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Velmarshal The "Do everything" guy

 | Subject: Halfbridge RP Intro and Sigh-up thread Fri Aug 27, 2010 12:42 pm | |
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Yes typos, and tenses mismatches are more than present.In a land far away, where dragons are jokes, where news travel slower than winter, a village was built. A village, not known for it's huge mineral deposits, not known for mythical treasures, nor legendary blacksmiths. It is known for one far more important thing. Brew. Not just any brew you can buy everywhere. It's more than brew, more than ale, even grog. When you get drunk from it, you don't vomit, you don't have headaches. Some call it "Moonshine", some call it "Ambrosia", but it's mostly referred to as "The Brew". Kings, princes, generals dukes came from all over the land to buy the secret recipe of the brew. None ever received it. Villagers never gave out the secret of the brew, no matter how many riches were they offered. Probably because, even they did not know, why is their brew so good. Halfbridge was the name of the village. On the contrary of your thoughts, the bridge is whole, the name refers to the payment. The story behind the building of the bridge is quite short and boring. But the story of the payment is everything but boring. Before the bridge's foundations were laid, the leading builder demanded half of the payment in advance. Villagers widely known for their stubbornness, refused at first. But the builder was a miser. And such a trait couldn't be matched by stubbornness, no matter how hard it was. They needed that bridge. They accepted, oh but at what price. Builder received his money, but with it he took the urge for revenge of the villagers on him. A burden known to bring down kings, not to mention small time misers. Revenge is said to be most beautiful when served cold. Halfbridgers did well and even more than that. Few days before the bridge's completion, leading builder struck again. He demanded the second half. Instead he was asked to rest for few days to see the first dragon hunt celebration, under the excuse of delayed funding. He and his fellow workers accepted. Oh the wild ride they got themselves into. That night the brew was taken out for drinking and spilling, in sufficient amounts to cause widespread alcohol poisoning in a smaller kingdom. The drinking began, before the meal, that never came. Miser worker and his fellows drank, and drank as much as their bellies could hold, until... ...they were so drunk, that a local idiot farting at a torch looked like a fire spewing dragon. Workers asked the barely drunk villager's of the dragon. Villagers, planned this and started panicking and begging the workers to save them from the dragon. Oh the chaos and havos and the mayhem, caused by the comical chase trough the village. The idiot ran trough, around and under the village, he was chased by brew frenzied workers and enraged villagers. The idiot ran thinking the chasers were trying to take his torch away. Workers ran after the fire dragon to slay him and rescue.the villagers, excluding the fact they did not exist. Villagers ran after both workers and the idiot trying to lure them out of the village. Reaching the dead end, idiot had nothing to do but to face his pursuers. He pointed his... nozzle and the torch at the workers. Being drunken just enough to know when it's the time to turn and run from frenzied dragon, workers ran. Villager's too. The village was like a waiting bomb, all riddled with brew kegs. A bomb that din't go off. In the end, the idiot chased the workers out of the village, few miles away, just enough to get lost for a while.The victory was won, village remained more than a smoking crater, the bridge was... manually finished. Workers never bothered to return for rest of the payment, brew buying visits ceased and world was informed of a dragon lurking in a small village of Halfbridge, somewhere at the edges of nowhere. The village returned to normal, no matter how ironic that sounded. But no one was aware of the oncoming invasion of newly trained dragonslayers, coming to save the village and the kingdom. Ok it's done. Yes typos, and tenses mismatches are more than present. Since the RP will be more story based, than stat based. Stats won't be present. Inventory, yes but stats no. Anyway here's the template. Name: Physical appearance: Job: Things you always carry with you: Occupation and Interests: Living place: Characters: --- | Approved Characters: | | | Name: Velmar Loudcork
Job: Repairman
Role in the chase of the "Dragon" (If none, just add, angry villager): Angry villager, who finished the bridge and most of the village.
Things you always carry with you: Toolbox, Steel helmet (Which I wear for most of my time), And a bottle of distilled brew.
Occupation and Interests: Fixing things and plans for building siege weapons of doom.
Living place: Small house on the outskirts of the village.
History: As a child Velmar always showed his fascination for machines. Until one day he was taken to the capital to watch the coronation of the new king.He saw Huge catapults and various siege weapons. He found his new calling in life that day. Unfortunately, he didn't receive required funding, so he took the job as a repairman. Spending almost no time at his home, he can be found strolling the streets or repairing various elements of the village. Also he doesn't drink alcohol.
--- Name: Gath Stormer
Job: Captain of the Guard
Role in the chase of the "Dragon" (If none, just add, angry villager): Angry Villager, he wishes to get the foolish hunters out of the village.
Things you always carry with you: A sword, some form of armor whether it be leather or his metal armor, his wife's picture, and a bottle of water.
Occupation and Interests: He works as one of the few guards of the village and the leader of them. He is interested in keeping the village's borders secure.
Living place: The guardhouse usually though he does have a small house in town.
History: From birth his family was a bit crazy about "The Brew" They would drink it with any and all things and give it to him aswell. He had it so much he became sick of it by his late adolesence. Since he hasn't drinken alcohol. He was employed as a guard at an early age and worked at it from then on eventually graduating into captain of the guard. He is also accompanied by to privates. Jack and Jill, they've been dating since adolescence. Now they're in sixties, still dating.
--- Name: Kamica "DarkKnight" Anera
Job: Blacksmith
Role in the chase of the "Dragon" (If none, just add, angry villager): Not even participating.
Things you always carry with you: The latest weapon he has crafted, several flasks with different kinds of fluids in them, sometimes gasses. and a smithing hammer.
Occupation and Interests: He loves to just forget time, and smith some iron into high quality stuff. He also has a semi-secret occupation of Alchemy.
Living place: Near the water in a house with a forge.
History: Kamica comes from a family of blacksmiths, one of his ancestors was one of the founders of the village even. Not much interresting happend, he learned smithing on a young age, and his mother taught him some alchemy, he went on to improve both, eventually becomming the best of the village at both.
Other info: Kamica isn't payed for his job the usual way, he refuses gold, and will smith anything, as long as he gets something in return, for farmers, and other food producers, it is food, for any other person, it is metal, other than that, he asks people to give him all sorts of plants, and things they see as useless. Which he uses for his alchemy.
--- Name: Zan Ruland
Job: Traveling trader / Village Hunter
Role in the chase of the "Dragon" (If none, just add, angry villager): Angry Villager
Things you always carry with you: Longbow, Quiver with arrows, Several Knives, His horse generally.
Occupation and Interests: Zan spends the majority of his time hunting for the village and selling the meat in a shop adjoining to his house. Among other things he loves to travel and so he commonly will buy up a large supply of brew, as well as a few of his catches, and head out with his horse to a distant village to trade for uncommon goods that are rarely seen at Halfbridge. Along his travels Zan has acquired a large amount of literature and knowledge so on occasion some villagers will come to him seeking advice or knowledge on mostly unknown topics.
Living place: Shortly after the bridge and back a bit you run straight into the cliff, His house is located facing away from the village out onto a large terrace facing the waterfall. There is a staircase that is open on the sides but covered overhead connecting from the bottum of his house to his shop which is found slightly behind the bridge. (So basically a house up on the cliff a bit with stairs leading down to his shop.) Between the two on even ground he has a small pen to keep his horse in with a shed near by for food and shelter if needed.
--- Name: Koich Rythe Job: No real "Job" as such, but helps around town and gambles to earn enough to make a living. Village "Prankster".
Role in the chase of the "Dragon" (If none, just add, angry villager): Likes to sell the hunters information about the "Dragon". Obviously, he just makes the stuff up.
Things you always carry with you: A long hunting dagger, some lockpicks, gambling dice and cards.
Occupation and Interests: Koich always was a troublesome lad, to this date. Growing up, he picked up some useful skills, like lockpicking, some "Slight of hand" he uses to cheat when gambling and sometimes to pick a pocket. Also, he's an excellent liar. But most villagers have a certain distrust towards him, since everyone fell a prey to one of his devious jokes at least once. Still, he never actually stole anything of value from anyone, and they usually hire him for small tasks and assistance. He mostly spends the money on food, trinkets and "The Brew".
Living place: His uncle owns the village inn, and lets him stay at a small room.
--- Name: Nara Job: sort of bard/entertainer Role in the chase of the "Dragon" (If none, just add, angry villager): ~ Things you always carry with you: all you can see is a colorful cloak. Occupation and Interests: Jokes, Riddles. Living place: Everywhere And Nowhere. Where the roads and stories take her.
--- Name: Entis Marr Job: Wealthy Entrapenuer Things you always carry with you: Silk top hat, rather large wrought-iron fluted cane with silver-plating and gold fligiree in the shape of a dragon (The head and body are the head ofhte cane, the tail is the shaft) clutching a black pearl the size of a teenagers fist. Built well enough and hefty enough to be used in defense if need be Occupation and Interests: Sits back and collects money from his many assets. Interested in acquiring Halfbridge due to the attraction of this rumored "dragon" Living place: The Inn, until he finishes purchasing the town. --- Name:Lancel Alcren Physical appearance:Average size and height with spiked black hair and a tattoo of a cross on the back of his neck.Has blue eyes.Wears a white cloak with a red cross on the front with a leather backpack that carries his items. Job:Priest Things you always carry with you:a arm buckler,a small lance,a small holy book,and a cantein full of holy water,and some herbs Occupation and Interests:Interested in the strange creatures of the land especially the mythological such as dragons.Loves drinking the local brew of whereever he goes. Living place:Anywhere he can find a church looking for a priest
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In a great city, Bum Ah Dah, which was build upon another ancient city which was also built upon another city and so on an so forth, dwell various creatures fantastic and not, ugly and less ugly, stupid and less stupid.
| Creatures: | | | --- The New Levels ---
On surface, the youngest layer of the city, live the elves, dwarfs, humans and other beings which have no light related allergies or other disorders.
Dwarfs - "Dwarfs" called by some, are characteristic by their lack of height, lack of lack of hair and a huge affection towards wheat based beverages. Their customs range from beating each other up to show respect, to unloading their lunch on someones beard. They are allergic to Elves.
Elves - If you have pointy ears, love ugly shoes, have a bad habit of bad singing, you are an Elf (with 95% accuracy). Elves, unlike most humanoid races, have bones in their ears, thus giving them the pointy shape. Having bones in their ears lead to some disadvantages, such as the fact that most elves can't have a decent head protection. They hate dwarfs.
--- The Old Levels ---
In the layers right bellow the surface city, live werewolves, vampires and other light sensitive creatures. While there are Impostors and Draugs and few quasi vampires, you can also find humans, elves and dwarfs, which are to poor to afford houses above.
--- The Very Old Levels ---
The deeper levels aren't fully explored nor they have a proper leveled structure. Old cities overlap with ancient ones, making it even harder to go deeper. Several expeditions were organized to explore the depths. Many returned, probably due to the fact they are hopeless cowards, who didn't bother going further than few blocks. Though they did document several creatures.
Manurafs - Dwarfish looking people, with green beards and strange language. Their language is a complex mix of vocals which someone might mistaken with the sounds of drowning. Not much is known about them, except they are attracted to the Surag's call.
Surags - Humanoid torso with a fish tail instead of legs. They can be seen in the deeper parts of the underground city. Their call is simple and loud (airhorn), how do they produce the sound, it is not known. Manurafs are attracted to it's call, even if it dislikes the company of Manurafs. There is a large speculation among the explorers if it's a female Manuraf, or just a very ugly fish.
--- General ---
Wishing stars - A strange phenomenon, related to falling stars. It was reported that the stars produce sounds similar to horse screaming and when they hit the ground there is usually left a horn looking object. The horn is actually highly valued on the market, it is known when it's dust is inhaled the user begins hallucinating, thinking that he/she is a horse. Excessive inhalation of the horn dust can lead to more "permanent" hallucinations. |
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|  | | Gath_Stormer Under Christ We Roleplay

 | Subject: Re: Halfbridge RP Intro and Sigh-up thread Fri Aug 27, 2010 4:31 pm | |
| Is English your first language? Also... so what will this roleplay intitle. |
|  | | Kamica Community Ghost

 | Subject: Re: Halfbridge RP Intro and Sigh-up thread Fri Aug 27, 2010 4:44 pm | |
| If you haven't noticed yet, our forum =3. sorta. |
|  | | Velmarshal The "Do everything" guy

 | Subject: Re: Halfbridge RP Intro and Sigh-up thread Sat Aug 28, 2010 1:49 am | |
| | Gath_Stormer wrote: | Is English your first language? Also... so what will this roleplay intitle. |
No, why? Probably something like "Halfbridge chronicles", but I'm not sure.. |
|  | | Kamica Community Ghost

 | Subject: Re: Halfbridge RP Intro and Sigh-up thread Sat Aug 28, 2010 4:43 am | |
| Becouse of some lack of "The"'s. probably =3, Don't worry, it's still readable. |
|  | | Velmarshal The "Do everything" guy

 | Subject: Re: Halfbridge RP Intro and Sigh-up thread Sat Aug 28, 2010 8:38 am | |
| I need to know if the story is any good, I'm aware of the grammar. |
|  | | Kamica Community Ghost

 | Subject: Re: Halfbridge RP Intro and Sigh-up thread Sat Aug 28, 2010 9:15 am | |
| Uuhm... original, let's say that =3. Yes, original. |
|  | | Gath_Stormer Under Christ We Roleplay

 | Subject: Re: Halfbridge RP Intro and Sigh-up thread Sat Aug 28, 2010 10:37 am | |
| What is your first language? And not the title. Intitle as in what will make up this roleplay. |
|  | | Velmarshal The "Do everything" guy

 | Subject: Re: Halfbridge RP Intro and Sigh-up thread Sat Aug 28, 2010 10:47 am | |
| Since the RP will be more story based, than stat based. Stats won't be present. Inventory, yes but stats no. Anyway here's the template.
Name: Velmar Loudcork
Job: Repairman
Role in the chase of the "Dragon" (If none, just add, angry villager): Angry villager, who finished the bridge and most of the village.
Things you always carry with you: Toolbox, Steel helmet (Which I wear for most of my time), And a bottle of distilled brew.
Occupation and Interests: Fixing things and plans for building siege weapons of doom.
Living place: Small house on the outskirts of the village.
History: As a child Velmar always showed his fascination for machines. Until one day he was taken to the capital to watch the coronation of the new king.He saw Huge catapults and various siege weapons. He found his new calling in life that day. Unfortunately, he didn't receive required funding, so he took the job as a repairman. Spending almost no time at his home, he can be found strolling the streets or repairing various elements of the village. Also he doesn't drink alcohol.
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|  | | Kamica Community Ghost

 | Subject: Re: Halfbridge RP Intro and Sigh-up thread Sat Aug 28, 2010 11:01 am | |
| Name: Kamica "DarkKnight" Anera
Job: Blacksmith
Role in the chase of the "Dragon" (If none, just add, angry villager): Not even participating.
Things you always carry with you: The latest weapon he has crafted, several flasks with different kinds of fluids in them, sometimes gasses. and a smithing hammer.
Occupation and Interests: He loves to just forget time, and smith some iron into high quality stuff. He also has a semi-secret occupation of Alchemy.
Living place: Near the water in a house with a forge.
History: Kamica comes from a family of blacksmiths, one of his ancestors was one of the founders of the village even. Not much interresting happend, he learned smithing on a young age, and his mother taught him some alchemy, he went on to improve both, eventually becomming the best of the village at both.
Other info: Kamica isn't payed for his job the usual way, he refuses gold, and will smith anything, as long as he gets something in return, for farmers, and other food producers, it is food, for any other person, it is metal, other than that, he asks people to give him all sorts of plants, and things they see as useless. Which he uses for his alchemy.
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|  | | Gath_Stormer Under Christ We Roleplay

 | Subject: Re: Halfbridge RP Intro and Sigh-up thread Sat Aug 28, 2010 11:03 am | |
| Name: Gath Stormer
Job: Captain of the Guard
Role in the chase of the "Dragon" (If none, just add, angry villager): Angry Villager, he wishes to get the foolish hunters out of the village.
Things you always carry with you: A sword, some form of armor whether it be leather or his metal armor, his wife's picture, and a bottle of water.
Occupation and Interests: He works as one of the few guards of the village and the leader of them. He is interested in keeping the village's borders secure.
Living place: The guardhouse usually though he does have a small house in town.
History: From birth his family was a bit crazy about "The Brew" They would drink it with any and all things and give it to him aswell. He had it so much he became sick of it by his late adolesence. Since he hasn't drinken alcohol. He was employed as a guard at an early age and worked at it from then on eventually graduating into captain of the guard. |
|  | | Velmarshal The "Do everything" guy

 | Subject: Re: Halfbridge RP Intro and Sigh-up thread Sat Aug 28, 2010 11:05 am | |
| Well it ain't such a big village to have army of guards. 4 or 3 will do. |
|  | | Kamica Community Ghost

 | Subject: Re: Halfbridge RP Intro and Sigh-up thread Sat Aug 28, 2010 11:54 am | |
| Edited my character a bit. |
|  | | Velmarshal The "Do everything" guy

 | Subject: Re: Halfbridge RP Intro and Sigh-up thread Sat Aug 28, 2010 12:07 pm | |
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|  | | Kamica Community Ghost

 | Subject: Re: Halfbridge RP Intro and Sigh-up thread Sun Aug 29, 2010 5:31 am | |
| So uuhm, when is this going to start? =3. |
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