Story for my character....or part of it anyways.
Khylar lay upon the hot stone altar, slick with his own blood as his
tormentors surrounded him. He had once been a hunter and warrior for his
tribe, a nomadic tribe that lived in the jungles in the southeastern regions of
creation. Once he had been free...no more however. They came at night
under the darkness of the new moon, Fair Folk from beyond creation, there
was too much confusion that night to count how many attacked, but he knew
how many of his clanmates escaped...no one. They were taken far from the
jungle of his birth and into the shifting Wyld beyond creation. He had no
idea how long they had traveled, it would not have mattered if he did have
an estimation anyway. The Wyld was maddening there were times when you
would travel for half of a day and it would seem as though you had crossed
thousands of miles, then there would be days in which you could swear that
you were traveling in circles all day. His captors had not seemed distraught
by this but they seemed to know the changing landscapes. After weeks or
months, they arrived at their destination. It appeared to be a desert that
had rivers of flowing magma, yet while some behaved like normal magma
in that it would melt the flesh off of the unwary traveller, others you could
wade in with no ill effects. All the rivers flowed out of a pyramid in the
center of the desert. Their captors dragged the surviving prisoners into that
pyramid and there the true torment began. Time was still maddening in
this place, or maybe it was he who was mad, for he could not tell how long it
was between sessions. All of the sessions were different, in some they
chained his arms and legs behind his back and fed him a sulfurous smelling
stone that crumbled to dust when it touched saliva, before throwing him into
one of the rivers of magma, causing all of his flesh to be seared away yet
leaving him alive. Other times they would cover him in a mixture of sand
and clay then fire him as a glass blower would melt glass until the substance
melded itself onto his body. Still other times they would feed him exotic
delicious tasting food that would cause him severe wracking pains all over
and he could hear and feel his bones break, joints get torn out of socket,
and skin split and tear open as his skeleton and muscles grew to unnatural
proportions in a matter of minutes. All of these and more tortures that he
could not remember he was subjected to, but all of them were only
supervised by one or two of his captors. This was different, they dragged
him to the top of the pyramid and chained him to the apex which appeared
to be a ritualistic altar, and he was surrounded by all of his captors. He
could not understand what they were saying but he picked up words, such
as "nearly complete", "Wyld Exalt", "perfect specimen". His screams
seemed to echo across the great expanse on the desert as they opened his
chest and dug out his heart and lungs, replacing them with stones the
shape of those organs that seemed to be flowing with living magma. They
sewed him up and then forced him to eat his own organs, saying something
to the effect of "consume your flesh, the product of Creation, and feel the
addiction". Tears poured from his eyes, and screams from his mouth as the
artificial heart within him began to pump its unnatural blood through his
massive frame. He prayed for it to stop, for whatever powers their were in
the world to let him kill these monstrousities and let him die. Luna had a
different plan for him though...as his prayers reached their height, he felt
an odd calm and a cessation of pain as though someone had plunged him
into the cool waters of a calm mountain lake. At first his captors began to
smile and cheer in celebration, as he began to grow and grow and grow,
then their cheers turned into cries of terror as the massive Tyrant Lizard
looked down upon them with rage and hunger. It was over in a matter of
moments, but the joy that he experienced at that first moment of freedom
he will remember forever.
After fleeing the pyramid and finding his way back out of the Wyld and into
Creation, he was greeted by a group of Lunar Exalts sent by the Silver Pact
who greeted him by name and told him that they were there to help him in
his new life. He went with them and learned about the history of Creation
and the Lunars, and on the next full moon he was given the Moonsilver
tattoos that marked him as one of Luna's chosen Warriors...thus began the
story of the Mighty Moonsilver Serpent of the Forsaken Woods.
Khylar lay upon the hot stone altar, slick with his own blood as his
tormentors surrounded him. He had once been a hunter and warrior for his
tribe, a nomadic tribe that lived in the jungles in the southeastern regions of
creation. Once he had been free...no more however. They came at night
under the darkness of the new moon, Fair Folk from beyond creation, there
was too much confusion that night to count how many attacked, but he knew
how many of his clanmates escaped...no one. They were taken far from the
jungle of his birth and into the shifting Wyld beyond creation. He had no
idea how long they had traveled, it would not have mattered if he did have
an estimation anyway. The Wyld was maddening there were times when you
would travel for half of a day and it would seem as though you had crossed
thousands of miles, then there would be days in which you could swear that
you were traveling in circles all day. His captors had not seemed distraught
by this but they seemed to know the changing landscapes. After weeks or
months, they arrived at their destination. It appeared to be a desert that
had rivers of flowing magma, yet while some behaved like normal magma
in that it would melt the flesh off of the unwary traveller, others you could
wade in with no ill effects. All the rivers flowed out of a pyramid in the
center of the desert. Their captors dragged the surviving prisoners into that
pyramid and there the true torment began. Time was still maddening in
this place, or maybe it was he who was mad, for he could not tell how long it
was between sessions. All of the sessions were different, in some they
chained his arms and legs behind his back and fed him a sulfurous smelling
stone that crumbled to dust when it touched saliva, before throwing him into
one of the rivers of magma, causing all of his flesh to be seared away yet
leaving him alive. Other times they would cover him in a mixture of sand
and clay then fire him as a glass blower would melt glass until the substance
melded itself onto his body. Still other times they would feed him exotic
delicious tasting food that would cause him severe wracking pains all over
and he could hear and feel his bones break, joints get torn out of socket,
and skin split and tear open as his skeleton and muscles grew to unnatural
proportions in a matter of minutes. All of these and more tortures that he
could not remember he was subjected to, but all of them were only
supervised by one or two of his captors. This was different, they dragged
him to the top of the pyramid and chained him to the apex which appeared
to be a ritualistic altar, and he was surrounded by all of his captors. He
could not understand what they were saying but he picked up words, such
as "nearly complete", "Wyld Exalt", "perfect specimen". His screams
seemed to echo across the great expanse on the desert as they opened his
chest and dug out his heart and lungs, replacing them with stones the
shape of those organs that seemed to be flowing with living magma. They
sewed him up and then forced him to eat his own organs, saying something
to the effect of "consume your flesh, the product of Creation, and feel the
addiction". Tears poured from his eyes, and screams from his mouth as the
artificial heart within him began to pump its unnatural blood through his
massive frame. He prayed for it to stop, for whatever powers their were in
the world to let him kill these monstrousities and let him die. Luna had a
different plan for him though...as his prayers reached their height, he felt
an odd calm and a cessation of pain as though someone had plunged him
into the cool waters of a calm mountain lake. At first his captors began to
smile and cheer in celebration, as he began to grow and grow and grow,
then their cheers turned into cries of terror as the massive Tyrant Lizard
looked down upon them with rage and hunger. It was over in a matter of
moments, but the joy that he experienced at that first moment of freedom
he will remember forever.
After fleeing the pyramid and finding his way back out of the Wyld and into
Creation, he was greeted by a group of Lunar Exalts sent by the Silver Pact
who greeted him by name and told him that they were there to help him in
his new life. He went with them and learned about the history of Creation
and the Lunars, and on the next full moon he was given the Moonsilver
tattoos that marked him as one of Luna's chosen Warriors...thus began the
story of the Mighty Moonsilver Serpent of the Forsaken Woods.
Altered format of story to make it hopefully easier to read....hope that worked...I am horrible at the form of writing so I don't really know where paragraphs are supposed to end and that leads to overly long ones...oh well.
So Steven, is there any chance of reward for writing backstory or interacting on the boards in the form of exp or bonus points?
So Steven, is there any chance of reward for writing backstory or interacting on the boards in the form of exp or bonus points?
Yeah, as far as board-based stuff goes, I'll probably reward some for meaninful interaction. Note that I probably won't advance things from where they are in that medium (ie: you're still in that city, and you won't be able to get into the building online), but you have been together now for about two weeks, so you've got the week's-worth of boat ride there, and a weeks worth of walking down the road to the city for interaction fodder.
I'll probably also reward something to the people that go through the effort of typing me a backstory. I don't know what yet, but something.
I'll probably also reward something to the people that go through the effort of typing me a backstory. I don't know what yet, but something.
doesn't matter, I will see it some time. By the way the Valor path has some FUCKING powerful charms in it...especially the capstone oh and the flurry one or Valor's form whatever they call it, but you keep hitting AN opponent (doesn't even have to be the same one) until you miss, and you only take I think a minus 2 penalty to your attacks...combined with a dex excellency and you have nastiness. Oh and the capstone lets you do agg dmg for a scene from what I can remember.
Well I noticed a decided lack of effecitveness in my builds on both characters but it was really bad on Ocean... it seems that she it REALLY REALLY low in damage output. Granted she does not use weapons (at least traditional ones) so that lowers her numbers and her style does not do damage or damage boosts... the MA charms for Dragons are shit too (allow lethal parry, atk counts as lethal and does lethal dmg, disarm, add element effect from element bolt to MA strike) no flurries, no damage boost, and the first two are negated by most MA styles since they count as barehanded lethal or you could just use a fucking form weapon... also I have sort of made an error in my character build aside from all that, I took an artifact for a minor boon but with permission may get better...
so Steven here is what I am proposing to help correct Ocean without too much re-writing...
1 the extra arms artifact says it can duplicate tools (as a lesser crafting artifact) as well as bare hands for manipulation. Knife is described as being used by most people for utilitarian purposes as well as combat. Can I duplicate a knife (not the artifact version the plain jane metal kind) for combat purposes when attacking. This is also my forms weapon so I could use it with MA to add some damage to my meager numbers.
2 this one is a bit of a stretch but I ask your indulgence... the Elemental Lens doubles the damage of elemental weapons of non-permanent nature. I am proposing that it be allowed to affect the arms created by the other artifact that was surgically implanted. true the other says the arms are of essense but I am not looking for a broken effect.
if you take both requests together it allows me to duplicate a +2 lethal weapon out of essense that gets doubled to +4L total which I have to spend 5 motes to activate. And even thought the artifact can act in conjunction with my body (ie I get 1 action per arm plus my action all at no penalty) I am, by virtue of my MA Style not going to be doing much (two non-damage causing katas at once takes up both hands)... This cannot ever be increased either since the arms cannot wield any weapon that requires attunement (such as daiklaves, essense lashes, dire spears, etc)
so Steven here is what I am proposing to help correct Ocean without too much re-writing...
1 the extra arms artifact says it can duplicate tools (as a lesser crafting artifact) as well as bare hands for manipulation. Knife is described as being used by most people for utilitarian purposes as well as combat. Can I duplicate a knife (not the artifact version the plain jane metal kind) for combat purposes when attacking. This is also my forms weapon so I could use it with MA to add some damage to my meager numbers.
2 this one is a bit of a stretch but I ask your indulgence... the Elemental Lens doubles the damage of elemental weapons of non-permanent nature. I am proposing that it be allowed to affect the arms created by the other artifact that was surgically implanted. true the other says the arms are of essense but I am not looking for a broken effect.
if you take both requests together it allows me to duplicate a +2 lethal weapon out of essense that gets doubled to +4L total which I have to spend 5 motes to activate. And even thought the artifact can act in conjunction with my body (ie I get 1 action per arm plus my action all at no penalty) I am, by virtue of my MA Style not going to be doing much (two non-damage causing katas at once takes up both hands)... This cannot ever be increased either since the arms cannot wield any weapon that requires attunement (such as daiklaves, essense lashes, dire spears, etc)
That which is not dead can eternal lie and with strange eons even death may die
My Color is Blue
I value Knowledge, logic, and deceit. I love to pursue wisdom but also to manipulate and deceive. At my best, I am brilliant and progressive. At my worst, I am treacherous and cold. My symbol is a water droplet. My enemies are green and red.
My Color is Blue
I value Knowledge, logic, and deceit. I love to pursue wisdom but also to manipulate and deceive. At my best, I am brilliant and progressive. At my worst, I am treacherous and cold. My symbol is a water droplet. My enemies are green and red.
Character names.
Here are the ones I know or have derived. If you've got the full version of it, please post it here so that I can add them to my spreadsheet, The Roll of Glorious Exaltation.
Khylar, the Mighty Moonsilver Serpent of the Forsaken Woods
Eternal Peaceful Repose (or, to the party, "Hey, retard!")
? (*clicky clicky*)
? (Haley's Night caste. I know she said her name to other characters, but I was always distracted with questions when I was asked)
Jade Sage of the Oaken Bow (Jade)
Ocean Consuming Void (Ocean)
? (Robocop)
Here are the ones I know or have derived. If you've got the full version of it, please post it here so that I can add them to my spreadsheet, The Roll of Glorious Exaltation.
Khylar, the Mighty Moonsilver Serpent of the Forsaken Woods
Eternal Peaceful Repose (or, to the party, "Hey, retard!")
? (*clicky clicky*)
? (Haley's Night caste. I know she said her name to other characters, but I was always distracted with questions when I was asked)
Jade Sage of the Oaken Bow (Jade)
Ocean Consuming Void (Ocean)
? (Robocop)
sa'rel (haley)
can u spend starting ability dots to get specialties, or only bp's?
also, I was looking more closely @ the occult tree, and it has the stuff in it I wanted for awareness. I will be losing the awareness sight charms and taking spirit sense and sorcerer's sight (through dead eyes actually). this won't even change anything in play, as the bonus from sorcerers sight still lets me see haley and supernatural crap, which is more apprpriate to the char. what i'm wondering however, is whether I should keep the excellency in awareness or get a martial arts excellency. comments?
can u spend starting ability dots to get specialties, or only bp's?
also, I was looking more closely @ the occult tree, and it has the stuff in it I wanted for awareness. I will be losing the awareness sight charms and taking spirit sense and sorcerer's sight (through dead eyes actually). this won't even change anything in play, as the bonus from sorcerers sight still lets me see haley and supernatural crap, which is more apprpriate to the char. what i'm wondering however, is whether I should keep the excellency in awareness or get a martial arts excellency. comments?
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