ChaRP! The Child Empress: Cavern of Mirrors - August Thursday 5th @ 12 Noon to 3PM Central

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THE CHILD EMPRESS: CAVERN OF MIRRORS
THURSDAY AUGUST 5TH @ 12PM - 3PM CENTRAL TIME​

In the beautiful country of Vundergren they host a parade once a year to celebrate the many years of peace between the participating countries of the United Peace Treaty! However, this year's masquerade turned into a bloodbath as a band of raiders disguised as Jesters tried to assassinate Child Empress Cherivundaluna Unalin Amalthea, the third of her name, Lady of the Wintergreen Forest, Scourge of the Mountain Goblins... Well, her title is a long mouthful, but she is the only living heir to quite a valuable kingdom and now she has been kidnapped by a group of Death Cultists.

A reward has been announced across all Kingdoms for the safe return of the Child Empress and more than one band of heroes are now on the hunt. One party in particular has even traced her deep inside a mountain from a secret passageway in an old citadel.

Is the Death Cult still hot on their trail? Are they related to the attempted assassination or a problem entirely different. Hopefully the party will find out as they enter the Cavern of Mirrors in their search for the child.


EVENT INFO


WHO: Everyone is invited! Character Bios/Pics are not required, but totally encouraged! Post 'em if you got 'em.

WHAT: This is a SEQUEL! You do NOT need to be someone from the past charps to join! Returning characters are hot on the child's trail. New characters should be solo (or part of a group) that are also searching for the child on their own, OR are simply someone the search party stumbles into during their hunt.

WHEN: THURSDAY AUGUST 5TH @ 12PM TO 3PM CENTRAL TIME

WHERE: Join us in the THE CHILD EMPRESS chat room. You'll find the link to our chats in the CHAT tab when it's time to play.

HOW: This is a ACTION SETTING WITH IMPROVISATIONAL GAME MASTERING. That means the object of this roleplay is to interact with other characters, and from those interactions I will create a plot and story around you. There will be action moments, where strange events will happen and your characters will have to work together to resolve it. With this ChaRP "lol random" behaviors are discouraged -- what your character says and does will have in game consequences, so choose wisely!

My roleplays are always NEWBIE FRIENDLY so even if you are terrible at roleplay or have never participated in a ChaRP before, this will be easy for you to get involved in. :D Ask questions, let me know when you need help. I often give tips and direction out of character in the main chat room when people need a little direction.



EASY CHARP TIPS!


Try to show up a good 10 to 15 minutes before the ChaRP is to begin. That way you can read up on any important info, and it makes it easier for your GM to know how to start off the ChaRP when there's a head count.

Don't worry if another player is doing something similar to your idea. DO IT ANYWAY! Similarities and things in common happen in real life too. Everyone also plays differently, so two characters who are both "sweet and shy" will still end up being totally unique people. Two assassins could create a fun and interesting conflict!

Talking to other players about their character before the roleplay is a GREAT way to create connections and background for your own!

Post SHORT AND FAST. Charps are very quick pace and contain a LOT of players. Players can't wait 20 minutes for you to write a wall of text, and if there's too much text they won't be able to read it fast enough and will MISS details. If it takes you longer than two minutes to type your post, you are taking too long and might get lost in the action. This is an exercise in quick and concise writing!

Make sure your character name is mentioned in every post, close to the start of it if possible. This is especially helpful when there's many players, so we know who is playing what character.

Like in Real Life, a character may not be able to acknowledge or notice your character immediately because they are engaged in doing something else. (For example a new character walking in to the room, but the other characters arguing about muffins and do not see them.) Don't get discouraged if you go can't get someone to interact with you right away. Just keep posting and doing actions with your character, or even approach others who also seem to be idle and it WILL happen.

Do not take events in the roleplay personally or assume that bad reactions are because they think you/your character sucks. Everyone is playing a character and reacting to things as their character would!
 
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1617022465983.pngName: Mei-ling Yin

Age: 18

Gender: Female

Appearance:

Mei-ling is lovely and delicate. Her beauty is unusual and exotic in Vundergren. She has long black hair, dark brown eyes, and a porcelain complexion. She wears her hair in elaborate styles, and wears shimmering embroidered silk gowns. When acting in her official capacity, she wears a jade pendant intricately carved to bear the Airship-and-Sun of the Jade Temple, a temple arcology to the south of Vundergren.

Magic: Life (healing and phantasm conjuration/illusion)

Personality:

Curious and adventurous, with a childlike sense of wonder. She is a bit too innocent--perhaps even naive--for the situation she has been thrust into. As a practitioner of the healing arts, Mei-ling is ethically forbidden to kill or maim. She can use her magic and martial-arts skills to stun, paralyze, knock unconscious, hypnotize, or generate convincing illusions (including the illusion of pain and injury) in self-defense. Despite her bright, upbeat attitude, she is beginning to feel hopelessly out of her depth as Vundergren's troubles worsen.

Bio:

Mei-ling is the Jade Temple's ambassador to the royal court of Vundergren. The Jade Temple has had a close, friendly relationship with Vundergren and the signatory nations of the United Peace Treaty for generations. Because of this, Vundergren became an "easy" assignment for new members of the Temple's diplomatic corps. Mei-ling was sent to Vundergren to develop experience as a diplomat and take advantage of Vundergren's great royal library. On her way to Vundergren for the great Royal Parade, her ship was delayed, and she arrived late. This would have been a terrible faux pas, save for the fact that the city was in chaos, and she found herself among a small party of heroes fighting to protect the Child Empress from assassins.

The Jade Temple:

The Jade Temple is a great temple complex located on an island in the Maethys Sea (an ocean to the south), just offshore. A monumental causeway connects the island to the mainland. Every citizen of the Temple is also a priest or priestess, trained in one of the many "Paths" available (Healer, Defender, Scholar, Wind Dancer/Pilot, Biomancer, etc.).

Little is known (to outsiders) about the spirituality of the Jade Temple. Though it does send young priests and priestesses out on "quests" to develop their magical talents and grow spiritually while helping others, establishes hospitals, orphanages, and shelters for the poor and dispossessed, the Temple does not actively try to convert others to its world-view. Instead, one must pass through a difficult period of training as an Initiate before one can become an Adept, a full member of the Temple able to participate in its governance.
 
I am going to be dealing with a lot of nurses tomorrow all thru the day, so this charp is being rescheduled for May 6th!
 
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This charp has been rescheduled again. 8D we hope that it is not cursed
 
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  • Diana:
    WELCOME TO THE CHILD EMPRESS!


    Today at 9:29 AM


  • Diana:
    You and your companions are seeking the kidnapped child empress! You've followed the trail of the death cult that grabbed her into the depths of a mountain.


    Today at 9:31 AM


  • Diana:
    HOT TIP: TYPE FAST AND KEEP POSTS SHORT. Stick to 10 sentences or less. Taking too long means you miss out on the action, and if you write too much people miss details in your posts.


    Today at 9:31 AM


  • Diana:
    SUPER USEFUL: Write your character name in the first sentence of every post so we know who you're playing! Use can make use of bbcode color to help differentiate your posts.


    Today at 9:32 AM


  • Diana:
    My roleplays are always newbie friendly! So don't worry about mistakes or confusion. I am in the main chat to help guide you or answer questions if you need it.


    Today at 9:33 AM


  • Diana:
    Game Master posts appear in this bright bold yellow. Pay attention to those because they are guiding the story and giving clues on what to do next!


    Today at 9:33 AM


  • Diana:
    (◉,◉) (◉◇◉) (⊙,◉) (⊙◇◉)


    Today at 9:34 AM

  • Diana:
    Last we left our band of heroes they were wandering deep, deep, deep, within a mountain cave following what they hope was the trail of the stolen(rescued?) child empress. The long winding halls definitely weren't natural, but the neat looking glowing moss and fungi along the stone walls were!


    Today at 10:56 AM

  • Diana:
    Beere Bitterale the intrepid explorer was not so great in closed up spaces, seeing he was nearly as big as a house. The horns on his helmet would scrap the top of the cavern hall walls whenever he wasn't hunched over.


    Today at 10:58 AM

  • Zarko Straadi:
    Mei-Ling walked hurriedly down the corridor, watching out for traps and ambush points in a faint eerie glow of bioluminescense. The towering Orc made stealth pretty much impossible, but he also made it a lot less necessary. Or at least he made the odds of surviving a fight better than non-existent. Her mind still conjured terrible images of finding the Empress with her throat cut because they were unable to sneak up on the cultists, but she pushed those thoughts away as one might the nose of a camel eager to make its way into one's tent.


    Today at 11:07 AM

  • Diana:
    "Beere hates stuffy stupid caves," he gruffly grumped after knocking his head on the ceiling again. At some point he'd gotten his hands on a lump of old wood for a makeshift torch, so at least their way was brightly lit by more than just glowing fungi.


    Today at 11:12 AM

  • Zarko Straadi:
    "I don't like them either," Mei-Ling said. "I wonder who made them...it seems like a vast amount of work for just those cultists..." she mused. Under other circumstances, she might have liked the caverns quite a lot more, given the opportunity to seek answers to questions of their age and manufacture.


    Today at 11:19 AM

  • Diana:
    "Elves," answered Beere quite confidently. "Scrawny, tall, dark, snotty elves." By the sounds of it, he wasn't too fond of elves. But considered there hadn't been any elven settlements of peoples in this part of the world for quite a long time it seemed odd. "Smells like old elf ass and buffalo dung down here!"


    Today at 11:26 AM

  • Zarko Straadi:
    Mei-Ling gave the orc a fleeting smile. She rather doubted he would still be able to smell the makers, elvish or otherwise, seeing as the tunnels had been here long enough for the fungi to move in, and probably much longer. How could I have forgotten to ask?! she thought, inwardly kicking herself. "Were you injured at all in the last battle? I have healing arts, if you have need," she said softly.


    Today at 11:31 AM

  • Diana:
    "Beere is hale and hearty!" he bellowed with a mighty smack to his chest. The clank of his armor made a loud CLANG in the echoy caverns. He turned to give her a good examining squint himself. "Tiny human still all good too? Beere can carry five bodies for a good fortnight if needed!"


    Today at 11:35 AM

  • Zarko Straadi:
    "Yes, thank you," Mei-Ling replied. I don't think I want to know how he knows how many bodies he can carry, she thought. Where are the others? She cast a quick glance over her shoulder, but could not see or hear them in the inky darkness. I hope the drunk one didn't lead them off down a wrong turn...or that I haven't!


    Today at 11:41 AM

  • Diana:
    It felt like hours and hours had passed by, but at the same time it seemed like minutes by the time the narrow halls opened up into a big giant chamber. or at least, it seemed to be giant and endless! In every direction the stone was so smooth and clear that it was reflective. Like a house full of mirrors found in traveling carnivals. In every mirror they passed by their reflections were oddly distorted in different ways. Some tall and scrawny, others wide and wobbly. Yet in others the changes were much more impossibly unnatural. Sometimes the reflection on the other side of the mirror seemed like a completely different person...


    Today at 11:43 AM

  • Zarko Straadi:
    Drawn to the mystery at first, Mei-Ling recoiled from a particularly ominous reflection. She took a slow, deep breath and re-gathered her focus, deliberately letting go of worries that she had no skill in detecting magical wards and traps. She opened her senses to the flow of her own arcane force, keeping her attention sharp in the hope that she might notice any subtle currents such might generate before she and Beer tripped them. With her eyes, she looked around for anything else that might be helpful, such as a track, or any item the Empress might have dropped to aid her rescuers in finding her.


    Today at 11:57 AM

  • Diana:
    Beere's reaction, of course, was to get startled by a particularly hideous reflection of himself and immediately try to punch it in the fact. The hard THUNK of his knuckles hitting solid stone was enough to make anyone cringe. At least they knew now that the reflective mirrors definitely weren't any normal sort of shatterable glass.


    Today at 12:00 PM

  • Zarko Straadi:
    Mei-Ling did indeed flinch at the sound. "Are you alright?"


    Today at 12:03 PM

  • Diana:
    "Stupid tricksy elf garbage," he growled out. He seemed to be totally fine though, if irked. "There's a thousand blasted turns and twists in this elf be damned place!"


    Today at 12:07 PM

  • The Mood is Write:
    "Try to bear with it," And said as he held his chicken to keep her from running amok. "It widens out here."


    Today at 12:09 PM

  • Zarko Straadi:
    Mei-Ling jumped at the unexpected voice, but then smiled with relief. "Oh thank goodness!" And was the only one in their party who actually knew anything about these cultists. "What is this place?"


    Today at 12:12 PM

  • The Mood is Write:
    "Unfortunately, I'm not sure. This is my first time finding a hidden passage in one of their bases." He frowned thoughtfully, then shook his head.


    Today at 12:14 PM

  • Diana:
    "Theeeeere yooou arrreee," a strange female voice echoed all through the cavern of mirrors. In some sections out of the corner of their eyes they could almost see a form dressed in deep blue silks passing by. "I've been waiting for you..."


    Today at 12:18 PM

  • The Mood is Write:
    "Gods... this theatrical bitch," And sighed.


    Today at 12:18 PM

  • Zarko Straadi:
    "We only want the Empress," Mei-Ling said. "Release her to us unharmed, and we will leave you in peace." As much as she doubted that the woman would agree, she was a diplomat, and that meant leading with diplomacy.


    Today at 12:22 PM

  • Diana:
    "The child you seek is not with me," responded the voice with a beautiful peel of laughter. "Yet you might find answers if you are not afraid to gaze deep..."


    Today at 12:24 PM

  • Diana:
    "Not about to trust no nasty ancient ass elf garbage," grumped Beere. "Just lookin' at these things is makin Beere's dinner upturn!"


    Today at 12:25 PM

  • The Mood is Write:
    Hmm... And nodded. "They were rude when..." He cut off and looked at Beere. "She's not an elf. Just... weird. I think."


    Today at 12:28 PM

  • Zarko Straadi:
    By an act of will, Mei-Ling managed not to roll her eyes. Of couuuuuuuurse a cryptic answer! "You know her?" she whispered to And.


    Today at 12:28 PM

  • The Mood is Write:
    "Some. She loves riddles and drama. She tends to be honest, though, if vague."


    Today at 12:30 PM

  • Diana:
    "Gaze into your own eyes and you will see what has been hidden from you..." laughed the voice again, still staying out of direct sight as her gauzy form flitted between different reflections. "Or do not. The choice is yours. Know that time is not on your side..."


    Today at 12:32 PM

  • The Mood is Write:
    "Thank you, young lady." And said as he began to do just that with one of the reflections.


    Today at 12:33 PM

  • Zarko Straadi:
    Mei-Ling nodded. "I'll try. Please be ready," she said. She set her jade staff on end, allowing it to stand on its own, then traced a scrying sigil in the air with her fingers, looking into the eyes of one of her reflections.


    Today at 12:34 PM

  • Diana:
    Beere was not keen on this suggestion, but the other two were already trying it. With a shrug and a huff, he gazed into the closest reflection of his own self. The more handsome one, of course.


    Today at 12:35 PM

  • Diana:
    At first nothing happened. But soon the three felt themselves being pulled deep, deep, deep within a vision so real they could almost feel it on their skin. The vision showed an area surrounded by volcanic mountains. Red molten lava, Giant bleached skulls of old dragons and wooley mammoths. The child was screaming. A torrent of viscous blood. But then each saw something unique of their own - a fear. A great fear would be their challenge -- and more than likely their death.


    Today at 12:39 PM

  • Zarko Straadi:
    Mei-Ling gasped when the vision shifted from images of the Empress screaming, and flowing blood--which were terrifying enough!--to a shifting, shadowy hulk of mouths and waving tendrils lit only by a pale, gangrenous glow from too many eyes. She had encountered imprisoned Minor Darklings in her Initiates' Apotropaics lessons. One of the missions of the Jade Temple was to defend Creation against intrusions of Darklings, creatures of the Depthless Void that consumed every living thing they touched. This one had to be a Greater Darkling at least, something far beyond the basic Apotropaics she had learned. Her best aptitudes had lain elsewhere, so she had become a diplomat and healer, rather than a warrior monk and Apotropaics master. I hope that is just a phantasm of fear, and not a thing I must actually face!


    Today at 1:00 PM

  • The Mood is Write:
    And stood in the town square. Everything was quiet despite the crowd around and below him. A plucked chicken turned on a spit. A masked man declared him a necromancer, and his ex-wife verified it.


    49 minutes ago

  • Diana:
    Beere was FEARLESS -- or at least he thought he always had been! As he looked into the eyes of the vision and saw a future where a child was murdered for the gains of an evil cult, he found the bodies of his dead companions strew across the battlefield, so mangled that not even the greatest of necromancers could put them back together again. Everywhere was death, death and more death for eons to come!


    48 minutes ago

  • Diana:
    As the visions parted the party could see something faded in the background. The child empress walking through a deep snowy forest with her hand holding a cloaked stranger's. The trail was fading fast, but the bark of the trees were a familiar site to Mei-Ling.


    44 minutes ago

  • The Mood is Write:
    And, still shaken, began to run after the child. Paul flapped her wings in protest.


    41 minutes ago

  • The Mood is Write:
    And ran into the wall, chicken first.
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  • Zarko Straadi:
    "Those trees...I've seen them before! The White Forest! Do you think she could be there?" Mei-Ling asked And, "or is it a trick to lead us astray? Do you know where the place with the skulls and lava is?"


    23 minutes ago

  • Diana:
    "Go to where the trees are as white as the snow that falls before the light of the next full moon..." instructed the lady of the mirrors. "But should you fail to reach the child before the Dark Ones do, nothing but rivers of flame will flow."


    19 minutes ago

  • The Mood is Write:
    And gently patted Paul. "Thank you, young lady." He looked to the others. "We should hurry. I think I can raise a dragon near here to ride..."


    15 minutes ago

  • Zarko Straadi:
    Mei-Ling nodded, and followed And's lead. 'Raise a dragon?' That certainly sounds like a helpful ability! she thought.


    11 minutes ago

  • Diana:
    Beere still looked dubious but he wasn't about to give up on this lucrative endeavor. "Aye! Let us get on our way before the trail goes cold again! This youngling is harder to find than a dwarf lassie's bean!"


    11 minutes ago

  • Zarko Straadi:
    It took Mei-Ling a moment to figure out what Beere was talking about; she hoped the big orc didn't see her blush.


    7 minutes ago

  • The Mood is Write:
    And went still, then looked to Beere. "What a way to tell everyone you're a bad lover..."


    7 minutes ago

  • Diana:
    And with that filthy note, the party had a new lead on the Child Empress -- she and a mysterious stranger are traveling through the White Forest. Will the gang reach them before the cultists find the child again? Will someone eat the chicken? Find out next time on THE SEARCH FOR THE CHILD EMPRESS.
 
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