Q'Barra: Into the Emerald Forest - Attempting to Revive!

[Urko]

1, if I have my conversion correct (because of DST, I'm at GMT -5 right now). I may be able to post it earlier.

 

[Urko]

First off, let me say that this has been an agonizing decision. No one got cut because they had a bad character--all decisions were made based on what I thought would be the best party for this adventure. That said, here's the lineup:


Yeoman: Xavier Veris (NG Male Human Scout 4) Cyran sniper wrestling with personal demons
Harvey: Erin (CN Female Human Art 4) Angry Cannith excoriate and displaced Cyran
Pebele: Sanae Jarnel (LG Female Human Pal 4) Repentant templar of the Silver Flame
doghead: He Has No Name (N Male Personality Warforged PsyWar 4) Wandering former servant of kalashtar
ValenarJaeldira: Dargin Crow Speaker (CG Male Halfling Spirit Shaman 4) Talenta spriitualist following a vision quest
ByteRynn: Sharaes Palaes (NG Male Elf Brd 2/Ftr 2) Valenar seeking attonment for his clan leader's crimes

Congrats to everyone who made it in! Please post here letting me know if you accept - I'd like to inform our alternates if positions open up. For the time being, we'll continue to use this thread to finish up characters - post changes in your original post and let me know when you've updated. Alternates (everyone else) - feel free to complete your character if it isn't already. I will definitely be drawing on you if our ranks grow thin.

I'll post more later and we can start talking about connections between the various party members.

 

[Harvey]

I for one am definitely in. This sounds like a great group! I'd love for us to coordinate backgrounds and the like where possible. It almost looks like Dargin and Sharaes come as a pair, though are the two characters going to meet up in Q'Barra before our campaign starts? As for my backstory, I would love to weave in either Xavier or "He Has No Name" into Erin;s trek to Q'Barra. I think Xavier makes the most sense... what do you say, Yeoman? Even if we weren't allies on the trak to Q'Barra, we could have easily been acquantances once in Newthrone.

 

[Yeoman]

I for one am definitely in. This sounds like a great group! I'd love for us to coordinate backgrounds and the like where possible. It almost looks like Dargin and Sharaes come as a pair, though are the two characters going to meet up in Q'Barra before our campaign starts? As for my backstory, I would love to weave in either Xavier or "He Has No Name" into Erin;s trek to Q'Barra. I think Xavier makes the most sense... what do you say, Yeoman? Even if we weren't allies on the trak to Q'Barra, we could have easily been acquantances once in Newthrone.

Sounds good to me. Xavier's been here for a little while so we definitely could have travelled together with Cyran refugees to Newthrone earlier, and met that way. So I am definitely in. This is one good looking group.

 

[Pebele]

I'm definitely in as well.

Sanae has only been in Q'barra for a short time, but it's certainly possible that she'd have met at least one of the other adventurers and gotten to know them. If anyone would like to coordinate some with me, I'm open to just about any possibility.

 

[Harvey]

OK, so Erin and Xavier knew each other from the refugee exodus to Q'Barra. I'm sure they've helped each other along the way and remained in touch in Q'Barra. After Erin learned of her excoriation (am I still going with that Urko? You had mentioned the possibility of not using that part of the story, though I don't think I got a definitive "no" on it), she decided, after a small period of self-loathing, to work some jobs alongside her old Cyran allies. This could also include Xavier, possibly along some of his escort jobs. If Urko approves, I like the idea that Erin had a "base" (such that it is) that she would have used for her craft, but it is now abandond when her other Cyran refugee friends left. Yeoman, what do you think of this: these people were also Xavier's friends, and the reason for the other refugees leaving Cyre could tie in to the reason for Xavier's failed suicide attempt. One of the reasons Erin stayed might be to look after Xavier. It would fit into her personality history: she was very cold and aloof before Cyre's destruction, but the shock of the mourning has thrown her the other way so that now, out of guilt from before, she has developed an attachment to her former Cyran allies.

For Sanae, I am still thinking about an event that would have brought her and Erin together, but I think that the dynamic makes a great deal of sense. Erin is emotionally unstable, and would be searching for a role model from an emotional stability POV, something that Sanae would appreciate. Sanae might see in Erin a way for redemption for the feelings of vengeance she felt as a child. The two have in common their being touched by higher powers: Sanae by the Silver Flame and Erin by the Dragonic Prophecy. Also, Sanae would be albe to sense Erin has a desire to do good, and wants to guide her down the right path... a path that might eventually change her alignment to "good" and bring her into the fold of the Church of the Silver Flame.

Sorry if I may seem presumptuous to work on other characters' histories, but this is the part I really like about character creation: fleshing out the personalities, motivations, and history of the party (and it's why I jumped at the chance of joining this PbP)

 

[Pebele]

For Sanae, I am still thinking about an event that would have brought her and Erin together, but I think that the dynamic makes a great deal of sense. Erin is emotionally unstable, and would be searching for a role model from an emotional stability POV, something that Sanae would appreciate. Sanae might see in Erin a way for redemption for the feelings of vengeance she felt as a child. The two have in common their being touched by higher powers: Sanae by the Silver Flame and Erin by the Dragonic Prophecy. Also, Sanae would be albe to sense Erin has a desire to do good, and wants to guide her down the right path... a path that might eventually change her alignment to "good" and bring her into the fold of the Church of the Silver Flame.

Sorry if I may seem presumptuous to work on other characters' histories, but this is the part I really like about character creation: fleshing out the personalities, motivations, and history of the party (and it's why I jumped at the chance of joining this PbP)

I'll try to think of an event as well, but I think that it does make good sense for them to have connected and started some sort of friendship. Sanae is in a rather awkward position right now, being the last of her expidition and stuck in a place with no way out, so I would imagine that she'd be going out of her way to assist people in whatever way possible. She would want to continue her work for the Church no matter what, so she would definitely be interested in taking someone under her wing, so to speak.

 

[ValenarJaeldira]

Another possible tie-in Connecting Shar and Dargin with the rest of the group could be Erin, in her search for emotional stability, having been given (weather she asked for it or not) sage advice from Dargin. Dargin could even, in his time in Q'barra, have given advice at one point or another to all of the other PCs. That's how I see Dargin, while yes, he's fundementally nuts, if you look behind the insanity there is wisdom...or something close to it.

Honored to be in!

(PS. I'd like to thank my roomate, ShaggySpellsword for helping write my history...I had the ideas, but he's the English Teacher!)

 

[Harvey]

Very cool idea, ValenarJaeldira. I had been trying to wrestle with how Erin would tie into Shar and Dargin, and never thought of the wisdom angle. Maybe there was a job that Erin, Xavier, and possibly even He Has No Name all went on together. During it, they might have needed some expertise that Dargon could provide... and with the job-specific advice, Erin (and possibly the group) also benefitted from advice of a more personal nature. Then, afterwards, they paid a second visit, and all hit it off. This "job" (or event, or something) could also be how the group met Sanae...

Hmmm... the wheels are spinning...

 

[doghead]

The one tie in I would like to make for 'he has no name' is with those in the exodus from Cyre. Its wouldn't be a close tie, 'he has no name' would at best, have only fairly distant relationships with those around him.

He feels little need for companionship. He feels no need to open up. Indeed, it would be doubtful if he understood what was ment if he was asked to do so. Among the kalashtar he was a tool. If asked to do something, he did it. If asked to wait, he waited. For the warforged, time is something that passes. There is no sense that it is something that runs out. He can afford to wait for answers. There is no pressing need to achieve things before it is too late.

He has over the years in Q'barra done work here and there on occassion. But when not otherwise occupied, he likes to sit where he can see the harbour. He can watch it for hours, days even. Slowly, something (he thinks of it as curiousity) has grown in him, and of late, he has on occasion sought out the company of those he knows from the exodus. He says little. He helps out with whatever they are doing if needed. He leaves. But it seems that he lingers a little longer with each visit.

I am not really sure myself where this is going. Hopefully, through the course of the game however, he will ... develop.