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[Twi]

Thus my Dex is high as well.

[Ochita]

Damn it! I can at least help in a fight. Although training by you would be good for dodging and unarmed combat.
(Could there be a system where elfs can train other elfs to half of their levels? So if someone has 4 then they can teach someone to 2.)

[Weirdsound]

Attributes would take months or years to raise, so no. For skills others can train you all the way up to their level.

I think I've PMed everybody. Let me know if I missed you. Hopefully I can add all characters to the first post this evening.

[KineseN]

Character name: Selande Nightsight
Player name: KineseN

Subspecies: Mule Elf (Sludge/Night Elf breed)
Physical Description: Her skin is not as thick as the Sludge elfins but compared to a Night elf it is. The skin is a bit more purple and coarse. Because of this it let her hide much easier at night. She have blue piercing eyes but have no other remarkable features. She is not as strong as a Sludge elf but is instead much more agile. She have the hight of a Sludge elf.
Age and Generation: 62 years, Sorrowborn

Spoiler: Character History: Birth (click to show/hide)

Selandes mother, Felrin Nightsight was a Night Elf that lived alone in a cave close to a serene lake surrounded by a forest, leaving the cave only at nights when the smell of blood were at it strongest. These were times when wild animals would roam around the vicinity of the cave. It was this night when she had arabbit in sight she met him.
Selandes father, Yuig Eyepiercer was a Sludge Elf hunting for food outside his normal route. With less and less to find he made his way to a lake. There he found a large majestic Jaguar. For him this was a moment he would never forget.

Yuig would never lay his hand on a One of the Four, much less harm one and was about to silently leave when he heard a shriek. Felrin had never noticed the Jaguar when she had concentrated on the hunt that she involuntary shrieked but stopped just as suddenly. It was now when Yuig had decided to kill the Jaguar to save someone he didn't know.

Long story short, fair maiden in distress. Ugly man with heart of gold save the dame. Dame falls in love with man. They spend time together. A girl is born.

Spoiler: Character History: Sorrowborn (click to show/hide)

Selande was a lonely child. While she didn't look like either of her parents it was of no concern of hers, since she had noone to bully her for it. She grew up surrounded by love and by animals and she loved them back equally if not more, but the days were dull and hunting with her dad was boring and taking care of the cave with her mother was even more of a bore. That is why she went exploring by herself at the age of 22. At most times it was just the surroundings were her parents could find her but at times she could be bold enough to do a longer expedition, further away than the forests limits.

On a rainy day when she returned from one of her longer trips she saw the cave in disorder and her parents nowhere to be found. Her heart sank and for the first time she knew what true loneliness was. She started to search for them with the tracking skills her father had teached her and with the help of her mothers blood flowing within her she had an easier time when searching in the dark.

The search did not last more than two weeks but for Selande it felt like years had gone past. She had arrived to a small fortress were there were many different kinds of elfins. In here she got lodging and food for normal work and information of her parents werabouts if she helped the fortress in acts of assassination and sabotage. And she helped them in belief that she would get the information. Only she never got any. But she couldn't stop now, not when she had found a new way to help those in need.

The few years before Sorrowborn era ended she had climbed the ladder of success as an assassin and was known for never letting a target know that she was behind them, especially when it was night.

Long story short. Girl bored of everyday life, seeks adventure. Loses family. Searching for them. Find nothing. Find a trail. Fake trail. Helps out anyway.

Spoiler: Character History: Justborn (click to show/hide)

Before her last mission to assassinate a certain human she had a dream. In it she would bring those left in this fortress to a new land were they would rise again from the ashes and once again prosper. Selande could not even phantom the meaning of this dream. After all, she was no leader, only an assassin.

None the less, she prepared herself for the mission and got to the human village in cover of the dark. Sneaking and dodging around guards was second nature to her but that was not even needed since there was almost no guards patrolling this remote village. The target was a mayor that had a hand in the trading routes between this village and the other human cities. Or in other words, make him kick the bucket and the traderoutes would have to change courses to a longer route, taking longer for supplies to arrive. Simple enough.

Letting herself in from a window into the mayors house was as simple as stealing candy from a child. As she looked around she found the mayors bedroom. As she were about to stab the mayor a hand stopped her, and wrestled the dagger out of her hand. Then her biggest suprise came when the person shouted to alert the mayor in a voice she knew very well, her fathers. Somehow her father was was here but she thought it strange, why was he alerting the mayor? And as she turned around she instantly knew why. Her father had been tortured into submission, a sight Selande was all too familiar with from her other missions. Those tortured all had the blank stare of a corpse and countless of scars covering their bodies, and they had almost no recollection of their previous life. So she fled. Fled from her father and everything else. Back to the fortress.

But there was a problem, not only her father had been tortured but also her mother. And with them working together they had tracked her to this fortress and Selande cursed herself and everything in her life for the first time for not covering her tracks. While she was thinking of what to do next her mot... no, the traitorous Night Elf ran back while the Sludge Elf stood his ground. And it was now that Selande thought of the dream she had. She had decided to act upon it only she knew not how to begin. But first she had to rid of the Sludge Elf.

Long story short. Prophetic dream before important mission. Daughter meet long lost father. Father no longer recognise daugther. Daugther flees. Long lost mother joins the hunt. Mother no longer recognise daugther. Mother runs back to inform village. Daughter act out dream by killing father first.

Spoiler: Things that was left blank but are filled now (click to show/hide)

Attributes:
Strength (For bashing and lifting):                   0
Dexterity (For precision and swiftness):              2
Intelligence (For planning and scheming):             1
Charisma (For socializing and bargaining):           -1
Spirit (For control of the natural and supernatural): 1

Skills:
   Combat Skills:
   Longblades:     0
   Shortblades:    3 + 1
   Unarmed Combat: 0
   Bows:           0
   Dodging:        0
   Shield Use:     0
   Stealth:        3 + 1
   Tracking:       1       
      Whips:       0
Non-Combat Skills:
   Gathering (Find nat. res):                          1
   Processing (Break down for res):                    0
   Survival Crafting (Simple crafting without wrkst.): 0
   Pacification (Make creatures less aggr.):           1
   Barter (Get shinies from other creatures):          0
   Medicine (Keeping creatures alive):                 1
        Chemistry (Make evil pots & "booms"):          1
   Masonry (Art from Rock):                            0
   Furnace Work (Art from Metal and Glass):            0
   Blacksmithing (Art from Hot metal):                 0
   Gemcrafting (Shiny art):                            0

Experience Perk/Flaw

Assassin: You can slip past an army of guards to silently slaughter a target. You gain a bonus to sneaking and any combat done while sneaking. This bonus is increased if your character enters the situation with prior knowledge of his/her target and setting.

Paranoid: You fear that at any given moment you may be attacked or betrayed. You gain a penalty to all actions unless you are holding a weapon. This penalty is amplified if others nearby are armed.

Inherited Perks/Flaws

Avatar of Fear: While traveling alone or with other night elves at night Boogeymen emerge to aid you in combat.

Animal Avatar (Viper):You can turn into a small yet deadly serpent and back again. The transformation takes 30 minutes to an hour to complete. While in this form your dexterity, intelligence, and spirit are all set to 2. All your other attributes are set to -1. While in this form you gain a venomous bite that rots the skin and kills the nerves of your victim. The viper is good at sneaking and climbing.

Moon Beauty: You are quite ugly in the sun. You gain a sizeable penalty to social interactions during the day. This effect can be somewhat diminished by cloudy weather or being underground or indoors.

Solar Stasis: Your body is incapable of healing whatsoever while exposed to sunlight.

Starting Gear:

Dark blue dyed undergarments made from cloth
Deep Elf Gear: A small dagger made out of steel, ornamented by a single small and matted sapphire. (You start with a single item of high value bronze or steel. This item must be small enough to be carried around by hand or worn by your character. If your item is a ranged weapon you may take a leather quiver and arrows.)

Stupidly long. Skip to the bolded in each spoiler for a summary.

[Weirdsound]

Ooh me!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Character name: Ochita
Player name: Ochita

Subspecies: High elf
Physical Description: Ochita looks surprisingly young for a dawn elf, looking almost like a warborn. He has the blond hair expected from a high elf but he has a streak of neon, a momento.
Age and Generation: Dawnelf, 500
Character History: Ochita is one of the few dawnelfs remaining alive. When the world was new he enjoyed his powers, acting without a care in the world. Until he met Sarifa, a deep elf that he fell in love with. Going though their romance they had many children, and both used their powers to hold back the tides of time. However the war began.
....
It was bloody. He came home once to see his wife, splattered across everything. His anger was held back by his wisdom, and he traveled away, to seek peace of mind. As luck would have it his hut was on the path to the fortress, and he was allowed in. However looking like a warborn will not help with matters of wisdom. Still. He still has that knack.
 
Attributes:
Strength (For bashing and lifting): 0
Dexterity (For precision and swiftness): -1
Intelligence (For planning and scheming): 1
Charisma (For socializing and bargaining): 1
Spirit (For control of the natural and supernatural): 1
Skills:
Combat Skills:
   Longblades: 0
   Shortblades: 0
   Unarmed Combat: 0
   Bows: 0
   Dodging: 1
   Sheild Use: 0
   Stealth: 0
   Tracking: 0
Non-Combat Skills:
   Gathering (Finding natural resources): 1
   Processing (Breaking something down for resources): 0
   Survival Crafting (Simple crafting without the need for a workstation): 0
   Pacification (Making creatures not want to make you dead): 0
   Barter (Getting what you want from other creatures): 1
   Medicine (Keeping creatures alive): 2
   Furnace Work (Making metal bars and glass objects): 0
Magical Skills:
   Prayer (Consulting and invoking gods and spirits): 1
   Blood Magic (Consulting, invoking, and commanding the unholy): 1
   Heat Magic (Drastically raising or lowering temperatures): 0
   Fluid Magic (Controlling air and water): 3
   Mineral Magic (Controlling and consulting the earth around you): 2 (0+2 due to dawnelf)

Perks:
   Inherited Perks:
Natural Wisdom: You sometimes recognize when an idea is bad, and avoid uncomfortable situations. (Occasionally your character ignores a terrible roll and chooses another activity to partake in.)
   Experience Perks:
Geomancer: You are in tune with the earth to the point where you can manipulate and communicate with it. You detect mineral deposits and the vibrations of creatures. You gain a bonus to any action that works with minerals in their natural unaltered form.
Archeologist: As an ancient relic yourself, you are good at digging through the ruins and abandoned sites of the various civilizations. You gain a bonus to working with archeological sites and the objects they yield.
Flaws:
   Inherited Flaws:
Material Irrationality (Glass): You are uncomfortable with other elfin subspecies handling clear and/or crystal glass. You are pissed off to the point of violence and stupidity when non elfin races use such materials.
   Experience Flaws:
Uncontrolled Aura: Your magic power is overwhelming to those who can perceive it. You suffer a huge penalty to sneaking around and running from many animals and magical beings.
Magically Overloaded: In a fruitless attempt to wield magic with the level of power and competency you had in the early days of existence, you have stockpiled a dangerous amount of magic in your body. Random effects, usually to your disadvantage, often occur in your vicinity.

Starting Gear:
Mages Gear: You start off with a wooden staff, three pieces of silk clothing (Silk Robe, silk gloves, silk veil.) a collection of mystical herbs, and wineskin or vile of magical potion with any reasonable effect that you choose to give it. (Potion of resistance against cold.)

List all your starting gear. Other than that your good.

Edit: I'm putting everybody in the first post now. I'll just assign you your gear myself so I'm not waiting on you. If you have any objections to what you get just PM me, and we will get if fixed.

Edit 2: I'm still working on putting you into the first post, but it is dinner, and we have guests, so I may be a couple hours. Not sure. I've been have to change or list alot of your items, so if anybody has any problems with what I put, let me know.

Edit 3: Done I think. If I missed anybody on the first post, let me know.

[Weirdsound]

Intro Sequence (Just to Give you all someplace to start.)

The small troop of displaced elves passes through the formidable golden portal. The floor beyond it is smoothed mudstone which slowly rises to reach a grand set of double wide stairs. The slow climb up the stairs is brutally difficult, as they are steep and the two remaining pack animals are reluctant to climb; After a good 15-20 minutes however everybody has reached the top.

You find yourselves at the end of a long corridor. Just several yards behind you stands a wondrous relic spoken of in Deep Elf lore. The Masked Blueness of Flame, a legendary door constructed out of Adamantine. Tales of dwarven triumph and labor are etched upon it in nickle silver, and it menaces with spikes of what appears to be kitten bone. The legends state the door was constructed to protect the outside world from the vile force that doomed the Fortresse's inhabitants. Unsightly bulges on the supposedly inalterable artifact seem to imply that something terrible had tried at some point to exit through the door from the other side. Singed ground around the Bluemetal wonder imply that something stupid has tried to blast through.

Six other doors, each made of nickle and bolted tight with heavy lead locks. It appears that whoever tried to blast down the Adamantine door also turned their explosives on the nickle ones. 5 of them are still intact. The one furthest from the stairs and on the left has been blown off its hinges. Beyond the blasted down door is a great dwarven dining hall. Lying facedown on one of the tables is a skeletal eflin corpse, missing its legs. On the table is a faded message written in blood. The words themselves are tough to make out, but they appear to be written in standard deep elf script. The corpse itself is wearing an expensive looking silk robe, and one of its legs appears to be underneath the table on which it sits.

Opposite of The Masked Blueness of Flame is the sun drenched exit to the fortress. The exit appears to be situated on the slope of a mountain. The road to the valley below is eroded and faded from 150 years of non-use. The valley itself is heavily wooded and surrounded by peaks on three sides and a large body of water on the forth. The only way in or out of the valley seems to be a thin strip of beach between water and rock. What appears to be a large wooden structure sits near this strategic choke point.

Among your ranks are two pack animals. A mule, who like the elves present has survived the entire journey through the caverns. It is missing its tail and an eye from a victorious duel with a Rutherer. The other is an Elk Bird who was tamed shortly after the battle with the Termite when it became apparent that most of the pack animals, like most of the elves, were doomed to succumb to dust induced heart rot. Both animals carry heavy looking leather sacks untouched by the dust. Nobody present knows exactly what is inside them.

You can post your actions now. The first turn will give your elves three hours to perform their actions and will end at dusk. Feel free to discuss and debate how long future turns should last, I'm open to suggestions. If everybody posts quickly enough I will roll tomorrow night, otherwise I will wait till the 26th.
 
 

[Twi]

((Wait, what? I don't understand the placement of doors whatsoever, other than the fancy artifact one. Map?))
Miriam starts exploring the valley, looking for...trouble, I suppose. Also, investigating the wooden structure.

[Weirdsound]

I'm working on the maps of the Forrest and valley now. The only parts of the fortress you can access at this point are the places I described. Everything else is behind the sealed off doors.

[Twi]

((Well, then, continue with post. Valley, wooden structure.))

[Lillipad]

I'll try freezing the bolts on the doors to make them easier to smash off. If I can't do it in my regular form, I'll try my polar bear form.

[Weirdsound]

First Post is updated with game information, including maps.

[KineseN]

Selande held her dagger in a tight grip, her last possession from the fortress. None of those from the fortress she brought with her had survived the journey and that made her both sad and angry. She knew no one here and she was still afraid that the traitorous Night Elf still was on her tracks.


Selande picks one of the packs and spreads out the contents. If there is food, she takes a small piece. If she finds clothing or armor made of cloth or leather she takes pants and a shirt. Anything else and she leave it be.

She then spends her time tracking after smaller animals in the valley for food, preferably alone. If any animal she finds is larger than a dog see if she can tame it, use the piece of food if available.

[Kadzar]

Zrallin will take any leather armor from the packs that he can wear together. If someone else wants some armor, he'll let them have it, but he's trying to get as much armor coverage as he can.

After looking through the packs and equipping what he can, Zrallin will assist in breaking down the doors (except for the adamantine one, which I hope Caboose didn't actually target). Once the doors are opened, he'll assist in clearing out the rooms behind them. He'll look for and take any leather armor in the rooms if he doesn't have much armor on yet and as long as no one else needs it.

[Pillow_Killer]

Karr will go into the red dining hall, and, if there is nothing worth his attention, will assist in door opening

[Ochita]

(Sorry. My comp has been changed and there isnt an adapter cable for the monitor.  )

Ochita will open one of the doors at random and will explore the room beyond it.