Raindrop Valkyrie

It depends on how they died. THings that destroy their souls makes it so they can never be revived. ((like what happened to Magni.)) otherwise their souls move on to the afterlife in some way. This is where you play Mortimo's game, I can't give specifics, but if you win, you get back your life, if you lose, you enter the underworld. This can only happen once. If you die again only the gods or someone else can help you. ((like a wish spell, or a raise dead spell etc...)) so you have one chance to save yourself after death. Should mention, Mortimo's game is rigged to make you lose. So it is rare that anybody wins, but it is possible.

I actually don't really care lol, Bagel made a move and while I don't exactly agree with how it panned out it, it already happened no reason to be angry about it, and not much can be done now. I am not going to get angry about something in a game, there isn't a point. ((In fact....I am surprised it didn't happen in the First Auction, now looking back. Guess nobody thought of it then.)) I will plan a new strategy when I get around to it. All Bagel did was throw a wrench in my plans, set me back a little. I will be back. Never count out The Lord in Violet.

Yea, for the most part. Not sure if I want to attach certain ones to your characters, cause that wouldn't feel right to me, I will let you guys sort that stuff. Though....I have a feeling Aelia's is spoken for already.

Is this a somewhat Steampunk/Tech filled world? Due to the above I assume it is to an extent. ((also, I only said Steampunk because it is a rather easy kind of early tech to lump into a Fantasy World and not have it be to much of a stretch that it is out of place.)) I don't know if you know much about FF6, but is the world of this similar to that in that while Magic and that exists, some technology also does. ((and maybe even some of it runs off magic.))

Probably going to skip the sailing stuff, other than maybe describing Nevermore harbor, it depends though. I Most definitely skipping the travel in between since it will be a few weeks to a month before you guys arrive in the Shattered Hills ((because of distance, weather etc...)), approximately at the end of Winter, so it will most likely be Springish when arriving in the Shattered Hills. Should note, that is super unlikely any more NPCs will ever be added to the party permanently. There may be a few that stick around for awhile or something, but I doubt there will be too many permanent ones. ((the only one that has a chance for that is Brass if I deem it so, but I am still deciding if I want to or not.)) So making progress at getting up Chapter 4, just so you guys know lol.

*whistles* It is totally on purpose though, As I will have a max of 8 or 9 Party member of PCs in a game of D and D. SO the Player character is more of a coincidence, but the others were all done on purpose. Let me put it this way. There are Gods, 8 the sons and Daughters of the 1 made from Io's being ((this is in the Nine Divines Pantheon only, after Arcano's Death.)) There are 8 Known Shards, and 1 hidden one. There are the Nine Death Angels, 8 who are loyal to the Gentleman, and one who isn't. ANd in your party, there are 8 PCs, and a 1 NPC, who will hold the shards. So yes, I set this up in a way that it end up like this. ((and the NPCS are more or less others that could hold the shards if I didn't have enough People, and they help me to guide the players, however I didn't know all of them from the beginning, as I like to leave character slots where I can make characters who are interesting in the party make-up. In essence this is what I mean. Odin would always be with the Party. He is the Glue or the lynch pin. He was the catalyst to start the journey by befriending the party at least enough that their battle at the beginning with the Gentleman gave them enough of a bond to stick together. Jupiter I made up on the spot. Helze was a character who seemed super quiet and I wanted to try and crack her shell by making a character who she would get along with extremely well, this way she would grow as a character and hopefully one day interact with the party a lot more. Brass, while he was already a character, was moved to Passtrough for this reason also, for Dru to have a similar person who understood him, withou something like him being a Half-Orc getting in the way. Brass only needs to be introduced in this story line, but I feel him traveling trough it will be cool, since he is a more punchy and better idea of what an Earth Templar Could be like. I also made a lot of characters to mess with Sigurd, because messing with his straight forward attitude is fun for me. It shows his rashness. Now some of the others characters are harder so far. I definitely want to try and mess with them in ways that help you as players to flesh out. Each Character will gt their times to shine brighter than any of the others, and I want to make sure to do that for you all and I want you to get to know your character as much as I want to know them. This is why I throw stuff to get your backstories out of you for a reason. I like to play off of PC's backstories to give them ties to the story, that make it more interesting. They aren't the main attraction, that would be the Overall struggle between them the Death Angels. and the Gentleman, but these more or less side arcs make the world feel more real, and like the PCs are actually rooted in it rather than some heros who just so happened to show up.)) Most of the time, I don't do things without thinking about it, there usually is a reason. Even things I do on the fly have a reason. All those Dream sequences? All made up on the spot right before I did them. I wanted to introduce some of the lore of the world, but do it in a way that tied to the characters and made it feel more personal to them, rather than have some guy tell you about it. This is why Bartimus appeared at the Raven' Spiral as well. I placed him there off of the small thing Oarloff did in saving that goat. Why? Because it would add something more interesting to a scene that otherwise would have been you guys sitting at a table talking to some wizards, or just the Crimson King telling you about it later. I like messing with players, but I love to play off of the small things they do and the ways they show me their who their characters are. That way I can help them to have their characters grow, by chucking things their way. Why just have their backstory be a backstory? why knot use that to tell something important about that character? why knot use it as a tool to drive their growth in some way? Everything is something that can be used as a window for viewing a character in some way. We can push our characters to be characters. This is one thing the forum has over D and D for sure, and that is that you can't sit here and try to minmax me. You have to paly your characters as characters, or they become super boring. Forum RP is much easier to be about the Journey, and not the destination then D and D.

And now begins the long process of Hukuna writing up the intro thread for Chapter 4, well sorta long, when I get to it I can pound it out fast. ((just got to figure out how I want to describe the journey to get there, but not sure how much I want to include.))

The Living Armour goes by the name of Ishmael by the way in regards to Death Angels.((unless you mean Tectaniteus's Avatar, who hasn't really been revealed as a character but is sort of soft revealed since all the other Elemental Gods have one.)). Going to just slap the names and Bios of the Death Knights up there and get it done with. Also, I am not sure I want to give as much Info on Hastur or Magdeline. They are both tied to the Gentleman a lot more heavily then the others are. ((if it wasn't obvious by the way they have always been wherever he is.)) therefore I think when you find them they will be a hell of a lot more interesting. The Crimson King also doesn't get one for sure though. He is in the party, at least currently, therefore I don't want you to know his motivations or his goals, it would make him not very surprising and a less dynamic part of the party. It would also make the trust problem worse/better depending, but I would rather not have that end up metaing your RPing so you are being left on the dark with the Crimson King for now on the specifics of his motivations. I should also note, The Guardians of the Shards could be literally anything, as long as it has something to do with the Element of the God. They could be Ancient Monsters, People, Undead, etc.....etc....But it will become much more clear once we start getting into the Shattered Hills. I ask some questions you guys can't answer on purpose in these, it lets me know just how creative some of you can be.

Yea since we can't edit we kinda need to be able to in case we miss something.

What I am saying in general. Since people are new they are being super quiet as well, which makes for a super boring game where nothing happens. Heck that is one of the only reasons I am willing to trust Ex right now....because while he may be insane, at least he is doing something. It may have been a bit better if we didn't lose Charlotte Day 1 since we would have had a kill power, which either eliminates a Mafia member, or somebody the town keeps getting their focus drawn to, so they are distracting the town.

Any town who says nothing isn't a town because they aren't doing anything at all. Hell half the people being silent really aren't playing the game and that is the problem, If everyone is quiet there is nothing town can do to make leads because everyone is just like nope, not talking. This is why I said lynch the early, we wouldn't be having this problem if we did. Having a bunch of towns doesn't matter if they don't do shit ever.

Who should have been lynched early like I said......they can't be wasting our time later if we kill them all right away. This is why I said to do it earlier, and everyone said I sounded Mafia. Maybe it seems like a Mafia move, but in the Game of Mafia, Silent Towns are the expendable ones, so it isn't a Mafia move at all. A Mafia move is to shift attention onto townies that are talking and actually being active. If they get you to use Lynch on somebody that is actually doing things for town, they get your lynch and they get a hit for free. So their goal is too get 2 Pro Town and leave the silent people and the ones not doing anything laying around. They also leave the good towns that people aren't trusting because they are likely to be lynched in their place. Now town is in Crunch Time as town. We are coming up to the point were we are losing the number advantage, and we can't even trust any of these people not talking. ((which is a hell of a lot.)) So the mafia can get oof easy by having some seem useful to town, and have the others ones hide.

P.S. Use the Backlog of this entire Thread!!!!!!!!!!!!! Unlike Normal Mafia all the convos are stored forever, so there is no need to take notes, poor over the convos look for clues there, look for connections between people and make your own conclusions if you don't like the ones people are bringing up. Don't just point the finger back at the people trying to do things. ((unless it is Ex.....cause in this case he is one of those that I literally can't get a read on and is confusing the heck out of town. The only thing that gives him credence is that either he is Saphira, or Saphira knows what the heck he is talking about, because she saved him. How? No Idea. and Zeph, yes that is what I am saying. Even at this point confirming who certain towns are would be helpful so we can stop worrying about people. We need to thin the number of things we know nothing about, we really don't have handles about anyone's role that hasn't died. ((as in we need people to trust even if they get lynched, but everybody is throwing blame everywhere and things are getting super muddled. Hell, if a role calls somebody they know is mafia right now it might not even help.))

Oh no Sheep, that isn't how it works. If you say you are Mafia you get lynched, no strategy where claiming to be Mafia ever works if you are a town, how the heck do we trust someone who says that? It is better to just off them on the off-chance if there is no 100%. ((but it is super hard to have a 100% to be honest, the thing with this particular game, is the investigations are sooooo spread out that it makes town have a super small amount of leads unless Shade randomly decides to help us, which I don't think is happening, not sure if his random power ended up doing anything.)) And I hate the it doesn't matter what I say people could not believe me thing a lot. Because how do you know if you say nothing? And even if they don't believe you right away and you die for it, you saying it could have helped them thin out more possible leads, even if you are just a vanilla town. Do something, make yourself heard. If you really are town you shouldn't be afraid to act as town and possibly getting killed for it, that is the job of vanilla town. If vanilla town gets the mafia off the backs of the investigators for a few rounds they can gather the info they need This is why I am running around yelling at people and poking stuff. If it bites back and kills me so what? It doesn't matter if I die in the end if town wins, there should be no reason to be afraid of it and your hesitation to say anything makes me super suspicious and I don't like it. Your answer is so passive, you aren't pointing stuff out or saying anything. Your being defeating and dying without making a whimper. So even if the town does fumble and lynch you as a town by accident, we get 0 info out of you.

That is super weird.......like super weird.

"Emptiness, I feel nothing. Though it would be common for a creature who has no true face. I can make myself look like any human, or demi-human, I can make myself look however I like, but I feel nothing for it. It makes me sick seeing the humans who have something real, they can look a certain way and say that is them, nobody else can be them. But I can't. I can imitate thousands of faces, but I can't call any of them my own. It isn't fair. It isn't fair what was done to me.....I don't even remember what I looked like anymore, I can't see my face or remember what I was.All I feel is emptiness, a longing to be what I once was, but I can't, the one face I want, the one Face that is me, I can't remember. If I can't have it, then none of them can have an identity either. I will destroy their faces so their loved ones can't remember what they looked like, and they can feel my pain. I feel nothing but emptiness. Emptiness and Pain." "I have seen the face of the madness. I know of the old god. The Elder God, the true king of the Illithid, cut down by the False God Seeker. I see flashes of his wicked genius and his mad ravings. Even dead he stirs, his mind still thinks and it still has a will. I will I will carry out with my own hands. This World will be plunged into the madness he designed, and I will carry it out. I am his messenger, his eyes, his hands, and his mouth. I am the Seer in Yellow, the one who sees things others cannot. For I have seen the face of madness, the face of the one true god." "Who wants to live forever? You don't realize how sweet the touch of death is, how it can release you from all your pain in this world until you can't have it. I have to watch my love ones waste away, while I cannot. I have to live with causing the death of my dearly beloved. I have to live with the Mistake of a Stupid God. One who wanted to play with life, when he shouldn't have. I am forced to wallow in my pain forever because Mortimo decided his experiment had to be done to innocent people. A God of Death has no business messing with life, and I get to be that mistake. There were 13 of us once. 13 Graveborn, the Living, forced to become the very spawn of Hell. I ended their agony. But I will not take my own life, I am not a coward. I will tear down the skies, and kill Mortimo himself. I am the echo of his mistake, that will ring through his ears as I destroy him. Because no God would do what that creature did. He is just another monster that pretends to be powerful, all knowing, spreading fear and lies. And once he is dead, and his blood puddles around my feet, then I can die, but not until then and then my story can fade away forever. I am not worth knowing." "Why do I fight? Skill? No, that isn't a reason. For honor? Definitely not. For Country? There isn't a Nation worth a damn, just piles of lies and greedy souls fighting for pointless power. For Money? Coins have no true value. It is sad how you can dangle them in front of one who has none, and they look like starving children, like that coin is the most valuable thing they have ever seen in their life. In reality they aren't worth anymore than the Toe Nail Clippings my mother collected. By the way....who does that? Hold on. I am getting sidetracked. Back on that train of thought Hatty, keep your brain from wondering you dolt. So, where was I? Oh yes, why I fight. I fight because I enjoy it. Oh the adrenaline, the thrill. OOOLALA, it makes me FEEL ALIVE!!!! So surely I would follow the Gentleman, that guy seems to attract all sorts of interesting fellows. Hopefully, they have just as strong enemies. And hopefully I get to see the despair on their faces faces when the realize they can't beat the rapier of Hatter! World Renowned Assassin, and Duelist!"

Super...you missed the part where I said The Gentleman wasn't a Death Angel didn't you? Also feel free to get back to the Death Angel Questions when I finish all their bios. It will give you a better Idea of who they are. I put it in preemptively so that it was there ahead of time. Oh, and I think I will pop the Shards etc, up in the Main Thread when I get the time along with the Death Angels. However I am waiting to do that for when I get all their Bios done. I will add stuff about the Shards as you obtain them.

Oh, yea it is gone for me now to. It really did used to be there.

Why is Luxray not Dark/Electric by the way? The way they describe his eyes etc.. ((like they can see through everything.)) Either way, I want to see some more Dark combos for certain Dark/Bug ((which I thought Accelgor would be)) Dark/Fairy Dark/Normal Other types I want to see. Steel/Ice Steel/Fire Fire/Ice Fire/Grass ((totally a Pepper of some sort XD.)) Electric/Fighting Electric/Ice Electric/Psychic Electric/Rock

And that is the End of Chapter 3 folks. As always, the post chapter questions. ((going to note here, the Gentleman is NOT a death angel.)) Which of The Death Angels you most look forward to seeing? Which seems the most interesting to you? Which Death Angel do you think will be in The Shattered Hills? Why? Which Death Angel do you most dread facing? Why do you think Bartimus asked you what if the Gentleman is right? What do you think the Guardian of the Titan's Skin is? What do you think the Titan's Skin does? What do you think is the Drawback of this power? Which Shard do you think is the most interesting? Which Shard seems the most powerful to you? ((I am totally trying to balance them I am just curious which you think sounds the most nuts.)) inversely which seems the weakest? Do you mind the more linear style of the plot in Graterras? I am really trying to battle with how I want the story to go from here. While I want to let you guys wander etc.....it would make a crap load more work for me having to prepare a hell of a lot more stuff other than the storyline. I was more thinking along the lines of I will let you guys decide which Shards to go to and each Shard will be sorta it own little directed adventure. Should I involve the NPCs more? I notice that sometimes I forget to update them as much as I think I should. Jupiter and Odin are the easiest as they are more combat orientated. ((and due to their ties which Helzebeth.)). What did you think of the Creation Myth, and the Story of Arcano? Did you think Arcano was wronged, or did he deserve his fate? How true do you think the story is? What do you think of Blue? Bartimus mentioned The Crimson King, or the Red Faced Demon wanted to atone for his sins. What do you think The Crimson King is trying to atone for? What did you think of Bartimus? Why do you think he choose Oarloff as his champion rather than a Paladin of his order or some powerful warrior or mage? And lastly as always, Is there anything I can improve upon? Chapter 4 Title Preview. Graterras Chapter 4: Shattered Realities. Chapter 4 Theme

"I have nowhere else to go, it is the only thing I can do Marcus." Abraham said, still embracing his son. The tears had dried from his eyes now, though it was clear Abraham was full of sorrow. Abraham then saw something glint out of the corner of his eye towards ruins of the Nightingale. He realized it came from around where Irving's body was lying. He patted Oarloff on his head. "Thank you, son." He said as he got up. He shambled towards Irving's body. And in his left hand he found out what was glinting. Irving help in his hand a small silver Pendent, it had the shape of a silver musical note coming from a golden harp at the bottom. Oarloff would have recognized it, it had belonged to Mona at one time, like his harp. This pendent must have been what Abraham had to remember her by. "Irving saved it.......why? Why did he lose his life over this?" Abraham punched the ground. But then he sighed. A fond look came over his face, as he reached down and closed Irving's eyes. "Rest well friend, you knew you were through, so you did one last thing for me before you went, thank you, because of you I haven't lost everything to them." he got up then, tucking the Pendent into his coat pocket. "Thank you, everyone. I will follow you anywhere, and one day I trust you will mete out the justice that there should be in this world." END OF CHAPTER 3.

Oh p.s I didn't request it, I just asked if you were going to do that lol, and you starting doing it.

To be fair I can't be active on this RP....for whatever reason I get stuck inplaces that end in dead ends for me a lot XD.

Hey Exlink, how are the Flowers this time of year, and have you been playing them any music?

There is only one prob Felix.....we have to tie the vote twice for the coin flip to happen.