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<blockquote data-quote="Urko" data-source="post: 2180419" data-attributes="member: 30822"><p>Newthrone. A young city, built on a dream. Its wooden palisade is slowly giving way to a towering granite wall, lovingly engraved with Aundairan scrollwork and Cyran devotional bas reliefs and surmounted with fearsome Karrn gargoyles. The walls seem strained to keep the riotous jungle without at bay. Within, a world that never was has been recreated. Fine hotels, open-air restaurants, fragrant bathhouses, delicate cathedrals, imposing public buildings, and the opulent homes of the wealthy jostle together in the enclosed square mile and compete to outdo one another in recalling the glories of old Galifar. A small army of kobolds, lizard folk, and indigent humanoids on the King’s payroll keep it all immaculately clean. All the pleasures of Five Nations await those who can afford them.</p><p> </p><p>At the moment, you can barely keep yourself fed and sheltered, let alone indulge in the luxuries and vices of the rich. If things don’t change soon you may be forced to join the ranks of the street sweepers or, worse, work in the paddies outside the city walls, harvesting rice or stinking fal root. However, the Far edition of the <em>Adder Bay Times</em> had an advertisement that caught your eye and may offer a way out:</p><p> </p><p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Consultants wanted at riverside plantation. Must be combat trained and experienced in troubleshooting trans-mundane difficulties. Discretion required. High pay, transportation included, burial rites and good faith effort to notify next of kin guaranteed. Forward all inquiries to Message Box 47, Sivis Kiosk, House Services Pavilion, Newthrone. </em></p><p></p><p>With nothing to lose, you looked into it further. The gnome clerks informed you that, according to their instructions, your message would be passed on and a reply would be available at the Sivis Kiosk soon. After two tense days of frequent checking back, your reply came in the form of a note card, written in gold ink on the finest ivorywood-fiber paper. The reply read simply: <em>Hotel Metrol, 5 bells, 19 Dravago</em>. That’s today!</p><p> </p><p>You arrive at the pink marble hotel just as the clock tower across the square (a miniature replica of Sharn’s infamous Glass Tower) rings the last of the five bells. After showing your card to the desk attendant, you are escorted to a dimly lit corner of the salon. A kobold in a green and gold uniform asks you, in squeaking and barely understandable Common, what you would care to drink, courtesy of your host. You settle into your wicker chair and look at your fellow applicants, waiting for your as-yet unseen host to arrive.</p><p> </p><p><span style="color: silver"><span style="font-size: 9px">The above is the generic intro – your specific circumstances may vary, but the end result is the same: you’re sitting in a hotel lobby looking at five other people, some of whom you may know. </span></span></p><p> <span style="color: silver"><span style="font-size: 9px"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: silver"><span style="font-size: 9px">Anyone may act. Tell us what our first impression of your character is, how the character reacts to the others. Please include your character sheet in your first post. To make scrolling easier, enclose the character sheet in a spoiler box. If you’re not familiar with how to do this, type {sblock} at the beginning of the character sheet and {/sblock} at the end, using [ ] type brackets instead of { }, of course.</span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Urko, post: 2180419, member: 30822"] Newthrone. A young city, built on a dream. Its wooden palisade is slowly giving way to a towering granite wall, lovingly engraved with Aundairan scrollwork and Cyran devotional bas reliefs and surmounted with fearsome Karrn gargoyles. The walls seem strained to keep the riotous jungle without at bay. Within, a world that never was has been recreated. Fine hotels, open-air restaurants, fragrant bathhouses, delicate cathedrals, imposing public buildings, and the opulent homes of the wealthy jostle together in the enclosed square mile and compete to outdo one another in recalling the glories of old Galifar. A small army of kobolds, lizard folk, and indigent humanoids on the King’s payroll keep it all immaculately clean. All the pleasures of Five Nations await those who can afford them. At the moment, you can barely keep yourself fed and sheltered, let alone indulge in the luxuries and vices of the rich. If things don’t change soon you may be forced to join the ranks of the street sweepers or, worse, work in the paddies outside the city walls, harvesting rice or stinking fal root. However, the Far edition of the [i]Adder Bay Times[/i] had an advertisement that caught your eye and may offer a way out: [indent][i]Consultants wanted at riverside plantation. Must be combat trained and experienced in troubleshooting trans-mundane difficulties. Discretion required. High pay, transportation included, burial rites and good faith effort to notify next of kin guaranteed. Forward all inquiries to Message Box 47, Sivis Kiosk, House Services Pavilion, Newthrone. [/i][/indent] With nothing to lose, you looked into it further. The gnome clerks informed you that, according to their instructions, your message would be passed on and a reply would be available at the Sivis Kiosk soon. After two tense days of frequent checking back, your reply came in the form of a note card, written in gold ink on the finest ivorywood-fiber paper. The reply read simply: [i]Hotel Metrol, 5 bells, 19 Dravago[/i]. That’s today! You arrive at the pink marble hotel just as the clock tower across the square (a miniature replica of Sharn’s infamous Glass Tower) rings the last of the five bells. After showing your card to the desk attendant, you are escorted to a dimly lit corner of the salon. A kobold in a green and gold uniform asks you, in squeaking and barely understandable Common, what you would care to drink, courtesy of your host. You settle into your wicker chair and look at your fellow applicants, waiting for your as-yet unseen host to arrive. [color=silver][size=1]The above is the generic intro – your specific circumstances may vary, but the end result is the same: you’re sitting in a hotel lobby looking at five other people, some of whom you may know. Anyone may act. Tell us what our first impression of your character is, how the character reacts to the others. Please include your character sheet in your first post. To make scrolling easier, enclose the character sheet in a spoiler box. If you’re not familiar with how to do this, type {sblock} at the beginning of the character sheet and {/sblock} at the end, using [ ] type brackets instead of { }, of course.[/size][/color] [/QUOTE]
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