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2011-06-25, 07:21 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: [FL] Fantasy Lynching Out of Character: Blood alone turns the Wheels of History
Alright. I had a plan for Lazlo, where he'd split up and find out that Galbatorix is still alive, but I think I'll drop that, as clearly he wants to hang with the others.
Nadir We,
Youth Born,
Blood Letters,
Axe Weilders,
Victors Still.
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2011-06-30, 04:46 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: [FL] Fantasy Lynching Out of Character: Blood alone turns the Wheels of History
Just finished episode 7 of A Game of Thrones.
...amazing. And I really regret not playing Allecia better when interacting with the Lannisters.
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2011-06-30, 06:44 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: [FL] Fantasy Lynching Out of Character: Blood alone turns the Wheels of History
They are much more interesting characters then they initially appear.
Nadir We,
Youth Born,
Blood Letters,
Axe Weilders,
Victors Still.
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2011-07-01, 11:15 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: [FL] Fantasy Lynching Out of Character: Blood alone turns the Wheels of History
Oh, I'm so sorry Cracklord. I didn't know. I was just having Lazlo act in character. I mean he is in a strange land with no idea where he is and only a vague idea of what is going on. Deferring to someone with more experience and a better scope of the land just seemed like common sense to Lazlo.
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2011-07-02, 06:34 AM (ISO 8601)
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2011-07-05, 01:05 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: [FL] Fantasy Lynching Out of Character: Blood alone turns the Wheels of History
Hey guys. I wanted to stop by and explain my lack of activity lately. I'm moving, so I'll be on and off sporadically for the next week or so. I'm sorry I keep doing this to you guys.
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2011-07-08, 10:39 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: [FL] Fantasy Lynching Out of Character: Blood alone turns the Wheels of History
Sorry about my recent dearth of posting. I finally have a job for the summer (yay!) but it means that my free time isn't what it used to be.
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2011-07-08, 10:41 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: [FL] Fantasy Lynching Out of Character: Blood alone turns the Wheels of History
Don't worry about it. Just post when you can.
I think I'll write a bit more history about Gaborn and the Alerans, because that exchange gives me an idea.Nadir We,
Youth Born,
Blood Letters,
Axe Weilders,
Victors Still.
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2011-07-10, 09:40 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: [FL] Fantasy Lynching Out of Character: Blood alone turns the Wheels of History
I've actually found the canon-welding of Orden teaching the Lost Roman Legion that became Alera Fury-Crafting to be very fascinating: in the Codex, there's several references to the past of Alera (Caesar, Romanic Arts, the People of the Sun, but less so how they gained their power over the Furies.
Interested in seeing what you do.
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2011-07-10, 10:11 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: [FL] Fantasy Lynching Out of Character: Blood alone turns the Wheels of History
Well, my plan is that the Alerans are the survivors of the Courts of the Tide that fled Rofehaven in the second age after Gaborn won the war with the Reavers, as even bigger things were waking up. Gaborn had fallen asleep and the city was destroyed, so the soldiers were put in charge, under general Tacticus. They went on to found Alera. Meanwhile, Gaborn slumbered, two ages pass, and the rest of the continent goes on to become the Mallazan Empire. More on that if you ever get there.
So the powers of the elements always choose champions, like Gaborn, or Melisandre, or whatever, but for some reason, the Alerans have lost all memory of runecrafting. How runes work is essentially rather then focus constantly on a desired result, you do it for a moment, create a rune, and then the furies keep it up automatically as long as the rune remain.
Furthermore, because none of them actually enter compacts with the spirits, like the next echelon of shamans do, they can use all of them, but they only gain a few of the powers, as the elements are worried they'll reveal their secrets to the other elements (they are perpetually at war with each other).
As for what the Reavers are, imagine a giant crab, twelve feet tall or so, crossed with a termite and made out of crystal, with the intelligence of a scholar, who can learn everything a dead reaver knew by consuming it's brain, and have no supply shortage in terms of resources, or reliance on a single individual. Now imagine they have wizards and you don't, and that they outnumber you twenty to one, and you have the basics of the war. The basics. Fortunately, most of them aren't malevolent, at least towards us, as they don't much like life on the surface anyway.
As for the people of the Sun, they are the Lizardmen. They're almost wiped out, and the remainder, having no slaan to direct them (bar Kroak, who is dead), have turned to shadow and work for the palanthians.Last edited by Cracklord; 2011-07-10 at 10:25 PM.
Nadir We,
Youth Born,
Blood Letters,
Axe Weilders,
Victors Still.
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2011-07-11, 08:00 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: [FL] Fantasy Lynching Out of Character: Blood alone turns the Wheels of History
Interesting...
Well, the Reapers make the Vord look like whinny little Zerg Knock-offs...
...which they are, but I like the conceit of an intelligent scholar race with lots of wizards...that are also giant crabs.
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2011-07-11, 08:47 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: [FL] Fantasy Lynching Out of Character: Blood alone turns the Wheels of History
Said intelligence is complex. They write using scents, for example, and communicate the same way. They have no eyes, and require different chemical compositions to survive then humans, including copious amounts of sulphur. So as you can imagine, they don't perceive the world in a manner that we can understand, and the segments written from their perspective are kinda... off.
They have a caste system, though not in a bad way as no caste is considered any lower then any other caste. They have wayfarers, whose job is to know about ten thousand square miles of underground, they have diggers and mages and all the rest, and they have a well structured and well contained society. And they have forcibles, though only their leaders are allowed to use them.
Now that I mention it, they might actually even take your side, if you can get to them before Ishamael does. Here's what they look like.
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Last edited by Cracklord; 2011-07-11 at 08:50 AM.
Nadir We,
Youth Born,
Blood Letters,
Axe Weilders,
Victors Still.
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2011-07-11, 11:25 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: [FL] Fantasy Lynching Out of Character: Blood alone turns the Wheels of History
Sweet.
Someone'll have to inform Tavi and Rand about these fellows first.
Gaborn Val Orden, I'm guessing.
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2011-07-12, 08:11 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: [FL] Fantasy Lynching Out of Character: Blood alone turns the Wheels of History
Found a video showing the forging of the Rings of Power. Thought you might enjoy it.link
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2011-07-12, 08:15 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: [FL] Fantasy Lynching Out of Character: Blood alone turns the Wheels of History
Could you post that link again?
Nadir We,
Youth Born,
Blood Letters,
Axe Weilders,
Victors Still.
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2011-07-12, 09:36 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: [FL] Fantasy Lynching Out of Character: Blood alone turns the Wheels of History
Heh. Deathstalker is such a sleazy **** of a fantasy hero
Say, Cracklord: I like how I'm playing Tavi in the main and switching between different characters to give them their own extra special vignettes (Araris, Varg, etc.)
Can I bring in a new non-Aleran character, and see how long it takes for him to die?
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2011-07-12, 09:40 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: [FL] Fantasy Lynching Out of Character: Blood alone turns the Wheels of History
Sure. Depending on the character, of course. I'm having fun with the setting, it's only fair that you do as well.
Nadir We,
Youth Born,
Blood Letters,
Axe Weilders,
Victors Still.
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2011-07-12, 09:57 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: [FL] Fantasy Lynching Out of Character: Blood alone turns the Wheels of History
I figure, with the DM's permission of course, it is time Tavi got some real training. Gaborn can give it to him, although Tavi won't like what he learns, I imagine.
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2011-07-12, 10:14 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: [FL] Fantasy Lynching Out of Character: Blood alone turns the Wheels of History
Molto Benee, Cracklord. I do think you will also enjoy interacting with this Character in you capacity as a GM
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Szeth-son-son-Vallano, Truthless of Shinovar, wore white on the day he was to kill a king...
•The land of Shinovar, protected from the continent of Roshar's frequent tropical storms by a mountain range, is a strange backwards country: grass does not withdraw into crevices during storms, there is a strange substance called 'soil', strawberries, horses, and grain thrive, and it is Farmers, not Warriors, who are the highest ranked members of society.
•In fact, Warriors are regarded as the lowliest of people in Shin society: any who pick up a weapon must forsake their own family and become Truthless, condemned to obey all orders to the best of their abilities, no matter their content, from he/she who holds their Oathstone, save an order to kill themselves.
•Szeth is one of these Truthless, for reasons known only to him. And God have mercy on his wretched soul, he is Death incarnate in battle...
SpoilerI want to have his abilities be a surprise, hence the double spoiler:
He is a potent martial artist, even without his mystical abilities.
He possesses a Shardblade, a blade he can summon to himself in ten heartbeats. Anything non-living gets cut through like soft butter, and it cuts the souls of living things. It can only really be blocked by matter infused with energy.
He is also a Surgebinder: he can 'inhale' ambient magical energy into himself as 'Stormlight', and use it to manipulate gravity in highly destructive ways.
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2011-07-12, 10:39 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: [FL] Fantasy Lynching Out of Character: Blood alone turns the Wheels of History
You're on. Said land is to the far North of Alagesia. And yes, thee is a reason for that. It's behind the forests of Du Weldenvarden. Do you have an introduction planned, or should I take care of it?
Nadir We,
Youth Born,
Blood Letters,
Axe Weilders,
Victors Still.
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2011-07-13, 03:40 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: [FL] Fantasy Lynching Out of Character: Blood alone turns the Wheels of History
I figured that I'd bring in Szeth with him sitting on the side of a road, his Oathstone lying in front of him, passively waiting around.
Whoever gets to him first and picks up his Oathstone gets to command him, whether said master be good or bad.
In the book he's from, after assassinating the King, he gets traded between lackluster masters who see him as merely a person willing to do unpleasant tasks, then falls into the hand of an ambitious mob boss, then into the hands of a monstrous, monstrous Chessmaster who sends him on a trail of slaughter that gradually erodes his sanity.
Flip a coin, I say. Heads for good guys coming across him, tails for evil guys coming across him.
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2011-07-13, 07:17 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: [FL] Fantasy Lynching Out of Character: Blood alone turns the Wheels of History
Well, we have several options. We have Wander, who has lost all his companions, we have Allecia and Pellew, who are collecting quite a group of misfits themselves, and we have Tyrion Lannister (so it should be like his most recent master, 'cept (until the most recent book) Tyrion was a lot more moral).
And we have a couple of NPC's who would really scare the hell out of him.Nadir We,
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2011-07-13, 09:40 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: [FL] Fantasy Lynching Out of Character: Blood alone turns the Wheels of History
Surprise me.
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2011-07-14, 03:47 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: [FL] Fantasy Lynching Out of Character: Blood alone turns the Wheels of History
I'll see what I can do.
Nadir We,
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Blood Letters,
Axe Weilders,
Victors Still.
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2011-07-14, 08:20 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: [FL] Fantasy Lynching Out of Character: Blood alone turns the Wheels of History
Unless you have a different idea, I'll post my introduction.
And see who poor Szeth runs into.
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2011-07-15, 05:49 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: [FL] Fantasy Lynching Out of Character: Blood alone turns the Wheels of History
Well, well, well.
Looks like Szeth's going to be Tyrion's Assassin/Bodyguard in White.
This'll...be interesting.
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2011-07-17, 12:38 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: [FL] Fantasy Lynching Out of Character: Blood alone turns the Wheels of History
There are a few things Conan hates. Slaves are definitely one of them, up there with hypocritical, effete civilized men (particularly politicians) who look down on him (which is why it would be hilarious if he ever met D'Averc), and poisoners.
Last edited by Draxx; 2011-07-17 at 12:42 AM.
'C'est la vie' - Such is life.
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2011-07-17, 01:57 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: [FL] Fantasy Lynching Out of Character: Blood alone turns the Wheels of History
...This'll be fun.
Szeth views himself as irrevocably tainted by his violence, unworthy of happiness or freedom. This is partially innate self-loathing and partially the deeply ingrained value system of his culture.
Warriors are obviously the lowest and most despicable members of society. Farmers add. Warriors subtract.
Conan of course, sees things differently.
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2011-07-17, 02:09 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: [FL] Fantasy Lynching Out of Character: Blood alone turns the Wheels of History
The way he sees it is that it's a big, dangerous world that's trying to kill you, and you have to do what you have to in order to survive. He doesn't care about society, because he doesn't want to be part of it.
Simple, perhaps, but he's surprisingly intellectual.'C'est la vie' - Such is life.
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2011-07-20, 01:03 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: [FL] Fantasy Lynching Out of Character: Blood alone turns the Wheels of History
Just finished seeing 'West Side Story' at Broadway in Chicago, and it set my creative juices flowing...
*Nasuada, Eragon, Arya, and all the others are trying to figure out how to defend their turf...resolving to challenge the 'Imperials' to a rumble at the gym dance...*
When you're a Varden
you don't ask for pardon
for being so sick
of damn Galbatorix!
When you're a Varden
You've got it real Made
you don't take any lip
from those Sorcerous Shades!
The Elves are real cool!
Dragon riders even Cooler!
No mercy from us,
'till we become the rulers
and we'll be crueler!
*snapping of fingers and over the top dance acrobatics*
Then you are set with a capital 'V'
that's the banner you march with until victory!
When you're a Varden
You. Kiss. Elf. Asssssss!!!
Last edited by Colesign; 2011-07-20 at 01:04 AM.