult of demon worshipers have brought hell upon the land. Demons and horrors unspeakable rampage across the continent in massive hordes lead by great Archdemons,  demigods twisted from the bodies and souls of the cultists which summoned them. Many of the elves, soon realizing that all hope is lost, flee to the colonies on the other continents, pleading the native races for aid. The reactions of the other races are unknown, though the humans, still holding upon old grudges and greedy and war-like from a thousand years of war against the goblins, see this as an opportunity. They agree to help the elves, though their true intentions are kept secret to all but the commanders.

Within the year, a force of 8000 strong is assembled and sent out to Kinvar in the largest human fleet ever to set sail, totaling 27 of the largest ships available along with 3 of the elves' sleek and tough bone-ships, filled primarily with supplies along with a few hundred of those warriors and mystics the colonies could spare. Reinforcements are also promised within a year or two.

In little more then a month, Kinvar is within sight, though it is nothing of the expected. Great clouds of blackened ash and smoke choke the sky for miles upward, the ocean seems to be pulled toward it, preventing the fleet from turning back. As they near the land the ocean boils with noxious fumes and turns a chalky white, and they realize that the thing pulling them inward is a massive gash within the earth which threatens to claim them in its seemingly infinite abyss. Only a lucky few ships manage to crash upon the basalt shores, with only slightly more then 1000 men (and all of the elves) surviving the ordeal. Supplies have dwindled after the month-like journey here, though with so many less mouths to feed they are estimated to last about a month. You are among these men and elves, marooned upon a hellish and forbidding wasteland, your only hope of survival or rescue over a year away.

Spoiler: Rules (click to show/hide)

I'm kind of new to RTD, so I'll just be taking someone else's rule set:

Rules:

    The GM (Game Master) posts a situation the players are in. The players then post their actions, according to the conditions GM sets. The GM then rolls for the actions' results, and writes them out in his post. Then the players post actions again, ad infinitum.

    The action results are defined by a six-sided die roll:
    [1]: Epic Fail. Your efforts only worsened your situation.
    [2]: Fail. Your skills or luck were insufficient.
    [3]: Meager success: The situation didn't improve by as much as you have intended.
    [4]: Success: Your efforts were sufficient to achieve your goal.
    [5]: Epic Success: Your skills and luck have combined to ensure your success.
    [6]: Overshot: Your efforts were more than required for the goal's completion, and your luck is such that unfortunate side-effects are inevitable.

    If at any time something threatens a player, that player may make a roll to avoid the threat.

    For each action, any number of rolls may be made, as determined by the GM.
    Primary causes for multiple rolls include, but are not limited to:

        * Actions explicitly composed of multiple actions
        * Actions that imply other actions that are not declared free


    For every dodge roll, any number of additional rolls may be made, as determined by the circumstances, and any skills or special effects applied to the player.

    Each successive dodge roll during a turn, unless it is a dodge against the same object or character, will get a -1 bonus.

    If you are Stunned, Dazed, or otherwise receive a temporary penalty to overall or individual rolls, this penalty lasts until your next action is resolved, and not through the whole turn.
    If you receive a long-term effect that has the potential to alter itself, you get an Effect Resistance roll immediately after your action is resolved to determine the spread and consequences of the effect.
    If you are Unconscious, whatever penalty you receive will not reduce your roll score below 2, unless stated otherwise.
    If you receive a mortal wound but are not killed outright, you need to pass a roll to dodge Death at the end of every turn. Only bad rolls here will provide penalties to survival rolls.

    You can spend your turn to help another player achieve his goal. If your roll is higher, it is taken as the success roll for the action.
    You can also spend your turn to botch another player's action. If your roll is higher, its opposite is taken as the success roll for the action.
    In both cases, individual player rolls determine what happens to the players in the course of the action.

Additional Game Rules:
Permadeath is in effect. This means no "ghost" characters, but the player can still get raised and isn't kicked out at once. On a bright side, if you didn't get in the first player roster, you can take a slot once someone dies permanently.

EDIT: Added new roll type, 100-sided roll. Can vary on situation, though for encounters it is as such;
100-90; lowest difficulty creature, no more difficult then a large aggressive herbivore. Typically have large amounts of obvious rewards, such as food, though little else.
89-55; low difficulty creature, about as difficult as an exceptional real-world predator, though will sometimes have added twists. Fair amounts of obvious rewards, and sometimes less obvious ones (such as alchemical ingredients or exceptional body materials/structures)
54-30; average to hard difficulty creature, will, at the most difficult, be more then a match for a a group of seasoned soldiers. Rewards vary on difficulty and creature, though will generally favor non-obvious rewards.
29-10; exceptionally difficult creature, highly dangerous and there's a chance it will yield no reward at all. Rewards you do receive, however, are typically quite valuable, if difficult to discover.
10-1; Impossible difficulty, these creatures cannot be killed without a special, 1% chance roll (I'll roll a 100-sided die. You'll need a 10 or higher just to escape alive, a 5 will cause you to escape with minimal injuries, and a 1 kills the creature),

Spoiler: Background (click to show/hide)

If you have any questions about the background of the world, feel free to ask via PM or post. I've had this world in my head for a long time, so it's kinda big. I'll add more whenever someone asks something or I feel it should be mentioned.

Magic:

Magic, as known by the humans and elves, is the manipulation of the near infinite energies of the soul. Every living thing has a soul, it is part of their definition of life. The soul is, by itself, little more then a well of energy floating through the ethereal dimensions of the world. When attached to a body, however, its intricacies reveal themselves in many and varied ways. In humans and many of the other intelligent races, it provides many of the mental aspects regarded as 'sentient' or 'human', such as morality and personality. Many believe souls were created by one or many god-like entities, and revere them as such. Not every creature or race can use magic, and of those who can use it some are better then others.

The use of another's soul is widely regarded as an an unthinkable atrocity and that no punishment is too great for one who does so.

The Humans and the Elves:

Over a thousand or so years ago, the continents of Humvar and Kinvar were one and the same, and the distant ancestors of humans and elves arose upon and spread throughout this continent. Goblins also arose in what would later be Humvar, though they did not spread far. Then, a great and mysterious disaster occurred, causing the continent to split and drift apart into what is known today as Humvar and Kinvar.

Kinvar was considerably smaller then Humvar, though contained the most fertile and rich parts of the original continent and, besides the distant ancestors of the elves, had only a single small tribe of goblins, which quickly died out. On this continent the elves arose from the pre-elves who happened to be on the continent at the time, and prospered, becoming considerably more advanced than the other races.

Humvar was large, though contained mostly large, dry plains with only a few forests and deserts dotted throughout. On this continent the ancestors of humans found themselves, along with almost all of the goblin tribes. These goblins were hunted upon by the humans as food in increasing number, until one day several of the tribes decided to combat the humans hunting them. Although they lacked much of the human's physical strength, they more then made up for it in reproductive capacity and with a special drug which sent them into a wild, murderous frenzy. It was not long until the goblins began to overwhelm the humans, which were gradually forced to retreat into isolated pockets in the more easily defendable regions of the continent. The humans were forced to innovate and fortify, and eventually the battlefronts stagnated. And they would remain relatively stable for well over a thousand years, both sides constantly vying for advantage over the other, until the elves arrived. The elves had sent a small force to explore a new continent rumored to exist far to the west, and within a month landed upon the eastern shore of Humvar. The leader of this expedition say the native inhabitants as little more then barbarians, and when he went back to his homeland he sought support for a new colony and a large army to defend against and conquer the natives. He soon found both and headed back to Humvar with a sizable army of comparatively technologically advanced soldiers and mystics.(note: 'Mystic' is basically the elven version of a mage) Upon arrival he first decided to conquer the goblins and it was not long before the goblins were largely eradicated. However, when he attempted to attack the humans, he found that they had prepared for and copied from his assault, and had united for the first time in history. This newly unified nation was more then a match for the elven force, and soon defeated it and forced the burgeoning elven colony to pay a yearly tribute for protection. This was about two or three generations ago. since then, and the elves have largely attempted to make amends with the humans by sharing much of their technology and culture.

Spoiler: Character Creation (click to show/hide)

Required information is:
Name
Race
Gender
Skills
Background Info, please be descriptive. Providing better info may get you better roll bonuses.

Characters and turns
Also here
Turn 4

Also, feel free to ask any questions you have via PM or post.

[wolfchild]

Im bein a little non-conformist here, i hope it's not outta the question

Name: Eisthln
Race: Human(Werewolf)
Gender: Male
Skills: Lunar Magic, Perception, Hunting; if this is too many, i wrote them in order that i want to keep them
Background info: Eisthln was a hunter in the human nation of (inset nation here), relying more on wits and a keen thrust with a spear, than with stalking and a bow, this strategy while through many years providing him a bounty greater than most hunters can ever achive, it backfired on him 2-3 years ago (gm decides) when his game was a werewolf that had been terrorising the nearby village. While he managed to slay it, it managed to infect him. Before the next wolf moon (because its not necisarily the full moon that does it in you're world), he managed to find writings from an old lycanthrope empire, about how to controll the moon's influence, and also channel it's energy in other ways, he manages to take controll, while he is still a werewolf it is HE that is in controll, most of the time. He maintained his skills while learning the magic, untill the deamon attacks happened, he quickly joined the expedition/evacuation finally wanting to explore new horrisons.

[abculatter_2]

That's fine, although it should be noted that the sun and moon don't exist in the hell world (Or at least, their influences are far away enough that it is irrelevant). As such, your powers would likely no longer rely upon lunar cycles. However, this hellish land is strange and twisted, and magic from the outside world has a tendency to be very unpredictable...

Also, the unorthodox magic I can explain as simply being pagan beliefs which draw upon mysterious powers not fully understood. Magic IS typically mysterious, after all. You can also go ahead and get creative with the nation you came from and other stuff if you so wish, I never really developed the individual nations of the world beyond a broad history (which I'll probably have to put in the background spoiler...).

[wolfchild]

ok then, well the lunar magic is not really lunar anymore is it, but lets just leave it as that you know what i mean, if thats ok

Nation: Estal
A flourrishing plainsland nation that covered 2503 Square Kilometers, and contained rougly 1.5 million people, they were scholars and farmers, producing much more than enough for themselves, and freely trading it to those that were open, for building materials, luxuries and most importantly information and news, they were governed by an everchanging council, the highest contributers in either knowledge of produce from each region. Being a demiliterised nation, they were completley devistated when the demons arrived, with the few survivors retreating to the nearby highland kingdom of Valur who welcomed them due to the close ties of friendship they shared, the new Valur/Estal defended the mountains feircly, untill they were forced to retreat furthur, into an unihabited coastlands.

[abculatter_2]

I failed to mention in the main post that Kinvar is a continent, not just a land. No other races have any sovereignty over Kinvar, and humans have yet to expand to any continent other then their birth and home-land, Humvar, which is another continent.

Also, many of the details you've made for your nation is contradictory to the history I've made for the humans, which I shall be editing into the main post after this. I guess there are ways I could explain it, though you'd probably have to make them an island nation.

[wolfchild]

well just change anything that does not fit, that is why i wanted you to make it, im sorry that it does not fit though

[Frelock]

Name: Don Onil
Race: Human
Gender: Male
Skills: Swordsmanship, Riding, Leadership
Background:  A son of a minor noble, Don was trained from birth to combat the minor nuisance the goblins of the mountains still caused.  Though he absolutely hates politics, his father thrives on them, constantly pulling strings in the background to put his son forward.  An obedient if unwilling son, Don received his first command at only 15, and has been fighting ever since.  His first command was of a small outpost on the northern boarder.  After turning back a goblin raiding party with his relatively small garrison, he was promoted, and gained control of the cavalry company which constantly patrols the boarder.  His skill with the sword is impressive, and over the course of 10 years, he has gained the trust and respect of his men.  When the news of the fleet going to Kinvar reached his father's ears, his fate was sealed.  For reasons unknown to him, his father pressed upon him the importance of this mission.  He said this was a great opportunity for the family, one which would not come again.  So, confused, but with the rank of Captain (partly due to his father's manipulations, partly due to merit), Don kissed his wife and newborn son goodbye, and set sail to Kinvar.  Besides the family sword and his own armor and horse, Don takes with him two letters, both given to him by his father.  One, he was instructed to open when the ships reached Kinvar, though he has forgotten about it in the crash.  The second letter was said to be explained in the first; whatever that means.


Sound good?

[Nevyn134]

Here is the Character.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name: Nevyn Fenrok

Race: Human

Gender: Male

Skills: Skilled with an Axe in combat and is proficient with most of his inventions. He is a skilled, if slightly insane Tinker. This skill is detailed in the character background. Basically we uses things around him and objects he has picked up to create whatever is needed at the time, if it would normally be impossible it will work only because he is unconsciously using magic to make it work. This would require at least two rolls, one to make the invention, one for the magic use. No one else can use the devices that require magic without first working out that it requires magic to use. Nevyn has some control over life energies, giving him the ability to heal people with magic and even restor a sembelence of life to the deceased, but not true life as he cannot restore the soul. I do admit that this was inspired by D&D 2nd edition necromancy, which is the manipulation of life in all forms, giving it (healing), taking it (killing) and manipulating it in any way thinkable.

Background Info: Ever since he was young, Nevyn fiddled with thing, putting things together, never really knowing what he will end up with once he has started. Creating all sorts of inventions, many of which none could use except him. It was during these young years that his determined want for his devices to work that first awakened Nevyns latent magical abilities. Not that he knew what he was doing and indeed still does not.
By infusing seemingly impossible devices with his own power they were able to function, but only when he used them. He put this down to others not understanding how to use his inventions. Others eventually learned how to manipulate his devices with magic, but they never told him about it, thinking he already knew about the magic element in the devices. It wasn't until Nevyn was 13 that one of his devices accidentally injured the family pet (probably a cat). Through sheer will power Nevyn was able to consciously harness his more of his magical abilities to heal the wounds inflicted, to save the pets life.
Many years later, when he turned 20 Nevyn joined the military and the fight against the Goblins and when the elves arrived asking for assistance, Nevyn volonteered to assist and was later lucky enough (or so he thought at the time) to be selected to join the expedition back to Kinvar.

[abculatter_2]

well just change anything that does not fit, that is why i wanted you to make it, im sorry that it does not fit though

It's okay, if you want me to make it I can, though all we really need right now is a name. The rest can be filled in later or just with generic stuff.

Name: Don Onil
Race: Human
Gender: Male
Skills: Swordsmanship, Riding, Leadership
Background:  A son of a minor noble, Don was trained from birth to combat the constant goblin raids into their territory.  Though he absolutely hates politics, his father thrives on them, constantly pulling strings in the background to put his son forward.  An obedient, if unwilling son, Don received his first command at only 15, and has been fighting ever since.  His first command was of a small outpost on the northern boarder.  After turning back a major goblin offensive with his relatively small garrison, he was promoted, and gained control of the cavalry company which constantly patrols the boarder.  His skill with the sword is impressive, and over the course of 10 years, he has gained the trust and respect of his men.  When the news of the fleet going to Kinvar reached his father's ears, his fate was sealed.  For reasons unknown to him, his father pressed upon him the importance of this mission.  He said this was a great opportunity for the family, one which would not come again.  So, confused, but with the rank of Captain (partly due to his father's manipulations, partly due to merit), Don kissed his wife and newborn son goodbye, and set sail to Kinvar.  Besides the family sword and his own armor and horse, Don takes with him two letters, both given to him by his father.  One, he was instructed to open when the ships reached Kinvar, though he has forgotten about it in the crash.  The second letter was said to be explained in the first; whatever that means.


Sound good?

Sounds good, though the goblin war was largely ended about hundred or so years ago. No biggy though, I can explain that as the goblins making a comeback or just never really being completely destroyed.

Hey, i would like to join this RTD, just writing a character. Will Edit this post with it.

Glad to see there's plenty of interest!

[Frelock]

Alright; makes sense that there's still some goblins up in the mountains who come down every so often with delusions of grandeur.  I did change "major offensive" to "raiding party" and "constant raids" to "minor nuisance" to make that work better.

[abculatter_2]

I'll post all the characters and situations on the main post and in a new post when either 1. we have 5 or more people or 2. it's tomorrow. Then we'll start.

[Nevyn134]

cool

[abculatter_2]

Nevyn, could you go over your character's background and skills and make it a bit clearer? As it is now it seems like you weren't really thinking straight when you typed it, and there are a few grammar mistakes.

I can understand the gist of it, it's mainly just the grammar mistakes.

[Nevyn134]

Sure, sorry, was typing it while watching a movie with family, will fix it in a moment.

[wolfchild]

his magic seems to be the D&D 2nd ed definition of necromancy (the creation, manipulation or destruction of life), healing spells were necromancy