Jiest Hill

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A well planned, mid-fantasy story set after a major collapse with the staple player race pantheon and the option to play two characters? This is exactly what I've been looking for.

That copy-and-paste into a new tab doesn't work, by the way. It works for YOU because your C drive actually has that picture on it, but you're going to have to upload your map somewhere (photobucket?) and put it in the RP with the usual img /img tags.

With the lack of monarch-specific history, am I right in assuming you don't have a long family tree or political hierarchy? I'd like to ask that I may characters who were the friends/confidants/tutors/whateverrelationisappropriate of the royal son or daughter, an elf and a human. I would first, of course, need a name, age, and gender of the heir to the throne (or a younger sibling). Whether that person survived the downfall or not is your decision.

1. How are race relations? Is it the typical elves-dwarves don't like each other but humans mediate and make peace between them, and everyone hates orcs? Or are the populations so inter-mingled at this point that there are no dwarf kingdoms and elf kleptocracies and human dictatorships?

2. Are women respected? Is it the typical dwarves respect skill and eschew gender, elves have separate gender roles but they are easily broken, and humans are all sexist? Or, again, are the populations so inter-mingled that, despite a few advocates of sexism, there's equal opportunity for either gender to succeed?

3. Are people distrustful (or outright hateful) or magic? It seems like anarchy + famine + arcanists slaughtering innocents would make them pretty disliked. Combined with superstitious and uneducated farmers, it's a good recipe for a witch hunt.

4. Can I play a human wizard and an elf fighter? It's an unusual combination (in most fantasy settings) I really enjoy employing.

5. Can we get information about the capital city? I would like one of my characters to be from there.

6. How powerful is magic? Is the average mage throwing fireballs big enough to kill a horse, or is the slightest ability to levitate small objects a source of wonder and fear?

7. What is the Cabal's military structure? Is it the evolution of an order of knights loyal to the crown, or is it led by politicians sacrificing subjects to return themselves to lives of pamper and authority?

8. Are we free to make up nonmajor religions?

9. How do we simulate non-Human speech? I usually use French for Elves so I don't have to make up nonsense gibberish.

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A well planned, mid-fantasy story set after a major collapse with the staple player race pantheon and the option to play two characters? This is exactly what I've been looking for.

That copy-and-paste into a new tab doesn't work, by the way. It works for YOU because your C drive actually has that picture on it, but you're going to have to upload your map somewhere (photobucket?) and put it in the RP with the usual img /img tags.

With the lack of monarch-specific history, am I right in assuming you don't have a long family tree or political hierarchy? I'd like to ask that I may characters who were the friends/confidants/tutors/whateverrelationisappropriate of the royal son or daughter, an elf and a human. I would first, of course, need a name, age, and gender of the heir to the throne (or a younger sibling). Whether that person survived the downfall or not is your decision.

1. How are race relations? Is it the typical elves-dwarves don't like each other but humans mediate and make peace between them, and everyone hates orcs? Or are the populations so inter-mingled at this point that there are no dwarf kingdoms and elf kleptocracies and human dictatorships?

2. Are women respected? Is it the typical dwarves respect skill and eschew gender, elves have separate gender roles but they are easily broken, and humans are all sexist? Or, again, are the populations so inter-mingled that, despite a few advocates of sexism, there's equal opportunity for either gender to succeed?

3. Are people distrustful (or outright hateful) or magic? It seems like anarchy + famine + arcanists slaughtering innocents would make them pretty disliked. Combined with superstitious and uneducated farmers, it's a good recipe for a witch hunt.

4. Can I play a human wizard and an elf fighter? It's an unusual combination (in most fantasy settings) I really enjoy employing.

5. Can we get information about the capital city? I would like one of my characters to be from there.

6. How powerful is magic? Is the average mage throwing fireballs big enough to kill a horse, or is the slightest ability to levitate small objects a source of wonder and fear?

7. What is the Cabal's military structure? Is it the evolution of an order of knights loyal to the crown, or is it led by politicians sacrificing subjects to return themselves to lives of pamper and authority?

8. Are we free to make up nonmajor religions?

9. How do we simulate non-Human speech? I usually use French for Elves so I don't have to make up nonsense gibberish.

Well you made me think hard about my role play. (Disregard the PM I sent you) And thank you for telling me about my mistake with the map, I will be sure to fix that right away. And I truly didn't think that anyone would join so soon because I was lacking the things you mentioned. And I myself, feel that some of those are up to the players to decide. I try not to give so many limits. I myself still need to work on the main basis of the story line and lore and whatnot.

With the monarch history, I do need to work on that as well, but I just didn't think about it at the time, much like any of the things you mentioned. I will have to do something to fix that. And with race relations, I believe that I mentioned that it is up to the players to decide how their characters behave, which also ties into the way they act around other characters, regardless of the race. (I do need to do some editing.) and most of the questions you have asked may take some time to answer.

If you have any suggestions, or would like to help me build the story up even more, I'd love some help. According to some, I am only an amateur role player who needs to develop skills. I would really enjoy and accept any help I can get, because I do see a lot of needed improvement in my story development skills. But for the most part, I really do believe in letting most of the story unfold in the role play, and be determined by the players as a whole, if you understand. I don't usually like to have a specific line of story for people to follow, because I feel that there are too many restrictions when that happens. But if need be, I am capable of creating a deeper story and meaning for the role play so the characters can have it a little easier.

I will answer your questions in detail once I have given them some more thought. Thank you for taking the time to ask them, I really appreciate it. It helps out quite a bit.

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Another pro-tip: If you're going to quote another OOC post, please cut it down to the important parts or (in this case) if you're replying to a list of things, change the text inside the quote to -snip- (or (snip) or [snip] or deleted-to-save-space) or something similar. It's inconvenient to scroll past all of that twice. :)

Anyway: Neither of my characters are finished. The questions I need to ask you specific to them I will PM you for. As for the race and gender relations, I know individuals characters can decide whatever they want. I wanted to know if, in general, there was a particular attitude, or if different regions have diverse cultural attitudes.

[jericho193]

Im interested in this RP, Ill be watching this for a bit to see if I will really commit or not. Good looking story though!

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Im interested in this RP, Ill be watching this for a bit to see if I will really commit or not. Good looking story though!

Well thank you ^^ It is still undergoing some minor changes here and there, though. I'd love it if you joined. Any questions, and you can ask me.

[Kilgannon]

I'm going to join this. You can thank May for bludgeoning me to death with the link for the past couple of days. (Really, though, I actually read the intro after May gave me the tl;dr, as well as the questions you answered here in the OOC. I think this is something I haven't written in a long time, so it'll be nice to come back to my roots.)

[okat]

May does enjoy this role play. I'm glad you're interested!