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Your eyes slowly open. The ground your head lie upon is thick with tall grass and white flowers. You feel a breeze, it is neither cool, nor warm, and you see the grass blow about like ripples in the sea. You then hear something strange- distant- light… Something… like wind chimes?
Your body feels heavy. Much heavier than you remember. You push yourself away from the ground and realize you were beneath a large tree with beautiful, almost shining leaves. As you look, the tree gives off something of a glow… Or is it just reflecting the sun above? You blink your eyes, but everything still seems to look slightly blurry. Immediately all around you is healthy green grass, and further out is spotted with shining white flowers, and what looks to be many puffy white dandelion spore heads. However just outside of the immediate area, you can sort of discern sharp hills, and maybe a path or two- but it is shrouded in a thick silvery fog.
You hear a voice, younger- but both masculine and feminine- almost as if two people were talking at once. It spoke quickly- as if excited.
"Thou hast awoken…"
It was as if it were nearby, but you can't discern from what direction it came. But- you must be dreaming?
It sends a wash of panic and anxiety over you. Clearly, you are not where you once were, and you have no idea why you are here, or how you got here. What is this? You must go back whence you came! You shouldn't be here! But, oh… where was it you were from? Surely… surely you can remember… where was it?
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Your eyes slowly open. The ground your head lie upon is thick with tall grass and white flowers. You feel a breeze, it is neither cool, nor warm, and you see the grass blow about like ripples in the sea. You then hear something strange- distant- light… Something… like wind chimes?
Your body feels heavy. Much heavier than you remember. You push yourself away from the ground and realize you were beneath a large tree with beautiful, almost shining leaves. As you look, the tree gives off something of a glow… Or is it just reflecting the sun above? You blink your eyes, but everything still seems to look slightly blurry. Immediately all around you is healthy green grass, and further out is spotted with shining white flowers, and what looks to be many puffy white dandelion spore heads. However just outside of the immediate area, you can sort of discern sharp hills, and maybe a path or two- but it is shrouded in a thick silvery fog.
You hear a voice, younger- but both masculine and feminine- almost as if two people were talking at once. It spoke quickly- as if excited.
"Thou hast awoken…"
It was as if it were nearby, but you can't discern from what direction it came. But- you must be dreaming?
It sends a wash of panic and anxiety over you. Clearly, you are not where you once were, and you have no idea why you are here, or how you got here. What is this? You must go back whence you came! You shouldn't be here! But, oh… where was it you were from? Surely… surely you can remember… where was it?
Hi everyone! This is a roleplay that has been designed with dark fantasy elements (i'm a huge dark souls universe fan. so there will be similar elements from that). The characters you create will have basic stats, but you will not need to do any calculations amidst play. Those are for me, the GM.
Each player post will be short-ish, likely faster 'paced', and those will be followed by a GM post that will describe the outcomes of the actions the player takes.
It's going to feel a little more table-top-y, if that makes sense… because that's kind of how i'm designing it.
This is going to be a dark fantasy world, with lots of exploration, horror, and some action, as well. Undead, demonic forces, forces of nature and chaos, as well as plenty of other shady characters await you as you try to figure out what is going on and how to get out and return home. You character will be in an unfamiliar world, and will have little memory of their identities. Your character can basically be whatever you want it to be. Generally low or dark fantasy creature races are okay- as long as they don't have some ridiculous magic ability or something. Please ask me if you are unsure or curious. I will be using character stats- but don't get too caught up in that. You'll only have a handful of stats to pull from, and a certain number to divide between them. This will allow balance. This also isn't a 100% direct representation of all abilities your character can do, it'll just help me.
I will put in place a magic system. There will be a handful of categories that you can basically do what you will with them- except assume(auto) a damage effect, or make yourself impervious or all-powerful (ie: no spell that straight causes death, revives yourself, makes you impervious, or allows mid-long range teleportation, or long term invisibility). Projectiles, cone/spray effect spells, wide area effect spells, supplemental spells, and healing spells are the general categories. I have plenty of examples of these, so if you just want me to tell you some things i've come up with let me know.
As always if you have questions- and i assume there will be plenty- please ask!
I prefer a post per day- not from EVERYONE, but hopefully someone will be posting each day as you wait for your 'turn'. I'm a flexible dude, though, so let me know if that doesn't seem reasonable. I'm also generally not a weekend poster- as a warning... but... I'm setting up a shorter schedule because it's hard to remain in the moment when weeks go by without revisiting the universe.
Required writing level will be shorter LEGIBLE, GRAMMATICALLY CORRECT, and LITERATE. So think Intermediate writing skill - but shorter post length.
Pacing will be quick, and posts will be shorter- as some interactions will need to be GM vetted. Basically you will be exploring a totally fresh environment, Traps will be present, and things you pick up, or interact with may not always be as they seem...
Character Sheet
Name: [the name your character goes by]
Species: [your choice]
Age: [adults only]
Physical Description: [provide a brief description of your character. If you want to use an image, hyperlink the url, or put it in spoiler tags please.]
Basic Statistics- This doesn't encompass everything that your character can do, this just helps me decide certain outcomes in heavier situations. Also what your character handles and holds on to. It's basically a very vague outline of your character's abilities.
divide 18 points between the below. Each stat starts at 1. To buy another point, it costs that number's amount of points to raise. Example- raising a 1 to a 2 costs 2 points. Then if you want to raise it again, it costs 3 points. So to effectively get 3 points, it costs 5. Make sense? The only one that doesn't work the same is endurance- explained below.
- Strength: 1 [how much physical power your character has. Also what kind of weapons you can wield well]
- Agility: 1 [how quick and agile your character is. Also what kind of weapons you can wield well]
- Faith: 1 [how devout your character is, how much hope they have. This makes them good with Miracles, generally healing- and the magic of the 'gods']
- Intelligence: 1 [how learned your character is. Their mental acuity, ability to reason and solve problems, as well as their ability to understand sorceries and general magic]
- Endurance: 10 [How hearty and how much stamina your character has. Also really plays to what kind of armor you can wear well, and how many things you can carry with you. You will not be able to wear plate based armor at a 10, and be able to run, and move quickly, for instance.]
- (starts at 10. All points are worth 1, so you can raise or lower this for 1 point each. To give yourself 2 more points in your pool, for example, subtract 2 to make this 8. Conversely- to bounce the 10 to a 12, it will only cost 2 points.)
Brief Background: Give a bit of backstory. You don't need to be familiar with the game's world. Your character ends up here without their knowledge. Your character can be from wherever- as long as the genre is some form of fantasy, and the technology is not past, say, earth's renaissance era. If they can transform- it can not change their numerical statistics [basically allowing you two characters].This needs to be Brief [2-3 paragraphs?]. Summarize. None of your characters will be able to fully recall anything to begin with anyhow. I don't care if THEY don't know who they were, this is for us/me, so give me something to work with ;P
Equipment: be as descriptive as you like. Just no magical weapons or armor [...yet :P]
Armor- What kind of armor you're wearing- if any. Plate armor requires at least 12 end, as an example, to be able to move quickly. Feel free to provide images [hyperlinked or in spoilers pls] if you so wish.
- Weapons- what sort of weapons you have on your person, if any. [1 or 2 max. Shields are considered weapons. Catalysts are considered weapons, but cannot be swords, bows, maces, etc.]
- Clothing/Armor- What sort of clothing and or armor your character happens to be wearing.
- Items- [1 or 2 max] If your character carries anything with them. Glass phials, a torch, a locket, that kinda thing.
- Spells Known- [1-2 max. A catalyst is required to cast magic. IE: wand, scepter, Holy Relic, stave, etc. Jewelry or tattoos are not permissible catalysts.]. These can be invented by yourselves, or i can give ideas. There are several types: Self, Ranged missile, ranged spray, touch, and area of effect. If you decide to have any at all, i'll likely be commenting on these upon your profile submission.
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