(IR) The 5th IR - 3rd OOC Thread (OPEN)

[Kalanyr]

Okay this is a preliminary Sblock for me subject to SE's approval:

E-Mail: kalanyr@gmail.com
Player Character: Queen Morwel (Queen of the Eladrin of Arborea) (a demipower if Serpenteye approves (based on 2e stuff she's not officially a demipower in the BoED))
Artifacts: The Fountain of Beauty (the item said to be responsible for the incredible beauty of several dieties) and Morwel's Court of Stars (which serves as both a demiplane for Morwel's Court and an enabler for the demiplanar courts of the Tulani (as the Tulani have no power that allows them to create these courts this seems to be the most logical explanation for their existance)

Powers:

- The Eladrin - this represents a group of very potent beings native to Arborea, the Plane of Ultimate Chaotic Good, who have come to Greyspace and Oerth. (Should probably have the infiltrator trait)
(Probably no militia level PL, a fairly even split of regular (mainly the numerous coure, novani and bralani) and elites (firre, shierre and ghaele) witha few epic (Shiradi, Tulani and Eladrin with levels)
-The titans of Gigantea , (an area about the size of the old Great kingdom) (Anl epic force of titans of Chaotic alignment)
- Storm giant allies of the titans (storm giants of chaotic good alignment)
- Cloud giant allies of the titans (elite cloud giants of neutral good and neutral evil alignment)
- Miranda, representing all the powers given below

- Ye'Cind the Demigod. (Possibly. Will relinquish if SE allows the PC and thinks 2 demigods are to much)
- Queen Xin of Miranda.
- The Armies of the Mystics of Miranda - represents a sizeable group of extremely potent elderly elves.
- The Recorders of Ye'Cind - these represent a sizeable force of elves specialized in intelligence work.
- The Court of Winter Moons - these represent a small and potent force of elves dedicated to protecting Queen Xin.

- The Elvanian Forest, representing all the powers given below:

- The Thorns - these represent a large force of halfling like faerie.
- The Temple of Sehanine - these represent a sizeable and very potent force of elven clerics and elves.
- The Faerie Court - these represent a sizeable and extraordinarily potent force of faerie.
- Allied Forces - these represent a very large force of good and neutral animals and wondrous beings, large numbers of treants and sentient trees and plants, and sizeable forces of good undead.

- The Marches (Kingdom of the Marchwards) - the Armies of the Marchward Kings - these represent a large force of knightly half-elves and other half-elves.

Hyperborea (Frozen lands), representing all the powers given below

Ice Elves of Hyperborea (A sizeablel force of ice elves of good alignment)
Fey of Hyperborea (Uldra and other cold fey of various alignment)
Allies of the Ice Elves (various other creatures of Hyperborea (good intelligent creatures of the cold subtype, various animals of neutral alignment and the human allies of the ice elves.)

POPULATIONS AND IC VALUES OF TERRITORIES:

The Eladrin: (population unknown yet) (IC unknown yet (I would recommend something low, the Eladrin would hold only the small astral demiplanes the Tulani possess which in total is probably in total only the size of a very small country and not particularly developable))
Gigantea: (population unknown yet) (IC unknown yet)
Miranda: 128,000 = 3.4 IC
Elvanian Forest: 510,000 = 12 IC
Kingdoms of the Marchwards: 212,000 = 6 IC
Hyperborea (population unknown yet) (IC unknown yet)


TOTAL IC OF KALANYRS' POWER SO FAR: 21.4 + UNKNOWN YET

Color on map according to Guilt Puppy: Violet
Territories on map: None, (territories of I don't know what size of the map)

PLAYER NOTES:
The relationship between the elven powers of Arborea and the Eladrin is usually one of a passive co-operation and non-interference, however seeing the coming of the disaster, the elven pantheon contacted the Eladrin and asked them to venture to the world of Greyhawk to aid those in peril after the sphere was sealed from the rest of the multiverse. Queen Morwel agreed and in a move almost unprecedented in history volunteered to live Arborea and go herself, in the strife coming, the mortals would need guidance and only from them could come the seeds that might allow the undoing of the tremendous evil. Accompanied by the Eladrin not otherwise occupied in other locations across the multiverse and a few titans from Mt Olympus, Morwel and her court have journied to Greyhawk, to the elven nation north of Lynn. The titans accompanying Morwel immediately made contact with their kindred in Gigantia in hopes of gaining strong allies, so far these moves have met with reasonable success although the evil giants and titans of Gigantia are currently opposing the alliance.

Noteable NPCs beside Morwel herself are her consorts Faerinaal and Gwynharwyf both Eladrin of Epic stature.

(An alternate explantion for Morwel's presence is that Arborea was already overrun and she and her court have moved to Greyhawk in a retreat which is perhaps more likely, I'll leave this to Serpenteye to decide).

Edit- Having talked to Bugbear and William in chat I've filled out the list a bit from the initial.

Edit Again- Finished preliminary list, corrected email address and removed Sblocks so people have some idea of what I've claimed.

 

[Rikandur Azebol]

Two things.

One, I'm leaving town at like 9 in the morning tomorrow, and I won't be back to a location with net access until late Thursday. So, um, if you need to plot nefariously (or justidiously) behind my back, it's a good time.

Two, that guy I was talking about, who once ran the Forgotten Realms play-by-e-mail game with the running about and the stabbing and the Tablets of Eternity, he's not going to be playing - in his words, this just doesn't look like something that grabs him. His one concern was that "high level magic is prohibitively time-consuming and expensive compared to the ease of doing a tech-rush and zerging everyone."

First, we could "swore" to not plot nefariously against You, yet.

Second, heh ... it stumbled in my mind also. But I don't know how explain my worries to Serpenteye, so I left things untouched. Maybe ... Just maybe, make Technological Progress gradually more expensive, like 50 PP's per level after the first would decrease possibility of Zerging everyone ? We must wait till Serpenteye decide. And You could convice Your friend that this is not only Strategic game, but also a lot of RP'ing flying around.

And Kalanyr, as far as I know Queen Morwel have option of being Demigoddes, simply add her Domains that she's patronizing anyway, one deific rank, and viola ! Feel free to modify her as You like, but remeber that in IR personalities and PL's is what is important, not extact statistics of PC's.

 

[Kalanyr]

I know but in the best traditions of the IR I intend to fiddle with her a bit anyway and post in the rogues gallery, but I'll wait and see if SE approves first.

And I do have one question why does Alien give an infiltration bonus? Wouldn't alien creatures have a hard time infiltrating but be very difficult to infiltrate ?

 

[Kalanyr]

Normal I wouldn't post again in a row but I notice I mistyped my email above so in case anyone missed it my email is :

kalanyr@gmail.com

 

[Edena_of_Neith]

Hey there Kalanyr.
I'll update your roster. But Serpenteye does have to read your submission, and I think he's taken a Christmas Holiday.
(grins at the enthusiasm you're showing, too )

Is Festy joining us? I mean, has Festy Dog confirmed he's joining?
If he is, I'll put him in the roster. And give a real cheer too.

- - -

There appears to be a chance that Sollir will be joining us. I hope so.

Edena_of_Neith

 

[Kalanyr]

I've already emailed Serpenteye about it. And yes Festy is officially in he'll be posting soon. (I just informed him to over mIRC)

And thank you very much Edena.

 

[Festy_Dog]

Yup, you can safely count me amoung these warmongers.

The factions I happen to be after include the Guardinals first and foremost, Zippon and its dominion, Zindia, and possibly even the demigod Hachiman.

My email: festydog69 (at) hotmail (dot) com

I'll be sending off an email to Serpenteye momentarily to get some confirmation from him.

 

[Edena_of_Neith]

Important to Kalanyr

To Kalanyr:

You are using a previous (and long discarded) concept for the Elvanian Forest, Kingdom of the Marchwards, and Miranda. My fault: I somehow forgot to erase that information from the roster. These western countries were meant to be Undefined.
I urge you to create your own concept of what these nations are like, who populates them (you could make them MAJOR elven nations with millions of elves), and what organizations exist within them.

Consider the older information (like the Thorns) to be out of date information. Consider these western countries blank slates on which to write.

Also, if Festy is joining and playing the Guardinals, remember that these western nations could be POWERFUL, and thus you might only need to claim one of them to fill out your IC.
For example, you could take the Elvanian Forest (which might have a IC/PL of 500!) and Festy could take Miranda (which might, say, have a PL of 400!)
Thus, you don't have to take Hyberboria, Gigantea, and a lot of other places to get enough IC: I'm sure, considering the IC/PL of Lynn and Tharquish and places like that, that Miranda and the Elvanian Forest have high PLs.
The titans of Gigantea sound neat, though. Hehe. If I were you, I'd keep that claim.

Edena_of_Neith

 

[Edena_of_Neith]

Cheers Festy! Hey there, my friend.

Check out my post just above. It's important to you as well as Kalanyr (and anyone else just joining us, too.)
Also, read my post at the top of this page. Check out Serpenteye's rules on page 1. And check out the Megapost, which has all the rosters (I just updated Kalanyrs', and will now add YOURS in ) and a lot of information on unclaimed countries and on Oerth in general.

Welcome, welcome. Greetings to Australia. Nice to see you again!
And yes, I wish it was warm here like it is there. But hey, we'll be going above freezing today, after 7 days. A heat wave!

Now, if only I can get used to the idea of Kalanyr and Festy Dog playing good powers. That is a switch.
With all these good powers joining the IR, my nefarious drow are going to have to rethink their tactical and strategic positions!

Festy, I think Serpenteye is away on a holiday break. He may not answer your e-mails for a few days. But he'll be back.
By the 6th of January, we'll be starting this officially.

 

[Kalanyr]

I'm aware I went back and got them from the older roster (I liked the idea of them so I pinched them).