The Quest (Sign-Up / OOC)

[WestleyOBryen]

Now then, this is an RP that Harthar and I are starting together, and I won't reveal too much of the story here, cause I don't want to ruin anything for anybody. However, it starts off with two newbie soldiers, Harthar and I, being selected by the king of our country to go on a quest. Other characters can join us of course, for their own reasons, or because we hire them, or whatever. Besides this, there isn't much I can say without giving away the story, but never-the-less, it should be very good, and there is quite a bit of flexibility.

Now, the rules. The rules for Temper's Ball apply, as usual, but Harthar and I have also agreed on a couple of things. For one, we don't want people going berserk with magic, as sometimes happens, so we would ask that if your character uses magic, to make it weak, or make it extremely hard for your character to use it. This is a low-level character RP, so no god-moding, or using powerful characters, both Harthar and I are using new recruit soldiers, so use that as a reference point when making your characters. And lastly, the world we will be using is one that is very much like Earth, and therefore, there are no races except Human, there are of course, different nationalties of Humans, but there are no Elves, Dwarves, or the like.

Here is the character that I will be using:

Name: Westley O'Bryen
Age: 16
Height: 5'10"
Weight: 165 lbs
Eyes: Blue
Hair: Dirty Blonde
Clothes: Wool coat, linen shirt, wool cap, heavy fur-lined cloak, thick woolen pants, fur-lined boots, fur-lined gloves, leather belt.
Armor: Chainmail armor with military insigniae, kite shield with coat-of-arms o the kingdom of Alathil.
Weapons: Longsword on back, shortsword at hip, and a pike.
History: Westley's parents came to the kingdom of Alathil before Westley was old enough to walk, and he remembers no place else. Having been in the military in their native country, Westley's father joined Alathil's army, and served in it for many years, until he was killed during a battle with a neighboring kingdom. During his childhood, Westley's best friend was the boy who lived next door, Harthar Ultor, and the two would play in the streets and alleys pretending they were soldiers. At age ten, the two joined the army, and began their training. Both showed great natural talent for the arts of war, and at age 16 they graduated training with flying colours and were assigned to the same squad.

[Harthar]

G'Day all, I'll be playing Harthar Ultor.

Name: Harthar Ultor
Age: 16
Height: 5'9"
Weight: 165 lbs
Eyes: Grey
Hair: Short, light red.
Clothes: Wool coat, linen shirt, wool cap, heavy fur-lined cloak, thick woolen pants, fur-lined boots, fur-lined gloves, leather belt.
Armor: Chainmail armor with military insigniae, kite shield with coat-of-arms o the kingdom of Alathil.
Weapons: Longsword on back, shortsword at hip, and a pike.
History: Harthar has lived in Alathil for his whole life, his parents were 3rd generation and were relatively well respected. Harthar's father was a leader of a regiment of men when Harthar was only a boy, but one day his father did not return from duty. Harthar knew his father had died and so he knew he was responsible for caring after his mother. During Harthar's childhood, he had a best friend by the name of Westley, who lived next door, the two would play in the streets day after day and night after night, pretending to be soldiers in the army. At the age of ten, the two joined the army, and began their training. Both showed great natural talent for the arts of war, and at age 16 they graduated training with flying colours and were assigned to the same squad.

[Sariel]

It seem you are in a bit of a cold climate, my Chars wardrobe will change to fit that if needed.


Name: Seren Usha
Age: 17
Height: 5'7 1/3"
Weight: 130 lbs
Eyes: Green
Hair: Chestnut Brown worn shoulder length, tied up in back.
Clothes: Pants, shirt, a vest or cloak.
Affliction: Mute, born without the ability of speech
Weapons: Twin Swept-Hilt Steel Rapiers,

History: Born in to a successful merchant family, do to her lack of speech and her mother dying she was often spoiled and became very rebellious. Her mother was a strong willed and fiery woman and passed that on to her child at a genetic level. As part of a deal/compromise a talented duelist was hired to teach Seren blade play. Her father expected her to grow tired of swordsmanship and doubted her potential. Her father kept several young would be suitors in his pocket and often introduced them to his daughter. Seren became very talented with a rapier and found a strong belief in her self and her abilities from her success. As a young adult she will bend to no one's will and with her father's insentience for her to marry she steals her intended dowery and does a she pleases.


On a side note, is this not the sickest weapon?
http://www.armory.net/item.cfm?RecordId=2630-KE

[WestleyOBryen]

Yes, that is a very sick sword. Not exactly my style, but very nice none-the-less. Your character looks fine to me, you might have to wait until we reach some kind of roadside tavern before your character can join us, but I don't see any problems with her.

And yes, for now we are in a very cold climate. It will get warmer as we travel South, but for now, it is very cold.

[Seren Usha]

This Char. is the child of a merchant if you need a furtive way to get south hooking up as caravan guards lead by the willful daughter of a merchant would be a way to keep it secret from everyone, just an idea.

[Kile Ronnaly]

Name: Kile Ronnaly
Gender: Male
Age: 43
Height: 5'3"
Weight: 109 lb.
Eyes: green
hair: Long reddish brown kept in a loose pony tail
Cloths: light woolen pants and a light linen shirt
Weapons: none, although he carries a walking stick
Occupation: book keeper
History: Kile was born on a small family farm. But as he crew up he was over little use on the farm because of his diminutive frame so his family managed to scrounge up the money to send him away to a boarding school. Once out of school he took jobs as a bookkeeper for taverns and other such businesses.
Kile is a meek, mild mannered and non confrontational individual and prefers to keep to himself whenever possible. In addition he suffers greatly from stress, especially in the form of headaches.
Abilities: Kile has the innate ability to detect negative things, that is to say he can sense when bad things are going to happen or are happening. This is the main contributor to his stress. Unfortunately for him he doesn't realize he has this ability and doesn't feelings/stress it causes. (that's about as good as I can explain that, but it should be more clear as the RP goes on)

I think an easy way to bring this character in would be to have him working for you character's caravan if you have one, Sariel, but if that won't work for you, that's fine I can just as easily toss him in a tavern some where along the way.

[WestleyOBryen]

Sariel - I really like that idea of posing as caravan guards, if you want to do a first post any time soon you could RP your character making the arrangements with our Commander Dargo, that would give you a way to join in. You would of course be told that we are not really guards, and that our traveling with you would be a cover.

Kile - I think your character is fine, and traveling as a book keeper for a merchant's caravan sounds good to me (though you should wait for Sariel to confirm). You probably wouldn't know that we aren't guards though.

[Seren Usha]

OK my idea is that my rapier teacher is the cousin/brother to your squad leader, and you squad leader has even met Seren. Seren is getting a caravan together to go south having grown tired of cold winters and having recently injured a minor noble who she had been betrothed to with out her knowledge. She "asked" around for a book keeper and found Kile Ronnaly. Your squad leader talked with my teacher and decided the squad would go south under the pretext of trying to hurry to what ever southern city for early spring when some product would net the best price.

Seren asked her teacher about troops for guards and was told she would get 6 at a cheap price. She knows about their mission and agrees to do what is needed because your squad leader is going to get her out of the trouble she is in for stabbing a noble, a capital offense in most instances.

Is this agreeable? Oh and i need a product to sell that fits.

[WestleyOBryen]

That sounds perfect. The chief exports of Alathil would be wood, furs, and iron. They also have some gold, silver, and gem mining, but not as much as iron mining.

[Seren Usha]

All of the following are Usha agreements, they handle the needs and Seren steals the agreement for a lower price.

Hmm, OK two ideas, we are traveling with wood and steel for a celebration of battle, you know jousting and what not. I misappropriated the right supplies from my father, everything is made up saved any painting needed to be added.

So will be moving Lances and other items, we will need extra caravan drives.


Better idea, we are traveling with silver or Gems to a southern holy day, Night of Tranquil Peace, anything will fit, The silver/Gems are needed as gifts, the silver could be given to the poor in small pieces to show generosity of the nobles or the local church only accepts contributions of Gems and the push for nobles to give is strong.


Gems would be the best, less space needed to move, we could be in one or two wagons, less extra people needed. If you wanted too have us attacked having someone mention as we are half way to our destination that the annual run with gems is usually made with 3 or 4 times as many guards as we have.

[WestleyOBryen]

Yeah, the gem idea works pretty well, I like it.

[Seren Usha]

I'm starting to really like this Char. oh and Kile that "oh dear" sounds familiar, from some cartoon or another perhaps, i'm curious and I have to figure it out.

[Kile Ronnaly]

Well Oh dear is a pretty common phrase lol. And I didn't really get it from anything in particular... but what you might be thinking of could be the white rabbit from Alice in Wonderland.

[Balmung]

you can always use a fighter like me

Name: :Balmung Azura
Age:: 17
Height:: 6'0"
Weight:: 205lbs
Eyes:: Blue
Hair: :whitish blonde
Clothes:: Full plate,steel shield(both with azura coat of arms),a cloak of wolf hide
Weapons:: family azura long sword, hilt saped like a dragon (at higher levels the sword will bond with balmung and begin to speak to him, but as of now there is no bond)
History: Was once the youngest but most democratic leaders of his country, the azura family ruled for years.. but after balmung took rule at 14 the nation began to crumble..after a terrible invasion from a foe in the east.. azura was no more and balmung was just merry an ex-ruler.. thus he was force to become a merc. for hire.. no pride left but the armor and sword he wields that represented his fallen nation.. someday he hopes ot rebuild his nation.. but for now he just does whats needed to be done for money,food,shealter

[Sariel]

I'm ready when ya'll are, i need to do some "shoping", i'll take along ya'll as body gaurds and pick up some things, should take but one post. You can have your group show up "tomorrow", and we can leave early the next day.

[WestleyOBryen]

Works for me, I haven't seen Harthar online, but that's prolly cause my MSN is off.

I have no problems with your character Balmung, but I'm not sure how to bring him in, maybe you could be one of Seren's personal guards or something, because I doubt you'd want to be a member of our military squad.

[Sariel]

get on MSN ya bum, i put you on my list

I doubt his character would be among my personal guard, though I did think of having another Char, a 2nd person only point of view char as a guard.

hmmm, let me think, ahh,

You are my property, after break some law you were punished by being sold into indentured servant, how you came as part of my dowry is not quite known. Is this excetable?

PS. I'm changing my Profile to show my purchases,