Carnifex's Story Hour (Updated January 20th, "The Union")

Yo, yo, Dark Raven! Good to have you on board- and a nonspellcater as well. Hurrah to us mundanes! Looking forward to the time we all get together... death to the bloomin' werewolves!

Oh, and Broccoli, thanks for the compliment. I've been enjoying Kale's resourcefulness, too, though right now it's pretty hard to come up with some tactics to fit the situation... We'll work something out, though, and many wolves will die. Kale has nothing to do with heroics- only battles that work to HIS advantage. Well, somtimes you have no choice, but somehting tells me he'll come up with something clever.
 
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Stinky said:
Yo, yo, Dark Raven! Good to have you on board- and a nonspellcater as well. Hurrah to us mundanes! Looking forward to the time we all get together... death to the bloomin' werewolves!

Uh, Matt - Alaric is a spellcaster.

:D
 

Hehe, sorry to disappoint ya Matt but Chris is right. While basically Alaric has a warrior's mentality, the fact that he was born of noble (sorcerous) blood in Naseria gives him a natural talent for spellcasting.

By the way, good luck with the werewolves. No offense but I'm glad I'm not in your shoes. Give me babysitting a bunch of outlanders over that any day! :D

As for Kale's social life, the dating scene on the road is rough but hey you have Wyshira keepin' you company. She's a cutie and you know what they say, good things come in small packages. But if you decide to pass, well it'd be interesting to see how the dynamic evolves between Alaric (fire) and Wyshira (water). Do opposites really attract or will we be at each other's throats? :X
 

-wipes egg off of face-
Heh, well, rumor is that I know how to read...

In my own defense, I would mention that were someone to miss the quite clear line that says warrior/sorcerer on Alaric's desc, there would be no other indication from the desc that the man is a spellcaster, other than the fact he's of noble blood... which is no guarantee. Anyway, it's all pretty clear now, and I didn't want to edit my above post so that we can all laugh at me. Let's hope Kale is more observant... =)

Yeah... women, don't know what to do about that. Kale works to be active and social and alive, but he's also learing Wolf's aloofness. It sometimes seems a necessity, given his profession, but Kale isn't Wolf, and the younger has a flair for life that just con't be contained in a soft-spoken, strong-armed mien like Wolf's. Social stuff may be nice, but 'relationship' is probably still threatening to him. Not wanting to be tied to any particular Cause or House, he really doesn't want his heart tied to anyone, either. Anything that were to happen would probably happen slowly.

I've never worked 'relationships' into a character before, although I can say that Kale is at least wary of mixing business and pleasure. Finding a Naserian noblelady who wants a brief romp with a man from the rougher side of town- that may be a little more his style. Alaric have a sister? heheh :D

Thanks for luck with the wolves- we'll need it. The only other idea I ahd was to use Wyshira as a distraction, running around for awhile before finally jumping down the well. Able to breath water, she's the one person, and that's the one place that might be safe from the wolves. Not a very practical solution for anything, though, besides saving Wyshira... could be a good plan b, if it turns out there'll be no survivors but one fishy priestess stuck down a well... Let's hope it doesn't come to that...
 
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The Death Squad

Well, to make up for it being a long time in between proper story updates - here's a picture of a Toranite death squad! (It's attached to this post - hopefully it'll show up ;) ).

This isn't the actual band encountered by Wolf's Company - it's actually Dread Slayers, elite Toranite temple guard berserkers - and a lot nastier than the zealots that Kale, Wyshira, Wolf and Burl were pitted against! With their own full prestige class and the backup of their Church, Dread Slayers are virtually living engines of destruction!

The picture is by Boris Radujko, one of the incredibly talented artists at planewalker.com, who honoured me by agreeing to do a few pictures for my campaign. In the future I may also post his Flame Guildsman, and his Black Knight of Zhatan sketch as well (think power-armoured paladin!).
 

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I've had some problems reaching this board lately, but it looks like things are fixed now...

Funny that Raven would mention the contrast between Alaric and Wyshira right before I have my first in-game opportunity to really show how the water genasi feels about fire. I think it will be interesting to see how she reacts to the Flame Hawk squire!

Another funny thing is that I had two character ideas for this game originally: Wyshira the water genasi cleric, and Alerica (called Rica) the Naserian rogue/sorceress. Alerica / Alaric.... how weird is that? :) I went on to play Rica in another game at roleplaying.net: Requiem for an Empire.

And about relationships.... I personally feel that these PBP characters should and will find themselves being attracted to each other at times. They are young after all, and one of the things I remember best about being young is falling in love every other week or so!
 

WYSHIRA:"one of the things I remember best about being young is falling in love every other week or so!"

hmm- good point. Gotta think Kale is a bit different than I am in RL- me being so gaddamn prudent. Let's put the C in CG! Still, commitment is a bit of a curse word to Kale, unless it comes to companionship in the combat sense... and then there's always the one-night stand (best done with noble's sisters, though maybe party members would do in a pinch... Eh, I don't know if Kale would go for that particular approach...

Yeah, I'd like to see Wyshira and Alaric: fire and water. Heh. Won't all the parents be horrified.

Bonus about being Kale is that anyone's parents would be horrified... Hmm. Lots of girls in the group. And there's a certain chauvanistic appeal to dating a mute woman, Meganna. (ooo! girls, please don't kill me). Let's just see what develops on all fronts. Okay, since this is a fantasy game, can we assume all the chicks are hot? We need a posted 'hotness scale'. Kale? He's built for speed, not for comfort. Still, that rogiush appeal has to be good for something. With a bluff of +6, when he says 'baby- there's no one but you'- it sounds like he really means it =) Maybe, but Wyshira is right when she says all the folks are young... all the baloney I just said aside, we might as well entertain the young amorous parts of their lives...

PS- on a RL note- I had the wierdest thing happen to me today. Warning, I only say this to gross you guys out... It's allergy season here on the west coast (of the US, you silly Brits, et al.), and although I don't usually react too much, the following happened. I was out reading books at the local bookstore(browsing without buying, of course). My eye started itching like crazy, and I rubbed and kept on reading. Half hour later, it was bugging me enough to decide to go to the restroom and dig out the eyelash or whatever was irritating my eye so much (I wear contacts, so sticking my fingers in my eyes is something that happens all the time). I get to the bathroom, look in the mirror, and HOLY :):):):)! I've got a huge blister on the side of my eye! (Not my lid, not NEAR my eye, the full-on white of my EYE was friggen swollen with inter-friggin-stitial fluid!)

Talk about the grossest thing ever, he white area to the outside of my eye was puffed out further than my cornea, like if a marble was inside my eye, pushing to get out. Size of a peanut, this itchy blister was. Red, inflamed veins spiderwebbed across the swollen surface, and the whole area was a sickly translucent white-yellow from all the fluid under the surface. Ouch... blinking had a hard time accomodating the increased size of my pissed-off eye. All this inflamed in like an hour, and now, about eight hours later, it is almost gone. Talk about gross-ass trip out. Too fast and acute to be viral or bacterial infection, I must have just innoculated myself with an allergen under the surface when I rubbed my eye. Yuck. Moral of the story (besides the fact I shouldn't practice my writing/description on gross real life problems)- don't rub those itchy allergy eyes.

Just thought I'd tell the world, cause if I have to live through something gross, I figure you guys a least have to hear about it (it's a gross guy thing, I guess). Thus ends my submission for the first international gross-out competition.

As a final note, if you want to continue to have a good opinion of me and Kale, just delete this silly, meaningless message from your memory....
 

Weird post, there, Stinky. From romance to big yellow eyeball blisters. Speaking of eyeballs, I had my 10th-grade class dissecting sheep's eyeballs last week. Er, maybe I won't write two pages describing that, after all. :p

Faced with teenagers in springtime on a daily basis, I can only agree with Wyshira. (And for the record, two teenagers making out ranks up there with eyeball blisters on the gross scale.)

And I'd love a chance to rp a PC romance. That only happened once before for me but it was a bit unconventional. My PC was an aging halfling ex-prostitute named Miss Violet Underbrush. She picked up some swashbuckling halfling tattoo artist about half her age. Come to think of it, I won't write two pages describing that , either.

Ever since that touching little scene with his Da, I've thought Sebastion Cornell is a real biscuit with that craggy brow and longish dark hair and all, but something tells me that's not happening any time soon. Second choice for Mel... not sure yet... but there's always Sandslipper, if Julie ever came back... (Julie and I exchanged a couple of e-mails on the subject at the time. Wasn't sure that was a direction I wanted to Mel to take but you never know what roads lay ahead.) :)

Kale--has that rugged appeal but lacks the craggy brow and long hair. Dangerous for Mel to say the least.

Alaric--Mel's romantic ideal of a noble Naserian. A sorcerer so I'm guessing he's got high charisma. We'll just have to see how he develops...

Mel is not only ditzy, she's naive enough that she doesn't know that blue can be beautiful. The kids in her home town made gagging noises at her often enough that nobody ever stopped to consider that she might be kind of fun. That may change, but it'll take a while to get through her skull. I probably shouldn't tell you this, but because of that it's likely going to be first come-first serve with her. The first guy who doesn't call her Melberry is going to get loads of, well, gratitude from her.

:p
 

RE: Easter. Melberry- HAHAHAHA!

Sorry about the last wierd post- I was about to edit the post to say only the essentials, but then Easter had already replied. If anyone is interested, the blister is gone, and I must have just been in a really wierd mood to let the entire world know, as well as going off on the whole relationships thing.

I know I can speak for all the guys when I voice disappointment over not having a lesbian relationship in the group. Hey Easter, maybe you could con carnifex into letting you npc sandslipper- things could get pretty crazy from there. -shiver- Afraid to think...
 

Don't worry, all, I'm sure there'll be plenty of chances for rp'ing romances - after Easter's last post, I'm now fearful for several of my NPC's ;)

For anyone waiting for the next update - you'll get to see Kale performing the role of 'human fireball' :D
 

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