Monster Hunter: Age of Dragons OOC

[Beowulf]

Done. Finally.

 

[VerbalAbuse]

Name: Googli Moogli

Username: VerbalAbuse

Age: 20

Appearance:


Gear:
Stealth Glaive and Mauldrone Lv1

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Full Lagombi Mail sans Helm

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Striker Style

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Extract Hunter I
Absolute Evasion
Escape Runner

Personality: Googli can be very aloof around others her age and even comes off as bashful at times, but she gets on better with older people. She is nonetheless nothing short of benevolent towards others and gets her nose to the grindstone when the hunt's on. She is always eager to share notes, stratagems, and items with her comrades, and becomes more approachable as time goes on. When you get closer to her, she can start to let loose a little bit. Never raises her voice except to put down an argument.

Back story: Born in parts unknown and raised in Poeika, Googli knows most of the people around town as she was raised by them, in some sense or another - as the saying goes, it takes a village to raise a child. Even some of the parents would take to babysitting and tutoring her alongside their own children just to help her get on her feet. At the end of her childhood, Googli had become a strong, intelligent woman fit for any task on hand. She decided, then, inspired by Yuudina, that she wanted to be a Hunter. The perfect vocation for someone who was both a scholar and a survivalist. Googli quickly picked up the Insect Glaive first, finding herself infatuated with her new Kinsect friend and enjoying the thrill of sailing through the air after propelling herself up on her blade, as well as the vigor that the Kinsect extracts gave her.

Relationship Chart:
Kino - Googli is somewhat more comfortable around Kino as she's known him all her life - when she was a baby, he was a child, and so on. She can often be found trading notes with him, making the two appear relatively close by Googli's standards. Despite this, she hasn't fully opened up to him, but she still respects him a lot.

Connor - Googli is still unfamiliar with Connor, as he is, by her standards, a newcomer. When Connor needs it, Googli can still be depended on for the usual services, but when they're not hunting, she will be very hard to approach.

Bean - Googli seems to treat Bean with a measure of fear at most times, which is slowly turning into contempt. Bean's presence in general tends to cause Googli anxiety, and the Wyverian's total lack of regard for her advice causes her unending frustration that stresses her tolerance. Perhaps the one comrade Googli has a hard time cooperating with.

Xavier - Being a new face, Googli would be very closed off to him at first, preferring not talking to the man entirely, but through their hunts and possibly persistence on his part, the two might grow fond of each other.​

 

[MixedUpGuy]

WIP

Name: Connor McKinley

Username: Beowulf

Age: 22

Appearance:

Gear: A full set of Najarala armor with the insect glaive Needle Ivy and foebeetle kinsect. His hunting style is Aerial, using the Extract Hunter I art.

Spoiler

(One on the left)

Personality: Connor is a happy go lucky, you do you, I do me kind of person. He couldn't care less if you hated him or loved him, just say which one it is so he doesn't misread anything. Because whether you hate him or not, he will do his best to make accommodation for you, like trying to avoid you for your sake.

On the hunt it's a different matter completely. He is serious, and places teamwork above all else. If you have a grudge against him, don't settle it when there is a giant creature with teeth somewhere. It's a selfish thing to do that could get everyone killed. He fights fearlessly and aggressively, being next to the monster at all times to compensate for his foebeetle being slow.

Back story: Connor was originally a Caravan Hunter, going around with a caravan and keeping it safe from monsters and bandits alike. But when he came across Poeika, something just clicked. He liked it there, and though he didn't become a hunter for the village immediately, every visit from there on out edged him closer and closer to becoming one. Eventually the day came where he told the caravan leader that he was going to stay at the village and become it's hunter. Instead of resentment like he expected, the caravaneer smiled a broad smile, and that night there was a farewell celebration with filled with promises of returning now and again to see how he was getting along.

Alright there @Beowulf, I say approved! Welcome to the team.

Name: Googli Moogli

Username: VerbalAbuse

Age: 20

Appearance:
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Gear:
Stealth Glaive and Mauldrone Lv1

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Full Lagombi Mail sans Helm

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Striker Style

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Extract Hunter I
Absolute Evasion
Escape Runner

Personality: Googli can be very aloof around others her age and even comes off as bashful at times, but she gets on better with older people. She is nonetheless nothing short of benevolent towards others and gets her nose to the grindstone when the hunt's on. She is always eager to share notes, stratagems, and items with her comrades, and becomes more approachable as time goes on. When you get closer to her, she can start to let loose a little bit. Never raises her voice except to put down an argument.

Back story: Born in parts unknown and raised in Poeika, Googli knows most of the people around town as she was raised by them, in some sense or another - as the saying goes, it takes a village to raise a child. Even some of the parents would take to babysitting and tutoring her alongside their own children just to help her get on her feet. At the end of her childhood, Googli had become a strong, intelligent woman fit for any task on hand. She decided, then, inspired by Yuudina, that she wanted to be a Hunter. The perfect vocation for someone who was both a scholar and a survivalist. Googli quickly picked up the Insect Glaive first, finding herself infatuated with her new Kinsect friend and enjoying the thrill of sailing through the air after propelling herself up on her blade, as well as the vigor that the Kinsect extracts gave her.​

And I approve as well there @VerbalAbuse. I will look to try and set up an IC after Ariamas finishes up his sheet there. If you folks would like to as well, we can create relationship sheets as to how our characters all feel towards each other/histories between each other. That way we have an easier transition into the IC itself. Hope you all have a great Valentines day!​

 

[VerbalAbuse]

I can already tell Googli's going to be uncomfortable around Connor at first considering she didn't grow up with him.

 

[MixedUpGuy]

Added my relationship chart on the first page for my character if you folks want to check it out as a reference. Nothing too big, just short and sweet kinda deal.

 

[VerbalAbuse]

Added Googli's relations. Will keep it updated as events and characters arise.

 

[GlassTrinity]

Oh damn this looks like fun. Love me some monster hunter so ill have to work on a character for this. :D

 

[GlitchyBugger]

Quick question @MixedUpGuy

Is there any problem with having a Wyverian PC?

 

[MixedUpGuy]

I see no issue with that @GlitchyBugger. You can do that if you'd prefer. Also, looking forward to your sheet there @GlassTrinity. We'll probably go with five or so folks so that it doesn't get too crowded. So Glitchy and Glass and @Ariamas and that's when we'll close down the signups.

 

[GlitchyBugger]

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Here we go, I feel like it's only fair to bring in a character that's going to be trouble whilst everyone else is being friendly :D

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Name: Bean

Username: GlitchyBugger

Age: 25

Appearance:
The best and first word to describe Bean in most ways would be "wild". There's not a thing about the woman that could be considered civilised or cultured, moreso in comparison to what's expected of Wyverians nowadays. With a dainty, lithe, tan skinned body littered in scars of varying shape and size, fairly average features in terms of looks and a short, scruffy mane of sandy-blonde hair, Bean could be mistaken for a vagrant with nothing to her name if not for her hunter status.
Moreso, with her Wyverian heritage, she shares all the similar traits that a majority of her kind have and more. Long ears sharply pointing out behind her, digitigrade legs with a scale-like quality to the skin, blackened fingernails a few inches long and a sharp set of teeth in her mouth, slightly stained by goodness knows what.

Gear:
Armour: Full Kirin Blademaster set
Weapon: Kaiser Blade - Charge Blade
Hunting Style: Adept Style
Hunter Art: Limit Breaker 1

Personality: Bean is a crude, rude and typically aggressive person, she is perfectly capable of working with others if it's what she's been ordered to do but she wont try to get along with them if she doesn't have to. Her approach to monster hunting is to throw caution to the wind, fight tooth and nail and bring the thing down in any way possible with little regard for the safety of herself or others.
The only times she behaves in a respectable manner is if she is told to by someone she regards as an elder, it can bring upon a complete shift in her personality to the point where she becomes courteous, quiet and even caring to some regard.
In short she takes more after an actual Wyvern than she does other Wyverians, but she is still somewhat knowledgeable like other Wyverians.

Back story:
Bean started out in Val Habar, one of the only Wyverian children within the bazaar on the border of the desert, due to her exceptionally wyvern-esque appearance she was treated somewhat differently to most, but otherwise he life was... normal.
Often-times when hunters came through she watched them and some tended to joke to her about being a monster herself, those jokes earned them a few bite marks and an angry child being pulled away by her apologetic parents to be "scolded" later. Even her parents were concerned about her aggressive nature and tended to just let her do as she pleased.

During her adolescence Bean took an active interest in the hunters, some hunters knew of her by word of mouth but mostly they tended to avoid talking to those living in Val Habar, they were just there to go hunt after all.
Few hunters didn't mind her abrasive personality and indulged the Wyverian child in her interest and told her about the monsters they fought and the glory of coming home with plenty of material to make stronger equipment. Their stories inspired her to want to become a hunter and be as amazing as they were, hunting giant monsters on their own like it was nothing.

Once she was old enough Bean left to join the Hunters Guild and become an official hunter, the stories she had been told about the hunter life made it seem like a great time.
And Bean proved to be a capable hunter, reckless and dangerous to any hunters whom she was teamed up with, but effective once she found herself to have an affinity with the versatile Charge Blade.
Fast forward some time and she found herself in Poeika at the behest of the Hunters Guild to work with their hunters for a while, under the impression that a quiet village might make her more sociable with fellow hunters and thusly more co-operative.

As a non-native to Poeika, Bean doesn't really like talking to the hunters here but will occasionally attempt small-talk if they really want to talk to her, she's just here to hunt monsters, not talk.

Relationships:
Kino - She doesn't talk to him much, if at all, but due to his slight superiority in age to her she gives him some respect and mostly does what he says if she thinks he's got the right idea. Bean tends to treat him more like a rival than anything.

Connor - He's a hunter that's foreign to Poeika, like herself, so she tends to feel vaguely comfortable around him and is willing to look out for him. And whilst she's not friendly towards him, she definitely doesn't see him as a challenger or an enemy.

Googli - Like most other hunters Bean works with, she doesn't treat her well nor terribly, but she has little, if any respect for the young girl... Enough respect to make sure she's not in the way if she's attacking a monster, but that's about it.

Xavier - Because he's a well known hunter, Bean has no qualms treating him with respect and follow his orders.

Owari - In the interest at not upsetting the entire village Bean tends to just leave this one alone, but the animosity between both of them is something that almost everyone in the village knows about. Whilst she could respect Owari's hunting capabilities, Bean can't respect someone who thinks she shouldn't exist.​

 

[Ariamas]

((Here is my CS guys. Hope it is up to snuff, and isn't too..... oh what's the word.... 'extraordinary?' I wanted it to be a nod to what I go for on my own Hunter's Card.))

Name: Xavier Polk
Username: Ariamas
Age: 29

Appearance:

Gear: Xavier has some old Battlemaster Rathian armor, as a hold over from before his move. The armor itself is of basic make, to give himself an incentive to hunt for better gear. His primary weapon is a guild regulation Guardian Sword. When he isn't using his long sword, he has a pair of Matched Slicers. Otherwise they are left at home. He prefers hunting with the adept style while using his long sword and aerial while using his dual blades. His skills go as follows.
Long Sword: Critical Juncture
Dual Blades: Blood Wind

Personality: Like most high ranking hunters, Xavier has a laid-back and cheerful disposition. Although a competent hunter, he would be more likely to make a joke or funny comment than give orders. His primary concern is making sure everyone is happy and healthy, and will make sacrifices if his comrades are neither. Pragmatic and polite, Xavier finds it easy to get along with people, though they sometimes simply do all the talking.

Back story: After graduating from the Wycademy, Xavier was offered a post to be the resident hunter in Pokke Village. There he raised through the ranks to get to 'G,' having hunted everything from the Yian Kut Ku to the legendary Lao Shan Lung. Unfortunately, all of his efforts left the village with no more monsters to hunt, as the Guild were protecting the native monster populations. With this Xavier sold his armor and weapons, and presented himself to the village chief in Moga Village.

Much like he did at the last village, his skill and determination won him renown and ranks within the Guild, until Xavier was left with very little to do. The Guild decided to reassign him to a team of hunters who had recently took up residence in the distance frontier town of Poeika, hoping his influence would garner similar success to his previous posts. Xavier himself was just happy enough to go hunting again, selling his gear and equipment for a third time and start fresh.

Relationships: Is moving into Poeika Village today and hasn't met a soul, but is excited to make new friends and comrades.
Kino: "Who?"
Connor: "You mean that lazy hunter at the back of the caravan?"
Googli Moogli: "What now?"
Bean: Heard of distantly from some Val Habar caravan hunter. "Didn't she stove in a Kaiser helmet with her fist?"
Owari: Having read the reports on how her village was destroyed and have been to similar scenes around the ancient tower, Xavier wonders what attacked the village. It's tracks and attack patterns were wholly unique, and the strange substance it left behind would make some dangerous weapons. All in all, Xavier feels sorry for her. He could not imagine what she saw in the aftermath of the attack, and although her rage is justified, he worries that she is walking the path of self destruction like many hunters before her. One thing is certain; what ever monster attacked that village is fast, territorial, and holds an insane amount of fire-power.

 

[Beowulf]

I have added relations.

 

[VerbalAbuse]

Likewise

 

[MixedUpGuy]

Here we go, I feel like it's only fair to bring in a character that's going to be trouble whilst everyone else is being friendly :D

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Name: Bean

Username: GlitchyBugger

Age: 25

Appearance:
The best and first word to describe Bean in most ways would be "wild". There's not a thing about the woman that could be considered civilised or cultured, moreso in comparison to what's expected of Wyverians nowadays. With a dainty, lithe, tan skinned body littered in scars of varying shape and size, fairly average features in terms of looks and a short, scruffy mane of sandy-blonde hair, Bean could be mistaken for a vagrant with nothing to her name if not for her hunter status.
Moreso, with her Wyverian heritage, she shares all the similar traits that a majority of her kind have and more. Long ears sharply pointing out behind her, digitigrade legs with a scale-like quality to the skin, blackened fingernails a few inches long and a sharp set of teeth in her mouth, slightly stained by goodness knows what.

Gear:
Armour: Full Kirin Blademaster set
Weapon: Kaiser Blade - Charge Blade
Hunting Style: Adept Style
Hunter Art: Limit Breaker 1

Personality: Bean is a crude, rude and typically aggressive person, she is perfectly capable of working with others if it's what she's been ordered to do but she wont try to get along with them if she doesn't have to. Her approach to monster hunting is to throw caution to the wind, fight tooth and nail and bring the thing down in any way possible with little regard for the safety of herself or others.
The only times she behaves in a respectable manner is if she is told to by someone she regards as an elder, it can bring upon a complete shift in her personality to the point where she becomes courteous, quiet and even caring to some regard.
In short she takes more after an actual Wyvern than she does other Wyverians, but she is still somewhat knowledgeable like other Wyverians.

Back story:
Bean started out in Val Habar, one of the only Wyverian children within the bazaar on the border of the desert, due to her exceptionally wyvern-esque appearance she was treated somewhat differently to most, but otherwise he life was... normal.
Often-times when hunters came through she watched them and some tended to joke to her about being a monster herself, those jokes earned them a few bite marks and an angry child being pulled away by her apologetic parents to be "scolded" later. Even her parents were concerned about her aggressive nature and tended to just let her do as she pleased.

During her adolescence Bean took an active interest in the hunters, some hunters knew of her by word of mouth but mostly they tended to avoid talking to those living in Val Habar, they were just there to go hunt after all.
Few hunters didn't mind her abrasive personality and indulged the Wyverian child in her interest and told her about the monsters they fought and the glory of coming home with plenty of material to make stronger equipment. Their stories inspired her to want to become a hunter and be as amazing as they were, hunting giant monsters on their own like it was nothing.

Once she was old enough Bean left to join the Hunters Guild and become an official hunter, the stories she had been told about the hunter life made it seem like a great time.
And Bean proved to be a capable hunter, reckless and dangerous to any hunters whom she was teamed up with, but effective once she found herself to have an affinity with the versatile Charge Blade.
Fast forward some time and she found herself in Poeika at the behest of the Hunters Guild to work with their hunters for a while, under the impression that a quiet village might make her more sociable with fellow hunters and thusly more co-operative.

As a non-native to Poeika, Bean doesn't really like talking to the hunters here but will occasionally attempt small-talk if they really want to talk to her, she's just here to hunt monsters, not talk.

Relationships:
Kino - She doesn't talk to him much, if at all, but due to his slight superiority in age to her she gives him some respect and mostly does what he says if she thinks he's got the right idea. Bean tends to treat him more like a rival than anything.

Connor - He's a hunter that's foreign to Poeika, like herself, so she tends to feel vaguely comfortable around him and is willing to look out for him. And whilst she's not friendly towards him, she definitely doesn't see him as a challenger or an enemy.

Googli - Like most other hunters Bean works with, she doesn't treat her well nor terribly, but she has little, if any respect for the young girl... Enough respect to make sure she's not in the way if she's attacking a monster, but that's about it.

Xavier - Because he's a well known hunter, Bean has no qualms treating him with respect and follow his orders.
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Welcome to the crew there Glitchy! Approved.​

((Here is my CS guys. Hope it is up to snuff, and isn't too..... oh what's the word.... 'extraordinary?' I wanted it to be a nod to what I go for on my own Hunter's Card.))


Name: Xavier Polk
Username: Ariamas
Age: 29

Appearance:

Gear: Xavier has some old Battlemaster Rathian armor, as a hold over from before his move. The armor itself is of basic make, to give himself an incentive to hunt for better gear. His primary weapon is a guild regulation Guardian Sword. When he isn't using his long sword, he has a pair of Matched Slicers. Otherwise they are left at home. He prefers hunting with the adept style while using his long sword and aerial while using his dual blades. His skills go as follows.
Long Sword: Critical Juncture
Dual Blades: Blood Wind

Personality: Like most high ranking hunters, Xavier has a laid-back and cheerful disposition. Although a competent hunter, he would be more likely to make a joke or funny comment than give orders. His primary concern is making sure everyone is happy and healthy, and will make sacrifices if his comrades are neither. Pragmatic and polite, Xavier finds it easy to get along with people, though they sometimes simply do all the talking.

Back story: After graduating from the Wycademy, Xavier was offered a post to be the resident hunter in Pokke Village. There he raised through the ranks to get to 'G,' having hunted everything from the Yian Kut Ku to the legendary Lao Shan Lung. Unfortunately, all of his efforts left the village with no more monsters to hunt, as the Guild were protecting the native monster populations. With this Xavier sold his armor and weapons, and presented himself to the village chief in Moga Village.

Much like he did at the last village, his skill and determination won him renown and ranks within the Guild, until Xavier was left with very little to do. The Guild decided to reassign him to a team of hunters who had recently took up residence in the distance frontier town of Poeika, hoping his influence would garner similar success to his previous posts. Xavier himself was just happy enough to go hunting again, selling his gear and equipment for a third time and start fresh.

Relationships: Is moving into Poeika Village today and hasn't met a soul, but is excited to make new friends and comrades.
Kino: "Who?"
Connor: "Pardon?"
Googli Moogli: "What now?"
Bean: Heard of distantly from some Val Habar caravan hunter. "Didn't she stove in a Kaiser helmet with her fist?"

I like the dual styles there Ariamas, as it does create different dynamics for the hunts. Approved!

I'll go ahead and add all this stuff in and I'll try to get the IC set up tomorrow and let you all know with a link here in the thread. Thanks again all for your interest!

 

[GlitchyBugger]

After looking at the relations between everyone, there should be some interesting development down the line.

 

[MixedUpGuy]

And we are UP! I'll get a link on the first page after work but here is the link for the meantime. Thanks folks and let us have some fun!

CLOSED SIGNUPS - Monster Hunter: Age of Dragons

 

[GlitchyBugger]

I'm under the impression that everyone's posting a little introductory post before we get to business, or do we have free reign of how much we post?

 

[Ariamas]

I thought so too. I won't get on anyone for post length unless someone brings like three lines (and even then I probably won't say anything). I'm am a bit worried that we are getting ahead of ourselves, since @GlassTrinity is writing up their CS. Either way, I'm working on my intro post, and a minor edit to my Relationships tab.

 

[GlitchyBugger]

It doesn't seem like we're going too fast, judging by this pace, so I think there's still time for them.

 

[MixedUpGuy]

I figured we would be better served with an early prologue-esque chapter to get everyone in the room and get the feel for it. I like to do that with a lot of my previous roleplays because I tend to get really disinterested in the ones that start right away with the big action or plot points right off the bat. And so far I gotta say everyone's first posts are looking great. Good job so far everyone! Also, totally forgot to add the link to the front of the OOC forum. Getting on that right now.

Also, @Ariamas, do NOT sweat the Felyne speak. I tried it on the first post, almost immediately regretted it after the first sentence. XD It'll be a learning curve, but for the sake or right now I'm not gonna hold any of you to a high standard for that at least.