Destiny's Tears OOC Thread- Prologue: A Jewel in the Shadow

[Brother Shatterstone]

They can be Skalds, Berserkers, Raiders, Wrathbringers, Mystics, though they only really do the Raider and Berserker bit very well.

Which class is best for a grappler? I just have this urge to play something that likes to toss people around like he's a professional wrestler or maybe a Wookiee*...


* The Wookiee angle:

"It's not wise to upset a Wookiee"

"But sir, nobody worries about upsetting a droid."

"That's 'cause a droid don't pull people's arms outta their sockets when they lose."

 

[Eonthar]

RA,

I was looking through the Encyclopaedia Altanica, and found a couple of races (I know that they are related) which I may be interested in for a character in another campaign.

So, I would like more information about:

Planet: Rhapsodia
Races: Melodian & Harmonian
Classes: Soulsinger, Treesinger, Bladesinger, Oathsinger, Truthsinger, Spellsinger

Just a brief synopsis at first would be appreciated.

 

[Rystil Arden]

Which class is best for a grappler? I just have this urge to play something that likes to toss people around like he's a professional wrestler or maybe a Wookiee*...


* The Wookiee angle:

"It's not wise to upset a Wookiee"

"But sir, nobody worries about upsetting a droid."

"That's 'cause a droid don't pull people's arms outta their sockets when they lose."

Berserker I think. You go stir-crazy and gain humungous amounts of Strength. Add Improved Grapple and basically nothing can get away at that point. Tralg are kinda bad at things that require a mind though

 

[Rystil Arden]

RA,

I was looking through the Encyclopaedia Altanica, and found a couple of races (I know that they are related) which I may be interested in for a character in another campaign.

So, I would like more information about:

Planet: Rhapsodia
Races: Melodian & Harmonian
Classes: Soulsinger, Treesinger, Bladesinger, Oathsinger, Truthsinger, Spellsinger

Just a brief synopsis at first would be appreciated.

Melodians and Harmonians are a strange pair of races made out of flesh composed not of carbohydrates and ionic compounds, but instead of tiny crystals with covalent-network bonds. This causes their entire bodies to be able to vibrate sympathetically to musical tones, unlike humans who can only use certain parts of their body as resonators. Melodians and Harmonians resonate in a fundamentally different way however. Melodians are able to produce sound themselves, and music which for them is speech, whereas Harmonians can manipulate alter already-extant sounds to speak, which means that they cannot speak at all if there is utter silence. Since they have no ions, both races are not affected by electricity, but sonic attacks resonate and hurt them more, though sonic buffs like bardic music work extra well too.

 

[Eonthar]

Melodians and Harmonians are a strange pair of races made out of flesh composed not of carbohydrates and ionic compounds, but instead of tiny crystals with covalent-network bonds. This causes their entire bodies to be able to vibrate sympathetically to musical tones, unlike humans who can only use certain parts of their body as resonators. Melodians and Harmonians resonate in a fundamentally different way however. Melodians are able to produce sound themselves, and music which for them is speech, whereas Harmonians can manipulate alter already-extant sounds to speak, which means that they cannot speak at all if there is utter silence. Since they have no ions, both races are not affected by electricity, but sonic attacks resonate and hurt them more, though sonic buffs like bardic music work extra well too.

They sound really neat, I think I would like to play one of them.

I guess, now I will have to wait for the *singer classes

 

[Rystil Arden]

They sound really neat, I think I would like to play one of them.

I guess, now I will have to wait for the *singer classes

Oh, I guess I should also mention that the Melodians, due to their ability to initiate sound, are more assertive and are the leaders of Rhapsodia, whereas Harmonians are a well-treated lower-class. The Melodians appear to be female, and sing on female vocal ranges as well as even higher tones that humans cannot even hear. The Harmonians appear to be male, and they sing on male vocal ranges as wel as deep-pitched subsonics. They do not reproduce sexually, instead creating new Harmonians or Melodians by using music to combine the essences of the parents with some of the crystals of Rhapsodia to create a child (the parents can choose the race by selecting 2/3 Melodians or 2/3 Rhapsodians for the song).

 

[Brother Shatterstone]

Berserker I think. You go stir-crazy and gain humungous amounts of Strength. Add Improved Grapple and basically nothing can get away at that point. Tralg are kinda bad at things that require a mind though

Okay, he'll talk in third person.

Could I have a brief synopsis of them though?

 

[Rystil Arden]

Okay, he'll talk in third person.

Could I have a brief synopsis of them though?

Tralgs have a tribal culture, if you can even say they have a culture, on the world of Nardaln, tending to congregate together based on geography because they typically don't have mothers who survive. Their exact temperament varies from tribe to tribe, although the basic formula usually involves catching animals and gobbling them up and kidnapping and raping women, which at least allows the Tralg to have a group of fathers when the mother dies. There is an odd tale told in Nardaln about a more-civilised lost tribe of Tralgs that is just as dumb and brutish as most Tralgs but is led by a Narlsewoman, rather than a Tralg, which is even stranger because Tralg absolutely refuse to elect a leader who is not the strongest of the tribe. They don't necessarily consider other Tralg who are weaker to be intrinsically inferior, and will treat them as equals, but each Tralg will never accept someone in a superior position unless he is not just stronger than the single Tralg but the strongest of the tribe. Unlike many brutish races, then, Tralg who are defeated in a contest of strength never hold a grudge, in fact often looking up to their defeater and willing to take him as a leader. Even the normal Tralg will never betray someone who has proven himself stronger, even if the strong one enters a position of weakness or vulnerability that will allow the Tralg to advance, but they also see no problem in victimising those who are weaker, like humanoid women, not because they are spiteful (they don't go out of their way to hurt the women) but because they simply cannot understand that other races are not like them, and assume despite any protestations that the women actually *want* to be with the Tralg because the Tralg are stronger than their men. They will thus always challenge a woman's man first, if she has one, before kidnapping her.

 

[unleashed]

I'd like to play in both of your new games.

 

[Brother Shatterstone]

They will thus always challenge a woman's man first, if she has one, before kidnapping her.

Simple but complex... I like.