06-16-2015, 04:26 PM | #41 |
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Okay, tentative biography:
Lilyblack Gefea Very slender and athletic. Studied archeology at Edoras University. Has always been restless and given to wandering about at night, a habit that her family attributes to a strain of Elven blood, though her family has been living in the Westmark for as far as anyone can remember. Journeyed once to the place where legends place Lothlorien. She made a dig in a strange mound and found, with broken pottery, a strange verdigrised brooch with the pin knocked off the back. She has cleaned it up and found traces of old green enamel, making her conjecture that it was once a leaf. She wears it on a gold chain around her neck and claims it helps her see in the dark. Wears only back leather clothes. Wants to join the party both to get material for her doctoral degree and to perhaps discover the old links of Moria with Hollin.
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06-17-2015, 07:35 AM | #42 |
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06-17-2015, 09:46 AM | #43 |
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I second Earn.
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06-17-2015, 12:03 PM | #44 |
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Guess I'll write a bio too then:
Name: dunno, probably Elyssa Something. I'm open to suggestions. Age: 27 Background: Her parents were ordinary people, trying to make a living whilst keeping their heads down. Elyssa was discovered in school to be very smart, so the company sponsored her education. Her passion and life is pretty much the world of books on anything and everything. She doesn't necessarily like her job or anything that takes her away from her comfy chair and books, but she is grateful to the company for giving her a life that allows her to read, so she will do whatever they ask of her. She is a bit claustrophobic and doesn't do well with anything new or irregular and/or out of her comfort zone. If something in here is not right, or not very appropriate, do share
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06-17-2015, 12:04 PM | #45 |
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And Tess, take your time.
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06-17-2015, 12:26 PM | #46 |
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Okay, official character post (with bios provided - I'll update as more bios get added.)
Tess: Admin dude Earn: Local guide, Seghun Cardell Varna: Elven historian, Primula Feawen: Healer, Markus Tack Mari: Mithril Expert, Elyssa Midge: Dwarven Historian, Belord Midge: Chief Miner, Mulrin Acally: Unknown Nerwen: Anthropologist, Lilyblack Gefea
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06-17-2015, 09:20 PM | #47 |
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Lilyblack Gefea: At t he end of her day at the Civic Hall where she works as a recording clerk, she returns to her apartment. It is a fourth story walkup with the shared use of some plumbing, but she doesn't mind. One more flight up the steps and she can escape onto the roof, eating her bread and cheese. She likes the view, and the rent is cheap as fat city folk don't like all those stars. She broods on the proposed expedition. Could there still be Truesilver artifacts in Moria with their original forges? How could they shape such a hard metal? She means to find out.
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06-19-2015, 08:09 AM | #48 |
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I can see you're itching to start, Nerwen. But we usually let the game starter open a new thread specifically for the RPG itself when he or she deems it time to begin. This thread is likely just for character profile, discussion and planning, not the actual game writing.
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06-19-2015, 11:09 AM | #49 |
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Just playing around :P
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06-19-2015, 06:31 PM | #50 |
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Name Markus tack
Region Ronan somewhere, I'm thinking I can use the oral tradition of learning, mother to son. Age 30 Trained as a pharmacist with a long family history of herb lore and healing. I'll go into this more as the game begins. Fought in the wars. Do we know if the war is over now? Has a scar from the corner of his right eye to ear. Still trying to figure out how he got this fighting. I'm thinking that he will have served in a local regiment, like a pals unit from the first world war, alot of people from a village all fighting together and tending to die together left villages with a lot if losses. I think his village will lose a lot of its youth and those who do come back will be very changed and scared. This trip will be his way as escaping the guilt he has. He can be a girl if we have too many men or whatever. I'm thinking he can be herb lore, healy, first aid man.
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I will also start a ne thread about her adventures prior to the expedition. Susie
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06-20-2015, 04:38 PM | #52 |
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Feawen, your character's been added to the bio post!
Edit: GUYS I am super psyched to be involved in RP again! Didn't realize how much fun I was having with LLL until it was over.
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06-20-2015, 06:28 PM | #53 |
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I'm with you there midge. I miss all the crazy stuff with LLL! It's a shame people drifted away from it, there was a few characters I would have liked to know what happened to them.
I'm thinking I'm going to play Markus quite broody, maybe a little dark. His going to be slow to reveal himself to the others. So very different to my other characters. I'm hoping there will be a insanely happy someone that can wind him up!
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06-21-2015, 04:50 AM | #54 |
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He'll make a nice duo with Elyssa then, though she's not the happy go luckky kind at all. But they can be silent together :P
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06-21-2015, 07:21 AM | #55 |
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Ya two moody grumps together!
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06-24-2015, 05:52 PM | #56 |
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I guess most of you have seen my prequel thread, "Adventures in Artifacts". Anybody want to join in, you are welcome, just shoot me a short pm about your character and what you intend to do.
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06-25-2015, 01:42 PM | #57 |
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It looks like at this point, character-wise, Acally and Tess still need to intro their characters. And I guess at some point, Attalus will want to be added to the list of players and post an intro here, since he seems interested in the prequel thread.
I'm actually super interested to see what Tess has decided to do map-wise and stuff. Anyone else with me?
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For someone to have hobbit linage, or dwarvish linage, would be like saying, "My great grandmother was 1/4th Cherokee." You probably don't look very much like a Native American, you are not particularly aware of the culture unless you took it upon yourself to go do a lot of digging, and it's likely more of a subject for casual dinner conversation than anything major in your life. You might have an heirloom, but that's about it. Quote:
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Thanks for submitting, everyone! These are some awesome characters, and I appreciate you all putting them out there with relatively little information from me... you all did a great job, I have a few notes on them which will be things you probably could not have known without speaking to me about the world/plot. So, again, thank you for putting them out there.
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06-27-2015, 02:17 PM | #60 |
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i can make markus a radio operator as well if that is easier. drafted into the army for his healing skills and picked up radio skills as members of his unit died?
i have an idea for his reason to be there. im guessing as the war progressed supplies become short, such as medication, so his knowledge of herb lore was helpful. as the war continued maybe he was in a unit that was in a very dangerous part, maybe he managed to save someone important with his skills, such as a captain from a good family, a war correspondent saw him save this captain, take a photo?, wrote a story and he become a hero even though he didnt want to be. like the americain soldiers that held the flag up, sorry i dont know the name of the photo just the photo its self. there was a lot of war propaganda around at that time. he gets his name in the paper, with a list of his abilites, in the army for so long as a medic and radio operator, knows herb lore, helps to proserve the limited medical supplies the army has, saves a captain from a well known family while taking fire, etc. this is a story many people who served in the army would have had, he just happened to have a photo taken of it. i dont know what you think of this. any ideas welcome!
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