Le Prélude des Ombres (RP , please read first post)

s'pyromane · Apr 14, 2010 8:44 PM

(Don't worry about the French title , it's going to be an English RP of course...)

[smiley:5a8a1f0dac]Welcome Ladies and Gentlemans ![/smiley:5a8a1f0dac]

Okay , I spoke of it , here comes the first RP I'll ever host ! Advanced like begginners are allowed to join , but warning : some scenes aren't for the sensible people maybe , and you'll get kicked from the RP if you aren't active enough or if you don't respect the rules. Here come some essential rules , but a more complete topic is sticked in this forum.

---> NO EXPLICIT SEXUAL CONTENT ! Not here ! It's as simple as that. You don't want that...Your character does as he please , but if it's going to happen...then please spare me the details ! There may be nine years old children looking at you you know...

---> NO GODMODDING ! Or I'll severely caricaturate you before the kick. Want your character to dance the chicken dance in the middle of the crucial fight you're wasting ? Godmodding can waste any good RP in a matter of posts.

---> NO SCRIPTING ! This isn't a parody , this is a RP , remember...(What , I should be the first one concerned due to my parodic career ? What a joke...Ummm...I wanted to write fics too , remember it.)

---> And , most important of all : HAVE FUN ! If you don't respect this particular and serious rule and stay in my RP , I'll come in person from the South-East of the France to kick your butt with the Rangers boots of the French Army , and your butt will remember this for a while , trust me...Ummm...Maybe not , but you won't escape the kick...from the RP. Nothing serious ? No , I'm serious , you should watch your back dude.

Now that some rules has been reminded by your servitor , let's get to the main topic of the topic (topic or not topic , that is the question) , say the RP.
It takes place in the same world than MrX-Link's RP. (Why ? Because it is exactly what I wanted : classic Spyro maps , not DotD once again...)

Due to time and limits of my Wii browser (All this topic was brought to you by Wiimote ! Huh...) , I'll post the intro in a separate post , maybe tommorrow if I lack time this night. Feel free to suscribe , even if your character(s) isn't/aren't ready , as long as you have a minimal motivation about RPing...But if you're not RPing...Stay anyways , haha !

This may be fun...

s'pyromane · Apr 14, 2010 9:24 PM

Intro :

Arthar , the king of the light side , died yesterday , causing troubles in the kingdom. He was once chosen to bring peace , and succeeded , but like every living creature , he had a lifetime to respect , and it ended. His last will was a democratical vote to elect his successor , so that's people who choose their next chief to believe in , who will keep the pece he fought so hard to get. Five parts asked a candidature :
-the "good but dark" one , no members , an unknown leader...
-the peace and love one , say the peace walkers , two leaders who are "cool" and a few adepts.
-the conservative one , the kindom's union the favourite with Arthar's strange nephew as the leader.
-the "old army" , the militaries of the deceased king himself (!). One legendary leader , who contest this vote and don't want to be bound to such a mess after the death of the king...
-the pure democratical one , with a president and his parliament if elected. One leader , not very known , but someone meant to be good.

Names of the leaders , respectively :
-???
-Theo and Valentin
-Arthuros
-Blanche
-Arcanian

This vote will stay only three days , because the kingdom mustn't be kingless for too long. The elected leader will have the right to even change the political way of the kingdom. Of course , lots of people are still unable to tell who they will elect in this mess...And will vote blank , unless...

Yes , unless you act. The baddies are in the dark for now (wait for my post about it) and are looking carefully , their leader having a plan in mind...
You don't have to even care about this election , but you can influence the results with acts , maybe support a part and even create your own ! (yay , like if it wasn't complicated enough...Don't worry , it's on purpose that I do this.) It's the perfect chance to meet and discover the others characters from the same side besides , it would be too bad to waste it.

I'll add some more later maybe , but you can already join if you wish !

Mr. John · Apr 14, 2010 10:39 PM

OOC: Is it okay if join with Argil?

MrXLink · Apr 15, 2010 5:37 AM

Let's join this.

Race: Human
Name: Moon
Gender: Female
Age: Between 26 and 35
Side: Neutral
Element (or Magic in this case): Shadow

Appearance: A strong-looking woman. Dark, brown hair which almost seems to look black. Usually dressed in a deep purple, red and black cloak, covered by some shoulder plating. Her lower arms are also protected by iron armor plating, so is her breast. She wears a brown belt with golden seams and an iron buckle. Finally, she also wears a small necklace totally made out of iron.

History: Moon was born in a faraway desert province in the shadow lands. Though she was born and grew up there, she isn't on the dark side. In fact, no one in her village, Myrannias, is on the dark side. They are either neutral or aid the light a bit. Myrannias is a small village in which human settlers and shadow masters live, called the Myran, known by their experience in professional forgery, creating the toughest weapons of the area. Not only as a tradition of the Myran, but also because of own will, Moon eventually mastered some powerfull shadow Magic, and learned to fight with blades at a local weapon forge. Eventually, she forged her own, infragible blades and became a local fighter in the town's defence system. Soon enough, she became one of the most powerful warriors the Myran had ever known. At the age of 25, she finally left the wastelands to become a lone warrior and asassin, and paired up with a Dragon after a few months. Humans and Dragons which are friends was rare, but Moon didn't care about that. It's the only Dragon to which she can be honest and talk in a more social way. Now don't think she never sees Myrannias anymore, because she visits it and stays there once in a while.

Personality: Moon has no problem with talking to anyone, but thinks before she says something. When in combat, she attacks technically, not recklessly. She has a certain strategy of surviving and fighting, and has no fear. However, she likes to take the lead and can act demanding. She listens to what others say, and knows a lot. She's very bad at social interaction with anyone but people she knows from Myran, and it will never change. She doesn't give up quickly.

Powers: Moon is able to gather energy from the dead and the night to convert it into shadow attacks like exploding necro-spheres, shadow spikes, dark explosions, shadow projectiles (to throw) and some more. She is able to, with enough energy, revive a dead being for a short while in her control, and finally, she can also drain the life out of an enemy at extremely slow pace, but eventually transfer it to another being to heal or revive it. The process is extremely slow, and Moon becomes very vulnerable when she uses it.
Furthermore, she is a strong warrior, specialized in close combat. She can attack unexpectedly and silent, dealing quick damage which is not very painful, but if hit frequently, it will.

Weaknesses: She's weak against the elements of ice and light. Her "armor" only protects weakly against decent attacks, and is vulnerable when using magic which requires a lot of energy. Can only use magic when there is enough energy the dead or night can give her, so she is weaker at day on a place where there are as least signs of death as possible. This environment can weaken her greatly. She lacks skill of ranged attacks, except magic. Her partner Dragon is also an emotional weakness of her, which she hides in prescence of others. If it gets hurt, it feels like she gets hurt as well, making her look like a weakling instead of that fearless warrior.

Equipment: A somewhat weak armor consisting of separate platings on her shoulders, breast, lower arm and knees. A belt, a necklace and a cloak are the rest of her clothes. She carries two strong, wide short swords, designed for fast and close combat, the handgrips are made of iron and set with amethyst. Nothing more.
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Race: Dragon
Name: Ionodra
Gender: Male
Age: between 29 and 36
Side: Neutral
Element: Ice

Appearance: A Dragon whose scales exist of all lighter colours of blue. He has white and blue wings that sparkle in the sunlight. His eyes are blue, and his belly is white with a little bit of blue. Spikes are everywhere on his body, except on his back, where a line of shark fin-like blue plates are positioned. It has sharp horns, going up and bending in a 90 degree angle. The end of his tail is a blue flame. His scales feel as cold as ice. He has sharp-looking claws. Normally he walks quadruple, but fights bipedal.

History: Ionodra was born in the deep, cold caves of the highest mountains, somewhere in the northern provinces of the world. He trained to defend from his father and mother, and stayed with them untill he was 23. He left, since he had grown up, and hunted on his own, still near the mountains, untill he got captured by someone he didnt know and never wanted to know. He was put into prison in the mountains, but managed to free himself. He can't remember how or when, but he still wears a chain around his right paw. A few years later, he met Moon and decided to leave his lone life behind and stay with her, after agreement.

Personality: Surprisingly cautious, likes to be with his partner. He is, unlike Moon, sympathetic and examines every opponent before attacking it (or leaving it alone). He is always in to help, and his form of attacking is used frequently to get enemies out of the way, not attacking very aggressively. Like Moon, he shows no fear, unless his opponent uses fire. He also does not give up and (tries to) never let his friend down.

Powers: Posesses over a wide variety of frost magic. He can freeze water without any problem, can freeze people to the ground for a while, create a small dome of ice to protect the area, use ice bombs and shards as projectiles and generate frosty windstorms, but that last one costs him a lot of energy. He also has a very long lance which he can twist and use to attack. It reaches a wide area and is infused with frost magic. It can also generate small or big shockwaves, depending on how many energy is put into the attack, to knock back enemies.

Weaknesses: Extremely weak to fire and a bit weak to shadow. Gets weaker the hotter it gets, hates losing battles. Hates surprise attacks and when people use words to confuse him. Lacks skill of attacking ranged and therefore prefers direct attacking, which can work in his disadvantage. And finally, Moon is an emotional weak side, just as the place where he was born. If Moon gets hurt a lot, it affects Ionodra's way of fighting in a bad way.

Equipment: Nothing but his lance, a small crystal and a chain around his right paw.
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I made them neutral this time. I think it'll be pretty interesting. Oh, and I'll start in Myrannias, just so you know.

s'pyromane · Apr 15, 2010 12:48 PM

Of course it is Mr. John ! I said that everybody can join , so it goes for their characters too.
...Myran ? Is this small village on any maps of the kingdom ?

Let me add some details who are lacking...

In case you're wondering , the main action took place first in the more central place of this world , say the Autumn Plains castle (main world , the castle is big) , who was the main place of decision to the lights in the period of the king. Now , all places are free from any orders , as long as they is no one to reign. Places too far away to be administred are considered as neutral (some Canyons , the Mines , and some more , including the places who disagree with a central power like this one and who now can do as they please...).

A new village was built close to the castle , Arthias , at the honor of the king and his servitors. It's there that all my light characters will start , and where the leaders of the parties are , to represent their party and to be able to take control of the castle in case they win , they mustn't live miles away from the castle...And no entrances being allowed in the castle except the hall for now , the vote take place in the empty gardens around (and in the hall , in case the whether is bad).

Okay , I've got the computer this time , so here comes the unedited sheets Wiimote written , but this time brought to you by copy/paste :

s'pyromane wrote:

Race : Dragon-human (see history for more details)
Name : Martin
Age : 16
Gender : Male
Side : Light
Element : Electricity.
Appearance : Looks more dragon than human , is somewhere between them in height and size. He has a dark yellow skin with some dark here and there (mostly on the back and arms/legs) and a white belly. Has brown hairs , nuances of brown and green in his eyes. Tend to wear yellow civil clothes and never go out without it and some equipment. Clearly not strong looking at all , always seems sad but heoften not actually is.
History : It began by a friendly relationship between a human , witch name was forgotten and a dragoness , still living under the name of Christina. The human had a dark past , and the dragoness , in becoming his friend , did her best to make him become good , and almost suceed. But he wanted a further relation...And finally abused her , after a progressive increasing of violence at her. He let her escaped for an unknown reason. Chrisina helped the son to grow up anyways , because of her altruist nature and of her insticts of mother , but after 11 years , got captured again , and could left her son fly away from the prison only 5 years later , meaning that much years of violence of her dark husband. It was hard for Martin to live this and to let her alone in there , but as long as his mother will be in danger , he had to survive , to free her one day from his violent father. He met recently two dragons who will help him greatly to overcome all the fears he got in all this.
Personnality : From an external point of view , he's often considered as a pure coward and an antisocial creature , which don't add well to his double specie nature. Fear indeed a LOT of things , and prefers to not tell the reason. Tend to shake anytime he watch a family or when he's near any love relationship in general , and run away (not necessarely fastly , but does) from such scenes. Has a very bad self-confidence , hate fighting and avoid others as much as he can. Avoid any physical training or occupation whenever he can. An unmatched ingeneer , but hide it to the others and sometimes fear his own inventions...
Strenghts : A brilliant ingeneer about machines , can repair any kind of them. Can fight at long range and have a really good precision. A good glider. Is clever in general.
Weaknesses : Don't defend himself at all in close range sometimes...Is kinda slow on the ground and lack strenght because of his mediocre physical condition. Tend to not use his magic at its full potential at all. When against one of his fears , lost reason and misact often because of this.
Equipments : Civil clothes...Always carrying a plan or two on him and some magic items. Sometimes carry a bow or a weapon self-made , but since he prefers avoid fighting , rarely does.
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Race : Dragon
Name : Diamantine
Age : 21
Gender : Female
Side : Light
Element : none/special (consider her as non-elementary)
Appearance : A tall dragoness , white skinned with diamond claws and deep blue eyes. Wear transparent cape , bracelets and shape horns , but don't hesitate to fight without all this blinging stuff. Usually have a nice attitude , but when angry , can look very intimidating and sauvage due to her personnality. Strong looking in general.
History : Diamantine was born in a rich family of dragons , which are never at home...Her father Vincent was himself a diamond looking dragon , but not her mother Svetlana , that's why her brother Valentin isn't one too. She lived with him mostly , until she decided to go out and see the world , bored of this easy life , who was perfect for him. Her personnality , already enthousiastic , get amplified , and now she own an enormous strenght and she's more like...a barbarian now. She met a strange violent man too , and that dragoness wounded...She won't allow that situation for very long , but still can't stand against him...And now that he dissapeared , she had to keep that child who , sure thing , can't hold a single fight at all. SHE will save her , and not that...accident thingy who is half a pain and half a disaster.
Personnality : Hate completely humans in general. Careless about herself and not very altruist , she will fight to the end...and farther if she could. A great determination , with an exceptionnal energy to deploy in her acts. Can think , fast , but prefers to act before even thinking most of the time. Her brother often call her as a "barbarian" because of all this. Hate loosing and tend to not be very patient at times.
Strenghts : Her physical strenght...who can come in handy in a lot of fight , and give her a big offense potential overall. Reacts fast and have good reflexes. Have some ability using his diamond made body who give her a welcome mean of defending herself from a few magic attacks and can hold almost any frontal assaults using these. Her determination give her a great stamina in tough fights. Good agility.
Weaknesses : No long range attacks. Easy to fool. Way too much on offense , she often forget to parry in action and rely on dodges and speed to avoid attacks...meaning that she will often spread lot of blood in difficult fights , decreasing her stamina significally while she could simply parry and beat on the long time with her good initial stamina. Impatient. Not any real strategy in fight but attacking endlessly.
Equipment : With the transparents stuff she wears , carry a two-hand diamond sword using only one hand. She doesn't hesitate to take a second one when she's *bleep*ed. It doesn't really matters her to fight without any equipment , but she knows that she's of course better wearing a few to decrease the amount of blood she'll loose in a fight and to parry in case she remind about it...Even if she prefers berserk-type fights.
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Race : Dragon
Name : Valentin
Age : 21 (He came from the same range of eggs like his sister , so the age difference is negligeable.)
Gender : Male
Side : Light
Element : Wind , Fire
Appearance : He's under medium sized , he has a orange-green scale color , who change from the green of the members and back wings with the orange in the belly , horns , claws and in the front of the wings. Brown eyes , his face is nice looking since he always stay calm , even when he shouldn't. He looks cool overall , and often is.
History : Not much to say about Diamantine's brother , because unlike his energic sister , he doesn't appreciates complications and tough fights , he stay at home or in the city and call some friends to have fun together. He didn't feel concerned about this story who seem to be his sister's priority , but unlike her , he thinks that this little guy have all his chances to become as cool as him later...ummm...maybe not that cool , but still. He still doesn't understand Diamantine's hate about humans , because for him , those differencies between these species doesn't justifiate a hate from one to the other. Such nonsense , but sure it concerns lots of peoples from the two sides.
Personnality : Cool...Lazy as Hell too. Often comments others deeds and try to avoid any useless fighting , whenever he doesn't refuse a fair or easy challenge. Give up far sooner than his sister when he feels defeat coming. Sociable and nice in general but sure have his personnality. Seems to be very careless about everything but actually isn't.
Strenghts : Whenever he sure can't beat his sister about pure strenght , he compensate with a great speed and a superior agility. He's habile and handle very well light and medium swords/daggers , prefers rapiers due to the balance between range and speedness. Can use lances and such but light ones. Can fire with some long range weapons faster than it should actually be fired (can't it if it's a too heavy or a strange one). Good in the magic domain.
Weaknesses : Very bad in defense. Little attack power. He can't use any heavy weapon/armor because if he does , he loose all his speed and agility...Who are his major strenghts. Can't really do anything without a lance against a medium-long range fighting opponent (not faraway , but too away from his sword range) because his spells take time to be casted . Lacks pure power with his magic (but not range and versatility).
Equipment : Always carrying his customized rapier , wear a few confortable expensives red clothes to tie with his scales colors. Carry jewels here and there sometimes when everything is quiet at home , change them everytime he does because none of them are horrible or exceptionnal , from his point of view.

And voilà , three sheets here so you don't even need to check two pages of the characters sheets topic. Baddies will all be discovered throught description , maybe a few sheets later but only when you'll meet them for real , because that's not fun to have no mistery in a RP...Don't worry , you won't be disappointed. But if others baddies could join , that would be good too , because...You'll see when I'll start. Anybody in the dark side at the service of my main dark character will start in a flying machine , hidden in the dark , and as long as it will be hidden , nobody will be able get out of this , unless they ask the permission of the master...Wait for my post about it before posting if you're under his orders (he's recruting criminals and dark peoples , maybe he'll find yours with his representant in the kingdom).

I'll wait a little to see if anybody else want to join , and we'll start when my needed post will be made.

If you have any questions , don't hesitate ! It will help me as well , so really , don't even think , ask.
(Ummm...maybe think a little , I won't answer questions like "How do you turn on the computer" huh...)

MrXLink · Apr 15, 2010 3:52 PM

s'pyromane wrote:

...Myran ? Is this small village on any maps of the kingdom ?

The village is called Myrannias, and the inhabitants are called the Myran. It's in Moon's histroy, in case you didn't yet read it wink
It's my own mistake, though. I've edited it tongue

s'pyromane wrote:

Places too far away to be administred are considered as neutral (some Canyons , the Mines , and some more , including the places who disagree with a central power like this one and who now can do as they please...).

In that case, you can consider Myran as neutral, if that's OK, since it's far away near the desert, and the inhabitants are neutral.

Oh, and it's Autumn Plains, in case you want to be very correct.

Everything looks awesome. I can't wait to begin :: D

Nightfall · Apr 15, 2010 7:58 PM

I might join, but I don't know who to use yet... If you need a villain, I have one.

s'pyromane · Apr 15, 2010 9:20 PM

MrX-Link : I've read it , but still didn't get where it was...
Yeah , Autumn Plains ? Okay thanks , my game being French , that's obvious that I'll spell wrong some places huh...

Myrannias will be neutral then. The closest desert being miles away from here , it's understandable...
Awesome ? Hold it cowboy ! You're going too fast ! I hope that it will be that good.

Saphira : As long as you join it's good ! Take your time. Okay for the baddie , because I'm the only one up to now to have baddies and that's less fun...He can start when he wants and can even oppose mine , no problem.

Let me post something about the baddies first.

[name of the character I'm speaking about]
(place)

[???]
(A machine room who shake slighty...)
Everything seemed to go well , but the armored human had to ask his generals about the global state of the operation. His voice was loud but threatening , a classical voice for such a dark lord.
"So , what's the situation everyone ?"

A human scientist , dressed classically , who seemed to about 50-60 years old and with a intimidating look was the first to answer. He has a persistic smirk on his face and looked like if he was retaining a cynic laugh everytime.
"Two days will be needed , as you asked , master...We should at least take codenames , like the dragon asked."
"Ha , codenames ? That's not a bad idea. Call me...Ummm...Black."
"How original...And mine will be Psycho , that's it ?!?..."
"Sounds great for you."
"...I wasn't serious...but whatever...Giving the one you've chosen I won't complain too much..."
"One more word , and I cut your perfid lick once for all. I don't need your annoyings comments , and you know me enough to know what to do."
"..."

A young (teen) dragon emerged from the dark. He had an always angry looking stare. He had dark to indigo scales with a blue belly , making him in contrast with the bronze color of the room (due to the humidified metal). He simply said :
"That will be...Shadow for me."

The reaction of the scientist wasn't to wait.
"Another original codename...Whatever. I hope for you that you won't loose the nearest fight..."
"...You want Mast...I mean Black...to cut your lick , perfid snake ? He asked you to be quiet didn't he ?"

Black felt the angryness of the dragon growing up while the scientist was looking hilarious but serious at the same time. It's not the right time for another fight...
"Both of you , sh*t up. Or you'll replace my Christina for a whole day."
The dragon gasped as soon , the scientist lost his smile for a moment.

"So , nothing more to add ? Good. Get back to work."
"...C-Count on me , M-Mas...Black."
"I really disagree with your maneers of dark lord , but whatever , it seem to be effective...I'm on it , Black hearted blood-thirsty master of nothing."
"If I get you Phycho , I'll...Aaaaah , d@mmit."

He gets up...But the scientist already has his retractive hidden gun out , ready to shoot.
"What did you say ? Soon , you'll beat me about power , but you'll still leave me the thinking part...I'll command this , if you don't see any inconvenients..."
"...I don't get why you don't simply listen to my orders."
"I command for now. When they'll finish their mess , the boat will be yours. Be patient...Hehe..."
"When I wanted mad people...You really were what I exactly wanted. What about the son ?"
"He might be crying his mother and swearing at his dad I guess..."
"Good , good. A single chance of getting forgiven ?"
"Yes , but very little. Unless you don't use her help , not a chance."
"Phew...I don't wanna waste all this work for nothing."

He got to the near room , in where a big sphere was at the middle and was taking all the space. An image could be seen inside , while some sparxs of electricity were floating randomly. Black , who only came with the scientist , looked inside , he saw a woman with strange long clothes who was running and jumping over obtacles.
"...That woman...Her ? She doesn't look dangerous at all for a potential newcomer..."
"She's able to shoot hundreads of energy arrows at the same time and have the ability to glide. You should reconsider your judgement about peoples..."
"You're a psychologist , that's easier for you to judge peoples..."
"And a genius physician , along with my mathematical mastery. That's all me...Hehe."
"Don't show off. I may avoid fighting with you , byt trust me that I'll put up a fight , even against you , if you get too annoying."
"Sure , but I already know your weaknesses. I gave you this power...I don't want to conquer the whole world , so I don't need to put a end to your ambitions and I don't need that much power. I do have others plans..."
"Very well , as long as you leave me this world."
"It's like if it was yours , Milord Black."
"Nice."

MrXLink · Apr 16, 2010 6:46 AM

Should I make an intro as well?

s'pyromane · Apr 16, 2010 7:32 PM

It's up to you since it's a neutral village , you don't really need to wait for the others before starting your intro...Maybe you should wait for my light intro ? Do what you want.
My intro about the light side will come soon. Nobody else want to join , then ? It's still open !

MrXLink · Apr 16, 2010 9:23 PM

Nothing to do tomorrow, so I will, I guess... Yeah, my intro will come tomorrow for sure.

There is Saph, sir John and me and you... It'll do. You can see it in my RP, it works fine, especially when there are many characters, which we have (I've seen 3 of yours, + some baddies, I made 2, Saph has a baddy as well, and Argil makes like 8 or something, it'll be OK imo).
But always leave your RP open! If I didn't you couldn't join, neither would mr. John and Clock (though I am not sure about these people, when they joined, but you know what I mean).

Looking forward to it. Seems like another great RP big_smile

MrXLink · Apr 17, 2010 4:03 PM

[[I'll write an intro story now, I'll continue when the RP starts wink ]]

Outside the normal, known regions, not even close to Arthias, in an old desert province everyone had forgotten, was a very small village, called Myrannias. A village in the middle of the desert seemed a ridiculous place to live, but this was different. The conditions for building a village here were ideal: the small, quite solid plateau of clay-like sand was a solid place to build on. Though the desert was mostly hot like hell, this spot had a comfortable climate. In the shadows of the sandy dunes, the tempratures in Myrannias were often between 20°C and 30°C at day, but at night it could be freezing cold, from -15°C to -23°C at night. The hottest day in Myrannias had an average temperature of 42.7°C, in the coldest night a temperature of -31.2°C was measured.

Furthermore, the village was far away from the inhabited, violent and crowded world, and was not very easy to find. Therefore the inhabitants of Myrranias, the Myran, could live in peace. And if this extremely small chance of an attack would happen, it would mostly be blocked easily, due to the desert conditions and the famous, extremely strong walls that were built around Myrannias. After over 30 years, no one had ever defeated or attempted to attack the village, and the Myran hoped it would stay like this.

Myrannias' defense system consisted out of the walls and a defense army of 5 main gate archers, 2 magicians, 3 watchmen, and a simple army of 5 swordfighters, 3 "gunners", who used sniper-like gunpowder guns to shoot a hail of bullets at enemies, and finally 1 commander.

The commander of the EMDF (Elite Myran Defensive Forces), was a brave, female warrior called Moon. She is seen as a legend by all the Myran and had just returned from a big journey. When Moon left the village, her comrade and best gunner of the EMDF, Crorg, was in charge. An honest man who was an expert at long-range combat, and scared a lot of enemies away with his blunderbus.

Crorg was happy to see Moon returning, since he thought Moon would be gone forever. "It's a good thing to see you after all these months, Commander."
"It's nice to see you too, Crorg. Did we lose anything?"
"Absolutely nothing, Commander. We've only defended against some groups of aggressive Nomads, nothing else, Commander."
"That's good. It's a good thing to be home again."
"Why don't you go to the tavern and have a talk with Warrick, Commander? He's been busy for months, I confirm, Commander!"
"My idea." Moon smiled, then walked past the huge walls. Just a little more damage, nothing severe. What could he have been working on?

She walked into the small but cosy tavern, and guess what, there he was, Warrick. Accompanied by some totally drunken soldiers, who immediately created silence when seeing Moon. "Hmph, still alcoholists in the Defense Force. Disappointing."
"It's not what you think, Commander, we were just..." a soldier replied.
"Shut up. I've seen enough. Off you go."
Moon went over to Warrick. "Thanks..." he said "...those guys have been annoying. You must fire them."
"I'll do whatever I want. It has been a long time, Warrick."
She got a seat and ordered some beer for Warrick. The old man accepted her offer. Warrick was the oldest and smartest inhabitant of Myrannias, who had invented the material which was used to create the town walls accidently, on his search for turning desert rocks into either gold or platinum. He became famous and appreciated. Without Warrick Myrannias would already have been taken over several times. Only Warrick, Moon and forger Brannoc knew how to make the material.

"Did you find anything out yet?" Moon asked Warrick.
"N..no... Not yet. Just been experimenting and things..."
Brannoc, who had been standing in the dark corner of the tavern, joined the two. "He didn't find anything yet. I tried to help, didn't work out. But our trade routes are quite stable, and Akylos still has plenty of food.
Akylos was the only other desert village, but had been burnt down by bandits, who left the ruins without taking anything. Desert fruit, cacti and some metals could be found easily and still.
"I had to make some of his laboratory stuff again, though..." he continues.
"Shh!" Warrick answered, frustration could be heard in his voice. "I...I..."
"He blew up his lab three times." Brannoc confirmed. "Caused a lot of trouble."
"Eh... hehe..." was the only thing Warrick could say. "...I'm sorry...?"
"Hmph. Every alchemist has his problems, right? Let's see it as an accident." Moon said.
"T...thanks..."
"What would you think? Why should I punish you anyway? You're a hero!"
"Say, Moon..." Brannoc interrupted. "You didn't actually walk to here, right?"
"Well, follow me, then." Moon smiled and walked to the great plain.

"I want to present you... Ionodra!" Moon said. Directly after that a huge creature appeared from the skies, and landed on the plain. The Dragon's blue scales shined in the bright sunlight. It made a graceful bow. "This is Ionodra. We met in the cental lands, Winter Tundra." Everyone who could see the Dragon looked at it with their mouths wide open in amazement.

[[Pfft, more than I thought. I hope it's OK? tongue ]]

Nightfall · Apr 17, 2010 8:44 PM

((Yikes, I don't think I can find the time to pull out an intro as detailed as those two... I have two new characters, Mort and Naomi, and if Rurik accepts them, I think I'll be using them. Check them out, page 9 of the char. sheet.))

s'pyromane · Apr 17, 2010 9:31 PM

[(*read MrX-Link intro* I think your question was a joke...It beats mine everyday !!! Saphira , you don't need an enormous intro...Just put your characters into action , it should be enough. The characters are good , but if it's the village/town that you've spoken about , don't forget to say its actual position on the map (just say if it's close , far or not on any map of the kingdom) so I know if peoples have to react a certain way or not.)]
[(light side intro)]

intro :
Black flags were everywhere today , on the autumn plains' castle. As the coffin was in the middle , black dressed people (dragons and humans alike) were doing a ceremony to rememore his numerous acts ; in such a short reign time , he acted a lot , and brought peace. He unified this country with lots of others country around so war can be avoided. His family was only represented by his nephew Arthuros , who was the only one alive today. He looked very sad , and had to go out and came back numerous times , each time looking more tired than the previous...
Even the anarchists , his every day opponents , were here to lay an hommage to their every day enemy. The only leader missing was the "dark but good" party's leader , of course...

Later , in the diamond dragon's house...
"YOU were supposed to bring the black clothes Val' !!!"
"You were supposed to just take clothes sister...And I'm not concerned by him as much as you all think anyways , and Theo is already there , I didn't even need to come...But even being pretty colorful , I was less strange than you in the middle of the crowd..."
The first dragon was a mostly white colored dragoness. She was actually pretty , but covered in bandages and such , between her diamond bracelets. Her expression of exasperation was far more noticeable than her brother's , who didn't even look angry at all. With his colored body , green to red colors thanks to his clothes , his real personnality was hard to guess at first glance , but for her sister it's obviously something easy to figure out. She sighs , because he wasn't that wrong.
"Yes...but given the state they are..."
"That's not my fault if "parrying" means nothing for you. And to wear tore bloody clothes in the middle of a crowd would have been funny..."
"Oh , just quiet..."

Valentin had something else in mind.
"Diamantine , did you see Martin close to here ?"
"Ummm...No , he should be in this place he doesn't want us to come..."
"And what are doing these soldiers in the forsaken house ?"
"...Do you really think it's there ?"
"Maybe , we should take a look...I hope it's the last event of the day."
"Yes , but you go without me. I'm not a baby sitter..."
Valentin wasn't really bothered about her last sentence...And finally went alone.
"You're so negative sister...He's not half-human on purpose , you know..."
"Go away."
"...With pleasure , milady."
"Umph."

He left , then apostrophed cooly the closest soldier about the incoming event.
"Hey man ! Would you give me , now , for the fun , informations about the running thread ?
The human answered , like if it was obvious :
"What ? You don't know that we discovered a monster building machines in there ? He's not dangerous , but he's sure stupid to not have told us about his abilities. We'll soon have whole new equipment !"
"What !?! C'mon...What does all this mean , man ? And I repeat , he's not a monster , tell all your unit about it , I'm tired of repeating this to everybody..."
"Such relations are forbidden according to our new constitution. So he's a criminal in simply staying and living here , dude !"
"...Okay , this isn't going to be easy , man."

Nightfall · Apr 18, 2010 2:17 PM

Well, Rurik has accepted my new characters, so I'll be giving them their début. Here are their sheets, just for reference:

▼Hidden text

Name: Mort (“death” in Latin)

Age: between 25 and 35 (depending on RPs)

Gender: Male

Species: Dragon (Morial)

Element: Fire

Side: Neutral

Appearance: Mort has dark, blood-red scales, with an orange chest, underbelly and wings. His horns are large and curved and are black. He has a long, thin tail with a sharp blade-like spike on the end, also black. He is quite muscular in his forelimbs. His eyes are brown. Mort has several small scars all over his body, but he has a noticeable one on his neck. He has small, black spines travelling from the back of his neck down to the tip of his tail.

Personality: Due to his condition (explained in greater detail in his background), Mort is arrogant and aggressive towards others, especially other dragons. He very much prefers to be alone, and gets very irritable if someone disturbs his solitude. He only ever makes friends when it’s absolutely necessary. He is also very stubborn - once his mind is made up, there's no changing it.

Mort has a close emotional bond with his sister Naomi. She is the only dragon whom he cannot harm, since he has no urge to. He also never injures or kills others in her presence.

Background: Mort is part of a race of mutant dragons known as the Morial. No one knows anything about them or how they originated and how they end up the way they are. The only thing that people do know is that they are dangerous and need to be wiped out for the sake of the dragon race. In appearance and powers, they are no different to ordinary dragons. However, it is their nature that makes them different. They have a blinding hatred towards other dragons, and often feel an urge to attack and sometimes kill them. Nothing in particular has to happen to them for them to gain this instinct, and no one, not even them, knows how it comes about.

Mort, however, had a tough childhood. He was born into a middle-class family in a moderately sized town called Branton. He never really fitted in with his peers, and he never actually tried. His father was very strict, and often punished him severely if he misbehaved. He was also intimidated often because he was different – quiet, aggressive and solitary. His younger sister Naomi was born when he was a teenager. At first he was careless about her, like he is with everyone else, but gradually he began to have feelings for her, although he never showed them.

Mort’s Morial side came to him when he was in his teens. He viciously attacked and killed a peer who was intimidating him. He doesn’t know this, but Naomi witnessed the attack. He felt no remorse or regret for his blood-thirsty attack, and actually felt energised and proud of what he had done. The town’s council declared that he was a Morial dragon and there were two options: be executed, or leave the town for good. Mort’s parents made the decision on his behalf to send him away. Mort has lived in the forest by himself ever since. Whenever a dragon comes across him, it’s unlikely that they get away without injuries. Sometimes they are even killed. The only time he kills another animal is when he needs food.

He does not know this, but the town's military have been searching for him by order of the mayor. They have been ordered to kill him as soon as they find him.

Powers: Mort is very experienced in his element. Like all Fire dragons, he can use the standard Fire breath as well as Fireballs, which he aims with great accuracy. He can also cloak himself with flames, from snout to tail. This acts as both an offensive (anything that touches him is burned) and a defensive (the heat is enough to keep most enemies at bay) attack. His body also does this automatically when he is angry, though it’s not as intense – mostly just hot to the touch. Mort also is very strong physically, using both his claws and teeth to do a great deal of damage.

His Fire is strong against Ice and Earth dragons.

Weaknesses: As with most Fire dragons, Mort is weak against Water elements and certain Ice attacks. He also has an unknown weakness against Shadow and Poison elements, but he has yet to discover these. Despite having ferocious strength, he lacks slightly in speed (although his claws move at a blinding speed, the rest of him falters).

Note: Although Mort is malicious, he is not an antagonist.

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Name: Naomi

Age: 20 - 25 (depending on RPs)

Gender: Female

Species: Dragon

Elements: Earth and Wind

Side: Light

Appearance: Naomi has sea green, hard, rough scales and a light brown chest, underbelly and wings. Her horns are curved and large, like her brother’s, and also brown. She has a large club on the end of her tail (similar to that of an Ankylosaurus). Along her back she’s got diamond-shaped marks going from the back of her neck down to her lower back. These are of a lighter shade of green. Her eyes are brown, like Mort’s.

Personality: Naomi is the complete opposite to her brother. She is kind, loving and gentle. Despite this, she isn’t shy at all, and enjoys socialising and making friends. She is kind to anyone who is kind back, and is always willing to help them. Naomi also appears to be quite spiritual, as she is almost always calm, collected and often displays wisdom.

Background: Naomi is the younger sister of Mort. She was born into his family when her brother was (roughly) 8 years old. She loved her brother despite the fact that he was hostile towards her at first. As she got a bit older, she bonded with him more intensely, and he even played with her sometimes. She had no social problems, and lots of friends.

However, Naomi witnessed Mort kill one of his peers in a bloody attack, and was left traumatised by what she saw. It still haunts her to this day. After Mort left, she was depressed for some time afterwards – she was too young to understand Mort’s condition. She got over it eventually, and continues to live with her parents and her friends in Branton to this day.

However, now she is older and mature, Naomi wants to try to understand her brother and why he was banished (her parents refuse to tell her about it). She hopes to leave home eventually and go and find him.

Powers: Although she has two elements, Naomi is mostly skilled in her Earth element. Her tail is her favourite weapon and it has two purposes: she can use it as a simple club (it’s strong and hard enough to break bones), or she can pound it hardly on the ground, causing small earthquakes around her. She also has the standard Earth Bombs and she can harden her scales temporarily to reduce damage. Naomi also has an unusually strong jaw, and therefore her bite is powerful.

She is not as skilled in her Wind element, but she can whip up a small tornado using her wings. She is strong against most elements, apart from those mentioned below.

Weaknesses: Naomi is weak against Fire, Poison and Ice elements. All of them diminish her powers and weaken her considerably. She also lacks speed because of her hard scales. Naomi also lacks accuracy in her long-distance attacks (Earth Bombs for instance), and there is also the fact that she has never really had to fight before, so she still has a lot to learn about combat.

Since witnessing her brother murder another dragon, Naomi has had a big phobia of blood, and she dislikes looking at any injuries.

I'll probably write my intro later day, or tomorrow at the latest. Hopefully my writer's block has gone now...

s'pyromane · Apr 18, 2010 8:07 PM

[(...Let's recap. We're 4 (maybe 5 later ?) , and all the sheets are already done. Intro for two of us are done...We're waiting for your intros Mr. John and Saphira , and I think we will be able to start. Take your time , we've plenty of it.
Plus , I've spoken with a potential RPer , and I think about a force system between magic , swords and guns (of course powder powered , like the colt or the mousquet. Want a P90 , who can pierce helmets at 200meters around ?!?)

sword ---> magic ---> guns ---> sword...
( ---> = beat )

Of course it depends of the fight , but it's about logic , in an equal fight , keep in mind that I try to keep a good balance between them. Any suggestions ?)]

MrXLink · Apr 19, 2010 5:43 AM

It's like the logical triangle from Fire Emblem!

[[Swords > Axes, Axes > Lances, Lances > Swords]]

But I dunno if Swords really beat magic... Whatever.
Swords > Magic
Magic > Guns
Guns > Swords

Oh, and Ionodra has a lance... count that as magic or sword? Otherwise most logical would be Lances > Swords, Magic > Lances, I guess.

Sounds good!

Mr. John · Apr 19, 2010 7:35 AM

OOC: I'm on it just hope this works.

Millions of miles away in a murky swamp area a place where no one had seen before accept for a lucky few there was a city known as Lystra.

In Lystra water dragons and sometimes humans worked together and lived together in pace. The city had never been disturbed by evil but sometimes everyone worries that might change.

Argil one of the water dragons made his daily route through the town as always.

MrXLink · Apr 19, 2010 2:07 PM

Did we start yet?

s'pyromane · Apr 19, 2010 8:33 PM

[(OOC : Ha , and if the magic beat the sword , how can the sword beat the gun then ? That's hard to choose...Nevermind , let this detail apart , we're not building our guys according to a logical triangle...I'll have to add specificities to this , because a quick throwed knife can deflect some shots from the gun...Duh , that's sophisticated.

We didn't start yet , let's wait for Saphira to wrote her intro and we'll be able to start. We don't run after time do we ?)]

MrXLink · Apr 19, 2010 8:44 PM

If we could make a square... it would look like this:

Swords > Magic
Magic > Guns
Magic > Lances
Lances > Swords
Guns > Swords

That would overpower Magic and underpower Swords, which is not a big problem, OR we gotta make Lances kinda neutral, which is the best choice. This'll mean that Lances don't specifically have an advantage over another weapon, but also no disadvantage. Yeah, that's probarbly the best, agree?

(Darn, maths again. Now I understand why it's needed...)

s'pyromane · Apr 19, 2010 8:57 PM

[(OOC : What about guns and lances ? I'll make up something more complete later , because that's getting pretty complicated...I'll have to add the actual range of the fight (because swords destroy all the others at close range , don't they ?) and include more weapons than four.)]

s'pyromane · Apr 24, 2010 8:08 PM

[(OOC : Saphira , we're all waiting for your intro ! You post in your RP , so you should be able to post a little intro here at least , don't you ? Soon the end of the holidays for me , I warn you all in advance.)]

Nightfall · Apr 24, 2010 8:43 PM

((Yeah, yeah, OK. I've been struggling to find the time to write it all. But I think I can pull out a decent intro now. Sorry if I held you guys up.))

Mort POV

Oh how he hated them. All of them. But why?

Mort had guessed why. His past had been full of other dragons highlighting just how evil the world can be to him. Mostly in the form of bullying and discipline by his father. Eventually, his hate had led him to insanity. And he had killed him. The leader of the gang was dead. And Mort was d@mn proud of his actions. That cretin had deserved every slash at his throat.

Mort was a very sinister looking dragon, with blood-red scales, black horns and an orange chest, underbelly and wings. His eyes were brown and seemed to glare at everything.

He was sitting in a small, cosy cave that was conveniently placed in the side of a small mountain on the edge of a large, deciduous forest, not too far from the Artisans world. Gradually he had become more used to the slightly cooler climate, seeing as he was originally from the desert-like Peace Keepers. He was also a Fire dragon, so naturally it had taken some time for him to adjust to the cooler weather, although in summer the warm weather was plentiful. But now, after just over 10 years of living there, he'd grown attached to it. It was his home. His solitude. The solitude he'd been looking for all his life.

It was early morning, and Mort sat outside his cave and watched the sunrise over the hills. He smiled contently, just as his belly started to rumble. Mort yawned and got to his feet, heading into the forest to look for breakfast.

Naomi POV

Naomi, a young-adult Earth dragoness, stepped outside of her home and stretched and yawned, welcoming the new day. The sun was still low in the sky, yet it was scorching already. Well, what could you expect, living in a desert? Her hard, dark green scales didn't help much, but she was used to it now.

Branton was certainly not special by name, and not by content either. But it was enough. It was an old, moderately sized town near to the desert of the Peace Keeper's realm. It had everything you could ever need; post offices, merchant stalls and a large town hall in the centre.

Naomi loved her town, but she couldn't help but think that it was holding her back in some way. Her strict, over controlling father was enough, but the town also held a secret from the rest of the world. A dark, morbid secret. Years ago, when Naomi was a child, there was a murder. A cold-blooded, merciless and gruesome murder. Word of this had never gone further from the town's gates, but Naomi knew more about it than most people did. That murderer was her brother, Mort.

Yes, Naomi had actually witnessed the horrid murder before her very eyes. She had watched her brother slit a bully's throat and then, to make matters worse, rip it open. On that day, Naomi's faith in her big brother had faded to dust, and her innocence was shattered. The sight of it still haunted her to this day, and just the memory of all that blood and Mort's psychotic glare sent a shiver down her spine. Although she had seen the murder with her own brown eyes, she still wanted to try and understand her brother better, and hoped that one day she could leave Branton and go and find him.

Today however, Naomi didn't have much to do. Thankfully her father hadn't given her any errands, so she was free to please herself. She decided to wander around the merchant's stalls and see if there was anything she fancied.

Brom the Wise · Apr 24, 2010 11:47 PM

Race: Human
Name: Arekessu
Gender:Male
Age: Difficult to determine
Side: Freelance
Element: None

Appearance: Looks to be between 24 and 29 at most. Very attractive facial features. 5 foot 11 inches. Filled out, but not muscular. Lightly tanned. Black hair, Blue eyes.

History: In a town far to the South, a story of a young man saving the fledgling newborn village from a dreadful red dragon with a searing tail of flame. The tale tells of a single young man slaying this beast with nothing but a dagger.

In a costal village just north of the town with the tale young dragon slayer came a story used to frighten babes to bed. A tale of a man who came in the night and stole the flesh from his sleeping victoms while keeping them in a enchanted sleep.

North of the village with the stolen flesh was a farm. In this farm was a family who told any travlers who spent a night in the barn (to avoid the elements) about a young boy who had stolen all the gold from the fathers gold pouch but left a note saying "Thanks for the potatoes!"

If you follow the road from the farm to the east, you will come across a Capital of Man. In this city of man, one can find a rustic taver that goes by the name "The skinned Scale". Tell the bartender "Tali sent me" and he will lead you to a back room where another man will greet you with, "So are ya here to sell the lizard skins or do you want to buy some dragon hide?"

Personality:Arekessu never does anything if he cannot see the point behind it. Never speaks unless he sees a reason, never acts without cause to. If someone managed to speak to him on the street, they could get one of many diffrent feeling from him. Some people walk away feeling pleased with how the conversation had gone, enjoying how Arekessu gingerly complemented them and listened to them talk. Other may come away from the talk feeling shaken or verbally molested as his viper tounge fount an insecurity and bashed at it mercelessly.

Powers:Arekessue is best described as a "well rounded" fighter. He prefers to use dirks, daggers, shortswords and bows, but will resort to using almost any other wepion is need by a(besides any sort of shield or club or axe like tool he views those sorts of things and too basic and crude to be a real wepion). He was a basic understanding of magic, which is only used in addition to his other abilites (a flaming sword, or to calterise a wound, or to douse himself off when being incenerated, a few simple spells of scense alteration, like improved sight and whatnot). He can (but would never) bost of rudementry grasp on alchemy. Creating smoke bombs, remedies, and ointments (along with a few poisons) has become as clese as he can get to a hobby. Lastly, he is a master of stelth, from lockpicking to assasinations to stalking, he knows what he's doing.

Weaknesses: As he is a master of stelth, he was not made for prolonged fighting or absorbing damage. However aglile he may be, he cannot fight forever, and will slowly become fatiged. As his lack of armor would lead one to belive, he cannot sustain taking many powerful hits (although the trick is actilly hitting him)

Equipment: Hood, shirt, jeans. 1 Bow, 1 shortsword, 2 daggers, and roughly 6 bottles of homemade "surprises"

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